Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5006

Chapter 5006: The Scale II

His voice dropped to something approaching solemnity.

"It is impossible. The door simply does not open for those who lack the key, and the key is not found among the Four Aspects no matter how thoroughly one masters them. Chaos may grant tremendous power within its domain. Paradox may permit contradictions that reshape local reality. Existence may build Civilizations spanning Primordial Realms. The First Tongue may rewrite the very language through which reality expresses itself."

He shook his head slowly, crystallized features shifting with the motion.

"But none of these authorities, magnificent as they may be, can carry a being past THE Second Scale. For that journey, one requires something deeper. Something that predates the Aspects themselves. Something that was present during THE First Cause and remains present still, flowing beneath the surface of what beings perceive as power."

Yggvaros paused in his contemplation and released a sigh carrying weight accumulated since before most Primordial Architects had achieved their first moments of cognizance.

He looked outward, his gaze piercing the white barrier emanating from the tree behind him. Beyond that calm boundary, the storms of corrupted paradoxical proto-matter continued their violent transformation of THE Prima Indifferentia. Blue-gold light pulsed through the chaos, Infinite Absolute Seals scattered across regions that had never known such authority before this current age.

"Infinity is unfathomably difficult to seek at THE Second Scale. Even those who have walked these heights for eons struggle to access more than fragments of its true nature. We sense it. We know it exists. We understand, in principle, what it represents. But channeling it? Directing it? Making it serve our purposes rather than simply existing in proximity to our awareness?"

His eyes narrowed with something approaching genuine interest.

"That requires methodology that most at this Scale have never developed. That requires understanding that most at this Scale have never achieved. That requires either tremendous fortune or tremendous insight, and fortune of such magnitude does not simply occur without cause."

His gaze focused more intently on the blue-gold light pulsing through the storms beyond his barrier.

"And yet someone astounding enough in Our Observable Existence has not only grasped Infinity, but they have spread it openly and freely for all others to see. The corruption carries it. The proto-matter pulses with it. Every corner of THE Prima Indifferentia now holds fragments of Infinite authority that did not exist here before this current transformation began."

Yggvaros raised one hand, his crystallized fingers moving with deliberate purpose.

"Is this merely their own Infinity, personal authority spread thin across vast distances? Or are they pulling from Infinity on the same level as THE Primordial Source, accessing depths that even those at THE Second Scale have found difficult to perceive? The distinction matters greatly, for the implications of each possibility diverge toward futures that could reshape everything we understand about advancement itself."

He waved his hand in sweeping motion, and the corruption beyond his barrier responded to his authority. The paradoxical proto-matter was filtered away, pushed aside by will refined across cycles beyond counting. What remained was pure, distilled from the chaos that had carried it.

Blue-gold Infinite Absolute Seals flowed into his domain, drawn through the white barrier by invitation rather than force.

Many across Observable Existence had already mixed their weavings with this paradoxical corrupted proto-matter and Infinity, their existences accelerating through combination that would either elevate them or unmake them depending on factors they likely did not understand.

Yggvaros had been careful not to touch it himself, maintaining the contemplative distance that had served him well since he first grasped THE Second Scale.

But at this time, curiosity overcame caution.

HUUM!

The weavings of Infinity fell into his hands, and a heartshaking aura erupted from his position with force pressing against regions of THE Prima Indifferentia far beyond his normal influence. The calm boundary around the white tree flickered as power flowed through crystallized fingers that had not touched authority this potent in eons.

Many Undivided Ones and Formless Terrors paused in their distant conflicts in different directions, sensing something that exceeded their comprehension emanating from a direction they instinctively knew to avoid.

Yggvaros pulled his hands back from the particles of Infinity.

"Utilizing Infinity greatly empowers and strengthens one’s Civilization, this much is certain. The authority flows through foundations and expands them, fills gaps that other methodologies cannot reach, elevates potential toward heights that seemed impossible before contact was established."

His voice carried weight now, informed by direct experience rather than mere contemplation.

"But those who channel it also add their power to Infinity itself. The exchange flows in both directions, and I wonder whether those currently mixing their weavings with this scattered authority understand what they contribute to something they cannot perceive. They take, yes, but they also give. And what they give flows toward a source that none here fully comprehend."

He looked down at the diagram he had drawn on the golden earth, at the branching lines leading from the Four Aspects toward that distant singularity labeled Scale of Existence.

"None here truly understand how to access THE Primordial Source. Perhaps those who naturally reach THE Second Scale might perceive pathways that others cannot. Perhaps eons of patient observation might reveal truths that desperate advancement obscures. Perhaps existence is simply too vast and unfathomable for any single consciousness to grasp, regardless of how long that consciousness has existed."

His gaze lifted toward the blue-gold light still pulsing beyond his barrier, toward the Infinity scattered across THE Prima Indifferentia by someone operating from Observable Existence.

"But what I am most curious about is the one who freely spread this authority. The foremost Guider of Infinity, or would they be called THE Conduit of Infinity? The terminology matters less than the reality of what they have accomplished."

Yggvaros rose from his seated position, his crystallized form shifting with motion that pressed against the golden earth beneath him. The white tree pulsed behind him as if acknowledging his contemplation, its dimensions continuing to vary with each moment that passed.

"How did you access Infinity when even those at THE Second Scale have found such access difficult? What methodology do you possess that we lack? What understanding have you achieved that has eluded beings who have existed since before THE Infinite Unfurling itself?"

His questions hung in the calm air of his domain, unanswered by anything except the distant storms continuing their transformation of THE Prima Indifferentia.

Somewhere in Observable Existence, a finite being conducted an endless sea.

And THE Arboreal Warden Yggvaros, First Among THE Sane to Grasp THE Second Scale of Existence, found himself genuinely curious about him!

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