A thousand considerations glittered in his awareness A thousand worries a thousand solutions The Alchemist in his chest narrowed his eyes
Randidly considered taking a step back that Path would put less strain on his isolated subordinates But he also knew he would be surrendering the initiative he had grasped through his fights thus far The Alchemist in him had been carefully considering the miracle ingredients he could manipulate but suddenly he would shift into a new role Randidly rubbed his thumb along Acris carved handle
Time and time again Fiero had proven he couldnt be trusted His whole kingdom was built upon a foundation of pilfering and repurposing Randidly did not wish to show his back to such an individual
Through his Nether and Aether connections Randidly felt the compressed struggles of the Vulpis Squad With his attention he saw the lines that had severed Their suffering sizzled through and made his hackles rise Randidly gritted his teeth His heart burned to not simply rip his way through to assist them but Fiero wouldnt have come here without a plan in place
He had clambored to this point by relying on others He should not falter now
Advance the Dread Homunculus whispered to him in a voice that was both mournful and anticipatory
If Randidly had to bet on his chances of escaping the prepared traps for the two traps laid before him he unfortunately had a lot more confidence in his fighting his way through the direct ambush He spun Acri and then aimed the point at the withered chest of his foe Randidly Ghosthound stood tall and did not capitulate
Your people will die Fiero spoke while eyeing the gleaming blade
Randidly released a long breath He felt like taking an hour break to cry mourning the fact Lyra had believed she had no avenues forward but to become a restraint upon the danger that a Devick had become with a Deviation Rarity Skill He wished he could sleep for a year for all the lives extinguished a few more sparks of fuel cast into that maw that was his own drive I wish I could save my people from all dangers But I cant I can just give them every opportunity to succeed
Fiero snorted What a peculiar methodology But fine this time I am ready for your insurgency The Seventh Fist Pinnacles Shibboleth
Fieros tails blazed with power cracking and smashing the ground beneath his feet with the pressure of his image activation From his body emerged a note of imitation a near perfect replication of the resonance that had earned him and Elhume a full moment at the Pinnacle It contained the hint of truth and the potency of a vessel The air quaked and seethed A tail turned fist sailed in Randidlys direction a blow that was proof of the heights Fiero had reached
He felt curiously numb struck with a sense of detachment and deja vu His eyes were wide and suddenly he saw
Congratulations Your Skill Emerald Eyes and Dove Whispers Certify the Objective has grown to Level 1559
Congratulations Your Skill Truth Within the Primordial Flux has grown to Level 1101
Very quickly Randidly had three almost irrelevant thoughts as he witnessed the patterns thrown in his face during these fights The first thought was almost inarticulate a blaze of emotional intensity that seared through his body It burned from his wrists and calves following the charred and incendiary remnants of his grief until it slammed into his emotional sea full of heat and intensity
The second thought was an acknowledgement of emotional exhaustion His fury shot out into his emotional sea and vanished within the wide expanse The breadth of the emotion Randidly had spent over the last hour lingered like a suffocating storm front and extinguished any new sparks with just the ghost of its presence He stood on the balls of his feet with Acri raised And he felt totally anchored in place by the gulf inside of his heart His people needed him He was also needed elsewhere
Erebuss Baleful Waltz Dawn Opens the Sky and Reality Stirs Singularity Engulfs the Finite
Congratulations Your Skill Singularity Engulfs the Finite has grown to Level 631
Congratulations Your Skill Dawn Opens the Sky and Reality Stirs has grown to Level 1051
Congratulations Your Skill Singularity Engulfs the Finite has grown to Level 744
Randidly who had found this new point of emotional zen swung his spear A thousand screaming revenants flickered into existence and imitated his movement He manipulated their spears until they had woven themselves into a tapestry of resentment and resistance They met the descending crush of fists directly ghastly spearhead gleaming
A second powerful woven strike followed the first then a third then a fourth on and on as the fists refused to cease their arrival Randidly stood at the head of an army of bitter ghosts and fought against the font of bitterness and greed in the Nexus Halfway through the repeated concussive impacts he sucked in a breath and the army of the damned moved inside of him as a vessel he could house them
All at once the multitudes became a single figure standing against a sky full of fists
He became an avatar of the Nexuss forgotten and used He burned with ghastly strength Acri and Sulfur moving tirelessly Each strike shattered a Timeless fist He carved a path through the descending obliteration carrying an abused universes exhaustion on his back
And then the sky cleared Randidly stood for several seconds panting his chest rising and falling slowly to the rotation of his Nether Core The skin of his chest and arms tingled the prickling resentment of the ghosts lingering inside of him But the feeling wasnt wholly unpleasant even as his emotional sea began to slowly fill back up
Yet when the dust of blasted stone parted Fiero stood with his arms crossed and a sneer on his face The temporal shackles on Randidly tightened You have made a mistake making an enemy of me You may consider my time in the Nexus to have been wasted but believe me you just have not seen the eventualities I have been prepping for
On cue the sky filled with another wave of fists As they rumbled down he could sense another wave forming behind the first Then another then another A thunderstorm had appeared and its drops were fists with the power to level a city
Randidly felt a stirring of recognition as he heard the words watched the fake expression on Fieros face this was not his strongest blow For whatever reason whether to delay him or to test him Fiero wasnt attacking full force
A mistake Randidly showed his teeth This isnt enough to slow me down
Yggdrasil shivered housed inside the vessel of the filling emotional sea As Randidly planted his feet and charged forward without even a glance up at the descending Timeless fists it sank its roots into the emotions Its branches stretched up and up filling the wide vessel of the emotional seed
In the depths of the Alpha Cosmos while under assault from all the subconscious demons plaguing Randidly Devick accepted the sixth and final ritual offering from Enmya His Phaea to the Alpha Cosmos was complete it took a moment of stillness as the new path was recognized but then Nether surged and roared through the connection
The triangle had been completed His Nether Core rotated perfectly the mist dissipating in a second In the middle of a crystalline grey bubble was a gleaming emerald teardrop Its flawless facets caught the light reflecting different shades of green moss mint seafoam fresh grass sage chartreuse and olive
Just as quickly as the emotion began to return to Randidlys metaphysical vessel Nether began pumping and mixing freely His images and Nether Core hummed as they mixed at this stage the two energies were so interrelated there was no rejection Yet the Weight within the Nether pressured Randidlys Aether to the point that at the bottom of the emotional sea his Aether began to turn liquid
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The powerful fist with the hint of a Pinnacles truth slid toward him His Nether Core shivered in response
The third thought was a weird moment of connection and clarity around where he might accumulate power The more he learned about the Pinnacle the more he learned that the power came not from the truth not in the long term but from the vessel His emotional sea the burning intensity that animated his attacks most of the time had been spent through repeated clashes at the height of his potential