Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 4880

Chapter 4880: THE Civilizational Instinctus! II

|In battle, THE Civilizational Instinctus transforms combat from an exchange of power into an architectural demolition for you. You no longer fight your opponent directly but rather fight the structure of their existence, seeking to topple their Civilization piece by piece until the whole collapses under its own compromised weight.|

|This methodology is particularly effective against opponents of greater Depth than yourself. Where direct confrontation would favor their superior weight, structural targeting allows you to circumvent that advantage entirely. You do not need to overpower their walls when you can simply remove the foundations those walls rest upon.|

|Against Absolutes, this capability represents your primary path to victory. Their Depth exceeds yours, but their Civilizations possess vulnerabilities accumulated across eons of existence. The older and grander a Civilization, the more points of failure may have developed within its structure if its foundations are weak.|

A path to victory against Absolutes!

Not through matching their power directly, but through exploiting weaknesses that their power couldn’t protect them from!

|Passive Benefit: Existential Proprioception|

|You now possess perfect awareness of your own Civilization’s Manifestation and its structural integrity. You perceive your own weaknesses as clearly as you perceive others’, allowing you to shore up vulnerabilities before enemies can exploit them. Your existence instinctively reinforces stressed points and redistributes weight to prevent collapse.|

|This self-awareness also grants immunity to being analyzed by others possessing similar capabilities. Your Infinities create a shroud of endless variation around your Manifestation, making it impossible for observers to perceive any single configuration long enough to identify weaknesses. What they see changes faster than they can process.|

So he could see himself as clearly as he could see others, but others couldn’t see him in return.

His Infinities protected him from the very capability he now possessed, creating a one-way mirror where he could observe without being observed.

|Scaling Parameters|

|THE Civilizational Instinctus grows more potent as your foundations increase. At current weight of 11x Surface, 10.5x Intermediate, and equivalent Fundamental to THE Primordial Paradox, you can clearly observe Manifestations of beings up to weak and average Absolute classification. Stronger Absolutes appear blurred, their Manifestations only partially visible.|

|As your weight increases, so too does the clarity of your observation. At weight equivalent to standard Absolutes, you would perceive their Manifestations with perfect clarity. At weight exceeding Absolutes, you would begin perceiving hints of Manifestations belonging to entities approaching THE Second Scale.|

|There is no theoretical ceiling to this capability. As your Infinite Formless Depth grows without limit, so too does THE Civilizational Instinctus’ reach.|

|Activation Requirements|

|THE Civilizational Instinctus requires no conscious activation for its autonomous response function. Your existence will react instinctively to threats regardless of your attention or awareness.|

|For Manifestation observation and structural analysis, focused attention is required. You must intentionally observe an entity with the purpose of perceiving their Civilization’s architecture. Casual glances reveal nothing. Dedicated focus reveals everything.|

|For targeted undifferentiation, you must have first identified a specific vulnerability and then direct your attacks with that weakness as the intended target. Unfocused attacks carry no structural targeting benefits. If you cannot even get near your enemy, even if you see their weakness, you will be unable to do anything.|

That last line was important.

Seeing weaknesses meant nothing if he couldn’t reach them. THE Civilizational Instinctus wasn’t omnipotence. It was a tool, and like all tools, it had limitations that he would need to account for in actual combat.

|Historical Context|

|THE Civilizational Instinctus has only been achieved by beings approaching THE Second Scale of Existence, and you are ridiculously far from that.|

|You are the first being in Observable Existence below Absolute to achieve any form of THE Civilizational Instinctus.|

...!

The first below Absolute!

Another unprecedented achievement to add to a growing list of unprecedented achievements!

|Final Assessment|

|The Spark Fragment of THE First Cause has granted you three boons. First, the elevation of your foundations. Second, the Echo of First Cause prophecy that illuminates potential futures. Third, THE Civilizational Instinctus that transforms how you perceive and observe the Civilizations.|

...!

The possibilities were far too grand as Noah processed everything he had just learned.

And yes, he felt like he could truly see now. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

When he looked at himself with his newly enhanced perception, he saw the phantom of his own Civilizational Manifestation unfurling before his awareness.

A massive Grimoire floated at the center of everything, its pages infinite and its cover burning with blue-gold light that painted the surrounding space in colors that spoke of boundless potential. Surrounding this Grimoire were Seals that formed a structure resembling a massive infinity symbol, the lemniscate shape wrapping around the book in endless loops.

Three massive pillars of foundation rose up endlessly from below, representing his Surface, Intermediate, and Fundamental Depths. They connected down to a radiant shore where vibrant blue-gold fields stretched toward horizons that couldn’t be perceived and trees shimmered with stellar brilliance that spoke of Civilizations planted and nurtured.

And at the very center of it all, a massive crimson blue-gold bonfire shone with the light of his Infinite Hunger combined with his core Infinite Undifferentiated Fate. Its embers flowed upward in an endless stream, inscribing themselves on the infinite pages of the Grimoire above before cycling back down to fuel the fire once more.

An endless cycle of growth and inscription and growth again.

|Self-Analysis Complete|

|Your Manifestation displays no observable weaknesses at this time|

|The integration of Infinity across all aspects of your Civilization has created a structure that shifts faster than vulnerabilities can form|

|Any stress point that begins to develop is immediately reinforced by your Infinities before it can become exploitable|

"O Hollow Echo, are you not defined and undefined? You are not THE Creature, and yet you are..."

HUUM!

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