Randidly forced his spine to straighten Sparking blades of plasma slashed across his torso shredding the skin and evaporating the blood in the same instant He lifted his chin and did not flinch Randidly understood the allure power But it didnÆt have to be an unassailable Truth
With time damaged the experience of overwhelming heat stretched Every moment was agony as his skin began to bubble But compared to the exhaustion Randidly had carried compared to the weight of expectations he bore compared to the soul sundering agony of having TruthÆs mutate and crack him open
Randidly Ghosthound stood with his eyes half open This was nothing He could weather the tantrums of power
Yet even in this state his psyche gradually began to fray Time had bogged down nudged by the Samsara into trapping him here The heat turned the air hazy Randidly ignored the pain and the oppressive darkness and raised his gaze He spread his arms wide
Your manipulations just prove how desperate you are You know how this ends too donÆt you Laplace
Congratulations Your Grand Fate Temporal Thaumaturgy Mends Eternity has grown to Level 991
Congratulations Your Nether Penance Empty Vessel Fosakes the Path has grown to Level 991
The power began to fade This time Yggdrasil barely waited until plasma had ceased dancing in the environment to blossom out of the burnt surfaces The World Tree drank down energy and restored its luster The trunk came back stronger than ever Lively energy gushed through the branches The canopy stretched taller and produced additional meadows of thick leaves The roots dug deeper into the ground
When the Samsara shuddered and attempted to empower Aegiant even further YggdrasilÆs roots wormed their way into the cracks of the animating patterns The World Tree twitched and broke the memory open
The Samsara groaned and melted away in a gushing explosion of significance Randidly found himself looking at the shocked face of the young guard
Stop right there The guard growled RandidlyÆs emerald pupils dilated finally he had made it back here Before he could proceed forward he needed to figure out how to handle this Truth
Chapter 2443
The guardÆs face contained obvious desperation and worry Perhaps instinctively he sensed the damage Randidly could inflict on him just by his presence
Randidly felt his heart tremor just slightly This was how the Samsara had almost broken him down By weaponizing one of his old Truths against him Every detail matters Because the perspective of following every detail would lead to predictable outcomes Which made it more painful to observe the way RandidlyÆs actions produced unintended consequences because each unexpected outcome was a failure by him to consider
Specifically he had been so thoughtless he had left behind ripples that would sweep up and destroy the lives of innocents And that was not the sort of person or legend that Randidly Ghosthound wanted to be
Even with all the Stats he had earned and now earned more constantly due to the accumulation of VPs Randidly couldnÆt handle every detail The world was too broad and complex for any mind to grasp He had achieved the status of a legend a being beyond mundane reality But that didnÆt bless him with omnipotence Details would escape him Ripples would drift outward
But the vicious conclusion this inevitability insisted upon ignored a very important point
Randidly offered the unfortunate soul in front of him a sad and kind smile As he spoke he couldnÆt help but picture all the ways he had killed this man originally and in the memory replays No IÆll go back on my own Because the real reason so many innocents are killed in my wake is I donÆt bother to clean up my messes
Because IÆve been too proud because there is always a more important issue to address and that hasnÆt changed But IÆm of the opinion whatÆs the point of gathering all this capability if I cannot even handle my own problems
Congratulations Your Grand Fate Temporal Thaumaturgy Mends Eternity has grown to Level 1000 Your existence continues to insinuate itself into the very fabric of time Your presence will prevent temporal distortions in the surrounding area Those within the Alpha Cosmos have gained the slightest wisp of this capability In the future their development toward Skills and images related to temporal stability will greatly increase
When opponents use temporal Skills against you there is a slight chance of stifling the activation and generating a dangerous rebound
Congratulations Your Nether Penance Empty Vessel Forsakes the Path has grown to Level 1000 Your Nether Core is experiencing a period of immense Nether growth Your significance will soon develop further unique effects after being isolated from the reverberations of Truth The effects of your Authorities are increased
For the continued growth of aligned Grand Fate and Nether Penance +1 MuseÆs Reverie
Without waiting for a response Randidly pivoted on his heel A few steps brought him to the window where flurries of snow spiraled down He stepped up onto the sill and hopped out into the chill air His breath seeped out of his mouth like fog His new eyes black with that bright emerald pupil aimed downward
Below waited the open maw of entropy the mutated Judgment he had avoided the manifestation of all his small decisions that could be catastrophes for those innocents caught in the crossfire He walked back down the PathÆ he had carved without worrying about the consequences
Violent winds curled a massive snowstorm into a tight circle It exhaled freezing rain and condensing clumps of hail The storm plucked up sharpened stakes of ice solidified recriminations and whirled them around in a tight spiral of death It was a throat with a circular opening lined with frigid teeth
The air around Randidly remained mostly still but that was because he had climbed the tower to escape the Judgement behind him it would take a little bit of time to catch up to him He looked down and saw a thousand tiny bits of TruthÆ the Samsara had probably plucked out of his subconscious to make his heart bleed
More memories bobbed and flashed across the surface of his mind as he followed those horrific winds He saw all the danger he had put the people of Donnyton through by refusing to take on a mantle of leadership He saw ShalÆs emotional struggles on Tellus the ones Randidly had never asked about as he continued his training He saw the suffering of Turtletown the fate of the Lyra the bloodshed in the different Zones as he refused to stop them from making stupid decisions
He saw the lives he had taken in Dungeons He saw suffering in the wider Nexus the plight of the Nemesai and the Patrons
He saw Helen her eyes blank her ribs spread open like bloody wings He saw the blood spreading out around her
Randidly dumped a thousand more VPs into Vengeance as he dove downward toward the churning maelstrom of ice and ignored the consequences
The Yeti with RandidlyÆs face hissed as the Authority cracked open its desperate feelings of insecurity and need All the sense of inferiority the fear the guilt the crooked worry the nervous sweat All of it melted beneath a wholesome blast of pure energy
RandidlyÆs lips quirked into a smile as a seemingly infinite amount of life energy gushed out of his limbs And just like that I get to play the role of the sun in a memory Tch and to think Aegiant you made it look so difficult
RandidlyÆs Penance had reached Level 1000 Even he felt somewhat surprised by the manifestation of power it could create but he didnÆt miss this opportunity Acri didnÆt exist yet in this memory but with a flick of the wrist he created a radiant avatar of the spear companion he had wielded for so long
Streaking out of the sky ripping his way through the oppressive cold Randidly thrust his weapon He carved the spear from pure life and generosity Warmth sharpened the edge But it was Duty that formed the shaft