Chapter 4571: The First Tongue II
Chapter 4571: The First Tongue II
Everything froze instantly in response to that ancient voice.
Noah’s eyes opened wide as he observed how the surroundings had entered a unique state of temporal suspension. His Mana had integrated with the surrounding region so profoundly and uniquely that it felt like waves of an endless ocean had formed across the landscape.
Yet it was now all completely frozen in place as if time itself had stopped flowing. His existence vibrated with recognition of overwhelming power as he looked ahead toward the source of the voice.
In the distance, he could see both the massive wooly mammoth and the arthropod-like creature that had examined him earlier. They were looking in his direction now, but they clearly were not the ones who had spoken.
They actually stayed back at a distance with seemingly annoyed expressions on their alien features.
And far ahead of both of them, Noah saw a massive creature that possessed a vaguely humanoid shape but seemed to be completely overflowing with dense hair covering every surface.
This ancient-looking entity’s entire body appeared covered by obsidian-gold hair so thick that none of his actual features were fully visible beneath the coverage. Even his face was completely obscured behind the flowing strands.
The being radiated presence that spoke of incomprehensible age and accumulated wisdom. When he spoke, his words seemed to carry weight like ancient proclamations of fundamental truth.
Noah observed with cautious analytical eyes as in this environment of frozen time and space, a single hairy hand emerged slowly from the dense obsidian-gold hair covering the entity’s form.
This hand reached out and touched the frozen seas of Primus Mana that Noah had released. And even though Noah could not actually see the face of this tremendously powerful entity beneath all that hair, he could almost tangibly feel a sense of genuine surprise emanating from it.
He looked at this being with cautious but shining eyes as he opened his mouth and spoke with deliberate simplicity.
"Hello," he said clearly.
A single word. A simple greeting.
But the response was unexpected.
An immense silence followed his spoken word before moments later, the hairy entity’s voice echoed out again through the frozen space.
|What rubbish are you trying to communicate with that crude method?| the voice said with tone mixing confusion and instruction. |You were just speaking perfectly clearly with The First Tongue moments ago. Your intent was filled with hope, unbound confidence, and wonderful novelty. I can still feel those qualities resonating now. Use your proper Voice to speak. Use The First Tongue as you were doing.|
As Noah heard these instructive words, his eyes opened even wider with sudden realization and understanding.
The voice was not actually coming from the head region of this entity covered completely with hair. Instead, it manifested as a pulse of obsidian-gold light surrounding them, emanating directly from their Way of Existence itself.
Their Way of Existence that seemed overwhelmingly grand and incomprehensibly refined. But within its fundamental structure, Noah could distinctly feel clear traces of Mana at its absolute core.
The First Tongue, this ancient being had called it.
Naturally, the only method of communication he had just been using before speaking aloud was his glorious Primus Mana flowing freely.
And so with this understanding clarified, he closed his mouth again. Pure blue-gold Primus Mana gushed forth from his existence once more as he deliberately spoke using Mana itself as the medium.
As he spoke with The First Tongue directly.
|Hello,| he communicated through pure Primus Mana expression.
The glorious hairy humanoid entity moved closer in response as their body pulsed with terrifically concentrated power that made the environment resonate.
|Yes yes, hello indeed, Little Anomaly,| the ancient voice responded with what almost seemed like satisfaction. |What is it specifically that you are searching for in these malformed weavings of Existence to be expressing yourself so loudly and freely here?|
Noah’s eyes shone even brighter with analytical focus as he looked directly at this terrifying THE level entity. Details began falling rapidly into his enhanced perception through his Lens of Civilization.
A comprehensive status sheet materialized before his vision.
|Name: Aeon-Strand Keeper, Ul’moreth THE Primeval Titan)|
|Classification: First Generation Ginnu Lifeform|
|Age: Exists since Ginnungagap’s formation|
|Depth: THE Fundamental Depth of Absolute Sovereignty|
|Complexity: Undefined (predates measurement systems)|
|Purity: Undefined (incompatible with standard metrics)|
|WAY OF EXISTENCE|
|The Way of Primordial Continuity|
|Philosophy: All things flow from The First Tongue and return to it eventually|
|GENESIS PRINCIPLES (3)|
|1. Genesis Principle of Undifferentiated Mana - Mana before it specialized|
|2. Genesis Principle of Temporal Perpetuity - Time as continuous flow rather than discrete moments|
|3. Genesis Principle of Existential Foundation - The bedrock upon which all reality constructs itself|
|SINGULARITY PRINCIPLES (5)|
|1. Singularity Principle of Infinite Patience|
|2. Singularity Principle of Accumulated Wisdom|
|3. Singularity Principle of Harmonic Resonance|
|4. Singularity Principle of Ancestral Memory|
|5. Singularity Principle of Primordial Preservation|
|UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES|
|Keeper of Thr First Knowledge |
|Hair of Continuity - Each strand contains compressed history and can extend across dimensions|
|Native Authority - Complete immunity to Ginnungagap’s suppression effects|
|Non-aggressive unless fundamental laws are violated|
|Believes all paths eventually lead back to The First Tongue|
Noah looked at the overwhelming details of this terrifically ancient being. But he could not pull his eyes away from one specific section of the information.
The Principles listed in the status sheet.
Above Singularity-level Principles, this entity possessed something fundamentally different and more profound.
This being held Genesis Principles!
And all three of them related directly to Mana and its foundational nature in existence.
Oh!
Noah had met many creatures over the past months and days of his journey through time and space, but none had made him stop and truly observe them as deeply as he was currently examining this entity standing before him.
Ul’moreth.
THE Primeval Titan.
The status sheet of this being alone contained an overwhelming amount of information to unpack and process, with one of the most significant revelations being the Principles classified at a tier standing distinctly above the level of Singularity.
Genesis Principles.
This ancient entity who followed The Way of Primordial Continuity actually possessed three complete Genesis Principles, with each one seeming progressively grander and more profound than the last.
The Genesis Principle of Undifferentiated Mana. The Genesis Principle of Temporal Perpetuity. The Genesis Principle of Existential Foundation.
Each one appeared just as magnificent if not more magnificent than the last in its implications. What Noah would give to somehow get his hands on understanding even one of them completely!
Even more ridiculously extraordinary was how this being was not merely at the Surface Depth or even the Intermediate Depth of Absolute Sovereignty, but instead stood at the absolutely terrifying classification of THE Fundamental Depth of Absolute Sovereignty.
He was a terrifically powerful and mighty being as Noah looked at the obsidian gold waves of his Way pulsing around him. And Noah could undoubtedly observe clear traces of pure Mana wrapping around the core of that Way like foundational threads!