Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 5981

Chapter 5981: After I

The first morning after the war was very quiet. Snow lay thick and clean over the whole of the farm, over the curved walls of the coop and the shell plates of the little house and the long new rows at the far edge of the field, and over the walled plot beside them where nine heads rose out of the black-gold soil, silent and very still.

The chickens murmured in the coop, the three rivers ran dark and clear, and out in the dark of the Carcosa, beyond the starlit grass, nothing moved at all.

Noah got up before anyone else, took the small iron kettle from the shelf by the door, and walked to the nearest river to fill it. Back inside, he held out his hand, and a small fire of Dreams bloomed above his palm, blue and gold, and he never tired of watching it bloom!

He set it on the floor and hung the kettle over it and waited. When the water boiled, he dropped a few dried plum petals into a cup and poured, and watched them open slowly and turn the water pink. In the second chair, Elpis was asleep, curled on her side with her bare feet tucked under her and one small blue-gold hand closed around a fold of his coat, exactly as she had slept on the first morning, the molten white rivers across her skin rising and falling with her breathing.

He drank his tea, and while he drank it, he let the prompts come. He had not looked at them since the war ended, and he read them now slowly with the quiet greed of a farmer counting a harvest as he had taken a lot of Pure Existential Essence and Narrative after the end...and he had directed a lot of it to one extreme Branch.

|Branch of Dreams: Level 9 to Level 12.|

|Branch of Nightmares: Level 10 to Level 14.|

|Branch of Shinjitsu: Level 9 to Level 12.|

|Branch of THE Unstriving Current: Level 11 to Level 15.|

|Branch of THE Narrative Wall: Level 15 to Level 16. Each wall is now worth 250.|

|Sub-Branch of THE Endless Retelling: Level 90 to Level 300. Three walls restored every second.|

|Branch of THE Bleeding Nightmare: Level 8 to Level 13.|

|Sub-Branch of THE Devourer’s Hemorrhage: Level 5 to Level 10.|

|Narrative Walls standing: 61 of 61. Around you: 60. Over the farm: 1.|

|Narratives: 4.|

|Quintessara of Existence: 1. Veins open: 1. Powers of Existence: 3.|

|THE Narrative of Kings: no entry.|

...!

He sat down in the snow beside it and thought about his humanity, his choices, and Existence overall.