Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5257

Chapter 5257: Overcome All Adversity! I

There was a danger in accomplishment that most beings never examined because the examining required unflinching honesty that accomplishment itself tended to make difficult.

The danger was perception. When something grand was achieved, the mind reached for a category large enough to hold it, and the categories it reached for were often too large. An accomplishment perceived as unfathomable became a destination rather than a waypoint, and destinations ended journeys.

A being who had climbed to a peak they considered the ultimate peak had no reason to look for the next one, and if they had no reason to look for the next one, the next one would not be found, and the one after that would not be found, and the vast architecture of what they might have become would remain unbuilt because they had mistaken a single floor for the whole structure.

The correct relationship to accomplishment was simpler and considerably harder to maintain. Each achievement was a point in an endless journey. Significant because all points in a worthy journey were significant. No more significant than the next point, which had not arrived yet, and would be grander.

This was the only way to keep moving. To look at something genuinely extraordinary and think: good. What comes next?

Noah had been practicing this relationship for longer than he would have consciously admitted!

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He stood at the crown of a wide ancient tree whose upper canopy broke above the surrounding forest canopy into open bloom light, and what occupied the massive nest at the tree’s highest platform of branches was extremely unhappy with his presence.

The flying dinosaur had a wingspan that covered the nest platform’s full diameter with room to spare, its body long and scaled in the specific dark iridescence of creatures that spent their existence above everything else and had developed the aesthetics of altitude.

A Galdr Source, the densest he had encountered in THE Strand of Broken Scales since the Utahraptor, its Source expression blazing with the bright chaotic warmth of a being defending something it considered inviolable. The nest around it was layered infinity and accumulated Source energy compressed into the architecture of a home rather than a weapon, and the creature was currently deploying both as weapons with the indiscriminate thoroughness.

Noah directed the storm.

He had been building it before the creature realized the storm was directed, gathering the obsidian Infinity that saturated the upper air of THE Strand into the swirling formation of a lightning system rather than a collection of individual strikes, and the system was making no accommodations for the nest or its occupant.

The multicolored current within the lightning carried his Galdr Source through every discharge, each bolt carrying Source against Source impact at the contact point rather than simple electrical force.

The Galdr Source beast persevered twice!

The second Persevere came from a reserve that had been significantly depleted by the first, and what it healed was less than what the storm had taken, and the storm continued. The creature fought with the full extraordinary capability of something that had survived by being the apex of its particular environment for years, its lightning capabilities and its superior aerial mobility and its territorial fury all expressed at maximum.

The storm was broader than all three!

When the Galdr Source beast collapsed, it collapsed with finality.

Eon arrived at the tree’s upper branches as the storm dissipated, her golden Source expression bright and her eyes brighter, the expectation in them visible before she spoke.

"This will be the fifth one." She looked at what remained of the nest and the creature with the calculating attention of someone who had spent the last hour developing a working knowledge of what five Galdr Source defeats meant.

"With it, we can finally make headway into grasping something about THE Primordial Source."

Noah nodded.

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