Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5102

Chapter 5102: Experimentation III

In many areas, they seemed actively deficient, pathways that should have blazed with power instead flickering weakly or barely registering at all. The architecture was present, the potential was there, but something fundamental prevented that potential from being realized.

|I have completed preliminary analysis of the subject’s Existential Engineering.|

Ruination’s voice emerged.

|What you perceive before you is the Lattice of Foundational Constraint. This is the basal, most basic perceivable engineering to you currently that defines Bounded Lifeforms, the architecture that was thr blueprint woven into their existence. The network you observe represents the channels through which power should flow and the nodes where that power should accumulate.|

|In Bounded existence, these channels are narrow. The nodes are dimmed. The potential for expansion exists within the architecture, but limitations prevent that expansion from occurring regardless of how much power the subject attempts to cultivate. This...is not deficiency in the conventional sense. This is engineering. Deliberate, precise engineering that establishes ceilings the Bounded cannot surpass through normal means. It is the base template of Existences that will ever be born in Observable Existence.|

HUUM!

|The subject Barbatos displays this Lattice of Foundational Constraint in typical Bounded configuration. Her Civilization and your infinity has optimized what can be optimized within these limitations, but she cannot exceed what she was engineered to be. The channels will not widen. The nodes will not brighten. The ceilings will not lift regardless of her efforts or desires.|

|However.|

|Through Existential Engineering, it is theoretically possible to alter this seemingly preset and unchangeable construct. The limitations are just that, which means they can be removed or modified by one possessing sufficient capability and power. If you were to flood her Lattice with Observable Force and Quintessence Infiniforce and overwhelm the constraints, you could potentially reshape her engineering toward something approaching Hadean classification.|

|I should note that this would not immediately transform her into a full Hadean Lifeform. Her bones and organs would remain in their current state until she undergoes the transformation process that you experienced. But her engineering would be altered to permit such transformation, to allow her existence to grow toward classifications that Bounded existence normally cannot achieve.|

|If successful, she would be designated as a Nascent Hadean. A Hadean Lifeform that has not yet grown to full maturity but possesses the potential to do so. The engineering of a Hadean without the completed physical transformation. A seedling rather than a tree.|

...!

Noah absorbed this information with eyes that blazed brighter by the moment.

A Nascent Hadean.

The possibility of granting others the potential he had achieved through cycles of destruction and rebirth that most couldn’t survive. If he could reshape Bounded engineering through Existential Engineering, if he could remove the limitations that prevented his companions from advancing beyond their designated ceilings...

His hands began to vibrate with immensity.

One hand shone gold with endless Observable Force. The other shone multicolored with endless Quintessence Infiniforce, the energy of his transformation gathering with density that pressed against everything nearby.

He looked down at Barbatos.

"This may be intense," he said simply.

Her dark eyes met his with trust that didn’t waver.

"Go on, Little Fish. Do what you need to do."

Noah pressed both hands against her heart.

He began to flood both forces into her existence, Observable Force and Quintessence Infiniforce pouring through her Lattice of Foundational Constraint in torrents that exceeded anything she had ever experienced. The power pressed against their walls. It pushed against the narrowing. It demanded expansion that the engineering had been designed to prevent!

Barbatos opened her eyes wide.

Her hand shot out to grasp onto his robe. Her chest heaved as her breathing became ragged, back arching off the platform as sensations cascaded through her existence in waves she couldn’t control!

"Ah..!"

BOOM!

Immense concentrations flooded into her engineering.

The Lattice of Foundational Constraint resisted at first, limitations pushing back against the power attempting to reshape them. But Noah didn’t relent. He poured more Observable Force into the gold hand, more Quintessence Infiniforce into the multicolored hand, overwhelming the resistance through sheer magnitude of what he provided.

|Engineering modification in progress. The Lattice of Foundational Constraint is experiencing forced expansion. Primary channels widening by factor of twelve. Secondary channels widening by factor of eight. Tertiary networks restructuring to accommodate increased flow capacity.|

|Nodes of concentrated energy are brightening. Junction points that previously flickered weakly are now blazing with intensity approaching what I observe in your own engineering. The artificial dimming is being overwritten.|

|Subject is experiencing significant sensation as her existence restructures around new parameters. The engineering that defined her for her entire existence is being rewritten in real time. Such alteration cannot occur without the subject being aware of what is happening to them.|

|Modification continuing. Seventy-three percent complete.|

Barbatos trembled beneath his hands.

Golden light began emanating from her skin, Observable Force flooding through channels that could suddenly accommodate its presence. Her dark hair started shifting, strands that had been purely black now showing rivers of gold running through them like veins of precious metal through stone. Her breathing came in gasps that released mist tinged with golden luminescence.

|Eighty-nine percent complete.|

|Ninety-four percent complete.|

|Modification complete.|

Noah slowly withdrew his hands.

The figure of Barbatos lay on the floating platform looking unfathomably beautiful! Her dark hair spread across the soft surface in waves now threaded with rivers of gold Observable Force, the coloring permanent rather than temporary. Her skin held luminescence that hadn’t been there before, subtle but undeniable illumination pressing outward from within.

"Little Fish..."

"What did you just do?"

...!

|She is now designated as a Nascent Hadean.|

|This was a successful first application of Existential Engineering. The methodology you employed intuitively appears to have been correct. Future applications may require adjustment based on subject variation, but the fundamental approach has proven viable.|

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