Chapter 5063: Defiance! II
Chapter 5063: Defiance! II
|Entity Departed: THE Secretive Eon.|
|Status Effect ’Temporal Suspension’ has ended.|
|Domain Status: Normalized.|
The freezing power that had held everything in place vanished instantly.
THE Primordial Paradox unfroze as if no time had passed at all, his obsidian titanic form completing whatever motion he had been making before Eon’s power locked him in place. His massive head turned toward where she had been standing, found nothing, then shifted to observe Noah’s illusory form floating nearby.
His expression changed through several configurations before settling on bewildered frustration.
"Fucking hell."
His voice emerged with exhaustion that seemed inappropriate for someone who had just achieved THE Second Scale.
"You are not going to tell me you are some Gilded grandiose lifeform too, right?"
Noah floated closer to THE Primordial Paradox, observing the changes that had occurred within him. The aura radiating from that obsidian form declared Proterozoic authority with intensity. Something had fundamentally shifted within those foundations.
He sighed at the question.
"No, I am not something like that."
His illusory form settled beside the massive Primordial Paradox.
"But hey, THE Second Scale for you. Congratulations."
|Entity Analysis: THE Primordial Paradox.|
|Current Scale: THE Proterozoic Scale - Rhyacian Tier.|
|Civilizational Anchor: Established. Composition: Paradox.|
|Proterozoic Bone Detected: THE Paradoxical Sternum.|
|Location: Chest cavity, integrated with ribcage.|
|Capabilities: Allows simultaneous channeling of contradictory authorities. Enables existence in mutually exclusive states. Full parameters unknown, requires testing.|
THE Primordial Paradox’s expression twisted into something between gratitude and offense.
"Congratulations what? I did not even do it myself."
His obsidian hand pressed against his chest where his newly formed Proterozoic Bone resided.
"The all-important Gilded Lifeform who has apparently left just tapped out twice to form my Anchor for me and this Proterozoic Bone. Fucking hell."
...!
Noah observed Paradox gazing at his chest bone.
His own eyes shone brightly as he processed the implications. A few taps from Eon had taken THE Primordial Paradox to THE Second Scale. Casual gestures from a Gilded Lifeform had accomplished what should have required a great fucking deal, what should have demanded absolute self-knowledge!
She had done it with taps.
Then he truly would not release the Quintessence Infiniforce flowing through her existence.
The Observable force continuing to pour into him was insane, volumes that his Hadean Organ of Civilization processed with efficiency that prevented overflow but could not prevent awareness of just how much was coming through. His own power and progression would be jumping tremendously as his foundations absorbed what a Gilded Lifeform considered casual excess.
|Incoming Observable Force: Continuous.|
|Processing Status: THE Hadean Organ of Civilization operating at elevated capacity.|
|Projection: Significant advancement imminent across multiple parameters.|
’Hmm...’
But with everything somewhat clearer regarding Eon and her nature, he could return his attention to Beowulf.
The Second Scale Primordial Architect was still waiting in THE Wastes, held in check by revelations that should have been impossible for Noah to know. Alexander was still there as well, ready for the confrontation that had brought them to that transformed landscape. The illusory screens were still broadcasting everything to Observable Existence.
As he thought this through, he came to sit beside Paradox within this isolated sanctuary.
"What happened with Erwin?"
Indeed. Whatever happened to THE Living Paradox that Noah knew at this moment in time...had arrived in the same location as another body of his and Naldine Manthon in Nakatsukuni?
THE Primordial Paradox sighed, and he began to talk.
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While wonders unfolded all around him, Noah returned his attention to the body facing Beowulf.
In that region of THE Wastes filled with multicolored seas and endless rain, the instant stretched toward infinity concluded as he refocused his awareness. His illusory form in the isolated sanctuary remained as his consciousness settled fully into the body floating before a Second Scale Primordial Architect who had grown extremely serious during his momentary absence.
He looked around to sense what had changed.
|Environmental conditions have shifted dramatically.|
|Proterozoic Suppression Field detected. Source: Beowulf, THE Primordial Armor.|
The heavy Proterozoic Scale power Beowulf had laid down pressed against everything within range. This was battlefield control exercised by someone who had decided casual exchanges were no longer acceptable.
|Status Effect ’Proterozoic Containment’ is active. No entity without a Proterozoic Bone can leave this region. Boundaries extend for surrounding gigaparsecs.|
|Status Effect ’Scale Diminishment’ is active. All First Scale power reduced by 99% within affected zone.|
|Status Effect ’Authority Drain’ is active. Civilizational Authorities are being siphoned from all non-Proterozoic entities at rate of 3% per second.|
|Status Effect ’Infinity Rejection’ is active. All Infinity-based weavings experience 75% efficiency reduction.|
|Status Effect ’Observable Suppression’ is active. Observable force channeling reduced by 80% for First Scale beings.|
...!
Noah smiled at the comprehensive suppression Beowulf had established during his momentary distraction.
This fucker had gotten really, really serious. The multicolored seas around them had stilled completely, frozen not by ice but by authority that demanded all movement cease until permitted. The endless rain had stopped falling, droplets suspended in configurations that declared Beowulf’s dominance over this entire region of transformed space.
His Hadean Organ of Civilization released a burst of multicolored light from within his chest.
He grasped his Spear of Civilization tighter as the organ spun with fury that rejected everything attempting to constrain him, the force of THE Infiniverse erupting out. The Observable force continuing to flood into his existence from Eon’s pathways provided fuel that Beowulf’s suppression could not account for. His foundations burned with golden light that pressed outward against every status effect seeking to impose itself upon his form.
|Immunity Triggered: THE Hadean Organ of Civilization has negated ’Proterozoic Containment’.|
|Immunity Triggered: THE Hadean Organ of Civilization has negated ’Scale Diminishment’.|
|Immunity Triggered: THE Hadean Organ of Civilization has negated ’Authority Drain’.|
|Immunity Triggered: THE Hadean Organ of Civilization has negated ’Infinity Rejection’.|
|Immunity Triggered: THE Hadean Organ of Civilization has negated ’Observable Suppression’.|
|Status: All hostile effects nullified for you.|
|Extending nullification field to designated ally: Alexander.|
|Status: All hostile effects nullified for Alexander.|
HUUM!
The suppression that should have crippled any First Scale entity simply dissolved around Noah and Alexander, their existences protected by authority that operated according to different rules than what Beowulf understood.
Noah looked at the massive Primordial Architect floating in the distance, that armored form radiating fury that had only intensified during his absence.
"Sorry about that. I had to take care of something for a second."
His voice emerged with casual confidence that pressed against the tension saturating this region.
"We can continue now."
...!