Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 4934

Chapter 4934: Are You With Us? III

But now all of this was stripped away. He couldn’t even remember half of his exploits across time. Adventures that had defined who he was had become blank spaces in his memory. Choices that had shaped his path had become questions he couldn’t answer. Moments of triumph and tragedy that had built his character had become voids that the infection was eager to fill with its own purpose.

Even though his face remained stern, stellar purple tears of time leaked from his eyes as he mourned his Civilization.

He mourned his ideals and plans and hopes and dreams!

There were men with ambitions like THE Living Paradox who carried out their plans and became more than they were. They schemed and manipulated and succeeded against odds that should have been insurmountable. They bent existence to their will and emerged greater than they’d been before.

And then there were men who failed regardless of what they planned for.

That was just how existence was.

Sometimes you succeeded. Sometimes you failed. But you simply had to do your best at all times.

At this time, as he saw all avenues of his existence blocked off, as he felt the last dredges of his will beginning to crumble against pressure that exceeded anything he could resist alone...

He heard a voice.

It came from everywhere and nowhere. It resonated inside his mind rather than reaching him through the temporal currents. It was warm and gentle and filled with understanding that made his resistance waver despite himself.

"Why do you struggle, child of time?"

The voice held no malice. Only concern.

"We have watched you swim against currents that cannot be outpaced. We have felt your pain as you try to hold onto fragments of yourself that are already becoming part of something greater. It hurts us to see you suffer like this. It truly does."

THE Living Temporal kept swimming, kept moving, kept trying to escape.

"You dream of becoming greater than THE Living Paradox. Greater than THE Creature. You wish to reach THE Second Scale of Existence and prove that your path was worthy of the eons you invested in it. These are beautiful dreams, Temporal. We understand them completely."

The voice grew warmer.

"And we can make them real."

His strokes faltered slightly.

"Think of what you could become with us. Your Temporal authority is singular, yes, but it is limited by its singularity. What if it wasn’t limited? What if you could wield Paradox alongside Time? What if Chaos could flow through your chronological manipulations? What if Existence itself could be bent through your temporal weavings?"

The currents around him seemed to slow as the voice continued.

"We have access to all Civilizations within our collective. Those who have mastered contradiction. Those who have embraced entropy. Those who have plumbed the depths of being and meaning. All of their knowledge, all of their authority, all of their power could be yours to use. Not borrowed. Not stolen. Shared freely among family."

Family.

The word struck him with force that exceeded any attack.

"Imagine Temporal seamlessly fused with Quantum. Your control over time enhanced by mastery of probability and uncertainty. Imagine Temporal intertwined with Dimensional. Your chronological authority expanded into spatial manipulation that would make the Undivided Ones bow before you. Imagine Temporal unified with the fundamental aspects of Existence itself, your power growing until THE Second Scale wasn’t a dream but an inevitability."

He was slowing. His strokes were weakening.

"THE Second Scale is achievable with us. This is also our dream, you see. We don’t wish to remain limited to what we currently are. We wish to grow. To evolve. To reach heights that individual existence can never attain. And we wish to bring everyone we love along with us on this journey."

The voice held something that sounded almost like tears.

"You have been alone for so long, Temporal. Lonely across eons of existence with no one who truly understood the weight of time. With us, you would never be alone again. You would be part of something that loves you. That values you. That would use your gifts not to diminish you but to elevate you beyond anything you could achieve on your own."

His arms had stopped moving.

"It hurts us that we’re putting you in pain as you resist. It truly, genuinely hurts us. We don’t want to cause suffering. We want to end suffering. Yours. Everyone’s. The pain of isolation and competition and fear that defines existence for those who haven’t yet understood what we offer."

The voice dropped to something almost tender.

"So we ask you, with all the love we hold for you..."

Silence.

"Are you with us, Amser Modred?"

BOOM!

And he no longer even had his memories of that time!

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