Dimensional Descent

Adrin's expression darkened.

"You have no idea what you're talking about. You have no idea how cruel those two Lineage Factors are, how much harm they've caused to the world. They don't deserve to exist!"

Adrin realized that his emotions were more easily agitated than they should have been, but he shrugged this feeling off quite quickly. His people had died, the status of his sister was unknown, he had been chained like a beast, and now he was being interrogated by someone with the most annoying smile he had seen in his life, he had the right to be pissed off!

"Mm," Leonel pursed his lips and nodded, "the Northern Star Lineage Factors can get quite sinister, and controlling the dead after their death is definitely quite horrible, I can see how you could reach that conclusion.

"I don't really see how that's any worse than epigenetics and public torturing and executing innocents just because you think they fell in love with the wrong person, though. If you ask me, the tools of those Lineage Factors might seem cruel on the surface, but their evil is ultimately decided by the person controlling them.

"But for you all... what's your excuse, exactly? You just really like your blue hair? God forbid you end up with black hair, that would make you far too normal."

Adrin grit his teeth, his eyes going red, but he didn't know how to respond. He knew that Leonel was referring to what happened to Aina's parents, but the Brazinger family wasn't the only one that had done such cruel things. In order to keep their Bloodlines pure and within their control, all four families had done horrible things in the past.

"Nothing to say? Interesting," Leonel nodded again. "What confuses me though, is that you know the Emperor's Might Lineage Factor is in my hands, and yet you still want to resist.

That's a bit silly, don't you think?"

Adrin shivered from head to toe.

He had never seen that Lineage Factor in action, but he had read and heard enough about it. It had a huge taboo attached to it and struck fear in countless races. He didn't want to end up like one of those puppets, being forced to smile, nod and dance for the man who had killed him in the first place for all of eternity.

Suddenly, Adrin snapped out of it, shaking his head from side to side vigorously. He grit his teeth and eventually sneered.

Factor, doesn't mean you understand its secrets. It took countless generations to create those techniques,

The tablets have..."

you do know about these. Then do you know what's

brought out the Silver Tablet right

in the depths of his heart was so great that he couldn't even look

worse than death to

"Hey!"

a

the kind of situation you're in, then answer my questions obediently. I don't have the time

"IL... This..."

Leonel had forcefully stopped his panic attack with a shout, he didn't even know how to process

answers, to someone who was demanding them. The change caused the air to be caught in Adrin's throat and the pressure forced him

"I... I don't know."

know?" Leonel

know that it's an opportunity that

"What's that

standing in the Adurna family is lower than you think, even Simeon has a higher standing than I do, it's just that his needy talent placed him near my level. If

do you know

No, they're keys... I'm not sure,

"Gateways...? Keys...?"

they're created

Force and Dream

Force... The only Force that