Auxiliary Engineering of the Enigmatic Alpha Cosmos Lvl 1031 Cooking Lvl 101 Soul Bond Lvl 904 Nether ExecutiveÆs Discretionary Genesis Randidly Ghosthound Executive of Nether Reborn Lvl 1521 GhosthoundÆs Ceaseless Toil What the Ghosthound Sows He Will Soon Reap Lvl 1
Chapter 2352
The former squirrelking now officially the central figure in a high stakes guerilla campaign fussed with the woven grasses around his waist As he gained Levels in his Skill evading the spreading humanoid plague and sabotaging their supplies at great personal risk his mastery of his body had increased by leaps and bounds He was almost embarrassed by how easily the current him could wipe the floor with his previous self
If nothing else the arrival of the humanoids had shifted the wildlands to a different era One of growth and strife
Next to him the blind carp swam fitfully through the air with quick twists of her tail Her attention snapped to the two distant treelines despite the scars covering the ruined sockets of her eyes Are you not yet finished We cannot tarry long
We are too low to the ground The third of their intrepid crew an forrest green armadillo rumbled as he delicately split open tubers and took small bites of their delicious interior They will not notice
We cannot continue relying upon that The carp snapped back Sure a small problem we might be while we are considered to be walking corpses to be hunted and eliminated at their leisure But now that they have unknowingly ingested our excrement cleverly hidden within their food Had you heard their howls of vengeance
IÆm done The squirrel rebel said He straightened while trying not to fuss with his creation The grass around his waist rustled Pride surging up in his chest he decided to test out his new additions immediately He didnÆt control his speed at all streaking across the forest floor and then shooting up a nearby tree like a rocket He looked over his shoulder and there fluttering in the wind behind him
The familiar weight the glorious fluffiness the majesty of two squirrel tails
He slammed face first into a tree branch so enthralled in his replacement tails that he completely ceased to look forward With a pained squeak he fell to the ground The carp sighed The armadillo chuffed in amusement as was his way The two approached and the squirrel rebel knew the carp would take the opportunity to lecture him He wasnÆt looking forward to once again being told how silly he was
Luckily a figure manifested between them all Amusing but its time youngÆins Are you all prepared
Their guide the member of this PantheonÆ that provided blessings to the humanoids of Expira looked around with his blunt features The animals nodded The squirrel rebel could barely contain his anticipation their quality of character had earned these three the honor of also receiving the guidance of the Pantheon
The woodland creatures followed the dirt humanoid as it strode forward without any apparent effort Yet its speed was horrifying Each step of this creature could cross unfathomably vast distances half of a forrest disappearing at once so they needed to push their small bodies to the limits in order to keep up They ran and ran without rest for an entire day just barely managing to keep this oracle within their sights By the end the carp could only feebly drift down and lay upon the squirrel rebelÆs back She bit onto the remnant grass belt around his waist
She was the squirrel rebel reflected almost a size with him The situation was not at all comfortable
But he would never dare vocalize that thought
Soon they caught up to the Pantheon member who stood at the mouth of the cave He pivoted and looked at the three of them You may proceed forward one at a time I recommend you take the time to recover you faculties before you proceed what you will find in the interior of this cave are discarded aspects of the Ghosthound Even discarded they have been dragged toward the cusp of evolution by his Legend As such you should not take them lightly
Who is the Ghosthound The carp asked Both the squrirel rebel and the armadillo straightened curious about the answer
For several long seconds the Pantheon member thought in silence Around them the forest seemed to be listening too not a single peep of a mouse or chirp of a bird sounding out from the environment Only the cave made noise The squirrel rebel felt a warm and damp wind flowing out through his fur as though this were the mouth of a beast breath hot with anticipation
the Ghosthound is the one who changed the way our world worked the Pantheon member finally replied The humanoid shrugged Is that not what you seek to do as well Because we do not wish to be victims of circumstance
And it wasnÆt just any military force either The Xyrt Brigade itself had been assembled now manifesting a powerful image array to apply pressure
But the core image that released the pressure
RandidlyÆs eyes widened Standing at the center of the floating force was a core of pure destruction focused and clarified by the energies running through the broader image array It burned neon to RandidlyÆs senses emphasized and sharpened beyond the limits of safety Just by looking at that streamlined image made Randidly feel horrified at the NexusÆs capacity for destruction and that was with the Sonara steadily collapsing behind him
Even worse he knew the wielder
Her eyes were clear despite the bags under them Her body was one of iron spine and streamlined muscle Her azure hair had been cut shorter than Randidly had ever seen it on her reminding him of the older version of this woman one a little bit too scarred and worn and used But while the haircut and drained expression spoke to exhaustion her uniform was expertly pressed and the many buttons across her lapel shined
Randidly couldnÆt help but think of the kiss he shared with Devick His heart twisted with confusion and hesitation
He cleared his throat suddenly aware of the tense silence of the battlefield Vu Vualla ItÆs you
Vualla MatteoÆs lip curled upward as she considered him in the same methodical way he had examined here In her expression Randidly could see the same disdain and implacable will that had made the two feel so connected in their desire to tear down the Nexus Yet now a strange gulf separated them Randidly Ghosthound What an utterly insufficient greeting after such a long silence Well I suppose the situation is somewhat awkward letÆs clear something up quickly Are you with these rebels
Guilt and surprise warred in his chest Guilt because he had allowed so much time to pass allowed the connection between them to become so distant in a way he felt like he blinked and they teleported from the frontlines to the ruined pieces of the Sonara to standing at the highest heights of the Nexus Yet his relationships with others had grown and bloomed while this one had been in stasis
Or rather Randidly considered it in stasis He looked away and forgot about it Looking into VuallaÆs eyes he could tell their bond had rotted
Surprise because of all the rewards that Vualla wore on her uniform Surprise because of how powerful VuallaÆs image had become since they last metù her image was a more general aura of destruction versus a punch but she would have been slightly better than Elhume from within the memory And she also sat at the core of the formation
His mind was distracted trying to process so many emotional inputs at once so he responded without thinking ArenÆt you on the side of the rebels
Instantly any small vulnerability in her expression vanished What an amusing joke Mister Ghosthound I must caution you to take this interrogation seriously Although you have a known relationship with Actus Suprem Devick the Xyrt Brigade exists outside the bounds of military command exactly to identify and eliminate rogue elements I will not ask a third time are you allied with the rebels
Vualla what happened Randidly said Her power was one thing but it was extremely difficult to understand why her priorities had changed so much Why did she now support Elhume We were going to