Dimensional Descent

Leonel could feel what they were trying to do. Noah was right about their attempts to find a method of isolating the variables that made them a Sovereign and then duplicating it. But the method in which they chose to do so was quite sinister.

Ultimately, they understood that the truth was located within the soul, and they wanted to grasp this. The trouble was that the soul was almost impossible to observe for a human, namely because it was fused with the body.

They were using a method that separated the two, and they even told Leonel not to resist it. The problem was that if this method was perfectly safe, they would have used it on themselves already. Unfortunately, their methods had a fatal flaw, and that was that it completely separated the soul from the body.

This sounded like it was a positive thing. After all, wasn't that the goal?

The trouble was that that was only true when Leonel or anyone else was explaining the matter casually. In reality, completely separating the body from the soul meant only one thing: death.

After Leonel had completely succeeded in separating his soul, there was always a lingering connection remaining. It was this lingering connection that gave him life.

The method of the Godlens would have him walking around like a zombie.

Still, these were matters that Leonel had already guessed before he came here. After all, Noah's existence was an obvious red flag. The fact they pretended like he was normal told him everything he needed to know.

No, what was truly shocking to him was something entirely different. If he had to describe it, it was like they were concentrating the vileness of the human race's plans into a single foul action instead of a genocidal one.

Leonel couldn't help but chuckle to himself. Was this what his grandfather had meant by they had the greater good in mind?

They were trying to isolate his soul and turn it into a rune not too dissimilar from a portion of the Force Arts that Ryu had seen so many times in the Silver Tablet.

The trouble was that it didn't seem like the Godlens had a tablet, so for all intents and purposes they were using all of this machinery to replace its function, and they were going to try and turn Leonel into the core of it all.

just becoming a different kind of farm animal, one they used to study and observe the path of Sovereignty, so that they

'Okay, I gotcha...'

his attention away from what was happening around him to pay attention to the serum they had injected him with. It wasn't necessarily

late for regret, not that regret would matter much. Liana definitely wouldn't have allowed

they were close to succeeding, when in reality they were quite far away.

bitterly. The life of the

take the final step with him like this. According to his guesses, it would have been at least a month or two before they

didn't have to think long to understand. Who else could have put her finger on the scale if not

According to the reading Liana was getting,

she nodded to herself and began

and a soft light began to glow. It

so much? How could the mind of a

the strength of the instruments before when he broke through them the first time. This time, from 10%, he lowered his inhibitions further until

didn't believe himself to be infallible, so he was constantly paying attention, not wanting

...

separate space, there was a gathering of just two, both of whom Leonel would recognize. One was Vivak, and the other

had a slight frown on his expression. Leonel should have been the perfect specimen, but he had ended up listening to his daughter's words

he had been correct to do so. Why were they still unable to corral the mind of a Fifth

BANG!

sound reverberated, and though Vivak's expression didn't

as he watched Liana duck for

Matriarch Pyius spoke lightly. "His soul is tainted with