Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5499

Chapter 5499: Existence Is A Burden!

<THE Creature>

Light years away from a moving throne of golden sand, another portion of a Serpent had made a grave miscalculation.

The purple river of an alien Intent had deposited THE Creature upon a sea of bones.

It stretched out in every direction beneath the raging storm of Infinity and Primordial Source, an ocean of fossilized remains so vast that its ribs rose like mountain ranges and its skulls sat like islands, the petrified remnants of colossal things that had died before a long time ago.

Dust of ages drifted across the pale expanse as the rain of authorities hissed down upon bone that refused to dissolve, and through this graveyard of giants, obsidian flames walked.

THE Creature looked around slowly, and once, and completely.

"You brought me to a Grave."

...!

"Haha! The dead make the best floors. They never complain!" Above him, coiled through the storm, the second-greatest body of Ormarr Grimtunge descended into view as his crimson eyes curved with delight! This portion was vaster than the one that had faced Noah, its scales thicker, its presense heavier as the rivers of Infinity slithered over its length in obedient streams.

"You had a unique aura among the scattered ones, dark thing, so you receive the second-greatest portion of me. Consider it respect! Now... be bound, be collected, and be delivered. Jarl Erling will find a use for whatever you are."

HUUM!

Obsidian-purple ropes poured from between the Serpent’s scales in the hundreds as inevitability itself was spun into bindings, the capture already unfolding as law before the ropes crossed the distance!

And yet...

THE Creature did not move.

He measured the enemy instead. The main body of this Serpent outweighed even Ryaenara, and this divided body alone pressed upon the bone sea with a weight that demanded seriousness! He could fight it as he was. He could bear it as he was, the way he had borne everything since before THE Wyld and THE Infinite Unfurling, trading wound for wound across hours of grinding adversity until one of them finished the other.

But...there was no time. He didn’t worry about Osmont as at most, he actually worried for Ryaenara.

And...there was a way to end this quickly.

And he did not like it.

An expression crossed the face of THE Creature at this moment that none of his people had ever seen upon him! It was unwillingness. Deep, ancient unwillingness, the look of a being reaching for a coin he had sworn never to spend as his obsidian flames dimmed low around his frame!

How long had it been? Existence was old as when he utilized that power, it could be considered part of existence. Part of him. And yet at the same time, he had not fully come to terms with it.

But...

"...What must be borne, will be borne," THE Creature said quietly, to no one.

And behind him, existence folded!

WAA!

The storm split as an ancient and massive statue rose up out of nothing at his back, a seated colossus of worn gray stone whose scale mocked even the Serpent, its features eroded smooth by ages beyond counting until only the suggestion of a face remained, and yet that faceless face stared down at everything with an immensity that pressed upon the entire bone sea!

The fossil ranges groaned. The rain of authorities bent around its shoulders. Even the wild rivers of Infinity in the sky slowed their raging as if something very old had entered the room!

It was a power that was his, and also currently not his. It was his, yet inherited. And he...did not like this Paradox.

It answered him. It rose for him! And yet every time it rose, THE Creature felt less like its master and more like its debtor!

Above, for the first time, the Serpent’s laughter stopped.

"...What is that?" Ormarr Grimtunge’s crimson eyes narrowed upon the statue as his hundreds of binding-ropes actually paused mid-descent, an Ananke Intent hesitating.

"A burden," THE Creature said. "One I have recently began carrying."

His obsidian flames erupted!

BOOM!

He moved like a flaming obsidian titan as his form swelled with each stride across the bone sea, ten meters, a hundred, a thousand, existence itself answering his advance! The fossil ranges tore free of the ground and orbited him like moons of bone. Space thickened around the descending ropes until inevitability had to wade! The storm above bent down toward his shoulders as if eager to be worn, and the Serpent understood in a single cold instant that this enemy did not wield powers drawn from existence.

This enemy was Existence, and everything nearby remembered it!

"Motherfucker!"

Ormarr’s ropes crashed down in a woven sky of bindings as his Ananke Intent roared, every cord a law declaring capture already complete!

And THE Creature opened his first True Appendage.

THE MAW!

"You EAT my Intent?!" Ormarr recoiled through the sky as genuine alarm entered his voice for the first time! "Dude, What the hell are you people?!"

"THE Burden of Existence," THE Creature spoke.

"Get... OFF!" Ormarr’s Ananke Intent surged as his crimson eyes blazed, inevitability straining to declare his freedom!

THE Pantheon of All Existence!

"Collapse," THE Creature said.

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