Randidly felt genuinely stumped His burdens continued to wear on him none easing as he persisted
No ideas came to him or his mind had gone through too much or the pain of keeping his body from shaking itself to pieces required too much of his focus He clenched and clenched to resist letting any more of his momentum be lost but he could feel himself wavering above a great fall
The prospect of escaping the Samsara and liberating the Nexus now seemed so so large It loomed above him His hands were raw and he would need to claw his way up without being able to see the top
This is the problem with sometimes accepting help RandidlyÆs chest felt so tight Sometimes you need it but you are the only one here They canÆt follow me here Shit
His images and Nether Core were largely cut off from him with both energies becoming increasingly unstable He remained trapped in the Samsara with no viable methods of escape occurring to him at the moment His Vessel had been repeatedly brutalized during his time in the Samsara holding up against the erosion but not possessing enough force to overwhelm the situation
Even worse he felt a faint tug through his connection to Devick His expression hardened as panic surged up through his body the lack of an answer became increasingly unforgivable His hands were trembling He wanted to do something but that old sensation of being powerless those horrific nights from childhood where he would lay in his bed and just stare at the ceiling filled him
but nothing changes if I just stay still Randidly bit his lip and tasted blood He flexed his hands and looked around So when the hell is this
He froze as the thought finished Randidly focused on his emotional state burrowing through his growing sense of helplessness and searching for the source of the thought His Soulspace released an ominous groan Even that he had to simply allow fixating on that small corner of his heart and the insidious connection from the Samsara that had latched onto him adding this foreign pride into him
Randidly used his Grand Fate to obliterate the connection But this just proved the dangers of lingering within the Samsara for too long even for him He didnÆt have much more time before
The young man screamed and fell to the ground his hands desperately trying to wipe away a few drops of liquid from his body Randidly felt confused replaying the physical developments back in his mind The attack had been just as slow as the first time Then Randidly noticed that the memory had empowered the edge of the young manÆs weapon giving it a cutting surface that could damage his Vessel if only slightly
The young man had inflicted a small cut on Randidly and then been sprayed with his blood Those few drops of blood possessed enough potent vitality to devour the flesh of this completely average young man He rolled back and forth on the ground clawing at himself As his flesh melted away it almost looked like the wounds were self inflicted a madness of physical form that had finally tainted his mind
With every scream Randidly flinched The obvious agony nudged him hinting that he was just as harmful as Elhume and Fiero
Randidly Ghosthound kills even innocents who stand in his way
Such fucking bullshit Randidly felt the cleansing heat of rage flooding through his body as the memory warped around him He devoured all the significance he forcefully suppressed the shaking in his Soulspace and was practically prowling forward as the memory reset again The young man stepped forward and Randidly felt the overpowering urge to obliterate him DonÆt you dare tell me who I am IÆll crush
The violence of the instinct stilled him even through the accumulated worries Randidly possessed Releasing a frustrated growl Randidly swept his awareness around with his Grand Fate His worst fears were confirmed at some point another one of the strange connections from the Samsara had been made without him noticing He shredded it but Randidly had a sinking feeling in his chest
Stop right there The young man repeated his line and stepped forward Randidly eyed him but made no moves What I need is just a little bit of time a way to regain my mental and emotional balance To stabilize both my Aether and Nether
The young man attacked Randidly sidestepped so fast he probably appeared as though he had teleported from the young manÆs perspective The clumsy attack missed For a second Randidly wondered why the memory didnÆt bother to strengthen the young man but then the screaming began and Randidly had the faintest inkling of the SamsaraÆs intentions
The notification that followed drove home the point
Congratulations Your Skill Apostate MoiraeÆs Seditious Touch has grown to Level 1359
As the young man screamed and trembled completely untouched by any weapon but RandidlyÆs warping touch Randidly felt the bitterness in his chest swelling and seeping out sourness through the whole of his being So much hurt the amount of problems he needed to overcome had become so piled and intermingled he didnÆt know where to start
His mere presence mutated this innocent to develop grey scales and gnarled bloody characters through his flesh until he eventually died The Path he chose might very well have been different but the bloody cost it exacted on the universe was just the same He had become a monster
He closed his eyes again He shook Calm down Calm down Calm down
But his imagined heart only began to race more quickly He lashed out with his Grand Fate and slaughtered most of the worming connections spreading down from the Samsara but he also acknowledged he probably missed a few in his unbalanced state Yet he couldnÆt find the spare attention to worry not while his Nether continued to bubble with its unstable foundation and his images
Before the memory even reformed the screaming began RandidlyÆs awareness went jagged and blinding as his Soulspace split down the middle finally cracked open by the cooped up Truths
Randidly Ghosthound was the one screaming The only thing hatched from this eggÆ in his chest was an annihilating malady of the soul
Chapter 2438
The memory reformed but Randidly almost didnÆt care
The sensation of his Soulspace fracturing was different than his Class being obliterated by the gaze of Elhume that had been pain but some sort of deep invalidation The foundation of how he was and the power of his existence had been scrubbed away by immense friction The pain had started sharp but then had dulled to an underlying weakness
This was different His Soulspace formed the foundation of his identityÆ It housed his Skills contained his Truths and was the foundation of his three images Not only was that now deeply wounded but some primal instinct screamed out the alarm of wrongness To be rent open like this had violated some important principle He now seeped out of the opening and drifted through his Vessel
He felt unmoored but he also felt horrifyingly alone
At the same time the Truths he had contained bounced and reverberated through him but slightly warped from their prolonged proximity to one another They combined and mixed forming strange chimeras of their original pronouncements
Every detail can be affected
Yggdrasil reaches and matters
You cannot affect both ways
Yet all of these follow up developments were simply footnotes to the endless horror of the pain that swept through RandidlyÆs existence
Stop right there The young manÆs voice seemed so far away RandidlyÆs vision swam blurred with agony and maybe the presence of too many sneaky Samsara connections against his psyche adding superfluous and damaging thoughts Yet the only response he could manage was a groan
Luckily the Alchemist portion of Randidly wasnÆt so easily dissuaded by pain Because he quickly realized half of the problem was the rays of warped TruthÆ released through the fracture in his Soulspace and bouncing around on the inside of his Vessel Or at the very least it complicated a half dozen other problems in a way that even Randidly wasnÆt able to endure Conjuring a bit of will the Alchemist wrapped one shard of the broken Aspect and pulled it into place to guard the crack