Dimensional Descent

Leonel believed that there was still more he didn't understand about Goggles' abilities, and maybe even things that Goggles himself didn't understand. That was because the parameters of background information and context that Goggles needed were quite... broad.

When Goggles had been working for him, it wasn't just information that helped him out, but rather an intimate relationship with the events in question. For example, after Goggles bound himself to the army that Leonel led, he had been able to predict certain things about the outcome of various battles. However, Leonel had realized the more specified Goggles' target, the more accurate and clear his predictions became.

So, Leonel scaled down Goggles' "binding" from the army to just a small squadron that had carried the elites of his army, including himself, Rollan, Gertrude and others. After doing that, Goggles' prediction ability skyrocketed, and he began to make them more frequently and with more clarity.

As such, there were two necessities that bound Goggles: information and/or relationship ties or bonds. But this didn't exactly seem to just be a simulation. It seemed to allude to that mysterious Force El'Rion spoke about, the very same mysterious energy that was the reason why El'Rion didn't form more Innate Nodes than he needed, and also why stealing Innate Nodes wasn't something the strongest did.

There seemed to be faint ties between the two, and it fascinated Leonel. It also meant that Goggles' ability delved into a Force much deeper than what it seemed to on the surface.

When Leonel first learned of the ability, he had likened it to his own attempts at simulation. But he was very much wrong about that; Goggles was on an entirely different level. Leonel believed that if Goggles had read through the entire library of the Void Palace, he might be capable of doing something similar to Aina in that he could seek out the perfect path for himself.

Even then, the Void Library was limited in its information compared to wider Existence. If he fed Goggles this kind of information, just what kind of monster would he become? After all, if stronger relationships and a more focused lens made Goggles' oracle-like abilities sharper and more accurate... What better target was there than Goggles himself?

Leonel's gaze became a bit more gentle as he swept a gaze through everyone present.

and those with power aren't exactly the ones you would be willing to put your own lives in the hand

the supposed Apex that barred your path for so long, will be nothing

don't need to trust my words now, nor do you need to show me some undying loyalty. You won't believe it, and neither would I. Instead, I'll allow you the time to see for

different than he did to those of the Morales, or the Constellation families, and definitely far different from the treatment he had given the Spirituals

truly was, but the Leonel he had idealized himself as, the warm-hearted, caring person he tried to pretend to be... and seeing

well, and none were more fiery than Goggles himself. The passion in his eyes would practically rival that of stars, but it wasn't toward

it seemed that

bolster their morale. Well, it wouldn't work, but it would still give them a better

the odds of that pretty high. Though, without more information, he wasn't too sure of the

anyone could deal with

if Leonel was more intelligent than this person, if they could gather more information than him, and affect change on a larger scale, he

precisely why he had chosen to have this final battle on his own home turf. By then, any

"Seventh Nova!"

The voice was booming.

Littlest Nova anymore. That's not

of the Patriarch was one of the many moons that surrounded the Capital Planet of the Morales, and he actually had the entire small moon to himself, not that he used most of