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.

He spread out all of his people to look, but

Beta tried to talk about "that spot,"

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

far stronger than that of a single Alpha, even if that Alpha was your

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

believed that he had an understanding of what was

that Bluestar never moved from their spawn point. He's waiting for his Betas to come

in that location doing something similar. Maybe Alpha Magma was among those that had

ring. He didn't think that there was anything particularly

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

much as Leonel wanted to try and use some context clues to find the location of the

had struggled so much with just one Alpha; he doubted they would let him stroll into a lair of them, take out one of their best talents, and then

and was on his own. The second was to grow strong enough to

now, let alone where he'd be in

if he was lucky enough to stumble into Bluestar, would he be strong enough

seems like getting stronger first is the best

time to deal with Bluestar. For now, he would continue