By now Randidly Ghosthound was practically beaming
His knuckles against the ground Randidly leaned forward and then launched himself for the second impact He blasted through the thick waves of disturbed Aether filling the chamber as the millenia old prison began to come down
Fieros worried glance had flicked back and forth across the spreading flaws in the crystal area so he was a split second late in unleashing his Seventh Fist Pinnacles Shibboleth Randidly pulled deeply from his own Nether forcing all the power and rebounding kinetic impacts through the tail Acri drilled forward
Space cracked briefly shattering and setting the rich ambient Aether nearby aflame Both Randidly and Fiero staggered backward standing in a sea of ghastly violet plasma flames flickering spreading and dying as the Aether combusted and Randidlys suffocating Nether extinguished the energy Energy churned and churned around his body
As the impact echoed out more of the crystal above them began to crumble Fiero eyes bulged out of his head You Randidly Ghosthound Keh
Randidly took a step back and gathered himself The event horizons moved to his eyes transforming his pupils into that horror in the abyss that looked back at you A cloak of pure darkness settled across his body His skin glimmered as golden runes spread across his available surface underneath that fluttering darkness He was a man he was a world he was a story
He was the Legend of Randidly Ghosthound And the Nexus would fucking remember him
He took a breath Yggdrasil gratefully sucked in also its roots stretching out and sipping from all of the rich ambient energy in the environment Even though he had suppressed some of the Aether there was so much more that came flooding into his body Kinetic force and raw Aether mixed and mingled Randidilys body felt aflame the concentrated core of a star about to approach a supernova state
He felt himself approaching a new plateau of energy He buzzed with the potential So long as he pushed a little further
Seems like today is the day I finally step onto the Pinnacle
Chapter 2382
Randidly breathed in through his mouth and through the roots of Yggdrasil All the energy he desired felt available to him He sat in the middle of a network of connections that spanned an entire universe And his body sang with the consumption and balance feeling the significance in the surrounding area all falling into alignment with this arrangement It was a whole new pattern a cascading reorientation that rippled out through the surrounding space and adjusted all the flows into his person
He pressed against the fabric of the universe and began to sink into it pulling with a force like gravity
In that heightened state of energy Randidlys perceptual acuity seemed nearly infinite The energy halos he witnessed layered atop one another in a constant swirling progression of inevitable shapes His body hummed up and down seeking to find the perfect note His impression on existence deepened
His steps were halting but some instinct of his knew that he approached the Pinnacle
Randidly Ghosthound Fiero breathed too pulling more and more of the chaotic Aether into his wizened form The air crackled and spat as rumbles split open the crystal mountain range around them Through the chaotic mix of energies Randidly could barely keep track of the Vulpis Squads struggles against the husks below Your transgressions doom you The Second Fist Vengeance
The words might be heavy but Fieros sentiment made Randidly snort he had already faced this second fist and defeated it It was the most unrelenting of Fieros attacks without a single pinch of give in the knuckles but that didnt make it the most powerful
Just like Fiero its only redeeming feature was borrowing the force you used against him to add some extra pressure And with a maelstrom of force generated by their previous impacts swirling behind his back Randidly Ghosthound was not someone who would capitulate in the face of force Fo?llo?w new stories
In his legend image physicalization form with his Cloak of a Thousand Lightless Horizons around his body and every limb covered in the sagas of the Alpha Cosmos Randidly Ghosthound took a stance and executed a basic spear thrust Violence erupted along the shaft His Hungry Eyes observed and dismembered the opponent’s flows of energy The tip of the spear slid cleanly into a small flaw
Although the horrible ache of impact had seeped down to the marrow of his bones Randidly slammed Acri against the stolen weapons of Fiero Briefly all of the ambient energy around their bodies was forced backward by the impact before it snapped back into place with a sizzling jolt His skin tingled with the strange electromagnetic force generated by the briefly vacated space
For the first time of all their struggles Randidly stood still in the aftermath and Fiero could only take a half step backward
With a light spin Randidly adjusted his spear The tip gleamed as he aimed it at Fieros chest The joyous sense of completion took root within his body The energy sang he experienced another small step forward This ends today Fiero Just let go
If you can reach the Pinnacle fucking prove it Otherwise Fiero grasped out with his hands and pulled down huge rivers of Aether some of it liquid some gas with even a few small crystalline chunks lingering in the flow That rich energy howled into his body from just a look at the cavalier brutalization of his physical form Randidly understood why Fiero needed to rely on these husks to maintain a presence His greed blinded him or caused him to ignore the risks of too much consumption
His flesh bubbled and melted as he became less a Vulpine and more a malevolent consciousness riding a torrent of energy
otherwise break and fall The Second Fist Vengeance Fiero screeched as he threw a punch Randidly wondered why Fiero had chosen to revert back down to his earlier fists but he quickly focused on this empowered second attack both in terms of the damage for which Fiero sought vengeance and the energy fueling the attack it had been completely transformed The punchs energy almost possessed a worn patina around its edges hints of an older and more ruinous fist that had been thrown
The alignment of energy resonated slightly with this fist and Randidly understood this had been a fist used previously to break onto the Pinnacle in the past He could see here the success of the Fiero in the actual Nexus
Randidly didnt adjust his stance despite the ominous force opposing him The harmonies within him continued to accumulate The cascading multiplied his emotional notes sharpening Step by step he advanced on his own Path toward the Pinnacle
As he thrust out his spear Randidly scanned Fieros eyes What he saw there was just a sea of bitter disappointment A craving for relief
Opposite him with Acri scratching and unable to pierce through even the front layer of his skin Fiero chuckled Even this sound was seeped in bitterness Can you now glimpse your foolishness I am a vessel For my crimes of transgressing upon the Pinnacle every aching hour of the day I bear Truth In this universe before truth you can only bow
Veins and muscles along Randidlys arm bulged as he tried to force the weapon that last few inches forward to inflict a wound Yet he felt it A barrier of not exactly of energy but of frequency A pure barrier of existence this was a being that had reached the Pinnacle
The rising tide of alignment responded to the impediment in front of his spear Randidly could feel his own transformation accelerating More pieces arranged themselves naturally more notes about his image hummed and focused their structure given guidance by encountering an example of the Pinnacle manifest
Yet Randidly didnt try and follow that Path It was one thing to take advantage of these possibilities it was another thing entirely to forget his roots
Instead of pulling back and reevaluating to seek the perfect note of harmonious energy one large enough to encompass an entire moment Randidly clenched his teeth His whole body roared All his Privilege of the Half Shallah concentrated on the minute execution of his musculature His evolved Stats focused themselves and pushed He had discarded his humanity in exchange for power He had allowed Moiraes and an Alchemist to settle within him altering the fundamental concepts of his person