Dimensional Descent

Leonel didn't respond, looking at the blue runed Rapax deeply.

"Third purchaser?" He asked.

"You don't need to try to hide it. My race is a bit simpleminded, but we aren't stupid. I can clearly see what sort you are."

Leonel's lip curled, and his body form changed. He grew ten inches and his features smoothed out, becoming more handsome. Not that it made a difference to the Rapax. To them, his change might as well have been a fox changing the tinge of their fur a bit. The Rapax were probably the only humanoid Race not obsessed with the actual human form. In a lot of ways, they were far more like beasts than they were like humanoids.

"No, you don't know what sort I am."

"Then why did you just expose yourself?"

"Because I felt like it. If you really knew something, it wouldn't take a kid's slip up to get you to question me."

The young Rapax blushed. Well, his runes lit up a bit and flickered as he turned away. But same difference.

"That's not a really good enough reason." The blue runed Rapax replied, sending a glance at the young Rapax. He had never seen Shadowclaw react like this to anything. "How do you know Shadowclaw?"

"I don't," Leonel shrugged.

"Is there a need to lie at this point?" The blue runed Rapax felt a bit annoyed by Leonel's condor at this point. Ultimately, he was in the Seventh Dimension. In fact, he was in Tier 7, the higher stratosphere of the Dimension. Leonel, on the other hand, was just in the Fifth Dimension.

respected above all, but Leonel had yet to do anything that made the blue runed Rapax respect him to that level. As far as

didn't even look at Xenothrall. And by the same extension, Xenothrall kept his head lowered in deference to

worked, but Leonel didn't seem

Shadowclaw hurriedly interjected. "When I was young, my egg was targeted by a lot of people.

Rapax blinked in surprise, not expecting this. He had some understanding of Shadowclaw's situation and talent. And because the Rapax were the only humanoid Race that incubated in eggs, he likewise understood how valuable

Leonel's previous speech, and he thought that it was mostly nonsense to drive a wedge between the Rapax and Sea Gods, but was

the point, shall we?" Leonel smiled. "You clearly aren't here because you need the world itself. So why not tell me what you're

blue runed Rapax's eyes narrowed. "How do you

be so cordial with me otherwise. I also doubt that you would be colluding

realized that he could deduce many things. After seeing

race. If their goal was to take over the world, then they would never team up with another. It would be seen as beneath them to team up on

as the Sea Gods at all. Only that way

Rapax to purchase

a Mortal Race purchasing this world because it would take far too many resources. The risk wouldn't be worth it to them, especially

there was already a purchaser before them, could only mean that their goal wouldn't clash with the Barbarians, and

nail in the coffin was, obviously, that

be because of Shadowclaw, it wasn't enough

runed Rapax remained silent for

smile didn't fade as he extended a

first, then? My name is Leonel Morales.

at the hand and eventually extended one of his own. Barbed in sharp blade-like