Randidly eyes blazed with emerald fire His mouth stretched wider and wider less as any display of emotion but acting more like the side effect from his jaw cracking and grinding into a new joint formation His heartbeat accelerated even further thundering in his chest The skin of his torso turned pale as the skin of his extremities darkened The air around him hissed as Randidly breathed out and released blasts of steam
His larger shoulders rose as his new lungs inflated to fill his new rib cage When he breathed out the steam it was slightly luminous although the effect was mostly lost in the broad daylight underneath the brilliant azure sky Then his whole body trembled a split second later the Grim Chimera raised its head and roared toward the sky blasting out steam like a dragon whose treasure horde had been pilfered
A flock of birds on the far side of the island took flight as sound waves and image reverberations echoed outward Randidly sensed fish quickly zipped out of the nearby shadows toward deeper waters and couldnÆt stop the surging glee in his heart This was the raw dominance that the Grim Chimera wielded The trials that had nearly killed it left it unfathomably strong For good measure Randidly roared once more The remaining animals in the surrounding area fled
The roar of a predator is a universal signal Randidly thought idly Then he rolled his shoulders and took a step forward His ankle and knee bent slightly and he savored the sensation of power that flooded through him The physical limitation of the System was practically nonexistent now although Randidly could still vaguely feel where it lay coiled like an untied rope around his body But with that awareness was also a certainty that he could stop his foot and break past that limit almost immediately hitting the ground and sundering the surrounding island in an explosion of violence
The realization brought the Grim Chimera a great deal of joy While Randidly was now his image personified he still possessed an independent perspective that watched the inner machinations of the Grim ChimeraÆs mind Likely the uncontrolled emotions were a reflection of the parts of Randidly that resided within his other his image But this observational Randidly was somewhat amused by the Grim ChimeraÆs easy joy and ferocity If you donÆt control that hunger youÆll soon bite off more than you can chew Probably sooner than you think
The Grim Chimera breathed in sucking in oxygen and energy from the surrounding
Congratulations Your Skill Cursed Appetite of a Wraith has grown to Level 299
The relatively thick Aether that blanketed Expira rushed into the Grim ChimeraÆs body The thin film of Nether provided an almost nonexistent boost to his Nether Nebula But the real effect was the way that the surrounding air of the island seemed to grow dim for a few seconds Randidly could notice trace weakenings of the stone beneath him as the Grim Chimera stole something vital from everything touched by its breath
The Grim Chimera held that breath in his chest for a few seconds that gradually released it Then he breathed in again
Still all that energy made the Grim Chimera practically glow Randidly took a few more steps forward savoring the intoxicating feeling of power within this physical form Then before he was carried away by the sensation Randidly stretched out his right arm The subtle strand of rope wrapped around his wrist trembled and then unfolded into the air Soon the complex matrices of the Dreamcatcher of the Long Night hovered in front of him
The Grim Chimera burning with fighting spirit slipped into the strange space of lights and echoing resonances The observing Randidly felt a small amount of pity You believe this is necessary to prove yourself and we believe it is necessary so you might be broken and then reforged but be careful
Without any hesitation the Grim Chimera called a moment to mind and it grew bright and rushed to hover in front of him Of the moments within the Dreamcatcher it was clear from the shrill keening of it t this was one of the most powerful Randidly carefully wove a protective film of Aether and Nether tightly around his Class then allowed the eager Grim Chimera to reach forward and touch that heavy moment There was a brief sense of disorientation and then Randidly was there floating
It was an extended empty moment The Grim Chimera grinned in anticipation Randidly Ghosthound released a breath while the Stillborn Phoenix and Yggdrasil prepared themselves And then that flitting Perception came upon his person as Elhume looked for Yystrix
If anything RandidlyÆs first impression of that contact was a sense of awe In their previous brush he hadnÆt possessed the same familiarity with Aether and Nether that he did now So when this time that massive landmass of crystalized Aether appeared in front of him he could truly appreciate the feat it represented The fossilized power there was enough to rival what one million Randidly GhosthoundÆs could currently accomplish There were mountain ranges and valleys and plateaus and rough edges ravines within that landmass sized crystal all possessing more raw power than Randidly could generate
Looking at it it seemed impossible
Even more intimidatingly this time Randidly could sense what lay beneath that huge and eye catching piece of crystal Aether It rested on a swirling swamp of Nether It was a sinister tar that sizzled against the bottom of the crystalized Aether representing an equally staggering gathering of significance to mirror the meaning that Elhume possessed
But the sizzle made Randidly frown Why
Something that was deeply locked away within all that crystalized Aether stirred The movement created a minuscule crack That silent slithered across the continent of crystal And suddenly all that Randidly could sense was a distant buzzing
When he came to his Absolute Timing told him that he had been unconscious for four minutes and eleven seconds He sat up with a groan a vicious headache pounding at the periphery of his awareness That brief brush with Elhume had apparently knocked him directly out of the Dreamcatcher of the Long Night
He glanced around It seemed that the process had also melted the only now cooling sand on which he had been standing
Randidly turned his attention inward and then sighed with relief although his Class was shaken it hadnÆt been stripped barren as it had in the past Perhaps being knocked out of the memory and not having to remain underneath ElhumeÆs scrutiny weakened the permanent damage Or quite depressingly perhaps he had finally become powerful enough to survive a single glance from Elhume
At that point Randidly became aware of the low whine that was coming from the Grim Chimera What he found in his image was somewhat shocking even the most core detail of that confident Grim Chimera was now blurry and indistinct The impact of ElhumeÆs attention had smashed it to smithereens If it hadnÆt been the image focused on survival it likely would have been completely annihilated the remnants now uselessly drifting apart
Yggdrasil was also wounded from the brush but much less so than the Grim Chimera So it quickly marshaled its energy and prepared to heal its fellow image But Randidly shook his head and stopped it The Grim Chimera chose this Let it heal on its own It needs this
Meanwhile the keening cry of suffering continued But more than a lament the noise was a promise The Grim Chimera swore vengeance with every moment of his strained suffering
Chapter 1478
Why are you grinning Kayle asked even though he knew the answer His longtime rival was not a complicated man
PaoloÆs expression like his voice and movements was practically booming on the small balcony of one of the OrchardÆs finest hotels Ahaha Well isnÆt this exciting This well certainly there is no honor in what we do now but considering the circumstances eheheh
DonÆt laugh like that Huang Shou brought his cane down in a brutal smack against PaoloÆs back but the man simply endured it with his shit eating grin in place Kayle shook his head slightly you needed to hit Paolo harder than that in order to get through to him He considered lighter strikes like that just displays of affection