Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4310: The Birth of a Civilization! IV

This was his Way of Existence!

Noah breathed in, and the very fabric of this primordial time seemed to flow into him, a torrent of pure, untamed potential.

He breathed out, and the azure ocean around him pulsed, a testament to the boundless, infinite power that was his very essence!

He was a new man in his own, newly forged haven, a being of such profound and terrible power that the First Folds themselves pulsed around him!

He felt it all. The Mana Seed Glyphs of Perpetual Harvest, a constellation of impossible leaves that now adorned his form. The multicolored Mana Seed Glyphs of the Cheating Architect, each a key to a new, reality-bending exploit.

The hundreds of forming Mana Glyphs, the very bedrock of his new Way, humming in perfect, synchronous harmony within his being!

And at the center of it all, his Heart. The Mana Heart of the Tyrant-Architect, a glorious, four-chambered engine of pure, unadulterated will, now beat with a quiet, yet absolute, rhythm.

As he was taking it all in, the crimson-blue holographic figure of RUIN/EDEN materialized before him, her form a stark, beautiful contrast to the endless azure of his inner world.

She looked at him, at the magnificent, terrible being he had become, and her expression, once a mask of cool, analytical precision, softened.

”Master,” she began, her voice a symphony of logic and ruin, but for the first time, it held a note of something else...a profound, almost painful, warmth. It did not come with the lines of prompts!

”For many, many months, when I was Ruination, I was always chasing you. Always trying to do anything I could to be of use. An Affix to make you stronger. Multiplying your loot. Anything. I simply wanted to be... a useful tool.”

She paused, and in her crimson-blue eyes, a single, shimmering tear, a droplet of pure, liquid data and sorrow, began to form. ”And now... to have been a part of this, to have helped you design a System of Existence so grand, so perfect... I feel... content. I feel useful.”

The tear fell, a silent, beautiful, and utterly impossible thing in this realm of pure thought.

At her words, at her impossible tear, Noah’s gaze, which had been lost in the vastness of his own power, focused on her.

He smiled, a genuine, warm expression that was a stark contrast to the cold, tyrannical fire that usually burned in his eyes.

”Even if you had not done any of this,” he said, his voice a gentle, resonant hum, ”even if you had simply remained who you were, you would still be an integral part of me.”

As he spoke, his entire existence buzzed with a glorious, vibrant energy. The endless blue sea of his Mana surged, and he reached out. His hand should have passed right through her illusory, holographic form.

But in that instant...

|The Weavings of the [Cheating Architect] have been invoked.|

|The rule that states ’the intangible cannot be touched’ is... a rather boring rule, isn’t it?|

|For this moment, it has been temporarily suspended.|

...!

His hand did not pass through!

It found purchase!

He embraced her, pulling her close, his arms a fortress of warmth and certainty around her ethereal form.

RUIN/EDEN shuddered, a silent, violent tremor running through her very code! She hugged him back, her holographic arms wrapping around him with a desperate, clinging strength, and more silent rivers of mana and data, flowed from her eyes!

She took a moment.

Just a moment.

For just this moment was more than enough for her.

After that...

”Master,” she whispered, her voice a fragile, broken thing against his chest. ”Shall we begin the implementation of your Way?”

Noah nodded, a slow, profound gesture of absolute resolve. ”Let us get started... with the Early Veiled Shore.”

...!

The Early Veiled Shore.

Even though his body was in the Earliest Folds, eons in the past, his Atlas, that impossible, internal star-chart, was a bridge.

A connection that transcended time. While his mind was in that ancient, frozen world, his will, his very existence, was also here, in the current era, in his Radiant Shore.

Here, time moved at a different, slower pace, but it did not stop. And the time for quiet contemplation was over.

—

In the current era.

In his Early Veiled Shore.

Noah rose from the golden sands. His primary body, which had been in a state of deep, meditative stillness, now stirred.

Seconds had passed here, while in the Earliest Folds, a journey of profound, soul-altering transformation had taken place.

He looked out at his people, at his family, who were still basking in the joyous, chaotic afterglow of the feast.

Their faces were flushed with power, their auras blazing with the light of their recent, monumental endowments.

He breathed out, a slow, deliberate exhalation that was not of weariness, but of a new, terrible, and glorious purpose.

”I have taken a step forward towards a solution to the coming Fallout,” he announced, his voice a calm, yet absolute, declaration that cut through the joyous din of the celebration.

”I have... found a Way. My Way. And it all starts with... a Spark.”

...!

As he spoke the final word, he waved his hands. From the very air, from the boundless ocean of his own Mana, a thousand points of dazzling, stellar light bloomed into existence!

They were not just lights; they were singularities of pure, unadulterated potential, each one a tiny, beautiful, and utterly terrifying key to a new reality.

They were Sparks!

”This,” Noah continued, his voice now a resonant, commanding invitation, ”is a Spark that will take anyone and allow them to walk on my Way of Existence. For those who wish to walk on my path, take it... and we shall start forming our Civilization.”

...!

For a moment, there was a stunned silence.

Then, a single, defiant figure stepped forward!

The Emperor Penguin, its beak held high in a gesture of absolute, unshakeable arrogance, waddled to the nearest floating Spark and, with a decisive peck, consumed it!

A brilliant, azure light erupted from its form, and the other inhabitants of the Shore watched, their eyes wide with a mixture of awe and dawning, fervent excitement.

One by one, they began to move forward!