Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5354

Chapter 5354: Destruere III

Dame Seraphine clapped her hands, her eyes blazing with appreciation.

"Well said!" she declared. "But words and sophistry are worth dogshit without action behind them. If you grasped it, why don’t you show us? Let us see it." Her gaze slid sideways. "William. How about you two give us a show? Your Destruere against his."

HUUM!

Noah looked at Sir William and smiled.

He patted Seo-yeon’s head, and she smiled and moved off to the side, settling at a safe distance with the bright anticipation of a child who had already learned that watching Mister Noah fight was the most interesting thing in any room! 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

A path cleared between Noah and Sir William across the surface of the Leaf-Vessel, and his sponsor, the being who had introduced him to the path of the Sword of Existence, looked at him seriously and nodded, one hand resting at his blade.

Noah did not reach for the blade Sir William had given him. It felt wrong to draw his sponsor’s own gift against the sponsor, and besides, this was a test of the letter, not the weapon. He raised his hand instead, holding it up as though he meant to swing it down like a blade.

Sir William stood poised and dignified across from him.

"My destruction is honor," the Gentleman Knight said. "My destruction is dignity. Everything I unmake, I unmake because it should be unmade, and I do it cleanly, and I do it with the respect an ending deserves. That is the shape my Destruere takes, because it is the shape I take. So be ready. I will not insult you by holding back what I am."

Noah’s smile stayed easy.

"My destruction is...quintessential," he said. "And tyrannical. Everything reduced to its truest essence, and then denied. So." He drew a slow breath. "Persevere."

HUUM!

His eyes closed, and he envisioned destruction in the truest sense he could reach.

All the weavings he carried, every layer of what he was, told no. His Infinite Cause, denied. THE Infiniverse, denied. Chernobyl, denied. Everything he was connected to, every yes that existence had ever said on his behalf, revoked at once. Infinity said yes to everything, endlessly, without ceiling. Destruere said no.

And he asked himself the question the letter was built around: if his entire existence, with all its boundless yes, were met by an equal and total no, what would that destruction feel like? How vast would it have to be, to unmake something that had refused to be unmade across many apocalypses and two Observable Existences?

That was his understanding of the brand-new letter swimming through his mind, and as he grasped it more fully, second by second, the unbroken one-second rhythm of his Persevere and Exelissomai began to build on Destruere as well. The letters compounded into it, and what he envisioned grew unfathomably grand, the no swelling to match the yes, the destruction scaling to the size of everything he was!

He attained a profound state!

HUUM!

Opposite him, he felt Sir William’s Intent building, a record of profound dignity and honor gathering in the air, patient and immense. And he felt that it would not release itself until he released his attack first. Sir William would let the new Sword strike before answering, a courtesy and a test in one.

Noah smiled at that. Sir William was a good guy, in whatever way beings like them could be called men. After all of this was settled, after Arkethys and the rest, he thought he might genuinely help the Gentleman Knight out somewhere down the line.

And then, in the next instant, he swung his hand down.

The moment he began to squeeze his hand closed, a ringing cry echoed out of THE Undefined Gaps they were crossing. The unstable states of existence all around the Leaf-Vessel cried out with fervor, the raw undefined potential of the Gaps responding to the letter as though something in them recognized what was being spoken.

"Destruere."

"DESTRUERE!"

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