Dimensional Descent

Amynta's heart lurched when she heard this, but her lips were sealed, both by design and by her will. However, Leonel didn't really need to hear the answer, he already knew it. In this regard, Amynta and his grandfather weren't all that different.

Leonel had many thoughts about where his grandfather might be and what he was doing now. There was no reason for him to have been gone so long, it didn't make any sense, especially considering the time dilation between the regions.

However, seeing how far Amynta had gone to revive the Constellation Families, he had a guess.

When Leonel left, the Fawkes family barely had any members. Other than himself, who was already barely considered a Fawkes to begin with, there were only his grandfather, his mother and his uncle.

Whatever was causing his grandfather to drag his feet so much almost certainly had to do with the revival of the Fawkes. And as for how he would do it... would it be much different than what Amynta had done?

Leonel had known for a long time what kind of man his grandfather was. Emperor Gervaise Fawkes would take the path that suited him best.

He had personally handpicked Leonel's grandmother to be his wife for reasons that likely weren't purely out of love... if there was any love to begin with.

He hadn't hesitated to all the deaths of billions of his own citizens to ensure that Earth wasn't overrun by Invalids.

He had no qualms about manipulating his own grandsons to do his bidding, throwing them directly into the line of fire as he sat back on his throne.

And yet, Leonel couldn't say that he hated his grandfather very much anymore. In fact, as time passed, Leonel found himself cozying up to the old man, thinking of him as a real grandfather rather than the caricature of one.

Part of that was because he no longer had the right or the moral high ground to denounce his grandfather's actions. He was no longer that naive teenage boy.

Another part was the fact he could feel that though his grandfather's actions were cruel in the eyes of many, in a lot of ways he wasn't unlike Leonel...

too subjective. There were too many moving parts, too many differing opinions, so the two men, grandfather and grandson, did the only thing

their families first and

feeling that the day his grandfather appeared once more,

being the last of your kind? At one point, he was the only Fawkes that remained in the entire world... how much rage was buried in his

shook his head and sighed. Then,

active, she couldn't fly on her own so she could only quickly take out a flying treasure

this. Like I said, you're useful to me. So are you going to cooperate?

be a bit shell-shocked, not quite understanding what was going

lips parted but no words came

when Vivak was about to speak

"We accept."

so softly it sounded almost like a light breeze. However, everyone

of the day her thoughts could be

Leonel

to an entirely different level

Amynta was the wife of their Patriarch to begin with. It was easy to accept

make plans to corral the rest of the human

couple weeks, Leonel realized that things would stabilize, so he had a meeting with Amynta and Vivak once