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.

Aerin and Lyra had managed to move up to a

another, and that made working together a nightmare. Sometimes they would even contradict one another, and because they were coming from

were too high to go with others, and too low to match with the Demi-Gods. But ironically,

while Aerin and Lyra were just three points behind. They were clearly the shocking dark horses of this event, and Leonel found himself being quite impressed by them, especially

recollection of events considering the only reason the Demi-God groups

hour was coming underway, it seemed all too obvious that

had only been able to claim so many points by arguing about things entirely unrelated to Crafting, so it only made sense that he wouldn't

they couldn't take down, he was very manageable so long as they stayed within

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

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

those words lightly, Lumina and Orion could only

point, the two were trying 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

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

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

with his wife. That much was obvious by the way Aina smiled

he suddenly looked