Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4107: The First Folds! III

So she advised!

But Noah was already moving, because both his bodies had made tremendous gains from that survival.

|Tremendous effort of survival recognized!|

|Ozymandias devoured countless waves of Living Elemental Authority during the attack|

|Purity gained: +200,000,000,000|

|Authority comprehension increased dramatically|

|Your gains from shared experience:|

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

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

|Understanding of Living Elemental Authority deepened|

The power surge was intoxicating. Noah felt unfathomably alive as his complexity and purity rose in real-time, the numbers meaning less than the sensation of becoming more with each heartbeat.

Through Ozymandias, he experienced the pure joy of consumption...Everything devoured became power, became growth, became possibility.

It made him want to seek even more thrilling battles, more terrifying challenges that would push him to edges he didn’t know existed!

The Allosaurus seemed surprised they had survived. Its frozen galaxy eyes narrowed as it reassessed these strange prey that grew stronger from being attacked.

The pray required tremendous effort to attack!

Noah pressed forward with renewed vigor, the Goad singing through air that had forgotten what warmth meant.

Each strike now carried more weight, his increased complexity allowing the truths he imposed to penetrate deeper into the creature’s defenses.

Ozymandias’s frozen tentacles shattered their icy shells and reached again, hungrier than before, having tasted what this creature contained and wanting all of it!

The battle evolved from standoff to gradual advance.

Inch by inch, strike by strike, bite by frozen bite, they pushed through the Allosaurus’s defenses.

The creature fought magnificently...tail sweeps that shattered space, bite attacks that tried to sever cause from effect, wing buffets that sent both bodies flying through dimensions of the skies and smashing into the massively tall trees!

It was glorious and chaotic all around!

And throughout all of it was...effort.

|Continuous effort recognized|

|Complexity +5,000,000,000|

|Purity +5,000,000,000|

|Note: Your persistence is either admirable or insane|

He continued!

Closer and ever closer!

|Continuous effort recognized|

|Complexity +5,000,000,000|

|Purity +5,000,000,000|

Finally...after what felt like hours but was only minutes, Noah’s Goad touched scale.

The body of the Allosaurus!

The wood met the creature’s actual flesh for the first time, and existential education began flowing directly into its being.

Simultaneously, Ozymandias’s tentacles reached the halo crown spinning above the creature’s head!

BOOM!

”ROAAR!”

Half of it shattered instantly, devoured before it could regenerate, the authority within it becoming food for infinite hunger.

The Allosaurus roared with fury that made reality reconsider its structural integrity.

It fought tooth and nail, literally...claws that could rend existence, teeth that could bite through time. But Noah and Ozymandias kept advancing, kept chipping away at its defenses and authority.

Then, in Noah’s free hand, something materialized.

The Slipper of Existential Humiliation appeared with the weight of cosmic insult.

Noah wielded it alongside the Goad...education in one hand, humiliation in the other. The combined effect was devastating to the creature’s sense of self!

|Conceptual Diminishment ACTIVATED|

|Target’s authority slowly being made ”small and meaningless” with every strike|

|Size reduction beginning...|

The Allosaurus began shrinking. Not physically at first, but conceptually. Its presence became less imposing, its authority less overwhelming!

The cold it generated went from absolute to merely terrible, from conceptual to simply physical.

As it diminished, Ozymandias saw opportunity.

BOOM!

The Inevitability’s entire body transformed, tentacles weaving together into a massive jaw that defied geometry!

It opened with width that could swallow stars and clamped down on the diminished Allosaurus with finality that suggested the end of stories.

The creature fought even as it was being devoured, roaring defiance into the hungry void. But Ozymandias’s hunger was inevitable, and diminished authority was still authority to be consumed.

Everything the Allosaurus was...its Everythings of cold, of hunt, of survival, of power accumulated across eons, all of it was eaten away by the Purest Hunger!

HUUM!

Immense silence settled over the wasteland of frost.

Noah stood breathing heavily, frost still clinging to his form but already melting from the heat of his advancement. The Goad rested against the frozen ground, its wood unmarked despite the battle.

Noah breathed out heavily as he felt his Heart...beating with fervor and excitment!

It felt very much alive!

”You surprised me, Outsider,” Khor’s voice carried genuine interest. ”I expected you to run or attempt negotiation. Direct confrontation with something much more complex than you? That is noteworthy.”

...!

|A monumental achievement of effort has been observed.|

|Both bodies contributed tremendous effort|

|Principle of Perpetual Harvest has experienced glorious weavings of effort and perseverance.|

|Rewards calculated based on effort invested:|

|Ozymandias (The Purest Hunger) gains:|

|Purity: +200,000,000,000|

|Authority integration: Living Elemental (Primordial Frost)|

|Noah Osmont gains:|

|Complexity: +150,000,000,000|

|Purity: +150,000,000,000|

...!

Noah looked at the numbers and smiled brilliantly.

His other body had higher numbers because it literally ate the Allosaurus whole, and even these numbers had yet to be fully counted!

All of its Everythings!

The results were stupendous as Inevitabilities...developed at an extremely fast rate.

|Special Achievement- Impossible Victory|

|Seed of Principle of Perpetual Harvest has matured slightly|

|Access increased: 2%|

|Resistance of Perpetual Harvest increased: 2%|

BOOM!

Waves of green, white, and gold light erupted from both bodies as the Principle acknowledged their achievement.

The 2% access felt like doubling of possibility, the resistance making him twice as expensive for reality to oppose.

But even that paled compared to what came next.

As Ozymandias digested the Allosaurus completely, Noah felt complexity and purity flooding into him like sunlight through clear glass. The Everything of a near-Duke creature that had survived in the First Folds for years...it was beyond grand!

It was ecstatic.

|Complete Digestion of Near-Duke Entity in Progress|

|Analyzing total Everythings consumed...|

|Ozymandias gains from complete consumption:|

|Purity: +1,000,000,000,000 (One Trillion)|

|Conceptual weight increased by 300%|

|Hunger evolution: Can now digest concepts directly|

|Noah Osmont gains from shared digestion:|

|Complexity: +250,000,000,000|

|Purity: +250,000,000,000|

|Frost immunity developing against Living Elemental Authority|

|Understanding of Breeding Grounds ecology gained|

...!

Ah.

Magisterial.

Glorious!

There werre too many words to describe the current sensation!

Noah stood in the frozen wasteland, power coursing through both bodies with intensity that made his previous growth seem pedestrian.

The First Folds had proven themselves...dangerous beyond measure, but rewards that matched the risk.

Twenty-three hours+ remained, and he had already changed fundamentally from who he had been upon arrival!

Oh!!!