Chapter 1691 (2/2)
Tide of the Void. Cursed Appetite of a Wraith. The Implacable Price of Exodus.
Then, once all of the supporting images were bathed in his energy, all that potency was raked backward with the second triple Skill activation.
He felt their pain as thousands of individuals were ejected from the Eidolon Crucible. Their mental energy was shredded; likely they would wake up with a headache tomorrow morning. The surrounding space was ominously empty, while the skyislands of the earlier blockade drifted around with a shocked aimlessness.
Then Randidly raised his head and grinned at the remainder. The second lesson. You cannot protect the weak from everything.
Congratulations! Your Skill Reign of the Eidolon Crucible (L) has grown to Level 312!
Congratulations! Your Skill Reign of the Eidolon Crucible (L) has grown to Level 313!
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Congratulations! Your Skill Reign of the Eidolon Crucible (L) has grown to Level 351!
Randidly clicked his tongue as he came back to his body and rolled his shoulders. Seems like the Skill improves faster when my victory is quick… but well, usually I wouldn’t want to teach them such a harsh lesson…
Just as Randidly’s mind was turning back to his decision regarding the Calamity, Tatiana sent him a message, asking when he would be leaving. Randidly could only shake her head at the woman’s insight and replied that he would be leaving tonight.
Good luck, Randidly. We are rooting for you.
Randidly stared at that message for a long time. Eventually, an explosive sigh that transformed into a smile. Shaking his head, he gently mocked himself. You cannot control everything. Even if you are stronger… you aren’t strong enough to protect everyone. Just like the Order Ducis alone won’t be enough. And that’s okay.
He then sent a message to Lucretia to proceed as planned with the Calamity. Next, he sent messages to all his subordinates on Expira, to contact him if they wanted to go back to the Alpha Cosmos. He was heading back to the Shaft. His Philosopher’s Key opened a portal from within his body back to floating in that dark space above the meditating Nether Gatekeepers.
Randidly looked down at his hands after he put away his Fatepiece. Then he clenched his fists. Something inside of him hardened. I can’t waste too much time here. Somehow… I don’t want to just be sitting in the darkness while Expira goes through the Calamity. I don’t think I’ll be able to keep myself from just observing how it goes and obsessing over the results.
And also… I need to provide that planet for the Nemesai, to use as a base for the Calamity…
So Randidly threw himself back into his frantic training schedule. The lion’s share of his time went to weaving Nether, learning to create a grand Nether Array that would tie together this new addition to his Alpha Cosmos. With some communication with Neveah about the principles behind the process, he improved by leaps and bounds, rapidly expanding the scope of the Nether Array’s he could make.
Congratulations! Your Skill Precise Nether Ritual (L) has grown to Level 290!
Congratulations! Your Skill Left Hand of the Nether Oracle (M) has grown to Level 311
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Congratulations! Your Skill Precise Nether Ritual (L) has grown to Level 292!
Influence +33!
As his Nether Core continued its constant rotation, feeding off his determined efforts to improve, Randidly interspersed his days with other varieties of training. He activated his Hierarchy of Burden, improving until the Fatepiece reached Level 15 and the activation produced crimson serpents of lightning that lashed and bit at Randidly to shake his concentration. Even with his powerful body, he was starting to have difficulties handling the dangerous electromagnetic radiation.
He continued to experiment with immersing himself in his own images, improving the concrete potency of Yggdrasil and the Stillborn Phoenix by polishing up the details. His capabilities continued to climb.
Randidly pulled out Acri and Sulfur and utilized Ripple of Amenonuhoko in the shaft, sensing the way the pull of significance below constantly skewed the ripples. In addition, Randidly took quite a lot of time to study the profound ripples that sometimes resulted from his energy impacting the spine of the shaft. Randidly truly began to believe that this enormous skeleton belonged to a Universe Devouring Beast, which still possessed a hint of that miraculous energy to create life.
In the darkness, Randidly advanced. He pushed himself until he was exhausted. And then he pushed himself further, doing anything to exhaust himself past the point of thinking about the Calamity hanging over Expira.
Improving was all he allowed himself. Improving enough to protect Expira was the only way he could justify to himself that he would allow a Calamity to ravage his home planet, on his own order.