However feeling the way that his significance had been struck both in the past and present gave Randidly an idea Taking the impact in the here and now had been like a guitar string being plucked vibrating all the way from the base up the fretboard Eventually it had reached the point that he had met the significance from the first time that Elhume and Randidly had crossed paths impacting RandidlyÆs Class to the point that its potential had been squeezed out
RandidlyÆs tail rapidly began to flick side to side gathering as much Nether as he could as quickly as possible It seemed to embroidery an intricate pattern of Nether into being from nothing The tentacles in the sky swam forward seeking the Patrons and the tiny bone charm His body was still shaky from the force he had just unleashed but he couldnÆt afford to be distracted
Randidly was not prepared for the concerted attention of Elhume to land upon him
Almost immediately after they arrived the Patron of Blooms looked around at the sky with an excited expression This place how interesting What an unexpected world And the Nether well I simply must introduce myself to some of my descendants IÆll be back quite quickly IÆm sure
Then she was gone leaving Edraine rubbing the back of her neck She turned around and opened her mouth to tell the rest of them not to wander off but the only individual who remained was the Patron of the Sun who held the withered body of the Patron of Feathers Feeling her intense gaze the Patron of the Sun offered Edraine an awkward smile IÆve already had my fun here Better give them some time to learn the rules Although honestly
There was a glimmer in the Patron of the SunÆs eyes as he looked toward the horizon You donÆt need to worry about the Patrons This place is special for a lot of reasons but the largest one is that so few people have chosen a Patron I suspect that their actions will be much less selfish than their personalities would indicate This place is reminiscent of a home we had in the Second Cohort
Edraine harrumphed not sure if she believed him
Glendel sat up from his bed With a gesture a Four Armed Beast King condensed on the roof while a Thousand Foot Shade Viper coiled in the bedroom around him The sudden appearance knocked a lap from the end table where it shattered on the ground Glendel didnÆt even bother to look a glittering crown settled on his brow releasing a ghastly radiance that empowered all of his ghosts in the surrounding area
For several seconds he simply sat there unable to determine the source of that strong feeling of danger that gripped him His heart continued to pound and his hands squeezed handfuls of his sheets He kept his voice low and confident Who goes there Why were you observing me during my slumber
The crown flared with power when he received no answer The Shade Viper raised its head its eyes trained on the corner based completely on intuition On the roof of GlendelÆs house the Beast King pounded on his chest and roared with enough force to wake the whole neighborhood If this was another renegade Chimera infiltrating the town
GlendelÆs image blasted outward trying to grasp the smallest flaw in the otherÆs deception and rip it away As soon as he sensed the threat or was incapacitated a ghost would alert the Squad on duty But the spectral hand of sovereignty he possessed could find nothing
His expression tightened Without any other recourse he simply sat and stared toward the corner He refused to slacken his guard Even without proof he trusted his instincts
It was instinct that informed Glendel he should recommend moving to Donnyton to Regina and the other survivors from the hospital all those years ago It was instinct that kept him alive a hundred times during the fights to defend Donnyton Even against the First Calamity it was instinct that allowed him to quickly discover the core area and eliminate the growing Patron of the Grey
So he waited
Other individuals noticed his image pulses and came to visit but the strange vigil of the Beast King on the roof gave them pause Ultimately they turned away and went back to their sleep The neighborhood on DonnytonÆs Western slopes quieted again
But Glendel didnÆt blink
A superb dedication A sharp intuition Kind eyes A purple amoeba finally revealed itself in the corner of the room Its image as it drifted forward was so vast that Glendel mentally prepared himself for a fight to the death But the words of the amoeba surprised him
Choose me as your Patron Let us fish long dead monsters from the Abyss
Chapter 1821
Samuel Hoss woke with the first inkling of the sun reaching over the horizon The pale gloom spread through the slight opening left by the curtains and softened the harsh shadows of his bedroom Despite his high Vitality and Endurance he still found it relaxing to sleep for an hour or two each night right before dawn It cleansed his mind helped him overcome the burden of frustration that he carried for so long
His attempts yesterday had ended in failure just like always But he had an inkling of the path forward
Groaning he sat up and rubbed the back of his neck The System had empowered all their physiques but there were some old aches that never seemed to fade He glanced sideways The other side of the bed was empty Regina was already up Which at least meant that there would be some breakfast already made
Groaning again he got up and went to the bathroom After relieving himself and washing his hands he stumped down to the kitchen and rapidly shoveled the cold fried eggs into his mouth He leaned over the sink and took a gulp directly from the faucet Wiping off his mouth he walked down to his workshop
Today Sam mumbled Today IÆll try and make something simple Maybe a spear for old timeÆs sake
However when Sam reached his workshop there was his problem his favorite hammer was nowhere to be seen He scratched his stubble covered chin in irritation
He quickly circled the workshop his eyes roving past the still furnace the anvil the piles of raw materials and the scorched wooden worktable Sam scratched his chin again when he was unable to find his Blazing Dawnmist Hammer And it wasnÆt like it was an item that could be stolen Not only did the hammer weigh almost a half ton but Sam had managed to forge it with the special quality of not being able to be stored in an interspatial space Maybe I left it in my outside workspace
But no Sam had sensed that he had been close to developing a new hammering method after forging the Wolf Bracer and had spent the last mouth holed up in his workshop trying to capture the elusive feeling he had sensed during that making Not only had he been hammering the materials but Sam had felt like there was a bit of extra substance to his strikes Like he had tempering some inner ephemeral portion of the equipment with each blow Perhaps if he could do that more reliably he would be able to make it past the VIII barrier
His obsession had netted him nothing thus far but he felt very close to breakthrough
Sam moved his search from his workshop to the rest of the house However he quickly became so aggravated in his failures that he stubbed his toe on one of the stools in the kitchen Of course his toe was so pointlessly robust that not only did his toe sting from the impact but his kick snapped off the bottom portion of the leg Which left him with an uneven stool and still no hammer
Sam growled quietly to himself and then headed to the other end of the house opposite his workshop It was time to consult an expert
He knocked once and then barged into the examination room Regina Have you seen my
Sam instantly felt awkward as he stopped speaking he really should have waited after knocking One of the few things both of them took very seriously is another barging into workspace without an invitation Regina wearing blood spattered scrubs and pressing her lips together in a way that informed Sam that they would have a talk about this later leaned back from the grey cadaver on the table in front of her Behind her were two ogres a human woman a frogperson and one of the Lizakh all also in scrubs and carrying clipboards The corpse Sam recognized as one of the unpredictable ChimeraÆs that infested the most desolate places on Expira