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.

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. As for the spotlight itself, she didn't care for it and

she had two. One remained the same, and the second was to live a happy life with

into the air and seemed to drift off before the eyes of everyone,

with good intentions, but it seems that I've miscalculated something. The harmony between the Races is something I've always seen as worthy of

that Thalion stood from his seat, seemingly prepared to go

changed. I was there that day. I watched this Aina Morales slaughter thousands in droves, endlessly for months on end. Many people saw her entering the arena more and more tired every time, but no

of the Humans, but there are certain... ties of the past

glance, Thalion seemed to be about to leave as

hanging in the air, one that looked as though it might remain for a long while as the Emberheart Lord seemed to have

to everyone what Thalion was referring to even without him spelling it out. The scars that the Void Beasts, the God Beasts of

after several seconds, the Moonstone Lord was still in the sights of

that was when

Spatial Force pulsed to life,

in his head and his body shimmering with light, the

expressions changed, but it

with such beauty,

BANG!