Dimensional Descent

What was the smart thing to do?

That was obvious.

Turn around. Pretend he hadn't heard anything.

Assume that the Lords up there meant something other than calling his wife a barbarian.

All were good options.

But he had been doing the smart thing for too long already.

It was smart to send his wife to ask another man on a date. It was smart to make her fight alone at the Gathering of Kingdoms. It was smart to feign ignorance and incompetence at the Gathering of Minds.

All of these things were smart, they had progressed his journey further, they had minimized casualties and the only people to suffer were either those he didn't give a damn about or his enemies.

All smart. All very, very smart.

Leonel felt a hand grab onto his. He looked down to find Aina looking at him, smiling reassuringly. She wasn't bothered by the comment at all, she didn't really care.

What she had cared about was when people said she wasn't worthy of being Leonel's wife, but they certainly weren't saying that now. As for everything else, it was just fluff and unimportant.

didn't really care about that either. The only reason she had wanted to participate was purely to get back at Minerva for what she was doing to her husband.

she had two. One remained the same, and

into the air and seemed to drift off before

sighed. "My apologies, everyone. I started this matter with good intentions, but it seems that I've miscalculated something. The harmony between the

stood from his seat, seemingly prepared to go after his

intention, Lord Emberheart, but there are some things that cannot be changed. I was there that day. I watched this Aina Morales slaughter thousands in droves, endlessly for months on

is unlikely to be the fault of the Humans, but there

to be

for a long while as the Emberheart Lord seemed to have lost his words for a moment,

what Thalion was referring to even without him spelling it out. The scars that the Void Beasts, the God Beasts of Destruction had left, were deep

seemingly about to catch up with his father. Even after several seconds, the Moonstone Lord was still in the sights of everyone present. He didn't seem to be in a

was when it

Emulation Spatial Force pulsed to life, exuding the majesty of the Life State with more fervor than he had ever been able to

his head and his body shimmering with light, the entire section of seats almost

expressions changed, but it was

fast, and it arched through the air with such beauty,

BANG!