As the Sun Stills

Skill Sets:
7 Kata of the Ashen Spear

**As the Sun Stills** is a skill that Randidly created in chapter 282 from fragments of Drak Wyrd's image. This skill is the second Kata of Skill Set 7 Kata of the Ashen Spear.

**Location obtaining:** Deardun‏‎.

## Description

This skill increases the weight of the weapon, which gains the ability to draw other weapons and objects to itself. The force of attraction to the weapon increases with the skill level. To use the skill you need Stamina. Activating the skill in chapter 584 required over a thousand Stamina.

## Description of the image

The sun in his image burned brightly, but then there was a soft ticking, and time began to rush past.

Faster and faster, the years passed, shooting forward, millennia gone in the heartbeats that Drak used to move closer. At the core of the sun, which fueled the chain reaction from which it got its power, something changed. The product was different, cheaper, less pure than it had been.

The whole sun rippled, changing color, its fires going from a hot orange to yellow, then to a blue green. Slowly it died further, as time passed, and darkness formed, slowly at first, small pockets within the giant sun. With increasing speed, those pockets of darkness sunk to the core of the sun, beginning to take up more and more of the ‘reactor’ space at the sun’s core. This led to a dimmer fire, which led to more darkness.

All at once, Randidly could feel how shallow that flame was, as only the surface layer of the sun continued to burn. Then all at once that went out, leaving this corner of the universe in darkness. Everything collapsed inward on itself, super condensed to a single point. The universe trembled, this hyper dense core struggling against something, some law of the universe.

The universe tore noiselessly.

That hyperdense blackness sunk into itself, gradually drawing everything around it into that tear in the universe, devouring it.

## Further manipulations with the skill image

### Chapter 536

Randidly’s working with metal had given him a new view on how his Skill should function. Just like the creation of something was a scientific process, a reaction between different forces and energies, so was destruction. It was a simpler reaction, but it was a reaction nonetheless. Randidly had focused very powerfully on the image and forces, but he believed that one way of strengthening his image was to go through the concrete processes that would occur as a sun stills.

As far as Randidly could tell, the sun was an engine that grew bigger and bigger, and grew hotter and hotter as it burned. At some point, the sheer weight of itself demanded that it burn hotter and brighter in order to continue to function. As the sun runs out of fuel, more and more of its mass becomes concentrated at its core, where the engine resides.

Eventually, the engine fails under its own weight, and it collapses on itself.

That was a supernova. That was the powerful force Randidly was seeking.

### Chapter 545

There was a weight to burning, Randidly was slowly realizing, and that was key. There had to be a certain amount of constant heat in a large area around it, and then like a seed, an even deeper and more dangerous seed would slowly bloom. That bloom would slowly spread outward until it filled the entire space that the prior heat had occupied. If there was enough fertile ground now, an even more powerful heat would be born there. But that required area.

Small fire was very far from what happened in the case of a sun’s formation, of course. But it was illustrative of where the power came from. It was almost pseudo-science at this point, but that heated area slowly increased the possibility of something greater being born.

The supernova phenomenon occurred because at some point that seed of heat that bloomed was, to the functioning process of a sun, fundamentally more dangerous than any of the vast space had been previously. It broke the balance.

Unfortunately, no balance would be broken in a small fire.

### Chapter 584

Even with the burden crushing him, weight if which might be entirely psychological, but it was so heavy it felt like he could barely move. Randidly pressed all the weight together, tightening and tightening it. This is what he needed. Not the weight, but instead that feeling of stepping beyond a line. Because as a sun slowly grew hotter, it was a gradual process. But that moment that the weight of the sun grew too powerful at once and it collapsed… it happened instantly.

The heat collapsed into something more. It stopped being simply heat and became weight, and then the weight became nothing. Randidly felt himself flowing along with his image in the process, seeing the sun abruptly start to collapse inward into a point. And that point settled into the tip of his spear.

A line was crossed, and the fragile trellises that were hitherto sufficient became kindling.

## Skill usage

### Chapter 584

The point of his spear that met Chrysanthemum’s wrathful charge. There was a moment where the world stilled along with them as Randidly activated his Skill to its fullest effect. He felt its usage draining him rapidly, but he pushed even harder, Stamina flew away from him as he condensed more and more weight into the strike.

His spear slowed to the point it wasn’t moving, and Chrysanthemum smashed into the spear tip. There was a rumbling. The bones of her shoulder and arm cracked and splintered. She was thrown backward by a superior mass. There was a crack, and a wave of force spread outwards. Water in the nearby area splashed outwards in a wide circle.

While she was thrown backward, Chrysanthemum whined. Randidly himself staggered, feeling abruptly lightheaded. Her strike wasn’t enough to shake him but in fact… the combination of the Stamina usage and feeling so heavy followed by an impossible lightness.

### Chapter 630

The strange pressure of the sun shot upwards. Heat roiled out from his image, shaking the air with the force of its expansion. But soon that heat became heavier, and heavier, and heavier. A sun with a huge diameter slowly dimmed, condensing inwards. The heat filled the surrounding air, growing more and more terrible.

## Related notifications

### Creating skill

* Congratulations! You have created the Second Kata of the Ashen Spear. As this was created on a higher Cohort world than your own, all benefits have been forfeited. Please name the skill.
* As the Sun Stills (R) Lvl 1 has been created!

### Repairing skill

* Congratulations! You have gained access to the Skill As the Sun Stills! Due to your successful repair and powerful image, the Skill has become an Ancient Rarity Skill!

## Notes

* The current skill icon corresponds to Rare Rarity.
* In chapter 286 this skill was broken by Aegiant Wyrd.
* In chapter 517 Randidly destroyed the shards of this skill.
* In chapter 523 Randidly's guilt for not helping Zone 1 fight monsters influenced the skill's image restoration.
* In chapter 525 this skill was restored by 30%.
* In chapter 536 this skill was restored by 50%.
* In chapter 545 this skill was restored by 75%.
* In chapter 561 this skill was restored by 90%.
* In chapter 584 this skill was repaired, and its Rarity become Ancient.
* In chapter 934 this skill was merged with The Spear Advances, Ash Trails into the skill Man is Proud, but the Chimera Takes.

## Images

Changes in the levels of the skill As the Sun Stills