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.

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 had two. One remained the same, and

air and seemed to drift off before

that I've miscalculated something. The harmony between

seemingly prepared to go after

thousands in droves, endlessly for months on end. Many people

to be the fault of the Humans, but there are certain... ties of the past that cannot

a pointed glance, Thalion seemed to be

the air, one that looked as though it might remain for a long

was referring to even without him spelling it out. The scars that the Void Beasts, the God Beasts of Destruction had left, were deep and firmly entrenched. It was simply impossible

the air as well, rising up and 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 rush, leisurely leaving through the air as though he was personifying

was when

Spatial Force pulsed to life, exuding

the

expressions changed, but

and it arched through the air with such beauty,

BANG!