Dimensional Descent

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Leonel hadn't really been paying attention. Quite frankly, until their honeymoon officially ended, he couldn't gather the care to give a damn about what was happening in the outside world.

The only reason he was stepping into the outside world in the first place was because Miel wasn't among the number he had taken into the Segmented Cube. In fact, none of the Slayer Legion Generals were. So, he planned to take Aina out to find her father. With Anastasia's abilities, it wouldn't be too complicated. But…

He didn't expect that the entire Vast Bubble would be in a state of complete collapse.

He would have thought that it was the Vast City alone, but beyond the burning buildings, the screams of terror, and the foul acts taking place in dark alleys they believed no one would see, it felt like the entire Vast Bubble was in a similar state.

The protective, fortified cities that acted as barriers to the Demon Worlds were overrun.

At first, Leonel thought that this was because the demons had launched an all-out offensive. But there simply weren't enough demons around.

Although the fortified cities were being overrun, it was by those unranked demons that had managed to cross before the real merger. This definitely wasn't the actions of the Sun and Moon Demons.

And then he looked into the skies.

His eyes widened because there was something even his Internal Sight had picked up. It was a floating, cube-shaped stele. It was so large that there was no doubt that it was visible from across the Bubble. In fact, Leonel could vaguely feel that this Stele was visible across every world below the God Realms.

It was simple. It was an introduction to the Gathering of Kingdoms, and the reason the world was in chaos was because they had learned that, for the first time, they would have to participate.

Leonel's eyes narrowed.

ways to avoid the culling: the first was to have over 20% of your younger generation perform to an acceptable standard, meaning passing the Preliminaries; you had to have at least 100 who reached the Penultimate Round, or one who

Finals… it was a round where only 100 would make it across all participating worlds. Just what did it mean to be in the

frenzy. They clearly thought that they had all been left for dead. What good was there

If your older generation had failed to make your world into a Demi-God one, then it would be up to the younger generation to do it in the future. If they couldn't match up, then what good was there for it

It was truly unacceptable to them

they would have done so long ago. He had touched upon

suddenly smiled. "Getting antsy,

never blinked in front of killing and carnage in

figures in dark alleys who inexplicably had their heads torn off in a

the tournament you mentioned?" Aina

"Yup."

lot of faith in me," she

course. You'll be the only one entering, you think that's a lot

smile deepened. She seemed to feel some of what Leonel felt. Having someone so unconditionally believe in you…

want to be a house husband? Sending me out to fight

prefer the term sugar daddy. Just tell me what resources you need and you'll have them. This husband of yours

for money," Aina spoke in mock

only because they'll never

middle of the world's end,