Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5247

Chapter 5247: Survival! II

Ubergulden Dietrich arrived on the obsidian beach without his right hand.

The stump ended cleanly at the wrist, the Source energy at the terminus cycling through the slow regenerative process that a Seidr Source performed under catastrophic injury, which was to say it worked, and it worked at the pace of something working against odds that had not been calculated in advance.

Blood, real and warm and crimson-gold, dripped from the stump into the dark sand. He had forgotten blood could do that! His power had been filtering that particular detail for so long the forgetting had been complete.

Beside him, his Sororis Prima Custodes had arrived with the left half of her torso present and the right half reconstructing itself from what her Source could provide, the process producing visible results and visible cost simultaneously. She was on her knees in the dark sand, both hands flat on the ground for stability, her expression set with the rigid concentration of a being whose primary cognitive resource was entirely committed to not losing the regeneration’s progress.

Dietrich knelt beside her and pushed his own Source expression toward her, the gold of it pressing against the injury site with the intent of a Custos bond trying to do what Custodes bonds existed to do.

It was slow.

Seidr Sources under critical injury regenerated slowly. He knew this now in the empirical sense of having observed it across the last several minutes, which was more immediate knowledge than the theoretical understanding he had arrived with. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

He pressed harder, but at such a time..

BOOM!

The impact came from his left and slightly above, the force carrying the specific signature of something that had been moving invisibly and had decided the moment for invisibility was done. Dietrich’s hand came up and caught the incoming mass, his Source expression flaring gold around the contact point, and something struck his palm hard enough to drive him two feet sideways across the dark sand!

He held.

Where he had caught it, the invisible thing became visible on contact with his Source, the crystalline exterior revealing itself as the expression that had been concealing it failed against the direct energy contact. It was a bullet ant, enormous, its body the length of his forearm with a crystalline carapace that caught the faint ambient light of the beach and scattered it in all directions, its Source energy blazing Seidr-bright as it gathered the surrounding obsidian Infinity and drove it outward in a focused stream toward his chest.

The obsidian Infinity hit him and he felt it differently than he had felt anything in Observable Existence, the impact not on his Civilization but on his Source directly, the raw core of what he was taking damage rather than the architectural layers built around it!

WUU!

He smashed his remaining hand into the ant’s carapace and heard the crack of crystalline material giving way under the force of his Source expression, and the ant disengaged and skittered backward across the rock, gathering more obsidian Infinity from the surrounding terrain for its next impact.

He looked at his Custodes, still on her hands and knees in the sand, still reconstructing.

He looked at the ant circling for its next approach.

He moved toward the ant and away from his Custos and felt the specific cold of that movement, leaving her exposed while he addressed what was coming for both of them, making the calculation that a slower threat to her was preferable to an immediate one arriving at her back while he remained where he was.

The ant came at him, and he met it, and behind him his Custos continued her slow reconstruction in the dark.

This place was very dangerous!

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Arjun stood on the body of the giant Seidr Crab and ate.

"We will delve deeper while killing and eating everything in our path."

"The creatures here are dangerous. They are steeped in the power of this place in ways that cultivated strength does not fully account for. Even a Silurian Paleozoic entity can fall to them if they are not careful." He tore another piece free and ate.

"What matters is one’s Source. Infinity is a large factor. So are others. Seidr is one stage, and we have to reach Galdr Source quickly. Then we will have the confidence to go truly deeper."

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