During those frantic moments when air currents from the third tier had descended too much had happened too quickly He had not been able to manage the ripples of natural energy before they crashed over him with enough force to kill him So he had buckled down and focused only on his body he didnÆt have any spare attention for other Skills
Okay okay IÆm coming Randidly grinned as the wind above him began to howl its impatience He pulled out Acri and drew the spear through the air tasting the ripples Sulfur had grown back out to a functioning arm but remained dormant as it prepared for its next transformation But the impression that the living armor did bother to send him informed Randidly that it wouldnÆt mind any spare kinetic energy he found trying to murder him
Randidly dragged AcriÆs tip lazily in front of him I guess all of us are gluttons huh Well no matter LetÆs begin
He hopped up onto the ledge above him and spun Acri in a circle The Grand Pattern rotated and brought powerful wind blades down to meet him
Congratulations Your Skill Cutting Tide of Amenonuhoko has grown to Level 498
Chapter 1804
Randidly scrutinized the three interconnected wind blades as they buzzed through the air toward him Wreathed in darkness from the steadily improving image physicalizations his left eye traced the complex lines of air that wove these three wind blades into a single dangerous whole Around it a whole slew of normal tier 2 wind blades drifted and swooped following the constant waltz of the Grand Pattern
He stood poised in the center of a deadly game calculating his best route forward
RandidlyÆs toes curled gripping the stone beneath his feet With several gracefully half steps he swayed between the appetizer wind blades and stepped into the small bubble of space before the more dangerous sewn together blade trio He lifted himself up onto the balls of his feet
Congratulations Your Skill Grand Perspective has grown to Level 376
He raised Acri and cut decisively dragging the brutally sharp edge along the wave of natural energy he had gathered At his urging the energy surged forward to meet the triple wind blade Immediately his eyes crinkled in triumph the strike severed the key ties that bound the three wind blades together Based on RandidlyÆs calculations now the other two should pass harmlessly by him
Smack Smack
Blood spurted from his left collarbone and right shoulder after an airflow he had missed in the chaotic churn of connections tugged the other to blades to lash at his body The trio of strikes was designed to snap shut like a bear trap as soon as they were disturbed RandidlyÆs accumulating image physicalizatinos blunted most of the damage but the tier two wind blades were still strong enough to cut into his flesh
Growling Randidly released his careful control of natural energy and just brute forced the followup avalanche of wind blades with Dreadful Alacrity After thrusting upward and unleashed a blast of natural force to obliterate the first wave of wind blades he stored away Acri and focused on his movements During his ascent to this he had learned from his mistakes of trying to catch back up with the pattern once he had been impacted it usually ended with him bloody and scowling
Better to just cut his losses and rely on his monstrous Stats His Grim Intuition tingled as he took in the entire storm system rushing down to wound him
The wind howled gleefully prodded by the watching storm to collapse on top of him now that it tasted his blood Randidly shuffled back and forth on the narrow path so quickly he left after images his bare feet unpleasantly warm from the friction between his callouses and the rough stone His eyes gleamed with purple black energy that gave him the insight to overcome the net of wind thrown at him
Congratulations Your Skill Revelations of the Atramentous Threshold has grown to Level 472
Congratulations Your Skill Dodge has grown to Level 333
After ten minutes of its bloodthirsty blitz the wind began to settle He could feel the storm rumbling above seemingly disappointed that it hadnÆt managed to worsen his injuries despite its attempts Already RandidlyÆs flesh knit closed his injuries erased just as thoroughly as though they had never existed
Not that the mountain should want me to bleed Randidly glanced backward Fist sized holes dotted the wrecked path behind him where his powerful blood had ate away at the stone mountain Just one more type of wreckage on this insane threat laden climb
However Randidly quickly turned forward and produced Acri once more He moved the spear head back and forth until it seemed to be swimming through the air accumulating natural energy as quickly as he could in the relatively calm air
At this point Randidly was a bit over halfway through the second tier of this storm on the mountain Constant torturing from the Grand Pattern had increased the efficiency of his image physicalizations and his familiarity with working within the bounds of his body His Nether roared through his veins empowering each of his steps Yet he still felt oddly stifled by the restrictions of the mountain unable to deal with the wind blades from afar
Which was why his current fixation was on natural energy
Of course Randidly sharp eyes followed the impact between the various wind blades and his his pseudo domain of natural energy The efficacy is increased when I establish control over an area ItÆs not just riples anymore but tides
BOOM BOOM BooM
Controlling space with his natural energy made him a larger target but Randidly could handle it Some of the wind blades were deflected while others were directly smashed to pieces However Randidly infiltrated a few of the glancing attacks with his tides and pulled them into his whirlwind directly Quickly they empowered his natural energy and whirled gleefully in the newly directed flows
Unfortunately the process of incorporating the wind blades required a vast impost of calculating power and understanding of the Grand Pattern So he spent more than he gathered and the size of his whirlwind shrank At the same time the storm above rumbled It was not a noise of fury but again just curiosity at his behavior
The thing didnÆt seem to care what Randidly did so long as he rushed up the side of the mountain
Grey clouds rapidly accumulated and shifted into a dark anvil directly above RandidlyÆs position Lesser clouds clustered around the main one like a fluffy skirt Distantly he sensed a tide of wind blades gliding down to test this new method of resistance he had developed
RandidlyÆs lips twitched The portion of his shirt not torn or crusted with dried blood was soaked with sweat Can you just give me a minute
Congratulations Your Skill Cutting Tides of Amenonuhoko has grown to Level 504
The two triple blades finally caught up with him Randidly reached out with his much depleted natural energy and wormed his way into the connections He raced through the complicated flows his mind calculating rapidly the shape of these woven wind blades And soon a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth He had found the bow that held them together
Randidly smashed the core of the two triple blades with the last dredges of his natural energy just as they were about to cut into him But as he had hoped both unraveled once their cores had been destroyed leaving only a breath of wind to ruffle his hair
Congratulations Your Skill Grand Perspective has grown to Level
Congratulations Your Skill Cutting Tides of Amenonuhoko has grown to Level 505
Randidly stored away Acri and then switched back to his intense dodging having completely run out of natural energy and feeling the impending rush of wind blades heading for him But just as he began to shuffle the storm above him rumbled
He glanced up and grimaced the storm produced almost a hundred triple wind blades right on the heels of the rush it had already unleashed Randidly could practically hear the stormÆs haughty tone Feeling smug for handling a few of these Well here is a hundred