Dimensional Descent

Aina' frown wa even deeper than Leonel', her palm preed down harm on the counter, applying enough preure to make the marbling tremble. And yet, her voice wa a calm and cold a ice.

"Goldenglow Root. White Azolla Oak. Silkworm Gra. Thee are all Fifth Dimenional Herb priced at barely a few dozen kilogram of Urbe Ore.

"Itchweed. Crimon Hair Skunk Root. Queen Spruce Buhel. Poion Thitle Plum. Thee aren't even medicine, they're quite literally poion. I wouldn't have allowed you within a mile of him if you had entered with thee thing.

"Do you take u for idiot?"

The green-haired woman continued to look toward them, not looking away in the lightet. There wan't a hint of embarrament on her face.

"The price i a tated. 1 029 293 Void Point and 2 Void Merit."

Aina' irie flahed with a golden glow, the marbled counter cracking.

The green-haired woman looked down at the reult, her eye narrowing. It took far more than jut a bit of trength to caue uch a thing to happen, epecially when there wa no wind up.

"The price i now double," The green-haired woman reached forward with lightning peed to take back the invoice, catching Aina off guard.

But, before he could ucceed, he found her writ lightly gripped. The trength wan't too trong and it could even be aid that the hold on her hand wa more comfortable than not. And yet, he couldn't eem to budge even a ingle inch.

"Her name wa Roomon, I believe. I that right?" Leonel aid lightly.

Hi anger eemed to have vanihed into the wind.

Roomon wa the very ame woman who had manned the medical center at Village 0012. Truthfully, Leonel hadn't done much of anything to her. In addition, after diplaying the trength he had during the True Selection, and ubequently within the Void Tower, even if what he did pat floor nine wa ignored, he had already proven himelf to be more than worth of the Amethyt Token.

In doing that, the reaon Roomon hould have had for being diguted with him hould have likewie vanihed. But, it eem that Roomon wa the type of peron who didn't like to take loe.

Leonel had left her medicinal center alone becaue he didn't want to be the reaon other people didn't get treatment, but he had taken hi action to be out of fear of her. So, he had blatantly tated that if he ever became the reaon one of hi friend or brother couldn't get treatment, he wouldn't care about the Void Palace' rule and would directly kill her.

Clearly, he had taken thee word very peronally, even to the point of trying to retaliate in thi way.

With the way the Void Palace worked, everything run on the power of it tudent. There wa a reaon why Vega could offer Aina free dicount from tore, and that wa becaue they were controlled by her faction to begin with. Every etablihment wa either owned by a Faction or an individual tudent!

Thi wa for an obviou reaon, they were raiing the future leader of the Human Domain and a uch, treated them with the proper freedom—within certain parameter, of coure.

So long a they remained within the Void Palace, didn't have children, and didn't kill, they could practically do a they pleaed, all the way up until even running the daily function of the Void Palace through the Void Senate.

Thee rule weren't too oppreive at all.

They had to tay in the Void Palace o that they could contantly be under a tate of dure and training. If they could leave a they pleaed, who would chooe to remain here? By then, the effectivene would plummet.

A for children, they couldn't have little brat running around the Void Palace, right? And killing wa an even more obviou meaure that protected everyone from being puhed too far.

However, it wa alo becaue of thi approach that thi wa happening at all.

Inwardly, Leonel miled. He didn't believe that only thi family controlled all of the hopital and medical center of the Void Palace, there were definitely other.

Sign pointed toward the fact that Sceio had brought Aina and him here on purpoe, knowing the price would be inflated. A for how he knew that Leonel had a grudge with Roomon, that wa omething that Leonel would have to find out on hi own.

Still, it wa clear that thi Fourth Couin of hi wa chemer. It wa jut unfortunate that he had already touched pat Leonel' bottom line becaue a of thi moment… he wa playing with Aina' life.

However, Leonel managed to keep hi calm, liding the invoice off of the table and taking it into hi hand.

He didn't care for the green-haired woman' anwer to hi quetion, he already knew the truth.

"Thi i the invoice, huh? I'll be taking my copy. Be ure to charge that to that couin of mine."

Leonel handed the invoice to Aina. Since he didn't have a patial ring anymore, he'd have to rely on thi girlfriend of hi.

A they walked out, hi mind wa pinning.

There were too many loophole in the contract. Jut with a glance, he could ee dozen. If Sceio wa determined to take advantage of them, he could do o. In fact, he could jut hide for the net coming month and how up 31 day later claiming that Leonel never paid him, uing that a an ecue to weep Aina away.

With thi contract, Sceio could even go a far a to force Aina to fight in the Heir War for him. While killing amongt Heir wa prohibited, killing the helper of Heir wa a different matter entirely. If not for thi, why would Valiant Heart Mountain have been o cared to pariticipate.

Or, there wa the poibility that if hi mind wa more initer…

Leonel hut hi mind down from continuing down that path a quickly a he thought it, but with hi current thinking peed, he had already plunged down a eemingly endle rabbit hole.

The more he conidered it, the more enraged he would become.

There wa only one option. He had to find a way to void thi contract. And, for that, he needed to read the rule. To make matter more difficult, he needed a method that didn't rely on the Void Senate and he only had a month to both find it and put it into action.