Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5315

Chapter 5315: Emotion II

He turned to Noah.

"Countless Lifeforms lived here. They had no part in the love, or the disapproval, or the war. They were simply present in an Observable Existence whose most powerful beings could not control their emotions, and that was sufficient to end them.

The lovers were not villains. The third was not, in its own understanding, a villain either. None of them set out to destroy an Observable Existence. They were simply beings who held great power and could not govern what they felt, and at their tier, the inability to govern what you feel is not a personal failing. It is an extinction event."

The terminal infinity burned across the dying expanse.

"This is the lesson the Swords of Existence take from Chernobyl," Sir William said.

"It is not that love is dangerous, though small minds draw that conclusion. It is not that difference must be policed, though crueler minds draw that one. The lesson is simpler and harder. Power without the governance of one’s own emotions is the single greatest threat existence contains."

"Not malice. Malice is rare and can be planned around. The thing that ends Observable Existences is ordinary feeling, love and disapproval and rage and grief, carried by beings powerful enough that their ordinary feelings reshape reality."

He looked at the dying domain around them, at the failing Causes and the torn fabric and the abundant life still burning in the obsidian gold castle that defied all of it.

"You will be tested here," he said. "Among the ruins of beings who could not govern themselves. I find it appropriate. A Sword of Existence who cannot govern their own feeling is not a Sword. It is the next Chernobyl, waiting for a reason."

He began to move toward the castle.

"Come. The trial does not begin until you understand what it is held among. Now you understand, we shall proceed"

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"Every trial to select a new Sword of Existence is overseen by at least three current Swords," Sir William said as they moved.

He spoke without looking at Noah, his attention forward, the dying expanse of Chernobyl unrolling beneath them as they traveled toward something Noah could already feel before he could see it.

"Everything happening here is observed. How you approach what is put in front of you, how you reason through it, what you choose when the choice has no comfortable answer, all of it is being watched and weighed by beings who have walked this path themselves and have no patience for those who walk it poorly." He paused.

"I tell you this not to unsettle you. I tell you because a Sword operates under observation for the rest of their existence, accountable to THE Source and to the others who serve it, and a being who cannot function under observation has no business holding the designation. Consider it the first thing the trial measures, before the trial itself begins."

They flew on.

"The first trial is simple," Sir William continued. "Simple in the way that the most important things are simple. It will not test your power. Your power has already been assessed and found sufficient, or you would not be here. It will test something the powerful almost never develop, because their power lets them avoid developing it."

"Below you," Sir William said, "is one of the last remaining Infinite Lifeforms of this Observable Existence."

"She was very young when THE First Cause was destroyed. A child, by the reckoning of beings of her tier. In the catastrophe, as the First Cause began its unraveling, she did something that no one instructed her to do and that no one has been able to undo since. She latched onto it. Her infinite existence became a battery, a living anchor, holding THE Mortis Cause intact when it should have failed with all the others."

Sir William’s voice carried the somber weight he reserved for the things that genuinely moved him. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"THE Mortis Cause governs endings. By holding it intact, she has held off the ending of this entire Observable Existence. THE First Cause should have finished unraveling eons ago. The decillions who still survive in this domain, including everyone in the castle behind us, should have perished long since. They have not, because a child latched onto THE Mortis Cause and refused to let go, and has been holding the ending of an entire Observable Existence away from everyone within it ever since."

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