Dimensional Descent

The location was the territory of the Constellation Bow Alliance, more accurately, that of the Tarius family.

The Constellation Bow Alliance was one of the weaker organizations, at least compared to the Spirituals Religion, the Void Palace, or Shield Cross Stars. Originally, the Tarius family was a powerhouse that stood toe to toe with the Morales and the Suiards, but after losing the Bow Domain Ring, their strength plummeted in the coming generations.

In order to stave off this downfall, they brought together their subordinate families, many of which were branches formed by Tarius family members that had married into other families, and formed a single alliance behind a single Bow Constellation.

The result of this was their influence remaining relatively the same, although far more spread out. It was a sacrifice that allowed them to maintain their power, but it was still a sacrifice. The Tarius family of today could no longer do as they pleased, and the loss of Nazag, the youth meant to carry them back to their true prosperity had caused them to hit rock bottom...

Until he suddenly came back.

This should have been a joyous occasion, but the elders of the Tarius family didn't feel that way at all. In fact, they were very wary.

The timeline matched up, they had just sent an envoy to pressure the Morales family, and an envoy that would have had the backing of all the most powerful families and organizations of the Human Domain as well. They received reports not long afterward that Leonel Morales had been enraged, stolen their warships, and then kicked their people out, which had caused a delay in the message.

But then soon afterward, Nazag returned home...

own and the elders of the Morales didn't have a chance to stop him. It made sense for them to take this course of action as a peace offering to buy themselves more

men and women were very experienced, and they hadn't forgotten Leonel's abilities. Namely, they were worried

a Cloud Race member when you were unaware of their existence was impossible, this was a technology of scope the Human Domain didn't have. However, when you had a suspicion, exposing a

so, while pretending like they welcomed him back with open arms, the Tarius family had actually trapped Nazag and began to test him ruthlessly. But to their shock... or

past, and he seemed to have even gained a sort of enlightenment, coming back with a more powerful momentum than he had in the past. It seemed that he had taken the loss to heart, but not enough that it would affect his future advancement and it filled the hearts of his father and the elders

...

Tarius stood before his son, a beaming smile on his

tears but he held back. Both he and his wife couldn't possibly be bundles of emotion.

but they also wanted their son back. At the same time, they didn't want to treat a member of the Cloud Race as

smiled. "There's no need to worry, mom, dad. I've learned from this, I'll only come back stronger. Leonel Morales released

shoulders, but his wife was in the

be going to war soon. Although I don't want to put you in danger so soon after you've returned to us, there's no other choice. The

nodded. "When will we move