Chapter 5070: Melody! I
Chapter 5070: Melody! I
The screams of a Primordial Architect echoed out across existence.
After a certain point, Noah found them to be akin to a melody. The pitch varied with each manipulation Alexander performed upon those crimson vessels of suffering, rising when Delta-Threads were stimulated, falling when C-Fibers carried their slow burning anguish through pathways that had been designed to transmit rather than receive.
There was rhythm to it. There was almost music in the way Beowulf’s voice broke and reformed and broke again across spans of subjective time that compressed eternities into moments.
It was a symphony of revenge, and Noah served as its maim audience while Alexander conducted.
In the corner of his eyes, he could observe crimson gold blood flying every time Alexander tugged on the network of Existential Nociceptors. The fluid painted nearby regions of the destroyed battlefield in hues.
Droplets hung suspended in the air where Beowulf’s suppression field had once frozen rain, now replaced by frozen blood that would eventually fall when authority permitted gravity to remember its function.
A heavy smell hung in the air.
The smell of a Second Scale entity being unmade receptor by receptor, thread by thread, fiber by fiber!
Oh!
Noah breathed it in without discomfort.
The only thing he had done since anchoring Beowulf was wave his hand to collect what had fallen when the Primordial Architect’s hammer exploded. The Proterozoic Bone that had formed the backbone of that weapon now rested in his grip, held by THE Hadean Hand of Infinite Grasp with pressure that would not permit escape. The crimson obsidian material buzzed against his transformed palm, vibrating with frequencies of rejection.
Noah did not care about its rejections.
He thought instead about the dangerous future ahead and the words of THE Secretive Eon.
Now, he was just told by Eon how his life was very much hanging by a thread. Existence was vast and terrible and populated by hierarchies he had never known existed. There were monsters who had been alive trillions of years beyond his lifetime, beings who operated according to Designations that classified him as something lesser before he had ever been born.
THE Bounded. That was what he was. That was what THE Creature was. That was what every being he had encountered in Observable Existence was, apparently, with the sole exception of Eon herself and others he had yet to meet or even know they exist.
He had to be a bit bold to make sure he would not be curbstomped.
He had to be a bit crazy.
Because as much as he did not want to sit with the implications, he had been told that his desecration of Eon, a Gilded Lifeform, through the Quintessence Infiniforce permeating her existence was bound to get him extinguished. They would find out. They would come. They would end him for the transgression of reaching beyond his Designation, for daring to touch what THE Bounded were never supposed to touch.
If this was truly the case, Noah could not only dismiss it or tyrannically declare that he would not give up on the access he had gained through Eon. Defiance was necessary, but defiance alone was insufficient. He had to have actual planning on how to survive should that time come. He had to understand what he was dealing with, what made THE Gilded different from THE Bounded, what Existential Engineering had been applied to separate one form of life from another.
The biggest thing remained the very connection with Eon.
He felt like if he let it go, he would lose something he might never grasp again. The Observable force flooding into him through those pathways was merely the most obvious benefit. There was more. There had to be more. Understanding that more was essential to surviving what was coming!
So he reached inward to Ruination.
"Ruination, are you able to study the existence of THE Secretive Eon with the Quintessence Infiniforce permeating throughout her? I want to see what Existential Engineering makes her Gilded and the rest of us not. I want to know the difference."
...!
He sent these words in his mind where Ruination heard him and replied in the form of prompts that materialized before his awareness.
|Study of THE Secretive Eon’s Existential Engineering.|
|Assessment: Quintessence Infiniforce pathways provide sufficient access for covert analysis.|
|Challenge: THE Secretive Eon possesses awareness that exceeds anything known. Conducting study without detection requires extreme caution.|
|Solution: THE Hadean Organ of Civilization can process and conceal analytical weavings within the natural flow of Observable force transmission. The larger the organ grows, the more effectively analysis can be hidden within normal operations.|
|Timeline: Unknown. Gilded Existential Engineering has a lot of unknowns to us. Comprehensive understanding may require extended study.|
|Status: Study of the Weavings of Existence of THE Secretive Eon has commenced.|
|Current Progress: 0.001%.|
|Progress will accelerate as THE Hadean Organ of Civilization expands and as more Observable force is processed through Quintessence Infiniforce pathways. Early findings will be reported as they emerge.|
Noah nodded at the prompts as he fully understood what Eon represented the more time passed.
Because even now, endless rivers of golden Observable force continued to flood into him through the connection he refused to sever. His Organ of Civilization spun within his chest, processing volumes that would have overwhelmed anyone else, distributing the excess to foundations that were transforming to accommodate what they were receiving.
The organ continued to spread that light to his hands, to the bones that had already been converted into THE Hadean Hand of Infinite Grasp. But it did not stop there. At this moment, all his bones even slightly past his shoulders were beginning to accept this light and transform.
|Transformation Progress Detected.|
|THE Hadean Hand of Infinite Grasp is serving as template for extended bone transformation.|
|Current spread: Carpal bones of wrist to Radius and Ulna of forearm to Beginning integration with Humerus of upper arm.|
|Projection: Full arm transformation imminent if current influx continues.|
|Scapula and Clavicle of shoulder girdle beginning preliminary Observable Force absorption. Transformation of upper torso skeletal structure may follow arm completion.|
|Connection to a Gilded Lifeform is providing resources that would normally require even you with your progression at least days of work into potentially just hours. THE Gilded Lifeforms present a unique opportunity of progression and advancement. Well, if they don’t collapse everything you have worked for first.|
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