Chapter 1616 (1/2)

Randidly barred his teeth at the visible portion of the meddlesome Nexus above him, but then forced himself to relax. The Grim Chimera rubbed its hands in anticipation as he refocused himself.

Ripping through these Paths had cost a lot of PP, but Randidly still had over thirteen thousand remaining. After hesitating for a bit, Randidly decided to gather a few more bags of spare fertilizer, to make sure the Grim Chimera could grow well.

Congratulations! You have completed the Body Refinement I Path! Your body is the basis of your entire strength; with it, you have the capability to directly endure the harsh environment that surrounds you. You limbs can channel the power of your images even more efficiently. You have chosen this simplistic Path, choosing to spend your time and energy betting on yourself.

Congratulations! Uncommon Metabolism +10!

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Congratulations! You have completed the Body Refinement II Path! You are an individual who has habitually taken the time out of your day to sit and refine your body. The results speak for themselves: improvements are accumulating every day. And although you must walk eerie Paths to reach the particular environments where your body can be tempered, you do it willingly. In the darkness of the Wilderness, you continue to find Paths forward. Your tenacity is developing into quite a horrifying conviction.

Congratulations! Endurance +30! Health Regen +200!

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Congratulations! You have completed the Body Refinement III Path! The precious resources required to improve your body are becoming increasingly scarce, but you haven’t waived in your zealous pursuit of improvement. You roam through the desolate sand dunes, claustrophobic forests, and the frigid coastline alike, seeking to find more methods to improve yourself. Now that you have gone beyond the limits of conventional wisdom, you must rely on your own experience to find a new truth.

Hopefully, that truth will be able to carry you to the Pinnacle.

Congratulations! Fidelity of the Ascendant Moirae and Focus +30! Health and Stamina +500! Congratulations! You have learned the Skill Body and Mind Symbiosis (A) Lvl 1!

Body and Mind Symbiosis (A): The connection between your body and mind has become increasingly strong, to the point that they benefit from each other. When one is healthy, the others run more efficiently. As long as your Health is above 50%, your mental stats receive a minuscule boost. As long as your Mana is above 50%, your physical stats receive a minuscule boost. As long as your Stamina is above 50%, your regenerations receive a small boost. Effects increase with Skill Level.

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Congratulations! You have completed the Body Refinement IV Path! In front of you is a high and thick wall. Many have warned you of its existence, but your particular gifts have meant your wall is far out in the Wilderness. Yet now, here it is. As foretold.

As power accumulates in your body, it is increasingly difficult to improve on that power. After attempting a variety of methods, you have seen some minor results, but the speed of growth is incomparable to the past. You sense that what you need now is not accumulation, but a genuine transformation. Your foundation has reached its limits.

Congratulations! Primordial Nether Juju and Dreadful Alacrity +40!

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Congratulations! You have completed the Body Refinement V Path! You have achieved an amazing accomplishment! You have pushed your physical body beyond its base Stats in so many ways; you have been able to completely transform your very state of existence. Accumulation from normal practice has ceased almost completely, but you did not let that stop you. Now, you are another tier of being entirely.

Congratulations! All Physical Stats +20! You have gained the Skill Domineering Impunity (L) Lvl 1!

Domineering Impunity (L): Your very existence has become so tenacious that you have an inexplicable ability to avoid and recover from lethal circumstances. User will drastically reduce one instance of overwhelming damage against them by a vast amount. There is a cooldown between uses. Damage reduced will increase with Skill Level. Cooldown slightly reduces with Skill Level.

After finishing the last in the sequence of Body Refinement Randidly released a long-held breath. His eyes swept sideways to the low hills and rolling plains around the Nether Pinion on which he stood. Then he smirked and decided to ignore the flies buzzing nearby and consider the rewards he had gained after going through so many Paths.

With the escalating costs of both the Image Cooperation and Body Refinement Paths, Randidly had reduced his remaining PP to 7125. Which was still an immense amount, but it was an amount he would keep in his pocket for now; it would be worth it to keep some PP stored away to rapidly finish almost any Path that he needed.

Randidly couldn’t help but raise his hand and flex his fingers. His bones creaked in protest from his vastly improved power and Randidly’s smile only widened. He began to laugh, raising his head and cackling. Anyone watching would think he was insane, but Randidly didn’t care. Even setting aside all the new Skills and evolved Stats, all the PP that Randidly spent had a very concrete impact on Randidly’s power: he had gained 4318 Stats in the past half hour.

Even split across twelve Stats, that was an average improvement of 359 per Stat. With a shit-eating grin on his face, Randidly looked at his new raw Stats.

Randidly Ghosthound

Class: Lord of the Baleful Wood (x5)

Level: 63 (19%)

Health(/R per hour): 13595/13595 (9627)

Mana(/R per hour): 12792/12792 (3163)

Stam(/R per min): 9475/9476 (3317)

Uncommon Metabolism (Un): 1335

Endurance: 1100

Primordial Nether Juju (M): 1485

Dreadful Alacrity (A): 1670

Grim Intuition (L): 1469

Reaction: 1450

Resistance: 1234