In terms of foundation he was woefully outmatched
And right as the discomfort began to mount Randidly felt the shift in the EternityÆs body LaplaceÆs blank gaze finally focused Hate warped its features At the same time the wide expanse of history it contained tightened into a vicious river of acid The flow spun around and then stabbed at the point of contact
Wave after wave washed over Randidly Ghosthound each one attacking and squeezing him
Randidly leaned forward his grip tightening on Acri Perhaps he would have pulled the spear out and refocused his efforts had not the stirring of all LaplaceÆs history briefly provided clarity to the depths of its body There Randidly caught the briefest glimpse of a sophisticated Nether Ritual He narrowed his eyes ThatÆs the target As long as the core formation in the Eternity is wounded IÆll be able to handle it
The current of history slammed into RandidlyÆs body He felt his skin beginning to shred weakened by the rapid passage of time and eroded by the impact of LaplaceÆs significance His own translucent significance mixed freely with his Grand Fate meeting and forcing back the constant assault
Congratulations Your Skill Randidly Ghosthound Executive of Nether Reborn has grown to Level 1960
All I need to do RandidlyÆs jaw felt rusted with the constant pressure of LaplaceÆs experience pressing against him His arms trembled and he felt himself being steadily forced backward inch by inch AcriÆs blade began to emerge from LaplaceÆs flesh Is keep advancing forward Once I can reach that central formation
As he prepared to take the next step he began to mobilize some of his other weapons All the chaotic distortions in the ever expanding dome were wild and potent A poorly conceived touch would brush would tear a body in two But the corkscrewing reverberations were just more ingredients He added 2000 more VPs to Tolerance bottoming out the VPs he currently possessed and gratefully accepted the extra few measures of mental acuity
Every moment involved a thousand details He might have discarded his Truth that each one of those details mattered but the underlying philosophy still lived in his Skills
Randidly knew that if space around him hadnÆt become unstable soup from the conflict steam would have been streaming out of his ears His brain settled into its super active state nudging and redirecting all the force in the area The process was slow but the air around him began to churn
If Laplace wanted to overwhelm with the raw weight of history Randidly would just be sharper in his manipulations He would have to be
Most would not thank me They would complain of what I didnÆt provide for them sneering at my inability to justify my existence Randidly released a long breath And that is a horrible feeling But itÆs not about them It was never about them even while entirely about them when you think about all the negative individuals you are just losing sight of the truth
Congratulations Your Skill Lethal Tide of Izanami has grown to Level 1599
Congratulations Your Skill Arch HereticÆs Thaumaturgy has grown to Level 1543
RandidlyÆs lip curled up Heh itÆs probably difficult to listen to me talk about Truth huh But my Truth is this I would have fought for the universe inside of me even if there were only a handful of lives sheltered there I would fight for a single life I would fight for a promise I made to someone I loved How they feel about me after is not my concern
ItÆs that simple This is what I chose I found my path without a Path I will not stop following it no matter what is in my way
Congratulations Your Skill Lethal Tide of Izanami has grown to Level 1634
The forces within the dome rumbled out their independence even while they churned at his direction Randidly sharpened the forces into a razor and slashed again and again at the river of time attempting to drown and erode him He eased the pressure against his body The muscles and veins along his legs bulged once more He managed another step
He forced Acri a little bit deeper Through the haze of significance his eyes were fixed on the central working He wavered for a few seconds but managed to endure The exhaustion in his muscles had grown to become a constant agony The steely Duty in his bones kept him focused but the sensation wasnÆt comfortable
LetÆs carve open a road The Homunculi Pursues Perfection Singularity Engulfs the Finite The First Tree Suffers Only Fealty
For the second time Randidly GhosthoundÆs three images moved together without the benefit of Truth Almost instantly he could feel an improvement on the second cooperated They ceased chasing the emotional resonance they had previously used to connect with one another Instead the images fixated on their purpose they moved together with root claw and oblivion The vicious Homunculus first armed with the obliterating weight of a singularity
Congratulations Your Skill the Homunculi Pursues Perfection has grown to Level 1400
Congratulations Your Skill Singularity Engulfs the Finite has grown to Level 1361
When the next wave of significance cracked and fell to pieces Yggdrasil stilled the follow up with an imperious glance A brief period of stillness emerged between Randidly and Laplace As it turned out neither missed the opportunity
Randidly took a step forward and fed more of the kinetic force into Lethal Tide of Izanami It lived and breathed as it slithered around the confrontation a living being with a steadily growing accumulation of destructive hate It was a python squeezing the two even more tightly together Randidly cackled feeling all the delicately balanced forces in the air around him
Congratulations Your Skill Motif of Unimagined Tolls has grown to Level 1496
Congratulations Your Skill Deviations Inevitable Machinations has grown to Level 1913
Yet his foe was not idle either
Laplace produced a small charm and squeezed it within one of his fat hands Ominously a crack formed in the ceiling of the room And instantly Randidly felt the presence of the bloated shadow of Pine looming above them all
The Eternity offered Randidly a grin of its own Your existence is problematic But which matters more to you this pyrrhic quest of wounding me or your little bubble of a universe
Chapter 2447
For a long second Randidly and Laplace stared at one another
This place will fall Laplace hissed the intensity of the words causing a few spurts of blood out of the wounds to its eyes Randidly tightened his grip on Acri and shoved the plant spear just the smallest margin forward ignoring the rumbling feedback from the frozen time within the Eternity
A small retaliation but it also gave him a small amount of time to consider
He felt the dangerous subconscious roiling above and knew he would need to act If anything RandidlyÆs passage up through the waves of the dead had only made him more wary of what existed within the twisted psyche of the Nexus lurking amongst its near infinite dead Obviously his Vessel was more than enough to withstand the darkness of the Nexus washing over him And Randidly probably had methods to severely limit the fallout from such a detonation
Tsk of course Elhume still somehow finds a way to cause trouble RanididlyÆs eyes flashed upward He structured the Nexus this way in order to prevent Pine from degrading too quickly even the darkness was recycled and used as a buffer Yet now that so much time has passed that darkness will kill Pine just as surely as it previously saved him
Yet two facts twisted RandidlyÆs face into a grimace First the disposition of the dead themselves They wouldnÆt do much damage at first but he knew that those powerful figures who had been dead for a long time would affect the living They wouldnÆt be able to help themselves so long bubbling in the wicked cauldron of desires These souls were tainted water being dumped into a creek Downstream the sickness would spread
Secondly Randidly didnÆt trust the machinations of Pangu and couldnÆt help but show his teeth as he thought about all those reflected dolls waiting on the upper portions of the tower of the dead It was quite possible the eventual rupture of the concentrated subconscious was part of another plot