Dimensional Descent

Xavnik felt as though his mind was collapsing. Looking at Leonel's charming smile, his heart was threatening to beat out of his chest.

It was, indeed, the simplest answer, it was just one that he wasn't willing to accept. He had the largest number of people, and he had even been the closest to claiming a sea aside from Leonel before Orinik and the others had been booted out by Leonel's success.

What made more sense? That everyone but the one with the largest number of followers had managed to succeed in such a difficult endeavor, or that just one person with a perfect system had managed to do the impossible and claim the entire ocean for him?

When it was laid out like this, the answer was all too obvious, and it wasn't even one that Xavnik could refute.

It was then that the realization hit him like a ton of bricks. How had they managed to make it to this point in the conversation, wasn't it because Leonel was accusing him of killing his subordinates? Of course, he had done so, but how could Leonel have any proof of that?

But then he remembered... he had sent Ysemsan to the ocean.

Back then, it had just been the obvious choice. The continent had already been cleared of its resources by the rapaciousness of the Heirs. The only resources that remained were within the ocean. If he wanted to send a team out on a pretense, the only location he could use was the ocean.

But... But the entire ocean was Leonel's territory! Everything that happened within it, every person who stepped foot within its borders, especially if it was a number as large as within the thousands, would be known by him.

"You..." Xavnik wanted to speak, but Leonel had already flipped a palm, throwing an orb into the air.

that moment, the images began to

sending out his subordinates on a mission to clear dungeons. The fascination with dungeons had long since waned, and the public was far more excited about the coming alliance war between

had spoken Ysemsan's orders "aloud", the reality was that only Ysemsan himself and the shadow beneath his feet had heard it. He had long since come up with a system to hide his actions perfectly, but it seemed that none of this mattered at

only watch as the actions of Ysemsan were broadcasted. The slaughter of his subordinates

weren't familiar with Xavnik's chain of command had watched enough battles to know this. And those that were a little too foolish to pick up on this earlier had quite literally just seen Ysemsan step forward to give Simona

chained him down further, suffocating him until the point his vision could only go black. He was certain that Leonel had even waited to appear until after Ysemsan had spoken just so

Xavnik's subordinates, one after another without pause. Maybe the most eerie part was that

to an end and

over," Leonel said lightly,

expression had long since become placid, but a

a nice show for

"I try

believe you. But you're quite bold to be willing to kill thousands of them.

he wanted to pretend as though this was all a ruse. Either that or he wanted everyone to believe that everyone he had ordered Ysemsan to kill had been