Fickle energy cannot clash against her directly But my body can And my body is part of my pattern It becomes the keystone The medium through which all the energy must pass A constant amidst the infinite shifts
Congratulations You are creating a Skillset
Warning Your Skill Absolute Timing is being absorbed into your Skillset As this is a Class related Skill some damage might result
Congratulations You have created the Skillset Moirae of Ripples Your Skill Cutting Tides of Amenonuhoko has been added Your Skill Philosophy within the Boundless Deluge has been added Your Skill Tempest Drill has been added
Congratulations Your Skill Dodge has evolved into Unpredictable Eddy Skill Level has been maintained Skill has been added to your Skillset Moirae of Ripples
Your Skill Absolute Timing is resonating with your new Skillset
Congratulations Your Skill Absolute Timing is experiencing an unusual evolution
Congratulations Your Skill Absolute Timing has evolved into Motif of the Hungry Deep
Chapter 1832
The difference in perspective was stark
Randidly paused on a tumbling pyramid crouching so both his hands and feet could grip upon the edges With continued delicacy the shade flicked her wrist and sent her massive wind whip howling toward RandidlyÆs position He knew he should dodge but his attention was captured by the endless sea of energy flows covering the entire platform He was transfixed by the scope of what he witnessed
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of the Hungry Deep has grown to Level 251
The mysterious flows swirled around Randidly to the point he was completely submerged within their tight folds Although his heart continued its frantic beat his breath caught and settled in the hollow of his throat Infinite layers and constructs of ripples buried him pushing his awareness deeper and deeper within them
Its not just one layer It keeps going down RandidlyÆs eyes glittered ThatÆs what I missed before Ripples hit ripples and to breed into more ripples but each of these stacked layers is constructed from several more folded energy frontiers
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of the Hungry Deep has grown to Level 252
Depth beyond all else Seeing down through to the truth of existence Just like the shade chose to make her patterns concrete for power I took my own perspective Darkness crept outward from RandidlyÆs left eye His entire face sank beneath that oblivion except for his right eye It burned hot and emerald like an aberrant star at the edge of a black hole that refused to have its light devoured But where she chose to push her patterns closer to images I accepted its true form Ripples
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of the Hungry Deep has grown to Level 253
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of the Hungry Deep has grown to Level 254
It wasnÆt a Skill like Breath of the Cosmos which allowed Randidly to perceive all the different flows of energy in the surroundings Instead it somehow framed the ripples that bounced and rebounded off of every surface and each other The Skill caught the subtle interplay that he had previously missed The chaos around him remained quite difficult to parse apart but all his subconscious insight into the arrangement were crystalized into the Skill
Despite the dangerous situation Randidly opened up the Skill explanation to confirm his intuition
Motif of the Hungry Deep A method of understanding the vast universe The foundation of this Skill is a perfect awareness of the passage of time and a massive amount of experience observing patterns By combining such elements together in the special environment several mutations have resulted The user has learned two truths to generate this Skill First energy fuels the base of all substance Time will not destroy energy only see it change into different forms Second Desire lurks below all actions The hunger that never ceases stirs the vast sea originating from an impossible depth within the hearts of individuals The more the user fights opponents the more he can understand their core desire and predict energy output Gains a small amount of influence on nearby patterns per Skill Level Insight into energy increases with Skill Level Ability to form connections between incompatible energies greatly increases with Skill Level
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of the Hungry Deep has grown to Level 255
Exactly There are two constants that do their best to resist the pull of time energy and desire Randidly raised his gaze and frowned the wind whip churned through the air only a meter away from his face He raised his hand and grassed at the ripples within the attack His new Skill hummed to life to give him some extra capability Once I understand that once I can see both of those things everything else
His hand tightened into a fist Along the edge of the wind whip that was about to impact Randidly the wind briefly slowed With his improved understanding and with the ability to weave together incompatible energies he could grasp more of the shadeÆs patterns and combat the vicious rotation directly Unfortunately although the edge of the wind whip in front of him slowed more patterns whipped around and obliterated his resistance Cursing quietly Randidly hopped sideways to avoid the attack Patterns flowed around him to create a buffer so only a soft wind ruffled his clothes Upstodatee from
Congratulations Your Skill Unexpected Eddy has grown to Level 427
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of the Hungry Deep has grown to Level 256
A little unreasonable to immediately jump from helpless to dominant right Randidly gently teased himself at his disappointment The wind whip hissed and spat as it impacted the ground Its tip curled around behind him and aimed at his back By creating another buffer pocket of patterns Randidly glided sideways out of harms way
Oh The shade noticed the difference immediately You really arenÆt just suffering but improving Well I shouldnÆt let this continue
With a flick of the wrist the massive wind whip vanished She jumped down off of her perch on a pyramid and began to walk slowly forward RandidlyÆs expression became serious all of the smaller ripples in the surroundings were ironed out by several massive ripples that the shade released with each step The patterns she used became even more overbearing
For a second Randidly couldnÆt figure out what to say He huffed out a breath You know usually an opponent waits until I accumulate enough capability to rival them before they shift their own mode of engagement ItÆs just chivalrous behavior
Do I rescue maidens from voracious bog monsters Does it look like I pulled a cursed ring off the finger of a puppet king Am I supposed to be the Red Knight of Mid morning The shade clicked her tongue Energy swirled around both of her hands as she continued to walk forward No I am simply a lingering specter of determination Since you cannot help me climb to the summit I will end you as quickly as possible
Randidly pursed his lips as he studied the ripples around the shade You say you donÆt have a name or a culture but those references were a bit too specific for them not to have a genuine origin
However he quickly left that issue to the side Because the shade clearly was no longer playing around Or rather the sort of play she wanted to engage in became a lot more violent The tremors she released made RandidlyÆs hair stand on end
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of the Hungry Deep has grown to Level 257
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of the Hungry Deep has grown to Level 258
The resonance continued to grow And although Randidly could not manifest his images directly the emotional force in his image crept through that combination
The strike closed the distance to the shadeÆs chest but she just tossed her purple saber sideways Then a strange pattern suffused her body and she dissipated A split second later she reformed with her hand on the purple blade RandidlyÆs attack pierced out through the air that she had just vacated All the patterns in front of him seemed to degrade before the grey light that the palm strike unleashed It ripped forward like a baleful laser hungry for resistance