Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5135

Chapter 5135: Dissection! II

Noah’s eyes were bright as he looked at the bound Primordial Architects floating before him.

Above him, THE Hadean Pillar of Infinity buzzed with the soft hum of a forge just before its next strike. He called upon the Civilizations nested within it, and three of them bloomed outward at his summons. Undifferentiated Fate first, its golden light pouring down from the Pillar in long molten ribbons.

Relativity next, its purple currents folding through the space around him in configurations that bent distance into obedience. Outerversal last, its obsidian weavings rising from the depths of the Pillar like something fished up from a sea that had no bottom.

The three Civilizations wove together in the air in front of him and became chains.

Golden, purple, and obsidian. Braided along their lengths, each link carrying the weight of all three Civilizations at once.

His Pillar of Infinity held every actualized Civilization he possessed. That had been the point of building it this way. He could call on them individually, layer them however he wanted, and each one would still carry the full weight of Infinity because the Pillar was where Infinity and Civilization met.

The chains moved.

HUUM!

They struck outward across the floating island, uncoiling through the frozen air with the steady confidence of predators that had been bred for exactly this kind of work. They wrapped Octavius first. Then Valeria. Then the other Calymmians scattered across the ruined apparatus!

Then the unconscious Rhyacian. Then the Abomination still hanging above, its jaws still arrested mid-bite. Each being was coiled into its own individual harness, lifted from wherever it had been frozen, and laid flat on its back in space.

Relative to him. He floated above them now.

Below him, they floated in a neat row beneath his position, like specimens on trays!

Shock sat in their eyes. Sombreness behind the shock. Every one of them stared up through the weight of his Haki, and every one of them understood something in that moment that they hadn’t quite believed before the chains had settled around their limbs.

The Chosen designation had limits. The limits had just introduced themselves!

Noah checked the strain inside himself.

It was akin to an invisible muscle deep in his mind held every bound Primordial Architect in place, each one a thread his attention was keeping taut. Octavius took the most force, naturally. The Greed-amplified Architect had the most foundation of the lot, and his engineering pushed back against the control of his Infinity with the most sustained resistance. But even he was manageable!

He waved his hand.

Octavius’s bound body slid through the air toward him, golden and purple and obsidian chains dragging it closer until it hovered directly beneath Noah’s floating position. The Architect’s pale gold eyes held up at him with the defiant light of a being whose Greed hadn’t yet conceded anything.

Defiance was useful. Defiance meant the Ego was still active, still humming, still demonstrating the configurations Noah wanted to study.

"The human body is made of countless things."

"Even without mana. Even without any authority or refinement at all. The human body on its own is a marvel, and most humans go their entire short lives without ever realizing what they’re actually walking around in. Ordinary flesh and bone. Ordinary blood. Ordinary everything. And yet the composition of that ordinary body, if you trace it back far enough, tells a history that stretches across the entire life of its universe."

"The body’s made mostly of oxygen. About sixty-five percent by mass. Then carbon, about eighteen percent. Hydrogen, around ten. Nitrogen, three. Then calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, magnesium. Trace amounts of iron, zinc, copper, selenium, iodine, and so on down the line. Every one of those elements has a story. Every one of them had to be made somewhere before it ended up inside a walking human being."

"Hydrogen and most of the helium came from the early universe itself, formed in the first three minutes after the Big Bang. Everything heavier was forged inside stars. Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, all cooked up in the cores of stars that lived and died across billions of years. The calcium in bones? Forged in stellar fusion. The iron in blood? Made in massive stars and then scattered across space when those stars exploded as supernovae. The iodine in the thyroid, the selenium, the heavier elements? Those came from neutron star mergers and the deaths of the largest stars."

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