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The world had folded because the mirror showed the world from another angle Twisted and compressed and warped but accurately scaled All the energy without produced within Even more bluntly Randidly had suddenly acquired a second perspective on the layered energy around him A perfect world of inverted energy And with two perspectives the amount of truth he could glean about energy flows had been transformed
Randidly looked up at Elhumes follow up attack and smiled His irises burned emerald A strange pressure condensed in the spinning heart of his Nether Core
Recalculating Shapes imported through Sea of Statues Incorporating insights
Congratulations By forging a genuine Memento of Eternity you have obtained another hint of the Shallah Efficacy of Privilege of the Half Shallah has increased Analyzing foreign universe Memento adjusting for relevant Hierarchies within the Nexus
Nyxs Hollow Needle has been reclassified as a Memento of Eternity
Ghosthounds Cloak of a Thousand Lightless Horizons has been reclassified as a half Memento
You have earned the Skill Pengus Asymptote Lvl 1 Muses Reverie +1
Pengus Asymptote A powerful Memento within the Multiverse Pengus Asymptote is the boundary generated when Pengu forced his way out of the primordial egg separating cloud and clay Those in possession of Pengus Asymptote will experience an extreme boost to understanding for naught but chaos may exist without its reflected opposite Effect increases with Skill Level Gives owner a preternatural sense of awareness and an acute instinct for danger Effect increases with Skill Level May provide brief glimpses of a higher order of being As Skill Level increases it may become possible to manipulate energies of the reflected world in order to change the present
Randidlys energies swirled through his body He didnt question his new insights although a part of him was wary after noticing this came from the Sea of Statues But for the moment he looked at the attack from Elhume pressing in on him from all sides It was less a punch and more a chokehold built by a punch not bound by the laws of physics He saw its approach inside and out
Congratulations Your Skill Pengus Asymptote has grown to Level 2
Congratulations Your Skill Emerald Eyes and Dove Whispers Certify the Objective has grown to Level
Congratulations Your Skill Pengus Asymptote has grown to Level 72
Now that you are liberated are you ready for this Yggdrasil
The emerald canopy rustled in anticipation Randidly spread out his hands Acri slithered into position Absolute Insight of the Smoldering Abyss Nyxs Successor Births Fate Dawn Opens the Sky and Reality Stirs
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Actus Suprem Devick felt a shiver run through her body as the fight began in earnest The two images spread out and ground against one another Very happily she glanced up from the tiresome job of dragging unwilling Grand Fates into line and looked at the battle between her son and Elhume
The specters of their image (complexity from Randidly and an unrivaled fist from Elhume) already hung in the air The Aether they wielded seemed more sharp and bright and colorful and real than even reality
She had been waiting for such a titanic confrontation from the moment she discovered the existence of a figure at the top of the pyramid For a long time she feared she would need to be the one to upend the status quo but finally A challenger had finally arisen
In the one corner the monstrous Elhume a being whose power had warped his features to the point of being melted wax a twisted existence that hid some secret that Devick could smell wafting off his complex image but couldnt quite grasp For three thousand years he had maintained a stranglehold on the Nexus From atop his mountain range of crystal Aether he had reigned None had been able to ascend and rival him on the Pinnacle His Eight Fists had defeated all comers and obliterated even the traces of their existence
The champions fists clenched The air throbbed with his confidence
In the opposite corner the challenger her son her lovable underdog Randidly Ghosthound A true Nether King through some mysterious opportunity he had encountered the first the Nexus had seen in generations An innovator a miracle The source of so many delightful impossibilities including these Deviation Rarities to which Devick had been given access Quite the filial character Devick had to admit although his delicate sensibilities placed them in a minor spat at the moment
His image felt calm She heard the soft rustling of leaves She heard the long silence as roots curled deeper and deeper into the fabric of existence strengthening its hold Randidly Ghosthound stilled the air with his presence
Both images spiraled up rising higher and higher to rival each other
She prided herself on her sensitivity So while she continued wrapping her fingers around the rusted chains and dragging them in she also spared quite a bit of attention to the climactic confrontation In pure Aether Elhumes presence could only be described as overwhelming He had access to this enormous hunk of crystallized Aether His fists had been baptized in those lapping waves of energy for so long
And Randidly
Devick felt the moment when Randidly changed Not his energy but his methods The leaves rustled again pitched slightly higher The roots began to curl and twist
Randidly Ghosthound faced a fist without bounds and spread his arms wide A massive tree manifested above his head an ancient trunk inscribed with a thousand myths about the creation of universes Genesis had been writ cleanly upon that bark and the emerald leaves rustled with confidence Roots exploded from his back spreading to become vast wings that flapped lightly forcing back the oppressive image state of this place
The fist constricted around him from every direction Randidly Ghosthound might have been on the receiving end of the punch but the pervasiveness of Elhumes image meant that the delivery had more in common with being squeezed In the face of this pressure the fabric of his root wings changed They wove themselves together into new patterns Esoteric swirling patterns that seemed to catch and drag as they moved through foreign energy
Edged with darkness and shadows Devicks chosen son slashed with one of those massive wings Elhumes fist ground to a halt immediately upon impact the smack of the impact hit Devick so hard she almost lost grip on the Grand Fates The Boundless Fist cracked open like a dropped egg Beaming rays of dawn leaked out of the fractures
Releasing a hissing breath Randidly Ghosthound stabbed his second wing into that flaw and popped the entire image open The confidence of that domineering fist wavered
He hit exactly upon the flaw in the image Devick narrowed her eyes Images as massive and calcified of Elhumes are heavy but theyve existed for so long that pressure is bound to have built up somewhere Yet how did he sense it
You witnessed my first real triumph Or a version of it Elhume said You have no comprehension of the string of frustrations and setbacks that Ive experienced since then You know nothing of me
Elhumes energy projections started speaking without sound throwing soft punches out into the air around him Randidly spun his spear eyeing the ephemeral energy released by those punches then pulled kinetic force from the environment He thrust spikes of energy in several targeted attacks One by one those silent reverberations unraveled
Randidly pressed his lips together Ive seen your Timeless Fists too many times before They will not land
I preferred you weak Elhume boomed part fury and part frustration Yet the process of shedding the energy form continued Its light continued to dim The strong and blurry countenance of Elhume faded The greying almost ratlike creature waiting within made Devick simultaneously shocked and delighted
Yes exactly Pull out more of my sons prodigious potential The real confrontation is just beginning