Dimensional Descent

Leonel's indifference from start to end painted an indelible mark on all of their hearts. He didn't even hesitate for a moment, giving the lion beast a taste of its own medicine.

Beast Races didn't have human forms, at least not in the normal sense. Though they could take human form, it was more like an avatar. It could exude some of their strength, but only a fraction of it. While executing more complex tasks, like... copulating, for example, was impossible while in such a form.

The image didn't really need to be painted, then. One could imagine what would happen to the human female slaves that this lion beast took in.

The most disgusting part to Leonel was that the Beast didn't even seem to be particularly sinister. It was still trying to act chummy with him as though what it was doing was just a natural course of nature, not something to get mad about.

And maybe that was truly the case. Ever since he had left Earth, he had learned more and more everyday of how much of a dog eat dog world he was in. There would be no one coming to save you... no one coming to save the Human Race.

So as the lion Beast lay there suffocating, a heart rending pain tearing through its body while most of its backside was nothing more than a rain of blood, Leonel had no remorse to give in his heart.

What made the situation worse was that as he listened to the fear-induced murmurings of those in the surroundings, none of them believed that he and Aina were human. Instead, they believed that they must have sensed something wrong, that the couple they were seeing were actually a pair of Half-Spirituals. They were certainly beautiful and handsome enough.

Leonel's ability to steal control over a flame the lion Beast had been nurturing since its youth only solidified this. Who could have more control of the elements than the Spirituals?

Leonel waved a hand and relinquished his control over the flames, prepared to walk away.

"Halt!"

came from a

lion Beast started talking and then eventually roaring in agony, there had been some noise beginning to build up, but not enough that these sounds didn't still travel quite

halos hovering above their heads made their way in from the distance. These weren't real halos, but

fiercely they were reacting, it seemed that their assumptions about Leonel and Aina were probably wrong. There was no way they'd be so fierce with their own

is going

moment before ignoring them

knew what

culling was just how Leonel described this Gathering, and it was more of an open secret than an outright truth. On the surface, the Gathering of Kingdoms still used the original guise proposed by the God Beasts of Creation, and that was to

accurately, the most powerful of them. And, without fail, that council was under the control of

place either. This starting period was a free for all, and even if Leonel started indiscriminately

that they tried to carry over

smarter than Leonel gave them credit for. When they saw Leonel directly ignore them as though they were air, despite the fact their gazes flashed with rage, they seemed to realize that they didn't have the authority to do

let their anger stoke as Leonel and Aina disappeared into

One of them growled

their way, didn't mean that they would be so free with how they talked to

they were so mad, they should have just