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.

anything that made the blue runed Rapax respect him to that level. As far as he was concerned,

line with that, from start to end, he didn't even look at Xenothrall. And by

worked, but Leonel didn't

like that!" 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 that egg would

speech, and he thought that it was mostly nonsense to drive a wedge between

"You clearly aren't here because you need the world itself. So why not tell me

blue runed Rapax's eyes narrowed. "How

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

in this, Leonel realized that he

take over the world, then they would never team up with another. It would be seen as beneath them to team up

wasn't the same as the Sea Gods at all.

other, more tangible explanation was that it would have been foolish of the Rapax to purchase this world's information otherwise. This was

pretty much dismissed the idea of a Mortal Race purchasing this world because it would take far too many resources. The risk wouldn't be worth it to

that their goal wouldn't clash with the Barbarians, and

the coffin was, obviously, that they were so cordial with

Shadowclaw, it wasn't enough when the wellbeing of an entire Race of people

blue runed Rapax remained

didn't fade as

introduce ourselves first, then? My name is Leonel Morales.

runed Rapax looked at the hand and eventually extended one of his own. Barbed in sharp blade-like claws, it