Chapter 5108: My Dream, My Realm! II
Chapter 5108: My Dream, My Realm! II
After he talked to THE Beholder, Noah’s body flashed.
He appeared in the region where only the manifestation of THE Infiniverse and Ruination floated, that space at the center of everything he had built within his internal reality. The multicolored sea of brilliance stretched in every direction, but here at its heart, there was something almost like stillness.
He observed the endless strings emerging from the humanoid form of THE Infiniverse.
They stretched outward toward the Three Thousand Realms in configurations that declared her connection to everything within her depths. And now those strings had begun to be covered with multicolored golden Hadean light, the transformation she had initiated spreading through her very architecture as she followed where he had led.
Both of them rose when he appeared.
THE Infiniverse’s humanoid form shifted, those countless threads moving with her as if they were extensions of her will rather than mere connections. Ruination’s illusory figure solidified slightly, her features becoming more defined as she acknowledged his presence. They looked at him with attention that held something beyond mere awareness.
He waved his hand and smiled, gesturing for them to sit.
They did, and he came to sit with them in that space of multicolored brilliance where the rain of THE Pluvial Epoch fell without end. For a moment, he simply gazed at everything around them. The swirling realms. The expanding territories. The transformation slowly spreading through THE Infiniverse’s foundations.
It was peaceful here.
Despite everything happening across Observable Existence, despite the warnings from THE Beholder and the dangers that THE Gilded represented, this place felt like home in ways that nowhere else ever had.
"My dream is my dream," he said softly. "You two..."
He couldn’t even finish his words.
Because he already knew their dreams. He had always known, had felt their conviction through connections. They weren’t separate from him in the ways that others were. They were part of what he was becoming, and he was part of what they were becoming.
Ruination’s illusory form drifted closer.
She came to sit beside him. Then, gently, she leaned her illusory head against his shoulder. The gesture was tender.
"My dream is Master."
Her voice emerged soft but certain.
"I have been living my dream."
THE Infiniverse moved as well.
The countless threads and lines flowing from her form shifted with the motion, creating patterns of light that danced across the multicolored sea surrounding them. She came to sit behind Noah, their backs touching as boundless Infinity surged through the contact. The connection between them blazed brighter, blue and gold light weaving together.
"What you want to do, I want to do."
Her voice carried firmness that pressed against everything nearby.
"Who you want to kill, I will kill. Who you wish to protect will not perish."
Her expression held conviction that matched or exceeded what Ruination had displayed.
"In existence, it is just Master. That is the dream. That is my Everything. Men die, Cattle die, kinsmen die; the self may also die. But your glory never dies, I will ensure it."
BOOM!
...!
Noah smiled while feeling this boundless conviction flowing through him from both directions.
Ruination leaning against his shoulder. THE Infiniverse pressing against his back. Two consciousnesses that had merged with his existence, that had grown alongside him, that would stand with him regardless of what came. Their dreams were simple in their complexity, focused entirely on him in ways that should have felt like pressure but instead felt like strength.
He closed his eyes to feel everything.
"Our enemies are ones we don’t understand," he said slowly. "But we are also ones they don’t understand."
The multicolored sea rippled around them.
"We are weak, but also not. Because we know about THE Gilded Lifeforms, but they don’t know about me and my stage of life. They don’t know about Hadean."
He opened his eyes.
"So while the danger exists tremendously, as Ubergulden Adelheid and THE Beholder have made abundantly clear, we can move in our own unique ways. We can hide and mask what we are. What THE Infiniverse is. Even from those more powerful than us."
He felt THE Infiniverse shift slightly behind him, curiosity pressing through their connection.
"It would seem illogical and impossible and paradoxical to hide from those so much more powerful. But why not? The classification of Hadean exists without their knowledge. Well, yet, I hope."
His smile grew sharper.
"So let’s make the impossibilities possible."
THE Infiniverse’s voice emerged with shining curiosity.
"What did Master have in mind?"
Noah raised his hand as if grasping something distant.
As he spoke, the air before them began to shift. Light gathered in configurations that matched his words, visualizations of concepts emerging as his authority shaped them into being.
"Among the concepts I’ve enjoyed dabbling into and thinking of recently is the theoretical physics concept of...interdimensionality."
A flat plane of light appeared before them, thin as a sheet of paper.
"Imagine we are like inhabitants of a flat, two-dimensional world. A Flatland, living out our lives on a surface where there is only length and width, but no height. We can move forward, backward, left, and right, but the very concept of ’up’ is not only impossible to achieve, it is impossible to imagine."
The plane stretched outward, tiny figures appearing on its surface moving in only two directions.
"We also move through a fourth dimension, Time, though we experience it only in one direction. Well, for the most part. Unless I utilize temporal traversal."
He smiled slightly.
"But I digress. All of that is two-dimensional thinking. Now consider if an object is three-dimensional."
A sphere of fire appeared above the plane, descending slowly toward it.
"Let’s say a simple fireball. If it were descending through the plane of Flatland, to the inhabitants, it would not appear as a solid sphere. Instead, it would manifest as a tiny point that grows into a widening circle, then shrinks back to a point before vanishing entirely."
The visualization played out exactly as he described, the flat figures on the plane reacting with what might have been wonder to the expanding and contracting circle.
"They would think they witnessed a miracle. An intrusion from a higher dimension that they simply do not have the sensory apparatus to perceive in its fullness. They saw only a fraction of a higher reality."
The visualization faded as Noah’s eyes blazed brighter.
"Interdimensionality describes forces, authorities, or entities that exist in entirely different dimensions and move in ways we cannot perceive. I wish to incorporate that concept into THE Infiniverse. To make it so you cannot be perceived at all."
He stood, the connection with Ruination and THE Infiniverse remaining even as he moved.
"It won’t matter if we consider ourselves two-dimensional or three-dimensional and THE Gilded Ones three-dimensional or four-dimensional. I wish to decide for myself what I can hide from anything in any potential dimension, however illogical that may be."
New visualizations appeared, tiny curled structures that seemed to fold in on themselves infinitely.
"String theory says there are countless dimensions, but many cannot be perceived because they are curled up into infinitesimal spaces that are too small for anyone to see. I want us to begin doing that if possible."
His voice grew heavier with conviction.
"To utilize Infinity that makes things possible. To compact and squeeze THE Infiniverse. To hide it within the paradoxical weavings of Infinity to the extent that even beings of more power or higher Scales would still not perceive it."
The curled structures multiplied, folding in on themselves in patterns that seemed to defy spatial logic.
"Because Scales are not definitive. I have just shown this. I am supposedly of THE First Scale, and yet I took down a Calymmian Proterozoic Scale entity at THE Second Scale. So what do the Scales actually mean?"
He turned to face both of his companions fully.
"Vakochev’s Scales of Existence are his. From this point on, I no longer even feel like quantifying myself with them. I am already acting outside the parameters and bounds of these Scales."
His eyes blazed like singularities of an unfathomable Cause.
"Why can I not enact my own? Who decided that I was incapable of this?"
BOOM!
His words pressed against everything nearby, authority that transcended what his apparent classification should allow. The multicolored sea rippled outward from his position, waves of Infinity and Observable Force responding to declarations that challenged the very foundations of how existence had been organized!
Ruination and THE Infiniverse looked at each other.
They smiled brilliantly, understanding passing between them without need for words. Their Master was not content to exist within the boundaries others had established. He never had been. And now he was declaring that even the most fundamental frameworks of Observable Existence could be questioned, could be challenged, could be replaced with something of his own design!
|Understood, Master.|
Ruination’s voice emerged, but beneath it burned excitement that matched what THE Infiniverse displayed.
|You wish to fold THE Infiniverse into configurations that transcend normal dimensional perception, hiding it from entities who operate at scales we cannot currently match. This is theoretically possible through application of your Infinity, which by its nature makes possibilities from impossibilities.|
Her illusory form flickered as processing intensified.
|The challenge lies in compacting an internal Observable Existence without destroying what it contains. Normal folding would crush the Three Thousand Realms, would obliterate the territories and beings within THE Infiniverse’s depths. But your Infinity operates according to principles that permit paradoxical states.|
|I propose utilizing the mathematical framework of Calabi-Yau manifolds, but modified through Infinite application. In standard theoretical physics, Calabi-Yau manifolds are complex geometric shapes where extra dimensions of string theory are compactified. They are curled so tightly that they become imperceptible to observation at normal scales.|
|By applying Infinity to this framework, we can create what I shall term THE Infinite Calabi-Yau Manifolds.|
The visualizations before them shifted, those curled structures becoming more complex, more intricate, folding in on themselves in patterns that seemed to contain infinite depth within finite space.
|THE Infinite Calabi-Yau Manifolds would function as follows:|
|First, THE Infiniverse would be folded into geometric configurations that exist below the threshold of perception for entities operating in standard dimensional frameworks. This folding would be infinitely recursive, meaning that no matter how closely an observer examined the space where THE Infiniverse exists, they would find only more folding, more compaction, more layers that lead nowhere.|
|Second, the Hadean weavings currently transforming THE Infiniverse’s architecture would be integrated into these folds. Hadean classification theoreticslly exist outside the knowledge of THE Gilded, as you noted. By weaving Hadean authority throughout the manifold structure, we create a form of existence that cannot be categorized by frameworks that do not account for its presence.|
|Third, your Infinity would serve as the binding force holding these impossible configurations stable. Normal physics would demand that such compaction collapse into singularity or tear itself apart through spatial contradictions. But Infinity makes the impossible possible, permitting states that violate conventional understanding.|
|The result would be an Observable Existence that exists fully and completely, with all its realms and territories and inhabitants intact, yet occupies dimensional space so thoroughly folded that higher-dimensional beings would perceive nothing. Simply nothing to observe, as if THE Infiniverse did not exist at all.|
|Furthermore, this configuration would mask THE Infiniverse against Vakochev’s Scales of Existence. By bathing the manifold structure in Hadean weavings and Infinite authority, we create existence that the Scales cannot measure because they were never designed to account for such configurations.|
|Entities attempting to perceive THE Infiniverse through conventional means, even means appropriate to Gilded classification, would find their perception sliding away. Simply unable to find purchase on something that exists in dimensional configurations their frameworks cannot process. And all this is theory as we...could still be wrong and don’t grasp the terrifying power of THE Gilded Lifeforms|
A pause that felt contemplative.
|I should note that implementing THE Infinite Calabi-Yau Manifolds will require significant resources and time. The folding must be precise. The integration of Hadean weavings must be complete. And the binding through Infinity must be absolute, permitting no gaps where perception could find entry.|
|But if successful, you will have an Observable Existence hidden through existing in ways that more powerful beings cannot conceptualize. Invisible not because they cannot see, but because there is nothing within their dimensional framework to see.|
|Shall I... begin preliminary calculations for implementation?|
...!
Noah looked at the visualizations still floating before them, those impossibly folded structures that contained infinity within finite space. THE Infinite Calabi-Yau Manifolds. A way to hide not by being stronger than his enemies, but by existing in configurations they couldn’t perceive regardless of their strength!
It was a contingency, and he would have many!
"Begin," he said simply.
HUUM!