Chapter 4978: An Army! I

In THE Yggdrheim, another body of Noah stood amidst the vast expanse where his people cultivated.

Blue-gold flames wreathed his form in patterns that spoke of Infinity given visual expression, Absolute Seals orbiting his existence like satellites around a celestial body.

He looked like a force of nature standing still, like a storm that had chosen to pause and observe rather than rage and destroy. His eyes burned with calculation as he stared out at what lay before him, at the secret project he had been nurturing while his other bodies dealt with THE Agora and THE Primordial Paradox and all the chaos spreading across Observable Existence.

He knew he had many things in his hands.

The Geodesic Weavings. The Bounded Countable Infinity. The Sacred Herbs growing in the Early Veiled Shore. The Organ of Civilization producing Absolute and Infinite Everythings. The harvest flowing endlessly from every corner of his vast territories. He knew the possibilities that emerged from combining all of these elements, the configurations of power that his Infinite nature permitted.

So recently, he had been asking himself a simple question.

How could he utterly abuse his power?

Because he could abuse Infinity tremendously due to its very nature. Where others had to accumulate and conserve, he could spend without end. Where others had to choose between investments, he could invest everywhere simultaneously.

And right now, he needed to gain an edge against all the monsters awakening across Observable Existence.

Primordial Architects were stirring in THE Prima Indifferentia. THE Entity had claimed THE Primordial Chaos. Horus had branded countless beings with crimson insignias of servitude. Everywhere he looked, threats were multiplying faster than conventional response could address.

His solution came... in the form of Primus Inevitabilities.

These were the products of his Civilization of Hunger, the tentacled entities that had served him and Khor. He had millions of them, each one loyal beyond question, each one willing to give everything for their master without hesitation or regret. Millions upon millions!

Now, when it came to his people, Noah knew Adversity was key to progression. He was letting them struggle in THE Yggdrheim because struggle built foundations that could not be built any other way. If they did not face Adversity, absolutely none of them would achieve THE Second Scale of Existence.

But what if he had millions of Primus Inevitabilities who all loyally volunteered to be shields and swords for their master, even knowing they would never see THE Second Scale themselves?

The product was Noah being allowed to abuse his Countable Infinity freely.

He had millions of Primus Inevitabilities. He had boundless harvest flowing into his Organ of Civilization from territories spanning Observable Existence. And he had quite a few Lotuses of THE Bounded Lotus of Sequential Eternity ready for distribution.

THE Infinite Observable Harvest continued flowing into him even now, and when he directed it toward his Organ of Civilization, the organ could produce many more Absolute Everythings and Infinite Everythings than ever before. The pieces were all in place. The resources were all prepared.

This...allowed for the unfolding wonder to occur.

In front of him, an army of ten thousand Primus Inevitabilities floated in perfect ranks across THE Yggdrheim’s vast expanse. Each one had swallowed a petal from THE Bounded Lotus of Sequential Eternity, and each one now burned with Bounded Countable Infinity blazing through their tentacled forms. Ten thousand beings who had been powerful before now carried Infinity within their foundations, their existences elevated beyond what conventional cultivation could have achieved across eons.

He had millions of Primus Inevitabilities, but he was just beginning to produce THE Bounded Lotuses of Sequential Eternity in quantities sufficient for mass distribution. So he began with ten thousand. Ten thousand lotuses to ten thousand Inevitabilities, a foundation upon which he would build something terrifying.

At their forefront stood Protos.

The First Inevitability was connected to Noah in ways the others were not, serving as his armor, carrying his authority within its very existence.

Protos towered over even its impressive brethren, a massive humanoid titan whose entire body was composed of countless tentacles of Inevitability woven into humanoid form. Where other beings had flesh and bone, Protos had coiled tendrils of crimson authority that shifted and moved with purpose that spoke of hunger barely contained.

Crimson blue-gold light shone from every inch of Protos’s titanic frame. The tentacles that composed its body writhed with restrained energy, each one capable of independent action, each one carrying a fragment of the whole’s tremendous authority.

Behind Protos, the other thousands of Primus Inevitabilities stood in ranks that stretched toward the horizon.

They looked like slightly smaller versions of their leader, their massive titanic bodies all constructed from countless tentacles of Inevitability woven into humanoid configurations. Some shone with verdant blue-gold light. Others shone with bronze blue-gold light, their variations speaking of different paths of development within the same fundamental framework.

All of them waited in perfect stillness for their master’s command.

Another entity floated here alongside everyone, circling Protos with joy that seemed almost incongruous amidst such martial display. Skoll, the very good boy, had also been granted a lotus petal, his canine form blazing with Infinity as he moved happily around the Primus Inevitabilities.

Noah motioned to Skoll, and the loyal companion came over immediately.

He played with Skoll for a moment, scratching behind ears that burned with blue-gold light. Then he looked up at Protos and the army assembled behind the First Inevitability, his expression shifting from warmth to something more formal.

"What is your duty?"

Every single Primus Inevitability spoke as one, their voices merging into a chorus that pressed against THE Yggdrheim with weight armies of lesser beings could never produce.

"Our duty is sacred."

Noah asked again.

"What is your duty?"

"Our duty is to Infinity."

BOOM!

The declaration pressed against existence itself, ten thousand voices unified in purpose, ten thousand wills aligned toward service without reservation. Noah pointed to Protos, who stood at Fundamental Depth unlike the other Inevitabilities due to its deeper connection with him.

"Others need Adversity, and it is true that by taking the short way, THE Second Scale will forever be out of your grasp." His voice carried no deception, no softening of harsh truth. "Will you proceed?"

Protos knelt before its master, tentacles coiling with reverence as its voice emerged with conviction unshakeable.

"For the sake of Master, this sacrifice is the highest honor. We do not seek THE Second Scale. We seek only to serve. Our existence finds meaning in your purpose. Our deaths find glory in your victory. Command us, and we shall become whatever weapon you require. This is not loss. This is...fulfillment of our Duty."

The words rang across THE Yggdrheim with weight that made the other Inevitabilities straighten in their ranks.

Noah nodded and waved his hand.

An Absolute Everything materialized before Protos, a crystallized fragment of absolute authority compatible with those following Noah’s Civilizations. It floated toward the currently strongest Primus Inevitability, and Protos opened its form to receive it without hesitation. The Absolute Everything sank into the mass of tentacles and disappeared, absorbed into foundations already burning with Bounded Countable Infinity.

For a short moment, nothing happened.

Then Protos’s aura began to buzz with transformation.

"Let a portion of the boundless harvest coming into me reinforce his foundations."

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