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.

like the one you just entered. He spread out all of his people to look, but

Beta tried to talk

like he understood why. It was clear that that spot was related to more Alphas than the ones he knew. This Beta's Alpha had already died, so for the compulsion to be so strong, there was only one of

a compulsion of multiple Alphas, even if individually weak, was far stronger than that of a

so powerful that their compulsion outweighed all others, so much so that

was, Leonel believed that he had an

Beta had said he's staying in the same spot, and that should mean that Bluestar never moved from their

all likelihood, there were probably several Alphas in that location doing something similar. Maybe Alpha Magma was among those that had waited, but he was lucky enough to find

didn't think that there was anything particularly

"Gods" had taken it upon themselves to

try and use some context clues to find the location of the

stroll into a lair of them, take out one of their best talents, and

location and was on his own. The second was to grow strong enough to do something as foolish as attempt a

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

if he was lucky enough to stumble into Bluestar, would

seems like getting stronger first is the best

now, he would continue heading