Chapter 2430
Randidly felt the impact on the solid ground only distantly. For better or for worse, the developments he refused to acknowledge left him briefly blinded.
His head rang, his torso ached, and his mind continued to spin as he tried to grasp what exactly he had just experienced. Different experiences fought for prominence in his bedraggled consciousness.
Memories began to flash before his eyes as he wondered how he had arrived at this painful place. He felt the first physical impacts of the tomes slamming into this body, he felt the triumph of Yggdrasil and the screeching alarm of the Stillborn Phoenix, he saw the smirk on Laplace’s face as its tongue drilled through his chest and wrapped around his heart-
Randidly’s eyes snapped open as he clenched his teeth and forced aside his own stupidity. He immediately groaned, as his vision revealed blurred color and very little else. Despite his powerful body, being used as a battering ram through Pine’s final barrier did not feel excellent. He managed to flop over onto his back and begin to push himself up onto his elbows to get a look around.
He saw sunlight filtering through a deciduous forest along a worn dirt path. Down the meandering pathway, Randidly could also see a small wooden cabin. The place felt… warm and alive.
Abruptly, Randidly’s expression twisted as the original reason for his distraction reasserted itself. Shit, what happened with my Grand Fate-
Yggdrasil sounded a warning. A woozy Randidly spun around to see a net of golden roots weaving themselves together in front of his body and a sneering Laplace swinging one of its fat hands in a wide swipe. Randidly was happy to see that Laplace also seemed a bit the worse for wear, having passed through the barrier; not only was the flesh of Laplace’s head discolored as though it had been bruised, but the hand Randidly had used to blind its left eye had been bent into a hook and carved its vulnerable flesh.
Then the attack arrived and Yggdrasil could only weaken the attack. Randidly was sent sprawling backward, cracking through a treetrunk and becoming embedded in another. As Randidly forced himself back to his feet, he felt an unfamiliar tingle emanating from the core of his being.
He watched as Laplace turned away and began to draw itself quickly forward in the direction of the small cabin. Yet what caused the tingles through Randidly’s body were the strange grey whorls left in the air in the Eternity’s wake.