Dimensional Descent

"Keep your head up. Don't be afraid to resign if need be," Leonel smiled and patted Eamon on the back. "As you can see, when we're together, they don't stand a chance against us."

Resigning wasn't a simple matter. After doing so, there were two options that could be taken. The first was for the Dream Pavilion Head to replace them, and the second was to give up all points entirely. There was a third option, but that had to be triggered through a series of "coincidences" and it also required some extra effort.

This third option was to replace the candidate with someone other than the Pavilion Head, but this required two things. The first was to sacrifice some of your points and the second was that the replacement had to fit the criteria of the one they were replacing.

When a Dream Pavilion Head replaced a participant, their point total would be nerfed. However, so long as the normal replacement shared the Dimension of the person in question, the only point sacrifice would be the initial loss.

As expected with the matters of the Dream Pavilion, this matter was overly verbose on purpose. It forced the participants to calculate many things and weigh the pros and cons of each action.

The short of it was that if Eamon chose to give up, they could either give up the round entirely, replace him with Leonel in exchange for a nerf on points, or replace him with another Seventh Dimensional existence in exchange for a set number of points.

Essentially, it was a round Leonel felt that he could crush the opponent in, it was better to take the nerf on points even if it was substantial.

But, if it was a close round like the first or second round, it might be better to hand over a set number of points in exchange for replacing Eamon with someone else.

The problem with this second option, though, was that Eamon would be permanently replaced for the remainder of the Challenge Sequence and wouldn't be able to be brought back even through another replacement sequence.

So, when Leonel told Eamon to give up if he really wanted to, he was essentially only thinking of personally replacing him.

anyone else to swap in for Eamon or Goggles, for that matter.

his teeth. "I can

hear. Coddling Eamon a bit during

difficult. There were no Force Arts to manipulate, it was a one on one battle between himself and

Leonel had to remind him to protect his livelihood

Soon, the two vanished.

flat mountaintop, trying

fought on, but the difference was that they weren't on separate mountains... they

massive palms in the skies, decorated with veins and runes of

He clenched his fists.

up. If you dare stand in my way, I will kill you for no other reason than to secure the greatest number

abyssal darkness. With everyday that passed, he seemed to only grow more and more angry. From the cheery young man he had once been, he truly seemed to want nothing more than to watch the world

from him, and he swore to one day take

spine, but he gripped his fists tighter, circulating the Dream Force around him and trying to form quasi talismans as quickly as possible. The longer he managed to last, the more points they would get. He didn't have to win, he

the largest potential for point disparity. If one side lost quickly, it could open up a huge gap. He had to hold on for as long as possible to make sure the gap stayed as