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.

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 call them

trigger changes to the way my Crafted armor acts precisely because it exists at the Point of Dimension. It

represents the Point of Life. The Second Dimension is the origin of all Forces,

Divergences if it's at

sound like she was debating anymore, it sounded like she just

external item. The water is likewise an external object.

for the existence of those third parties, it would be at those points that they diverged the most, and

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

decided were added to him. Although this didn't take away points from other participants, it hardly

that Leonel had learned about the pillars. It was taking note of everything that was being said and

it didn't mean that it would necessarily be a loss in another debate as well. Some people were

ultimately, the pillars still

and the first was because he wanted to accumulate all these points for himself rather than having to rope everyone into a

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

for the

as though you're a master on the topic. Are you sure you don't want to retract what you've said before? Admit you were being a bastard

taken so many losses until now, and it seemed like they had lost their chance at the top four.

Leonel's weakness, she grabbed it