To lead. To rule!
Noah was already a leader and ruler, he already held the distinction of THE True Human Emperor as for him, it came naturally. His people, his crown, his fold, all of it had grown out of him the way branches grow from a trunk.
But now, he thought of the distinction of a Great Ruler.
Could he truly see himself returning to glorious Conquest and expanding his rule across...THE Source Lands? THE Infinite Carcosa? And even across Dimensions of Existence themselves?! Would this be his quickest route to power, every Human gathered beneath his identity feeding the Letter that fed everything else?
He was thinking such grand thoughts when...
HUUM!
"Aba, the hateful cause is accelerating towards us!"
Seo-yeon’s warning cut across the golden sands, and it came as a shock! For they had been moving at tremendous speeds in another direction entirely, streaking toward the hopeful dying Cause, and yet what she considered the hateful dying cluster was the one reaching them first!
Noah’s will surged as the golden platform accelerated further, his Ananke Intent flooding across every grain of dream-sand as the entire island took on a deep blue hue, a comet of gold and cerulean tearing through the storming dark of THE Krazhor-Nul.
Light years folded beneath them. The Ego of Humilitas wrapped them tighter than it ever had!
And it did not matter.
For behind them, pressing through the storm like the fingers of a closing hand, he and all the others could now sense a terrifying set of auras! Many auras! Heavy past framing, and gaining!
Noah sighed once.
Then he patted Seo-yeon gently on the head. "You need to go back inside for now."
His daughter looked up at him, and she did not argue, for she could feel what was coming better than anyone! She nodded as mirrored light gathered around her small frame. "Aba... be careful."
She folded away into THE Infiniverse!
Noah’s gaze turned to Emotive next, and he nodded once. Emotive pouted enormously, opened her mouth to protest, read his eyes, closed her mouth, and retreated into THE Infiniverse with her arms crossed the entire way down!
And in the next moment...existence congealed.
The storm around them thickened like cooling tar as the golden island’s tremendous speed began bleeding away for no reason Noah’s senses could name, space itself growing dense, resistant, wrong! He poured more Intent into their passage. The island surged. And then the concept of space seemingly became nullified entirely, for no matter how much further Noah pushed, no matter how many light years his will declared crossed...he found they were in the same space!
The horizon refused to approach. The distance refused to close! They flew, and they arrived nowhere, held inside a single stretch of storm like an insect in a trap.
|An extremely potent Ananke Intent has pervaded the surroundings. Its weavings mark it as belonging to a Source True Lifeform, and its declaration is simple: this space does not release what stands within it.|
...!
At these words, the faces of Noah, THE Creature, Anaximander, and THE Infiniverse all hardened as they gazed back!
And they saw...a group of utterly terrifying beings.
The storm behind them had filled with True Lifeforms! More than twenty of them spread in loose formation across the dark sky, over half pressing down with the weight of THE Cenozoic Scale, antlered and flamed and stone-hided apex existences whose idle comfort had sharpened into readiness! Among them coiled Ormarr Grimtunge, whole and massive, his crimson eyes gleaming with long-awaited delight.
Beside him flew a woman in red robes whose cold face and crimson gaze emanated nothing, absolutely nothing, except the promise of murder!
And behind them all...was a monstrous, cursed thing.
"Kneel, and most of you will be kept alive."
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