He shivered an echo of fear toward the strike Toward what the strike might have done in another location The ache Raymund now felt resulted from him absorbing some small portion of that force
The Ghosthound had gone all out using the cultivated environment of the island and the images of the many trainees here to muffle the disastrous reverberations Otherwise the repercussions might have echoed out and wiped out a dozen small seafaring villages in the surrounding area
DiOrtho Vant a sour expression pasted on his face walked across the beach to stand next to the Vulpine Soon the ram demon couldnÆt stand the silence any longer and shook his horned head Did you feel that
Who didnÆt Such a display Raymund began but DiOrtho began to shake his head with even more force
Not that obviously Heh I bet some of the Zones are going to receive word of the force displayed here and piss their tiny pants No the things that occurred before that The Ghosthound exhaled and brought something into himself that originated from us That strange sensitivity that we gained a year ago made it abundantly clear You could feel the relationship between us and him for a brief moment He drew essence from us A subtle draw of Aether and Nether
Raymund nodded more slowly his eyes searching for any actual sign of the Ghosthound below the dispersing spearhead The storm clouds continued to churn Usually it was easy for Raymund to forget how much power the special Drill Sergeant possessed
And sometimes this black haired man shattered the skies and drummed against all their significance
Obviously we are more sensitive than most individuals DiOrtho continued Raymund finally recognized how serious VantÆs expression was But still As long as youÆve put a little effort into that intuition you would be able to understand the mechanism of what happened And we donÆt mind but will everyone in his world be fine with knowing that the Ghosthound takes from us all No matter how small a cut he pulls
Slowly RaymundÆs expression changed into a frown Above the storm rumbled
Randidly took a while to savor the sensation of explosive power in the aftermath of flexing his Synechdochence His Nether Core slowed trailing long flows of shadow He suspected that this wasnÆt even his limit with some dedicated training he could push that number up to 130% The combinations of his greater pattern recognition and the growing depth to his Nether meant that the raw power he could display had reached a whole new level
His hammer had grown almost without him realizing it
Of course it doesnÆt get around a powerful image dispersing the environment as quickly as I can make it But its progress With a ghost of a smile on his face Randidly went back to his Path screen The number caught his eye once again he had very nearly three hundred thousand PP to spend
Congratulations Your Skill the Grey Creature Glimpses Providence has grown to Level 673
Even before he completed the Path Randidly felt a tingle of what was to come
Congratulations Your Stat Willpower has evolved into Grey MonarchÆs Authority For those who bear a heavy crown a finger twitch becomes a vicious act of war The flexibility and application of your Grey MonarchÆs Authority is greatly increased The raw power of your consciousness can achieve some small effects in the physical world without the usage of an image or Skill Subordinates who are acting out your orders will receive a portion of your new benefits Your Stat total will be maintained
Aether began to gather in RandidlyÆs chest as a part of his capability changed But this process didnÆt build up and expend itself quickly Thick spurts of Nether flowed along with the touch of the Grey Creature to form a dense core Yet even after the maelstrom had stabilized itself the initiation process wasnÆt finished The shadow of Yggdrasil the First Authority surged all at once shaking his entire body with its passage
The long shadowy branches curled around that core that would add character and capability to the new Stat Those fingers stained it Then the core exploded ripping its way through RandidlyÆs body And if the evolution of Resistance set his skin on fire the evolution of Willpower to Transcendent cut off all of his nerve endings and left him swimming in a horrifying numbness
He felt nothing He floated in darkness Vision sound taste smell touch all of it was gone
The absence made him uneasy
As the outside world fell away and left him without any external awareness Randidly sat with himself He felt the weight of his own body of his own ideas of his own mind He could feel the figuratively steaming machinery of his mind heat and ferocity wafting off of its glittering gears and pistons even while it lay mostly inert He felt the influence he possessed as the physical body of the Alpha Cosmos the Authority that he slowly discovered as he pushed his Nether Core past every other individual remaining in the Nexus
Well aside from the Nether King But Randidly suspected that individual was rather special
He could only examine himself the unease growing Feeling the shape and scope of her person Randidly could only acknowledge how far he was from being a person
Eventually awareness began to return Randidly regretted his small fear toward the blank senselessness when pain ripped him awake and left him gasping He lay on his back and trembled all those severed nerves reconnecting with all the grace of a hungry toddler
Panting Randidly pushed himself up into a sitting position Compared to the shift in Resistance he could feel the adjustment in capability much more concretely with this shift toward a Transcendent Rarity Still for now Randidly didnÆt try to test his limits He simply opened up the Path screen and grimaced at the escalating cost to 50 000 PP He made a promise to himself that this would be his last attempt to evolve Endurance If this failed he could try and force an evolution the old fashioned way
Congratulations You have completed the Stat Evolution VI Path No matter how steep the climb you refuse to slow your advance toward a complete metamorphosis So long as you do not falter you will eventually accomplish your goal
Congratulations You have unlocked a Legendary Rarity Stat
Randidly grinned Alright thatÆs more like it
Chapter 1928
Randidly didnÆt hesitate at all He went to his Status screen and selected Endurance Within his chest the Stillborn Phoenix stirred lightning and liquid light hissing along the event horizon
Congratulations Your Stat Endurance has evolved into EggÆs Illusory Plume Impossible barriers form at your skin a strange and mystical rind Your body has become extremely resistant to non physical attacks Due to the impossibility of the plume existing physical attacks are less effective User has increased ability to quickly recover in the rare event that Endurance was breached
The shift built in RandidlyÆs ribcage drawing deeply from the Stillborn Phoenix as the Stat changed but without any of the painful drama of WillpowerÆs shift To RandidlyÆs surprise the shift happened in the air around his skin Randidly felt the limits of his body expanding just slightly an illusory layer stitching itself into place across his skin Raising his arms there were small moments when light refracted strangely around him like a sheen of oil across the surface of water
Out of the corner of his eye he caught the distinct shape of feathers
Then the effect gradually dispersed leaving him alone with his breathing Randidly closed his eyes and focused on recovering some of his mental and emotional energy Afterward he needed to spend a while to let his Penance find balance at this point he offered up five of the sixty seconds of each minute in an effort to help his Nether grow
Finally his eyes opened He looked down at the list of Paths available to him
Friend to Humanity 0/100 Mantle of the Patron 0/500 Aether Convergence II the Bell of Doom Tolls 0/600 Order Ducis Font of Guidance HumanityÆs Torch 0/500 Puppet Master 0/100 Pain Immunity I 0/250 Cleaver of the World Tree Weakness of the World Tree 0/500 Guilty Conscience I 0/100 Hands of the Artisan 0/ Ashes of Illym the Above Average Child 0/5000 The Flame the Burns Memories 0/ The Sigh as the Sky Closes 0/15 000 Joy the Blooming Sun 0/15 000 ChimeraÆs Struggle II 0/ Mysteries of the Fiery Emerald Waltz 0/ Violent Heat I 0/ Violence Incarnate the StormÆs Descent 0/ Deathwish X 0/5 The Pursuit of Alchemy 0/750 Weakness of the Grim Chimera 0/500 Weakness of the Stillborn Phoenix 0/500 The Shadow Beyond the Threshold 0/ The CreatureÆs Apotheosis 0/25000 The Passion sans Shape I 0/ Architecture of Yggdrasil I 0/ Piece of the Ideal 0/ Emotional Evolution I 0/500 Breath of the Imaginary Firebird 0/1000 The Throne of Nether Homage I 0/500 Stat Evolution VII 0/100000 Spark of the Origin Beast 0/ The Eyelids of the Grey Creature Flutter 0/10 000 Determined VI 0/600 The Ashes of Helen the GhosthoundÆs Bloody Knight 0/9000 Excavator of the Two Failed Dreams 0/12 000 The Ash that Reigns Above the Open and Closed Sky 0/ The Living Soul of the Alpha Cosmos 0/ Herald of the Eternal March 0/10 000 The Crown of Four Authorities 0/100000 Peerlessness Through Woven Truth 0/