He pressed his lips together Well a tiny bit of cheating isnÆt so bad Yggdrasil
As Neveah repeatedly emphasized to him he was just a man
Unable to find any problems in the Nether he returned to his training This time he brought out the Stillborn Phoenix A harsh week of training had ironed out the discomfort in the image activation although it remained straddling two truths about itself Randidly kicked himself off the ground and shot up into the clear sky He flicked his wrists sideways and then drew a circle with his two hands in the air
A split second later the sky howled and screamed as the Hungry Eye opened and took a large bite out of existence
Congratulations Your Skill Hypothetical Gaze that Consumes the Universe has grown to Level 989
Congratulations Your Skill Diffracted Corruption from an Avaricious Impossibility has grown to Level 982
A chill wind whipped and whined in the immediate vicinity before that too was gobbled down by the Stillborn Phoenix The image wavered for a second before surging forth with enough inky darkness to suspend Randidly in a sphere of oblivion His skin tingled and the sweat that covered him vanished sucked away into the void He could hear the low growl of avarice against his ear and the hum of an empty stomach
If someone had glanced South from Homewell they could have looked up and seen a black sun gnawing at one corner of the sky while its bright twin rose opposite In the darkness RandidlyÆs eyelids fluttered and closed When he opened them his eyes burned with revelation energy allowing him to see existence from the perspective of a being cast out locked away and told it could not exist
Congratulations Your Skill Revelation of the Atramentous Threshold has grown to Level 992
Congratulations Your Skill Diffracted Corruption from an Avaricious Impossibility has grown to Level 987
A smile stretched across his face showing the teeth of a confident predator He saw it the pulse of life the strange contours of the reality he had always inhabited the flash of colors and above all the chaos The specter of the Stillborn Phoenix prowled at the edge of the event horizon that crepuscular threshold hungry and vicious and separated and furious
Randidly GhosthoundÆs emotional sea surged and swelled with the need of the Stillborn Phoenix All that force and intensity whirred its way through the image rushed around the edges and watched reality dripping away like the event horizon was a drain then spun back into the body of the Egg of Depression From beyond the beast stirred
The next instant all the force it threw all the force it possessed against the boundary
To Randidly it felt like a humming But a blast of kinetic force exploded from his dark sun The ground cracked and shattered and the explosion triggered a dust storm that swept outward He watched with black purple energy dancing in his eyes as the dust storm swept up upon a migrating herd of ostriches and sent the unfortunate beasts tumbling through the air
Congratulations Your Skill Revelation of the Atramentous Threshold has grown to Level 998
Congratulations Your Skill Hallucination of the Bloodless Heart has grown to Level 939
With all its fury the Stillborn Phoenix knocked on the door to reality several more times before it was satisfied
Congratulations Your Skill Diffracted Corruption from an Avaricious Impossibility has grown to Level 1001
Congratulations Your Skill Hypothetical Gaze that Consumes the Universe has grown to Level 1003
Congratulations Your Skill Revelation of the Atramentous Threshold has grown to Level 1000
Randidly floated back to the ground ThatÆs up to 20 Milles With quite a few right at the cusp With three exhausting attempts to accomplish the impossible looming before me Right on schedule
Chapter 2274
Over the past few weeks the way that the Nether Heralds and potent Tier 6 and 7 Nether Warriors looked at Enmya had changed Their eyes flicked lower their postures no longer straightened by respect their faces tight and tense When he gave orders there was a steadily widening delay between understanding and action
Still Enmya led them marching across the countryside toward his goal The army stretched behind him like a massive snake Although he had lost many other things he still remained the Sovereign of the Breathless Vigil In terms of manipulating Nether none here could rival him The heavy weight of their expectations constricted his windpipe but it did allow him to drag them like the bloated tail they were
Part of the migration of loyalty was due to the loss to Nether King Hungry Eye That loomed heavily in all their thoughts Enmya could tell as he churned his legs forward leading the army on his mad dash west Because not only had he lost but because Lowanna had given the order to leave Nether King Hungry Eye alone after a fashion He had failed doubly It made EnmyaÆs jaw clench with bitterness the fickleness of the people
Without him knowing it he had been made into a sin eater
Despite the Nether ArbiterÆs order they had nipped at his heels willingly supported him in his crusade against this aberrant being Nether King Hungry Eye Because they had resented the freedom feared the escape from the carefully constructed structure of Phaea And when he had failed their feelings turned Suddenly they whispered behind their hands accusing him of perverting the orders of the Nether Arbiter of letting her remain captured where ever she might be
The scope of the failure devoured their own hateful thoughts Now they could point the figure denying their participation It had been him Enmya had done it One more burden for him to carry
So Enmya walked and walked until one day a little before noon he arrived on a hill and looked down to see the flat and dusty plains of the Badlands In the distance the shimmering bubble of HomewellÆs Lifeseal pulsed with energy Almost immediately one of the central Nether Warriros overseeing the Forward Teams appeared by his side and surveyed the view
The Nether Warrior gestured to the left Southeast of their position Due to the others lollygagging we arrived just a bit too late to cut off Homewell from reinforcements Cheh lazy bastards We broke them before but CeruleanÆs main force recovered and arrived but hours ago Whatever those damn Fates do itÆs working They camp just there ready to reinforce the city if we attempt to pincer it with DeganawidahÆs host
Enmya grunted and sniffed the air His instincts whispered he was close to her although he couldnÆt quite figure out where to go from here
The Nether Warrior folded his armored limbs across his chest and clicked his mandibles together Shall we prepare for the assault I cannot imagine that Deganawidah would wait much longer Heh and little do they know but his focus is entirely on that fool Cerulean he will ignore Homewell entirely until he has finished his vengeance for his student The army will probably buckle before the cityÆs defenders have even spilled a single drop of blood
Prepare the Warriors Enmya whispered His lips were strangely dry He took a few steps forward and then cleared his throat Wait here for my signal I wish to get a sense for the enemy
I can gather The Nether Warrior began but Enmya already moved slipping well away from his subordinateÆs awareness
Enmya streaked over the hills his heart pounding in his chest He heard the familiar rustle her shift heard the delicate clinking of her immaculate manacles as she poured tea into a cup felt the rhythmic echoes of her steps thundering through the ground with all the force of the energy she carried Enmya couldnÆt be sure of where but Lowanna the Nether Arbiter was here
He whipped around and began to rush directly toward Homewell His eyes crinkled in fury So the bastard Turtlelines had been the ones who