Dimensional Descent

Vivak's desk flew across the room, shattering against the wall in thousands of flying splinters of wood.

These days, his temper was not good, not in the slightest. He wasn't known as a leader who was in his position for his smarts, but he was a man who was known for one, his strength, and two, his temperament.

He was very good at managing people, delegating tasks, and knowing when to take his hands off the controls and let the people he put in place do their jobs.

Unsurprisingly, then, he was likewise known as a person with a mellow and calm personality.

All of that had gone out of the window now. Every single last bit of his patience was being tried again and again, and this most recent incident with the Slayer Legion was just another example.

It wasn't even all that big a deal, objectively speaking. They had only sent a fraction of a fraction of their strength, but it was supposed to be an easy victory, a nice win to tuck into their belts and help bolster morale.

Who would have thought that it would just end up being another slap to the face?

At that moment, the door to Vivak's office opened. Vivak almost snapped again, but when he saw that it was his wife, he took a breath and turned around, looking out the window so as not to show her such an embarrassing side of him.

Amynta stepped to her husband's side. She just stood there silently as he slowly regained his calm, not saying anything. Sometimes a man just needed his wife by his side and things would feel just a little bit better. Amynta understood that, at least for right now, Vivak didn't need her advice.

The time ticked by, and Vivak eventually exhaled a final time, looking toward his wife with a hint of gratefulness in his eyes.

"Amynta, you look beautiful today. Did you do something with your hair?"

Amynta smiled. Her usual demeanor was quite cold and detached, so it almost looked out of place. Vivak, though, was quite used to his wife's personality and he was content to feel that only he and her brother could see this side of her.

"You say that every day."

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leaned into her husband's arm, resting her cheek on

she said softly. "At

flickered. "You're

not lie to you. He also doesn't seem to treat any woman except for his Aina like they're a woman at all. However, he's also a schemer and he's rarely

the husband and wife pair fell into

do you think that

"In what way?"

the path of the others, trying to make our own way when at this point

you want to hear how I really feel about

"Yes."

up and into her

the Human Race, as it is right now, has

didn't seem to be very surprised by this

how you looked at it,

the Human Race to wider Existence was akin to scum at the bottom of their feet, a patch of mud or dirt

mouths of the other Races, and the fall of the Fawkes family ruined their chances at ever defending

didn't fall, the other Races would act to wipe out the humans. They said the other Races wouldn't want to see the humans rise

was the result

generation, they got weaker, a barrier, ironically created by the Fawkes family in

there were a great number of humans who couldn't even wield decent

from the ants of Existence to the Envoys of the God Beasts, to falling from grace and then rising again to be as strong as any

only backer and end up right back at

death and destruction. They only had a single Life State level warrior, and he died ironically at the