Dimensional Descent

Maia's eyes widened but it was already too late.

"Die."

The spears moved as though they had minds of their own, raining down from the skies like Armageddon.

To Maia, these events could only be said to be a blur. Watching her people get slaughtered like this left her without the will to retaliate. She only managed to gather up some strength when it seemed that her sons were about to be slaughtered next, but the end result of that was all of them being captured at once.

Like this, the second infiltration of the Cloud Race was suffocated and restrained.

"Put on some clothes, look at you," Aina finally got a hold of Leonel, exasperated.

Leonel laughed. "It's not my fault, do you think I have a streaking fetish?"

"You're narcissistic enough for it," Aina rolled her eyes.

"Is that your way of saying I look good? Can you say it clearer," Leonel bent down so she say it into his ear, but in return he got a light bite to his earlobe.

"Behave," Aina said somewhat sternly.

should be saying that? That felt kinky..." Leonel

anything seriously. By this point, she actually felt sort of bad for Elorin,

for a while, but now they were front and center once again. They were unfortunately in the Sixth Dimension, or else their vocal cords

surprised. Was the Cloud Race really this

never took us

in the Human Domain weren't necessarily holistic and well-coordinated. They had many different factions, each with their own thoughts on how

that were more incompetent than the others. Comparatively speaking "Graros's" efforts

been quite diligent and patient, but that was only

the Cloud Race, Maia was able to "skip" large amounts of time. Effectively, it was like falling into a dream for long periods of time

passed, but to Maia, it may very well have only been a handful of months. She would judge the time based on how much of it she had personally experienced, not how much had actually

framed like this, then Maia wasn't actually patient and diligent at all. She was just looking for the quickest path to victory and

He wondered if he could get information from them. It wasn't guaranteed due to the other ability of the Cloud Race to retreat into their own

'Time will tell..."

a pause as he

shoulder stood in silence. They must have been separated by at least

say a single

the thousands of Cloud Race there had been, only a few dozen

from Leonel to James and back again. She sighed inwardly, stubborn,

that James had betrayed Leonel. That said, Aina didn't believe that James ever wanted Leonel's death, although it was a bit naive, he likely believed that the worst thing that would have happened to Leonel back then was a period of imprisonment. Leonel likely understood this as well, or else he would have never made any plans that required trusting someone who legitimately wanted his

had done was wrong, and more than a little stupid. He had seen that the Royal Blue Fort was willing to use explosives against Leonel, even at