Immediately that strange heat source in the GhosthoundÆs core flared to life There was a frozen moment in Lucifer’s Perception as he faced the direct ire of the Grim Chimera Before that sinister gaze all of the accumulated effort that went into his Lucifer Slash was crushed and obliterated The weight of that image smashed Lucifer in the chest He was sent flying backward vomiting the contents of his stomach
Paolo was sent stumbling backward as well shaken but somehow still conscious The Ghosthound swayed and hunched over his face hidden in shadow Yet others recognized it was an opportunity
Hank drew his revolver and shot a bullet that cleanly punched through the flesh above the GhosthoundÆs right knee The image of the Grim Chimera flared again but it was truly drained at this point The heat wafting off of his body was rapidly decreasing Donny leapt forward and swung his sword at the GhosthoundÆs back but a much thinner tail stretching from his neck snapped upward slapping the strike to the side
Donny landed and hopped backward resetting his stance The Ghosthound released a deep breath
Then everything around them shattered as Dinesh activated the move he had been focusing on for the past minute and they appeared in about a hundred meters off the ground
The sun was just setting so the sky around them was stained orange and pink The clouds began to steadily swirl as the image that Huang Li had been steadily nurturing was able to explode outward and rapidly gain traction in the wide open sky That wild wind began to form a maelstrom centered around the slightly stunned Ghosthound
Directly in the center of those swirling clouds a massive violet moon seemed to descend It released a powerful light staining the surrounding clouds with even more wet and unnatural colors After a suspended moment of floating all of the arrayed individuals began to fall down toward the wasteland to the Northeast of Donnyton
A wasteland that the Ghosthound himself had created when he made his Class
DonÆt hold anything back Alana said raising her voice to carry above the increasingly tempestuous winds Her helmet morphed and once more wings of pure white beat above her body Her limbs were trembling but her image was clear and bright
Huang Li raised his sword The wind was singing along the length of his blade the song of the GhosthoundÆs defeat Sky Slaying Sword
Chapter 1485
Randidly had been hunched over when the shattering shift had happened so the first result was that his weight carried him forward in a slow somersault His Grim Intuition buzzed while it attempted to relocate its bearings and then snapped back into place flooding him with information about the surroundings Randidly then knew exactly where he was but he couldnÆt muster up the spare energy to deal with the change in scenery The whole reason that he had leaned forward in the first place because some part of him sagging underneath the weight of his own image
His image physicalizations were dormant physicalitiesÆ that manifested in the real world when moved by his Willpower Compared to the usage of raw images they were less impactful but much more efficient to utilize However in regards to the Grim Chimera Randidly had overused his Willpower to the point that the cost of the physicalizations was approaching the speed at which his overtaxed mind replaced his mental zeal
A little bit more and the physicalizations would reach a tipping point Randidly suspected they would cannibalize themselves then to keep them physicalized eradicating all the effort that he had poured into them over the past few months
Randidly Ghosthound was currently exhausted beyond his own understanding Not physically he had thousands of Stamina to spare He had moved past the point where Stamina was ever a barrier to what he wanted to accomplish To a lesser extent he had also gained a near infinite supply of Mana But in terms of Willpower and psychological determination
That tipping point was so close Randidly could practically feel it his thick and clumsy gathering mental energy in increments the size of grains of sand Leaning forward Randidly committed everything he had to carefully picking up a few more grains to maintain this form
In his mind the Grim Chimera swayed under the unrelenting scouring that these attackers inflicted upon him Just as Randidly was able to find the new physical shape of the Grim Chimera they had begun to tear it to pieces Of course that was exactly the method by which the image would grow the quickest But the combination of the brutal training followed by these small attacks
In the lonely space of his mind Randidly asked himself why he was so insistent on propping the Grim Chimera upright
DonÆt hold anything back Alana shouted to her assembled Expira dream team and even through RandidlyÆs weariness the corner of his mouth quirked up Around him the remaining fighters shifted into a new formation and Grim Intuition continued to dispassionately catalog their aggressive movements around him
Randidly gathered five grains of mental energy and carefully put them into the central area of his Soulspace His Nether Nebula was churning seriously rapidly absorbing the surrounding significance but Randidly couldnÆt spare his attention to notice Two of those gathered grains was spirited away to support the Grim Chimera physicalizations
Randidly gathered four more valuable particles of energy
The surrounding clouds were spiraling together steadily forming into a vast dragon that sucked in a deep breath as though it would swallow all of existence As Randidly continued to tumble forward in a lazy rotation the head of the dragon accelerated in its growth pumping its body to stretch and spiral around enough to catch up to its own tail Then it opened its jaws to slurp up the surrounding clouds extending its amorphous body even further As Huang Li raised his sword that massive dragon twisted and regarded Randidly with sinister eyes
You are next those eyes whispered
Above the clouds a massive violet moon was descending It hung fat and low in the sky dominating at least one fifth of the horizon Even some part of the distracted Randidly dispassionate admired the sublime light released by this celestial body So bright was the light that the red violet moon released that the color seemed to flow together into a drop of liquid light After trembling at the edge for a short while that drop fell down from the moon with all the suddenness of a tear It streaked across the sky with all the violence of a meteor seeking to eradicate all life on the planet Lyra reached up and caught that brilliant drop of liquid light between her palms
Randidly released a breath Three more granules of mental energy One went to the physicalizations There was less and less to recover as he pulled deeper and deeper on his own brains reserves The issue wasnÆt that he didnÆt have methods to defeat the people arrayed around him Even if he dropped the physical manifestations of the Grim Chimera and fought primarily with his physical abilities he was confident that he could defeat them It wouldnÆt even be a contest at all if Randidly activated either of his other two images to assist in the fight
One issue was that Randidly barely had enough mental energy to deactivate the physicalizations The process would undoubtedly be messy perhaps leaving some lasting scars on the Grim Chimera in the process
But it had also become a point of pride for his image The essence of the Grim Chimera had been barred and that essence refused to allow any compromise before these foes Which was why Randidly had tortuously fought relying only on the weakening power of the Grim Chimera to persist To the point that the last dregs of his mental energy were devoured keeping the Grim Chimera active
This time when Randidly pulled he could only produce a single shining granule of energy For the moment this was as much recovery as could occur
If we just rely on solely you we might lose Randidly observed to the hunched form of the Grim Chimera The gathered mental energy flowed through his brainstem returning his focus to a sharpened state A loss would have unpredictable results on Expira