Plus his experience heading to the land of the frogpeople impressed upon Randidly how strange and dangerous the Aether in that place was Someone had adjusted it so it was possible to forcefully rip Aether out of a being with an inferior claim That sort of ability spoke to an individual who was talented but vicious Someone with enough mastery of Aether to threaten even someone who had been made aware of the threat
Randidly ultimately didnÆt worry much that Neveah would influence his Riders into defecting to her side Due to her influence the Skill was a tool that wasnÆt as useful but Randidly didnÆt mind providing her with assistance And hopefully finishing the Path would connect them even more intimately thereby increasing the passive assistance that he could provide to her
Plus Randidly looked down at his fingers splayed against the worn metal of the mass produced dining table at which he sat Becoming closer to Neveah is moving closer to Aether If I can increase my understanding of Aether everything becomes easier Perhaps IÆll be able to give the engraving capable of Leveling another shot
Unfortunately that caused RandidlyÆs mind to move nimbly to the looming problem of Lyra Irritation immediately bloomed in his heart but was just as quickly snuffed out as Randidly purposefully shifted his focus That problem had another five and a half days to settle No need to torture himself with it now
With the decision made Randidly poured 1000 PP into the Perfect Soul Bond Path Every 100 PP he earned himself 10 Willpower and 1 Endurance which wasnÆt a bad payoff for an extremely PP intensive Path
Congratulations You have completed the Perfect Soul Bond Path The Soul Bond is like an entire being in and of itself existing between you and your partner A third combination existence To put it crassly a child between two willing beings As time has advanced parts of your two souls became increasingly intermixed Through that process the substance of the bond has grown strong As Attributes and Skills flowed freely between you two a deep foundation of what was to come has formed
It is clear from this proceeding down this Path that you two are different existences Your substances are flesh and energy only finding an anchor in each other as the world continues to advance around you The Path you walk is not forbidden but the connection is one that goes against your own Destiny Warning to proceed is to go beyond the point of no return
Some blessings are too heavy to bear Randidly Ghosthound Lord of the Baleful Wood Loyal Benefactor of the Weak Lighthouse of the Boundless Worlds Lodestone of the Black Wanting Lesson for those of Brittle Will and Longing of the Banished Wind
Error Recalculating
WARNING Interference detected
IÆve finally found you Yystrix My one and only love Wait for me
Even as the confusing notifications continued to pop up before him the rest of RandidlyÆs vision was casually wiped away Instead of the noisy and jovial atmosphere at the Erickson Steel cafeteria Randidly found himself standing below an enormous translucent crystal continent and was flanked by obsidian spikes The crystal itself was so large that RandidlyÆs entire vision was filled with it As he quickly scanned left and right he couldnÆt see the edge of it it was like standing in front of a giant crystal wall
Yet somehow he knew there was an edge to it It was a truth of this place This was not an eternal being only a vast and powerful one
To his left and right were enormous mountains of obsidian that seemed to be acting as a natural barrier around the crystal But as his scrambling mind caught up with him Randidly paled further as he looked at these mountains
They werenÆt made of obsidian in fact Randidly saw a flash of copper when he focused his Perception as much as it could upon the mountains Instead they were simply covered with an extremely dense web of writing
Engravings that sucked light away rather than producing it
Although the sound was that of a crack being made it felt more like someone reached and casually ripped a piece of paper A rift opened in the crystal Hair thin and filled with a deep darkness it ran from bottom to top of the crystal continent as far as Randidly could see
At this point Randidly was all strained nerves as he struggled to understand what was happening So his gaze instantly jumped to that thin crack that appeared in the crystal Around him the mountains began to hum and produce an even thicker veil of blackness that spiraled upward around them but before it could spread and smother him Randidly saw something
It wasnÆt anything specific it was just something stirring A small movement deep within the rend created in the crystal something so far away that RandidlyÆs Perception couldnÆt reach it Something old and vicious waking up As it moved its attention focused on Randidly
Something akin to a physical force hit Randidly in his Soulspace eventually impacting his Class directly as it ripped through him The carefully constructed structure of Aether buckled and cracked underneath the sudden force For several seconds Randidly couldnÆt breathe
Rather than being hit with a cudgel it suddenly seemed that this strange being had reached out and was now gripping him within a tight fist The pressure was so much that some of his Skills shivered in protest But the weight was too vast and heavy RandidlyÆs images couldnÆt even gather themselves to move
Everything was casually smothered
Then just as quickly as it came the feeling was gone RandidlyÆs Aether Detection was barely able to sense that weight quickly departing following the line of one of RandidlyÆs karmic connections Toward someone else
There was a split second where Randidly was able to dazedly intuit that this thin karmic line so thin that he hadnÆt even been able to sense it previously was a karmic line that led to the Creature
But at that point the pain of having his Class partially shattered hit
Biting down on his lip Randidly barely suppressed the urge to scream What hit him then was a pain that he hadnÆt felt since his Skill was reduced to cracked pieces by AegiantÆs Skill incarnation It was an existential sort of helpless agony starting from his inner world and spreading outward to his physical body It came in pumping waves washes of crimson agony that splashed against his psyche with unending determination
Unfortunately Randidly noticed too late that his hands were spasming While gritting his teeth Randidly pulled his trembling hands away from the metal mess table leaving ten holes and two hand shaped impressions on the table
Just as the fifth wave of agony came from his Skill something changed His Soulskill began to hum sending a wave of warm energy outward to counteract the pain It was not enough to overwhelm it completely but it certainly took the paralyzing edge off of the agony Once the worst of the pain was gone the energy spiraled into cones that began to carefully nurse his Class back to health
At which point Randidly realized that he was receiving notifications agony
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Recalculating resuming display
Congratulations All Stats +50 You and your Soulbound companion have gained the Skill Soulbound Doppelganger Lvl 1
Soulbound Doppelganger Create a projection of your Soulbound partner The Doppelganger will possess all of your partnerÆs Skills and a portion of their stats Effect increases with Skill Level Periodically it is possible to possess the doppelganger of yourself vastly improving its power Cooldown decreases with Skill Level Current Cooldown 170 hours
Well at least I got some Stats Randidly thought bitterly His Soulspace throbbed painfully even while his Soulskill provided more energy to heal the damage done to his Class It seemed it would take a bit of time before it recovered
But what the hell was that
Chapter 962
Morning Vye Nerrick said with an enthusiastic nod Are you free tonight
I donÆt date men who work with metal Vye replied perfunctorily while cursing Tatiana for throwing her so immediately into this shitstorm of work and constant harassment Then Vye blinked rapidly letting go of her daydream of climbing distant mountains in the monster infested wilderness in order to come face to face with the mundane reality of her situation