Chapter 1569 (2/2)

After he finished off the foolish Nether Beasts, Randidly looked around with new understanding. If he looked for long enough, he almost felt like he could see ghosts lingering around in those spots, transforming before his eyes.

Congratulations! Your Skill Nether Sensation (L) has grown to Level 335!

With a sigh, Randidly shook his head. Although his senses had become much more acute, they still couldn’t quite completely acclimate to the surroundings. Well, that was perhaps not true. Randidly just wasn’t quite strong enough to rip all of the secrets out of the surrounding shaft, which seemed to become more mysterious the longer he stayed here.

But he reassured himself that it was only a matter of time before he could read into the secrets of this shaft.

After he stabilized his position at his new depth and settled in a location with low emotional traffic, Randidly’s attention turned downward. With his more expansive senses, he could reach deeply into the area below him and see that the interior of the spine was, as he suspected, widening even further-

That observation caused Randidly to pause and grin maniacally. At this point, this looks less like a spine and more like a bone esophagus leading to a massive stomach… Heh, just how much of a monster was this fuck…?

Randidly set that thought to the side for now and continued with his examination. Within the wider space below, it seemed that there were even more Nether Beasts he could lure toward himself to fight. But the Nether Beast population he could observe was nearing the point where any fight that Randidly got into would quickly become tiresome; there were simply too many Nether Beasts for even him to comfortably defeat those nearby quickly enough that others wouldn’t notice and investigate.

Basically, Randidly estimated that any fighting right now would embroil him in a struggle that could last anywhere from two days to a week, just from the constant stream of nearby Nether Beasts. It would be a never-ending cascade of aggressive Nether activity. And considering the amount of image power he would likely need to use to fight off those Nether Beasts… more could very well come up from below.

More Nether Beasts, and worse. With the way their abilities were improving… he would encounter Nether Heralds soon.

And of course, that thought sent a shiver of excitement through him.

Silently shaking his head, Randidly looked even deeper into the depths. Due to the powerful emotions radiating upward from the power source below, the whole area was stained with a subtle shade of maroon. Despite his buried anticipation, he could locate no Nether Heralds below; it appeared he would need to satisfy himself with the typical Nether Beasts.

In addition… the more he peered downward, the more Randidly realized that there were some… openings in the gathering of Nether Beasts. It was so far below that he couldn’t get a clear view of what was occurring, but there were clearly spaces that the Nether Beasts avoided.

And those open spaces were gradually shifting. As though the Nether Beasts instinctively avoided some living creature…

Perhaps… some sort of apparatus connected to the powerplant below? Aether Guards…?Or even a weird life emotional life form…? Maybe I’m not the first person to detach a doppelganger… Randidly wondered. But without more evidence, he set those conjectures aside. An aggressive part of himself was intensely curious, but after descending further into the depths, he could placate his aggressive tendencies for now.

Besides, Randidly came down here with a different project in mind.

Silently breathing out through his nose, he pushed his thick Nether out of the Nebula and into the surrounding air. Although his eyes were useless in the gathering of information, his Nether Sensation could detect the strange energy his eyes released as his body became the core of a weave of Nether. The thick strands of Nether rapidly moved together, pushing back the surrounding air and building a tiny bubble of isolation.

The ambient Nether in the air resisted a little, but Randidly was able to open up a few meters of space where he could work. The bubble pushed everything else back.

Congratulations! Your Skill Nether Ritual (A) has grown to Level 201!

Congratulations! Your Skill Nether Ritual (A) has grown to Level 201!

Once the Ritual cleansed the surrounding air, Randidly folded his legs beneath him and began to meditate. He needed to observe the behavior of the Nether Ritual, as well as making sure there were no problems with the emotional tether or the Nether Beasts in the surrounding area. Keeping the surrounding Nether from interfering with the process was just the beginning.

After about an hour, Randidly allowed himself to nod slowly; this would work.

Then he straightened his body, rolled his shoulder, and flexed his fingers of his hand. He took out the Philosopher’s Key and opened a portal to basically the only location he could, currently. Before him, a threshold to his Alpha Cosmos opened, connecting this space to the secret world that was his own body.

Strangely, the plane of the portal rapidly grew fuzzy. Randidly frowned; it looked like his Nether Ritual wasn’t completely effective. Or rather, there was some filtering that he couldn’t avoid. The energy makeup of the air on the two sides of the portal was different enough that this distortion occurred when the atmospheres met. But considering the effect was relatively minor, Randidly had to consider this a success.

He reached through the portal with an open hand.

It was slightly awkward waiting there with just his hand, but his reliance on Nether Sensation meant that his vision beyond the portal was mightily reduced. He could only rely on the exposed skin of his hand detecting soundwaves to carefully construct a picture of what was occurring beyond the portal. Figures shifted, moving toward the portal.

Oddly, Randidly felt strangely nervous. When I’m alone, I don’t mind missing my senses, but it does make it awkward that I can only communicate through messages...

But very soon, a small ring was placed within his hand. Grinning, Randidly pulled his hand back, closed the portal, and scanned the ring. New schematics and several valuable metals were carefully stacked within.

It was time to reforge his left arm.