A sly smile crept across RandidlyÆs face He reached out and pulled on the threads of significance running through the world A sphere popped into his palm perfectly pitch black without any edges more of an absence than an object A notification popped up in front of him
Congratulations You have located the Sixth Fatepiece of your Fateset Paradox of the Alchemist Warning the Sixth Fatepiece has been scoured clean by an incredibly potent energy User will need to first instill a powerful idea into the object before it could be Leveled
Warning please note that this process is irreversible Once the FatepieceÆs name and abilities has been set they will not be able to be changed If the Fatepiece is foolishly created userÆs potential will be severely impacted The whole of the Fateset might even be weakened Please see a Village Spirit for more information
Randidly nodded slowly Alright all the pieces are in place And I at least can predict some of whatÆs going to happen if I move forward with this plan So nextù
The sky split open as a beam of pure Aether slammed down It ripped through the still solidifying edges of the Dungeon and pierced right into the memory RandidlyÆs head snapped up a powerful silence settling across him as the Songstress of Absence screamed in fury ElhumeÆs strange Aether construct had activated
The hammer ghosted down through the sky without a sound But that unholy light made Randidly grit his teeth
He leapt to his feet but his body responded sluggishly By the time he had realized the attack was coming it was already upon him He growled bringing all three images together to resist They mixed into a powerful attack RandidlyÆs arms moving Acri slithering into place even as he thrust his spear The force of the movement tore through space
But the attack phased right through his motions and slammed into RandidlyÆs chest
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A second passed but the dramatic pain Randidly usually associated with ElhumeÆs strike didnÆt pound him into the ground
It doesnÆt hurt Randidly thought with a strange sense of distance Out of habit he completed the spear thrust shooting a spreading tear in space that ripped its way up into the clouds like a vicious rocket The sluggishness vanished burned away by the familiar movement
Yet still he stood trying to understand the purpose of that Aether
Randidly felt his Class vibrate as the strange Aether constructs passed through him He rocked back on his heels as the influence spread instantly alarmed as the strange intrusion spread through him and into the Alpha Cosmos He nudged his Nether Core into faster rotation and pulled these strands of energy through his body preparing for a follow up
Then the notifications began popping up in front of him
Congratulations Due to your achievement of a Mille you have the ability to create a term to affect the Nexus
Congratulations You have created the term GhasthundÆ Compiling definition
Congratulations Ghasthund has been defined based on the subconscious desires of your inner world
Ghasthund When
RandidlyÆs whole body seemed to hum his alarm growing at every notification However after the Pantheon intervention all the notifications stopped A final notification didnÆt arrive Periodically recalculating popped back up but it appeared to have stalled out there Randidly sent a message to Lucretia What the hell happened
That bastard Elhume is apparently smarter than we thought Or at least got a hint of your plan when he looked at you Even through the message Randidly could sense LucretiaÆs strain That blast triggered the defining for your term prematurely Currently Alta and the Golem Emperor are holding the process at bay but we canÆt keep it like this forever And now that its started it needs to be defined soon Or it will just define itself
RandidlyÆs expression darkened He chewed on the inside of his cheek How long
On the low end Sixty two minutes Lucretia responded almost immediately A few seconds went by before her follow up message arrived But I suspect thatÆs just Alta being pessimistic If I had to give you a true estimate maybe eighty five minutes Give or take We might not have experienced it firsthand but we certainly felt when you fought against time itself And that Bounty girl is nothing if not competitive SheÆs been itching for a chance to make your jaw drop
RandidlyÆs lips quirked at that wondering how Alta Bounty went from a terrorist attempting to annihilate his Soulskill into the most stalwart defender of the Alpha Cosmos Having her helm the defense effort against the latest of ElhumeÆs tricks set him slightly at ease But he set that aside for the moment to look up at the sky
Eighty five minutes is plenty of time you bastard He cracked his knuckles You think this is enough to fuck me If you wanted to preserve your little bottle of regrets you should have acted while you had the chance
His attention switched to his Status Screen After scanning through Randidly pressed his lips together somewhere between exasperation and amusement Competitiveness burned in his emerald eyes His goal had been to get 25 Skills over a thousand but currently he had only reached 24 But on a second scan there were almost a half dozen Skill within twenty Skill Levels of a thousand
Hell might as well go to thirty Randidly barred his teeth at the sky
Congratulations Your Skill Footsteps of a Legend has grown to Level 1001
Randidly nodded in satisfaction Then he checked the time Still seventy nine minutes to go before Ghasthund defines itself shit itÆs going to be close
Yggdrasil hummed in warning and RandidlyÆs head snapped up Two figures cut across the sky making a beeline for their position Although Randidly felt a bit of annoyance he also felt a flutter of anticipation in his chest Because the two individuals that shot toward them were Elhume and the Patron of the Borrowed
The air around Elhume crackled practically destabilizing with just his presence The powerful image he had constructed seared the space around him His insights into the aspect of the void left even Randidly impressed
You havenÆt lost Mae Myrna yet but I wonder how close you are to standing on the cusp of the Pinnacle Randidly whispered almost unimpressed But that didnÆt mean fighting Elhume would be easy in his current drained state Yggdrasil pulled energy through the air flooding his body with the force He rolled his shoulders feeling his body quickly adapting to the energy His heartbeat quickened
Of course Elhume would show up now to delay him in his third and final attempt A one two punch of present and past Elhume But still Randidly couldnÆt deny he felt slightly grateful After all nothing helped Skill Level more quickly than a powerful opponent
Congratulations Your Skill World Tree Sips from Every Realm has grown to Level 1053
Congratulations Your Skill Aureate Arteries of Yggdrasil has grown to Level 1000
While Randidly congratulated himself on reaching his 28th Mille Devick scrambled over to stand next to him Uh they are heading straight for us arenÆt they Well you just take it easy thatÆs why you brought me along right to handle riff raff like this
Yup Randidly glanced sideways at Devick his lips twitching She possessed enough wild aggression to actually mean what she said but she also should be able to sense both of the auras of the approaching duo Even the Patron of the Borrowed possessed a great deal more power than she no matter how much her Grand Fate had Leveled in the past week
Yet she had no doubts she would find a way In DevickÆs eyes Randidly saw a very familiar mindset She would somehow manage to do it because if she didnÆt she would die And she wasnÆt willing to die not quite yet