Randidly didnt worry about the amount for now instead followed a hunch and began to assemble the volatile pieces
The drops of liquid Aether were the base framework for his working Even if they were a bit more unpredictable than the bubbles they could resist outside pressure without giving ground But this time Randidly had a bit of inspiration between the drops of liquid Aether he would place the grey bubbles as a buffer
So when the pressure came the Aether could expand and the Nether could compress to compensate
The two energies still resisted his attempts to keep them close together but only at first Once Randidly figured out his base formation for the Aether a circle of eight a circle of four and then a single drop of liquid Aether anchoring the middle the grey bubbles practically snapped themselves into place to help support his work
He began with the outer circle of eight inserting grey bubbles into place between the surly drops of liquid Aether A frown creased Randidlys brow as he proceeded with the work already he could feel a growing outward pressure created from the ring of condensed energies They rotated in a rainbow arc as he restrained their expansion discharge crackling along their furious motion
Randidly grimaced as a particularly nasty bolt of inverted energy twisted off and slammed into one of the Yggdrasil Skill constructs A pulse of warm golden energy swept through healing the minor damage to his Soulspace Yea this is not a process for the faint of heart
By the time Randidly had inserted four of the eight buffer bubbles he had to activate Yggdrasil anyway to restrain the quarter finished arrangement wrapping golden roots around the whole construction to keep it from exploding outward in every direction The pressure mounted with each bit of energy Along those spectral roots gnarling whorls of wood bulged with the strain of keeping everything in place like plant muscles flexing
The seventh grey bubble shook the circle with its arrival Randidly began to feel slightly lightheaded moving from the emotional forging to this difficult process yet Yggdrasil only seemed amused
In the end its about attitude And Yggdrasil you are the part that has grown with me the longest All of my accomplishments they are yours as well Just like this next success will also be laid at your feet
To one who has accomplished so much this is nothing
Congratulations Your Skill The First Tree Suffers Only Fealty has grown to Level 1040
He had created the Ghosthounds Deviation Rarity of Skills but he wasnt sure if that would be enough He didnt just need to create a new demonstration of power he needed to be able to overcome Elhume to overcome Elhume to overcome the plots of Solomon Rex and to escape the long shadow of the fallen Pine
He needed power But he also needed another Path An alternate method to offer a foil to the Nexus
Sitting here in his Soulspace Randidlys Nether Core gracefully pirouetted and told him that this might be the answer
Randidly waffled for a few seconds between adding some buffer Nether bubbles now or trying to force all four into the inside of the working first and then slipping the bubbles in between to stabilize the situation In the end the former seemed more destabilizing so Randidly said a silent prayer and just stuffed the last two drops of liquid Aether into the core area
Yggdrasils trunk vibrated with a sound of recrimination that sounded suspiciously like it came from Neveah but thin tendrils slithered out and formed a buffer sphere between the stable outside circle and these four new free radicals Randidly could only frown as he watched the four drops of Aether sense each other and expand to fill the space And then as they sensed the others expanding around them they expanded again
They didnt grind against each other but only just The entire core area had been filled with Aether flexing and puffing itself up To take a more positive spin on the situation it did at least provide an illuminating example of how Solomon Rex could have taken all the Aether of his original body and caused it to become crystalized Aether By providing the illusion of pressure Aether would respond furiously and foolishly on a fundamental level Once even a little bit of your Aether felt that pressure it could start a cascading explosion of fuckery that could even produce an entire mountain range of solid Aether the larger the crystal became the less willing it was to ever shift back from its new form
It just becomes a matter of how much fucking liquid Aether Elhume had Randidly felt somewhat helpless as he tried to estimate that amount He had chosen long ago to direct most of his Aether to physicalizations spreading it across his body rather than concentrating it to condense liquid Aether
Yet if he took his powerful body and squeezed out all the Aether how many drops would he condense
Maybe a few fucking puddles Randidly Ghosthound shook his head But he let go of his worry and regret He focused on the working Because he believed in his efforts here would provide an answer
Yggdrasils tendrils wiggled themselves until they were small enough to squeeze into the cracks of the flexing Aether For a few seconds the image struggled with raw energy The World Tree moved based on just regular Aether while the drops of liquid Aether were energy reinforced and refined Besides that the more the drop of Aether felt the pressure the more it bristled and resisted his efforts
But Nether flowed through his images as well And in the end Randidly forcefully suppressed the drops and opened up a few spaces Bit by bit he wedged the Nether bubbles in between the four liquid tears of energy
Powerful oscillations made the core area hum after Randidly had finished his efforts The four crammed into so tight a space seemed on the verge of cracking and shattering Luckily Yggdrasil had already put the protective sphere in place And as Randidly had expected bit by bit the Nether bubbles normalized the pressure The violent expansions gradually receded
Randidly chewed on his lip as he waited observing the last drop of liquid Aether and the three Nether bubbles remaining These pieces would become the key to finishing this
And maybe saving the entire universe
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Randidly waited until his energies stabilized then moved on to the next step If this would truly be a method to empower the Alpha Cosmos he didnt think many others would be able to manage this for a long long time
Even his honed Willpower trembled as he inserted the next bits of energy
This fit was even tighter than creating the core area Yggdrasil was pushed to its limits to prevent the new addition from expanding and then causing the surrounding four drops of Aether to expand which would then expand the outer ring essentially it acted as a containment framework until all the pieces were in place
But he ran up against a problem as he prepared to add his finishing touches
He didnt have enough Nether bubbles
The middle drop of liquid Aether needed an additional four Nether bubbles one to modulate the division between each of the four drops in the core area Randidly only had three
So now Randidly had a working pulsing with power which he didnt dare release which he wasnt really sure what it would do when he did finish it a Nether Core insisting this was important work and also the greatest confrontation of his existence waiting in front of him
He dearly hoped Neveah didnt peer into his thoughts and spot the situation She would be so disapproving and superior about it
Fuck me Randidly almost laughed at the impasse reached by his relentless drive to push forward Yggdrasil wasnt fully occupied keeping the working balanced but wouldnt be able to wield its usual implacable force A decrease in its force meant utilizing it in activation with his other two images would have mediocre results
On the other hand he had already condensed two additional small grey bubbles by interacting with Solomon Rex and then adding some extra power to his supporters’ weapons So very soon he suspected he would create one more tiny grey bubble