Dimensional Descent

Leonel never thought that his father would ask him to do something he had never done. Never mind the fact that his father would never admit to it either. It could only be said that the programming of the AI likely had his father rolling in his grave.

"How am I supposed to do something you couldn't?" Leonel asked speechlessly.

"Who said I couldn't? Couldn't and didn't are too different words, brat. Don't curse me from beyond the grave."

Leonel laughed beside himself. Now that, that was a more typical answer.

"Then why didn't you?" Leonel asked.

"Because I didn't want to deal with the hassle. My foundation was already imperfect because I practiced the Conventional Path to the Seventh Dimension, one more imperfection wasn't going to make or break me."

Leonel frowned. It sounded more like his father had a method that he could have used but chose not to.

Suddenly his eyes widened in understanding.

"I see you get it now. The Constellation of families and that of the self aren't too indifferent. In fact, they're built on the same foundation: Universal Force. In truth, forming a family's Constellation is much more difficult because it requires a combination of the wills and comprehensions of several people. It takes a real hero to do that.

"Back then, I was a lonewolf and couldn't be bothered. Plus, those annoying elders had pissed me off one too many times."

grandpa? Or because

tried to reprimand me for choosing the Conventional Path instead of the God Path, and some of those old relics tried to take my right to become

I became more powerful than every one of

it was a waste of my time. Those spineless cowards wouldn't do what I wanted them to do

step on my father-in-law's toes so I didn't

his head, not even knowing what

more than 40 years old at worst at the time. Leonel didn't know which Nebula his father

and the Heir Wars would have

meant that his father was more likely than not in his early thirties, maybe

this sort of guidance, but

the Morales Constellation to reach that level myself?" Leonel asked. "I'm not even in the Dimensional Verse right now, and

In fact, the less Morales there

brows shot up before his mood

his father's words-"the less Morales there are"-it was clear that he likely guessed even from beyond the grave what the fate of the Morales would be. He too

If his father knew, why was he so obsessed with

with even King, what threat would the human alliance of the Vast Bubble be? The moment he left the Dimensional Verse, he could have broken into the Ninth Dimension and become a level

ask the question. It would imply he was doubting his father. But the question was burning

ever going to ask, it would have to be

you knew,