Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5711

Chapter 5711: Questions and Answers

<THE Chrysalis of THE First Sundering>

The silk fell around him and the kaleidoscopic nebulas turned in the vastness, and Noah stood alone in the deep drift of THE Chrysalis with dreamy light burning bright behind his eyes, brighter than it had ever burned.

An infinite dream filled with boundless complexities seemed to be waking!

He had questions. Today had bought them at a terrible price, and he intended to spend every single one as his mind calculated the bloody ruins of the Vasiliou Elsemountain.

"How could an Immense One exert their power inside an Elsedimension?"

He spoke the words into the illusory ring resting against his finger.

|-0.1 PROVENANCE ESSENCE|

"They are built to reject the authority of such beings," Noah continued. "That was the entire point of their architecture, you told me so yourself. And yet I just watched one reach into the Vasiliou Elsedimension and impose himself without the slightest trouble. Lifeforms of higher Dimensionality than mine were ended with a tap, inside a place that was supposed to blunt him. I only survived because he wanted to save me and my love for last, as cruelty. Had he chosen to kill instead of to torment, that body of mine would have collapsed, or worse. So I need to understand clearly. What parameters actually make an Elsedimension keep an Immense One out?"

The illusory band warmed against his flesh.

The voice rolled out from the records-cluster, carrying that sharp, familiar arrogance that refused to bend to anything in the continuum.

|The largest protection an Elsedimension offers is not a wall. It is that the place cannot easily be found by an Immense One simply deciding to look for it. They are strands of the Weave. Their sight runs along the cloth, and a strand cannot look at what is woven into a seam it does not know about.|

|Unless.|

|Unless that strand has been there before. If an Immense One was ever inside an Elsedimension, if it was ever invited, ever allowed to cross the threshold even once, then it left seeds of its own weavings behind. They always do. They cannot help it, any more than you can walk through wet sand without leaving prints. An Elsedimension that has admitted an Immense One is a useless Elsedimension. The authority has already permeated it. The door was opened from the inside and it does not close again.|

|So. That Collector had been to the Vasiliou Elsedimension before, or something of his had, or the lineage let something in they should not have. Ask them.|

|There are no absolutes. But a properly designed Elsedimension, one that has never once let an architect past its door, will do its job. Yours has never admitted one. Keep it that way and it is the safest ground in existence for a being of your fold.|

The answer came as he thought about it, and them he set it aside to confirm with his own eyes before he built a single plan on it.

"The Elsedimension Ring," Noah said, letting another thread of authority bleed into the band. "The first thing you are guiding me to build. What is it actually capable of?"

|-0.1 PROVENANCE ESSENCE|

"Because I am thinking about survival at this moment." Noah went on, his pupils reflecting the falling silk.

"Survival, against things tremendously stronger than me. Will this ring let me do that?"

|Now you are thinking like a man who intends to live long enough to become dangerous.|

|What I engineered, and what I can teach you to engineer, does a great many things. An Elsedimension Ring, designed well, can be set to sense the incoming animosity of a specific enemy, an Immense One you have marked, and the instant it feels that intent turn toward you, it warps your entire existence into an Elsedimension elsewhere before the blow arrives. You are simply not where the strike falls. You were never there.|

|You can build in other functions besides. A masking so that certain sights slide off you. A warning that wakes before the danger does. A store of ground you can retreat into and seal. A ring is not one tool, O Human Dreamer. And a ring is only one of many things.|

|A weaker existence can move across an existence full of stronger ones and not die. It is done. It has always been done. It is perilous, and it is adversity without end, and it is possible. There are ways.|

|The first is to not be found. Depth over magnitude. Walk and hide where the great strands do not think to look, and let the mighty thunder past overhead while you go quietly about becoming. Most who hunt you cannot strike what they cannot perceive.|

|The second is to not be worth it. Make yourself a poor bargain. Be difficult, be defended, be the kind of prize that costs more to take than it returns, and a great many predators will decide you are not worth the afternoon. The Collector came for the Vasiliou because they were cheap. Do not be cheap.|

|The third is to not be reachable. Build the ground I am teaching you to build, and keep it clean of every seed, and when the sky turns against you, be elsewhere before it finishes turning. A being that cannot be cornered cannot be killed at leisure, and leisure is how the mighty prefer to kill.|

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