Chapter 4137 Hunger and Suffering! III
Chapter 4137 Hunger and Suffering! III
Sigrid, her entire being bathed in the white light of Order, frowned as she looked at the ape's shifting form, the authority it emanated a direct affront to her very nature.
Even Khor, whose form was still a beacon of reconstituting light, showed a flicker of genuine surprise in her eyes. She had not expected to see the authority of a Dead Existence manifest so completely!
The obsidian authority reached a precipice of concentration, and the ape's eyes, once dead and lifeless, snapped open.
They shone with an obsidian-gold light, currently devoid of the ape's original cognizance. They held a new, singular gaze: the terrible, hungry will of Ozymandias.
Prompts bloomed, detailing the monumental effort and its unprecedented result.
|This is a tremendous effort, supported by the Seed of the Principle of Perpetual Harvest, because harvest does not pick and choose between life and death; it permeates all existence. One can have harvest permeate across existence.|
|Your Necromancy and Death Towers of Osmont burn with power and recognition, their aid, along with Cheats and all other Vital Lighthouses of the Early Atlas of the Folds, have brought about an unprecedented result.|
| As of this moment, your Legion of Dead Existences has gained its first member.|
…!
Noah's eyes on the prompts were a silent, incandescent flash of triumph.
The Seed of Perpetual Harvest had rewarded his effort, his tyrannical will, by allowing him to harvest a life not of his own, to command a being of death and hunger.
The fusion of his will with Ozymandias's hunger, and the raw authority of the ape's corpse, had created something that should not exist!
A Legion of Dead Existences, and this creature was its first member.
He would not be defined by the rules of Existence; he would bend them to his will!
The prompts continued to cascade, each one a testament to his growing power.
|The Dead Existential Inevitability, Primordial Stone Ape, has officially been born.|
|Primordial Stone Ape(Dead Existential Inevitability)|
|Complexity: 200,000,000,000,000 (200 Trillion)|
|Purity: 0 (All converted to Complexity to fuel its necrotic state)|
|Distinctions:|
|The Dead- A state of existence that defies cessation. The creature will reform even if its weavings are completely collapsed.|
|Inevitability- The hunger of existence made manifest. It devours and grows, fueled by any existence it consumes.|
|Necrotic Inevitability- A unique fusion of hunger and death. It can consume both life and death, converting all matter and essence into its own power.|
|Early Butcher- A title inherited from Ozymandias, now an innate skill. It can dissect any being of immense power with a terrifying efficiency.|
Noah's eyes, burning with a cold, tyrannical light, landed on the Primordial Stone Ape.
A single act of a being he hadn't even met, an act of sheer curiosity, had reduced him to a state of burning agony.
But now, that act, that curse, had been devoured and in its place, he had created something that would shake the very foundations of his current existence!
The ape began to move, its body shifting with a grace that seemed both dead and alive. Its eyes, which had once held the terrifying will of Ozymandias, blinked.
And then, as if a veil had been lifted, it gained a return of its own sense of cognizance. The terrifying power of The Dead flowed through it, an aura of utter regal darkness.
The countless tentacles of Ozymandias left the ape's body, and yet, brand new tentacles, formed of obsidian Early Dead Existential Authority, sprouted forth, weaving themselves into a terrifying new form.
The ape's lower body, once a mass of tentacles, became more and more real, its form now a brilliant obsidian-gold, with fur-like qualities that emanated profound waves of death.
It was a beautiful, horrifying creation, a perfect synthesis of life and death, of life and inevitability.
Ozymandias floated beside Noah, the two bodies standing side by side, a terrifying mirror of tyrannical power.
They looked upon this unique Dead Existence they had brought to fruition. And in that moment, the ape, filled with the new cognizance of a being born of death and hunger, knelt.
Its massive hand rose to its chest and tapped three times, a greeting given to Early Creatures. A gesture of submission and respect from a being of unfathomable power, a testament to the might of The Early Creature, Osmont!
On this day, Noah, for the first time, received the greeting given to Early Creatures from a Dead Existence that he had brought to fruition.
It was a victory born of suffering, a triumph forged in the fires of a curse!
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Suffering.
A unique idea that seemed always present, but it became moreso at a point in time in distant past.
In the Earliest Folds, where the glorious potential of existence swirled and coalesced into form, a time existed when THE Creature's power grew so immense that its presence became a choice.
Even THE Living Existences, those who wielded the fundamental forces that shaped reality itself, could not find it when it chose to be hidden.
Yet, there was always one who seemed to possess an unerring instinct for its location, a beacon in the vast, formless void of existence.
That being was THE Living Emotive.
One day, THE Creature had transformed itself into an Inevitability- a writhing mass of contradictions, pure hunger given form…to learn more of its kind.
As it drifted through a sea of unformed possibilities, a presence settled on its shoulder.
A being of pure emotion, a flicker of light in the maelstrom of its hungry form.
THE Creature, recognizing the signature, sighed with an exasperation that seemed to shake the very concepts of anger and annoyance.
"How do you always manage to find me?" THE Creature's thought resonated, a question not of power, but of genuine curiosity.
"You are an enigma, a weaving of power and potential that defies all understanding," THE Living Emotive replied, its voice a melody of feelings, each note a different emotion.
"You can hide your form, mask your power, and even obscure your consciousness from the others. But your emotions… your emotions, O Creature, will always be something you can never hide from me."
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