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.

Domain caves like the one you just entered. He spread out all

the Beta tried to talk about "that

Beta's Alpha had already died, so for the

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

this information was related to an Alpha so powerful that their compulsion outweighed all others, so much so that they could have the compulsion of a direct Alpha

believed that he had an understanding of what was going

the same spot, and that should mean that Bluestar never moved from their spawn point. He's waiting for his Betas to come back to him with information on what

Maybe Alpha Magma was among those that had

that there was anything particularly special about these Domain Rings, especially after Anastasia's explanation, but he still felt like they

it upon themselves to hand something so good over. It seemed that he would have to

much as Leonel wanted to try and use some context clues to find the location of the Alphas, he knew that this would be

a lair of them, take out one of their best talents, and then raid his corpse on top of

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

the first was that he didn't even know where Bluestar was now, let alone where he'd be in the future. And right now he was just aimlessly walking around, hoping to stumble into

lucky enough to stumble into Bluestar, would he be

getting stronger

he would continue heading in