The faster his Nether Core spun the more valuable translucent Nether he produced And as the refinement process strengthened small glittering notes of color began to appear within the flow of his Nether If nothing else the pressure of PineÆs corpse would assist his own steady evolution
Also as he forced his way forward his three images stirred and stretched in preparation for the more dangerous trials to come They each honed in on their individual notes of emotional resonance while Randidly braved the significance with just his flesh The steady determination of Yggdrasil the inexhaustible craving of the Songstress of Absence and the vicious unwillingness of the Dread Homunculus all empowered his movements
The Dread Homunculus showed an especially powerful reaction to the waves of dense significance that crashed against him Part of its energy continued to be directed toward applying pressure to ShalÆs burning stubbornness held in its hand for safekeeping Yet also the image achieved a greater and greater resonance with all the assembled damned and departed souls that flowed upward in his shadow using Randidly as the edge of the blade to ascend through PineÆs corpse
First came the sensation and weight of those small souls all imitating RandidlyÆs motion a bit after the fact With his potent of the Privilege of a Half Shallah Randidly made a hundred a thousand five hundred thousand small adjustments to the ordering of souls A pattern began to emerge in their undulating train Even then innumerable more followed after him in a growing train of insubstantial fury
He could feel them all stirring his emotions percolating down through their bodies The empathy between each overlapping shade increased The Dread Homunculus cracked its neck its expression becoming increasingly serious Because the higher they climbed the longer the flood of souls stretched steadily thickening lengthening so the base remained at the bottom of PineÆs corpse More and more flooded to support their rise
Randidly Ghosthound dragged up the train of souls and crashed through the second dividing barrier of Pine
Again the significance in the air sharply increased The wild winds of memory cut and slashed at Randidly But with the energy he had gathered with the Dread HomunculusÆs rising power he burst right through the barrier Randidly clenched his fists and accelerated forward The damned leaked their anticipatory glee and rushed behind him
Just ahead of Randidly Ezekiel raised a thin arm and pointed Be careful LaplaceÆs poison spreads even here
By the time they caught up to Laplace he wondered how much momentum he would have built up
Like this Randidly punched through the third barrier This too easily parted before him his sacrifice of shedding his body still enough to have earned him passage this deep into PineÆs corpse Beyond the third barrier another temporal distortion waited Randidly used his rapid movements to again sew the wound back together
He felt a little bit of tinkling from his Nether Core Not only did the significance continue to refine itself into a translucent energy studded with bits of color but now he felt like within the rotating Nether Core a little bit of something extra existed It sounded like a nickel lost in a washing machine clanging around during the intense rotation But rather than being annoying the noise was clear and soothing like an immaculate wind chime
To RandidlyÆs surprise there was no temporal distortions waiting beyond the fourth barrier He focused his energy and streamlined his presence to resist the increasingly ferocious storm of significance that ravaged him but continued upward His attention went to the Dread Homunculus The tower of the dead rose and supported him
They advanced in unison their bodies slightly superimposed on those in front of them with the ranks behind supporting them Randidly did not need to breathe any longer and in that horrible stillness in his chest cavity he found a unifying sense of disgust for this invader leaking up from the deceased clinging to him
The power of the dead flowed through him but so did their emotions
Randidly combed and refined the emotions carefully allowing a portion to flow into his emotional sea Right now the emotions of the dead had already accumulated into a dense specter hanging over his head In terms of volume in just the minute or so of leading the charge of the dead just as much emotion from the dead pressed against him than he had absorbed from the Alpha Cosmos in the last ten years
And the amount of emotion from the dead increased exponentially every second The space inside of Pine stretched out in every direction vast and almost unending In this place there was an almost limitless supply of dead from which to draw
Pine devoured the extra significance of those who had died since the beginning of the Nexus Or more accurately since he had been slainÆ at the end of the Second Cohort through the widespread use of Fatia CeruleanÆs Grand Fate method His Alpha Cosmos hadnÆt existed for a fraction of as long or cover an area even 1% as large as the entire Nexus
But this emotional power thatÆs the intensity of an entire universe If I cannot handle this how can I stand in front of an Eternity RandidlyÆs eyes blazed The Songstress of Absence quivered and then moved forward She began to sing a scything song cutting through all the raw emotion that flowed into him The dangerous obsessions and associations from all these dead the loved ones they missed the enemies that lived and thrived while they suffered the dreams buried with a bouquet of resentment under the cruel realities of the Nexus those were taken away and devoured
The raw pure determination and violence of two thousand years’ worth of corpses ran rampant through RandidlyÆs veins His powerful Stats held this power at bay but a weaker individual might directly rupture from the searing heat of all these emotions
He crashed through the fifth barrier finally feeling some genuine resistance from this point forward advancing would be harder than just forcing his way through with Primordial Nether Juju And as though to prove this impression Randidly looked around in the next section and saw almost twenty temporal distortions buzz sawing their way through PineÆs significance
Randidly grinned Alright letÆs get in some practice
Chapter 2420
No this is horrible A pathetic attempt
Keh a shape like this Try again there is no Path forward for you like this
You were you even listening to me This is bad as well From what I can tell not a single portion is salvageable
Haah Friendship isnÆt enough to cover up your lack of talent Has this been a joke this whole time Do you have any other images
IÆm saying this as your friendù give up on the thought of your image reaching the Pinnacle These past efforts could barely even be considered a coherent endeavor Even a genius such as I am without any helpful advice when I witness your eclectic foundation
DevickÆs face had settled into a constant state of twitching She gnawed off a sizable chunk of her cheek Even if you keep saying you are my friend itÆs becoming difficult to believe you if all you do is vomit trash onto me What does a bunny know about the Pinnacle anyway
The past fifteen minutes had started with quite a lot of hope although the strange shapeshifting bunny was alternatively prickling and haughty it had still agreed to help her refine her image It seemed genuinely willing to help Plus Devick was at the height of the Nexus in a location where pushing an image to the Pinnacle was the easiest and most natural thing in the world Just by being here she felt Malice growing in cruelty and power
What could go wrong Upstodatee from
Well first off Devick rapidly realized that whatever remnant bit of the first Pinnacle event this bunny was it truly had never interacted with people before She had her suspicions about whether it could manifest its own image but its Aether was at least dense In terms of communications skills Compared to her dazzling charisma the bunny was a long fart in a shallow pool It spoke only harsh and condescending words even though Devick could feel she improved every second in this place