Alright here goes Alana grunted Then she twisted her body and smashed her fist into PaoloÆs stomach
She hit him so hard that he crashed into the stands once more probably doubling the size of the collapsed seats After a few seconds Paolo limped out
Okay okay He slapped his bloody face and then beat his fists against the third degree burns on his chest Got to get back out there before Kayle gets to have all of the fun
Alana watched Paolo hop down off of the stands and hobble back toward the arena as the stone weavers hurried over to repair the damage Yet Alana found herself smiling as she looked down at her bloody knuckles
Yea this is a good fight to watch But it’s a better fight to be a part of
Suppressing her excitement Alana returned to the VIP section Her turn would come soon That terrible darkness that Randidly was now summoning assured her of it
Congratulations Additional Skills are being assimilated into the Skillset
White PhantomÆs Half Step (Un) Lvl 95 has been assimilated
Fighting Experience (Un) Lvl 159 has been assimilated
Phantom Onslaught Lvl 42 has been assimilated
Calculating gains
Warning continuing without sufficient energy may result in debilitation and death Do you wish to continue
Resonating Synchronicity Percent 96%
Congratulations Skills have merged to create the Descent of the Grim Chimera
Your Skills All is Ash Lvl 102 and When a Shadow Departs Fireflies Dance (Un) Lvl 65 have merged to form Chimeric Avoidance Lvl 149
Your Skills Breath of the Spear Phantom « Lvl 84 and Wild PhantomÆs Embrace Lvl 197 have merged to form Cursed Appetite of a Wraith Lvl 233
Your Skills White PhantomÆs Half Step (Un) Lvl 95 and Fighting Experience (Un) Lvl 159 have merged to form MonstrosityÆs Appalling Physicality Lvl 191
Your Skill Frigid Ash Extinguishing Storm Lvl 59 has evolved to form ReaperÆs Mantle of Catastrophe Lvl 75
Your Skill Inevitable Phantom Arrives (Un) Lvl 120 has merged with the caustic and fiery image of ash to form Molten Fang of the Pariah Lvl 160
Your Skills Spear Advances Ash Trails Lvl 108 and As the Sun Stills Lvl 80 have merged to form Man is Proud but the Chimera Takes Lvl 140
Your Skills Inevitable Phantom Arrives Lvl 120 and Phantom Onslaught Lvl 42 have merged to form The Chimera Weeps as Man Mourns Lvl 126
Your image has fused to create the eighth Skill in the Descent of the Grim Chimera Skillset The terrible fragility of ash imbues the Skill The horrible desperation of the Spear Phantom lives on in the Skill You have gained the Skill All Else Succumbs Yet Time Whirls the Earth Lvl 100
Where one stream of notifications finally stopped another grouping immediately jumped up to cloud RandidlyÆs vision Luckily it seemed that Kayle and his minions stopped to stare at the monster that was slowly mutating behind RandidlyÆs back
Congratulations You have broken past the shackles of Legendary You are the first individual from your Cohort to break through to the Mythic rarity As such you have been branded by the First Key to the Nexus
With the First Key to the Nexus it becomes possible for you to transcend your world and exist within the deeper realms of the Nexus Secret areas within higher Cohorts are available to you When two keys are assembled it is possible to bring a single territory with you as you transcend your existence and climb the Nexus When all three keys are assembled you can bring your entire world
Congratulations You are the first individual on Earth to break through to the Mythic Rarity As such you have been awarded a Small Coin of Territory
Although your world was divided into separate Zones some areas of your planet were so devoid of human life that they were not considered as part of the Earth in the SystemÆs scans Therefore these pieces of wilderness have remained untouched throughout the arrival of the System
Using the Coin of Territory at the boundary of your New Earth will summon a piece of that Wilderness communsurate with the quality of the coin Based on the size there is also a chance for an improvement of a random Rarity to be included within your new Territory
Congratulations You have stepped beyond Legendary You have become aware of three new Rarities Mythic Transcendental and Pinnacle
Warning others witnessing a Skill beyond the Legendary will slightly increase their chances of reaching that specific Rarity themselves
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The terrible darkness that Randidly was steadily gathered condensed into a twisted amalgamation of a human Its heart shuddered then slowly began to beat sending a flood of heat through to RandidlyÆs inner world
He felt his image shifting slowly settling into its new form Like the Spear Phantom it was a being designed to kill and maim It had no other purpose and walked a Path that meant it could never truly join human society It was constructed with function in mind without giving any concern to its terrible form
Like the Kata of the Ashen Spear it was a being animated by spite and resentment An eternity of entropy led to the creation of this chimera It hated its making it hated the pure and smooth lines of humanity it hated perhaps even more its own lopsided and viciously deadly form It was focused on brutal acceleration In its case it’s only defensive qualities were how quickly it could move and kill
ItÆs left hand was a gnarled hand with fingers so long and sharp it seemed to be holding a half dozen scythe blades Thick veins stood out from its arms and trembled with every labored beat of its heart Its right hand was simply a shaft of sharpened bone dark grey darkening to maroon at the tip Its legs were those of a raptor full of coiled muscle and covered in green grey scales
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From the base of its neck and from its tailbone two long tails swung casually through the air seeming to taste the small breezes in the surrounding area But these tails were not things of the flesh but only bones They looked like two anaconda spines jutting out from the chimeraÆs back the lower one being almost double as large as the higher
The ChimeraÆs head was the most human part of it except for two key details Although the head was generally human shaped there was a paper thin layer of extra skin that covered most of the actual face There was something to it that reminded Randidly of wax paper wrapping
It was possible to see the shape of the wide open mouth and the empty eye sockets but they just seemed to be filled with darkness It had a similar effect that covering a personÆs head with a plastic bag would reducing their identity to something that was clinically considered human but also dead in some vital way
The other detail was the two twisting ram horns piercing up through the skin layer and curling above its ears
Before it had totally condensed Kayle was already moving forward to strike It seemed his instincts were sharp Randidly distantly felt the air ringing the breeze singing as KayleÆs sharp strike sheared toward him Yet the headache and the flood of notifications and the dull pain remaining from his shoulder made him pause for a split second
BUM
The heat that was spreading through Randidly was so hot that it was blanking out all of his senses Releasing a breath Randidly reached for the Grim Chimera and felt it He looked into its soul and saw all the sharp and broken things that had accumulated there
You are my darkness Randidly thought My anger at watching so many people die The violence I learned from Shal who learned it from the Spearman That resentment that I inherited from the Patron of Ash That bitterness and loneliness that I lived with for all my life and for those same feelings that are resurging as I realize I am still different than everyone else just in a very different way
The dark eyeholes of the chimera regarded Randidly As it breathed its skin pulsed and shifted It was an incomplete thing made for violence All who saw it would fear So Randidly smiled and reached out his hand
The System the Creature Lyra the Spearman LetÆs make them all regret giving birth to us