DonÆt pat yourself on the back Lyra said in a dead voice She practically spat out the words Randidly told me that he took more from those that could spare it So the hardest hit were Alana Hank Paolo and Huang Li When I asked him how much more he had taken from them relative to the rest of us he just laughed
In that moment Lucifer thought he heard an echo of that laugh bouncing gleefully off the cracked ground around them He could see the Grim Chimera standing before them arms spread as though it was inviting challenges from all of existence He could see the zeal and wild joy on the imageÆs face
Lucifer shivered
He had to wait several hours for his psyche to recover but it was worth it for this result Randidly grinned down at the Dreamcatcher of the Long Night Thin strands twisted across each other setting into an entirely new pattern The dense intersection of strands gradually settled toward order A shape began to emerge Jackpot
Congratulations Your Fatepiece the Dreamcatcher of the Long Night has grown to Level 93
Congratulations Your Fatepiece the Dreamcatcher of the Long Night has grown to Level 94
To make sure that ExpiraÆs strongest wouldnÆt start thinking it was okay to attack him randomly while announcing things like this is an assassination Æ Randidly had pilfered some significance from their memories with his Fatepiece But it wasnÆt until he had completely won and knocked Alana Donal unconscious for good measure that he understood that he was taking a bit of their innate Nether while he did so
Which made Randidly scratch his head and go back over the unconscious bodies to examine the phenomenon He didnÆt take more memories the second time around but he used his Nether Nebula to steal even more of each personÆs Nether He waffled for a while but ultimately decided to just take a flat 70% from everyone Which resulted in a surprisingly significant boost to his Nether Nebula He could sense that one of those grey bubbles was very close to being produced within that intensely compacted core
In addition the loss of Nether was an injury that would probably linger for quite some time When he had tried it with Derek Moss He had taken memories from him without also reaching for some Nether on top of that And even so the man who was famously chipper had been listless for four days
The Nether he took should gradually recover with plenty of time to spare before the Calamity but Randidly recalled the helpless feeling he had when Kaan Swacc used the Nether Suppression Cell against him in their duel Even if you didnÆt rely on it consciously your significance within the Nether of your body grounds your image Without it
There was an internal chime The churning threads of his Dreamcatcher settled into place A mystical glowing pattern floated in front of RandidlyÆs eyes He grinned and leaned forward going into that place of chimes and intersection And once he was there Randidly thought of a specific moment and felt himself arriving in front of it The smile on his face stretched wider and wider as he witnessed the result
With the support of so many memories on the same moment Randidly felt how much more stable this memory had become The strands became thick supports twined effortlessly together into thick cords The memory itself hung fat and pulsing in the corner of his Fatepiece on another tier altogether than his other memories With so many perspectives it had become its own small world
He released a breath and reached toward it
Randidly entered into the memory as Alana The world blurred and then he found himself looking at his own confused face right at the beginning of the attack The rest of the anti Randidly faction was shifting into formation Here Alana would have delivered her inflammatory opening line but Randidly didnÆt bother with that Instead Alana rippled and vanished replaced by the towering image of Yggdrasil Wind whistled through the emerald leaves
Congratulations Your Skill Absolute Grasp of Yggdrasil has grown to Level 317
Real Randidly lashed out freely with Absolute Grasp sending hundred of blindingly fast roots whipping at the various fighters around him Taken by surprise most were knocked away before they understood what was happening A veritable wave of plant matter knocked them senseless and pushed them away
Which just showed poor planning Randidly shook his head rather sorrowfully why werenÆt they prepared to deal with his Yggdrasil Skillset
Well I suppose it makes sense that they would underestimate its true power I havenÆt demonstrated its capabilities much on Expira but it IS a Transcendent Skill You canÆt just ignore it
Meanwhile the memory Randidly instantly realized something was wrong His Absolute Grasp reached out and seized onto the spreading roots and the two silently struggled until the roots stilled Both Skills seized upon the roots with the same absolute power resulting in a stalemate Compared to the rather calm activation of Grim Chimera that had actually happened in the fight the tight fury in fake RandidlyÆs eyes as he considered the real Randidly was an entirely different beast
All three images had activated as he glared over at the new arrival who used his Skills He snarled Who are you
Randidly paused Ah perhaps explaining this situation might be slightly awkward Especially after my experience of Kaan Swacc
But in more positive news despite the deviation from the original memory Randidly didnÆt have much of a headache at all Having so many memories form this recollection truly strengthened its boundaries
Which meant he had some time to explain
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In the end it was actually more simple than Randidly had expected to convince the memory version of himself that what he was saying might possibly be true
So IÆm the memory version The memory had asked with pursed lips They mutually agreed to maintain a seething forest of roots around their face off keeping the duos away Real Randidly didnÆt want to bother with them and fake Randidly didnÆt want this strange interloper near them Some of them tried to cut through the mass of plants but the two Randidlys just regenerated the barrier Which meant that they were completely isolated within the pulsing mass of vines But I must assume that you coming back and challenging yourself is a pretty significant deviation from the original scenario HowÆs your head
Randidly gestured vaguely behind him to the ambushers I took the memories from all of them With more peopleÆs significance supporting the memory it looks like deviation isnÆt such a problem
Taking memories from them Dream Randidly said rubbing his chin Randidly rolled his eyes He could practically hear the oh thatÆs a good ideaÆ in the memoryÆs internal monologue Then the memory looked back at him seeming to consider him Meanwhile the undercurrent of testing continued Every second the memory would release pulses of different images seeming to test him Randidly responded with the same pulse
The only difference was the Grim Chimera Randidly grinned wolfishly over at the memory when that image came up His version of the Grim Chimera had a noticeable edge
So why are you here then What do you want from yourself The memory asked His eyes glittered as Yggdrasil spread its branches and began healing his mental fatigue Regardless of the reason it seemed obvious that the memory considered him a significant threat and not a training opportunity That was good
RandidlyÆs smile was lazy The Grim Chimera appeared around him I wanted to refine some of the changes to the Grim Chimera that IÆve made And as you know weÆve already fought so many times against Kaan so I thought why not try and fight the man who managed to defeat Kaan Swacc
After a moment of silence both RandidlyÆs began to laugh Fighting intent spiked upward from both of them Then the memory Randidly pouted Heh itÆs rather frustrating that I have to be the one used as a whetstone rather than the one improving but I assume this is your first attempt Next time tell me to look at our Nether Nebula ThereÆs something wrong with mine ItÆs hard to explain ItÆs like its a replica built to look like one without any of its power A model with no true significance