Randidly sucked in a breath as PineÆs support moving the mechanisms from the interior grew wilder and more violent Steam began to waft out of his ears as his body tried to keep abreast of the energy process Well IÆm glad you are enthusiastic but at this rate
A thunderous crash interrupted his thoughts If Randidly thought that the world had been ending previously this taught him he had been being dramatic
One moment he floated in his melting surrealist sky and the next he slammed into the ground with the wind knocked out of him For a moment he wildly wondered who could have sneak attacked him especially through the branching snakes of annihilating lightning that flayed from his person but then he felt a sinking feeling in his chest For a brief moment the singing of the Songstress of Absence faltered in her music His Nether Core ached
Probably if she hadnÆt been given a strengthened grip by his First Authority the superposition would have been directly obliterated
The blow had come from the modern Nexus and there was only one who could punch like that Elhume had sucker punched him Because he channeled the force through his body he had been physically slammed into the ground
A surge of fear gripped RandidlyÆs heart Too much was happening at once for him to spare attention but he raised his head and looked around What he saw made him grimace he had been knocked down to the West in no manÆs land between the Aether and Nether hosts but the energies he unleashed still scythed their way through the edges of the two armies annihilating innocents
Bolts of lightning arced off his body and ripped deep trenches in the ground He became a thousand legged insect his vicious legs skittering around incinerating any flesh they could find And that was before the winds came down yanked in his wake as he went through the process of pulling the discharge from the activated constructs in the memory into his storm and then feeding it up into the superposition
Congratulations Your Skill Aureate Arteries of Yggdrasil has grown to Level 999
Damnit Randidly squeezed his eyes shut so he didnÆt see some unfortunate soldier blended by the sharp edged winds he produced The ground shifted uneasily underneath him He refocused Because with the time dilation he should have some time before the next hammer blow But he didnÆt want to underestimate Elhume He activated Infinite Incendiary Filaments and peered out into the Nexus
All the while the enormous Aether wheels spun toward the creation of a new Cohort
Chapter 2301
RandidlyÆs images trembled a sliver of time after he smashed into the ground and began scouring the surrounding hills with his storm His bones ached in his flesh as though they had been knocked askew by the punch
Sulfur writhed in an approximation of pain his hand burning where the anchor had been forcefully shifted Reverberations went through his images even through the temporal barrier around the memory causing fits of weakness He forced his racing heart to calm down
This is Elhume Randidly looked solemnly up through the complex mess of energies the storms raging around him his Nether latching onto the cohort construct his image piercing out through the temporal barrier to the Nexus proper and finally to the layered and complex series of impressions he could read beyond Not the Elhume who hasnÆt found himself but the one at the height of his power Still
Randidly flashed his teeth his Fateset cackling He was on the inside of a powerful temporal barrier and his image would convey those motions in fast forward to the real Nexus Can you stop me in time
With the assistance of Pine pressing against the giant mechanisms the wheels continued to spin His mind raced and strained as he mentally pulled setting the target Randidly felt the first portion of the process lock into place A shiver went through the memory this time due to the substance of the memory flickering Luckily Deganawidah continued to honor his word using his vast Nether to reinforce the memory
One reason Randidly had first conceived of this plan was despite the various elements at play adding a Cohort to the Nexus was a simple three step process You selected the target area you sent out a barrier to cover the area and pull it into the Nexus and then the adjusted area would be normalized with Nexus energy Perhaps the first step might be more complicated when you needed to peer out past the edge of the Nexus but Randidly guided the construct to the memory and the mechanism was only too happy to oblige
However RandidlyÆs skin tingled even before the second step in the process started Elhume punched for a second time
The left corner of his mouth quirked upward Not pleased IÆm mucking around in your memory Randidly felt a flash of flippancy and then he remembered that he had been smashed into the ground while wrapped up in a storm of destruction covered in a temporal barrier only a few seconds ago And he was pretty sure the first strike had been casual
Casual for Elhume An unexpected energy had begun affecting the Nexus and he had struck Probably enough to evaporate seas and annihilate a thousand versions of the Randidly who hadnÆt yet stepped into the Nexus proper Now when the first attack failed the reigning monster of the Nexus rolled up his sleeves and took the threat a bit more seriously
He heard the voice speaking from afar resonating with the ache in his bones
The Second Fist Vengeance
Congratulation Your Skill Infinite Incendiary Filaments of the Dove Moirae has grown to Level 1179
Congratulations Your Skill Infinite Incendiary Filaments of the Dove Moirae has grown to Level 1180
Randidly felt the memory beginning to deform from the intrusion of the fist The lingering squalls he had left in the sky were obliterated by the fistÆs arrival an attack that quelled any lingering fighting between Aether and Nether forces The massive glowing fist the perfectly honed transference of unstoppable power rushed down toward Randidly like a cataclysmic comet
He had the smallest shred of time to prep himself His Nether Core whirled pushing its speed dangerously far past safe levels With significance taking up all the slack keeping the Songstress of AbsenceÆs spear in place Yggdrasil and the Dread Homunculus focused all their energy on defense
SulfurÆs massive form began to release the cool cleansing glow of dawn RandidlyÆs right arm sharpened and twisted possessing all the wicked corners of a shadowy dusk Both hands burned with image power balancing the flavor of each They spun together and ran along the shaft of the spear in parallel lines
Congratulations Your Skill Dawn Opens the Sky and Realty Stirs has grown to Level 998
Congratulations Your Skill Dawn Opens the Sky and Realty Stirs has grown to Level 1002
Congratulations Your Skill Darkness Withers the Horizon and the Watching Carrion Grins has grown to Level 1000
He thrust Fist met spear
The ground collapsed beneath him with enough immediate violence that the surrounding area were thrust up creating sharp toothed ridges In the moment of contact both Yggdrasil and the Dread Homunculus gave slightly needing the Songstress to hold their own in a conflict of this caliber So when his image physicalizations faltered and were subsequently obliterated the force slammed against his body
Randidly coughed up blood and staggered backward The weakened ground had apparently only been compacted into structural integrity by the pressure from his feet so the small step meant he slipped and fell into a widening ravine Several groaning quakes shook the area tearing up the ground in a larger and larger radius
Mid roll Randidly punched his fist into a solid looking rock slab and stopped himself He squeezed his eyes shut desperately trying to keep feeding energy through to the Songstress while his body struggled to cope with the physical strain He hissed out a breath He witnessed the bubble closing the second step completed
He let a smile dance across his face Even Elhume probably is leery of standing directly against the Nexus now that the process has been started And because of the time difference he has already used his one shot