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.

closed it in by another three for a total of six points, while Aerin

together a nightmare. Sometimes they

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

Leonel found himself being quite impressed by them, especially Aerin. He was

of a biased recollection of events considering the only reason the Demi-God groups had

it seemed all too obvious that Leonel would fall out of his first place

been able to claim so many points by arguing about things entirely unrelated to Crafting, so it only made sense that he wouldn't be able to hang in when the conversation was veered away entirely from

wasn't some behemoth they couldn't take down, he was very manageable so long

and they could

position is taken to be the correct one, wherein the Point of Dimension is variable, the Point of Life is the Second

finished speaking those words lightly, Lumina and Orion could only bow out

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

to Leonel. And right then, for the first time in hours, she looked toward him, a light of pride

Leonel. No, it

had just been flirting with his wife. That much was obvious by

suddenly looked