Dimensional Descent

The elder fell to his knees, his sparse white hair falling loosely from his age speckled scalp. The wrinkles on his face told a tale just as old, but it was those pale white orbs that, murky and milky in their depths, painted the image of a man long past his prime.

Even so, the one emotion that pulled all Invalids together was the fear of death. They felt for nothing and wanted for nothing than constant improvement and survival.

When Apex's master turned his gaze to this old man, all of that carnal sort of need came rushing forth and he acted in the only way he thought might save his life.

Apex had been suppressed, but it was necessary. The actions of the Invalids this time around were risky. They were the public enemy of the world, maybe even more so than the Envoys of Creation and Destruction, or at the worst on equal footing.

To make such a large move without preparation was foolhardy, and this elder was right to make his suggestion. This seal had helped them reduce their odds of being exposed.

Unfortunately, the cost seemed to outweigh the gains.

They had lost not just one Variant Invalid, but three. Worse than that, they had lost several seedlings with good odds of taking their next step of evolution.

Somehow, not a single one of them had survived.

Apex's master looked away from the kneeling man as though he wasn't there. His mood was unreadable, his expression the picture of indifference. Without the irises and pupils of a human, there was no humanity to grasp onto.

"What is the situation with the war? Is it time yet?"

master moved on

scrambled to give their reports, detailing

battle is in a stalemate, your lordship. However, there is a report that Minerva has succeeded in

true genius would descend soon, but they seem to have been delayed. It's said that the Weapon Idol Battlefield has revealed itself and this

to all the reports until this one. His head rose and the orbs

be interested, even if they had already formed their own Idols. The humanoid races all saw this Battlefield as their greatest treasure. If the Life Tablet was

what had triggered its sudden rise, but to those of

"How long."

words. Simple

come into range. The location is exposed, but it would take an expert of your

certainly monitoring paths to the region, and while one

fell into silence, looking away without another word. The reports continued and soon news of

has come by more than once to ask for aid.

"Kill her."

another two words spoken just as

they were met with

his entire cabinet had been frozen in time. His senses, however, told him a different

his sense of time had instead been distorted to such a profound extent that

this wasn't an application of Time Force, it was one of Dream Force. An application so profound it was hard to say if there was another in the world capable