Your allies I wonder how easy they will be to find DevickÆs smile was predatory as she chewed and talked with her mouth open You might not know it but there are consequences for boring me
Speaking of which these two better not make me wait for too long
Every moment more and more violent emotions poured out of the metaphysical vessel of WickÆ and sloshed around in this strange restricted zone hemmed in by a literal fence of DevickÆs madness But when compared to the river of violence that Randidly had ridden while within the Shaft
Congratulations Your Skill Breath of the Cosmos has grown to Level 531
Congratulations Your Skill the Twin Lingering Shadows of Misfortune has grown to Level 899
Compared to Pine your troubles are small potatoes Wick
One of the Unborn spirits burped its stomach full from all of the emotion it absorbed in the last ten seconds The Stillborn Phoenix in a remarkable show of affection cooed at the suddenly sack sized spirit and slurped up the surplus around those twins Watching a black hole be affectionate toward the two massive slugs of bad luck proved relatively off putting But if nothing else Randidly was quite confident that the Stillborn Phoenix could handle WickÆs emotional attacks
However RandidlyÆs chest burned as he looked over at Wick guarded by a small fortress of molten copper that he erected in only a few moments Randidly could feel the tension building in his shoulders Their violence and conflict had given him a taste a taste of the opportunity to avenge Helen All of the pain and sadness that he had suffered through the long days of feeling blank and lost the moodiness the fact that he had taken much of that out on his subordinates all those sins could be buried with the corpse of Wick
Here today in this barren place
Even beyond his usual wild behavior Randidly felt the edges of himself becoming inflamed and blurred Distantly a part of him recognized that some of these emotions werenÆt entirely his own The Stillborn Phoenix ate the emotions coming at him through space yet other influences were seeping into him Unlike NeveahÆs grounding touch this had a much more aggravating effect on his disposition
And just as Randidly thought about her his Soulbound companion was there injecting a refreshing gust of rationality into him Her cool observation swept the creeping aggression away Ah so thatÆs whatÆs happening here They are forcing a Soulbond between the two of you Randidly using some medium that I cannot quite sense from outside the mental arena Even if you slurp up all of the emotions you will eventually be mashed together into a strange mental wrestling match Do you think that you can overcome WickÆs Willpower
Immediately the surroundings began to tremble it did not like the direction of his ire now turned Plus the work of excavation was not gentle Even more than the copper barriers that existed around Wick the ground was thick and insubstantial calcified shape grown more stubborn by RandidlyÆs sudden desire to drill downward However the spearheads proved effective enough as spades that he made good progress digging first five meters and then ten meters down in the plain
The rumbling intensified Wick continued to shout and demand attention but Randidly asked the Stillborn Phoenix to slow its slurping of emotions at any time that Wick seemed ready to deconstruct his defenses and stop him Unhindered the Nether storm lashed the entire spectral landscape with its power At this point this was the most powerful storm he had even supported It hummed through his limbs until his tendons and veins sang
How appropriate Randidly began carving steps down through the matte substance to make the passage easier He took the steps slowly ignoring the noise as the blades of Nether hacked and chopped away at the base of the mine to dig deeper HelenÆs original Domain was the Depths of Horror And now against Wick I use her capability to descend to the bottom of this place where the lingering taint of Devick remains
However RandidlyÆs eyes sharpened I intend to slay the lurking abomination If you are watching Helen that darkness in your depths I will eradicate it
Congratulations Your Skill Cutting Tides of Amenonuhoko has grown to Level 672
Once Randidly had framed his descent in that manner the steps became easier The winds churned with even more power and potency Wick ceased to be a distraction He could feel his Nether Core humming with significance A strange momentum built as he descended He could almost feel her hovering above his shoulder
Helen had always had his best interests at heart but she did not start out as an easy person to get along with She cursed often and met most problems with violence Even in their final days together she was demanding and vindictive
Randidly took another step How appropriate that the woman Wick killed would now give Randidly the tools to foil him
The rumbling of the plain became almost the entirety of sensation rubbing away any other sound or texture that would reach him Even ripples were steamrolled before the roiling displeasure of the black plain Above Randidly could distantly sense that the chain fence binding of DevickÆs madness began to tighten urgently
However only a few meters remained and his grey firestorm carried hatchet blades to rip away the last few layers of shape around the carved stone
RandidlyÆs head jerked sharply upward That ripple had been felt clearly through the entire area Wick finally could stand it no longer and ripped apart his defenses A portion of RandidlyÆs storm had remained above churning and growing with power from his efforts down below Without hesitating Wick had slammed directly into that storm and forced it backward
The Commandant manifested at the edge of the hole Randidly had made looking down the black steps at his subordinate Those liquid iridescent rainbow emotions slashed at him but Wick weathered the attacks His shoulders heaved Fine then LetÆs settle this
Randidly gestured slightly Almost sulkily the Stillborn Phoenix gurgled for a half second then regurgitated some of the emotions it had absorbed earlier and now refined These speared Wick in the chest and threw him back before the parasitic emotions began to pierce toward his eyes and nostrils to invade his body
Too late Randidly thought distantly A few more Nether bursts tore away the last crusted covering of the carved stone Immediately he felt it tug at his Willpower once more urging Randidly to turn around and clash pointlessly against Wick
His hand hesitated then curled into a fist He cut with just his hand a simple thrust An attack that he had practiced with Helen millions of times
With a tinkling crash the carved stone exploded
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An invisible pulse spread out from the shattered pieces soon enveloping the whole of the area
Around Randidly the fabric of this place began to quickly unravel Even his grinding grey firestorm was smoothly rubbed away as the switch back to their actual bodies began in earnest Without the strange carved stone there was nothing holding them here However there were a few strained moments of transition where he was able to discover some new information from the broken remnants
First behind him Wick began to scream when his hand pierced the stone Not a roar that befitted his hairy bear form not a bellow Not some outcry of rage or indignation or shock No his voice vibrated with pain as the pitch rose to become a shrill shriek It seemed the combination of emotional attacks or the central piece of this place shattering had inflicted a serious wound upon him
Second the two Unborn finally seemed to wake up from their post emotional meal stupor Several vapors flew out of the shattered stone which they pounced forward and gobbled up without any hesitation Randidly felt somewhat disturbed to see that their bodies pulsed with thick veins in a much more visceral fashion their forms growing more concrete
First veins and probably organs he reflected What comes next
Finally a small few bits of fabric hung in the space where Randidly had knifed his hand into the stone to destroy it What immediately grabbed his attention was how much of the dense significance clustered around these few small fluttering bits it possessed even more density than the chunk Neshamah had given him