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?"

a monolith. We are not the Spirituals, we are the Ma'at Spiritual

still doesn't answer

few who haven't forgotten the value of

a Wise Star Order? Or the

understanding her point, but not

can we

used by anyone 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 Order are things that any world powerful enough to snatch it away

want my husband to marry

"That would be ideal-"

immediately, but Aina

doesn't seem to

It ticked on for a

"They 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, and if they can,

that are desperate enough to try it. They'll die anyway when they return to their worlds. Don't

to Zephyr and the others. "We're going.

he turned

suddenly said, refuting Rowan's

"Go." Aina said, smiling.

are too many,"

you know that one or two more people won't make

"Even so-"

many attacks that can flood in at once, most will counter and clash against one another, they'll be forced to attack in smaller numbers. By then, they'll just be trying to tire me out, and we both know how that will

"But..."

form

for Aina to make use