Dimensional Descent

There was no other choice. They had to fight it out with Leonel on the grounds that they did nothing outside the norm.

He could already see Leonel's intentions. Lumina had accused him of being a brute who only knew how to bark and bite, and now he was asking them what role they played.

"Really? Is that so?" Leonel asked with a smile. "Are you sure that you don't want to retract that statement?"

Orion clenched his jaw.

Leonel suddenly pointed up and an image played.

"Unfortunate," an image of Orion chuckled. "I asked them not to put such a beauty through hardship, there was only so much I could do," Orion shrugged his shoulders in the image. "Those guys are pretty heartless. Well, I think one of them is just acting out of jealousy. Maybe you'll meet her, though it seems unlikely at this point. Lumina is her name. No need to thank me."

The real Orion suddenly turned a ghastly sheen of white. At the same time, his Cloud Figure shook and trembled, the runes in his Cloud Figure looked as though they were about to collapse entirely.

He cursed at himself internally. The worst part about this image was that he hadn't even turned into Leonel at that point in the body, so it was even more difficult for him to deal with the situation.

Just as Lumina glared at him and was about to rage at his sheer incompetence and stupidity. He gave her a pointed glare.

At that moment, they realized that if Lumina suddenly snapped at him, it would be tantamount to admitting her guilt as well.

"Are you aware that this is a debate of the minds? Not a place for your theatrics? There are any number of ways to fake such an image. To form such a perfect one at that? One that so perfect encapsulates my guilt? Do you take the spectators for idiots?"

unmistakingly so. However, none of that mattered right now, not in the slightest. This was a debate where

certainly people in the audience who would have watched that battle. There were also most certainly people smart

the Gathering of Kingdoms, even at that round, there were always thousands of ongoing battles. And, back during then, he had spoken those words the instant he stepped into the arena. So even if most would have chosen

what made Orion uneasy was that

Race is certainly capable of doing such

darkened. "This was what my partner was referring to. Your crude and crass style has no business being in these circles. Mentioning a person's Race as though that assigns fault to their character? You should

performing better than she thought he would be

Leonel's smile deepened.

that much of a problem? Should we go over

no idea what listing out something that I could do for any number of Races will

this is a sanctioned debate, not some crass bar

Crass insults?"

the pillars, wondering why they hadn't assigned a winner yet. They were already

or did you not attack my wife outside the bounds of the Gathering

over and over again isn't going to

his lips and nodded.

suddenly concentrated into an orb of light. With a flick of his wrist, at astonishing speed, the orb

this would happen. If the Pillar of Truth confirmed that it was a proper recollection of

It was a familiar old woman, one with