But in the end there is very little IÆll do for the actual battle here Randidly pressed his lips together His eyes flicked sideways to the middle of CeruleanÆs host even their picket lines were manned by soldiers in the ostentatious azure armor it made Randidly roll his eyes But in the middle he could feel the methodical desperation of Fatia Cerulean In the end all that really matters is that Fatia survives until my third impossible attempt
Closing his eyes Randidly allowed his awareness to sink down amongst them In the end he had created eighty of these workings hoping it would be enough to move the needle The seeds of offering pulses in the ground radiating out from his stone circle fireflies of darkness brushing up against his awareness
Randidly opened his eyes ItÆs going to be soon Is there anything else I need
The ground around him pulsed with Nether reacting to his urgency He had labored here for so long with plans that ran in direct opposition to the meaning carved into his Class by Deganawidah that the environment began to take an ethereal quality Solids seemed just a whim away from becoming fleeting and insubstantial The breezes ran around the stones and whispered to each other partially in awe and partially disapproving
Of course the effect was exacerbated by the Stillborn Phoenix spreading its alien wings and gazing with its covetous eye here
RandidlyÆs eyes burned And this taint of impossibility is exactly why this cleaning house comes none too soon
He pivoted on his heel and gazed East With the impending arrival of the moment of fate it became more difficult to see the details The trees rose up and hid the rest of the ominous forest ahead of him Yet it was a long and lazy grin that spread across RandidlyÆs face as he looked up at the clear blue sky His blood began to heat in his veins sensing the impending edge of the chaos
To the East humanity was about to be conceived Two armies morphed from vigilance to bloodlust
And as though it had been summoned by his readiness the sky immediately transformed In the distance he could feel the rumbles in the ground as forces began to wheel and move into formation but he had more pressing concerns The clear blue vanished A wind screamed across the sky sweeping along with it heavy grey clouds As they rumbled and rolled over his position the shapes of the cloud began to warp into blunt features faces with gaping mouths
The faces curled around surrounding his work area and beginning to vomit huge
RandidlyÆs skin began to crawl and he narrowed his eyes His Nether thrummed through his veins suddenly detecting an undercurrent of danger in the environment He released a pulse of pure significance a questing askance to existence His features hardened into a stony glower His next pulse carried enough brutal force to carve up the ground around him forcing back dirt and revealing the crackling Nether Ritual that had been woven around him
How could I have missed this RandidlyÆs skin tingled But already he knew the answer His attention had been directed elsewhere planning his impossible attempts Besides the Nether Ritual wasnÆt harmful a third pulse of roaring grey flames melted it to nothing It had just been designed to hide certain individuals from his notice
Nether King Hungry Eye A familiar voice rumbled Randidly looked up and saw the familiar gaunt face of Bleak Sky glaring down at him Two lesser Nether Kings floated by his side although they were more powerful than the previous subordinates Bleak Sky came with He sneered down at Randidly Did you think your constant mucking about with Nether Rituals wasnÆt noticed Whatever you are attempting we will stop it
Randidly swayed On the first step already an impediment appeared In the East Randidly could feel the preparations to create humanity beginning He needed to move now
Yet a lazy grin stretched across his face The languid familiar warmth of strife came through his body More than anything else his time with the System had taught him how to handle exactly these situations His Nether Core rotated his heart beat his smile widened Very deliberately he cracked his knuckles
All according to plan Randidly said breezily He grinned up at the three Nether Kings Earning Skill Levels is so much easier with partners
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Your resistance just demonstrates foolishness Nether King Bleak Sky snorted literally looking down on Randidly His horrid cloud heads released huge gouts of water vapor and tainted significance from their mouths gradually adjusting the environment Randidly stood and looked up without fear
The first step then
Energy began to spin around their position in a wide cyclone The two side Nether Kings one resembling and arch demon with two serrated horns and red skin while the other appeared to be some sort of merperson wove together a wider Nether Ritual aimed at keeping Randidly boxed into a single location Their working lacked sophistication but its simplicity would make it more difficult to foil with just a clever twist of energy
RandidlyÆs smile sharpened but he didnÆt bother to fight against the Nether released by all three of the Nether Kings His emerald eyes glittered as he followed the flows of energy The sky seethed with friction between different threads of fate The rush of energy seemed a single variable away from igniting into a vast conflagration
With a subtle gesture Randidly pulled his carefully wrought Nether orbs into his Soulspace they werenÆt necessary not yet Across the second Cohort Randidly could feel Elhume making his own preparations to create humanity
So not only did he need to break through this trio he had a time limit to do it
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of Unimagined Tolls has grown to Level 1037
Congratulations Your Skill Yearnings of the Nether Heir has grown to Level 1120
Bleak Sky you are looking much better Randidly rolled his shoulders practically trembling with anticipation for the conflict All the details Randidly had been trying to juggle fell away For now he just needed to win Did you make a full recovery Looked a bit hollowed out last time Fatia Cerulean certainly got the best of you
As Bleak Sky scowled RandidlyÆs ears quirked the Nether army had been marching toward Homewell but now CeruleanÆs army began to shift to meet them Fatia hid in the center of his army as they stalked forward Some Engraving activated in the middle of Homewell strengthening the TurtlelineÆs defensive Lifeseal All the minute reverberations came to him through the ground up through the soles of his feet
Already he began pulling together kinetic energy No such thing as too much not with this many dangerous foes lurking around
This time you will not be able to flee The arch demon spoke up You false Nether King
Am I only the false Nether King Randidly verbalized his true curiosity He narrowed his eyes and tried to feel the flow of energy around Bleak Sky but he was unable to discern how his Nether Core seemed functioned You became an Apostate King did you not Bleak Sky Your Phaea has been severed
Above him Bleak Sky didnÆt even bother to respond to the question He chopped down with his hand Ominous Squall
A dense blade of Nether cut down toward Randidly but he had already stepped forward and slipped past the projectile The ground cracked and shook from the impact Bleak Sky might be an Apostate King but his Nether felt just as oppressive as it did previously Yet his opponentÆs strength only made RandidlyÆs blood warm more quickly A sharp gesture from the merperson produced chains of Nether to tighten across RandidlyÆs shoulders but he ignored them
His images hummed with anticipation The Egg of Depression rocked back and forth The canopy of the World Tree rustled The Dread Homunculus drank deeply of RandidlyÆs emotional sea and then wiped its mouth with a wicked claw
His opponents werenÆt idle The chains tightened trying to bite into his flesh but the Cloak of Utter Night meant they couldnÆt get a solid grasp on him The Arch demon Nether King appeared in front of Randidly a confident smile on his face You blind lemming I heard you consider yourself something of a brawling