Dimensional Descent

1811 Unborn

This was exactly what the Oryx King feared. He didn't want for the Oryx to suddenly be forced into a situation where they had no choice but to become the warriors of others. As for Leonel's comments about his cowardice, if such comments could faze him, he would have long since changed his approach to ruling.

People who could call themselves Kings wouldn't easily change their mind about such things.

As for Leonel, his mind had been made up. He had been too nice for far too long.

Even disregarding what he had done for the Oryx Kingdom, back when Valiant Heart Mountain was being attacked, it was he who gave them a path to survive. Afterward, he invested a large amount in their development through Elthor to ensure that they would take full advantage of their Hyper Evolution stage.

Those resources were nothing to Leonel now, but to the him of back then, they had practically

to thrive in the way they had now? None of this even mentioned the fact he had quite literally brought their two most important pillars back to life, or the fact that the only reason they could live such comfortable lives as a member of another race so deep within Human Domain territory was precisely because of his name and organizations

said he wanted to pay back those things in kind, could he even do so? For one, an investment was worth not only the price itself,

process would be akin to giving back a loan without any sort of

a person takes a loan, a small interest is applied because the person giving the loan is well off to begin with and most of the risk is on the person receiving the loan. However, in this case, the risk Leonel

wealth, he had been akin to a popper giving up the

would be akin to two dear friends having an agreement, one of whom would invest the last bits of money they had while the latter used it to make it big. Then years later, the friend who had succeeded would turn around as a millionaire, maybe even a billionaire, and return his "friend" exactly the amount he had originally invested, no more

picking better friends, but the matter was only made worse by the fact that even if the Oryx King was thick-faced enough to do such a thing, he had no way of returning the value of his life and his son's life! That was

fact he hadn't attacked, as far as he saw it, was

could say. The ultimatum had already been laid, there really wasn't much else

Leonel's back view vanished, Elthor

shook his head. "It's been well over two decades since you were resurrected, you should

why he's anxious. If he had been here for all 20 years, do you think he would care very much about what help we could provide? You saw how strong he was, do you think I've been slacking for these last 20 years?"