Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5325

Chapter 5325: Promise

At such a time, a voice boomed across Chernobyl, backed by Intent.

"When I heard a Terminal Observable Existence had come back to life," it said, and the voice carried a cruel, eccentric dialect, "I thought, well, that will be difficult to pinpoint, won’t it? So many possible reasons. So I did the sensible thing. I attacked. You learn a great deal about a situation by disturbing it and watching what rushes to protect what."

The voice was patient and pleased with itself.

"And what did I learn? I learned that the Source Lifeforms, our presumed culprits, did not behave like culprits. They behaved like beings as surprised as I was. So, not them. Then I watched where they positioned themselves, and how very interesting, they have arranged themselves protectively around two beings who are not Source Lifeforms at all."

A delighted pause. "Which means the ones responsible for this little miracle must be the ones being protected. So. Is it the unique Lifeform burning with that silent infinity I cannot see through, or is it the little girl who is...wait. No. No, no, no. Is that both THE Primordial Source and Infinity within her body? Haha. Is she the reason a Terminal Observable Existence has rejuvenated? Maybe! Maybe! I do so love a maybe. But I will need to get my hands on those two to be certain, please."

The distant regions above shattered.

Auras of dozens of powerful Gilded Ones descended, and at their head came an immaculate and cruel...silver shining draconic entity burning with the amplified Ego of Acedia.

Her features were beautiful and cruel at once, her eyes malevolent, her smile a thing of cruelty and laziness held in the same expression. Nine spiked tails drifted behind her. A silver cloud rested beneath her feet, carrying her downward with the unhurried languor of a being who saw no reason to hurry toward prey that could not escape.

Behind her, multiple Fourth Scale Gilded Ones of Superbius and Ira designation stared down with shining eyes.

"Allow me to introduce myself, since manners cost nothing," the dragon said, her tone gracious in a way that made the cruelty beneath it worse. "I am Luxanna, a tiny little secret project that has had to be unveiled far too early in this region of existence, because a Terminal Observable Existence coming back to life is simply too large a thing to ignore. So. Let us make this easy, shall we? I want that little girl. And the lifeform beside her. I want them both."

She smiled.

"Haha!"

HUUM!

Power raged across Chernobyl as multiple Intents began to rise from the descending Gilded force.

Sir William gazed forth coldly and sheathed his sword.

"Manners," he said. "Maketh. Man."

...!

BOOM!

An instant later, obsidian light bloomed from him, and more than a dozen singularities erupted around his frame, opening into portals, and from them came twelve massive beast-like Relictus.

Each took the form of a different creatures, ancient and vast, their bodies burning with THE Primordial Source, their gazes fixing on the descending Gilded Ones with the patient hunger of beings that had been called and were pleased to have been called.

Noah observed all of it.

Seo-yeon tugged at him, and when he looked down, she was whispering, her small voice carrying beneath the rising storm of power.

"Are you... going to let them take me away?"

"Absolutely nobody is taking you away. Nobody."

"You promise?"

"Then we have to pinky promise," she said. "My Ama made a pinky promise to me before she left. She promised someone would come to take care of me one day. And she always keeps her promises. She never broke one, not ever! So if you make this one, you have to keep it too. Okay?"

"Pinky promise."

Seo-yeon settled, the tension easing out of her small frame, the trust of a child who had been given the one form of vow her mother had taught her to believe in. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚