This time he would not come up short
Chapter 2373
Warning A strange change has been detected within your person Please see your closest
Pantheon Intervention Recalculating
Congratulations You are the first individual in the histories of both the Nexus and the Alpha Cosmos to push a Stat to 10 000 Warning it appears the efficacy of Stats in capturing your actual performance is failing Unable to adjust Addition research will be necessary
Please prepare for a rough go of it Randidly Ghosthound The next few seconds wont be pleasant
Randidlys lips twitched as he felt Lucretias calming voice in the notification Behind him Alana Donal continued to clash against this altered version of Shal With the opening created by his surprise attack DiOrtho Vant fired up the Vulpis Squad and began tearing through the remnants of the Swacc Family
His eyes flicked forward to Techetadore and the specter of Elhume The dimming of the light had slowed even during the short moment of his attack Randidlys jaw clenched sending jolts of static up across his cheekbones and down his neck He could feel the tension rolling of Raymund Ballast in dangerous waves I mean its not like I have much room to wait Just gonna need to grit my teeth and bare it
Not recommended However your foolishness is known Beginning transformation
Elhumes shaky form rounded on Randidly as he charged over Your treason will not
Like I said to start this these developments are Kismet Randidly snapped out the words He could feel the fabric of his awareness rippling and shifting tearing partially as he gained more and more in a rapid avalanche of mental acuity All the mental energy he had struggled to manipulate became a quality of the past now he had a sizable mass of power and felt he could rip off even the tiniest piece and use a method akin to Synechdochence to accomplish anything
Randidly stayed focused he needed to pressure Elhume ease Raymunds job All his gains urged him forward whispering in excitement
He brought up Acri and began focusing all his kinetic force through the weapon Already he could feel the shift in efficiency his Discretion of the Apostate Moirae eclipsing ten thousand shifted the manipulation of the complex patterns around him to second nature It didnt even take a thought He found several efficiencies and corrected them The storm of violence sang Randildy practically felt the waves of Helens vicious ocean lapping at his ankles The image might not have much gloss and detail added to it yet but the shape felt so perfectly balanced it conjured itself into the mind of the viewer with just hints
Congratulations Your Skill Lethal Tide of Izanami has grown to Level 1076
Congratulations Your Skill Deviations Inevitable Machinations has grown to Level 1805
Congratulations Your Skill Lethal Tide of Izanami has grown to Level 1102
Opposite him Elhume managed to clench Techetadores fist and throw a punch Despite his waning power this one appeared just as overwhelming as the others So much of Randidlys existence sang yet
Fuck Randidly swore as a spike of pain briefly stalled out his attack and made him insensible He swayed mid motion the flow of energy clashing against itself and weakening His stomach felt like it had been blended and then the pieces tapped back together again and then filled with acid so the dangerous liquid dripped out of the flaws and began to sizzle on his kidneys and liver
And his brain felt worse
Raymund sunk his teeth into his lip desperate not to pass out Perhaps my struggle will simply result in a few steps along the Path Yet someone needs to be the first to take those steps so those that follow witness and believe in the existence of such a Path If nothing else this is a lesson I have learned from the Ghsothounds knee So Techetadore
Observe Allow me to illuminate the way forward
Raymund focused on his grip on his brother and the spectral grip he attempted to extricate Somehow Fieros touch existed inside of his brothers body So it was somewhat like Raymund was trying to steal a glove from someone stronger than him while he was the only one of the two that cared whether the glove was torn in the struggle
As Randidly flew backward Raymund felt Fiero wielding more of his superior power Bit by bit his grip loosened
Randidly Ghosthound shifted his image physicalizations in a sudden spike of image power The transformation blasted back the drifting mist released by the crystalline walls of this place He became a crouched monster more chimera than human His eyes were hollow and empty hungry pits that had caused him to be Heralded as a Nether King Raymunds heart twisted feeling the suffering of their leader forcing out more power Perhaps
There was a whisper and an impact Any more than that couldnt be discerned even while staring at the situation
Suddenly Randidly Ghosthound had a hand reaching for Elhumes throat
Raymund swayed as Elhumes power abruptly waned The Ghosthound had moved far too quickly Just a skittering gait without deigning to notice the intervening space and slammed into Techetadores body Raymunds heart bled to see the bones underneath Techetadores skin shattering but they now had a chance
Raymund took a breath He gathered the tattered remnants of his capability He too could squeeze out a little bit more
You Elhume howled with fury as he turned again from Raymund to Randidly Techetadores broken body raised a hand and clenched a fist but before it could be thrown a massive claw seized the attack and held it still
Randidly Ghosthound reached out and grasped Techetadores shoulder with one hand and his throat with the other laughing as he did so Those pale and empty eyes crinkled at the edges even as the image physicalizations grew more powerful and consumed more of his face The fist and claw hung over them in strained stillness a poor facsimile of celestial bodies Less and less of him was human more and more a weapon forged to upend the Nexus
For the third fucking time A long tongue lolled out of the mouth of Nether King Hungry Eye tasting the air and savoring the strain Raymund could see that Elhume strained to unleash his punch and smash his opponent but in the grappling Elhume was losing In terms of raw force someone Randidly had caught up to him
The final word came out in a hiss after Fiero had struggled and realized he would not win this battle Kismet
The Hungry Eyes opened The Songstress of Absence gleefully belted out her piercing solo taking more and more from Fieros conjured energy form The form flickered and tore
From the weakened tyrant Raymund squeezed and pulled trying to pry Techetadore away from their foe For a split second he worried it wouldnt be enough He could force the issue but if distance wasnt created between Fiero and Techetadore before the process his brother would likely tear
Then Techetadore wiggled Not as a puppet but as a long suppressed prisoner finally seeing a ray of light With that small opening Raymund Ballast expended the whole of his image and liberated his brother
The ragged energy form of Fiero popped out and flickered uncertainly in the air He had been bested and the whole battlefield understood this truth implicitly
Randidly Ghosthound had taken the first few steps to changing the universe but Raymund doubted he would satisfy himself by stopping there
Chapter 2374
Don Beigon looked up sharply and peered out of the window The candles nearest the windows had been snuffed out long trails of smoke curling up toward the ceiling
The location of the dramatic performances was impossible to view from here even with a highly developed and evolved Perception Stat The crystalline Aether mountains that rumbled at the core of the Nexus prevented all from peering too closely Yet Don Beigon would not miss the subtle shifts in the air The long stifled slipstream of change had finally shaken loose from Elhumes hold Re?Ad lateSt chapters Only