Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5393

Chapter 5393: One Step! I

Sometimes an ability so terrifying appeared that even Noah had to take a moment.

He held THE Loyal Reach in his hand, the Quasi-True Armament still crying out across THE Infiniverse, and he took the moment.

THE Tide That Owes Nothing was terrifying. There were other terrifying capabilities among the nine Foundations, plenty of them, but this one held the spotlight for now, because this one broke the basic math of giving. So he sat with it, and he asked himself the question he always asked when existence handed him something obscene.

How could he absolutely abuse this?

How could he take an already broken capability and bend it into doing things no other being could even imagine, the way he had bent every advantage he had ever been handed since he began?

As he was thinking it...

BOOM!

Seo-yeon barreled into him, laughing with pure joy, and the speed and momentum of her small body alone carried perhaps a quarter of what a deadly strike of the late Sir William’s Destruere would have brought down. Noah raised his hands and caught her out of the air, and his mother appeared beside him in the same instant, reaching out to pull gently on the child’s cheeks.

"This little girl," Amelia said, "does not know the first thing about holding back."

...!

There was only love in her eyes as she said it. And Noah, who loved seeing his mother happy more than many things, simply watched her fuss over the child for a moment before he gathered Seo-yeon into his lap. The unique little life form settled there, boundless energy still humming off her, and looked up at him with bright innocent eyes, and he asked her something.

"If you could have anything in existence," he said. "Anything at all. What would you want?"

He could give to a great many people around him, and he intended to. But he had started by giving things to Seo-yeon, and the returns from giving to Seo-yeon had been so shocking, so generous, that he had no hesitation at all about giving her more. He would happily pour the world into this child’s hands and watch a thousand times the world come back.

Seo-yeon took the question seriously. She thought about it, her small face going thoughtful in the way that always made her seem older than she looked, and then she answered.

"I hated the feeling of an unobservable existence," she said. "When I was holding the pain. The dying, and the failing, and all of it, the way the Causes hurt when they go. I felt all of it for so long."

She looked up at him. "So if I could have anything, I would want to help. As many dying Observable Existences as I possibly could. Because I can still feel some of them, you know. Even from very far away. I can sense their pain, the cries of the ones that are ending, and it pains me and it makes me so sad that I can hear them and not do anything..."

...!

What?

She could feel and sense the cries of a Terminal Observable Existence? From across the gulf of existence, a child sensing the death-pain of dying Existences?!

Noah’s eyes shone at her words.

"If you can sense the cries of the nearest Terminal Observable Existence," he said slowly, "then guide me there. Point me toward it. And I’ll see what I can do, the way I did once before."

...!

"Really? Okay!"

Seo-yeon’s eyes went big and enthusiastic, the sadness chased off by the prospect of actually helping, and Noah smiled at her.

He released the blade in his hand, and THE Loyal Reach expanded as it left his grip, growing until it was the size of a massive ship, its split-blade surface burning steady with Infinity and the Primordial Source. He stepped up onto the flat of it, the cerulean fire holding his weight easily, and he nodded to his mother, who smiled and came over to join them on the blade.

Then he called out.

"Henry!"

HUUM!

"What’s up?" he said.

"A trip," Noah answered, as the great blade began to rise from the Early Veiled Shore. "We’re going to heal some Terminal Observable Existences, and find out exactly what returns come from it. And while we’re at it, you’re going to do everything you can to get stronger." He glanced at his son.

"Little Seo-yeon might accidentally collapse your Source if she ever gets serious, at the rate she’s going. I’d rather she didn’t have a sibling she could break by accident."

...!

"I won’t hurt Brother Henry," she said. "I promise!"

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