Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5900

Chapter 5900: Infiltration! II

Noah stayed inside Seren Valadhi only a short while.

There were so many other dreams!

From her lotus lake, he could see them all across the snowbound Legacy, drifting like silver mist around the Immensities of the Keepers, each one the inner life of a being that had lived for Ages. He let go of Seren gently, so gently she stayed unaware of his leaving, and slipped into the snow again, and went looking.

|Quantum Dream 5 continues.|

|Hour 1: You leave the dream of Seren Valadhi. She remains unaware.| 𝖋𝑟𝘦ℯ𝔴ℯ𝘣𝖓𝙤𝓿𝓮𝑙.𝖼𝑜𝓂

|Hour 1, Minute 6: You enter the dream of a second Established Immense One.|

He jumped from dream to dream!

Each time, it went the same way. His Shinjitsu matched the rhythm of a sleeping mind, the dream remembered him as having always been there, and a whole life opened up to him like a door left unlocked.

Each time, he stayed only long enough to take what he needed, and then he moved on, and the Immense One he had left behind went on with its day, unaware that a stranger had just read every page of it.

|Lucius, THE Lamplighter of Lost Children.|

|Established Immense One.|

|In a quiet Dimension of his own, he keeps nine hundred orphanned Root Bearer.|

|He feeds them a little of his own Immensity every year.|

|No other Keeper knows. He has never told them.|

Noah stayed in that one a little longer than he needed to.

Most of the others were nothing like Lucius.

|Kassandros, THE Reaper of Old Bloodlines.|

|Established Immense One.|

|He has ended eleven entire Lineages of Provenance Lifeforms, every member down to the unborn, and taken their Provenance into his Immensity.|

|He tends the Keepers’ archive of origins. He calls his work preservation.|

|Octavia, THE Mother of Many Tithes.|

|Established Immense One.|

|Every Newly Risen Immense One born within her reach owes her a tithe of Immensity, forever.|

|Those who cannot pay are hollowed out and hung as lamps in her halls. Some of them are still awake.|

|Theron, THE Hunter Who Smiles.|

|Established Immense One.|

|He seals Newly Risen Immense Ones inside empty Dimensions, gives them a head start of a hundred years, and then hunts them for sport.|

|He has never lost. He keeps their names on the walls of his house, in alphabetical order.|

|Livia, THE Quiet Harvest.|

|Established Immense One.|

|She has emptied nine hundred Observable Existences of every living thing to reach the First Causes at their hearts.|

|Aurelian, THE Gilded Bystander.|

|Established Immense One.|

|He watched a Legacy burn for an entire Age and took careful notes.|

|Phoebe, THE Gardener of Ashes.|

|Established Immense One.|

|She goes quietly to the places her siblings have broken and plants things in the ruins.|

|She cannot fix much. She keeps trying anyway.|

On and on it went.

He went through dozens of dreams, then more, and the longer he went, the colder he grew. A few were kind, like Lucius, like Phoebe, small warm lights in a very large dark.

Most were not. He found Immense Ones who had wiped out whole Lineages for a single step up in power, others who kept Newly Risen Ones like cattle and milked them for their Immensity, others who had destroyed Dimensions and Observable Existences simply because something inside them was worth having.

For some of them, it had stopped being hunger long ago. It was simply habit.

They called themselves THE Keepers of Existence.

Many of them had kept nothing but themselves.

By the time he was done, the Keepers had stopped feeling like a strange place he had walked into.

They felt like a place he had lived in for countless lifetimes.

|Hour 9: You have entered the dreams of forty-one Established Immense Ones of THE Keepers of Existence.|

|None of them has noticed.|

|Summary of what you have learned:|

|1. THE Keepers of Existence are ruled by a council in the spiral palace, led by THE Sovereign of the Endless Spiral as an appointed figure head, but he is certainly not the strongest.|

|2. Of the forty-one you entered, most have destroyed far more of existence than they have ever kept.|

|3. The pact with THE Curator was made by THE Sovereign of the Endless Spiral and a few others at the very top.|

|4. Known Ancient Immensities within the Legacy: 88.|

|5. Hidden Ancient Immensities: 100. They rarely show themselves. They live in Isolated Dimensional Pockets underneath the Legacy.|

|6. Even most of the Keepers do not know where those pockets are, or what the hidden ones are doing in them.|

...!

Noah stared at that number.

One hundred Ancients, hidden underneath.

Inevitably, he thought of the statues under THE Legacy of THE Acharya of Immensity, standing in their silent rows deep beneath it, waiting for who knew what.

Was this simply how great Legacies were built? A face above, for everyone to see, and a hidden strength beneath, for no one to see at all?

Did all of them want to have hidden forces underneath?

But the Keepers seemed to have more than hidden forces.

|7. Within THE Keepers of Existence, multiple Unfathomable Immensities should be present. Their number: ?????|

|8. THE Keepers of Existence still has its founder present somewhere out there.|

|9. This is unlike Lucy’s Legacy. Lucy is not among Those Who Remain.|

|10. Over the Ages, the Legacy Lucy left behind has weakened without her.|

|11. A Legacy whose founder remains does not weaken in the same way.|