Dimensional Descent

'Alpha Bluestar, huh?'

"Do you know where this Alpha Bluestar is?"

When Leonel asked this question, the Beta finally began to show some signs of discomfort. It seemed that he finally understood that Leonel wanted to harm Alpha Bluestar, and as such, the compulsion began to kick in.

It was a truly interesting technique. It worked on intention rather than a rough set of rules, and the former was far more difficult to produce than the latter.

Both had their own pitfalls, obviously, as Leonel was still able to get a lot of the information he wanted even with these guard rails. For example, he was able to learn about this Bluestar just by avoiding the topic of the Void Star Innate Node altogether, that way the Beta didn't put two and two together until he had already gathered quite some information.

But he would argue that drawing a hard line at some rules would have even more pitfalls. Anyone who knew a lawyer could attest to the fact that rules would always have loopholes in them, ones that Leonel was sure he could exploit with much greater ease than he was now.

"So that's a yes." Leonel nodded to himself. "And what is he doing now, exactly?"

"He... I... I don't know."

The Beta's lips trembled, and he couldn't quite get his words out, but judging by the shiftiness within them, he definitely knew more than he was letting on.

"Speak."

The Beta almost collapsed, but he seemed to be far more afraid of Leonel right now than he was afraid of a far-off Alpha Bluestar.

looking for entrances to Battle Ax Domain caves like the one you just entered. He spread out all of his people to look, but he's staying in

tried to talk about "that

the ones he knew. This Beta's Alpha had already died, so for the compulsion to

individually weak, was far stronger than that

their compulsion outweighed all others, so much so that they could

that he had an understanding of what

said he's staying in the same spot, and that should mean that Bluestar never moved from their spawn point. He's waiting for his Betas to

Maybe Alpha Magma was among those that had waited, but he was lucky enough to find

was anything particularly

it upon themselves to hand something

and use some context clues to find the

he doubted they would let him stroll into a lair of them, take out one of their best talents, and then raid his corpse on

was to wait until Bluestar left his location and was on his own. The

alone where he'd be in the future. And right now he was

lucky enough to stumble into

stronger first is the

deal with Bluestar. For now, he would continue heading in