Chapter 5091: Evolution I
Chapter 5091: Evolution I
Noah and Ozymandias reached Grimvault in the span of a heartbeat, both bodies closing the distance with speed. The wolf-helmed Primordial Architect observed their approach with those pale fires burning in his empty eye sockets, and he raised his Axiom greatsword with a casual motion that suggested he found their charge more entertaining than threatening.
"I will beat you to paste first," Grimvault declared, his deep voice pressing against reality itself, "and collect what remains of your weavings to bring to THE Wyld. There, they will study what made you so interesting before your existence ends."
His greatsword descended with a terrifying force that warped the space around its trajectory.
"Here is my pure Civilization. Just feel it!"
BOOM!
The impact was devastating.
Noah’s transformed right hand, THE Hadean Hand of Infinite Grasp, caught the flat of that descending blade alongside Ozymandias’s matching grip. Seas of blue Infinity converged on their palms as they met the weapon of a Calymmian Tier entity, that impossible force pressing against hands that should have been obliterated by mere proximity to such power.
Quintessence Infiniforce blazed from both bodies in configurations of multiple colors, the endless generation of his unique force type flooding outward in response to the strain being placed upon his existence!
Golden Observable force surged within Noah’s foundations as Eon’s connection provided density that his Bounded classification couldn’t naturally produce.
And then the impact truly registered.
Both Noah and Ozymandias buzzed with sensation that transcended pain, their connected existence vibrating at frequencies that existence wasn’t designed to accommodate. In that instant, it felt like every bone in their bodies was about to break. Every single one. Not cracking or fracturing but shattering entirely, reduced to powder beneath force that Calymmian entities wielded as casually as normal beings might swing a stick.
Noah felt every cell preparing to rupture as the pain was unfathomable!
Pain! Pain! PAIN!
His skin wanted to tear. His muscles wanted to liquefy. His organs wanted to burst apart into configurations that could no longer be called organs. The force Grimvault had delivered through that single swing was enough to extinguish First Scale entities by the thousands, and he’d taken it directly into his hands.
But Observable force surged.
Golden light flooded into every cell that was breaking, into every structure that was failing, into every component of his existence that Grimvault’s attack was destroying. The concentration was terrifying, density exceeding anything he’d experienced before as Eon’s enhanced connection provided resources that his Bounded classification could never have generated independently.
The cells regenerated instantly.
New cells replaced destroyed ones before destruction could complete. His bones were breaking and reforming simultaneously, his organs were rupturing and rebuilding in the same instant, his entire existence was undergoing cycles of annihilation and rebirth compressed into spans so short that objective time couldn’t properly measure them.
He paradoxically underwent simultaneous destruction and rebirth of all cells while also not undergoing either, both states existing in the same moment through depths of his Civilization he could now perceive at five percent access. THE First Tongue was the language of Existence itself, and at five percent, he could speak words of self-definition that rewrote what was happening to his body even as it happened.
And when that paradox resolved, every cell in his body was blindingly new.
Grander than what had existed before.
All bones within his body began to shine simultaneously.
|Miniature Cause Triggered.|
|Classification: THE Crucible of Observable Rebirth.|
|Nature: Internal evolutionary acceleration.|
|Unlike something like THE Pluvial Epoch of Existential Infinity which produces external phenomena across Observable Existence, this Cause operates strictly within your existence. External force of sufficient magnitude triggers accelerated transformation. The greater the force received, the more comprehensive the evolution.|
|Initial Catalyst: Impact from Calymmian Tier Proterozoic Scale entity.|
|Result: Force sufficient to extinguish your existence has instead catalyzed universal Hadean transformation.|
|All bones within your existence are now being saturated with Observable force and Quintessence Infiniforce at concentrations exceeding previous parameters.|
|Current Progress: All Bones toward Hadean Classification: 3%.|
...!
Oh!
Noah and Ozymandias both roared.
BOOM!
They rebuffed the immense strike, pushing Grimvault’s Axiom greatsword away from their shining palms with force that shouldn’t have been possible from beings at their classification. The wolf-helmed Primordial Architect didn’t stumble, didn’t even shift his stance, but those pale fires in his empty eye sockets flickered with something that might have been surprise.
Then he smiled.
That wolf skull helm somehow conveyed amusement despite possessing no features capable of expression, and when he spoke, his deep voice held genuine entertainment.
"Interesting."
He lowered his greatsword slightly, observing the golden light radiating from Noah’s existence.
"It seems you really are something unique in Observable Existence. How can you survive the pure force of Calymmian? For a second there, I thought I felt like I destroyed everything of your small body."
His smile widened beneath that helm.
"Come, take another strike! A true strike!"
BOOM!
Grimvault swung his Axiom weapon again, and this time it shone with light that seemed to contain depths beyond what the previous attack had carried. The greatsword blazed with authority that declared its nature to anyone capable of perceiving it, the complete Axiom that Noah had detected during his initial analysis now revealing capabilities that simple observation couldn’t have predicted.
Noah and Ozymandias raised their shining hands to meet the blow.
As if Grimvault was a hammer and they were weapons being forged, they would use his attacks to refine themselves.
BOOM!
The impact landed with force exceeding the previous strike, and Noah once more felt every cell within his body nearly extinguish, or really, paradoxically fully extinguish and not extinguish. Golden light of Observable force actually formed into liquid seas around his existence as he sought to resist power grander than before.
But something was different this time.
The Axiom Grimvault carried held a devastating light that seemed to bring cycles upon cycles of destruction, attacks replicating within the span of the initial impact in configurations that normal weapons couldn’t produce.
|Axiom Identified: THE Octogenary Echo.|
|Classification: Complete Axiom of Multiplicative Force.|
|Capability: Any force exerted through this weapon is replicated 81 times within the span of 1 nanosecond following initial contact.|
|Current Status: Replication sequence initiating.|
|You will experience the full force of Grimvault’s strike 81 times in the next nanosecond.|
|Brace yourself.|
...!
The blows came.
One. Two. Three!
Each impact carried the same devastating force as the initial strike, the same power that had nearly extinguished Noah’s entire existence compressed into spans so short that normal perception couldn’t register them as separate events. His bones screamed with stress that should have shattered them into dust. His organs wailed with strain that should have liquefied them entirely.
Four. Five. Six. Seven!
Observable force flooded in with each cycle of destruction, golden light rebuilding what the previous impact had broken before the next impact could find weakness in damaged structures. Quintessence Infiniforce generated endlessly within his foundations, providing resources that the transformation required regardless of how quickly those resources were being consumed.
Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve!
Noah’s expression shone with glory as he felt his bones and existence taking in the force once, twice, three times, twelve times, twenty times. Each individual attack was capable of destroying him. Each blow carried sufficient power to end his existence permanently. And yet the endless generation of Observable force and Quintessence Infiniforce rebuilt him stronger with every cycle.
Thirty. Thirty-one. Thirty-two!
This terrifying capability of an Axiom that should have been deadly was actually accelerating his growth! Oh!
Every booming cycle of destruction bathed every atom within him with Observable force and Quintessence Infiniforce!
Fifty. Fifty-one. Fifty-two!
Everything about the old him was being washed away. Every cell that had existed before this battle was being replaced with something new, something grander, something saturated with forces that his previous existence couldn’t have contained.
Seventy. Seventy-one. Seventy-two!
This new him was being forged with every impact, filled to the brim with more Infiniforce and Observable Force than he’d ever possessed, density increasing with each cycle of the Octogenary Echo’s devastating replication.
Eighty. Eighty-one.
|THE Crucible of Observable Rebirth: Comprehensive Evolution Triggered.|
|The Miniature Cause within you has expanded its scope.|
|All organs and components of your existence are now included in the transformation toward Hadean classification. Every aspect of your being is being filled with increasingly dense concentrations of Quintessence Infiniforce and Observable Force.|
|Hadean Transformation Progress Report:|
|Skeletal Structure:|
|Right Hand (THE Hadean Hand of Infinite Grasp): 100% Complete.|
|Right Arm (Radius, Ulna, Humerus): 67% Complete.|
|Left Hand: 34% Complete.|
|Left Arm: 19% Complete.|
|Right Leg (Femur, Patella, Tibia, Fibula, Tarsals, Metatarsals, Phalanges): 28% Complete.|
|Left Leg: 24% Complete.|
|Spine (Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral, Coccygeal Vertebrae): 15% Complete.|
|Ribcage (12 pairs of ribs, Sternum): 12% Complete.|
|Skull (Cranium, Facial Bones): 8% Complete.|
|Pelvis (Ilium, Ischium, Pubis): 11% Complete.|
|Organ Systems:|
|Heart: 4% Hadean Saturation.|
|Lungs: 3% Hadean Saturation.|
|Brain: 6% Hadean Saturation (benefiting from connection to Ozymandias’s THE Hadean Mind of Infinite Calculation).|
|Liver: 2% Hadean Saturation.|
|Kidneys: 2% Hadean Saturation.|
|Overall Hadean Transformation: 17%.|
|Rate of transformation is dependent on external force received. Current catalyst: Calymmian Tier attacks through THE Octogenary Echo.|
|At current rate of combat intensity, full Hadean transformation may complete within this battle.|
The prompts rained down through Noah’s awareness as time seemed to slow around him.
He felt every painful impact and very rebirth. And man, it was painful!
In his perception, multicolored and golden waves of light emerged in repetitive sequence with him at the center, explosions of brilliance cascading outward as Grimvault’s Axiom delivered force that would have ended lesser existences eighty-one times over.
After every burst of light, his existence felt unfathomably grander.
More than thirty hours to fully forge his Hadean Bones?
Fuck that number completely.
If Grimvault was formidable enough, he might have all Hadean Bones within this single battle. If the Calymmian Tier Primordial Architect kept swinging that devastating Axiom, kept delivering force sufficient to trigger THE Crucible of Observable Rebirth over and over, he might achieve transformation that should have required hours in the span of minutes.
Oh!
This was Adversity!
Adversity was oh so sweet!
He wasn’t a masochist who liked being beaten. Really.
He didn’t enjoy pain for its own sake, didn’t seek suffering because suffering felt good. But as of this moment, feeling his existence shatter and rebuild stronger with every impact, watching his bones transform toward Hadean classification through force that should have killed him, he was a big fan of adversity.
Bring more of it on!
Bring someone else like Grimvault! Bring another Calymmian Proterozoic Scale being if possible! Bring someone at even higher tiers, at classifications that most couldn’t imagine!
Bring it all!
"OOOH!"
Every atom within him seethed with immensity and roared with voices that transcended physical sound. Golden seas erupted from his existence and shone across the destroyed battlefield, Observable force radiating outward in waves that painted reality itself in hues of transformation and glory.
Grimvault observed this display with those pale fires burning brighter in his empty eye sockets.
His smile hadn’t faded.
If anything, it had grown wider.