Dimensional Descent

The Ma'at Bubble wasn't as beautiful as the Owlan Bubble, but it carried an elegance of its own, especially at a time like this where the mood was festive and inviting.

From Leonel's perspective, the Gathering of Minds had ended in humiliation, but how could it be the same for Lyra Emberheart, who had become the pride of her Race in a single bound?

The victory that she secured was akin to the best in recent history for the Spirituals and even Pure Blooded Spirituals. Her name was already being written into the annals of history.

Although she and Aerin were only third place, they had placed behind two groups of Demi-Gods. This effectively meant that in terms of Mortal talent, she was at the very top. How could the Spirituals not take pride in this?

This was the sort of festive environment that Leonel and Aina stepped into.

Quite frankly, Leonel had expected that entering such a Bubble would have been much harder. But it seemed that with the festivities, everything had become far more lax.

There was also the network of teleportation platforms that had been connected. Because of the Owlans' current situation, they weren't exactly in the position to retract their previous order. So it could be said that Existence was more connected now than it had ever been before.

Leonel and Aina walked through the streets, both of them wearing masks in the fashion of a masquerade ball to fit in.

By now, their faces were too famous between the Gathering of Kingdoms events and the Gathering of Minds. So this was the best option for them now.

They spent a few hours moving through a crowded bazaar and buying cute little trinkets that Aina found cute.

brought out his brothers as well. Among them, he had also

had spent too long with her head buried, studying and improving with the corpse of the Shadow Tail. If Leonel

the sun began to wane, Leonel

realized that he had been having so much fun that he forgot to

to spend some alone time with her husband so she hadn't brought it

region with the highest population of non-Spirituals and Half-Spirituals. They live there in relative

"Relative?" Leonel asked.

it's not perfectly pleasant 100% of the time. The Ma'at Bubble is far better than other worlds in terms of inclusivity and open-mindedness, but there's still a thinly veiled class system of sorts. The governor of the region is a Half Spiritual, so it's not like the Pure Bloods haven't taken steps to make the situation more balanced.

Leonel nodded.

that things changed. But even then, rather than a matter of Race, it became a problem of Class, with a certain subsection of people living

when the Metamorphosis appeared, but Leonel, even with his changes, didn't like the approach

It was too cruel.

vastly more complex as intelligence, for example, even if you put effort into equalizing

placed decently during the Gathering of Kingdoms, so Leonel

brothers again, teasing Joel and

roll off his shoulders, which was expected. His relationship with Savahn was far more mature and his way of viewing things was far more

course, knew what that was. Joel

they were husband and wife. Back

was best described as a glass canon. The first few times they interacted it was filled with vitriol and they had both said some wildly cruel things to one another. In fact, the first time they hooked up... Raj didn't even know what

yelling at each other, the next they were making out, and in the next they were