Chapter 4567: Ginnungagap III

The speed accelerated dramatically as he progressed deeper. What had started as manageable velocity increased exponentially until the environment became a blur of motion.

His Sovereignty could barely keep pace with the required reactions. He pushed his perception to its absolute limits just to anticipate the next deadly turn.

Then disaster struck. A particularly violent twist came too quickly for him to fully compensate. His trajectory veered slightly off course by mere inches.

But inches were catastrophic in this environment! His existence briefly exited the stable zone and made contact with the murky instability surrounding the pathway.

Immediately, his THE Barrier of Hunger buzzed with maximum intensity to protect him. The protective field flared brilliantly as it intercepted the unraveling force that would have collapsed his existence instantly.

New prompts appeared with critical urgency.

|BARRIER INTEGRITY CRITICAL|

|THE Barrier of Hunger Status: Less than 10% power remaining|

...!

Only after this terrifying near-collapse did Noah finally perceive a change ahead. A brilliant obsidian light grew larger as he approached what appeared to be an exit!

HUUM!

He escaped the obsidian river passageway and found himself emerging into open space above a vast landscape.

The moment he arrived in the skies of this new region, he immediately felt an immense gravitational pull toward the ground below that he could not deny or resist.

His body barreled downward with accelerating force as he smashed violently into an obsidian stretch of jagged land. The impact created a crater as his form collided with the ancient surface.

His eyes remained vibrant and alert despite the collision as he felt a terrifically intense sense of pressure constantly exerting itself on his very Sovereignty again and again. The environment itself was hostile to his existence.

New prompts materialized with detailed information about this unprecedented location.

|Welcome to THE Unstable Infinite Unfurling Ginnungagap|

|Classification: Primordial Genesis Domain|

|The right to remain airborne has been systematically stripped away.|

|Cause: Insufficient THE Civilizational Authority classification|

|Effect: All entities below THE Surface Depth are bound to surface travel|

|The Light of Ginnungagap shines upon everything within this domain.|

|For none native lifeforms, All Ways of Existence face 90% suppression of normal capabilities|

|Progression on The Way accelerates by 900% to compensate for difficulty|

|9% chance of spontaneous Existential Unraveling occurs continuously every second|

|Condition: If the foundation of your Way is insufficiently stable, collapse is inevitable|

|Time dilation: 9 seconds external equals 81 seconds internal|

|Spatial compression: Distances are 9 times greater than they appear|

|Authority concentration: THE Civilizational Authority is 99 times more potent here|

|Regeneration suppression: Natural recovery occurs at 9% normal rate|

|Sensory limitation: Perception range reduced to 900 Meters, 90 Light Years, or 9 Gigaparsecs maximum depending on power|

|Conceptual weight: All actions require 99 times normal effort to execute|

|Evolutionary pressure: Entities adapt 9 times faster or collapse|

|Malformed Ginnu Lifeforms: Native inhabitants possess 9 specialized adaptations minimum|

....!

After Noah observed these absolutely ridiculous prompts with their systematic restrictions, he began experiencing their effects directly and immediately.

The 99 times more effort felt like trying to move through liquid concrete. Every action required extraordinary effort. His normally fluid command of Mana became slightly sluggish and resistant.

Slightly!

The constant 9% chance of Existential Unraveling manifested as periodic jolts of destabilization that shook his foundation. But his foundation was grand and undeniable!

The accelerated progression felt like his understanding was being forcibly expanded whether he was ready or not. Knowledge tried to force itself into his consciousness with uncomfortable intensity.

He felt as if he had entered a place where he genuinely should not be present. A domain meant for beings far beyond his current classification.

And yet, critically, he did not feel the overpowering aura of THE Maelstrom Thundermane anywhere nearby. This was still positive progression compared to the alternative.

The other choice had been to terminate the temporal traversal early and return to his own era empty-handed. That was unacceptable.

So he began looking around at his new environment to assess the situation when...

"Oh, come on," he muttered with disbelief as he prepared.

In this place that was already overbearing and stifling simply to exist within, after his Way and his own vision finally acclimated to the suppression, he began observing his surroundings more clearly.

The first thing he saw was a pair of massive crimson eyes staring directly at him.

Crimson eyes that were attached to a truly massive woolly beast of incomprehensible proportions.

The creature resembled a woolly mammoth expanded to titanic scale. Its coat shone with full obsidian radiance that pulsed with concentrated authority. But there was something fundamentally wrong about its form.

Its tusks spiraled in impossible geometries that defied euclidean space, curving through dimensions that should not exist. Where normal tusks would be ivory, these were crystallized void that leaked darkness.

The creature’s body crackled continuously with obsidian light that was unmistakably THE Civilizational Authority at full potency.

THE level power.

Mere seconds after his arrival in this domain, he was already staring at another THE entity!

And yet this massive creature had its enormous eyes locked onto Noah’s position for only a brief few seconds. Moments later, it blinked slowly as if it had discerned or recognized something about him.

Then it proceeded to look away with apparent disinterest before continuing to walk calmly in the distance!

Noah was utterly astonished as he witnessed this interaction. He watched the massive entity that clearly possessed power at THE Surface or Intermediate Depth of Absolute Sovereignty simply gaze at him briefly and then begin wandering away without aggression.

Its titanic body passed between two obsidian mountains with casual ease. These peaks were surrounded by multiple obsidian river-like passageways which represented some of the few safe routes to traverse the domain.

The overall environment was filled with regions that appeared as patches of space saturated with instability. Storms of collapsing existence raged constantly in these areas with force that could systematically decimate even Pre-THE Existences.

The landscape conveyed profound ancientness, untamed wildness, and omnipresent danger. Multiple regions of constantly collapsing THE Civilizational Authority created a patchwork of lethal zones.

Interconnecting obsidian river-like passageways wound between these zones of collapse. Weaker entities would be forced to carefully navigate only these stable paths if they could not withstand the terrifying environment surrounding them.

Noah had arrived in such a primordial place as he kept his analytical eyes locked on the sauntering massive mammoth walking away. He utilized his Lens of Civilization to gather information!

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