The stellar roadway stretched before them like a river of crystallized starlight, its surface humming with the accumulated weight of countless footsteps of those walking or floating across it.
Each step Noah took sent subtle ripples through the luminous pathway, his existence exceptionally bright compared to others as the Living Existential Authority nearby seed to distinctly sense it!
If he ever truly released a smidge of his actual aura...
Around him, the roadway teed with life- a procession of beings who had earned their place through trials like the Living Origin Labyrinth.
The air itself seed to thrum with the collective might of hundreds of Originus Venerant entities, their bodies radiating the silent authority of Towers of Origin. Among them moved the occasional Primarch, their more modest power signatures making them look feeble and likely among the first to die if they ventured towards the unexplored doorways of the Loom!
But Noah’s attention remained laser-focused on one figure among the throngs, his ancient eyes tracking the Peacemaker’s asured progress through the crowd.
As he drew closer, details began to resolve themselves with crystalline clarity, each revelation adding another layer to the puzzle that Alexander Asmodeus had beco.
The man was not moving alone- a fact that imdiately elevated Noah’s assessnt of the situation from curiosity to active interest.
’Ho?’ The thought ford in his mind with the weight of genuine surprise, and Noah felt his lips curve into a smile that held both amusent and sharp calculation.
To the left of the Peacemaker walked a figure that, at first glance, appeared to be nothing more than a laid-back teenager whose casual deanor seed almost comically out of place among those here.
The young man’s hands were tucked casually into his pockets, his posture suggesting the kind of easy confidence that ca from knowing exactly how dangerous you were!
But Noah’s enhanced perception cut through the carefully constructed facade as beneath the mundane appearance, waves of power rippled outward, and it was not the structured authority of an Originus Venerant.
This bum was a Living Law!
Noah felt his smile deepen as information began to cascade across his vision.
The being’s na resolved itself in elegant script before his eyes as his distinction of the Weaver of Existence borrowed his heavy Complexity.
|Kaedric Voss, the diator of Absolute Arbitration.|
Beyond that single line of identification, everything else dissolved into question marks!
Noah’s eyes sharpened.
Why would a Living Law accompany the Peacemaker so openly? What could Alexander Asmodeus possibly possess that would warrant such protection?
Even Altheon, for all his devotion to Sigrid and her identity, maintained the pretense of distance, watching from the shadows while allowing her to move through Existence with apparent independence.
But Sigrid was no ordinary being- she was already a Living Origin who had previously shattered her Tower, but she could still survive encounters even with other Living Existences as her previous power was slowly regained!
And...all Living Existences- Foldless Ones at least, not counting those labeled as [Young] Paradoxes or [Young] Origins, existed beyond the Originus Venerant realm.
So what made the Peacemaker so valuable that he rited open protection from a normal Living Law?
Noah’s gaze further shifted to Alexander’s right, where another figure walked with the asured grace of one accustod to command.
She was striking in the way that dangerous things often were- beautiful, but with a deadly glare.
Her gaze swept the roadway ahead with the systematic precision of royalty, every movent radiating the kind of rigid discipline that spoke to a lifeti spent in positions of absolute authority!
Noah’s weavings focused on her like a magnifying glass, and once again, information began to flow across his consciousness.
|Seraphina Valorheart, Law Maker.|
His mind supplied, the na carrying with it undertones of nobility.
Her complexity though...was nearly ninety million Source Units, placing her towards the very pinnacle of what an Originus Venerant could achieve!
Yet even she walked beside the Peacemaker as if they were...equals.
Her position, slightly ahead, taking point, scanning for threats- spoke to her role as the one currently leading.
Noah absorbed all of this information as he continued his approach, his smile widening with each new detail that fell into place.
The Peacemaker himself remained partially obscured, his true nature hidden behind veils that seed particularly potent.
But even through those protections, he could glimpse enough to understand that Alexander had undergone changes every bit as dramatic as his own.
The man’s power signature registered at over two million in both Complexity and Purity Quotients- a staggering advancent that spoke to rapid progression.
Hid eyes pulsed sharply.
How had soone else achieved such rapid advancent within the confines of the Nullvein Gravewake Folds...or after they left not too long ago?
Noah knew that beings like Alexander and the Great Usurper carried their own heavy flows of Existence- and he had even eclipsed them both in their Wheel of Existence!
But at this mont, wasn’t the Peacemaker carrying perhaps a bit too much weight compared to before?
"Hmm..."
Noah went forward through the crowd. His movent was unhurried, casual, as if he were simply another traveler making his way toward the Living Coalition Gateway.
But every step was calculated, every gesture designed to close the distance between himself and the answers he wanted.
And so...
When Noah finally spoke, his voice carried across the crystalline air with the weight of inevitability itself, cutting through the ambient noise of hundreds of conversations.
"Peacemaker."
HUUM!
The single word hung in the air like a bell that had been struck!
It was simultaneously a greeting, a recognition, and a challenge.
Alexander Asmodeus froze mid-step. For a heartbeat, genuine shock blood across his features!
It was the expression of a man who had thought himself safely anonymous, with nobody who could possibly know that distinction here!
But the shock lasted only a mont.
With little effort, he gathered his composure, turning slowly to face the source of Noah’s voice.
When his eyes t Noah’s across the crystalline expanse of the stellar roadway, they shone with their own inner light- the warm glow of genuine surprise mixed with sothing that might have been...relief?
"You?" he said.
He said!
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