All his concentrated weight erupted
Their images exploded out from their bodies small supernovas radiating such heat and energy that the balcony beneath them shattered The walls and floors of the ballroom began to melt and ooze The rest of the surrounding ghost city cracked and began to collapse
Randidlys first strike was one of force He choose to corral all of the significant power he wielded into the blade at the end of Acri Flames of Nether Weight danced across the shaft His Stats had broken through the Nexuss limits and then continued to climb released repeated sonic booms Opposite him Devick spread her hands wide her eyes glittered as though she were on the verge of tears Her image dug and dug and penetrated and infected the fabric of space around her body burrowing deeper into the fundamental ordering of the universe
Her wrongness only seemed so deepen Randidly felt his stomach twinge
Their images washed against each other for a second until his easily forced hers to the side Randidly attempted to gather power while she laid the foundation for later imagework He narrowed her eyes at their respective tactics She quirked an eyebrow What you think a single strike is enough to eliminate one such as I Randidly I hope you dont regret your hubris
The two non Pinnacle image notes rattled against each other His skin crawled at the spreading corruption her note was becoming not sung by simply a single note but
He unleashed his prepared response Randidly thrust his spear with more than enough power to doom an entire world All his Stats were concentrated and focused to the tip of the weapon The Actus Suprem didnt even block it her smile stretched wider and wider as though she planned to laugh her way entirely through the impact
Or as though she would just swallow all his resistance with that manic mouth of hers
Randidly gritted his teeth it annoyed him to no end how this was exactly the sort of reckless method that he would use But by the same token he understood exactly how vulnerable the Actus Suprem was at the moment He just didnt trust the wrongness that blazed within her body Even viewing through his energy halo awareness he couldnt quite understand the source of this horrid aversion
Acri ripped into her chest Randidlys eyes blazed as he applied more pressure intending to tear her torso entirely in half
Devick released a shocked gasp along with a spray of her blood But Randidlys violence slammed into a series of dense images trapped and pressurized within Devicks body His eyes widened as his momentum ceased broken by the dense power of the images he found there Devicks back arched as a wave of kinetic force passed through her body The building behind her shattered and caved in as though a giant had driven his fist into a sand castle
As though Devicks internal organs had begun to rot the wrongness intensified as it splashed out of her wounds Her horrible poisonous note became clear
Youve been eating some of the Grand Fates youve taken Randidly whispered feeling the buzzing notes of at least a dozen different images crammed into her body He didnt hear a single note but a horrible song of pain and forced unity A song of madness echoed out from the Actus Suprem
The Deviation note prevented any of the individual Grand Fates from approaching a Pinnacle sort of Truth but he could also see the beginning of a harmony Devick created to replicate an attempt on the Pinnacle in a monstrous fashion A different sort of approach a different sort of truth
A powerful Deviation Pinnacle event Between the two of them Devick was much closer to finding a Path to reach her own bloody truth Re?Ad lateSt chapters Only
In the space Randidly used to reveal his own monster Devick leapt backward to open up some space Her crimson hair flared out around her making it seem like she bled outward into the environment both the moon and the reflection and all of the agony Yes Yes exactly this Thats how a son should look at a mother Resent me Hate me For everything I gave to you I took a treasure just as dear Family are those who could reach into your vulnerability without you able to stop them
Congratulations Your Skill Hungry Heart Hollow Eyes Cadence of Tragedy has grown to Level 1099
Her words were practically nonsense Randidly sought refuge in the oblivion of the consuming song allowing his image to press against existence without a thought to the consequences His movements made his body blurry so much motion and force that existence could barely contain him
Still cackling Devick grasped into the underpinnings of the environment and began to warp it even further She attempted to infect all with her wrongness In a mockery of Randidlys shift the area exploded with the rattle of chains They wound together and formed a hunched and monstrous spider of rust and madness lifting its two forelegs to slash at him
Randidly Ghosthound left hand tore through the first leg and he grabbed the second to drag the spider closer to him Her madness sizzled against his fingers but that was just more feed to pour into the Songtress annihilating ballad
Congratulations Your Skill Hungry Heart Hollow Eyes Cadence of Tragedy has grown to Level 1113
You know why I love you Devick giggled without seeming to care Randidlys wrath bludgeoned and overpowered her image as he dragged the massive spider closer You do not fear my touch Because you know we are the same
Randidly unleashed a wordless scream His grief curdled and lashed out scraping his chest cavity raw I wasnt the one who fucking
Just as the massive spider came close enough for his scorpion tail to strike and pierce into Devicks heart the body exploded All the disparate chains became reeling serpents filled with self destructive gluttony They pounced toward him intending to devour him to bite him until more poisonous madness flowed through his veins than blood
Like the fingers of the recently disturbed dead the bare branches of Randidlys wings twitched In the next instant Randidlys back bulged as more and more cruel protrusions forced their way out from his shoulder blades
While Devick could wield a near infinite number of restrictive chains the World Tree could produce enough branches to support all of existence Chain and branch met and grappled the swelling battleground grinding any remnants of the starting castle to dust
Congratulations Your Skill the First Tree Suffers Only Fealty has grown to Level 1121
Even through the haze of his fury Randidly felt the power of Devicks image Her madness resisted his anger A million serpents half organic and half bloody metal writhed and spat at each other For several seconds they remained locked in close contact Not only had her Deviation somehow slithered closer to fulfillment than his but she had been purifying her own image under normal System rules for a long long time Plus the extra Grand Fates she was in the process of absorbing acted as batteries adding a little extra juice to her
More madness sparked off her image and onto his as they ground against one another The battlefield began to change The touch of the metal against the branches became almost sensual
He saw Lyra her eyes sharp within the grasp of the Creature waiting for Randidly to come to save her He saw her considering him when he finally arrived and she told him that she believed the Creature to be right they could not fight against the entire universe they should instead attempt to hide
Those memories turned to embers within his veins Now with him just a step away from proving her wrong Lyra as he knew her ceased to be
Even so even if you are gone
Thick currents of Nether through his image prevented Randidly from being drawn into the strange warping power of Devicks image In a way she was definitely right They were similar Both he and she opened Paths his to a different way of existing hers to a twisted version of reality filled with agony and malice His to one where no matter how unreasonable your dream
Randidlys entire existence came into alignment In a way he learned from his close contact with her twisted Deviation Rarity He saw how to advance further along his own Path