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.

images began to

attention to Xavnik sending out his subordinates on a mission to clear dungeons. The fascination with dungeons had

and had taken advantage of the situation. Although he 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 the

slaughter of his subordinates

Xavnik's chain of command had watched enough battles to know this. And those that were a little too foolish to pick

He was certain

the video, he didn't speed it up, he forced them all to watch as Ysemsan trapped and killed over 10 000 of Xavnik's subordinates, one after another without pause. Maybe the most eerie part was that Leonel's smile never faded even a single time. His arm remained wrapped around Aina's waist, enjoying her supple skin as though he was still

video came to an end and silence

over," Leonel said lightly, putting the orb

placid, but a brewing rage was within his heart despite not showing

put on a nice show for us all," Xavnik said

"I

side, I didn't believe you. But you're quite bold to be willing

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 a member