Your Skill NyxÆs Successor Births Fate has evolved into
Recalculating The DevickÆs Deviation Truth within your body is reacting to the shifting image Flames of passion surge around the nascent Skill The process is being refined Your Skill is evolving further
Congratulations Your Skill NyxÆs Successor Births Fate has evolved into the Alpha Cosmos Births a Shallah Skill Level will be maintained
While the notifications continued to scroll past the body of the Dread Homunculus wriggled and exploded Randidly saw its shoulders swell as the leathery black feathered wings of Tiamat Mother of Fear forced their way out of his back The hands reformed due to the sudden rush of image details The chitinous armor of the Dread Homunculus merged seamlessly with the scales of the original dragon A grey cloak settled around the new imageÆs shoulders even while the whispers of the dead drifted across the veil
Tiamat unleashed a pure roar of fury with enough power that the temporal advance faltered Neveah slashed out with her hands shattering one of the orbiting moons as it drifted too close
Hurry Randidly Neveah urged him Although the image merger wonÆt revert back I canÆt hold this for long
I wonÆt need long Randidly grinned as his attention fixated on a particular detail
Congratulations You have created an Rarity Skill You have received the other half of the qualifications to understand the Truth of the Shallah Experience the baptism of the Pinnacle and of Eternity in order to glimpse the fundamental Truths of the universe
Randidly released a breath The new Tiamat Dread Chimera and Grey Fear rang out with its own desperate Truth growing louder and louder It quickly fell into harmony with its waiting siblings Yggdrasil and the Songstress of Absence Combined they flowed together to create a blended Truth from three images
Randidly felt surprised to find that the TruthÆ they formed actually came from NeveahÆs earlier words If the change isnÆt made now it will be made never
Along with the two other Truths he possessed Randidly condensed more and more powerful resonances in his body He blazed with them Already weakened by the battering from Laplace his Vessel trembled barely held together
But first RandidlyÆs attention fell on his Nether Core The Penance With information about the Shallah waiting for me IÆm not willing to wait around for the right answer NowÆs the time
Chapter 2429
In front of him Neveah burned through all her emotional force and Willpower hammering back the convoy of books in a surge of power In terms of ferocity and violence even Randidly felt a bit taken aback as flecks of spit flew from the mouth of the newly evolved Tiamat She held nothing back
The image manifestation warped space as it physically bludgeoned back a storm of time While lacking in shape emotion granted her power
Because when Randidly looked into the wild eyes of the image what he saw was NeveahÆs grief Her pain from so long watching him toss his body in front of threats of stepping up in the face of impossible monsters fighting and struggling to create the glimmer of a miracle while so many people relied upon him to do so over and over again Of being forced to observe blood leaking from his wounds and tears leaking from his eyes
For all the long nights Neveah waited for whether or not Randidly would finally make a mistake and crumple Tiamat radiated power She blazed and unleashed all the pent up dread that his Soulbound partner had been forced to bear
She howled without restraint The temporal convoy sputtered and stalled out The sharp edge of her sincerity dominated at the height of her fever pitch A moon whipped around but Tiamat flexed a wing to deflect it Her claws carved the opportunity Randidly had been waiting for
Within the inner sanctum the carefully crafted frame of Engravings hummed in satisfaction He nudged a few lines into place replaced a few inefficient patterns and felt the whole begin to breathe like an organism The deep pool of significance swirled slightly but Randidly concentrated his attention on the deepest drop at the bottom of the pool which began to form a translucent orb
He spoke to his Nether Core still hesitant about the incompatibility Is this choice really not enough for a Penance To spend the rest of my days healing the deep wounds of time underneath the Nexus
The spinning core wobbled out a clear and emphatic answer it was not enough His significance even gave a sympathetic twinge RandidlyÆs expression tightened His mind fluttered through a series of other options He thought of other meanings his PenanceÆs could move through ways he could become a better variation of himself Or ways he could prove his value to the Alpha Cosmos Ways that Randidly could even make up for all the sins he had committed in the eyes of Neveah so long ignoring his own happiness in order to try and create a future for his followers
But he reached and found only half formed ideas Ahead of him the temporal convoy began to force back NeveahÆs desperate assault RandidlyÆs brain whirled searching for an answer to this question
A loud clap echoed out from the confrontation between Yggdrasil and its tomeù after being forced shut the book began to disintegrate Yggdrasil instantly released a rustling sound of pure pleasure as it could blossom without any opposition Then its roots and branches snaked out away from where it had endured the passage of time and began to wrap and pull at the convoy of tomes that threatened Tiamat The gnarled protrusions wrapped until the attack seemed to be encased in a wicker ball The World Tree began to pull lowering the momentum further
Tiamat lashed out with renewed vigor For a little while longer Randidly had the opportunity to consider his Penance So he considered flitting quickly from one idea to another
Several seconds passed just with the sound of his Nether Core serving as an anchoring for his psyche His face tingled from the reverberating impacts between Tiamat and book convoy But despite the passage of time he could not find an answer What price could he pay when he wasnÆt sure why the prepared price hadnÆt been accepted Was his offering too much Too little
Based on the fact that Solomon Rex gave up a portion of his experienced time with a Penance could it even be too much of a price paid RandidlyÆs Nether Core didnÆt seem to agree with that so he could only purse his lips But then again Solomon Rex is the husk left over after Elhume had given up his past So perhaps The price of also surrendering a portion of his present could be considered extremely steep
For me what is the price that I could pay What is my particular weakness
He almost chuckled He spared a nervous glance for TiamatÆs back wings flapping and grey veil fluttering Heh good thing sheÆs too distracted to notice my thoughts right now Because my instinct is just to give up more of my own humanity Haah But honestly how much more do I have to give
Would I still be able to utilize this Nether Core if all the foundations for my Authorities were worn away A counterproductive measure
Yet soon NeveahÆs emotional intensity began to wane The wicker barrier around the four tomes began to groan The moons rotating around the fluttering books avoided direct conflict with Tiamat and instead smashed apart the critical bindings that restrained it The temporal maelstrom began to grind its way forward once more
Randidly felt one of those moments of utmost clarity as he realized his time had run out The swirling moons slowed to a crawl Despite all the ways his attention had been split the whole of his awareness settled back into allignment He looked around at all his preparations feeling so inadequate in his understanding of Penances
Congratulations Your Skill Lethal Tide of Izanami has grown to Level 1245
He folded all that dangerous kinetic energy and shredded space over and over again layering the blade until became a truth all on its own Then before the Penance he had failed to create could settle into the created frame Randidly slashed with all of his power
After that several events happened in quick succession
First RandidlyÆs folded blade whispered down and impacted the pinprick The pinprick cracked but wasnÆt cut in half as he had expectedù it seemed the false Penance was more powerful than he had given it credit for