Dimensional Descent

The Emberheart Lady spoke calmly and in the end, her husband couldn't refute anything she said.

Inwardly, though, they both felt complicated about this matter. Nothing in Leonel's letter was wrong. They had disparaged his wife, and they had raised the status of Lyra.

The latter choice was because Lyra's marriage to Thalion was meant to be the catalyst they needed in order to move forward with the next steps of their plan.

Part of their mixed feelings was exactly because of this. They had put their daughter directly in the line of fire not just once, but twice now. Although the world didn't know, how could they not know that they had tried to marry her off to Leonel first.

These matters built up frustration in layers and they felt like they were being painted into a box. But ultimately, they never had a choice...

Until now.

Finally, they could take some of the brunt of the pressure away from their daughter and bear it themselves as her parents. The Emberheart Lady didn't even plan to have Lyra on the participating roster. She would do this for her child... as Lyra's mother.

They accepted Leonel's challenge.

By doing so, they felt that they could better paint the humans as the villains and their plan, which had stalled, could roll forward once more.

...

What the couple didn't know was that this wasn't their choice at all.

Leonel stood on the high clouds of the Dream Pavilion, taking in the beautiful array of blues, pinks and violets. It was truly gorgeous in ways that couldn't be described.

world now, but he was

because he wanted them to publicize it. He

he didn't mention the fact they had tried to marry Lyra to them. If he had, there was no way they'd go the extra step of

Leonel chuckled to

could blot out the sun spreading

Pavilion. Inside, he found Goggles exchanging ideas about Crafting

were startled with Leonel's sudden appearance and were about to hurry to

come here to interrupt you

a gaze filled with

but Leonel couldn't help

too easy to see through. It seemed that even now, he wasn't

as though I've put in as much effort as I should have. Just giving him a bunch of

one another's shoulders and face off against the world

life didn't come

I might need you two for. Soon, we'll be challenging another Dream

on

you guys know the rules when the time comes, but I'll be

everything the Dream Pavilion did, the laundry list of rules was extensive and if Leonel really poured it on them, they wouldn't

mood immediately plummeted and he felt like the sky was being overturned. He had been having

he

"You know what your greatest weakness

blushing down