What was more tyrannical than lecturing and talking down on soone so much more powerful?!
"Let educate you about hesitation," he continued, "Hesitation is the luxury of those who believe ti is infinite, who assu that opportunities will always present themselves again if the first offer is declined. But existence operates according to different weavings entirely."
WAA!
His gaze swept across the assembled crowd, ensuring that his words reached every being within hearing range.
"Those who delay, who spend precious monts wondering if they should act rather than acting decisively, invariably find themselves losing the most critical opportunities of their existence. Existence does not wait for the hesitant. It rewards the bold, elevates the decisive, and abandons the cautious to watch from the sidelines as others claim the prizes they were too afraid to reach for!"
HUUM!
The weight of his words seed to press down upon everyone present like a physical force!
Even though he was a re Fold Dweller.
But he seed to hold such an astonishing imposing deanor!
"So choose now, Little Elental. Will you be the one who acted when action was required, or will you be the one who hesitated until the mont passed and left you with nothing but regrets?"
The confrontation had transford from a simple trade negotiation into sothing approaching a lesson!
At such a critical juncture, the Living Elental gritted his teeth and forced the words out with conflicting emotions
"Deal! I will take the bowl!"
The declaration echoed across the golden pathway, marking the mont when desire finally overca caution and need triumphed over pride!
Noah smiled and nodded with the satisfaction of soone whose careful planning had achieved exactly the desired result.
With a casual wave of his hand, he caused the Wok with its shocking scent that had drawn Living Existences from across the imdiate area, to disappear back into his weavings, leaving only the simple bowl floating in the space between them.
"Pack it up for ," Noah said with the tone of soone concluding a routine transaction.
Pyrion Aureus nodded without taking his eyes off the bowl, his attention so completely focused on his prize that he seed unaware of anything else in his imdiate environnt.
With a snap of his fingers, he caused the entire garden to collapse inward upon itself, the Auric Vitae Grass and all the carefully cultivated beauty of his display being drawn into a treasure that looked like an Elental Wheel of Existence that he produced!
The compressed treasure had the gardeb in it and pulsed with its own inner light as he presented it to Noah, who allowed the bowl to float across the intervening space toward its new owner with unhurried grace.
The mont the trade was completed, Pyrion’s expression transford into one of pure joy.
He instantly wrapped the bowl in high concentrations of Living Elental Authority, creating layers of defense that would have been sufficient to protect one’s progeny!
His eyes darted around the imdiate area as if he were worried that other Living Existences might attempt to take his prize by force.
"Do you need anything else?" he asked with the eager tone of soone hoping to extend a profitable relationship. "I have many things found across the Doorways of the Loom on the higher floors..."
He pointed to the building behind him as he spoke.
His words sparked imdiate reactions from the Living Existences who had been drawn to the area by the scent of Noah’s offering!
They began gathering around Noah and Sigrid with eyes that shone brightly, several of them speaking up simultaneously to declare their own readiness to trade for bowls of his miraculous treasure!
"I have a Panacea of Inevitability that will instantly grant a hundredth of the whole complexity of the Originus Venerant stage..."
"I have 3 Sparks of Everything!"
...!
Their voices rose grandly!
And yet...
Noah looked at all of them with the calm, cold assessnt of soone who had just witnessed the fundantal hypocrisy of power reveal itself freely.
When he spoke again, his voice continued its weavings of Tyranny!
"How could I possibly trade with such esteed Living Existences when I am rely a Fold Dweller from Paradoxical Folds?" he asked, his tone dripping with mock confusion as he gestured toward the obsidian marking that still blazed above his head.
"You all still see that, right? Nothing has fundantally changed about my nature or my origins, correct? I am still the sa being who was deed unworthy of your attention re monts ago, still a sinner by association, still marked with the stigma of Paradox, still everything you found so distasteful when I first appeared before you."
His voice began to rise, taking on the booming quality of soone delivering judgnt from a position of absolute authority!
"Or does having sothing you desperately want suddenly make all of that acceptable now? Does possession of treasure sohow cleanse the stain of my origins, transform my fundantal nature, erase the sin of association that made so unpalatable to your great weavings of Existence?!"
BOOM!
"Tell , O enlightened ones! which is the truth? Was I unworthy when I possessed nothing you wanted, or am I suddenly acceptable now that I have sothing you need? Because the weavings of my existence haven’t changed. The only variable that has shifted...is your perception of what I might offer you in return for your temporary tolerance."
...!
|Quintessential Tyranny!|
|The advancent of your existence has accelerated even further exponentially and quintessentially for the next day due to your unbound Tyranny!|
His weavings of existence buzzed with interminable glory.
In the Early Veiled Shore, his main body beca surrounded by seas of multicolored brilliance as a Tower of Osmont was completed right away, and another Tower started forming right after!
In the small region of Concordia where he and Sigrid stood...the golden pathway fell silent!
Utterly and completely silent as no Living Existence said anything, but their eyes burned with a chilling light as nobody...liked to be talked down and pointed of their faults like this, or have their hypocrisy laid out so blatantly.
So now, as dozens of Living Existences surrounded Noah and Sigrid, how would this situation resolve itself?!
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