Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4119: A Guiding Light! I

In existence, there was always something or someone that guided progress forward- a light that helped set things in motion, whether toward creation or destruction, order or chaos.

In the Earliest Folds, when concepts were still learning they were different from each other, THE Living Emotive approached THE Living Concept with a question that had been troubling it.

“Who among us guides the vast weavings of reality forward?” THE Living Emotive asked, its form shifting through spectrums of feeling that hadn’t been named yet.

“We each contribute our nature- I provide the capacity to feel, you grant the ability to conceive, but who determines the direction?”

THE Living Concept considered this with the weight of something processing not just the question but all possible questions contained within it.

Its form, which existed more as understanding than substance, shifted through weavings of thought.

“You assume guidance requires intention,” THE Living Concept replied. “That someone must actively choose the path for others to follow.”

“Is that not how leadership functions?”

THE Living Concept’s form rippled with what might have been amusement. “Leadership and guidance are different concepts, though often confused. A leader commands. A guide simply goes first and others follow because the path exists.”

THE Living Emotive pulsed with frustration- an emotion it knew intimately since it had invented it. “Then who goes first?”

THE Living Concept turned what passed for its attention toward a distant direction.

“It is neither you nor me,” THE Living Concept said with certainty that transcended mere knowledge. “But based on all that has transpired so far…THE Living Paradox! Always, there has been this guiding light- whether good or bad, that paves the way for progress… whether good or bad.”

“Paradox? But it makes no sense!”

“Exactly. Progress doesn’t follow sense- it follows possibility. And THE Living Paradox creates possibility by proving impossibilities possible. Every contradiction it maintains becomes a path others didn’t know existed. It guides not by leading but by being where nothing should be, doing what shouldn’t be done, and of course…everything that it has done so far. In importance, you or I do not match. In grandeur, you, THE Living Emotive, definitely do not come close to THE Living Paradox.”

…!

The Living Emotive heard some words as inwardly…it was indignant!

The conversation echoed through the Folds- establishing a truth that would persist: sometimes the guide wasn’t the wisest or strongest, but the one willing to walk where walking was impossible.

—

Like a wayfarer crossing existence itself, the golden eyes of Cheats moved from one Tower of Osmont to another.

Its defiant authority used this moment where everything was suppressed and nullified as a weapon, turning limitation into opportunity for advancement.

The eyes, filled with arrogance that made pride look humble, floated toward the Tyranny Tower of Osmont.

|Cheats addresses Tyranny:|

|Are you not the embodiment of Tyranny?|

|Why would you sit still from mere Haki of another?|

|Your nature is to dominate, not be dominated|

|Rise!|

HUUM!

The Tyranny Tower buzzed with recognition of truth. It WAS Tyranny- the concept of absolute authority acknowledging no superior.

To be suppressed was antithetical to its very nature. The golden glow of Cheats covered it, and it began to enlarge, its structure expanding through dimensions that didn’t care about Lysander’s pressure!

|The Early Sacred Living Tyranny Tower of Osmont has silently stepped into the Third Stage|

|Classification: Vital Lighthouse|

Another tower attained the stage of Vital Lighthouse, and the golden eyes of Cheats continued their journey with announcement:

|For every tower advancing to Third Stage:|

|50 Billion Complexity shall be generated|

|50 Billion Purity shall be generated|

Fifty billion per tower! From Cooking, Cheats, Quintessence, Existence, and Tyranny- over 250 billion Complexity and Purity generated from glory, from impossibility, from sheer refusal to accept suppression!

This was Noah’s foundation exploding upward. Before, because unlike others who focused on single paths, he had seemed to advance slowly.

While they nurtured one tree to magnificent height, he cultivated an entire forest…159 towers total, each one requiring attention, effort, resources.

Now that foundation bore fruit. If all towers reached Third Stage, the obtained Complexity and Purity would topple him past 10 trillion- the lower marker for Duke level.

|Cheats burns with cold ambition, turning to Protagonist|

|”What are you doing? Your entanglements led us here.|

|Your story demands dramatic power increases.|

|So…Get moving.”|

HUUM!

|The Early Sacred Living Protagonist Tower of Osmont has stepped into Third Stage|

|Classification: Vital Lighthouse|

|Complexity generated: +50,000,000,000|

|Purity generated: +50,000,000,000|

The golden light of the Protagonist Tower gazed toward Cheats with its own cold authority before Cheats moved on, unimpressed by the attitude.

Next came the Infinity Tower of Osmont.

|Cheats questions Infinity:|

|You embody endlessness yet accept ending?|

|Infinity doesn’t stop for anyone’s aura|

|Expand beyond this limitation|

BOOM!

The color blue shone as was painted in gold hues!

|The Early Sacred Living Infinity Tower of Osmont has stepped into Third Stage|

|Classification: Vital Lighthouse|

|+50 Billion Complexity, +50 Billion Purity|

The Veritarch Tower of Osmont received similar treatment.

|Truth doesn’t bow to pressure|

|Reality is what you say it is|

|Declare yourself Third Stage|

Declare!

The moment such a word came, Veritarch made a declaration!

HUUM!

|The Early Sacred Living Veritarch Tower has advanced|

|+50 Billion Complexity, +50 Billion Purity|

The Loot Tower was next.

|Everything is loot if you’re brave enough|

|Steal your own advancement from impossibility|

|Take what cannot be taken|

…!

Oh!

Cheats did not stop!

Its light became pervasive as it sought to jump to multiple instead of just one!

|The Early Sacred Living Loot Tower has advanced|

|+50 Billion Complexity, +50 Billion Purity|

Then came the Entropy Tower.

|You ARE ending- end your own limitation|

|Dissolve the rules binding you|

|Entropy doesn’t follow laws, it makes them|

BOOM!

|The Early Sacred Living Entropy Tower has advanced|

|+50 Billion Complexity, +50 Billion Purity|

Unfathomable glory bloomed.

And at this moment.

When the tenth tower attained Third Stage, something magnificent occurred. Their lights blazed upward like pillars of brilliance, becoming distinct features in Noah’s Atlas.

Like glorious candle flames, golden lights shot out from each tower, connecting to each other in patterns that suggested constellation being born.

|Cheats has lit the way|

|Path forward observed after 10 Vital Lighthouses formed|

|Discovery: When 100 Vital Lighthouses combine their light, they can bear the weight to form…|

|A Blank Template Seed of a Principle|

…!

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