Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5587

Chapter 5587: Unperceivable! II

Noah stepped back out through the glowing door of his Realm, and THE Infiniverse was waiting for him.

She floated beside the doorway in her endless blue sea, hands folded, eyes on the light. And she did not turn to him!

Because she could not see him.

He stood before her in the blue, close enough to count the strands of her hair, and her eyes rested on the doorway behind him, patient and unaware. THE Infiniverse. His companion, his home, the one existence so intricately connected to him that she felt his every immensity!

Her VERITAS and her PONDUS did not both stand at 10, and so, by a law his own existence had written, he was not in her reality at all.

Of course, he could make himself perceivable at any time. He felt the permission sitting in the Precept, his to grant with a thought. But he wanted to explore this state first.

So he raised his hand, and placed it on her cheek, the same way he had placed it not long ago when she had asked him for reassurance.

And...

Nothing. Her eyes did not move. Her breath did not change. His palm rested against her cheek and her existence reported an empty sea!

Was this...human?

To not be seen by others, once one reached enough of a height. Had that not always been the arrangement?

A father worked heights his children never perceived. A mother carried weights her whole house walked past daily. Every leader he had ever known became less visible the higher they rose, until their people saw the crown clearly and the man not at all!

Perhaps existence had not invented anything new for him. Perhaps it had only taken the oldest loneliness of the human condition and written it down formally, with clauses.

And yet.

She had asked him to reassure her, even though she logically knew.

Knowing a thing and feeling it were two different things. Was that not the answer sitting right in front of him? Humans climbed, and humans went unseen, and then humans came back down and put their hands on each other’s faces and made themselves perceivable again, over and over, every day.

He drew his hand back slowly, and left.

And behind him, THE Infiniverse blinked. Her hand rose, and touched her own cheek, and stayed there a moment, her brows drawing together over an empty sea.

—

Noah took a step, and crossed thousands of Realms.

He came out standing in the warm air of a farmland realm, gold fields running to the horizon under a kind afternoon sky, and he heard them before he saw them.

Laughter. A long table set outside a farmhouse, crowded with food and more crowded with people. Henry sat sprawled at one end, blue-gold hair catching the light.

Seo-yeon sat cross-legged on the bench beside Amelia, stealing food off her grandmother’s plate. Barbatos and Adelaide argued warmly over a pitcher. Naldine, Titano, Sigrid, and half a dozen others filled out the benches, and the whole table had the settled, unhurried noise of people enjoying themsleves!

Noah floated near them, unperceived, and watched his family eat.

Amelia was smiling as her hand was on her chest, no doubt sensing the newly revamped Causes that were now Telos, oh which she was an Originator of still.

And her eyes went, briefly, to the empty place that had been set at the head of the table.

Seo-yeon paused. Her head tilted a fraction, and for one breath her gaze drifted through the air near him, past him, through him, searching for something she could not name.

"You don’t deserve love. You have done too much... this is why he threw away your heart...!"

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