The first hour of the battle taught him that significant effort was an understatement that deserved a more honest word when one fought against monsters.
Osmontian Absolute Infinity was being pressed in ways he hadn’t felt it pressed before!
The living expressed identity that composed his Infinity had always been dynamic and responsive, the thing that made it impossible to bind, impossible to Still, impossible to fully address through conventional attack. It had met every prior challenge and found those challenges addressable.
THE Creature and Calypso were not prior challenges.
Calypso hit him with the Primordial Source running through every strike at the foundational level, the force of each contact not attacking his Infinity so much as trying to ignore it entirely.
THE Creature hit him with...Existence itself behind every strike, his foundations a record of every adversity he had survived and converted, and what that produced were strikes carrying evolutionary pressure in them rather than simply force.
Two different directions. Simultaneously.
He felt the dynamic expression of his identity being squeezed between the two forces, the living architecture of his Infinity maintaining coherence under the pressure.
Then... the obsidian flames came down from the sea above.
Unfathomably pure and grand these flames were!
They descended in a wave that found the exact coordinates where the pressure had been grinding against his foundations and melded into them, the Prime Exelissomai responding to what the Evolutionary Arms Race was doing.
|Prime Exelissomai- Reinforcement sequence: Active. Sustained pressure from Biotic and Environmental sources has triggered the Arms Race’s primary mechanism. The pressure being applied to your Osmontian Absolute Infinity is producing the exact conditions Prime Exelissomai requires to initiate genuine evolutionary change. The obsidian flames descending from the Environmental Pressure above carry concentrated and pure traces of Primordial Source. They will reinforce your existence to induce an unknown change. This process will repeat each time pressure produces meaningful stress on your foundations.|
He absorbed the reinforcement and felt his immensity widen fractionally.
He kept fighting!
Hours passed in THE Early Veiled Shore with the Primordial Bloom accumulating in the atmospheric layers above and the three of them trading impacts at a rate that kept the golden sands in continuous motion, the surface of the most beloved space in THE Infiniverse being slowly redistributed across a wider area with each exchange.
He used the time deliberately.
THE Bellum Cause paired with THE Prime Cause of Adversity in the first exchanges.
THE Prime Cause of Harvest sent its golden tentacles into each exchange and converted fractions of what hit him into foundational fuel, the conversion consistent across hours.
Then he reached for THE Prime Cause of Tyranny.
He loved this one immediately.
The foundational truth of hierarchy pressed outward from him the moment he engaged it, the governing principle that dominance was structural rather than claimed moving through his body in a wave that was different from every other Cause expression he had tested.
It didn’t produce a visible weapon. It didn’t produce a surge of energy. It produced something quieter and considerably more useful, a suppression that moved from his foundations outward and found the foundational architecture of every existence within its range and pressed against their capacity for autonomous movement with the authority of a truth that had been written into the structure of existence itself before any being had been alive to contest it.
When be activated it...
THE Creature froze.
Calypso froze.

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