Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5337

Chapter 5337: Sword of Existence! V

The special treatment.

This was what Noah was supposed to receive, and the grand visage of Dame Seraphine locked onto him as she spoke.

"Step forward."

Noah raised his brows but followed, his steps light. He patted Seo-yeon’s head and communicated for her to wait, and she settled, watching with inquisitive eyes as he moved toward the Mesozoic Scale being holding the radiant obsidian sword.

He was genuinely interested in her, more interested than the ceremony itself warranted, because beings of higher Scales were the ones he most enjoyed studying. Peeling away the secrets of something that operated above his current tier was the kind of thing that taught him where his own ceiling actually was, and he had never met a ceiling he did not eventually want to break.

He arrived before her. She looked at him calmly. He looked back at her just as coolly, two beings taking each other’s measure across the gap of a full Scale.

Her power was immense, pressing against him with the suffocating weight of the Mesozoic, and her voice carried that weight when she spoke.

"To be a Sword of Existence is easy, in the end," she said. "All it requires is an Oath. An oath not to harm Source Lifeforms, and to work in the interest of existence. Are you ready?"

"I’m ready," Noah said, nodding calmly.

Dame Seraphine raised her sword and brought its flat side to shine above him.

"The first step to accepting the Oath," she said, "is to kneel."

HUUM!

To kneel?

Noah frowned at the word. A moment later, terrifying pressure descended from Dame Seraphine, stifling and heavy, pressing down on him from every direction. Her gaze remained calm as she repeated it. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Kneel."

The pressure crashed down all around him.

|Pressure analysis: Dame Seraphine is exerting a Mesozoic Scale will-suppression. This capability is designed solely to suppress the will and force submission. It does not harm the target in any other way, deals no physical damage, and exists purely to compel a being to kneel through the imposition of overwhelming superior will. Resistance is a contest of will against a being one full Scale above you.|

Noah bore the pressure!

He felt it press against his foundations, against his will, the sheer weight of a being who operated a full Scale beyond him bearing down with the simple expectation that he would fold beneath it the way most beings folded. His knees were meant to buckle. His will was meant to yield!

The pressure existed for no purpose except to make a being kneel, and beings of every tier had knelt beneath it across the long history of the order.

"Will that be a problem?" she asked, her tone carrying genuine curiosity rather than displeasure. "Will you not kneel?"

"I kneel before very few in existence," he said. "I can kneel to hold my mother, or my child. I can kneel to hold my woman. You are neither of those things." His eyes held hers, inviolable. "So I cannot kneel before you."

BOOM!

"Good," she said. "I had to know." She let the pressure ease. "Half of all who are sworn as Swords of Existence kneel beneath that pressure. Half resist it. There is no shame in either, and I tell every candidate this truthfully. Exceptional Swords have risen from both halves, beings of great accomplishment who knelt and beings of great accomplishment who did not."

Her gaze sharpened with something deeper. "But there is one distinction. Of all the Swords of Existence whose names have come to resonate upon Vakochev’s Scales of Existence, whose records etched themselves into the framework of reality itself, not one ever knelt beneath that pressure. They came only from the half that stood. To kneel or not to kneel is a choice made before existence itself, and existence remembers which choice you made."

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