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.

before they were accepted? How many different scientists had come to prove the same matter, only for just one of them to

realm of academia you were at, the objective truth never mattered as much as the timing and the

else could

wheels turning. He hadn't made another breakthrough, but he had had a shift in

already doing a lot of this. What was he doing now if not trying to change the public's perception

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

than prepared to play along with them. In fact, he would give them more than they

moment, Leonel's pillar began to slowly dim and his point total moved up from 1 point to 3. It seemed that the pillar had deemed his rebuttal worth more than

her like Leonel had just treated her like a child who didn't understand

humiliating moment of

toward Lumina as though Celestia didn't exist. By now, she must have realized that Leonel responded exactly the way he did to goad her into responding the way she had. If not for her targeting Leonel on his third place finish,

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

was Aerin and Lyra who seemed to be close, so they were already at a disadvantage

wasn't a battle they should have

the bridge of his nose. That saying about fearing bone-headed teammates was really ringing true

it flashed over Orion. Mimicking him during a fight against his wife already signed this man's death warrant. The Cloud Race member was just very lucky that Leonel wasn't

he could do something