Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4507: The Infinite Unfurling! IV

As Noah and Tor flew across The Infinite Unfurling, the landscape shifted dramatically around them.

They entered into a unique region where massive crystalline mountains rose like titans frozen in time, each one surrounded by rotating clusters of nascent Folds that spun in orbital patterns. The Folds themselves looked incomplete, as if reality was still deciding what they should become.

The landscape was filled with storms of pure existence that defied conventional understanding. When Noah looked toward certain regions with careful observation, he saw terrifying natural phenomena that made his mind recoil. Torrents of raw authority that could shred across his 63 Septillions in Complexity and Purity as easily as wind through paper.

Lightning that wasn’t electricity but the concept of sudden change made manifest, striking in patterns that erased causality itself. Whirlwinds of collapsed probability that would unmake anything caught within them by retroactively preventing their existence.

This entire region was also filled with extremely dense layers of mist that obscured vision beyond a few hundred meters. One was not able to see too much of the surrounding environment, which made the danger feel even more oppressive and immediate.

But across these distant regions, cutting through the mist and the howling winds, Noah shockingly heard roars.

ROOOOAAAAAR!

The sound waves alone caused his existence to buzz with resonance, making his cells vibrate at frequencies that bordered on painful. These were not the sounds of mere beasts but the declarations of beings claiming their right to exist through sheer force of will.

This was the moment when Tor slowed his flight and tilted his head as if he was listening carefully for where the sound of those roars originated. His dark eyes gleamed with interest.

He then smiled with anticipation and said, ”Oh, this ongoing battle may be ideal for you to understand what I’ve been explaining. Let’s go see.”

...!

They moved through the dangerous regions with Tor navigating expertly. After traversing what Noah estimated to be a few Gigaparsecs, passing through layers of folded space and compressed distance, they entered a clearing filled with tumultuous waves of power.

The region they arrived in was a vast expanse that looked like an ancestral battlefield carved from the bones of reality itself.

The ground was composed of compressed existence that had been hammered flat by countless impacts over what must have been eons of conflict. Plateaus of crystalline material jutted upward at irregular intervals, each one scarred with claw marks and burn patterns that glowed with residual authority.

Massive weathered pillars rose like the ribs of some dead existential beast, creating natural archways and obstacles throughout the terrain. The sky above swirled with auroras of impossible colors that bled into each other, painting the entire scene in shifting hues of violet, crimson, and glacial blue.

The entire region was filled with terrifying swirling shattered Folds that moved through the space like debris in a Primordial storm. These fragments could eradicate a creature of 1 Septillion Complexity on impact, simply erasing them from existence through contact.

And yet, at the center of such a dangerous place, Noah observed two monstrous entities locked in combat.

The first creature was a titanic wyvern-like being whose body stretched for what looked like light-years. Its sleek form was covered in obsidian scales that crackled with constant electrical discharge. A magnificent crest of horn-like protrusions jutted from its head, each one serving as a conductor for the purple lightning that wreathed its entire existence.

Its wings were vast membranes of crystallized energy that sparked and flashed with every movement, creating afterimages of light that burned into the retina. Its tail was segmented and whip-like, trailing arcs of electricity that carved through the surrounding space.

The creature was surrounded by endless purple obsidian seas of lightning that formed a domain around it, making the very air ionize and glow.

The second creature was ape-like in its basic structure but magnified to apocalyptic proportions. Its body was covered in white fur that looked like compressed glacial ice, each strand sharp enough to cut through reality. Massive curved horns grew from its head like the tusks of some primordial mammoth, glowing with frozen light.

Its arms were disproportionately long and muscular, ending in fists that looked capable of shattering continents. Its eyes burned with blue fire that held the cold fury of absolute zero.

This beast was surrounded by glacial waves of storms and ice that manifested as swirling blizzards of frozen authority, creating a domain of perpetual winter that fought against the electrical storm of its opponent.

Noah’s vision pulsed as information flooded his perception.

|Name: Voltaic Sovereign Incarnate - Raijax|

|Classification: Pre-THE Existence attempting Lightning Sovereignty|

|Complexity: 485 Decillion|

|Purity: 515 Decillion|

|Grand Principles: Thunder Genesis, Lightning Propagation, Voltage Manifestation, Electric Dominion, Storm Convergence, Plasma Authority, Conductivity Mastery, Arc Supremacy|

|Status: Engaged in existential combat|

|Name: Glacial Sovereign Incarnate - Hyorath|

|Classification: Pre-THE Existence attempting Glacial Sovereignty|

|Complexity: 555 Decillion|

|Purity: 555 Decillion|

|Grand Principles: Frost Genesis, Ice Propagation, Absolute Zero Manifestation, Glacial Dominion, Winter Convergence, Crystalline Authority, Thermal Negation Mastery, Permafrost Supremacy|

|Status: Engaged in existential combat|

...!

He looked at such terrifying beings with analytical wonder, cataloging their power and comparing it to his own vastly inferior capabilities.

In the next moment, Tor spoke with teaching intensity.

”These two here are good examples of existences trying to reach THE,” he said calmly, gesturing toward the battling titans. ”Their existence is ripe for it as they have not concentrated so much on their numerical Complexity and Purity, though those numbers are still a little large.”

He crossed his arms as he observed.

”But they have leaned towards a specific aspect of existence and are actively seeking to claim Sovereignty towards it. One is seeking Lightning Sovereignty while the other is seeking Glacial Sovereignty. One is walking the Way of Lightning and the other is walking the Way of Glacial.”

His expression became slightly pitying.

”They are grand ideals, worthy pursuits. But these existences would never truly have the chance to reach THE at the end of their paths. You see, the aspects of existence they are trying to lay claim over... well, even both of these could be superseded by the authority that is currently burning you. Elemental.”

He shook his head.

”Lightning falls under Elemental. Glacial falls under Elemental. Both of their Ways are subcategories of a broader Sovereignty that has already been claimed. So while it could theoretically be possible for them to eventually attain THE through these paths, it would be immensely hard, perhaps impossible without completely redefining their chosen domains.”

...!

As Tor finished his explanation, the terrifying apocalyptic battle intensified before them.

BOOM!

Raijax, the lightning wyvern, swooped down from the swirling sky with wings spread wide. Each beat of those vast membranes created shockwaves that propagated across light-years, compressing space and time with the force of impact.

If Noah had been nearby, he would have been absolutely shredded!

Purple lightning gathered around its open jaws, condensing into a sphere of such concentrated electrical authority that it bent space around itself. The creature released it with a shriek that shattered the sound barrier across multiple dimensions simultaneously.

CRAAAACK!

The blast struck Hyorath directly in the chest, and the glacial ape roared with pain and fury. Ice exploded outward from the point of impact as frozen armor shattered, revealing flesh beneath that steamed and burned.

But Hyorath retaliated immediately.

The ape-like titan slammed both fists into the compressed ground beneath it, and the entire battlefield trembled. From the point of impact, jagged spears of absolute-zero ice erupted upward in a forest of frozen death, each one kilometers thick and moving at impossible speeds, burning with its Way of Existence and Civilizational Authority!

Raijax twisted in mid-air, its serpentine body contorting to avoid the rising spears. Lightning arced from its body to meet the ice, creating explosions where the conflicting authorities collided. Each explosion released enough energy to vaporize Fold systems.

The two entities circled each other, their domains and Ways of of Lightning and Glacial creating a boundary where purple electricity fought against blue frost. The air between them crackled and froze simultaneously, creating impossible phenomena where matter existed in contradictory states.

Noah observed Raijax as it descended in a spiral dive, its tail whipping forward like a lance. The segmented appendage struck Hyorath across the shoulder, carving through glacial armor and drawing blood that froze before it could fall.

Hyorath caught the tail with one massive hand and pulled.

THOOM!

The wyvern was yanked from the sky and slammed into the ground with force that created a crater spanning hundreds of light-years. The impact sent shockwaves rippling outward that obliterated the surrounding environment, reducing mountains to dust and shattering the floating Fold fragments into smaller pieces.

’What the fuck is this...’

The scale of the battle was enough to make Noah shake his head at the impacts of brutality as any single one of them would have been an end to his Temporal Traversal!

And yet...the battle still continued!

Raijax was far from defeated.

Lightning erupted from its entire body in a nova of electrical fury. The discharge was so intense that it turned the air itself into plasma, creating a sea of superheated matter that expanded outward in all directions.

Hyorath released the tail and leaped backward, creating walls of glacial ice to shield against the plasma wave. The ice held for microseconds before sublimating directly into vapor, but those microseconds were enough for the ape to escape the worst of the blast.

As Tor continued to observe, he spoke with calm instruction.

”The Civilizational Scale of Existence, the designation of THE, requires for one to lay an undeniable claim over something. To have complete Sovereign Authority over it.”

He gestured toward the battling titans.

”Their power would be dependent on what I call the Depth of Sovereignty. Depth is how thoroughly they can rewrite their chosen domain and impose it against all others. It can be measured as Surface, Intermediate, Fundamental, or Absolute.”

His dark eyes gleamed!