Chapter 4841: The Hollow Echo! II
Chapter 4841: The Hollow Echo! II
|You have caught the attention of The Hollow Echo of THE Creature|
|A segment of a lost definition of THE Creature when he passed through this region from an unknown time|
|It was drinking from the Corrupted Growths you purified|
|Its Immensity is unkno-|
BOOM!
The prompts couldn’t even finish.
Noah saw the Hollow Echo move fast, faster than anything that size should have been able to move. Its fist came down not toward him directly, but toward the space around him.
Because he was an Immovable Object.
So the Hollow Echo didn’t target him.
It punched the entire area around him instead.
And the surrounding environment of The Interstices...
That was not Immovable.
BOOM!
The entire region Noah was in shattered!
The Capillary Thread broke apart like glass struck by a hammer, fragments of undefined existence scattering in all directions. And even though Noah himself couldn’t be moved, the space he was standing on could be.
He was flung across The Interstices, riding a piece of shattered pathway through murky darkness as his Seals creaked and buzzed as if bearing a pressure they were never designed to withstand!
|The Immensity and weight of your Foundation is the only reason your existence has not shattered|
|You are bearing the weight of a Hollow Echo from an unknown time|
|This is not a fight you can win|
|This is barely a fight you can survive|
Noah’s eyes pulsed with Immensity.
He couldn’t let this continue. Couldn’t let himself be thrown around like debris in a storm while his Seals cracked under pressure that shouldn’t have been possible!
He moved his hand like a hammer.
A heavy Declaration emerged from it, words of The First Tongue blazing with authority that he forced into reality through sheer weight of existence.
|I! Am! Immovable!|
BOOM!
It began as a Declaration.
But uniquely, due to his Immensity and weight, due to the foundations he had built across a journey that defied normal progression, it became something more.
A Partial Embodiment.
Everything around him stabilized instantly. The shattered fragments of the Capillary Thread froze in place. The murky darkness stopped pressing inward. Even the corrupted existence that permeated this region became anchored, held in place by a definition that Noah had imposed through sheer force of authority.
Immovable.
Everything was Immovable.
But even before he could get his bearings...
WOOSH!
The Hollow Echo was already in front of him.
It had crossed the distance in less than a heartbeat, its corrupted form materializing from the stabilized darkness with speed that mocked his attempts at control. Its mouth opened, gray corrupted existence spilling out like vomit from a dying fold.
And a heavy ancient voice boomed out!
"DISCOMBOBULATE."
...!
BOOM!
An Embodiment.
With a single word.
A single fucking word, and all of surrounding existence began to melt.
Noah’s definition of Immovable warped and twisted as a superior definition overwrote it. The fragments he had stabilized became unstable again, but worse now, they lost coherence entirely, turning to mush and paste as reality forgot what shape things were supposed to be.
The Hollow Echo brought its giant hand down like a hammer.
Everything in this region of The Interstices turned to formless nothing!
And Noah’s Seals began to crack!
At such a time...
Blue-gold flames wrapped around Noah’s figure.
His mouth and nose leaked lava-like blue-gold fire as something inside him ignited. He raised his head toward the Immensity of the Hollow Echo, toward the corrupted definition of THE Creature that was about to erase him from existence.
And he spoke.
"FUCK. YOU."
BOOM!
|An Absolute Everything has been utilized fully|
|From your existence, an Embodiment blooms at a heavy cost!|
The 27 Seals around Noah blazed with the light of an Embodiment.
The cracks healed. The strain eased. Power that he had accumulated through cleansing The Interstices poured into a definition that he imposed upon reality with everything he had.
He raised his hands and bellowed out, holding against the Immensity of the palm descending to collapse everything around him.
Two Embodiments clashed in The Interstices.
Two heavy definitions pressing against each other with weight that made space itself groan in protest.
DISCOMBOBULATE versus FUCK YOU.
Dissolution versus Defiance.
And...
BOOM!
A gray fracture erupted between them.
The space where two Embodiments met couldn’t contain the contradiction of their definitions. Reality cracked down the middle, a fissure of pure uncertainty splitting the Capillary Thread in ways that shouldn’t have been possible!
All around them, the definitions of existence became distorted.
And akin to a nuclear explosion, the existence between Noah and the Hollow Echo melted and detonated.
The blast flung them in different directions of definition, hurling them through The Interstices along vectors that had nothing to do with physical space and everything to do with meaning itself.
|Two Embodiments imposed different definitions and have caused an unnatural reaction in The Interstices|
|You have been thrown in different directions|
Different directions.
Noah breathed as he felt the strain on his existence, as he felt his Seals buzzing as if they were screaming that they couldn’t bear this weight.
It was a shocking thing.
He didn’t feel any fear.
He felt a sense of exhilaration.
His existence felt bright. Heavy. Unfathomably grand at being able to simply survive a few femtoseconds against a mere Hollow Echo of THE Creature that may have been the weakest version of him.
If a lost definition, a fragment of corrupted memory, could nearly collapse him...
What would the real THE Creature be like at full power?
The thought made him hungry!
And as he felt the countless other Corrupted Growths all around him, as he sensed the accumulated corruption of The Interstices pressing against his tumbling form, he smashed his fist out and cleansed.
HUUM!
Golden waves flowed outward even as he was thrown through undefined space.
Corrupted Growths shriveled and died, their essence purified into authority that flowed back into his foundations.
|Another Absolute Everything forming|
He wanted to continue.
Wanted to cleanse more. Accumulate more. Push further into The Interstices and see what other echoes and corruptions waited to be purified.
But his existence felt the heavy fucking strain.
His Seals were still buzzing with residual stress. His foundations, while intact, had been pushed to limits he hadn’t known existed. Another encounter with something like that Hollow Echo...
He might not survive.
Noah shook his head and pulled upon his Atlas.
His Foundation. His Immensity. His Grimoire of Infinite Lexicons. His Way.
He activated Temporal Traversal!
In the past, Towers had acted as lighthouses to illuminate the way. He didn’t even have Stanchions at this moment.
But he had 27 Seals.
His Seals illuminated the way forward, burning with blue-gold light that cut through the murky uncertainty of The Interstices. His figure began to be wrapped in the light of temporal passage, reality bending around him as he prepared to move not just through space, but through time itself.
He put a new definition out there.
The coordinates that Pebanista Yacuruna had given him were exerted, temporal markers pointing toward a specific moment in the past when THE Primordial Paradox first encountered the infection that would eventually consume him.
Temporal Traversal that may not have been possible due to THE Fallout unfolded.
Noah’s figure warped out of existence, disappearing from this region of The Interstices as he began to float toward a different region.
At a different time.
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The moment he disappeared from that area, an instant later...
The Hollow Echo of THE Creature tore apart existence to arrive there.
Its corrupted form materialized from the shattered remains of the Capillary Thread, gray flames billowing from every orifice as it looked around with hollow eyes that held only hunger.
It searched.
It sought.
It did not find the puny existence that wasn’t collapsed by its Immensity.
The Hollow Echo stood in the empty space for a long moment, corrupted flames spilling into the void as it processed the absence of its prey.
Then, slowly, it began to drift back into the murky darkness of The Interstices.