He put on the suit.
The Lesser Existential Source Armament settled over him with the precision of something made to exact specification, the obsidian jacket finding his body, the white shirt beneath it, the obsidian tie sitting clean against the shirt.
He adjusted it without rushing, and the Source weaving in the composite recognized him the moment the last piece settled.
Taylor was still sitting on the grave she had dug.
"Wowee..." She shook her head slowly. "You really had to do a whole power move of changing right in front of me like that?"
She said it like a complaint. Her eyes said something else entirely, shining with the appreciation of someone who had seen a great many things across a long existence and was filing this one under things worth having seen!
Noah ignored her and reached for the blade.
THE Sovereign Reckoning came to his hand, the blue-obsidian sheath cool against his palm, and with the suit on and the blade in hand, the picture completed itself.
He looked grand! Magisterial!
Obsidian tendrils of light began to swirl around the suit, rising from the Source weaving in slow deliberate spirals, and over all of it THE Aura of THE Source Barbarian glowed across his entire body, the obsidian gold of it running beneath and around the obsidian suit so that the two layers of obsidian, the worn and the innate, complemented rather than competed.
He floated above the golden sands.
"Persevere. Exelissomai."
BOOM!
The multicolored flames and the obsidian gold surged around him simultaneously, the two Prime Letters expressing at once, and the flames spilled outward across THE Early Veiled Shore and beyond it into the vastness of THE Infiniverse, the domain receiving the effects the way she received everything he produced now.
He kept uttering them, every second, the way he had been uttering Persevere, the two Prime Letters refining and elevating his existence with each repetition, THE Aura of THE Source Barbarian growing fractionally more terrifying with every utterance because that was simply what it did now!
Below, Taylor clapped her hands together and whistled, low and appreciative.
The obsidian tendrils that had been forming around the suit since he put it on activated.
He watched them closely as they wove together into a bubble of obsidian light, the Source weaving carrying out exactly what Sir William had described it would do, and the body inside the bubble disappeared.
WAP!
Another of his bodies descended to THE Early Veiled Shore a moment later. He had several to spare. The distribution of his existence across domains meant that sending one off to a trial did not leave him absent from anywhere that mattered.
But the one inside the bubble began crossing the vastness of existence, pulled forward by the mechanism of the Source Armament.
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Noah felt his existence being drawn across THE Undefined Gaps of existence, and once more, he left his Observable Existence entirely.
He knew what the Gaps were. He had sent THE Infiniverse into them. He described them as the unclassified regions between defined existence, the spaces of no definition where ordinary beings dissolved.


He arrived in a place that was dying.
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