Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5323

Chapter 5323: An Intent Cleaves Chernobyl! I

When an entity crosses into the Triassic, everything they are, their main Way and their foundational Civilization, the accessory Civilizations gathered across their existence, the Causes they have integrated, the Existential Radiation they have refined, Egos, Infinity, Source, all of it converges into a single unified expression.

This expression is the Akashic Civilizational Intent, and it functions as a record of the being’s entire existence, the sum of their history compressed into a force they can impose upon the existence around them!

A being at the Triassic Scale can exert their Akashic Intent with terrifying speed, far faster than the combat of the lower Scales. They can alter large territories of existence with it, not by attacking, but by imposing their record onto what surrounds them, forcing existence to acknowledge what they are and reshape itself accordingly.

One’s record is one’s history and knowledge. And THE Triassic Scale is populated by beings who want, above all else, to leave their record permanently etched across existence, so that when they are gone, existence still carries the shape of what they were. Well, some never wish to go.

There are tiers to this. The Akashic Civilizational Intent is not uniform in its grandeur. Its rarity depends entirely on the depth of the being’s prior accomplishments, the weight of their records and knowledge, the strength of the foundation they carried across the threshold.

The fanatic followers of Vakochev who studied such things divided these into five rarities, and they named them after the old powers of myths.

The first rarity they called the Naiad Intent. The Naiads were spirits of a single spring, a single stream, bound to one small place. A Naiad Intent is genuine Fourth Scale power, capable of reshaping the territory immediately around its bearer and pressing on Third Scale beings as though they were nothing, but it is local, bound to the being’s immediate presence, the record of an existence that accomplished much within its own small domain and little beyond it.

Most who reach the Triassic carry a Naiad Intent.

The second rarity they called the Nereid Intent. The Nereids were spirits of the wider sea, no longer bound to a single spring but moving across vast waters.

A Nereid Intent reaches further than the Naiad, imposing the being’s record across broad territories rather than immediate ones, the mark of an existence whose accomplishments spread beyond their starting point.

A being with such an intent could stand in one corner of Observable Existence...and strike against another in another corner of Observable Existence.

The Nereid is still common among the Triassic, in the way that anything at the Fourth Scale can be called common, but it is the ceiling most exceptional-among-the-ordinary beings ever reach.

Beyond these two, the rarities become scarce.

The third rarity they called the Titan Intent.

A Titan Intent does not impose a record on existence so much as it overwrites the existing record with its own, the being’s history grand enough that reality yields its prior shape to accommodate the newcomer. An Observable Existence might pass an Age without producing one.

The fourth rarity they called the Olympian Intent.

An Olympian Intent is a record so absolute that existence does not merely yield to it but reorganizes around it as a governing principle, the being’s history becoming a rule the surrounding reality obeys.

These appear only on beings whose accomplishments were extraordinary before they ever crossed the threshold.

The fifth and rarest they called the Primordial Intent. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

What a Primordial Intent is, the fanatics of Vakochev could only theorize, because so few have ever appeared that no consistent record of them exists.

They wrote only that a Primordial Intent would be a record so foundational that existence would treat the being not as something within it imposing a history, but as something existence itself had been built around. They left the rest blank. They had no examples to fill it with.

Most beings who reach the Triassic attain only the Naiad or the Nereid.

The Titan, the Olympian, and the Primordial rarely appear, and when they do, they appear on beings whose records were exceptional before they ever crossed into the Fourth Scale, and an Observable Existence can pass entire Ages without producing a single one.

There is a story that illustrates this better than any explanation.

In a certain Observable Existence, there was an Acedia Gilded One named Sloevin, whom even other Acedia considered far too lazy. This is a remarkable thing to say!

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