Dimensional Descent

Flaura slowly closed the book in her hand. Her cherry lips shone particularly bright in the dim lights, and her expression was entirely unreadable. Not many knew Flaura intimately, but it could be said that it was quite rare for her to not be smiling, and even rarer for minutes to tick by without her taking a sip of wine.

A miscalculation.

She never told Leonel to lose on purpose, much like she didn't tell him to win or lose against the Ma'at Bubble.

For the challenge against the Ma'at Bubble, who won or lost didn't matter. She had thought that regardless of the situation, the end result would be the same. If she went too far in giving direction, she would just end up exposing her plans, and that was something she didn't want to do.

What she didn't know was that even before she told Leonel to challenge the Khafra Bubble, he had already known that she would.

But that was exactly why the current situation was so perfect. Flaura had no idea that Leonel had already seen through her. All she could tell was that Leonel's improvement speed was far too fast, and that he had more cards up his sleeves than logic would dictate to be possible.

Flaura waved a hand and the images of Aina's combat appeared.

As expected, every use of Dream Force was so crude and unrefined. It seemed that Aina had a large Dream Force affinity, maybe one she had only recently come into contact with. This made sense considering the two were from an Incomplete World, she couldn't find any flaws, at least not without being there to witness it personally. Ultimately, these were just projections, they couldn't grasp the whole picture.

"Some of this is still salvageable. This Aina killed a child in full view of the public, it would only make it easier to demonize them. A few will be able to tell that Little Fox isn't really a toddler, but the vast majority won't think so far."

Flaura organized her thoughts and slotted many other things into place. Even so, she couldn't quite feel satisfied, as though she was missing something.

Should she take action personally?

it would leave too much

such a blow, things

fallen out of the top 200, and it would be a great deal of effort to get them to climb back

can use Little Fox's death again. It will be

Patriarch Khafra played the role of grieving Pavilion Head, it would

this point, some of her annoyance had finally ebbed

that the Khafra Pavilion wouldn't really be able to remain beneath the radar anymore, but that

said slowly as though she was rolling the syllables across her

killing intent

but where would the benefit be? A Dream Asura didn't work based on emotion, they worked based on benefits. Even

for the sake of crushing Leonel, that wouldn't further her

She wanted something more.

back, tapping her finger on her armrest and finally taking another swig of wine. A sigh of satisfaction that sounded a lot more like

little boy, he should be looking for

projection before her changed. However,

but the dangerous light in

now. Two slippery fish had escaped from

Dwarven Bubble with Aina by his

course, he knew that Aina killing Little Fox was terrible optics, but there wasn't another choice. The only way to ensure victory was to not