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.

matter, 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

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

air and seemed to drift off before the

sighed. "My apologies, everyone. I started this matter 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 protecting, and I will

moment that Thalion stood from his seat, seemingly prepared to go after his father. But after a moment, he hesitated and

thousands in droves, endlessly for months on end. Many people saw her entering the arena more and more tired

be the fault of the Humans, but there are

pointed glance, Thalion seemed to be about

might remain for a long while as the Emberheart Lord seemed to have lost his words for a

without him spelling it out. The scars that the Void Beasts, the God Beasts of Destruction had left, were

Moonstone Lord was still in the sights of

that was

Leonel snapped and he grabbed at the air. A roaring tempest of Scarlet Star Force and Emulation Spatial Force pulsed to life, exuding

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

Lords' expressions changed, but

arrow was so fast, and it arched through the air with such

BANG!