Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5242

Chapter 5242: THE Source Lands! I

A glorious opportunity.

That was the framing Evangelina had used, and Noah did not find it dishonest. The framing just had context around it that she had not emphasized. Ealdor Gilded Ones had stopped entering because the risk to their lives was unacceptable. Many prior entrants had died. By any honest accounting, the Wall was a place where the most powerful beings in the current arrangement of existence had encountered a ceiling on what their power could protect them from.

He was excited!

Not despite the danger. Because of it. Because challenge and risk and adversity compressed progression the way nothing else did, and an unknown space where Ealdor Gilded Ones refused to go was precisely the kind of danger that produced the kind of growth he could not manufacture through any other means. He wanted it to be as dangerous as possible.

And he had THE Infinite Tongue. He had two integrated Prime Causes. He had THE Infinite Cause, which was not a derived expression of THE First Cause but something adjacent to it in a way he had not fully mapped yet.

He thought about THE Creature, who had grasped THE Primordial Source from the lower Observable Existence without transforming into a different category of lifeform, operating through his rebuilt foundations, and who had killed a Gilded One with those tools.

Whatever THE Creature held now was not a small thing.

Infinity and THE Primordial Source together.

If Noah could get his hands on both, the question of what he would be capable of did not have a clean answer.

He was still thinking about this when he became aware that Adelheid’s Infinity, which flowed through her constantly from their bond, was carrying something different in its current. Not words. Something beneath words, a tension in the substrate of what she was generating, slight enough that most beings in his position would not have felt it.

He sent a small mental message through the connection.

’Hey. Don’t worry too much. With me here, I will take care of you.’

He said it calmly. The way a person stated a fact they had no particular investment in debating.

Adelheid did not turn around. But he saw the line of her shoulders shift by a fraction, and he saw the edge of a small smile at the corner of her profile before she composed it back into the regal neutrality she had been maintaining since they left the vessel.

She rolled her eyes!

Ahead of them, the Maharanis delegation had moved into position as well. Arjun floated at their center, unhurried, carrying himself with the specific composure of someone for whom this was simply the next item on a long agenda of grand things. Behind him, a Custodes with bright sparkling bearing and green hair stood close, her power at full Silurian Paleozoic baseline, two additional Silurian Paleozoic Scale Gilded Ones flanking the pair. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Noah looked across both groups.

Objectively, he was the weakest being standing before the Wall. Every other person here outclassed him by tiers.

He thought about how many of them would survive the filtering. And of those who survived the filtering, how many would survive what came after.

The math became more interesting from that angle.

The Custodes behind Arjun turned her head toward him.

"Luxuria shell." Her voice carried the bored certainty of someone not expecting pushback. "Look ahead and stop staring at greatness. Some men are too great to be looked at by lesser men."

...!

Noah’s eyes turned sharp.

He smiled.

By this point in his existence, smack talk from dumb extras produced approximately one reaction, which was patience. Not patience out of restraint. Patience because extras who inserted themselves into a story they did not understand tended to encounter consequences that arrived without him having to manufacture them. Through existence or through his hands. Either way was fine.

He did not reply.

"We simply need to touch it to begin the process?"

Evangelina’s face was taut. "Yes. A sliver of your existence will remain here. We will hold it and wait for any information you can send back."

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