Dimensional Descent

1961 Fairy Tale

Leonel didn't move, standing in silence for a long while. His eyes were getting heavier, but he still pushed his mind to the absolute limit. After a moment, he waved a hand. This time, another wave of about 200 or so Cloud Race members appeared. Among them, there was even the former Secretary Marquisette Maia.

Maia looked up toward Leonel with a cold gaze, but she didn't say anything.

Her two sons were in Leonel's hands, there really was nothing that she could do. While she had planned to enter the special coma-like state of the Cloud Race, under Leonel's threat, she couldn't do this.

"You'll be him until I tell you otherwise," Leonel nudged a head toward Armand's corpse.

Maia took a glance and didn't say anything. But after a moment, her aura shifted and she grew to the point where she was almost an entire two meters taller than Leonel. At a glance, even with further inspection, she looked exactly like Armand without the slightest deviation in look or aura, even her demeanor had become similar to his.

Leonel hadn't expected this sort of accuracy from a corpse. There was definitely something special about the Cloud Race's ability to replicate others, more special than he knew.

members away. They came as

in Leonel's mind as he watched them leave. The moment he had noticed that the Taur family had not just one, but two villages, another idea began to formulate in his mind. He shifted around some of his original plans

would have originally been invaluable to clearing the coming Gold-Grade upgrade challenge, but in her current spot,

was done, Leonel claimed the now Silver-Grade city, completing his trifecta. Now, it was time to return and rest. By this point, all 10 000 of the Oryx should have

"Let's go."

fire. He wanted to give off the illusion that a great battle had been fought, but while the Taur lost one village, they managed to hold Leonel off and retreat to their second city. This displayed the strength Leonel wanted to give off while also making his trap easier

of now, no one in the Heir Wars knew that he had Cloud Race pawns on his side, and he would keep it that way for as long as possible. By the time his trap was sprung, he would be able to raze the day side to the ground and march toward

do about it. Even the Morales family wasn't interfering with the event, and if they tried to secretly communicate, the first to notice would be Ancestor Hito. Everything was under their control and cheating at this point was impossible. It would all come down to what preparations

while, an incomplete and even false impression of the events was relayed to the Libra family Heirs. Their grasp of

pod. When he stepped out just 15 minutes later, those watching were surprised, but they had already seen the

in this

their return. Leonel didn't want the troops he had sent out initially

that the Taur, for some reason, didn't touch, it would be exposed as an oddity almost immediately. It was

he gathered Aina and his brothers along with Raylion, Sael and the others as the