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.

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 the same spot.

Beta tried to talk about "that spot,"

he knew. This Beta's

if individually weak, was far stronger than that

information was related to an Alpha so powerful that their compulsion outweighed all others, so much so

that he

Beta had 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

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 his cave before

was anything particularly special about these Domain Rings, especially after

themselves to hand something so good over.

the location of the Alphas, he knew that this would be

him stroll into a lair of them, take out

and was on his own. The second was

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

worst part was that even if he was lucky enough to stumble into Bluestar, would he be

getting stronger first is the

deal with Bluestar. For now, he would continue