Chapter 1796

Chapter 1796

Congratulations! Your Fatepiece the Hierarchy of Burden has grown to Level 39!

Congratulations! Your Skill Yyrwood Flesh of Yggdrasil (L) has grown to Level 478!

Significance flowed steadily downward and the Stillborn Phoenix heaved out a long blast of refined emotions. Now that he understood how important the right sort of emotional intensity was, Randidly studied the release much more closely. Still, emotions seemed determined to remain inscrutable to him; every time he peered too closely, he could feel them writhe and curl in on themselves to avoid him.

Randidly clicked his tongue. After three months of training with short sparring matches with Claudette, he sensed it was time to return to the Nexus. He leaned back and released a breath as he eased back on his Fatepiece. His insides felt like they were literally on fire; the upper tiers of the Fatepiece left his organs seared and miserable. However, early in their stay in the shaft he had noticed the very obvious applications of Yggdrasil in absorbing light radiations.

He had relied on that to forcefully advanced the Fatepiece, even when he struggled to manage both the electromagnetic discharge and the light. Randidly now chewed on his lip as he looked down at his hand, one flesh one Sulfur settled into a semi-permanent position across his left side. He knew that he would need to allow DiOrtho to acclimate more with the electromagnetic radiation before he proceeded any further, plant image or no.Ne/w novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

His Fatepiece replicated the radiation generated by the birth of a new dimension. Even with the Alpha Cosmos, Randidly couldn’t handle all that alone.

We need to get back anyway. Randidly glanced over at Claudette, who practiced gathering a blizzard around her body and directing the winds. We didn’t head as deeply as I usually do, so several days have passed in the Nexus. Even if the current Claudette-

Randidly’s expression darkened as his mind turned to Commandant Wick. Even if neither of us is ready to face the foes in front of us, we don’t need to be in any hurry. The chaos in the Nexus will keep them from focusing too much on small fries like us. And also, we need to understand what’s going on in the Nexus. Because I doubt that it’s going to magically get better, now that things are beginning to come to pieces.

As he straightened out his body and shook himself, he opened up his Status screen.

Randidly Ghosthound

Class: Lord of the Baleful Wood (x5)

Level: 63 (72%)

Health(/R per hour): 13615/13615 (9627)

Mana(/R per hour): 13062/13062 (3313)

Stam(/R per min): 9496/9496 (3317)

Uncommon Metabolism (Un): 1337

End: 1102

Primordial Nether Juju (M): 1487

Dreadful Alacrity (A): 1672

Grim Intuition (L): 1471

Reaction: 1452

Randidly nodded slowly as he examined his Stats. These months had been extremely productive because he had aimed for something that he had done very rarely in the past: he was grinding Skill Levels.

Specifically, he wanted to push the Skill Levels up on his three images, to improve the power of combining them and help balance the effects. However, once he had started with this task, he didn’t mind picking up some of the smaller combat Skills and utilizing them directly. With his extremely high Conviction of the Celestial Cataclysm, Randidly boosted each of those Skills between 60 and 130 Levels.

In turn, he was currently sitting on a little above five thousand PP, which is an amount that he rarely accumulated except when his Tithe from the Alpha Cosmos came due. Randidly looked at his Status again, but could only shake his head. Even with this massive chunk of PP that I’ve gathered over the past few months, I’m only one-third of the way through triggering the Next Tithe. And this time, I’ve picked all the low-hanging fruit- most of my core Skills are near 400, or above it.

Randidly did stumble across an area of focus that didn’t relate to Skill Levels in his grinding: resonance with Cutting Tide of Amenonuhoko. When he was training with the old physical Skills that he hadn’t thought about in a while, he could feel a nascent form of a Skillset beginning to percolate in his Soulspace. However, he needed to think very deeply about how to proceed.

He didn’t want to create a fourth dominant image that he would need to juggle. But if he could combine all these things into a Skillset focused on fighting...? Make that Skillset consist of the combined, triple image physicalizations?

With a wry smile on his face, he shook himself. Perhaps I’m getting greedy. But I don’t think I have much choice but to keep struggling to improve. Then again, maybe the smart thing would be to incorporate those Skills into one of the other images. That way I things don’t become messier than they already are.

In addition to his focus on Skill Levels, Randidly had continued to improve his capabilities with Nether. Slowly, as he used his naturally flexible energy to improve both of the two Weight enhancements he already established around his Nether Core, he began to understand exactly how much his Fidelity of the Ascendant Moirae aided him.

Nether was an unruly and unpredictable energy. Only due to his extremely high Stats was he able to make such steady improvements. Otherwise, without a firm hand guiding it through the different arrays, small deviations in execution would have muddied the water of the result.

With such a pile of PP, Randidly opened up his Path menu and looked through the different options, cutting out some of the earlier Paths that didn’t interest him..

The Bell of Doom Tolls 0/600, Cleaver of the World Tree ???, Weakness of the World Tree 0/500, Guilty Conscience I 0/100, Hands of the Artisan 0/???, Ashes of Illym, the Above-Average Child 0/5000, The Flame the Burns Memories 0/????, Exodus, the Terror 0/1000, Genesis, the Considered 0/1000, Mysteries of the Fiery Emerald Waltz 0/???, Violent Heat I 0/???, Sovereign of Violence I 0/1000, Deathwish X 0/5, The Pursuit of Alchemy 0/750, Weakness of the Stillborn Phoenix 0/500, The Shadow Beyond the Threshold 0/???, Primordial Might 0/????, The Passion sans Shape I 0/???, Architecture of Yggdrasil I 0/????, The Trace of the Ideal 0/???, Emotional Evolution I 0/500, Breath of the Imaginary Firebird 0/1000, The Throne of Nether Homage I 0/500, Stat Evolution IV 0/1000, Spark of the Origin Beast 0/?????, The Eyelids of the Grey Creature Flutter 0/10,000, Determined III 0/300, Violent Currents of Amenoumi 0/2500

Randidly considered the available Paths. He took particular note of the fact that all of the previous Paths relating to the Grim Chimera had vanished. In its stead, he only possessed the Eyelids of the Grey Creature Flutter, which had a too-steep price of 10k PP. Plus, it seemed that the System sensed his efforts with his spear use.

Still, what immediately caught Randidly’s eyes was the continuation of the Determined Path he had started earlier. Since the cost was only 300, he didn’t mind pushing it to the fifth leg of Paths to see the result.

Congratulations! You have completed the Determined III Path! You continue to tirelessly explore every avenue, accumulating experience. These small Paths may not be covered in riches, but you walk them with confidence. There is meaning to your continued dedication to improvement.

Branching Path! Although you have made some small discoveries about yourself, there is no sudden epiphany waiting for you at the end of this Path. Would you like to collect a very small reward now or defer the reward for later?

Congratulations! All Stats +5!

Congratulations! You have completed the Determined IV Path! The depths of your determination know no bounds! You continue to pursue opportunities in even the most unlikely of places. Due to your adventures, you begin to sense the shape of something larger lurking in your subconscious. There is a truth about the world that you are slowly learning by following your intuition.

Branching Path! Although you have made some discoveries about yourself, there is no sudden epiphany waiting for you at the end of this Path. Would you like to collect a small reward now or defer the reward for later?

Congratulations! All Attributes +200!

Congratulations! You have completed the Determined V Path! What do you sense from the edge of the horizon that continues to draw you further? Because you have not relented in your pursuit of improvement in mundane locales. That sense you feel is building, but at the same time, you begin to doubt the efficacy of your Path. If there was truly a secret to this

Branching Path! You feel confident in your exploration of the surroundings. Perhaps the reward won’t be large, but you can sharpen your mentality through these adventures. Would you like to collect your well-deserved reward now or continue to waste your time?

Randidly rubbed his chin. You know, when you so obviously want to nudge me toward the reward, I almost want to just keep persisting...