Dimensional Descent

Leonel stood in silence for a long while.

Despite his fatigue, his mind raced at a mile a minute, moving through all sorts of scenarios. Nothing seemed to make perfect sense, though. Ultimately, no matter how he sliced it, this was Second Nova's best chance to deal with him, there was no advantage to gain by waiting unless he truly wanted to wait until Leonel was in an even more sorry state than this one.

That meant that there was a better than 60% chance that Second Nova hadn't come here with the intention of dealing with him at all, his original intention was just to probe him, and it might even be potentially true that Second Nova planned on giving up on the Heir Wars in their entirety.

But if he was willing to give up on the Heir Wars in the first place, then why did he participate? Even if he didn't like the optics of giving up without trying, what was the big difference between that and giving up midway?

That seemed to point to the fact that Second Nova wanted to test the Heirs and pick whomever he liked best. But in that case, why did he vanish? If he had decided on Leonel, then wouldn't he be helping Leonel? What was the intention in just leaving directly?

It had to be remembered that each family was limited to two Heirs, but there was a very obvious exception to this, and that was the Morales who had seven Heirs.

This was tacitly allowed by the other families for a few reasons. First, the Morales were already the targets of everyone to begin with. Second, while the others were simply here for glory or to deal with Leonel, the Morales family Heirs were here to fight for the position of Heirs. As such, they inherently could not work together as they were competing with one another.

The other families would obviously step in if it seemed like the Morales Heirs were teaming up, and it would counter whatever advantage they could gain by doing so. It was probably even best to separate the focus of the families by doing this though this would likely place even more pressure on Leonel was one of the main focuses to begin with.

if Auran really wanted to help Leonel, he wouldn't just injure him and then vanish. There were many other things he could do even if he didn't participate himself, plus why did he have to test Leonel in

that was, he felt that it was more important than even his chances at becoming an Heir. In fact, he might have no intention

something, what is it… What is

enough information, he wouldn't' bother to waste time trying to deduce, but this felt different. He felt that this was too important to ignore, and yet he

Suddenly, Leonel's gaze sharpened.

someone that was difficult to target outside of this place. That seemed to point toward one of the Heirs of the other families, but why

way that was far too great for him to ignore, or this

other Heirs. Auran was the head of an exceptionally powerful information network, but he didn't sell his

then why did he build an information

had greatly offended him, or find someone who posed an existential risk to the Morales family or maybe even the

like two torches. He felt his Dream Force shifting, his simulations becoming sharper and

the reason Auran gave up on being an Heir was because he knew that his actions would