Chapter 595: Choices and Consequences!
Every choice led to its own consequences.
This was a truth so fundantal that it transcended Civilizations and Scales of Existence, applying equally to the smallest decisions of insignificant beings and the gambits of THE entities whose actions shaped reality itself.
THE Corpse Hierophant had chosen to wage war against all other Primordial Civilizations rather than cooperate toward shared goals, and that choice had led to mutual collapse that reduced every participant to shadows of their forr glory.
THE Endless Dream had chosen to seek alliance with an anomaly rather than join those hunting him, and that choice had positioned her to potentially beco the first among Collapsed Civilizations to fully recover.
THE Sovereign Catalyst had chosen to ally with his forr enemy against a common threat, and that choice had led to his manifestation being consud by the very target he sought to eliminate.
Rose had chosen to stand beside Achilles through thick and thin, and that choice had elevated her from a normal woman to being capable of devouring THE Civilizational Authority alongside entities who had shaped Observable Existence for eons.
Achilles himself had chosen to Assimilate when every warning scread against it, and that choice had transford him into sothing that THE entities now recognized as an existential threat requiring unprecedented cooperation to address.
Choices cascaded through Existence like ripples in water, each one creating consequences that birthed new choices that created further consequences in chains stretching toward horizons that even prophetic sight could not fully perceive.
Sotis a single seemingly inconsequential choice could lead to change that swept through the entire Observable Existence, reshaping power structures and rewriting histories in ways that none of the participants could have anticipated when they made their initial decisions!
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In that domain of Alchemy where Achilles, Eyyanah, and Rose sat in a circle as they finished absorbing THE Civilizational Authority from the broken containnt barrier, the atmosphere held strange tranquility that contrasted sharply with the violence that had occurred here not long ago.
While Achilles was holding conversation with THE Endless Dream about keys and the true reason behind the Age of Collapse, he was only half present in that discussion. Much of his consciousness was currently focused on sothing far more imdiate and intoxicating.
Principles.
He could perceive them with clarity that his previous existence could never have imagined, fundantal truths of reality hovering in his transford awareness like mathematical constants waiting to be incorporated into equations. And he could Assimilate them. This alone provided him an imnse source of power that truly could not be explained by words alone.
It was basically like learning about the vastness of the Shattered Folds and Observable Existence and how many things were locked away behind barriers of comprehension and elevation, and at this mont he had just been given all the keys to every door simultaneously.
Well, this was a sowhat apt analogy when Eyyanah was also ntioning keys in their discussion about THE Resplendent Paradox and the war she had inadvertently sparked.
But at this mont, Achilles’s attention shifted entirely toward the Principles he could sense perating the Sacred Holy Land around him.
The Grand Principle of Transmutation pulsed with copper-green radiance that spoke of endless transformation. The Grand Principle of Dissolution whispered of entropy’s patient victory over all ordered arrangents. The Grand Principle of Synthesis humd with silver-gold waves promising creation through combination. And beyond these, he could sense fainter traces of even more fundantal truths waiting to be grasped.
He had already consud the Grand Principle of Stability, had already begun understanding the Phone of Earth that composed its deepest structure. Why stop there when so much more lay within reach?
As he focused on the Principles surrounding him, he silently whispered in his mind with conviction that admitted no hesitation.
‘Assimilate!’
…!
Imnse waves of authority flowed into him once more as earthen bronze and copper-green and obsidian and silver-gold streams of fundantal truth poured into his existence simultaneously!
The sensation was ridiculously euphoric in ways that transcended physical pleasure to touch upon sothing more primal, the satisfaction of a being consuming exactly what it was designed to consu.
At this mont, even Eyyanah stopped speaking mid-sentence as her jeweled eyes widened with shock at what she was witnessing.
When she looked above Achilles, she could see jagged lines of the very code of Existence itself that were currently flowing into his body like rivers finding their way to an ocean that welcod them ho. His entire being emanated an ethereal glow that shifted through multiple spectrums simultaneously, bronze and green and obsidian and gold swirling together.
She watched on with imnse disbelief as Achilles charged forward without caution or restraint, Assimilating four Grand Principles simultaneously in act of horrid gluttony that should have been impossible!
As he did so, prompts cascaded through his awareness with information that made his already racing heart beat even faster.
|Multiple Assimilations in Progress|
|Grand Principle of Transmutation: Integration comncing|
|Grand Principle of Dissolution: Integration comncing|
|Grand Principle of Synthesis: Integration comncing|
|WARNING: Existence Corruption Value is steadily rising due to rapid heterogeneous integration…|
|…and being automatically devoured by your Existential Corruption Resistance simultaneously. Current resistance increasing from 10% to 12% as corruption is converted to fuel.|
|You are Assimilating into your being even more Principles that have within their makeup traces of The First Tongue.|
|New Phone Exposure Detected: You are gaining foundational knowledge regarding the Phone of Fire through the Grand Principle of Transmutation.|
|New Phone Exposure Detected: You are gaining foundational knowledge regarding the Phone of Water through the Grand Principle of Dissolution.|
|New Phone Exposure Detected: You are gaining foundational knowledge regarding the Phone of Air through the Grand Principle of Synthesis.|
|These join the already exposed Phone of Earth from your initial Principle Assimilation.|
|Current First Tongue Comprehension: 4 of 18 Phones partially understood.|
|The Weight and Imnsity of your Way of Assimilation is reaching its highest levels and continuing to exponentially rise in elevation.|
|Your Civilization of Assimilation grows stronger with each fundantal truth you integrate.|
|PROJECTION: When you fully Assimilate an entire Grand Principle rather than partial integration, the understanding of its complete frawork alone will likely elevate your Imnsity to THE Surface Depth of Absolute Sovereignty when paired with the Manifestations of THE Entities you have already consud.|
…!
Achilles’s eyes shone brightly as he processed these revelations while continuing to draw Principles into his being with hunger that seed to have no ceiling.
Truly, the future was unknown and filled with possibilities that branched in directions he couldn’t fully perceive. But he wanted to go all out and make the choice to do sothing others could not even imagine, to push beyond limits that THE entities themselves had apparently never crossed despite their eons of accumulated power and understanding.
So at this mont, as he absorbed four Grand Principles simultaneously with his existence screaming in euphoric protest at the overload, his gaze turned upward with luminous intensity as he reached for sothing even more fundantal.
He could sense them now, faintly, hovering at edges of his expanded perception like stars too distant to clearly observe but bright enough to confirm their existence.
Singularity Principles of Existence.
A tier higher than the Grand Principles he was currently devouring, truths so fundantal that they served as foundations upon which Grand Principles themselves were built.
Even if his Existence Corruption Value increased rapidly from attempting to consu such elevated concepts, so what? He would just Assimilate that corruption too, convert it into resistance, and continue forward without pause or hesitation.
A plan was gradually forming in his mind as he continued this feast while simultaneously reading through the scattered mories of THE Corpse Hierophant and THE Sovereign Catalyst that still integrated into his consciousness.
He was learning where their Sacred Holy Lands were hidden, where the concentrations of their recovering Civilizations could be found.
He did not wish to give them ti or respite.
Given ti, people could do many things. They could coordinate responses, build alliances, prepare defenses, develop counterasures against threats they had ti to study and understand. He did not even want them to have the choice of doing such things before he went to find them and erase everything they had rebuilt of their Collapsed Civilizations.
This was his Dream, ford from understanding that rcy toward enemies who would show him none was simply delayed suicide.
And this was his choice, made with full awareness of consequences that would cascade through Observable Existence in ways that even THE entities could not anticipate!
1/1 Onwards!
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