Chapter 1399 (1/2)

Randidly’s left arm warped into a taloned claw. Picking up Acri amongst the wrecked ground, Randidly’s right arm became a spear of bone stained with ancient blood. The skin of his torso grew almost translucent, while his arms and legs were warped and burned toward something like black chiton. Two tails flicked side to side, one from his waist and the other from the spot where his spine became his neck.

The Grim Chimera surged forward, practically swimming in a current of Nether. After its baptism on the frontlines, it was the image that had been fully immersed in the dark energy. Nether Brawn surged through Randidly’s physical body. The Nether Nebula within him spun, faster and faster. His heartbeat once more began to accelerate. His body began to heat back up.

Kaan sensed the threat and couldn’t even be bothered to look at Randidly; he simply gestured. While he bounded over the ground toward Neveah’s comically large body, his two pyramids shot back toward Randidly. Immediately, Randidly saw Kaan’s intention; he was going to hit them together and disperse Randidly’s momentum.

Heh.

The Grim Chimera’s chest was illuminated by an inner radiance that began to manifest itself as the image unleashed its full power. Randidly raised his left hand and seized the air. Not with any Skill of the Grim Chimera, but directly with the influence of the Nether Nebula. As the Nether had thickened, Randidly could feel that the core of the Nebula was becoming powerful. Now, he put that power to the test as he reached out and forcibly tore apart the space where the two pyramids were going to collide.

The pyramids shot past each other and smashed apart the nearby ground, close physically but separated by a torn stretch of space. Then Randidly activated Man is Proud, But the Chimera Takes to accelerate rapidly forward, raising Acri and becoming a freight train of weight and power as he arrived at Kaan’s back.

Kaan was finally forced to twist fully around, his face suffused with fury at another interruption. The pyramid tuned to Randidly released a wave of light and a new image to attack him: it was an image of surging life that seemed to rise out of the ground.

If anything… the Grim Chimera perked up in pleasure as the life-giving image flowed out of Kaan and into his body. Almost immediately, Kaan seemed to realize something was wrong and adjusted his image. Suddenly it wasn’t so much life, but a broad sense of freedom that filled the air.

Why the hell would he be trying to weaken the Grim Chimera like this…? Randidly thought in something close to amusement. And in the next moment, Kaan switched the image again to the sense of explosive growth that overwhelmed the senses. Which was the image he was maintaining as Acri pierced into Kaan’s chest.

Donnn- Crack!

For a second, it seemed as though Kaan’s defense would have been enough to disperse most of the force from Randidly’s attack. But Kaan’s attention was split between too many of his pyramids, trying to keep Neveah encumbered while also defending against Randidly’s attack. As such, the force was just enough. Acri’s huge shaft continued forward for several inches even after the strike, opening up a large wound on Kaan’s body.

Kaan looked at Randidly in shock as Acri’s tip just barely pierced through to his back. Thick, syrupy blood that looked something like honey dripped out of the wound. Randidly’s emerald eyes began to glow. Molten Fang of the Pariah.

Acri began to glow red hot. On the image of the Grim Chimera, the ancient blood of whatever beast the Grim Chimera had once slain began to awaken, waves of heat and unwillingness radiating outward from the implement of death. Unfortunately, the Skill quickly burned away the remnant of the attack Randidly had landed with All Things Succumb, but then it continued to sear outward into Kaan’s flesh.

“YOU!” Kaan bellowed. His image blasted outward but was literally met with enough thick Nether that the image drowned before it could accomplish anything. The thick energy current spun tightly around Randidly, and the Acri-length away Kaan couldn’t help but be caught up in its pull.

Chuckling, Randidly released Acri’s shaft and pounced forward. Once it was released, Acri’s tip came apart and it began to wrap its body around Kaan’s torso. With his heartbeat once more reaching a crescendo, Randidly simply threw himself at the struggling and wounded Kaan and used his fists to bludgeon the foe.

Congratulations! Your Skill Monstrosity’s Appalling Physicality (A) has grown to Level 300!

Congratulations! Your Skill Reaper’s Mantle of Catastrophe (L) has grown to Level 130!

With an ashen energy filled with notes of Nether swirling around him like a cloak, Randidly lashed outward with his left and right hands. The talon’d claw ripped deep gashes in Kaan’s shoulder. The bone spear pierced his thigh and ripped out a large chunk of flesh as Randidly twisted before pulling it back out. Although Kaan was furiously struggling to throw Acri off of him, the problem was that Acri had pierced through his chest and then bloomed open on the other side, like a hook.