Above Randidly’s head, Yggdrasil burned. Leaves fell down as smoldering bits of wreckage, lending an apocalyptic backdrop to his struggle.
Even delaying the near-perfect image of annihilation that Elhu now wielded ant Yggdrasil’s veins ruptured with white fire. All the dangerous force he needed to wield in resistance crashed into Randidly’s body, but he ignored the mounting damage. His muscles writhed and agony seed to course through him as much as blood did. He tightened his grip on Acri. He stared fixedly ahead at the giant pale fist of annihilation. He prepared to thrust.
He observed the flow of significance. He felt the strain on the mory and did so ntal calculations.
Six seconds, maybe seven seconds. As long as I hold out that long… Randidly could feel the growing note of resonance between Fiero and Elhu as they neared their dual Pinnacle mont. Beneath his feet, the skyisland cracked and its Engravings began to fail. The Pinnacle event will occur and all the energy I need will be released.
In the anti— let’s tear the understanding of possible to shreds.
Randidly faced the punch of Elhu. With Yggdrasil’s image intensity essentially spent, the Songstress of Absence stepped forward with her arms wide. She was two beings, the finned rmaid creature, but she was also an event horizon. And in the face of this attack, her body disappeared and an eye of absence opened. The energy around her turned milky, with electromagnetic discharge, shattered light radiation, the chilling hand of entropy, physical collapse, and spatial daggers radiating out from her form. She was a true rip in the universe, rumbling forward to gobble up Elhu’s punch.
They smashed against one another and devoured. Their hues might be different, but their power was similar. And to Randidly’s horror, the fist resisted the hunger of the void and shoved its way forward in a raw battle of montum.
Congratulations! Your Skill Hungry Eyes, Hollow Heart, Cadence of Tragedy (GD) has grown to Level 1043!
Congratulations! Your Skill Absolute Insight of the Smoldering Abyss (P) has grown to Level 1039!
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Congratulations! Your Skill Hungry Eyes, Hollow Heart, Cadence of Tragedy (GD) has grown to Level 1062!
Randidly narrowed his eyes as his second image was pushed back by this single display of power. A second ticked by while the Songstress struggled, but that was it. The edge of the event horizon shattered underneath the knuckles of the opposition. The Hungry Eye began to shrink. The burden of a hole in the universe was steamrolled by Elhu’s punch without even any apparent effort.
Behind Randidly, Devick peered over his shoulder. She loosed a low whistle. “...is that really the guy you were smacking around earlier?”
“Yes, unfortunately.” Randidly clicked his tongue. He had split his images up into three waves in order to buy more ti, but now he regretted not eting the attack with the whole of his capabilities. Well, part of that was that he had already unleashed his thrust before he had understood just how close to the Pinnacle Elhu had co.
Either way, it was too late for regrets for now— Randidly paused as he was about to mobilize his Dread Homunculus image because two sudden specters appeared around the vanishing event horizon. The two ugly ghosts that he had obtained on the Mountain flared to life. They swelled to a massive size, ignoring the dangerous energy discharge and spreading their arms wide. They looked like crooked featured versions of Boo.
They body-slamd the fist and grabbed it directly. To Randidly’s surprise, their grubby little hands appeared to have so effect.
Congratulations! Your Skill Twin Lingering Shadows of Misfortune (T) has grown to Level 1156!
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Congratulations! Your Skill Twin Lingering Shadows of Misfortune (T) has grown to Level 1190!
In truth, these idiots that had played around for so long held Elhu’s punch for another half second. Just like that, three seconds had passed. The resonance between Elhu and Fiero grew stronger. But the fist attack was only a dozen ters away from Randidly. He breathed in and then breathed out as the Dread Homunculus settled across his body.
His muscles spasd as they attempted to stave off collapse. So much of his capability was tied up in supporting the mory, both his body and his Nether Core. Although the skyisland continued to crack and drop sundered hunks of boulders down, the Engravings lingered. So long as Randidly remained in this place, he could support the mory.
He offered the fist attack a wide smile. “Has it been frustrating, for you two? How do you think it’s been for ? I’ve needed to climb to this height-”
Randidly had been about to say all alone, but he could only shake his head in disbelief. No, climbing this far alone was impossible. Instead… perhaps he should be complinting this duo. He housed within himself an entire Alpha Cosmos, that fed their intensity into his emotional sea every day. Dark intensity, dangerous subconscious impulses, sure. But it was emotion all the shape. Randidly had honed the shapes, but he had also drawn inspiration from several powerful images he had encountered on his journey.
No, honestly, it was rather impressive that Elhu and Fiero could reach this point, with just two of them. Even if the shadow of Yystrix stretched across them, their talent was monstrous.
The other images are exhausted, but we still have an old friend to help. Randidly’s eyes blazed. The Dread Homunculus raised its head and howled as his Skills moved together to form a powerful attack. The Wrathful Calamity Rends. Conviction of the Celestial Calamity. And finally… Helen’s Sea, Cradle of Unlikely Lives.
The Dread Homunculus stood tall and twisted its body around, its left hand stretched back in preparation for a mighty slash. Randidly’s Conviction of the Celestial Calamity settled across the image manifestation, sharpening all its details. And then ca the Domain Randidly had inherited from Helen, bubbling up from Sulfur. One by one, the powerful forces that Sulfur had endured and absorbed left the glowing nubs and began the five claws of the Dread Homunculus.
First the wicked march of ti that Randidly had struggled against for so long.
Second, the dense Nether Storm unleashed by Deganawidah.
Third, an earlier punch of annihilation thrown by Elhu, which Randidly had caught.
Fourth, the world-state image of Mae Myrna, which Randidly had infected and shredded.
Finally, the fifth claw was the weight of the imperative under which he struggled. Impossibility had leaned against him for so long that Randidly weaponized it, sending it back at his foes. His pupils dilated. Two seconds to go.
Randidly Ghosthound, Nether King Hungry Eye, toiling in a mory in order to understand and prepare for the present, slashed.
Congratulations! Your Skill the Wrathful Calamity Rends (T) has grown to Level 1005!
Congratulations! Your Skill (Domain) Helen’s Sea, Cradle of Unlikely Lives has grown to Level 1163!
Congratulations! The aspects and authorities gathered together with your Domain Skill have rged together to form a singular attack! Congratulations, you have activated Ghosthound Shreds the Shroud of Erebus to Bare Chaos (GD)! Due to power, Skill Level manifests at 2000!
Congratulations! You have broken the previously held record for Skill Levels! Congratulations, due to your actions, you have been rewarded with the Miracle Maker 0/10000 Path. Calculating additional rewards…
You are the first in the history of the Nexus to have pushed a Skill to Level 2000! A Mille Deux has been achieved for the first ti! With each step, you have moved closer to the Pinnacle. Echoes from this event will rebound throughout the Nexus. What an Incredible Accomplishnt!
Pantheon Intervention. Recalculating…
While shocking notifications flashed in front of Randidly’s eyes, his left hand moved through space and left wreckage in its wake. His hand crashed against Elhu’s fist. There was a mont of struggle. An image t against the combined force of Helen’s legacy. But despite the ambiguous nature of Skill Levels, the outco was decisive.
Randidly overwheld Elhu’s punch. Annihilation shuddered and collapsed.
All the force thrown out by a being on the cusp of the Pinnacle vanished. The air crackled, hollow and dangerously close to an implosion. The strain Randidly felt from supporting the mory with his body increased. Yet he had made it to the ti limit.
A single second to go. He raised his glittering eyes and grinned at the blank face of Elhu. “At least, I can say this for your current self— you handle your losses a lot better than you have in the past.”
Yet that mont beca two. Fiero finally flew up and arrived at Mae Myrna’s side. She looked at him with bitter eyes, her gaze cutting from the Vulpine to Elhu. With a shake of her head, she turned and flew away, taking the Monarch of Karma to rest on a nearby ridge. From her reaction, she also was aware of what Fiero and Elhu had done.
“But what’s this?” Randidly frowned. He felt several fluttering pulses that he couldn’t really understand from Elhu’s image. The second passed and then another arrived, yet the Pinnacle event didn’t begin. It lingered on the cusp. The doors had been thrown wide, but nothing crossed the threshold. And while it waited in the wings of the present, his body continued to deteriorate. Underneath the additional strain of this burden, the wounds he had gained blocking Elhu’s strike couldn’t heal.
For the first ti in years, his reford body began to break down.
It’s not enough for the image to be ready, Randidly’s eyes widened in recognition. As Don Beigon said, you need three elents. A shape, a foundation, and a mont. Right now, my presence here… my images, prevent them from possessing a mont. His expression sank further. Do I really need to just… completely pull back my images and allow it to happen? But then-
What will Elhu do with his power, once he reaches the Pinnacle?
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