Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 3926: Quintessential Tyranny! I

As Noah looked at the green gold grass, he felt Heidrun’s weavings buzzing as if she was excitedly saying this was what she wanted!

While he and Sigrid stood before the grand building, their interest apparently obvious enough to draw attention, the Living Elemental seated upon his golden throne slowly opened eyes that burned with fires of dignity and glory.

His gaze swept over them with the casual dismissiveness of someone examining insects that had wandered too close to a flame, and when those burning orbs settled upon their Paradoxical markings, his expression shifted to one of open scorn.

With a wave of his hand that carried all the authority of displeasure, he addressed them in tones that dripped with condescension.

”Go looking around elsewhere,” the Living Elemental, whose name Noah saw above his head in letters of flame that read |Pyrion Aureus, the Goldfire King|, declared with the casual cruelty of someone stepping on ants.

”The grasses aren’t for sale, nor could something like you even afford them.”

BOOM!

In the surrounding areas, Fold Dwellers further back began to smile amongst themselves with the mean-spirited joy of witnesses to public humiliation, while Living Existences occupying more prominent positions in the grander golden buildings barely spared a glance before returning to their business, as if Noah and Sigrid truly did not understand that they would receive nothing here.

But Noah did not move a single step backward!

Instead, his response was to calmly and coldly step forward, his gaze sweeping over the Auric Vitae Grass with the systematic thoroughness of someone conducting an appraisal.

He approached the golden barrier that protected the building until he stood directly before it, his presence suddenly radiating something that made the very air around him shimmer with dangerous potential.

His eyes flashed with the terrifying authority of the Refined Early Living Existential Glyph of Tyranny, and in that moment, Noah felt the overwhelming desire to put its immensity to practical use.

He wanted to be authentically himself- to embrace the Tyrannical nature that was his truest expression!

Purple light flickered in the depths of his pupils as he prepared to speak.

”Not for sale?” His voice carried across the garden with the weight of quintessential judgment, each word precisely articulated and heavy with implications!

”In existence, everything is for sale. Authority is for sale. Fold Dwellers are for sale. Treasures are for sale. And even Living Existences like you... are for sale.”

...!

HUUM!

”That is a truth very few understand in existence,” Noah continued, his voice gaining momentum like an avalanche gathering speed!

”Even someone like you may have forgotten it in your comfortable delusions of permanence and untouchability. But the fundamental weavings of existence remain unchanged by your ignorance. Everything is for sale. The only question, the only question that has ever mattered...is a matter of price.”

...!

Oh!

Those words!

Those eyes!

That expression!

Oh!

His words drew the attention of everyone within hearing range, their imposing nature cutting through casual conversations and dealings to focus every available mind on this unprecedented display of audacity!

Fold Dwellers stared in incredulous fascination while Living Existences began to regard him with expressions that ranged from shocked disbelief to growing fury!

Before his eyes, visible only to him, a prompt flashed with the brilliant urgency of glory.

|The processing and advancement rate of your existence has accelerated exponentially for the next hour due to your unbound Tyranny!|

WAA!

Even as the notification faded, Noah could feel his other body on the Early Veiled Shore explode upward in power, his very essence responding to the authentic expression of his fundamental nature.

But his focus remained fixed upon the shocked Living Elemental before him, whose golden flames had begun to flicker with the irregular rhythm of barely contained rage.

Pyrion Aureus was momentarily frozen by the tyrannical words, his mind struggling to process the reality of a mere Fold Dweller speaking to him in such terms!

But as the implications settled into his consciousness as his expression began to change, golden flames threatening to spill from his form and burn everything within reach!

Yet even at such a critical juncture, Noah continued his tyrannical words, his gaze fixed upon the Living Elemental with the steady intensity of someone delivering a lesson to a particularly slow student.

”Are you a petulant child?” he asked with calm precision.

...!

”Because petulant children throw fits when they don’t get their way. Petulant children need to be coaxed to calm down, their tantrums managed through careful application of patience and understanding.”

His head tilted slightly, as if genuinely puzzled by what he was observing.

”But you claim to be a Living Existence, a being who has transcended the limitations that bind lesser entities to cycles of death and instability. So why, exactly, are you acting like a fucking child?”

...!

BOOM!

The profanity struck the air like a physical slap, its casual delivery somehow more shocking than if he had screamed it!

”You displayed your wares here to sell them,” Noah continued with relentless logic, his voice never rising above conversational levels.

”And it should not matter who stands before you with the desire to purchase them. At this moment, this is not a Fold Dweller trying to buy something from a Living Existence. This is a customer attempting to conduct business with a seller. That is the extent of our relationship here, nothing more, nothing less.”

His eyes narrowed.

”Since I am the customer in this transaction, you should be groveling at my feet, trying desperately to convince me to buy your products rather than taking my business elsewhere. So tell me, O seller, why are you not already down on your knees where you belong?”

BOOM!

|Unbound Tyranny!|

|Glorious Tyranny!|

|The processing and advancement rate of your existence has accelerated even further exponentially for the next half a day due to your unbound Tyranny!|

The words struck Pyrion Aureus like existential blows, each syllable igniting the golden fires that surrounded him until they erupted in all directions!

The Living Elemental rose from his throne with movements that spoke to barely contained violence, his presence suddenly radiating pressure that made the very foundations of Existence tremble in response.

Distant Fold Dwellers began dropping to their knees as waves of power far exceeding the Originus Venerant realm washed over them, their bodies unable to withstand the concentrated fury of a being whose nature was forged from elemental wonder.

Other Living Existences in the surrounding golden buildings turned to stare at Noah with expressions of deadly intent, their collective attention focusing on him like predators!

A mere Fold Dweller, a creature marked with the stigma of Paradox, actually thought he could speak to them in such terms?!

The audacity was beyond comprehension, crossing lines that had been established again and again!

Like a slumbering titan finally roused to wakefulness, Pyrion Aureus began walking away from his throne, each step sending tremors through the golden barrier that protected his domain.

His eyes blazed with livid fury as they fixed upon Noah, who stood with his hands clasped behind his back in a pose of casual confidence, regarding the approaching Living Existence as if he were utterly certain that nothing harmful would befall him!