Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4098: The Purest Hunger! II

Did he want this?

Noah’s firm gaze and unchanging eyes told Khor all she needed as she smiled and nodded!

Khor circled Ozymandias with the particular interest of an artist examining a canvas.

Her tiny form somehow commanded the space, making everyone else seem like observers at a ceremony they didn’t fully understand.

“Creating an Inevitability,” she said, her voice carrying the weight of ancient knowledge, “isn’t about adding something. It’s about taking everything away except the one thing that matters.”

Noah watched with calm intensity, feeling through his connection to Ozymandias what was about to occur. “And what matters?”

“Hunger.” The word emerged from Khor like a fundamental truth. “Everything hungers. Atoms hunger for stability. Stars hunger for fuel. Even void hungers for substance. I simply… help that hunger realize itself.”

She waved her tiny hands, and Ozymandias rose into the air, his obsidian form suspended by forces that predated gravity.

His arms and legs stretched out as if he wss contained in a perfect circle of Inevitability!

The Shore’s inhabitants stepped back instinctively…even Titano, massive and ancient, showed wariness.

|Transformation Initiated to the weavings of an Inevitability|

|Conductor: Khor, The First Hunger|

|Subject: Ozymandias |

|Warning: Process irreversible once begun|

|Principle of Perpetual Harvest detecting massive effort|

|Blessing applied: Optimal transformation parameters engaged|

“First,” Khor announced, her fingers beginning to tap out patterns in the air that hurt to follow, “we strip away the unnecessary. All his Everythings except Hunger must go.”

BOOM!

Her fingers moved with surgical precision, each gesture removing something fundamental from Ozymandias. Noah felt it through their connection….layers of his other self being peeled away like skin from fruit.

“His Everything of joy, gone. His Everything of fear, removed. His Everything of hope, of despair, of rage, of life, of death, of peace…all unnecessary distractions from the purity of want.”

HUUM!

With each removal, Ozymandias’s form changed. The stellar obsidian body that had been magnificent began to shrivel, becoming skeletal, hollow. His frame collapsed inward as if existence itself was being drained from him.

Noah gritted his teeth, feeling the agony through their bond that was there, and was not.

It wasn’t pain in any conventional sense…it was the sensation of becoming less while remaining aware of what you had lost. Like forgetting your own name while remembering that you once had one!

“This is what pure Hunger feels like,” Khor explained, her tone almost gentle despite the violence of what she was doing. “Imagine being thirsty, but for everything. Imagine starving, but food doesn’t exist yet. Imagine needing to breathe in an existence that hasn’t invented air.”

Ozymandias hung in the air, his form now truly skeletal, looking like death had died and left only its outline behind. Through their connection, Noah felt the overwhelming need radiating from his other self…not for anything specific, but for anything at all!

Sigrid watched with Order trying to understand what was happening and failing. “He… looks like he wants to die.”

“No,” Khor corrected. “He wants to live so badly that current existence isn’t enough. That’s the paradox of Inevitabilities…we hunger for everything because nothing satisfies.”

She raised her hands higher, and Ozymandias’s skeletal form began to pulse.

“But Hunger alone is just suffering without purpose. It needs guidance. Direction. A Way of Existence that transforms random want into inevitable consumption.” Her smile contained mysteries. “And that is something only I can provide. My gift to him…not my power, but my understanding of what Hunger means. The Way of Existence of Inevitabilities.”

…!

Obsidian brilliance erupted from her tiny form, a bundle of darkness so dense it made night jealous. It flowed upward into Ozymandias like inverse lightning, filling his skeletal frame with something that transcended substance.

|Doctrine of Hunger being inscribed|

|Subject gaining: The First Hunger’s Way of Existence|

|Transformation progressing beyond expected parameters|

|Complexity increasing:…+10,000,000,000…+10,000,000,000…|

|Purity increasing: +10,000,000,000…+10,000,000,000|

|Warning: Subject achieving true Inevitability status|

The change was immediate and terrible.

Ozymandias’s shriveled form began to shine with dark glory. From his spine, his ribs, his skull…dozens of black tentacles erupted. Not growing but declaring they had always existed, just waiting for permission to manifest.

Each tentacle moved with its own hunger, reaching for different aspects of reality. One grasped at space. Another tasted time. More emerged, seeking concepts that didn’t have names because naming them would limit what they could devour.

The tentacles multiplied…dozens becoming hundreds, hundreds becoming countless. They wrapped around each other, creating a circular mass of writhing hunger that radiated the unmistakable aura of an Inevitability.

“Beautiful,” Khor said, reaching up to stroke the scales that had begun forming on the tentacles. “A proper Inevitability. Not just hungry but inevitable. Not just wanting but destined to consume.”

The tentacles began compressing, drawing inward with purpose. They didn’t disappear but reformed, creating a humanoid shape from concentrated hunger. Arms made of need. Legs built from want. A torso of pure appetite.

When the transformation completed, Ozymandias stood transformed. Still recognizable but fundamentally changed. His obsidian form now contained depths that suggested falling forever toward a meal you’d never reach.

Noah closed his eyes, feeling through their connection what existence was like as an Inevitability.

Everything was brighter, more vivid, more real…because everything was potential food.

The air contained particles he could consume. The light carried energy he could devour. Even concepts like distance and duration looked delicious!

The world wasn’t just perceived but tasted, every sensation carrying flavor that normal beings couldn’t imagine.

The hunger was constant, overwhelming, defining…but also focusing.

It simplified existence to a single question: to devour or not to devour? And the answer was always yes, eventually!

HUUM!

|Transformation Complete|

|Ozymandias has become: Inevitability of Recursive Hunger|

|Classification: True Inevitability (Khor-doctrine)|

|Unique trait: Remains a part of Noah Osmont, and yet not|

|New Capabilities:|

|Everything Consumption: Can devour any type of Everything|

|Conversion rate: 100% of devoured Everything becomes CQ/PQ|

|Hunger Sense: Can detect Everything within vast distances|

|Inevitable Arrival: Will eventually reach anything he hungers for|

|Due to transformation effort observed by Perpetual Harvest:|

|Process has been optimized for stability|

|Bond with original maintained despite Inevitability status|

|Complexity gained: +50,000,000,000|

|Purity gained: +50,000,000,000|

|Note: You now have an Inevitability as part of yourself|

|Additional note: This is definitely going to complicate things|

…!

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