The tentacle attacks slowed as she neared its body and she kicked brutally to swim down toward its face
The wicked dagger blade stabbed forward with the speed of a bullet biting deeply into the beastÆs eye Again in roared and the thing spun the water extremely quickly as it tried to throw Helen off But she planted her feet on its scales and held both ends of the chain near the weapons it was connected to
She rode that bucking seabeast while gritting her teeth Blood pumped up through the wounds she had inflicted dying the water in the surrounding area a deep red The blood and bubbled mixed into a strange froth that made this corner of the sea look like hell Slowly Helen smiled
Hurry up and die fucker IÆm hungry This Reaper needs to eat
Again and again it struck at her with its tentacles and fins but Helen always clung close to its relatively much larger body Systematically she stabbed her weapons into its side using their curved blades to make them extremely difficult to remove
More and more blood pumped out of the seabeast into the surrounding sea so that it was impossible to see what was going on within that huge sphere of blood Helen could sense several other scavengers of the Blood Sea coming closer interested in the powerful tang of blood But when they recognized the seabeast that was in its death throes they paused
What being would hunt a seabeast in its own habitat
HelenÆs smile widened further as she saw her fellow scavengers simply watching
Sit back and watch This is my prey
Finally with a heaving sigh the seabeast died Instantly Helen felt something inside of herself shift and click into place All at once she woke from the strange dream she had found herself in for almost a week After a blink she was back in Donnyton standing next to the portal into the Level 50 Dungeon
Her eyes slid sideways searching and suspicious Yet from looking around it was clear that only a few moments passed
Helen grinned and looked at her hands There was a flicker and then a bone Harpoon and dagger appeared in them connected by a fine chain So this is my Fate
Randidly returned to his cabin at nightfall He needed to think and think quickly about how to spend his remaining time
The challenge against Donnyton was in two days Sam promised Randidly that he would be bringing over a whole new type of equipment for him tomorrow night And this time there was a deep fire in SamÆs eyes as he said it so Randidly had a certain amount of anticipation for what the older man had cooked up
Besides those two things the rest could wait For all that the Nemesai should be addressed it could wait a few days Clarissa was still trying to trace the remnant energy from the teleportation to track down the destination anyway
So what mattered now was what Randidly would do with these final two days of preparation Some part of him wanted to continue working on Mana Engraving but that was a long term endeavor Two days wouldnÆt affect that much either way It could be used as a break from his main goal but Randidly believed his time before the challenge would be better spent on refining his images
After his fight against the Nemesai Randidly realized he had been underestimating the influence that images could inflict on others If anything he imagined was possible
Refining his images was one thing but there was another path that Randidly felt like he should consider combining his images
A flaw that Randidly had felt in that fight was that he had different images for different uses and it was extremely difficult to maintain power enough in more than a single image to dominate enemies at the level of the Nemesai That was why Randidly had frustratingly been unable to sufficiently destroy the energy array the Winged Serpent had set up while also fighting against the others
Not that combining images would be easy but it seemed to Randidly that it was one of the easiest ways to create an extremely powerful effect capable of showing Donnyton the changes they needed to make to survive with the System
A sudden thought occurred to Randidly According to the System someone like me who learned of images in another Cohort arenÆt I spoiling their unbiased method of forcing individuals to evolve due to threat of death
Well that was exactly what Randidly intended He would take the risks so the people of Earth could get out in front of the trials that would force them to either evolve or die Hopefully such a transition would be much healthier with that extra forewarning
And yet suddenly Randidly could see why the System chose to force everyoneÆs attention toward Stats rather than explaining images Even though he would show Donnyton the difference in strength between them Randidly couldnÆt give them any real guidance other than that
Images were difficult They took a strong will and a powerful imagination Without both the images would end up being insipid and lackluster Which would make them almost useless against a foe of any real power To those sort of images Stats were barrier enough
He was breaking their current mindset which could have two results They could recover or they could fall to pieces from the shock
Randidly hoped they would choose to grow and evolve but not everyone would take the unshakable power of Donnyton being broken well
Then Randidly chuckled Heh if people knew how sure I was that IÆm going to win they would think IÆm delusional
Randidly smiled ThatÆs exactly the point ThatÆs exactly why IÆll be able to overpower them all ThatÆs the sort of world this has become Madness transforms into a source of strength ThatÆs exactly why individuals like Roy are so hard to deal with
But then Randidly shook his head Roy was a curious one because Randidly honestly had no idea where he disappeared to It was possible but unlikely that Roy had a Skill that would enable him to move far away very quickly And Randidly had been watching the Winged Serpent and its new portal closely Roy hadnÆt proceeded through that
No the only reasonable possibility was that Roy had fled back through the portal to the dreary Frogpeople world Was that on purpose
RandidlyÆs eyes tightened Would he continue to encourage people to invade Earth Or was he heading there to capture DrakeÆs elemental who had remained on that side of the portal
Again Randidly could only shake his head and let it go HeÆd already informed Neveah of his suspicions and he would let her handle it for now After all her anticipatory violence had worked well so far despite RandidlyÆs misgivings The answer would come by itself soon
So to combine images The matter at hand
In RandidlyÆs mind he had his four images World Tree Yggdrasil his variation on the Spear Phantom the emerald Ignition Essence that brought heat and inspiration and finally Ash Of the four two seemed obvious choices for combination the Spear Phantom and Ash
Both were related to the spear and it seemed as though Phantom and Ash would be relatively complimentary Plus maybe by combining these two Randidly would finally be able to create a complete Skillset between the two spear styles
Then Randidly grimaced That was the rub His Ashen Spear Style and the Spear Phantom Style were quite different Part of aligning that image would be bringing the spirit within those spear moves into harmony
Which was why
Sighing Randidly spread out his Mana and conjured about a dozen root avatars in the area surrounding his hut Time to go to the basics practicing moving through spear moves with root avatars
Chapter 907
The residence of Xiang Le the glorious elected leader of the Final Republic of Earth was wide and spacious The compound was about the Peerless Capital of Zone Seven surrounded by layers of guards barbed wire and finally marble Within an outer compound was the inner housing facilities where the dozens of servants who kept the compound running lived
Often these families never left the compound Words exchanged the servants were related to work never Xiang Le directly and were often quick and quiet It as on these quiet backs that the huge area actually used for living by Xiang Le was balanced