You cannot have met this seed is mine and you bear the scent of a fresh and organic Nether King Deganawidah grunted pulling RandidlyÆs attention back to the trembling form of the future Nether King His thoughts spun begrudgingly settling until the pressing matter of this confrontation had been handled The evil Humpty dumpty leaned forward and studied the Nether Warrior as though the secrets of his and RandidlyÆs connection would be physically present on his body A conundrum An unusual pattern Peculiar
Waves undulated along DeganawidahÆs smile His expression resembled the gooey internal movements of a lava lamp the different portions always oozing in separate directions With his thick muscular hands the monster cupped the appendages together and created a circle Boy come here Let me cut to the core of this mystery
The future Nether King yelped as the force of the command yanked his collar and smashed his face against the ground He stumbled to his feet and helplessly trotted forward until he stood before corrupted Humpty dumpty the dark mound of DeganawidahÆs body casting the smaller Nether Warrior entirely in shadow
Congratulations Your Skill NyxÆs Successor Births Fate has grown to Level 1002
Congratulations Your Skill NyxÆs Successor Births Fate has grown to Level 1009
Congratulations MuseÆs Reverie +1
At the last second Randidly felt a sense of forbidding The Notifications exploded in front of his eyes as his Skill sensed a coming change Even MuseÆs Reverie snapped to attention The memory began to tremble All at once Randidly could feel the air squeezing him the vast significance of a pivot howling loud enough to be heard even through the screen of DeganawidahÆs storm Wait
Open for me boy DeganawidahÆs lips parted revealing first the blunt gold teeth and then a slithering onyx tongue He whispered a Nether Ritual into his hands staring intently through the circle created by his hands at the Nether King
All the Nether around the Nether Warrior Randidly assumed every pinch of energy visible through that opening in the thick hands stilled The Nether King whimpered Then the carefully preserved and frozen arrangement was pulled and expanded as though it was being projected against the backdrop of clouds above them showing a complex layered and very obviously bifurcated arrangement of significance Not only did the Nether Warrior in front of them have a mark on that system but looming even larger was the Nether King he would eventually become
The two layered beings also very clearly delineated the fabric of the memory where one began and the other ended Even had Deganawidah not been such a masterful manipulator of Nether even if one of the petty Nether Kings Randidly had fought within the memory had seen this the implications would dawn on them
Deganawidah grunted a look of distaste curling up the edges of his mouth You butcher my lifeÆs work for aesthetics Short sighted
I could only capture the slightest pinch of your allure The Nether King bowed slightly His eyes went up to the sky where his own Nether remained expanded then flicked back down to Deganawidah Even now this can barely
It seems late for flattery doesnÆt it Deganawidah clicked his tongue Nether continued to swirl in a giant storm above the face off The old egg monster held out a hand palm up
The Nether King looked pained This will wound him deeply He is meant for greater purposes
Do you think we were meant to be alive Yet stubbornly we live DeganawidahÆs face scrunched up The heavy clouds pressed closer Randidly pressed his lips together trying to understand the conflict between the two
Several different emotions passed across the face of the future Nether King In the end he sighed From the rumble that went through the memory the Nether KingÆs surrender had heavy implications yet Randidly marveled that the disturbance lasted only a brief moment quickly smoothed over by DeganawidahÆs support The Nether King stretched out his hand and deposited something in the otherÆs palm Then he vanished hunching over in fear and shock as he stood so close to the monstrous old Nether being of myth
Deganawidah waved his other hand and the liberated Nether Warrior fled
Randidly licked his lips unable to help his curiosity You donÆt seem to care much that the current version of yourself exists within a memory
Heh Need I be a shape Need I be a moment The small desperations of lesser beings donÆt interest me I am and I am enough A look of disgust crossed DeganawidahÆs face briefly closing his mouth But then the wry amusement returned the undulating smile Still the scales between us remain uneven I will not allow this to be so Thus you have hurt me I will hurt you Just a wound is necessary not the cessation of self Because your self it is quite large And peculiar enough I wonÆt push the issue
Randidly frowned His eyes went to the tensed fist of Deganawidah what sort of wound
A necessary piece deprived A shape made impossible An Alchemist no longer Or rather the possibility of alchemic success sealed away Deganawidah gestured to the object in his palm which resolved itself into a ruby colored sphere gleaming like fresh blood RandidlyÆs skin tingled and he felt his instincts screaming Just from looking he sensed the connection between himself and that object I now hold what would have been the ultimate piece of yourself AllinneÆs Tear Amu in your own worldÆs words it can also be called The PhilosopherÆs StoneÆ
My Sixth Fatepiece Randidly whispered remembering the future Nether King plundering the piece for himself His body blurred into motion but Deganawidah had already moved In the middle of his storm of Nether the environment dominated by his energy Randidly was too far away
The corrupted Humpty dumpty squeezed and crushed the Fatepiece to powder
Error Warning An unknown force has caused extreme damage to your Fateset Please see your nearest Village Spirit
Error
Warning Due to a sudden loss of structural integrity your Class has been damaged You will be unable to gain Experience for the foreseeable future
Warning Your specialty Attribute MuseÆs Reverie is deeply tied to your Fateset The synchronicity between your body and the Paradox of the Alchemist made its extraordinary effects possible You will be unable to gain MuseÆs Reverie for the foreseeable future
Chapter 2259
Randidly Ghosthound froze halfway through sprinting across the intervening distance to Deganawidah who sat upon the stone mound and watched him with cruel eyes The vast weight of the Nether Deganawidah assembled across his lifetime hung between them an intimidating gulf Bits of crimson dust glittered out through between his fingers Randidly swayed struck by a sudden sense of weakness
Since the first moment he had obtained his Fateset the Paradox of the Alchemist he had been sliding inevitably toward a goal Inevitably as though dragged down a slope by gravity he had proceeded toward the moment all six of the Fatepieces were assembled together into a superform and his Fateset could burn with the resonance between all the pieces He would have achieved a perfect balance
His eyes caught on more flecks of broken crystal caught in the wind and whisked away to oblivion
Yet now with the casual flex of Deganawidah the important piece had been removed The crown had been broken Already Randidly felt reverberations traveling through him His Nether Core revved to even faster speeds but all those hidden pockets of potential he had accumulated began to deflate The sense of momentum and direction he had maintained vanished leaving him adrift
Wait Randidly coughed an ache emerging in his chest The coughing grew worse and he bent over spitting out a thick chunk of black gristle
His head whipped back up suddenly making a horrifying connection He stirred his own seething Nether and used a rough approximation of DeganawidahÆs earlier technique to peer at the subtle connections He saw flames of hungry black Nether eating their way through the lines of significance through the whole of his body
Through the framework of meaning that kept his body suspended above the abyss