Congratulations Your Skill Dragon QueenÆs Sinister Tongue has grown to Level 516
You The Master howled as he was bounced away and slammed against the ground Perhaps under the same returning restrictions as Randidly his inflated body began to shrivel Behind Randidly the Unborn chittered to each other in their misshapen mouths but ultimately shook their heads
The Master needed to be weakened further before they could devour him A physical beating was not enough
The grey masterless Path floated in the air behind Randidly His Nether accelerated trying to finish the working in time The lines around his eyes tightened it would be a close thing The Master pivoted his face pinched with confusion How is this possible YouÆve erased my connection to the Path of Dreams Well no matter So long as you exist within my realm
The Nether Ritual finally arranged itself and activated Randidly felt a humming resonance in his chest but otherwise experienced no discomfort Compared to swallowing words a single Mountain Path was much easier Randidly used his authority to seize upon a strip of the isolated space and ripped it out
Congratulations Your Skill Precise Nether Ritual has grown to Level 440
Below them the summit the storm the mountain paths everything vanished While everyone else was locked by the frozen ripples the Master began to fall down toward a howling gash in space Much more than when he had been physically struck he now was half mad with pain
Randidly felt the restriction steadily loosening His face steadily shifted toward a frown I could steal the Path of Blood because of the connection I had with it but I technically didnÆt steal the whole mountain This place the Master layered the Paths on top of each other I took the outside of the mountain but the inner portions still exist However my forceful removal appears to have wounded this place
And wounds to the space
A flickering phantasm of the mountain surface Randidly had just gobbled down waxed and waned The significance of it held it briefly in place Crackling bolts of electromagnetic discharge snaked up and down along the boundary The Master twisted in his fall looking down with wide eyes Whatever rend had been generated in the layered fabric of this place gradually weakened the restriction on ripples Slowly at first then returning to a normal velocity Number One and Randidly began to fall
Number One eyed Randidly suspiciously but ultimately he appeared to bury the hatchet I will remember this favor You have weakened his dominance in the area But I can take it from here The Master is my prey
Randidly nodded not really minding if Number One did the dirty work for him Whirlwinds condensed around the old manÆs feet and he accelerated downward after the Master Meanwhile Randidly kicked lightly off ripples and hopped back up His hand reached out and he grasped the grey cup that symbolized the connection with the Path of Dreams
As happened before he immediately felt some new connection form to a distant area There waves of color and emotion surged in an endless chaotic sea of neon flashes and confusing shapes The cup in his hand lightened to become emerald and began to leak black gas into the surrounding space
RandidlyÆs overtaxed mind buzzed barely able to support the additional strain Just as soon as he touched the Path of Dreams he rapidly retreated his consciousness and allowed it to shift naturally He didnÆt have the spare attention for it now That place is quite different than the Path of Blood
Luckily it seemed like no one else noticed Randidly had taken over the discarded Path likely they had only noticed the development related to the Path of Blood based on the fact that they were standing on it
Number One rushed downward flanked by fifty of his small whirlwind missiles The Master twisted around and grasped with his left hand but the limb had once more taken on the revealing slowness The whirlwinds vanished but Number One had seen this move too many times He only created only six this time shooting them rapidly downward
The Master gritted his teeth He splayed out the fingers of his right hand and unleashed force spikes that deflected the whirlwinds away from him In the end nothing has changed I rule here
Feel free to rule from your grave Number One descended on wings of judgment His deflected whirlwinds swam in long arcs racing toward the MasterÆs back With agonizing slowness the Master closed his hand one more time The attacks vanished before they could harm him
But Number One just grinned triumphantly Whirlwinds appeared on his hands and feet granting him a boost of speed The Master roared and once again all the ripples lurched to a stop But only a second later that effect frayed and vanished
The whirlwinds allowed Number One to close the distance and bring a whirlwind covered fist down on the MasterÆs stomach The impact ripped through his robe and sprayed chunks of flesh Behind RandidlyÆs back the Unborn began to whisper excitedly it was almost time
Chapter 1841
Number One finally felt a cautious flare of triumph as the MasterÆs body tore through the strange spacial rifts earning several deep gashes for his uncontrolled landing and crashed down through into the cave systems of the mountain While the stone dust settled Number One proceeded more carefully down through the unstable space and shattered rocks and alighted on the ground
The Master was pushing himself out of a small crater Dark fluids oozed out of the corner of his mouth and through the deep wounds on his torso In the corner of the now destroyed cave some scandalized minor Disciple watched the suddenly arrived Master and Number One with wide eyes Number OneÆs lips twitched and he flicked a finger the unfortunate witnessÆs head exploded before he could even understand what was happening
Better remove any more uncertain elements now
You cannot overcome me I am this place The MasterÆs chest was heaving The wounds inflicted by Randidly Ghosthound continued to trouble him making the movement more heaving and sputtering than any sort of productive motion Without me everything will collapse
You overestimate yourself Number One said coolly as he walked forward His steps were unhurried he couldnÆt decide if he should let the Master weaken a bit from his leaking wounds or strike quickly before he recovered But more than anything else he was oddly incensed that the attack he just inflicted was rapidly healing while RandidlyÆs endured His expression hardened annoyed at these details None are my equal
Heh I can already see your pride curdling in your chest Despite his wounds the Master favored Number One with a sinister smile Do you feel invalidated knowing that it was your invitee not you that managed to push me to such a state Heh heh compared to him you are nothing
Then you are less than nothing Look at you collapsed before me Number One hissed He threw caution to the wind and struck In response the previously feeble Master twisted and unleashed a spike of pure force The previous force spikes paled into this massive obliterating drill Number One instantly generated a patterned spring absorbing the offensive blast and rebounding it directly back toward its maker The Master scuttled sideways but Number growled in triumph as the force spike blew off the masterÆs right foot Upstodatee from
Dripping blood the Master hopped from wall to wall like a leaping spider His lighting fast movements soon carried him to the passage leading deeper into the mountain but Number One expertly created a loop of patterns and pulled the Master back into the middle of the cave
He had many tricks such as these all designed for this moment
Impudence The Master howled His left hand seemed to finally be loosening but his right started flinging out force spikes without limits Number One ducked under most rebounding others to further weaken the volley It only took him five seconds to cross the distance and stand over the Master once again
Number OneÆs lip curled upward as the Master unleashed a huge wave of force He mobilized the pattern he had spent the last hundred years perfecting Instantly all the energy of the attack was funneled away dispersing harmlessly behind him The Master had once used it in front of Number One to punish the previous Number One meaning he had many a night to ponder how to counter it It is too late you old fool I stand above you your Path of Spirit belongs to me