Dimensional Descent

As Aina and Leonel were rolling and tumbling in the midst of an Inbetween World, oblivious to the fact that they were probably one of the very few couples who dared to do this, and more than once at that, the proceedings were slowly coming to a close and an award ceremony began.

Minerva and the rest of the Owlans were incredibly gracious. They tried to pretend to not notice the drop in viewership and continued with things as promised.

Though, Minerva was still a bit annoyed. Not at the drop in viewership, though that was its own problem. Rather, she was annoyed that her people had actually failed to stop Leonel from leaving.

'No matter,' she thought to herself. 'It should be an easy matter to track him now, Lyric should already be on it.'

She also had another reason to smile as well. Technically, Leonel should be fourth place, and that had earned him a lot of reward, but because he had let his pride get the best of him, even to the point of leaving first, he had not only lost everything, but he got nothing.

Minerva chuckled to herself and suddenly wondered why she even had to put in so much effort to kill Leonel in the first place. She had the Segmented Cube now, so everything else was meaningless. Plus, Leonel had suffered for his arrogance greatly.

In Minerva's opinion, a large reason for Leonel's Crafting skill should be the Segmented Cube as well. Now that it wasn't with him anymore, soon enough, her disciple would surpass him and the last worry would vanish.

Leonel would fall in obscurity just like the rest of the Human Race and become a footnote in history. No, that was probably more than he deserved.

Minerva smiled a gorgeous smile, one that seemed to light up the world as she handed her disciple the Minerva Spirit she had prepared. It was a gorgeous little fairy, with the chubby cheeks of a six year old and the childish grace of a 13 year old. All around, it broke the cuteness scale, flying around somewhat clumsily, but also endearingly.

With that, the competition came to a close.

...

going already, Somnus?"

seem happy about the ending of these events was Talon. He took no pride in what had happened afterward, though he also

look. Of course he was getting the hell out of here. He felt uneasy and he couldn't really describe why. He was probably not going to return home

what, he definitely didn't want to be anywhere near

a joke, he wouldn't explain his thoughts. If he told Talon, who knew what Talon would think? It was best if Talon thought he was disgusted with him, that way he

eyebrow, but then his gaze narrowed. He was much more intelligent than most gave him credit for, and that made picking up on things others didn't want him to easier

stay... or

platform when he felt

tune with the world and there were some strands of their lineage that

was dormant, and even in those who could grasp it, it only

now, something was telling him not to step onto

standing in silence for a

intelligence,' he thought, turning around to return to the city,

...

was quite

from Celestia and Minerva. Clearly, the latter Celestial Ember had the ability to shrink her

the Life Tablet was