From the intermittent messages that he received from her she was having difficulty keeping the Engraving self contained keeping the effect as potent as she wanted while also not quickly reducing the door to splinters due to the relevant softness of the material
Randidly had told her that the door wasnÆt an important issue but Neveah had stubbornly insisted that the door was basically the mouth to his house And having quality teeth had a direct effect on the ease with which you moved through life
Considering the few times Randidly had seen Neveah show her teeth in her natural form he decided to let go of the issue Besides it seemed to be helping shake the funk that had hung over Neveah since the fight against Kaan Swacc
But when he pushed open the doors into his house he couldnÆt get the image of a beastÆs mouth out of his mind The doors opened into a large hall made interesting only by the intricate mixture of jade marble and blood steel that formed mesmerizing patterns along the floor At the far end of the hall was a massive staircase that curled both to the left and right and took a walker up to the second floor
But Randidly ignored the upper floors for now and simply walked through the two wings of the ground floor pushing open smaller mimics of the massive front door and revealing the empty spaces within Perhaps because of the image he possessed when he walked into the house Randidly couldnÆt help but feel like he was walking through the inner organs of a preserved beast long after it had died
The rooms were empty dry and sterile All of the byproducts and fuels of actual life had long ago disappeared from this place It was a mummified corpse and at this point it was impossible to tell what sort of beast this had originally been
One thing that disturbed him became increasingly apparent Although many moonlight spirits gathered around the outside none had come within the walls of his house The house was gorgeous the paneling expensive and well made but Randidly was not satisfied with this
As Randidly pushed open doors to empty rooms over and over again he gradually could understand why it had been such a big issue to Neveah to add an Engraving to the home This place was for me but right now it is the furthest thing away from being mine So while Neveah works on an Engraving
Randidly ascended to the third floor finding yet another long hallway that spread to his left and right without any variance Every fourth room was a bathroom and several had small passages between the non committal spaces Thoughtfully he chewed on his lip Then in a decision he made in a split second without thinking about the consequences Randidly body shuddered and once more transformed into the physicalized version of his images His joints cracked as his arms and legs extended outward The muscles of his legs and torso trembled and swelled Heatwaves wafted off of him as his heart raced and brought scalding blood to his newly transformed body
His left eye was shrouded in shadow His veins gleamed golden His hair lightened toward emerald green
Then in a natural expansion of his images Randidly roared The vicious teeth of the Grim Chimera were barred toward the ceiling without restraint The third floor around him shuddered and then was torn to pieces Bits of wood and steel and stone were blasted to bits and exploded outward The two lower floors shuddered but thankfully held
That had been RandidlyÆs one worry he didnÆt know enough about construction to know if what he was about to do would completely invalidate all the effort and materials that had gone into making this home But he some part of him felt a deep sense of dissatisfaction at the empty home So he decided to fix the problem
Before all the debris collapsed down to the surrounding space Randidly released a light breath Hallucination of the Bloodless Heart
All the bits of broken materials halted midair hovering uncertainly under the pulse of gravity that Randidly released Then he raised his metal fist and tightened it all the materials flew rapidly back together and spun together in a small tornado of destruction The moonlight spirits above his house had frozen at the destruction but now began to dance excitedly and fly insubstantially through the tornado By simply smashing everything together against itself Randidly quickly created a large ball of soil
But this amount was far from enough Humming to himself Randidly opened a portal with the PhilosopherÆs Key to one of the random valleys in the Nordawn Mountain range where he had done his more explosive training sessions Then he casually transported large amounts of soil and plant matter that had already subtly incorporated his images to the ruin of the third floor That would make the process more simple
With this Randidly could cover the entirety of the third floor in at least a foot of soil without a problem The cracked remnants of the walls remained at most of the edges of the third floor keeping this soil layer from collapsing outward These wounded structures groaned from the pressure but ultimately stayed upright
At least its good the materials are so high quality Randidly reflected The increased weight from all this stuff didnÆt cause the house to collapse
Then very deliberately Randidly turned his attention to the trees he had brought over through the portal and targeted them with Yggdrasil The massive phantom of the World Tree appeared in the air above Randidly Its glittering emerald leaves rustled lightly in an invisible breeze Golden light flashed up and down the massive trunk tracing the massive history of the world that was recorded across its bark
Then Randidly sat still with his legs folded beneath him and released consistent waves of that images of varying power There were several small trees but already their roots dug into the dirt on the third floor and crisscrossed one another Randidly greatly anticipated the result the moonlight spirits gleefully floated amongst the small canopy of the trees bringing life back to this place He consistently pulsed the image of Yggdrasil until enough time had passed and he happily set aside the renovationÆ of his house and wove a Nether Ritual
Congratulations Your Skill Nether Ritual has grown to Level 177
A vast space separated Randidly and Vualla but Randidly bridged that with a whispered prayer He could distinctly feel the heat of VuallaÆs body even from this distance In a way that was impossible to put into words he had been subtly influenced by the places where their thoughts and bodies had touched during their interactions on the frontlines Through the passage of time and circumstances the typical entropy of those foreign notes had not faded in his body If anything they had only become more poignant There was meaning to the fact that Randidly Ghosthound had met Vualla Mateo
Like two celestial bodies who moved within each otherÆs gravitational field their trajectories were subtly and absolutely altered by even their proximity That shared orbit gave Randidly the material needed to form a bond between them no matter the distance
The first thing that Randidly felt when they connected was a burning curiosity Sensing it was safe right now to contact her Randidly freely reached the rest of the distance and their two minds brushed against one another While Randidly focused on releasing more of the now slightly flagging image of Yggdrasil to heal VuallaÆs image Vualla methodically examined Randidly from top to bottom Her inspection was extremely vigorous
This would go more simply if you would let me finish Randidly teased
Vualla snorted mentally DonÆt act coy with me you are horrible at hiding your emotions You are quite proud of your growth arenÆt you What the hell did you do Your images have so much more depth to them now Then Vualla released an exaggerated sigh If I hadnÆt had that recent rapid improvement maybe you would have caught up to me
Randidly paused in his healing and examined the images he was helping to recuperate And all the shy satisfaction he felt dissolved into helpless amusement Perhaps due to the rapid cycle of being ground to nothing by her training and then revitalized VuallaÆs image had experienced an immense transformation She had always pursued absolute control of her body in order to make herself the ultimate machine of destruction but it seemed that Vualla recently expanded the scope of her image a bit