Enduring the Eternity sucked Worse than almost anything else because it was all of my most agonizing memories intensified But it didnÆt kill me Randidly settled down into a crouched ssfighting stance Acri slithered out and settled into his spear form The bright chip of emerald that was his pupil flashed Now itÆs my turn for some attempted homicide You will regret waltzing into the Nexus without any fear
Randidly took a few seconds to speak for two reasons First because the return to reality meant that his two versions of Yggdrasil merged Even now the World Tree spread its roots deeper and deeper into the fabric of the Nexus meeting and fighting against the insidious world state image of the Eternity
Congratulations Your Skill The First Tree Suffers Only Fealty has grown to Level 1429
For as long as possible Randidly wanted to beat back LaplaceÆs more subtle influence Even if he managed to expel the Eternity itself it would be a pyrrhic victory if the Nexus was warped by his presence to have an altered view of time
Congratulations Your Skill The First Tree Suffers Only Fealty has grown to Level 1480
RandidlyÆs toes curled preparing to launch his body forward Laplace roared conjuring a wave of floating tomes each containing a complete history of a universe
Secondly he didnÆt launch an immediate offensive because he wanted to give his other two images some time to adjust Both the Dread Homunculus and the Songstress of Absence were implicitly connected with him and sensed the changes in his person specifically the long awaited condensation of his Nether Penance But the isolating effects of the Samsara meant that his newly developed muted quality which could by itself be considered a growing world state image hadnÆt had the chance to wash over them
Randidly felt the subtle shifts in his Vessel from the development of the Creeds and from the +10 to all Stats spending 10k VPs earned him With all that new physical power he practically evaporated from his position right out of the grasp of the Samsara
Appearing right above Laplace Randidly spun in the air with his spear raised But his eyes remained fixed on the bulging edges of a Samara quivering with all the intensity of a breaking storm cloud Tsk based on what IÆve seen of the internal mechanisms it will continue to reform and attempt to devour me Unless I want to watch my back for the rest of this fight
The Alchemist mused over the issue briefly and came up with a countermeasure
The Second Authority Hollow Needle Randidly announced His Nether Core spun and seethed its translucent significance gleaming like fresh honey
He kicked off the air shooting directly toward the Samsara It twisted bulged opened and snapped toward him but Randidly had already skated sideways out of the danger area Laplace hissed and spat out a concentrated blast of temporal energy which slammed into RandidlyÆs back He gritted his teeth and endured it
Because when the Samsara missed for the second time and snapped shut Randidly raised Acri which had become a needle His Grand Fate fed reinforced healing time into the needle to create a thread His spear thrusts were quick and seamless
Randidly Ghosthound sewed the mouthÆ of the Samsara shut
The sophisticated working sensed the change and yanked on the threads After a few strained fragments of time they held At least in the short term his Grand Fate was enough to restrain the Samsara Instantly the Samsara rolled back on itself accepting the sewn portion into its interior and exposing a new mouth that stretched wide
In front of Randidly the Samsara snapped forward with all the subtlety of a starving wolf Behind him Laplace conjured another five tomes and unleashed them toward his back Pinched between them Randidly only offered a wicked grin
In the touch with Pine earlier Randidly had absorbed the tiniest wisp of unrefined Aether Breaking down the tomes coughed up bits of untouched Nether He cupped the two in his hands and pressed those two extremely rare energies together
Part of him wished to save this move but he also knew it would be foolish to surrender the momentum he had gained
Congratulations Your Skill Apostate MoiraeÆs Seditious Touch has grown to Level 1400
Congratulations Your Skill Alpha Cosmos Births a Shallah has grown to Level 1491
Randidly held the birth of endless potential in his hands He might be deaf to Truth but he felt his Vessel seared on a fundamental level just from being near the ignition point The radiance blasted outward annihilating the tomes and knocking back the Samsara He tossed the brilliant seed at Laplace and flitted in the other direction Acri thrust out a dozen a hundred a thousand times He drew thread after thread of reinforced time and bound the Samara shut
For the second time and with a lot less suffering the Samsara had been beaten
By the time he pivoted around his brief blossom of potential had spent itself Laplace roared again but no sooner had the sound ceased than it released a hiss of painù Randidly had bounded back across the distance between them and drove his spear into its forehead right between its bleeding eyes
Vessel and Grand Fate immediately began a land war with the horrific amount of time stored within the EternityÆs body
Chapter 2446
How lovely Devick whispered The telescopic rainbow light created by Randidly blurred the details of the fight but also filled her with a strange sense of reassurance He moved with power and purpose
The same sort of purpose he showed when he held me down and kissed me
Devick touched her blushing cheeks and tried to focus back on the attack Randidly had just created It was the loveliest dawn and the most dramatic sunset She felt like she could walk out into that light and it would be the warmest and most relaxing water She could drift in it and finally feel at peace
at least for a while Heh having the opportunity to bring that goody two shoes Randidly into a hot spring would be heheh DoesnÆt his kiss prove IÆm starting to corrupt him a little bit When I have more time with him I wonder what else I can convince him to do
Kekeke
DevickÆs little revelry was interrupted by the monkey who took the initiative to clamber into her arms She squeezed him Make sure you tell me if you are about to pop
Tch after all IÆve taught you that mouth of yours your only real talent is pissing others off The monkey grumbled but the voice was subdued The two fell silent and watched the fight
Prolonged exposure to the tension in Laplace hurt
All the compressed history contained within Laplace vibrated out through Acri and into his body The vibration affected him on a cellular level rupturing and tearing even his reinforced Vessel Yet he pried open the door of opportunity with this suffering Randidly gritted his teeth and leaned forward even as the Eternity was so shocked by his rapid handling of the Samsara that it couldnÆt mount an effective resistance
Randidly took that opening he stabbed his Grand Fate as deep as it would go into the fleshy serpent with the intent to deeply wound it
Congratulations Your Grand Fate Temporal Thaumaturgy Mends Eternity has grown to Level 1101
Congratulations Your Nether Penance Empty Vessel Forsakes the Path has grown to Level 1101
RandidlyÆs Grand Fate as it accumulated Skill Levels possessed an inexorable pull He swam into the dense aura of the Eternity will all his reinvigorated Willpower surging through his body Perhaps because of finally having obtained the tools he needed in order fight against Laplace he seemed to surge with motivation
But if just LaplaceÆs aura hurt physical contact with the Eternity was an excruciating experience of annihilation
It only took a few seconds of grinding contact temporal healing against the filmy warping influence of Laplace for RandidlyÆs expression to turn grim Overcoming the Samsara is one thing but the deeper I press into its body
Despite all the support of the Creeds RandidlyÆs Vessel shuddered underneath the weight of time that the Eternity had experienced Those projectile tomes were just the briefest fraction of the history it had experienced Despite having superior Nether Randidly couldnÆt make up for the lack of accumulation