Dimensional Descent

Celestia froze, not understanding what these words meant. She would have normally called Leonel out for speaking nonsense, but she no longer dared to. Was what he had just said truly too profound for her to understand?

She didn't want to believe it.

"People believe the main difference between the two disciplines is that one provides external support while the other relies on internal support. A sword is an external item, and a Force Pill that can raise your Dimension is an internal one. But this is hardly true.

"I can create armors that are a personal and direct increase to my personal stats, they can even go as far as to change my affinities or enhance them. Is that not an internal support?

"On the other hand, my lovely wife could easily create a Force Pill that could explode on contact with water, having no other purpose but to store a ton of Force that causes a violent chain reaction when the requirements are met. Wouldn't that technically be an external support?"

Celestia frowned. "No. The armor you create almost certainly relies on a Lineage Factor, that I'm sure of. It isn't the armor itself, but rather the interaction it has with a third-party force, that's hardly the same thing.

"As for the exploding Force Pill, how a pill reacts to its environment is precisely the point. The fact that you mentioned it would need an external mechanism to trigger its activation tells you everything you need to know.

"If you made a bomb as a Craft instead, it wouldn't need an external mechanism to activate. You could do it based on time, you could have an external trigger if you wanted, but it would be necessary. You could even have it explode immediately and it wouldn't cause any problems at all.

"You can't play a game of semantics to try and draw lines of parallel similarity where there aren't any."

To Celestia's surprise, Leonel actually agreed.

exactly my point," Leonel said. "In fact, I believe the Convergences aren't Convergences at all. The Points are locations where the two disciplines come together. Instead, they're the points at which they diverge. I would

trigger changes to the way my Crafted armor acts precisely because it exists

that represents the Point of Life. The

"How are they Divergences if it's

sound like she was debating anymore, it

Lineage Factor is an external item. The

parties, it would be at those points that they diverged the

just gone off in her mind. She didn't even realize that Leonel's

previous rounds of debates where a winner had been decided were added to him. Although this didn't take away points from other

other thing that Leonel had learned about the pillars. It was taking note

conceded in one debate, it didn't mean that it would necessarily be a loss in another debate as

pillars

been patiently silent until now, and the first was because he wanted to accumulate all these points for himself rather than having

Plus, he got to flirt with his wife instead of wasting time

as for the

the side, "but now you're speaking as though you're a master on the topic. Are you sure you don't want to retract what you've said before?

had lost their chance at the top four. She couldn't believe that she was about to lose a damned Sparrow, it took everything

moment she caught onto a hint of Leonel's weakness, she grabbed