He couldnÆt help but wince At this point the list of Paths had grown to a ridiculous degree even with his previous Tithes he hadnÆt been able to put a serious dent in the list But as with previous rewards Randidly could quickly trim down the list to only the ones by which he felt intrigued
The Sigh as the Sky Closes 0/15 000 Joy the Blooming Sun 0/15 000 ChimeraÆs Struggle II 0/ Violence Incarnate the StormÆs Descent 0/ 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 Stat Evolution VII 0/100000 Spark of the Origin Beast 0/ The Eyelids of the Grey Creature Flutter 0/10 000 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/
Randidly scratched his chin He had cut out more than half of the available Paths but there were still too many options to consider them individually with any detail His mind spun between them feeling the possibilities that stretched in every direction He clenched his jaw and cut out more no longer was it enough to be interesting Now Randidly was looking for the Paths that would help him improve the training areas that he had been focused on
The Passion sans Shape I 0/ Piece of the Ideal 0/ Emotional Evolution I 0/500 The Eyelids of the Grey Creature Flutter 0/10 000 The Living Soul of the Alpha Cosmos 0/ The Crown of Four Authorities 0/100000 Peerlessness Through Woven Truth 0/
Essentially Randidly focused on two areas There were other Paths that deeply intrigued him but shaping up his emotional capability and starting to settle the small dissonance in his Grey Creature image were more important Randidly had started to feel the satisfying attunement he got from YggdrasilÆs image and emotional affect He was ready to bring that to his other images And with the Unborn continuing to delay Stillborn Phoenix he didnÆt mind starting with the Grey Creature
Of course when all threeÆs shape had finally aligned with emotion he would be able to work about working them in triplicate And that was the key for him to rival Nexus images with his own in the short term
Soulful Vigor Your emotions swirl with a small amount of indescribable beauty Power courses along with your whims animating your person When utilizing emotion user has a slightly easier time controlling the emotions User also can display a more powerful display in the same amount of time Effect increases with Skill Level
Randidly felt like the recipient of a successful (mental) tongue surgery Suddenly his internal awareness could taste the flavors of his emotions just by brushing past them It was as though everything as widened he could slide into the space between his emotions They crackled like rupturing ground massive monoliths of light flashes and lightning bolts But with the ability to see their shape he could more easily hone them to resonate with his images
He had only spent 7750 PP by pushing through those Paths Compared to the mass of PP he possessed it was a pittance Cracking his neck Randidly started into the Emotional Evolution I Path
Congratulations You have completed the Emotional Evolution I Path The Path on which you walk has led you high above the clouds The air grows thin and sounds become stale and weak Yet as you rise the beating of your heart becomes increasingly clear Its cadence informs your every step
Congratulations +50 Grim Intuition
Congratulations You have completed the Emotional Evolution II Path The steps you take are across an ethereal bridge connecting land and sky despite all the reasons that such a Path should not exist The material beneath your feet is cool and insubstantial vanishing as soon as you pass by Sound has completely receded leaving you with only the small whispers of your heart
Congratulations You feel a growing connection to your emotions Warning there might be some small amount of unpredictability in your emotional affect Exquisite Piety +75
Congratulations You have completed the Emotional Evolution III Path You trek through space walking beneath the clouds Yet your gaze barely wavers Even as the hidden desires of your heart are given leave by the silence to swell and fill the environment you are not swayed from your task Such is your dedication that your emotions are pressured even further to grow and change attempting to capture your attention
Congratulations Warning Significant emotional turbulence will result from taking this Path Fidelity of the Ascendant Moirae +50 Exquisite Piety +100
Congratulations You have completed the Emotional Evolution IV Path The ringing silence around you hums with the force of emotions moving within your skin More than a person you have become a shelter that houses a hundred disparate desires each desperate to be heard Each bleeding to enact its will upon the world
Congratulations Be very careful your emotions might take on a mind of their own Exercise extreme caution Uncommon Metabolism (Un) +100
Before he moved on to finish the last Path in the sequence Randidly turned his attention inward on his emotions The corner of his lip curled upward to see them arrayed within him Grey Monarch’s Authority spread out shadowy twig fingers beckoning Like meek little lambs his emotions bowed their heads and hurried to do his bidding
Chuckling Randidly finished the final Emotional Evolution Path
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Congratulations You have completed the Emotional Evolution V Path After riding the seething waves of dangerous emotions within your person you have finally reached calm waters on the other end of the sea Your ship might have sustained damage but in these calm waters you will have the opportunity to patch up the vessel As the raging forces begin to settle within you the lack of violence and force allows you to view your changed inner world Motes of remnants glittering in the air reminding you of the previous ferocity And your current Path rides on emotional waves that have once more returned to the fold
Congratulations You feel your emotional force surging within your body You have an increased ability to resist emotional exhaustion while working with image A shift is building within your heart You may choose to continue acquiescing to the impulse to change or you may wait and allow the possibilities to build into more complex futures
Congratulations Grey MonarchÆs Authority +100 Mana and Stamina +500
Randidly cracked his back as he felt the substance of his emotion becoming finer and more energetic In a way he did feel changed after finishing the Path his attention felt more easily divisible in a way that reminded him of reaching one thousand in Focus Obviously none of the dangerous emotional waves that the Path completion notification had ever been present But it was nice that he still received the same reward despite being exposed to none of the negative side effects