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.

she 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

to be to destroy the Brazinger family. Now she had

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

I've miscalculated something.

from his seat, seemingly prepared to go after his father. But after a moment, he

there that day. I watched this Aina Morales slaughter thousands in droves, endlessly for months on end. Many

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

a pointed glance, Thalion seemed to be about to leave as

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

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

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

was

at the air. A roaring tempest of Scarlet Star Force and Emulation Spatial Force pulsed to life, exuding the majesty of the Life State with more fervor than he had ever been

shimmering with light, the entire section of seats almost collapsing beneath his sudden

Lords' expressions changed, but it was already too

so fast, and it arched through the air with such beauty, that its lethality didn't truly set

BANG!