Chapter 4577: The First Tongue VIII

|Now we begin the true lesson, Little Anomaly,| Ul’moreth said with voice carrying the accumulated gravity of ages.

|A single Phoneme, Little Anomaly, could represent the concept of Fire. Another might embody Ice. Still others express concepts like Motion, Stillness, Expansion, Compression, Life, Death, and countless others spanning all possible ideas. Each one is a complete letter in the alphabet of existence itself, a basic unit of meaning that The First Tongue uses to construct more complex expressions.|

|It is possible for entities at THE Surface Depth of Absolute Sovereignty to potentially learn individual Phonemes if they maintain adequate connection to The First Tongue. Below that level of power, an anomaly like yourself will find it relatively easy to accomplish. For others without your unique advantages, successfully learning even one Phoneme would be an extraordinary rarity. Unless they possess a genuinely deep connection with The First Tongue naturally.|

His voice intensified with the weight of revelation.

| When you speak a Phoneme of The First Tongue, when you properly activate that single pulse representing a concept, you are not merely generating an effect through your own limited personal power and individual understanding.|

|The Phoneme, when spoken correctly with proper pronunciation and structural integrity, automatically borrows and channels power from all the surrounding Principles of Existence that are prevalent across reality itself. It reaches out through the fundamental fabric of existence and draws upon the accumulated weight of every expression of that concept that has ever manifested anywhere across all domains and all time.|

The revelation hung in the surrounding air like thunder waiting to strike.

Noah blinked.

What?

He had to rewind what he heard and replay it again!

When you activate a Phenome, you would not merely be generating an effect with your own power? You would borrow power and channel the power of all surrounding Principles of Existence that are prevalent?

What?!

|Let me make this abundantly clear with a concrete example that will demonstrate the magnitude of difference we are discussing here. If you, with your current level of cultivation, were to generate fire through conventional energy manipulation means, you would be producing flame powered exclusively by your own Mana reserves, shaped by your own personal comprehension, limited strictly by your own developed Principles. The result would be fire scaled precisely to your individual capability and nothing more.|

|But if you were to speak the Phoneme of Fire in The First Tongue, if you were to utter that single basic letter with proper pronunciation and structural accuracy, the effect would be categorically different in nature. That single pulse would reach out across existence and borrow power from the surrounding fire based Principles of Existence that are woven permanently into the very fabric of reality.|

His presence leaned closer with teaching emphasis.

|Simply whispering the letter for Fire in The First Tongue, even imperfectly with flawed pronunciation, will unleash flame backed by multiple Grand Principles that exist across all domains. And if you spoke that Phoneme with sufficient perfection, with flawless pronunciation and complete structural understanding, it would draw upon even Singularity Principles related to the concept of Fire.|

|The flames produced would not be your fire, Little Anomaly. They would be Fire itself, the platonic ideal of combustion and transformative heat, channeled through your utterance but powered by the accumulated weight of that concept across all of existence. Do you comprehend the fundamental difference? This is not merely a matter of quantitative scale. This is qualitatively different in kind.|

Noah’s mind reeled with the staggering implications as Ul’moreth continued his explanation.

|This is why The First Tongue is considered the original language through which existence burned with creative force. Because when existence first declared let there be Fire, it was not generating flame through personal effort or individual power. It was speaking a Phoneme that defined what Fire would be across all future reality, establishing the Principles that would govern combustion forever after.|

|And this is also why so few entities across all of existence understand or can effectively utilize The First Tongue, Little Anomaly. It is not merely difficult to learn. It is almost impossible for those who have already deeply specialized into particular dialects. Once you have committed yourself fully to The Way of Storm or The Way of Hunger or any other specialized path, you have fundamentally altered your existence to resonate with that particular frequency.|

|Attempting to speak The First Tongue in its pure form after such deep specialization is like trying to sing in a vocal register your physical form can no longer reach. The capability has been permanently traded away in exchange for focused mastery. It is not absolutely impossible, as there are exceptional monsters out there who can still accomplish it despite specialization. But mainly those who have some connection to undifferentiated Mana, or those who recognize their Way stems from The First Tongue and inherently maintain a connection to it in its purest state, retain the ability to speak these Phonemes with any real effectiveness.|

His obsidian gold hair began to shimmer with concentrated purpose and building power.

|Now, Little Anomaly, let me demonstrate what a single Phoneme can accomplish when spoken with adequate understanding and sufficient power. Watch carefully with all your enhanced perception. Observe not just the result, but the underlying structure of what I am doing. This...is the Phoneme of Fire.|

HUUM!

Ul’moreth’s entire being seemed to become perfectly still for a moment. Then he began to vibrate with a specific pattern that Noah could perceive through his enhanced senses.

The Phoneme of Fire.

Externally, it manifested as a sound that was not quite sound in any conventional sense. It was more like a fundamental frequency that existence itself recognized and responded to instinctively. A single sustained pulse of Mana vibrating at a specific rate that represented the complete concept of combustion, of transformation through heat, of energy unleashed through rapid oxidation.

But Noah could see considerably deeper than just the surface manifestation. He could observe the internal structure of what Ul’moreth was actually doing beneath the obvious display.

The ancient being was not simply releasing shapeless Mana into the environment. He was shaping it into a precise linguistic pattern, a grammatical construct that existence itself could read and interpret like written text. The pulse had rhythm, cadence, tonal quality. It was a complete declarative statement compressed into a single letter.

And as that Phoneme was spoken with Ul’moreth’s tremendous accumulated power and flawless understanding backing it, Noah witnessed something truly extraordinary.

The light of multiple Principles he could barely recognize began to shimmer in the surrounding environment. These were not Principles that Ul’moreth personally possessed or had utilized himself. They were Principles related to Fire that existed prevalently throughout Ginnungagap and even beyond.

The Principle of Rapid Transformation. The Principle of Consuming Heat. The Principle of Elemental Fury. And numerous others Noah could not fully identify or comprehend.

All of them responded immediately to the spoken Phoneme. All of them offered their accumulated power to support the utterance.

In the next moment, reality itself seemed to tear open above them with violent force.

An infinitely rising pillar of obsidian gold fire erupted into the skies of Ginnungagap with such devastating power that the environment itself trembled from the manifestation!

The flames were not normal combustion by any measure. They burned with concentrated authority that completely transcended conventional understanding.

The heat radiating from the pillar was so intense that Ul’moreth had to immediately position himself protectively in front of Noah, his hair extending outward to form a shielding barrier. Even with that substantial protection, Noah could feel the terrifically scorching temperature trying to penetrate through.

Nearby, THE Fisherman made a sound of mild annoyance as if the temperature had gotten slightly too uncomfortable for his casual fishing. He harrumphed with displeasure and calmly went back to observing his line.

Meanwhile, Noah’s mind processed the power level with shocking recognition. That infinitely rising column of obsidian gold fire possessed enough concentrated force to completely scorch and incinerate a THE Surface Depth of Absolute Sovereignty entity without any difficulty whatsoever. It was flame backed by the accumulated weight of Fire as a concept across all of existence.

From a single letter. From one Phoneme spoken with proper pronunciation and adequate power.

The pillar continued burning in the sky above them like a beacon of primordial creative force as Ul’moreth allowed it to persist for several more demonstrative moments before finally ceasing his utterance.

The obsidian gold flames dissipated gradually, leaving the surrounding environment scorched but fundamentally intact.

Ul’moreth turned back to face Noah fully, his presence radiating satisfaction at the successful demonstration.

|That, Little Anomaly, was the result of a single Phoneme of The First Tongue,| he said with voice carrying measured intensity. |One letter from the languagr of existence, spoken with adequate power and understanding. Not a complete word, not a sentence, not a paragraph of complex meaning. Simply the equivalent of pronouncing the letter F in your crude common speech.|

|But because it was uttered by someone like me, with my accumulated power and deep understanding of The First Tongue’s linguistic structure, that single letter channeled enough force to extinguish weak THE entities completely. If I had spoken a complete set of Phonemes, something we call a Logos which represents a full word constructed from multiple Phonemes arranged with grammatical precision, the effect would have been incomparably more devastating.|

Oh!

Phenomes were the letters, and Logos...were words!

But he was just getting introduced to the letters at this moment.

Ul’moreth’s obsidian gold hair flowed with purposeful motion as he continued his explanation.

|The Phoneme I just demonstrated represents a concept that can only crudely be translated into common language as Fire, or Immolation, or Combustion, or any other woefully inadequate definition of flame and transformative heat. But The First Tongue does not deal in such imprecise terminology. The Phoneme contains the complete and total essence of what Fire is at a fundamental level of existence.|

|When spoken properly, it does not politely ask existence "please create fire for me if you would be so kind." It authoritatively declares "Fire exists here now" with such absolute conviction that reality has no choice whatsoever but to comply immediately. And because the declaration is made in existence’s own native language, it responds with the full accumulated weight of that concept across all its manifestations throughout all of reality.|

Ul’moreth’s presence seemed to focus entirely on Noah with concentrated teaching intensity.

|This will be the first Phoneme I teach you to speak properly, Little Anomaly. The letter that represents the primordial concept of transformative heat and consuming flame. And before you object that there might be simpler starting points for a beginning student, understand that I am choosing this particular Phoneme quite deliberately for specific pedagogical reasons.|

|Fire is one of the most fundamental concepts in structured existence. It was among the very first expressions when The First Tongue began differentiating into specialized forms. Learning to speak this Phoneme will teach you the basic grammar and underlying structure that supports all other Phonemes. Master this one, and all the others will become progressively easier to learn through pattern recognition.|

BOOM!

The weight of this teaching settled over Noah as he prepared himself to attempt the impossible.

Learning to speak existence’s native language!

His existence radiated a profound sense of quintessential tyranny as he closed his eyes...and he breathed.

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