If you try to interfere again Randidly said I will kill you
Almost hoping that Elhume would return as a refined element ready to create a miracle Randidly tossed his foe off the edge of a Skyisland A sharpened root to FieroÆs chest knocked loose his grip on the Songstress and also sent his bloody form tumbling over the edge Then Randidly could turn to the milky sky and activate his Engraving in earnest
Let’s tear apart the rest of this memory to find themiracle
Chapter 2317
Impressions flashed past the Patron of Feathers as her bodily functions began to fail Her consciousness would snag on portions of the memories before the increasingly common blackouts dragged her down into delirium for an indeterminate amount of time She sawù
Her hands covered in blood when they assisted in the coup of Malloon The disappointment she felt when her father was the best in a long list of bad choices to rule the city
The joy she felt as they began to accumulate other Patrons Each became an integral part of the family contributing legitimate accomplishments with her own Skills And as their numbers expanded so did the scope of their operations With power came ambition and each step forward forced the group to sharpen their blades so they could withstand their growing responsibility
She saw the training room they developed She felt her own sweat drying on her skin
She saw darkness Days of sparring and toil blurred past
Most of all like an ice pick through the heart each time the Patron of Feathers remembered the look on FieroÆs face half seen through a crack in the door as he said From now on wouldnÆt it be easier if you were all mine
The memories trembled and scattered blown away by a sudden gale She sank into the unconscious darkness tiptoeing between life and death before she popped back into the memories with a gasp She saw Fiero just a manifestation of Wild Energy floating in that clearing She felt dread knowing what was to come
She could watch but she couldnÆt halt the tragedy
The Patron of Feathers swam through her small loves her favorite meals her fondest memories All those moments of stunned embarrassment the lingering moments of personal shame the trembling admittances of weakness she had to endure Yet none of them could grant her any succor The demands of her weakened limbs the last gasps of her sputtering organs kept pulling her out of the memories and announcing a bleak truth
She would soon die
Tears glittered in the Patron of Feather’s eyes Her joints ached In the end the only memory that could screen her from the truth was
FieroÆs sharp eyes the malicious smile
wouldnÆt it be easier if you were all mine
She dove into darkness She emerged dizzy an eternity later Fiero smiled
All mine
The Patron of Feathers gasped as something shifted The memories abruptly faded and left her in the dark room sitting on the patterns drawn by her father Around her were the dried and crusted remnants of bile and blood she hadnÆt even noticed she had been leaking She sat hunched forward partially collapsed in on herself Yet not a single muscle remained to shift her weight
No wonder her organs had failed she had been squeezing them for the last however long she had been here
So here in the quiet is how I will die More peaceful than I expected The Patron of Feathers could barely manage a small wheeze at the prospect She looked around at the small room wishing she wasnÆt here alone More than that she wished she could have changed the outcome of her life She wished she hadnÆt been so cowardly as to consider no method to change her situation other than running away And then she wished she hadnÆt simply allowed the Patron of the Borrowed to take more and more from those two good people untilù
The door opened bringing with it blinding light The Patron of Feathers shivered realizing that the illumination from the room’s mechanisms had gone dark A figure moved through the blinding revelation and stood by her side He patted her head his alabaster feathers glittering You have done well my daughter
Of course I sincerely doubt it will be this easy forever Randidly remarked His Fateset twitched and flared seemingly annoyed that he would say such an unlucky thing But Randidly just flashed his teeth and continued to work His Fateset didnÆt truly think independently of him it was just a matter of perspective And he didnÆt mind his more suspicious side rearing its head like this in a harmless manner
Grab twisted hold strum release Another blast of accelerated time dyed the sky a soft golden color before the flow of night and day ripped new channels through the color
Congratulations Your Skill the Wrathful Calamity Rends has grown to Level 994
With the task in front of him requiring so little most of RandidlyÆs attention flowed through to his emotional sea He sank into its depths feeling the churning currents of power lurking beneath the surface Most of the sea had been completely emptied in the first impossible task smashing against the flow of time but now that it had recovered the deepest portions had burrowed into even deeper trenches A horrifying whirlwind of emotions shredded in the deepest corner of that sea creating a growing whirlpool of irresistible force
Randidly reached out a mental finger and ran it along the churning edge of the vortex The depth of determination he found there made him smile
His attention flicked back to the surface Below he could feel reverberations blasting out from the confrontation between Aether and Nether clearly Deganawidah had lost his temper with the Cult of the Savior But unless they tried to ascend and stop Randidly he would leave them be He focused on the process
Activate Engraving strum time release and watch the colors ripple
Congratulations Your Skill the Wrathful Calamity Rends has grown to Level 995
Again and again Randidly repeated these movements carefully honing the small gestures to eliminate any wasted energy Grasp hold strum release
Grasp hold strum release
Congratulations Your Skill the Wrathful Calamity Rends has grown to Level 996
Momentum began to build up in the accelerated time bouncing off the remnants of previous waves that still lingered The bleeding of colors grew more stark and overwhelming Randidly observed with narrowed eyes adjusting his methodology to create more of these rebounding effects Very clearly they would thrust him even faster toward the future
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of Unimagined Tolls has grown to Level 1099
Congratulations Your Skill the Wrathful Calamity Rends has grown to Level 997
While time whirled forward inside the Upper Sonora Randidly peered through the gaps and saw the core of history that they followed Honestly if this hadnÆt been a constructed memory Randidly suspected this brute force method wouldnÆt have worked nearly as well His Acute Nether Nose allowed him to peer down the trackÆ they followed witnessing just a fraction of the glorious Pinnacle even at the end As he considered the area in front of him
Randidly clicked his tongue Of course itÆs this again
Already he could see how even the beginning descent of a Pinnacle event would tear through the essence of the memory and leave him with nothing but charred scraps of Aether So he would need to perform some renovations so he could afford to host such a prestigious guest
Alright letÆs see if we can add a bit of extra strain on top RandidlyÆs eyes twinkled One half of him continued the temporal process grasp hold strum release The rest of his attention went to his fingers which burned with Mana
For the second time today he began to Engrave
He wrote into existence the foundations of a Miracle his Fateset singing as it worked
Chapter 2318
RandidlyÆs Engravings spread out from his skyisland to hang in space like luminous butterfly wings The strummed time continued to warp the memory but the sphere of stability around RandidlyÆs position spread outward