Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1380: The Obvious Choice



Skullius, of course, chose to unorthodoxly augment the calibre of his Andori through the shard of Broader Existence from the Doom Knight.

It might have made more sense to create a separate reserve of Amras, but Skullius deemed that unnecessary for the moment. Even if he managed to double his current reserves of Amras, it wouldn't help him much if he didn't have higher attack power for future battles. Besides that, he had just gotten a massive stock of Exora Mead. Granted, it didn't resolve the problem of Amras perfectly, but Skullius would be able to replenish it, however slowly.

It might have also made sense for Skullius to use the shard to create a powerful shield that he could use to defend his Broader Existence in case an attack reached it, but that also seemed needlessly extra when Skullius had just gotten an Immortal Void Physique that granted him higher values than the previous to his Broader Existence defences. The Embodiment of Accelerant Starlight even offered him 75% resistance to attacks two whole leagues above his own defences - higher tiered Andori, Exotic Parlous Natures, and Treasures.

And thus, with this reasoning in mind, the Hybrid Warmoth set his mind on enhancing his Andori.

[You are only capable of edifying a single Andori below the Cosmic tier with the siphoned shard of Broader Existence]

[The selected Andori will be raised to the Third Ascendant tier at once]

'Woah!' Skullius was stunned. He could have clapped his hands in excitement, but that would have drawn too much attention. Even if everyone behind him was mostly aware that he was looking through the guidance field, it wouldn't do to act so shamefully. But perhaps such a reaction would be warranted.

'The Ascendant tier... That's a whole tier higher than my current strongest Andori, [Entropy's Harmonising Nimbus], well, if I'm not temporarily raising the power of my [Legion Eyes] using Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz, that is,' Skullius thought. 'An Ascendant tier Andori can bypass a Void Clot easily, as Uyuniya said earlier... and as proven by the Doom Knight. That's a huge jump in strength.'

Skullius turned giddy.

His mind bubbled with ideas and speculation even without the influence of his thought phantoms.

Power equal to the Andori the Doom Knight had used to almost kill him and Uyuniya when they were in the Void Clot... This needed some deep thought. Skullius wanted to elevate an Andori that would instantly turn the tables against incredibly powerful foes, especially those of a Divine kind.

He already had an idea about which Andori to choose.

His own thoughts gnawed at him, screaming the name of the man he hated most at the moment.

Fulgardt. Fulgardt. Fulgardt.

Even the revelations by Serenity - in all their incompleteness - couldn't overshadow what Fulgardt had said and done to Skullius, at least not for long.

'I will acquire a Corrupted Deity of my own soon, but I need to increase my own strength - my base strength - and ensure that in a contest against Fulgardt, I can immediately match him. The War Body is a terrible unit for confrontations with enemies like Fulgardt,' the Hybrid Warmoth thought.

Fulgardt's smile flashed in his head. He frowned, scowled and sighed.

At that moment, he understood what Fulgardt had meant when he said that he kept him alive solely to increase his (Fulgardt's) own potential for growth; matching an Insurgent Magnus against another Insurgent Magnus really was a powerful formula for growth, now that Skullius thought about it

The Hybrid Warmoth was striving to develop just to get back at the Immoral. No, he wanted to kill him.

To achieve this, Skullius needed to make the decision on which Andori to elevate count. Thus, for the first time in what felt like an eternity, Skullius allowed the thought phantoms to chime in. They went berserk immediately, as always, but...

"The choice is clear here, Prime! We need to improve the quality of [King of Severing Twilight]!"

"Yeah, it's obvious! We have no need to further improve [Entropy's Harmonising Nimbus] for now, and some of our other Andori can be bolstered - however temporarily - using Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz."

"You saw how powerful that darkness Andori truly is when it resonates with a mere Immoral Realm Physique. It's a Grand Tier Andori now, two whole tiers below what it should become, and it made you invincible - at least until the Doom Knight decided to go all out."

"I can already imagine it. This new Immortal Void Physique will boost [Sagacious Antiphon of Dawnlight], and make even its general properties useful in battle again while [King of Severing Twilight; AfterDark] becomes the main source of attacks! This will be a legendary combination. We'll truly feel like the Insurgent Magnus again, just like that time against the Maqians in Opungale. And with that kind of attack power, we won't need to rely solely on the War Body."

Skullius scratched his head.

His phantoms were right. This was a no-brainer indeed.

Again, Skullius was forced to confront just how his Default Body was going beyond his expectations. It was growing rather rapidly. However, that might have been because it was designed to be able to grow, unlike his War Body, which was... ahem.

"You're right, you socketholes," Skullius said to the phantoms. "I didn't realise hearing your voices, chalk full of confidence, would make me start feeling better."

"You better believe it," one of the phantoms cried.

"We will enjoy putting you to the side when it's our time to pilot the body, don't you forget

it."

"What are you waiting for? Let's see the upper potential of [King of Severing Twilight: AfterDark]!"

"Yeah!"

There was no need to emphasise this fact, but it needed to be stated again.

Andori were stubborn abilities that could only be bolstered permanently by increasing the quality of the Broader Existence they inhabited. Skullius using Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz on [Ruining Cutter] and [Elusive Meta Carver] to create the mutations [False Tickler] and [Nonstandard Splicer] respectively, had only been a temporary boon. These Andori were not established in his Broader Existence. They could only be accessed by continuously funnelling Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz into the target Andori.

Thus, what Skullius was about to do was extremely outlandish. There were only a few dozen beings in all of reality that had ever used such a method to improve the quality of their

Andori.

'Now, let's do this!' Skullius thought and he invoked the guidance field.

[You have selected 'King of Severing Twilight: AfterDark' to be raised to the Third Ascendant

tier]

[Please wait...]