It was almost peaceful here He reached out to the side dragging his fingers through the silver mist and watching the moonlight spirits happily twining around his hand And with dawn still some time away Randidly could do engage in some training to relax
He first stretched his body then beckoned Acri over and practiced utilizing the spear The post Kaan Acri was still quiet lethargic but it was clear that RandidlyÆs Soulseed weapon was steadily shrinking Apparently the amount of experience his spear had received was even greater than Randidly had expected he wasnÆt done digesting it even though two weeks had passed
AcriÆs next form is something to look forward to however
After Randidly set Acri to the side he moved calmly shifted into the movements fo Cosmic Necessity and practiced fighting without the spear As his skin heated the night air began to turn to steam as it brushed against him His heart rapidly began to pound and the physical force that his body could manifest shot sharply upward To the point where Randidly needed to be very careful in his movements and direct his force toward the largely invulnerable sky Otherwise he might shatter his island and ruin the buzzing construction that he had endured for quite some time
Still despite the annoyance of restraining himself Randidly quite enjoyed the sensation of throwing punched and seeing holes erupt in clouds hundreds of meters away The effects of the gradual physical condensation of his images in his body was ridiculous He whipped his left hand sideways and watched as a massive cloud was shredded into thin strips of water vapor in the distance Sometimes itÆs difficult to believe that IÆm still human
Congratulations Your Skill AbominationÆs Grim Vigor has grown to Level 321
The timing of the Skill Leveling up forced a chuckle out of RandidlyÆs mouth and he shook his limbs Gradually his heart rate fell back toward its baseline and his breaths stopped coming out of his nose as steam From there he activated each of his images in turn checking in on their substance and making minute adjustments
Even now Randidly could sense that a gap still existed between his image and someone like Lady Iellaya that he had seen fighting on the front line It wasnÆt so large a gap that he couldn’t bridge it with his immense Stat Nether and physical advantages but in terms of raw image he still had a long way to go That realization was both exciting and nostalgic
ThereÆs always someone stronger Randidly thought looking out at the slowly healing holes in the surrounding clouds It amused him to think about other people below might be looking up at the same clouds and thinking the same thought for different reasons In a way the entire universe was a large circle of perspectives
Governed by life and death and powered by time the cycle steadily churned everything to dust
After musing on the nature of the world Randidly focused back on his images The process of pushing them up to a higher potency wasnÆt that complicated as far as he could tell he just needed to iron out the small almost unnoticeable inconsistencies and sharpen the details It was a refinement process that couldnÆt be rushed just undertaken steadily
The process was somewhat satisfying although it was monotonous It was similar to running oneÆs fingers across a silk blanket If you did it for long enough you would notice small tears in the fabric and could then repair those flaws
But with the big flaws out of the way smaller flaws would gradually emerge as the largest deviations from the smooth blanket currently present In a way it felt like the refinement would never cease
After adjusting his images for two hours Randidly had a new thought and focused instead on his Nether Nebula The core continued to thicken and turn slightly grey as the meaning of overseeing this tournament flowed steadily into RandidlyÆs Nether Honestly the effect was so good that Randidly was looking forward to how much significance he would be able to extract from the quarters semis and finals
Outside of the Nether NebulaÆs core RandidlyÆs powerful Willpower pressed the Nether into a flat disc that spun slowly around him But inspired by his work with his images Randidly released the Nether and let it bulge outward Almost instantly small stones near where he was standing began to levitate off the ground There was a strange grinding sound in the air and visual distortions appeared around RandidlyÆs body as space near him destabilized
Congratulations Your Skill Revelation of the Atramentous Threshold has grown to Level 322
With small purple black flames at the edges of his emerald eyes Randidly began to take that wild and raw Nether and condense it Not to the point that it would begin to shift into the intimidating grey of that bubble Randidly had condensed but close He didnÆt force it into a ring but instead spun and concentrated the substance of the Nether The visual deviations began to settle as Randidly brought the Nether under control
He created thick strips of Nether and then wove them into that same condensed disc But just as soon as he finished RandidlyÆs lips twitched he honestly didnÆt have much experience weaving and the result was rather unsatisfactory The visual distortions flared back to life as he shredded the result and started again
Spinning and weaving spinning and weaving over and over
Each time Randidly finished the weaving of Nether around the Nebula he saw the possibility for improvement and decisively tore his previous effort to shreds Iterations passed by the dozen as Randidly relentlessly pursued a veil of Nether that possessed the same near organic flow as it had in its natural state while also increasing the density of the Nether
Congratulations Your Skill Nether Sensation has grown to Level 239
Congratulations Your Skill Nether Sensation has grown to Level 250
It was almost hypnotic to work with the raw Nether and artificially shape it to mimic natural lines Because the folds of the weave needed to be soft to facilitate the flow while the actual intersections needed to be so tight inserted that there was no space between the different flows Randidly wanted it to reach the point that an observer wouldn’t be able to tell that there was a weave at all They would only sense the subtle presence of Nether around Randidly without understanding the overwhelming powerful contained on his person
Randidly paused in his work after ripping another failure apart and looked to the sky To the East the sky was beginning to lighten Randidly released a deep sigh as he considered the prospect of the day before him The actual matches wonÆt be so bad but with only sixteen IÆll bet that Tatiana has already arranged for me to be meetings for the rest of the time
Yet Randidly couldnÆt feel too annoyed at Tatiana She was doing what he asked preparing Kharon to survive without being able to rely on Randidly Ghosthound Not that he would be barred from returning to Earth but also despite his recent discovery that his image hadnÆt contaminated Kharon as much as he thought he still didnÆt want to interfere with the first two Calamities
Right now his focus was keeping Earth from appearing any more unique than it was already The attention of the Nexus had only brought complications so far It was better to proceed through the Calamities in a mundane manner while Randidly gathered power in the Nexus
Shaking his head Randidly returned to his Nether practice After making several attempts he had an idea of what he would actually like to do he wanted to draw Nether from several sources and weave it together into one whole tapestry Randidly sensed that if he were to teach others to properly utilize his Nether Wells and then combine all the disparate Nether he would finally be close to creating the Nether equivalent of a Class
However that would be quite dangerous and require everyone to have their own Aether to balance out the Nether Hum I wonder if there are other ways to mimic the effect Humming to himself and with the sun slowly rising Randidly continued to train