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.

discoveries ignored for years before they were accepted? How many different scientists had come to prove the same matter, only for just one of them to get the credit for presenting it the best

of academia you were at, the objective truth never mattered as much as the timing and the packaging in which

could be

turning. He hadn't made

already doing a lot of this. What was he doing now if not

make the truth what they wanted it to be. If a God descended now and told everyone that Leonel

wanted to play games, Leonel was more than prepared to play along

point total moved up from 1 point to 3. It seemed that the pillar had deemed his rebuttal worth more than just

hints of embarrassment and anger. It felt to her like Leonel had just treated her like a child who didn't understand

was the most humiliating

goad her into responding the way she had. If not for her targeting Leonel on his third place finish, would it

felt his heart constrict under Leonel's gaze. Lumina was far too foolish and far too enraged 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 that they

beneath Leonel and had placed fifth. Just below them was Aerin and Lyra who seemed to be close, so they were already at a disadvantage against

they should

about fearing bone-headed

wife already signed this man's death warrant. The Cloud Race

even so, he could do