Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5418

Chapter 5418: Tides of Quintessential Change! I

THE Creature.

What a marvelous thing this existence was. Noah had heard the legends first, the way most beings encountered THE Creature, as a story too large to be a person. Then he had met him, across THE Earliest Folds and the long stretch of struggle after, and somewhere in there he had let himself believe he had caught up. That he had matched THE Creature, maybe even passed him!

But this guy.

Noah looked up at the titanic figure shrouded in billowing obsidian flame and shook his head, and felt something he did not feel often anymore. A competitive spirit. A real one. Because from THE Creature he sensed, unmistakably, an Egoic Intent. Egoic!

Here was THE Creature carrying one too, having taken the impossible and made it ordinary, the way he always seemed to. Of looking at a wall everyone agreed could not be climbed and being, quietly, already on the other side of it.

So Noah wanted to see. He wanted to measure himself against the one being who might actually give him a measurement worth having!

He went forward.

He raised his hand as if going for the old greeting, the dap they had traded across the Folds and after! But as he raised it, he did something grand!

He let his Egoic Intent of THE Quintessential Osmontian spill freely out of his body.

WAA!

His entire body lit with a terrifying cerulean brilliance! Blue lava poured off him in gushing waves, molten authority welling up through his skin and melting the existence around him where it touched, and above him the hidden Estuary Eye roared, the lemniscate pupil convulsing as it began to bleed in the surrounding existence three times as fast, drinking the dense Sanctum down in a flood as its master finally stopped holding himself small. Noah stood with his arm raised like a titan dragged up out of some buried age, and the Intent rolling off him was not a Primordial Intent, was grander than a Primordial Intent, an identity made into a force that pressed on everything for gigaparsecs!

HUUUM!

Behind him, the Dora Shath’yar threw their hands up in shock. Even Astrid. Eir flailed in something closer to glee, her own bronze body buzzing with answering power, grinning like a being who had just realized the day was going to be far better than promised.

"Oh! Oh! The fuck is that!" Eir bellowed out!

THE Creature’s gaze held a moment of genuine surprise.

For an instant, even he seemed not to quite believe it! And then the surprise burned off, and he answered.

Obsidian lava-like flames spilled out from him without cease, and around his titanic frame an illusion bloomed, a massive sword stretching from below to far above, the manifestation of a being who had made himself into a single edge. He raised his own hand for the dap, and the two hands went forward to meet.

BOOM!

Before the hands ever touched, it was as though invisible force fields covered the surfaces of their skin. The glimmers of their two authorities met in the gap between their palms and shattered the existence caught there outright, the space simply ceasing where the cerulean met the obsidian.

HUUUM!

Cracks tore out from between their hands and raced across the domain, splitting through the floating landmasses and the obsidian rivers, and the already chaotic and deadly region of THE Effluvium Sanctum grew heavier still, the ambient lethal pressure doubling as two beings who should not have been possible refused to give each other an inch.

They looked at one another, neither yielding, two raised hands held apart by the war of what they were!

"Across all of existence," Noah said, "I am unfathomably Quintessential. I am unapologetically Osmontian. I AM!"

HUUM!

"Across all of Existence," THE Creature said, "is my Existence. Existence. Existence. EXISTENCE. I. AM!"

BOOM!

|The Intent you are facing is THE Egoic Intent of Existence. It is a True Lifeform Intent, built not on what THE Creature has done but on what he fundamentally is. He has not formed an Intent of Existence. He has become Existence and made his identity synonymous with it, so completely that there is no remaining distinction between the being and the concept. Within his reach, all of existence answers him as itself, because he is not commanding existence. He is existence, addressing the rest of itself. To stand against it is to ask the whole of being to disregard one of its own foundational truths. Nothing has a true threshold to truly go against it. You can, because your own Intent stands at the same threshold, and not one rung lower.|

"Existence is grand," Noah said, and the cerulean roared higher around him. "It’s unquestionable. A being can build himself on it and never be argued out of existing." His eyes burned. "But my identity is my Intent. There’s no sliver of distinction in me to exploit, no gap between the concept and the man, the same as there’s none in you. The difference is only the concept. You are Existence. And I am not a concept at all. There is only Osmont. True, and unflinching, and Quintessential. I am not a thing that exists. I am the specific thing that I am, and that is grander to ME than all of existence, because it is mine!"

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