From just a glance around he knew he had succeeded
Already the Don could see the smirking certainty of these individuals believing they had sniffed out his true aim they would hem and haw and talk about the impossibility of housing a Nether style Core within an Aether body Obviously they would say pretty things about providing him with a powerful core outside of the Nether Lattice but they would also sink hooks into him they could manipulate from a higher tier within the Nether Lattice
A perfect position The Don looked around with a calm smile For when a Reversal of Fortune grants me everything Ive deserved And the weapon to carve vengeance into your body Elhume
This time it was Devicks smile that curdled bubbling and twisting unevenly across her face Ah so weve finally arrived at this juncture Is it not pleasurable the weight of a naked threat in your hand my sweet Randidly Youve grown up so quickly For my edification what will you do if I refuse If I continue For emphasis Devick rattled the chains she held in her hands and earned the narrowing of his eyes to be amused by their pathetic resistance
We fight Randidly Ghosthound produced his spear He pointed the gleaming tip toward her chest And I prove you arent invincible
Ah Randidly Devicks heart fluttered Happiness and sadness moved together as a complete whole Her awareness sharpened the boredom passed Because while this was perhaps predictable it was also inevitable That the son would crave the flesh of the mother That only with overwhelming power could she maintain her hierarchical position above him Such an action should not be undertaken casually
I think we both know I would not have made it here if my disposition was casual Randidly growled
Devick could only laugh For the first time in years she felt fragile What they had the slow journey of the Ghosthound rising and assuming his proper place as her son hurtled toward a breaking point And Devick loved breaking things But she also loved this the tension between them the not knowing how and where their bond would be crushed and pulped and annihilated and devoured
She felt a molten jab of jealousy She wished she could reach out and shred the soul of her other version and then live in her skin Randidly Ghosthound would be hers in another way She wouldnt need to break off their connection now
She flicked the chains comforting herself in the suffering she felt on the other end as the elites of the Nexus rolled and struggled Why is it whenever I think Ive found happiness a dark interloper always arrives to take it away This long shadow cast across my life is it truly impossible to escape
Devick shed those emotions a split second after experiencing them right now they were just a distraction In her place the Actus Suprem stretched and smiled with lips and hair as red as blood I have craved this moment for a very very long time Randidly Ghosthound Do not leave me disappointed You pride yourself on your firm disposition Show it to me
She felt the resulting surge in his image power and relished in it His face curled a mass of negative emotions she had inflicted upon him Her own joy grew and grew expanding to fill her body She knew fueled by this emotion she would be able to make some serious headway on gathering the Grand Fates like this
However Devick felt the shift in the air behind her and her expression fell Tch minor characters always choose the most narcissistic times to reassert themselves cant they tell we were approaching a climax But I suppose a great pleasure delayed is great pleasure spread
The crackling maelstrom of Elhumes energy form walked across the large dais His presence had tripled after he had gone to gather additional foci for his great will The Second Fist Vengeance
The wounds Randidly had inflicted on him became ammunition and Elhume unleashed his whole stockpile with a fist that warped the edges of the Grand Fate formation when it passed Devicks chains rattled torn between enjoying the violence and wanting to slither up and capture this new strike
In the end Devick winked at Randidly gave a what can you do shrug and then turned back to her own labor Her time would definitely come As much as she hated it her current role required patience
Randidly scowled and growled but his attention pivoted toward Elhume
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Randidly took advantage of the short conversation with Devick doing his best not to let his fury seep into the work he did within his Soulspace His chances for downtime had practically vanished
Only through his new ten thousand Privilege of the Half Shallah could he create advantages for himself on such a tight schedule
A new small grey Nether bubble had finally formed after battering his way through Fieros projection With the utmost care he inserted it into its rightful place in the very middle of his array filled with drops of liquid Aether and other Nether bubbles trembling from the strain Yggdrasil could barely suppress Or at least he tried to the pressure of the situation seemed to have sank into the essence of his liquid Aether It refused to relax down from its swollen and bristling form Yggdrasils roots could squeeze and make additional space but that would again push the Nether bubbles dangerously close to popping
You need to relax Randidly told himself as he prepared for the confrontation he had been building toward for almost fifteen years as Elhume manifested and unleashed a fist image with a much higher concentration of power than he had previously in the bout over Techetadores body
His pupils dilated His powerful will flowed through his body doing his best to eliminate as much tension as possible He just needed to create the smallest opening the slightest release in the array
But he couldnt Elhumes attack took up more and more space absorbed more and more energy Too much had been channeled into this confrontation For too long he had been preparing too many of his fears centered around exactly this moment Beyond that his emotions seethed and crashed in his chest over the matter of Actus Suprem Devick
He couldnt forgive her the indulgent madness she represented the casual cruelty she wielded the sharp pain she so obviously enjoyed inflicting The betrayal almost felt more raw due to his association with the past Devick Now Randidly understood exactly the sort of person she could have been This twisted husk who laughed at his protests made him incandescent with impotent rage
Then the matter of Shal
Relax Randidly released a breath and stepped forward But he didnt raise Acri Sulfur hummed against him confused by his actions as Randidly took a few more steps forward without even gathering any of his images Elhumes fist crackled and rumbled as it moved forward Randidly just stepped into its face and stared straight forward
He needed a reset on his emotions in order to operate at the high level he needed to reach And nothing put life into perspective like the prospect of death Just for a second he needed to brush against that atramentous threshold
Randidly Ghosthound gambled because in these situations if it wasnt an overwhelming victory it would be a loss
Randidly heard Devick cackle but ignored her obvious glee as she recognized his decision At the last second his images surged forward of their own accord the instincts of his image physicalizations providing a natural defense against foreign attacks Ghosthounds Cloak of A Thousand Lightless Horizons and Marred Yet Reliable Foundation of Yggdrasil bundled him up and prevented a bone shattering impact Yet when the fist landed
Randidlys body slammed against the ground as he skidded backward the energy of his body in chaos Even his Nether veins were thrown into disarray by the force After he started Leveling again he had achieved a Health of a little under 75 000 A single unblocked punch from Fiero had taken 31 289 Health
He crashed across the strange dais the image relentlessly tearing through the muscles of his arms and legs pressing against him from every angle Elhume stolen image chewed him and spat him out
But it had also stilled Randidlys furious liquid Aether given it an outside distraction His body might have been discombobulated but his mind had not The strain eased The pressure dropped The small Nether bubble popped into place