Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5888

Noah stood very still in the blue-gold glass after the first dream ended, and went over what he had seen.

The hand had come within hours. One light had erased every Dimension and Observable Existence inside his Dream, along with THE Legacy of THE Acharya and countless lives, and he had died with them. That part he had expected.

The part that stayed with him was the last prompt!

He had thought the King’s warning was a kind of favor, a great power sparing a promising junior who had done something remarkable. It was something else entirely. The King had spared the countless living in those Dimensions who had chosen none of this and had nothing to do with kings or claims. Even a being that grand, who could erase a region of existence with one light, had something he would rather avoid doing, and it was killing them.

The innocent were the only reason the hand had stayed open.

He looked down the endless halls of glass and chose his second road!

|Quantum Dream 2 begins.|

|Starting conditions: your Dream as it is now. Assimilation Rate: 0.2%. Route: caution.|

|You will replace only empty regions. Every Dimension and Observable Existence will be left untouched.|

The glass around him began to move!

The windows shifted in real time, showing the dream as it played out. In the nearest panes, his blue-gold Dream crept outward through the dark Gaps, and wherever it met a Dimension or an Observable Existence, it flowed around it and left it shining clear and untouched inside, like bubbles held in ice.

|Hour 1: You expand across the Undefined Gaps, going around every Dimension and Observable Existence in your path.|

|Hour 3: Nine hundred Gigaparsecs of empty Gaps become your Dream. The inhabited regions inside it stay exactly as they were.|

|Hour 6: No hand appears.|

|Hour 9: The Narratives nearby stay calm.|

The panes brightened and dimmed as the dream’s hours passed, and Noah watched his Dream grow quietly across them, wide and careful, a net of blue-gold with clear bright holes left in it wherever people lived.

It was slower this way. It was also alive at the end of every hour so far!

|Hour 14: You reach the bounds of THE Keepers of Existence.|

|Their Legacy is sealed and snowless. Plum blossoms fall inside it in an endless spring in some regions, other wondeous phenomena in other regions.|

|You go around it. Not one particle of it is replaced.|

|Hour 15: No hand appears.|

In the glass, the Keepers’ Legacy glowed pink and white in the middle of a dark winter sea, and Noah’s Dream curled around its edges and moved on, giving it a wide berth.

Then he noticed something odd about the snow!

|Past THE Keepers of Existence, you notice something.|

|THE Narrative of THE Long Night lies over every region you have passed. Around THE Keepers of Existence, it holds back. It does not press on them.|

|Their Epitropos is THE Curator.|

|THE Curator has likely made a deal with the Immense Ones within.|

|You are unsure whether it is a deal like the one you had with THE Caretaker.|

Noah looked at the pane closely. The snow of the Long Night fell everywhere in that window, heavy and endless, except in a wide ring around the Keepers’ Legacy, where it thinned to nothing and simply stopped, as if it had been asked politely to stay outside.

He looked at it, and moved on.

|Hour 20: Something vast drifts along a Conduit ahead of you.|

|It is a Conduit Lifeform, as large as a Dimension.|

|It feeds on the Undefined Gaps. Where it has grazed, the empty space is thin and quiet.|

|It has not noticed you.|

|You leave it alone.|