Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4023: Farmers of Existence! V

The words emerged with quiet certainty, and reality immediately responded.

|CRITICAL TRAVERSAL INITIATING|

|Extreme Caution Required|

|Failure Parameters:|

-If return does not occur within 1 hour: Complete destruction of traversing body and all associated weavings

-If death occurs during traversal: Risk of cascade failure affecting all bodies

-Certain deaths may result in complete existential extinction

|Proceed? This action cannot be undone|

Noah didn’t hesitate. His confirmation rang through his being with the certainty of someone who had already calculated the risks and found them acceptable!

His entire existence began to buzz with frequencies that shouldn’t exist. The sensation started in his core and radiated outward, each particle of his being vibrating in harmony with something ancient and profound. The Early Atlas within him blazed with light that existed before light had been defined.

Then, without warning...

WAP!

His body seated on the shores folded in on itself like reality accepting that it had been cheated. The space where he had been sitting showed no evidence of his presence, as if existence itself had forgotten he had been there!

|Transference to random point in the Earliest Folds has begun|

|Duration of traversal: Indeterminate. Destination: Unknown. Probability of survival: Calculating...|

|Calculation completed. Probability of survival...is best left unknown.|

...!

”...”

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Existence was unfathomably unique.

Across its infinite expanse, countless abilities had been formed, discarded, and utilized since the first moment something wondered if it should be rather than wasn’t.

Some were as small as conjuring fireballs...brief expressions of will that barely disturbed the fabric of reality. Others transcended comprehension entirely, achieving the impossible through sheer audacity of conception!

Among these impossibilities, perhaps none was more audacious than forming a map that connected to the Earliest Folds themselves.

To countless years and events in the far distant past, when the foundations of everything were still being laid, when THE Creature walked freely and THE Living Existences were young.

Noah felt his existence trembling as it was stretched across temporal distances that had no measurement. He was being pulled through time itself, toward a when that existed perpendicular to normal causality!

His being threatened to spread too thin, to dissolve into the spaces between moments.

The Rearing Stick materialized in his grip without conscious thought, its simple presence providing an anchor of stability. The Goad hummed with recognition, as if it remembered the path they were taking. Simultaneously, the Kleos Glyph on his forehead, the Creature’s First Lesson, blazed with light that helped hold his consciousness together.

His Towers of Osmont, made from his glorious True Sources, lit up the way for him to see!

Years and seconds passed simultaneously. He experienced the weight of eons in heartbeats, felt instants stretch into eternities. His perception fragmented and reformed countless times, each reconstruction slightly different from the last.

|Existential Integrity: 94%... 87%... 76%...|

|Stabilizing factors detected:|

-Goad recognition: +11% stability

-Kleos Glyph resonance: +30% stability

-Early Creature nature: +50% stability

|Final Integrity: 91%. Traversal viable. Your existence, though feeble by Earliest Fold standards, possesses sufficient confluence of factors for survival.|

HUUM!

After what seemed like forever and no time at all, Noah felt his existence warping and twisting through dimensions that had no names. Reality bent around him like water around a stone, then suddenly...

WAP!

He arrived.

BOOM!

He truly arrived!

The moment his feet touched whatever served as ground in this place, his existence erupted with sensation. Every cell in his body, every atom of his being, began drinking in something he had never known existed...a richness of authority that made everything he had experienced before seem like shadows of shadows.

|Location Reached: Unknown Point - The Earliest Folds. Temporal Coordinate: Unknown Years Before Present.|

|Environmental Analysis|

-Atmosphere contains Raw Early Existential Authority

-Passive absorption rate: 100,000 CQ/PQ per second

-Warning: Prolonged exposure may cause fundamental changes to existence

|Timer Started: 59:59 remaining|

...!

Noah gasped as the very air filled his lungs with power. Not refined, not processed, but raw potential that existed before it had been divided into categories like Origin or Paradox!

This was the fundamental substance from which all authority would eventually derive.

And just being here...increased his Complexity and Purity by 100,000 per second!

Oh!

He looked around with eyes that struggled to process what they were seeing.

The landscape defied every assumption about what reality should look like. Countless green-gold reed plants floated vertically in space that might have been air or might have been thought. Each reed extended for light-years...he could somehow perceive their full length despite the impossibility of such vision. They shimmered with complexity so profound that looking at them directly caused his nascent understanding of existence to reorganize itself.

The sky was a swirling mixture of colors that hadn’t been invented yet, concepts that were still being debated. Mountains floated inverted in the distance, their peaks pointing toward depths that had no bottom. Rivers of what might have been time itself flowed upward, carrying fragments of events that would happen or had happened or were happening now.

Everything was more real than reality had any right to be!

Noah approached one of the floating reeds with careful reverence, his hand extending toward its surface. The moment his fingers made contact, information flooded his consciousness.

|Primordial Complexity Reed- One of the infinite reeds that grew when existence first wondered about growth. Bark contains compressed potential from before potential was defined. Those able to breach the bark will find sap containing 10,000,000 Complexity and Purity.

...!

Noah’s astonishment was complete. A single reed contained what would take most beings eons to accumulate. And there were countless reeds stretching in every direction, a forest of impossible advancement just waiting to be harvested!

He pressed his hands against the bark, feeling its resistance. It was hard...conceptually. It resisted being opened the way reality resisted being changed. His enhanced strength meant nothing here. This required something more fundamental.

The Kleos Glyph on his forehead blazed with brilliant light as he called upon the Creature’s First Lesson. The authority of all ten Living Existence types flowed through him simultaneously, and finally...finally, the bark cracked.

Vibrant gold sap was revealed within, glowing with inner light that predated stars. Without hesitation, Noah cupped his hands and drank directly from the source. The explosion of sensation in his mouth transcended taste...it was like drinking liquified possibility itself.

|Primordial Complexity Reed Sap Consumed. Base Gain: +10,000,000 Complexity Quotient. Base Gain: +10,000,000 Purity Quotient. Unique Gain due to your unique nature bonus: +2,500,000 to each|

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