Second of all the bunny itself was very distracting Not only did it constantly hop around her but its form continued to change as time passed From the cute red furred bunny it had rapidly grown over the course of DevickÆs attempts into a bunny as large as a hog Its fat ears became extremely droopy In addition its fur had darkened to black and a curling horn grew out of his head
Then just as Devick finally had a bit of inspiration and Malice stretched its bane hand out to grasp a new tier of power the bunny popped like an overfilled balloon The noise and image fluctuations in the conducive environment snapped her back to the present All those new insights evaporated at the shock
Where there had been a bunny there was now a handspan tall girl in a white lace bridal dress She frowned at Devick seeming unwilling to even acknowledge her obnoxious transformation Have you given up Perhaps abandoning this foolish hope is also a good thing Continuing like this haah YouÆll only break both of our hearts
You I wish you would have just died from being overfilled with hot air Devick bit the inside of her cheek to keep from snapping out some harsh words Blood had become a constant taste on her tongue
Because the true aggravating quality of this transforming remnant was that it was right she wasnÆt moving any closer to the Pinnacle
After the first couple of harsh comments Devick had been unwilling to believe So she forcefully used the surrounding space to its fullest and expanded those image directions as far as they could go But the result even Devick who could admit in her heart she possessed a little bit of bias toward her own superiority rapidly realized she had made a mistake These sorts of images would not help her Her Aether was tempered but the shape remained flawed
The bunny/former lizard/current small girl used harsh and insulting language but she wasnÆt wrong
Over the past minute the small girl had grown to be about the size of a carrot she shook her tiny head as she watched Devick trying to stumble back across those insights into her bane hand which might have been a step in the right direction Language is insufficient to convey the depth of your deficiencies Ah even my divine friendship teaching skill is restricted by reality
At this point Ezekiel once more released a string of keening notes Randidly felt a constriction through his temples just listening to the noise but the Commandant ignored it and continued your greatest wisdom was not to slay Devick Obviously squashing such a cockroach would have taken an incredible amount of effort but what you are about to see is a secret that we have long kept If her final insanity had arrived here even I would feel fear at the result
Wick We donÆt have time for this Ezekiel snapped
Would he not see anyway Preparing him now time will be saved as he need not react Laplace is not the only Eternity that has forced its way into the Nexus boy Just the first one was much more willing to negotiate
With that strange announcement Randidly slammed into the eighth barrier of Pine Like the seventh before it this barrier had developed resilience Its thick strands wrapped around Randidly to impede him The earlier barriers were easily traversable because he had already given up his body Yet these later barriers had more to do with his worldly desires To carry these thoughts deeper would be a great burden The barrier would not let him proceed easily
There would have been a time perhaps only a few days ago that this barrier would have been nigh impassible to him
With three kernels of truth burning in his chest and a growing amount of Penance accumulations Randidly didnÆt care When the barrier refused him entry his eyes flashed His AlchemistÆs Passport resonated with his sharp movement No doors will bar my passage Dread Homunculus The Wrathful Calamity Rends
His claws forced open the barrier and the dead roared their approval at this savagery Randidly charged forward and found himself in an entirely different space The vast misty realm of darkness vanished Even jagged flows of significance calmed Suddenly Randidly found himself standing in a vast building
To his right an empty coffee mug sat on a table RandidlyÆs brow knitted together as he tried to rationalize what he was seeing
From the wooden benches covered in tools the near infinite shelves stretching up toward the ceiling and the half finished dolls lying around he seemed to be in a cross between a workshop and a warehouse
RandidlyÆs heartbeat quickened as he sensed the incredible significance coursing through this stable place his momentum stalled out somewhat as he considered the environment Rather than rampaging freely all that torn Nether had been channeled into establishing and strengthening this strange space Looking around he realized that the energy of this place felt somewhat familiar
Then in his Soulspace he felt a quiver of recognition His other gifted Momento PanguÆs Asymptote released a faint quiver of acknowledgment
RandidllyÆs mind went blank He might have completely caused all the built up efforts of his ErebusÆs Baleful Waltz if Commandant Wick hadnÆt appeared at his elbow and given him a sour look We cannot waste time here Move boy
After a moment to blink and adjust Randidly stepped forward The moment of stalling had hurt his patterns running through the specters of the dead but they quickly regained their vigor as he dragged them back up to speed Besides the way forward was quite clear opposite RandidlyÆs entrance point several worktables had been smashed to pieces and a few of the tall metal shelves had holes drilled directly through the middle
Because the significance in this place had been used to stabilize these manifestations Laplace had needed to break his way forward toward PineÆs core
Randidly accelerated forward even as his thoughts remained uneasy The deeper I go the more secrets IÆm crashing into Just what is PanguÆs game What sort of negotiations did this other Eternity enter into that such a deep area could be converted into a workship
Most importantly what the hell has been manufactured here
Chapter 2421
The group raced through the scattered chips of wood and metal that LaplaceÆs rampage had left smoldering on the ground of the strange workshop They passed several areas of temporal wounds but the restricted nature of this portion of PineÆs corpse meant that the wounds had almost healed naturally on their own But what Randidly noticed most of all were the vibrations running through the ground
Ahead of him he saw a particularly powerful reverberation bounce a half finished doll off a shelf and have it shatter on the ground RandidlyÆs gaze sharpened Laplace hasnÆt passed through the next barrier IÆve almost caught up with him
This realization was almost enough to push down his rising unease at the mysterious purpose of this facility
Behind his back the dead began to get excited at the prospect of contact The Dread Homunculus released a noise somewhere between a hiss and a sign trying to cope with the pressure of all these souls borrowing the momentum of the image Their small movements were insubstantial on their own but they learned from the patterns Randidly sent out through their ranks The damned increasingly moved as one relentless entity multiplying their power to a ridiculous degree
In a way he had become a tireless legion And he provided all the fuel for the army gnashing his teeth from his shadow
Randidly rolled his shoulders and focused as much as he could His feet kicked off the shattered ground and chased an Eternity His three images roared with their individual emotional affect The notes came into harmony His Nether Core continued its rotation the healing of temporal wounds adding more and more interior substance to the function Very soon he sensed that he could begin the process of condensing a Penance
RandidlyÆs three half formed Truths buzzed and sharpened They stood in stark contrast to the simple and firm Truth passed to him by Nyx You canÆt have it both ways Or to put it another way a choice always needed to be made Randidly understood why Nyx had given this particular Truth to him These powerful moments of the Pinnacle and Eternity represented an opportunity