Dimensional Descent

1824 Prepare

"Cloud Race? How, explain it to me. Quickly."

Cross Elder Avan was becoming impatient, but at the same time, something felt fishy here. Why would the Cloud Race attack them?

The obvious answer was because Shield Cross Stars was interfering with Earth and this was messing with the Cloud Race's goal. But that was only a surface answer that didn't get to the deep roots of the matter. Only a low level tactician would fall for such a thing.

While it seemed harmful for the Cloud Race for the Shield Cross Stars to be so involved in Earth's matters, even if it was from the shadows, in reality, it was almost nothing but beneficial. So long as Shield Cross Stars existed in Earth's territory, it meant that humans would be butting heads, and so long as the humans were butting heads, it allowed the Cloud Race ample chances to take advantage and sow discord, making their plans flow even smoother.

The less variables there were in Earth's territory, the more obvious any discord became, and the easier it was to pick out detractors. Like this, any movement that the Cloud Race made would have to be even more covert than usual, thus being contradictory to their original goals.

If the Cloud Race had a halfway decent tactician leading their charge, which they most definitely did, they would not only not destroy Shield Cross Stars, they would ironically use them as their own shield, hiding behind them to reinforce their actions.

The fact that things had happened in this way, and so boldly at that, made Cross Elder Avan believe that the Cloud Race was responsible even less.

were so bold in the first place?��

ended up in a chicken and the egg scenario. Avan had too much experience to fall into something like that. 99% of the time, the simplest answer was the right answer. In that case, there would

last bits of intel we gathered, the Ascension Empire thwarted a sneak attack planned. The attack was coordinated between the

Avan got to

to pin them down properly. It was our understanding that this network was crippled after the destruction of the Brazinger, Adurna, Crudus and Laevis families, but it is likely that they were able to survive and be repurposed by the Ascension Empire to be used

wasn't impossible to accept, but if Leonel had been a fly on the wall, he would have realized where the leak came

four of the eight executives of the Etching Metal Organization, had been exposed by Raylion as having formed ties with the four families.

over the organization, it was precisely to avoid situations like this one. This

yet certain whether this was a good or

exists?" Cross Elder Avan

entirely focused on gathering information in Earth's territory. They've never encroached or poked

Elder Avan's gaze narrowed, seemingly thinking of something, but he still

most losses and they seemed to

muddled, but it seemed that the Viola family concluded that a change of tactics was needed and they swiftly conquered the Rain

They were all attacked at once, and due to strict