Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5353

Chapter 5353: Destruere II

Lianna had been quiet, composed and unhurried, and when she finally spoke, her voice was even and gave away nothing.

"Both of them are describing the hammer," she said. "Neither is describing the nail. To illustrate this, let me tell you about some Infinite Lifeforms I came across, a long time ago, in a domain that no longer exists."

She paused, the dark-haired Sword choosing her words.

"They had built themselves into something they believed was eternal. Layers of Infinity, civilizations stacked on civilizations, a structure so deep they had forgotten it had ever been assembled at all. They thought of themselves as permanent. As foundational. As the kind of thing existence is built on rather than the kind of thing existence builds. And when Destruere reached them, it reminded them." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"It traced their entire structure back down through every layer to the simple source they had been assembled from, and it returned them to it, and in the returning, they finally understood that they had only ever been arranged, never necessary. That is what Destruere is. It is the return. Everything that was made can be unmade back to where it came from, because being made was never the same as being permanent. The most powerful thing I ever watched it do was teach a being that thought itself eternal that it had a source, and that its source could be reached, and that the distance between standing and gone was always shorter than it believed."

She fell silent, having said exactly as much as she intended and not a word more.

Lastly, Noah looked at Sir William, who had said nothing through all of it.

The Gentleman Knight met his gaze and gave the shortest answer of any of them, his voice carrying its usual dignity.

"Destruere is the cut that should be made, made cleanly, by one who has the right to make it. Nothing more. Nothing less. A Sword does not break things because it can. It returns what must be returned, and it does so with the manners befitting an ending. That is all the letter has ever meant to me."

WAA!

All of it passed as they crossed THE Undefined Gaps, and when the four had finished, Dame Seraphine nodded and looked ahead into the obsidian black.

"All of existence is information passed down," she said.

"The First Tongue, one of the pillars of Observable Existences, holds letters within it that the Observable Existences themselves passed down at the genesis of time. And then those who learned the letters, the phonemes, the logos, the philologies, passed them down again, hand to hand, age to age."

"THE Primordial Tongue is more unique than the First Tongue, more foundational, harder to hold. But it is still information, and information can be passed down. Only a select few hold the authority to pass it, and I am one of them." She turned to face him.

"This is the access to Destruere. If you can comprehend it at first glimpse, then you are what you say you are. And you can tell us whose definition helped you most."

HUUM!

|The first letters of THE Primordial Tongue concern standing firm and evolution. Persevere is the refusal to fall. Exelissomai is the transformation forced by pressure. They are letters of endurance and becoming, of remaining and changing. The third letter turns in the opposite direction. Destruere is the letter of destruction.|

"You all described pieces of Destruere," he said. "Richard sees an editor. Botswana sees an honest force. Lianna sees a return. Sir William sees a duty. And none of you are wrong, which is exactly why none of you are right." He held up one hand, obsidian light gathering faintly across his fingers.

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