Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5535

Chapter 5535: Trials! II

He floated across boundless darkness for an indeterminate amount of time.

Time did not press its claims out here, and THE Creature did not press his! He drifted through the frothing black with his body folded in upon itself, knees drawn up, obsidian flames banked low around his body, curled the way a thing is curled when it is newly born, and in a manner of speaking...he was.

For around his folded form, roiling waves of a deep Ananke Intent burned!

The digestion had finished somewhere in the drifting dark. Two Gilded True Lifeforms had rendered down to their last weavings within his depths, and their essense had carried him across the threshold he had approached for so long, and the second order of Intent now turned around him in slow tidal revolutions, inevitability wearing obsidian, and beneath it, his weight felt even more immense. As if everything he had ever carried had settled at last.

He did not open his eyes for any of it.

He only opened his eyes, and unfurled, when he felt himself slipping across the folds of a Dimension.

The dark parted. Membrane-weavings slid across his flames like curtains of another existence’s law, and as he passed through them, the statue spoke.

Its voice came calm this time. Not the booming verdict of the trial’s declaration, but something quieter and older.

"You stand within THE Ghor-Vazhal." The ancient voice moved through him without hurry. "Its masters call it the Fields. Everything else that has ever learned its name calls it the Cultivation Farms."

"..."

"Here, Source True Lifeforms practice an external art of existence. You bear your adversity. They have decided bearing is inefficient." The calm of the voice made the words worse.

"They cultivate Gu Lifeforms, bred hungers, refined across generations, and they strengthen these Gu through the sacrifice of cognizant lifeforms. Trillions of them. Across countless worlds and realms and domains of this Dimension, lifeforms moving through existence carrying their own adversity are plucked from their lives, refined for flavor, sacrifised, and eaten, and the Gu digest what those lives carried, and the masters harvest the Gu, and progress arrives for them rapidly, externally, at no cost their own existence ever feels."

The membrane-folds thinned ahead. Light the color of old blood bled through.

"Trillions of lives are wiped out daily. It has been so for ages. Boundless suffering stretches across worlds and domains that appear in no records except as acreage." A pause, and the calm voice set down its last stone. "Here, many True Lifeforms who have significantly harmed Existence can be found. That is why the first trial begins in this place. Begin whenever you wish."

...!

And rage coursed through THE Creature.

It ROSE, the way floodwater rises, patient and total, filling every channel of a newly-Ananke existence from the floor upward!

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