Dimensional Descent

Anastasia watched everything, speechless. She didn't know what to say. That language had frozen even her for a moment. It held the weight of command, and an undeniable majesty. Coming from Leonel, even without his King's Might Lineage Factor activated, it felt as though the shadow of a True King had appeared, albeit it for just a moment.

But after a moment, seeing the sneaky smile on Leonel's face, she couldn't help but ask.

"You... What did you say?"

"Oh, that?" Leonel grinned. "I said that little boy's name."

Anastasia froze. "You... you said a name?"

"Well, yeah. I can't actually speak that language, and if I copied anything else they said, wouldn't it be embarrassing if I said a word like "and" or "the", they'd laugh me out of the ship. Plus, I assume that whatever his parents named him meant something bold and powerful."

It was impossible for even Leonel to learn an entire language just based off of a short conversation. But, picking out a repeatable series of sounds within that conversation was all too obvious. When El'Rion was leaving, they had all saluted him with that sound plus a prefix that he assumed meant something like "young master" or "young ruler". By process of elimination, picking out El'Rion's name was as easy as breathing.

"You... are unbelievable," Anastasia muttered.

"I know, right? I'm pretty gre-"

Anastasia slapped the back of his head. "Not in that way!"

of the world around them. They quickly took out several items to fight back against the suppression, and unlike the individuals who had come down

one came for them, they took out other treasures and began to escape quickly one after

a race like that can be so cowardly. I don't

to list them one by one? In alphabetical or chronological

response he had expected. But, just as quickly, his one mind began to subconsciously form the list and he had to shake his head to get

"... Never mind."

twinkling crystals of blue came from her eyes. She felt like she was even dying of

due to the Minerva Race, and she knew that their language wasn't understood by many outside of their races, and definitely couldn't be spoken by anyone so casually. They had probably run because they thought they had mistaken

then scaring

smiled. "When you're done, we should probably get going in case one

her tears, though they had already long since

easy either, you know. It won't be as difficult as

asked you if

Could she? Maybe if she had a few months, probably a

my favorite water boy is finally here,"

hadn't fully recovered, but when he heard his name called,

long as their name was spoken in its truest form, no matter the distance, they would hear it. But what El'Rion didn't expect was that the person who called out

use that little hourglass thingy to help Anastasia put