Chapter 5064: Merely Rhyacian! I
Chapter 5064: Merely Rhyacian! I
Beowulf looked at him silently and coldly.
The Primordial Architect no longer spoke, no longer offered threats or declarations or promises of violence to come. He existed in a state of immense focus and grandeur that communicated everything through posture rather than words. His hammer was grasped in his hand, that weapon containing a Proterozoic Bone now held ready for strikes that would not be exploratory.
He was truly serious.
Noah turned to Alexander, who floated beside him with an expression that held bloody peace rather than fear.
"Give me a few seconds to wear him down, and then you can tag in."
Alexander nodded lightly. He understood that Noah needed to establish something first.
Noah began to float toward Beowulf.
As he did so, his Organ of Civilization buzzed with activity that pressed against his awareness. The terrifying force it had received from Eon’s existence, that flood of Observable power that continued pouring through Quintessence Infiniforce pathways, began channeling toward his right hand.
The hand holding the Spear of Civilization. The hand that would bear the weight of this confrontation.
|THE Hadean Organ of Civilization is inducing formation of a Hadean Bone within your right hand.|
|Process: Observable Force Integration.|
|Source: Gilded Lifeform connection providing accelerated resources.|
|Estimated completion: Unknown. Dependent on combat intensity and force channeling.|
|Current progress: 0%.|
...!
The bones of his right hand began to tremble as the spear grasped within them buzzed with resonance that matched his foundations. Noah’s eyes shone brilliantly as he felt boundless Quintessence Infiniforce and Observable force flooding into his hand with intensity.
The boons of being connected to a Gilded Lifeform began to show.
His hand burned with golden light that seeped through his skin, illuminating the bones beneath with brilliance that declared transformation in progress. He could feel his phalanges trembling, his metacarpals vibrating, his carpals shifting as Observable force saturated them with authority they had never been designed to contain.
But he went ahead toward Beowulf regardless.
"Come on, big guy! For all of Observable Existence to see!"
His voice rang across the stilled battlefield with challenge that could not be ignored.
"Come on!"
HUUM!
Beowulf moved.
|Civilization Activation Detected: Armed Existence.|
|Civilization Ability: Absolute Armament Strike. All weapons wielded become extensions of wielder’s foundations. Damage ignores Civilizational defenses.|
The massive hammer descended with speed that contradicted its enormous size. Crimson light blazed from the Proterozoic Bone within as Beowulf channeled everything he possessed through the weapon designed specifically for destruction. The air itself screamed as the hammer fell, reality protesting the force being applied against its fabric!
Noah raised his Spear of Civilization to meet it.
CRACK!
The collision sent shockwaves rippling outward across the stilled battlefield. Multicolored seas that had been frozen by Beowulf’s suppression were not merely disrupted but erased entirely, vast expanses of transformed water simply ceasing to exist as the force of their exchange pressed through them. The suspended rain droplets within a light year of their position vaporized simultaneously!
HUUM!
|Impact Assessment: Attack blocked. Strain detected in your foundations.|
|Hadean Bone Formation: 7% complete.|
Noah felt the impact reverberate through his arm with intensity that made his teeth clench. Holding his ground was possible, but it was not easy. He was Immovable!
Beowulf possessed power refined across eons of existence at THE Second Scale. The gap between them was real!
But the gap was closing.
Beowulf withdrew his hammer and swung again with motion that carried the momentum of the first strike into a second assault. The crimson Proterozoic Bone blazed brighter as he channeled even more authority through its configurations.
|Civilization Ability Detected: Cascading Armament.|
|Effect: Each consecutive strike increases in power by factor of 1.5. No known upper limit.|
Noah met this strike as well, his spear intercepting the descending hammer with precision that placed crystalline tip against crimson bone. The Observable and Unobservable forces swirling around his weapon pressed against Beowulf’s authority with intensity that made the Primordial Architect’s massive form actually shift backward slightly.
BOOM!
Another light year of multicolored seas vanished.
|Impact Assessment: Attack blocked. Strain increasing.|
|Hadean Bone Formation: 15% complete.|
The third strike came faster than the second, Beowulf’s massive form moving with speed that should have been impossible for something so large. His hammer arced down from angles that seemed to change mid-swing, the Civilization of Armed Existence allowing his weapon to move in ways that contradicted normal physics.
Physics didn’t even matter as they were being violated thoroughly!
|Civilization Ability Detected: Impossible Trajectory.|
|Effect: Weapon can alter direction after swing commences. Conventional blocking ineffective.|
Noah did not attempt conventional blocking.
He thrust his spear forward to meet the hammer before its trajectory could shift, endless blue seas of infinity converging on the spear tip, intercepting the weapon at the source of its motion rather than attempting to catch it at its destination!
His crystalline spearhead pressed against the hammer’s shaft just below the head, Infinity, Observable and Unobservable forces grinding against the crimson bone with friction that generated light visible across the remaining seas.
CRACK!
The impact almost drove Noah backward for the first time, his body buzzing through suspended rain droplets that vaporized upon contact with his passage. He didnt move, but thr space around him was!
The space came to a stop three light years from where he had been, his right arm burning with pain that the transformation within was simultaneously amplifying and soothing.
|Impact Assessment: Partial block. spatial displacement detected.|
|Hadean Bone Formation: 23% complete.|
|Warning: Incoming follow-up attack.|
Beowulf was already there.
The Primordial Architect had crossed the distance separating them with speed that demonstrated why THE Second Scale represented such a fundamental advancement over THE First. His hammer descended again, fourth strike of a cascade that would only grow more devastating with each successful connection.
Noah raised his spear.
The weapons collided with force that created a sphere of absolute destruction expanding outward from their point of contact.
Everything within that sphere simply ceased to exist, matter and energy and authority all dissolved by the violence of their exchange. The multicolored seas of THE Wastes, which had covered this region for as far as anyone could see, were being systematically erased by their confrontation.
|Impact Assessment: Attack blocked. Foundational strain approaching thresholds.|
|Hadean Bone Formation: 31% complete.|
|Observable Force influx: Compensating for damage.|
The golden light in Noah’s right hand burned brighter.
He could feel the bones transforming, could sense the metacarpals shifting into configurations that should not have been possible for any First Scale entity. The Observable force from Eon’s existence poured through his Quintessence Infiniforce pathways with volume that accelerated the process beyond what natural formation would have permitted.
Ozymandias...may actually not be needed for this.
Beowulf swung again.
Fifth strike. Power increased by factor of 7.59 from the baseline.
Noah met it with a swing of his own.
For the first time in their exchange, he did not simply block but attacked, his Spear of Civilization moving to intercept Beowulf’s hammer while simultaneously pressing toward the armored chest behind it. The Observable and Unobservable forces swirling around his weapon condensed into majesty!
BOOM!
The collision halted both weapons simultaneously.
Neither combatant moved for an instant that seemed to stretch toward eternity. Noah’s spear pressed against Beowulf’s hammer with force that neither could overcome. The Proterozoic Bone within that weapon ground against the Civilizational Armament that should not have existed at THE First Scale, and for one perfect moment, they were equals.
|Impact Assessment: Stalemate achieved.|
|Hadean Bone Formation: 47% complete.|
Then Beowulf pressed harder.
The Primordial Architect’s massive form leaned into the exchange, bringing the full immensity of his Second Scale existence to bear against Noah’s resistance. His hammer began pushing the spear back, centimeter by centimeter, his superior Scale asserting itself through raw application of force that methodology alone could not overcome.
|Warning: Stalemate breaking. Enemy advantage increasing.|
|Hadean Bone Formation: 52% complete.|
Noah felt his arm straining under the pressure. The bones of his right hand burned with transformation that was occurring too slowly, Observable force flooding into structures that were not yet ready to channel what they were receiving. He needed more time. He needed the formation to complete before Beowulf’s cascade reached heights he could no longer match!
He needed to hold on!
"Is that all you have?"
His voice emerged strained but defiant.
"I expected more from THE Primordial Armor. But in the end, you are merely a Rhyacian Proterozoic Lifeform!"
WAA!
Beowulf did not respond with words.
He responded with the sixth strike.
|Civilization Ability Detected: Terminal Armament.|
|Effect: Final strike of cascade sequence. All accumulated power released simultaneously.|
The hammer rose and fell with speed that made everything before seem leisurely by comparison. All the accumulated force of the cascade, every factor of increase built across six consecutive exchanges, compressed into a single descending blow that would end this confrontation one way or another.
Noah met it with everything he had.
|Hadean Bone Formation: 67% complete.|
CRACK!