Dimensional Descent

From the very beginning, it never mattered whether they had actually cheated or not. Leonel truly had no proof, but that was never really the point.

Just like Minerva had said, at a certain realm, the objective truth wasn't all that mattered...

But Leonel did feel that she was wrong about something... even on the lowest levels, objective truth was hardly ever what was most important either.

The idea that truth alone should reign supreme were the ideals of an idealistic and naive individual. Truth was only as important as the way it was packaged, and the way it was packaged was dependent on era, on culture, on the immediate climate...

If one couldn't accept this, you only really needed to look at the historical trends.

By definition, every time the majority changed their minds and accepted another path as their reality, it required convincing.

But how many could truly understand the science that proved the Earth was round and not flat? How many understood the nuance of evolution? How many could read Einstein's paper on relativity and actually come to understand what he was talking about?

And yet most accepted this as the objective truth.

Why?

It was because they had been convinced of it. It was because at a certain point, enough people had been pushed off their current course that it became natural to accept it as the truth.

It wasn't the first time it happened, and it wouldn't be the last by any stretch.

that, how many times were discoveries ignored for years before they were accepted? How many different scientists had come to

never mattered as much as the timing and the packaging in

could

now, Leonel could see some of those wheels turning. He hadn't made another breakthrough, but he had had a shift

lot of this. What was he doing now if not trying to

it to be. If a God descended now and

prepared to play along with them.

began to slowly dim and his point total moved up from 1 point to 3. It seemed that the pillar had deemed his rebuttal

with hints of embarrassment and anger. It felt to her like Leonel had just treated her like a

was the most humiliating

By now, she must have realized that Leonel responded exactly the way he did to goad her into responding the way she

to see what was happening. He could already tell that Leonel had shifted his target to them, but she was too busy clenching her fists to realize

seemed to be close, so they were already at a disadvantage against

should have picked, at

about fearing bone-headed teammates was really ringing

already signed this man's death warrant. The Cloud

so, he