Dimensional Descent

The Spiritual was a man they recognized immediately. With the numbers of participants going down, those left were beginning to get more and more of a spotlight placed on them. This man was among the number almost certainly guaranteed to be among the finalists although he, himself, was not part of the Council Members.

He was known as Rowan Frostwind, a Pure Blooded Spiritual.

In truth, his talent and strength were beyond that of Lyra Emberheart. As for why Lyra was given the rights to become a Council Member while he was not, this was more related to Leonel than it was to any internal strife or unfairness.

According to the original plan, the Council was going to put pressure on Leonel and that was something the Spirituals alone couldn't fix. But Lyra was going to become the lynchpin for relieving some of the pressure on Leonel, giving him a path to survival.

That plan, though, was obviously tossed out the moment Leonel acted and killed one of the Council Members. There was nothing Lyra could even do at that point to change things, making her key effectively useless.

Rowan swept a gaze through the surroundings before his gaze landed on Aina.

"I've come to warn you about something."

Aina raised an eyebrow, but her indifference remained. She already knew what this was about, for Leonel predicting this sort of outcome was as easy as breathing.

"They're already getting antsy it seems," she spoke more to herself than anyone else.

Rowan fell into silence. Considering Aina wasn't eager to ask what was happening, it seemed that the couple had already thought of this.

For them to go through all of this and come out on top at every turn, it meant that these two weren't fools. They had an understanding of what was happening around them and acted accordingly.

Aina met Rowan's eyes after organizing her thoughts.

"I understand. But I'm more concerned with why the Spirituals are so eager to help me and my husband out so much?"

his head. "Don't think of the Spirituals as a monolith. We are not the Spirituals, we are the Ma'at Spiritual Bubble, the way we do things is different from

still doesn't answer my

forgotten the value of a Wise Star Order,"

Order? Or the value of

Star Order." Rowan said plainly, understanding her point, but not acknowledging

how can we be

who isn't a Wise Star Order to begin with. At the very least, its truly useful abilities can't be unlocked without one, and the abilities it has without being a Wise Star

want my husband to

"That would be ideal-"

almost immediately, but Aina

seem to be

silence fell. It ticked on for a long

can't match you with quality, so they will do so with quantity. They'll make certain that you're either too tired or too injured to perform well,

plenty here that are desperate enough to try it. They'll die anyway

Zephyr and

he turned to

sister!" Yuri suddenly said, refuting Rowan's

"Go." Aina said, smiling.

too many,"

two more people

"Even so-"

will counter and clash against one another, they'll be forced to attack

"But..."

began to form in Yuri's

this was true. More enemies just meant more blood for Aina to make use of and her well