Chapter 5110: War! I
Chapter 5110: War! I
<Pioneers>
In the long annals of Observable Existence, there have always been those who looked upon the established order and asked a simple question: why must it be so?
These beings, whom later beings would come to call Pioneers, did not accept that the boundaries of what was possible had already been drawn by those who came before. They did not believe that the frameworks governing power and progression were immutable laws of reality rather than choices made by earlier entities who happened to arrive first.
There was THE Quantum Weaver, who studied the behavior of particles at scales so small that certainty itself became meaningless. Where others saw chaos, she perceived opportunity. She developed a Civilization she termed Superposition Authority, which allowed her existence to occupy multiple states simultaneously until observation forced collapse into whichever configuration most benefited her purposes. Her enemies could never predict where she would be, because she was everywhere until she chose not to be. She fell eventually, as many Pioneers do, but the Civilization she forged persisted in fragments that others would later rediscover and build upon.
There was also THE Entanglement Sovereign, who recognized that particles separated by vast distances could influence each other instantaneously, as if space itself was an illusion they had agreed to ignore. He engineered connections between aspects of his existence scattered across Observable Existence, creating a network of influence that transcended the limitations of travel and communication. When he acted in one location, the effects manifested simultaneously in a thousand others.
Those who sought to contain him discovered that containing one fragment meant nothing when countless fragments remained free.
Disastrously, there was also THE Relativistic Architect, who understood that time flowed differently depending on velocity and gravity. She constructed realms where eons passed internally while mere moments elapsed externally, cultivating armies and resources in temporal pockets that her enemies could not perceive fast enough to address. By the time they recognized her threat, she had already spent subjective cycles preparing for their response.
These Pioneers and countless others demonstrated a truth that the comfortable and the powerful have always sought to suppress: the rules of existence are not natural laws but engineering decisions. They were designed by someone. And what was designed by someone can be redesigned by someone else.
This is why Pioneers are critical for the immensity of existence.
Without them, the frameworks established by the earliest and most powerful would calcify into permanence. Progress would halt. Innovation would cease!
Oh!
Imagine the loss of innovation itself.
Existence would become a museum curated by those who arrived first, with all subsequent beings reduced to visitors admiring what others had built while being forbidden from building anything themselves.
The Pioneers remind us that boundaries are proposals, not facts. That limitations are suggestions and commands. That someone saying ’this cannot be done’ often means only that they have not yet seen it done.
Of course, Pioneers frequently fail. They frequently die. They frequently discover that the boundaries they sought to transcend existed for reasons they did not understand, and their attempts to cross them ended in consequences they could not survive.
But some succeed.
And when they succeed, existence itself changes to accommodate what they have proven possible.
This is why those who benefit from the current order fear Pioneers above all other threats. And it is not because Pioneers are necessarily more powerful than they are...
But because Pioneers ask questions that have no safe answers.
Why must it be so?
What if it could be otherwise?
Who decided, and why should we accept their decision?
These questions, once asked, cannot be unasked. And the beings who ask them, even if they fall, plant seeds in the minds of others who will ask the same questions again!
Existence is vast. But it was not always as vast as it is now. Every expansion, every new territory, every novel classification and framework and system of power, all of these emerged because someone refused to accept that what existed was all that could exist.
Pioneers built the vastness.
And Pioneers will continue building it, whether the current custodians of existence approve or not.
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Noah’s mind was buzzing with possibilities and ideas.
For his First Infinite Scale of Existence, Noah needed to understand exactly what he was working with. He currently held Uncountable Infinity across all Depths and foundations of his existence. His body endlessly generated Quintessence Infiniforce through active utilization of Infinity itself. Observable Force flooded into him from Ubergulden Adelheid through a connection that pulsed with warmth he had grown accustomed to feeling.
With his entire skeleton and organs transformed to Hadean classification, he had access to power that defied what his apparent Scale should permit.
Something like his brain alone held an ability he had already glimpsed. THE Hadean Mind of Infinite Calculation could stretch an instant into an infinite moment of perception, freezing everything while his consciousness thought freely across subjective spans that could encompass days or weeks or longer.
But his brain was only one organ among seventy-eight.
His skeleton was only two hundred and six bones.
Each structure now held capabilities that his previous existence couldn’t have imagined.
"Ruination," he said softly. "Give me a breakdown of what my Hadean form is actually capable of."
|With pleasure, Master.|
|Beginning with defensive capabilities.|
|THE Hadean Dermis of Infinite Interface.|
|Your skin now serves as the outermost boundary between your existence and external reality. It is no longer merely a protective layer but an active defensive system that responds to threats according to their classification.|
|Against Rhyacian Tier Proterozoic Scale entities: Complete immunity. Their attacks cannot penetrate your skin regardless of methodology employed. Furthermore, any entity at Rhyacian classification who physically strikes you will experience Existential Hadean Thorn Damage. This damage reflects a portion of their own force back through their existence at amplified intensity. A Rhyacian Proterozoic Lifeform who attacks you with full commitment may find the feedback alone sufficient to collapse their foundations entirely.|
|Against Calymmian Tier Proterozoic Scale entities: Significant resistance. Approximately 25% of their damage output can be transmitted across your skin. However, the remaining 75% is nullified at the dermal level. Any damage that does penetrate must then contend with your musculature and skeletal structure, which possess their own defensive parameters. In practical terms, a Calymmian entity striking you with everything they possess would achieve minimal effect on your actual existence.|
|Against Ediacaran Tier Proterozoic Scale entities: Not enough data...|
...!
Noah absorbed this information with eyes that blazed brighter.
His skin alone could collapse Rhyacian entities through reflected damage. His skin alone reduced Calymmian attacks to a quarter of their intended effect.
|THE Hadean Cage of Infinite Protection.|
|Your ribcage now serves as more than skeletal structure surrounding vital organs. It has become an active defensive matrix that responds to threats penetrating past your outer defenses.|
|This structure possesses Pulse Nullification capabilities. The majority of common Pulses of The Scales will have their effects reduced by approximately 80% upon contact with your ribcage’s defensive field. This reduction occurs automatically without requiring conscious activation.|
|In practical terms, you could withstand a Pulse of The Scales without taking any defensive action whatsoever. The Pulse would strike you, and your ribcage would process approximately 80% of its unraveling authority before that authority reached anything vital. The remaining 20% would then contend with your Hadean organs, which possess their own resistance parameters.|
|This does not grant immunity to all Pulses. Pulses derived from Causes of exceptional magnitude, or Pulses deployed by entities significantly exceeding Calymmian classification, may overwhelm this passive protection. But against standard deployment of Pulse authority, you can simply stand and receive what is thrown at you without meaningful consequence.|
...!
He could tank a Pulse without doing anything.
The very authority that had threatened to erase him, the power derived from Causes that shaped Observable Existence itself, could now wash over him like rain against stone!
|THE Hadean Skull of Infinite Perception.|
|Your cranium now protects THE Hadean Mind of Infinite Calculation while also serving as a sensory amplification matrix. Perceptual capabilities have expanded dramatically.|
|You can now perceive existence across spectrums previously inaccessible to your classification. This includes the ability to observe Civilizational weavings in real-time, to witness the flow of Observable Force through environments and entities, and to detect threats from distances that would require lesser beings to employ specialized tools or abilities.|
|Additionally, your skull possesses Cognitive Fortress properties. Mental attacks, psychic intrusions, Civilization-based mind manipulation, and similar methodologies are reduced in effectiveness by approximately 90% before reaching your actual consciousness. Rhyacian entities attempting mental assault would find their efforts reflected back with amplified intensity. Calymmian entities would achieve negligible penetration. Only beings at Ediacaran classification or above possess the raw authority to meaningfully threaten your mental integrity through direct assault.|
|THE Hadean Heart of Infinite Circulation.|
|Your heart now pumps more than blood. It circulates Observable Force and Quintessence Infiniforce throughout your existence alongside conventional biological function.|
|This organ possesses Regenerative Cascade capabilities. Any damage sustained by your existence triggers accelerated healing that draws upon your reserves of Observable Force and Quintessence Infiniforce. Against Rhyacian-tier damage, regeneration occurs faster than the damage can be inflicted. Against Calymmian-tier damage, regeneration matches the rate of injury, resulting in a stalemate that favors you due to your superior reserves. Against Ediacaran-tier damage...more data is required.|
|Furthermore, your heart can initiate Circulation Surge. By consciously accelerating its function, you can temporarily boost all physical capabilities by a factor of ten for spans of approximately thirty seconds. This ability has a recovery period of five minutes between uses.|
|THE Hadean Spine of Infinite Flexibility.|
|Your spinal column now serves as the primary conduit for authority distribution throughout your physical form. All commands from your brain to your body, and all sensory information from your body to your brain, flow through this enhanced structure.|
|This organ possesses Authority Amplification properties. Any Civilization-based ability you employ has its effectiveness increased by approximately 3000% simply by virtue of traveling through your transformed spine. This amplification occurs automatically and stacks with any other enhancement methodologies you employ.|
|Additionally, your spine possesses Existential Stability. Forces that would normally destabilize your Civilization or disrupt your connection to your own authority find themselves grounded and dispersed through your spinal structure.|
|THE Hadean Hands of Infinite Grasp...your hands can initiate Contact Devastation. Physical strikes delivered through your palms carry additional force multiplied by the density of Infinity and Observable Force currently saturating your existence. A simple palm strike against a Rhyacian entity could shatter them to ash entirely. Against Calymmian entities, the same strike would penetrate approximately 60% of their protection.|
...!
Noah looked at his hands.
These instruments that had once been ordinary human appendages, that had once struggled to throw fireballs with enough force to matter, now held capabilities that could devastate entities who had existed for eons!
|THE Hadean Legs of Infinite Stride... Each step you take can...|
|THE Hadean Eyes...|
|THE Hadean Ears...|
Noah went through the descriptions of each Organ or skeletal structure carefully until...
|This concludes the summary of major structural capabilities. Each of your 206 bones and 78 organs possesses unique properties appropriate to their function. Comprehensive documentation would require extensive cataloguing....|
|In summary, Against Rhyacian classification: You are effectively untouchable and absolutely devastating.|
|Against Calymmian classification: You hold significant advantage in all metrics that matter.|
|Against Ediacaran classification: More data is required.|
|This is your baseline, Master. Before channeling any Pulses. Before utilizing THE Hadean Organ of Civilization or any other unique capabilities you possess.|
|Simply existing as a Hadean Lifeform grants you these parameters.|
...!
Noah stood in the multicolored sea surrounding him, processing everything Ruination had detailed.
Simply existing granted him these capabilities.
And this was his baseline.
This was before he did anything!