Dimensional Descent

The first hour came to an end and it seemed that there was absolutely nothing they could do against Leonel. In fact, many were scared to engage with him at all, worrying that if they did so, he would veer the conversation back in a direction that they didn't want it to go.

Leonel hadn't gotten the case slammed shut victory he wanted, after all, he hadn't been able to force them to admit to what they had done, but that was fine. He never really expected to. Things had gone pretty much exactly how he had expected them to.

A large part of why he had been able to be successful, though, was thanks to Aina. Thanks to her, he could use the Life Tablet even under the suppression, and as such, he could understand things on a deeper level.

Of course, these things weren't related to the actual debate, but rather how far he could push the pillars themselves.

It was very important to his goals that he could bend the conversations in the direction he wanted, but doing it too much or to too great of an extent could backfire on him instead.

He couldn't just hop into a conversation about fire and make it about water, or else he would get dinged for it. He had to make them at least tangentially related.

It seemed that the Celestia and the others knew this as well, which was why they veered the conversation away from Leonel and made it purely about the Convergences, which was what started all of this to begin with.

After another hour passed, Leonel was still firmly in the lead, with Talon and Somnus, as well as Celestia and Verma, having gained three points each. The rest of the top ten had best one point each, and there was a clear gap between them and everyone else.

time the third hour had passed, they had closed it in by another three for a total of six points, while Aerin and Lyra had managed to move up to a cumulative total of four, placing them in

nightmare. Sometimes they would even contradict one another, and because they were coming from the same pillar,

together because they felt their individual statuses were too high to go with others, and too low to match with the Demi-Gods. But

and Leonel found himself being quite

that was a bit of a biased recollection of events considering the only reason the Demi-God groups had lost was

the fifth hour was coming underway, it seemed all too obvious that Leonel would fall out of

able to claim so many points by arguing about things entirely unrelated to Crafting, so it only made sense

them to relax. Leonel wasn't some behemoth they couldn't take down, he was very manageable

wouldn't have a superior score to them and they could finally

would have to say, then, that the fourth Convergence would have to be related to the Regulator or Regulators. If my position is taken to be the correct one, wherein the Point of Dimension is variable, the Point of Life is the Second Dimension and the Point of Creation is the Third, then there still needs to exist an anchor for the First Dimension, or else there

lightly, Lumina and Orion could only

to argue that there was no need for a Fourth Convergence at all as the Point of Dimension was exactly the representation of the First Dimension that Celestia was looking for.

another point, gaining an equivalent point total to Leonel. And right then, for the first time in hours, she looked toward him, a light of pride in

again, she found a smiling Leonel. No, it was more accurate to say that

was obvious by the way Aina smiled from time to

suddenly looked