As things progressed toward readiness, Noah closed his eyes once
more.
He relaxed against Elyndra's thighs with comfortable familiarity.
His consciousness shifted focus toward another instance of himself, another body that was currently moving across The Wandering Territories.
It was ti to see what ancient forces await within the frozen domain!
The Wandering Territories.
The figures of Alexander Asmodeus and Seraphina Valorheart stood surrounded by hundreds of thousands of the most powerful Living Laws.
Sheer numbers ant nothing to the enemies they were about to face!
The most powerful Dukes of Law circled around them in protective formations.
The scene was filled with palpable tension...as if they were all preparing to open Pandora's box that could systematically destroy them all.
The surroundings defied conventional description.
Multicolored oddities and impossible geotries filled the environnt in every direction.
Floating crystalline structures that shifted through spectrum of
colors without pattern.
Streams of liquid light flowing upward against gravity.
Fragnts of reality suspended in configurations.
Ground that wasn't quite solid, more like concentrated probability given temporary substance.
The Wandering Territories lived up to their na...territories that wandered through existence without stable anchor.
Seraphina's voice erged with hesitation that she clearly struggled to contain.
"Alexander, are we certain about this course of action? Opening the Injunction Sanctuary represents unprecedented risk as if we cannot overco them..."
Her crimson eyes reflected mounting concern.
"Why...do you trust Osmont so completely?"
Alexander looked at her calmly.
His reply was simple. Direct.
"We co from the sa place, Seraphina."
He paused deliberately.
They ca from the sa place. That was it?!
As they continued their quiet discussion...
Space rippled nearby.
The entrance was dramatic without being ostentatious.
Noah arrived.
Alone.
He was adorned in emperor's robe woven from obsidian-gold material that seed to absorb and reflect light simultaneously.
His hair shone with obsidian-cold allure that made it appear carved from precious stone.
But his eyes...
His eyes held sense of imnsity and ancientness that transcended his apparent physical age.
Even though he appeared here without visible entourage or escort...
The re pressure he emanated seed to suffocate all the Living Laws present!
As if the mont he arrived, all routes through existence began rotating around him and nobody else.
He felt like ancient entity whose visage alone would command
existence wherever he manifested.
The hundreds of thousands of Living Laws felt their fraworks
trembling involuntarily.
Many struggled not to collapse to their knees from sheer proximity to
such concentrated authority.
Noah simply nodded toward Alexander after his arrival with casual acknowledgnt.
Alexander's voice erged with practical inquiry.
"Your forces?"
His forces.
At such question, Noah waved his hand with dismissive gesture.
Behind him, space tore apart violently as three massive rifts ford
simultaneously!
The rifts were glorious in their construction.
Each one spanning hundreds of ters in diater.
Edges crackling with concentrated authority that made surrounding
reality distort.
The first rift pulsed with obsidian-gold radiance.
The second burned with obsidian-crimson intensity.
The third glowed with verdant-gold luminescence.
And from these three massive rifts...
Noah's forces began erging.
The specialists of The Iron Concordat, The Crimson Hunger, and The
Verdant Cycle factions materialized through their respective portals.
Each entity looked like massive titan already fully armored in their
Civilizational Armor.
But more than that, they manifested in complete forms representing
their Civilization Specializations!
The Infinite Bulwark specialists erged like living fortresses.
Covered in layered crystalline plates of obsidian-gold that overlapped
with sophisticated precision.
Eyes glowing with steady silver light.
Each step causing minor reality stabilization effects.
The Hungering Maw specialists manifested as predatory nightmares!
Sleek forms covered in crimson-obsidian tentacles that writhed with
barely contained aggression.
Multiple serrated maws visible across their bodies.
Eyes burning with ravenous crimson light.
The Vital Chorus specialists radiated restorative authority.
Wreathed in green-gold-blue light that pulsed like heartbeat.
Covered in intricate mandala patterns that glowed with healing
power.
Eyes shining with compassionate erald brilliance.
The terrifying imnsity and concentrated power they all emanated
was overwhelming.
It appeared as if three different colored armies were systematically
pouring through the rifts.
One massive force shining obsidian-gold.
Another burning obsidian-crimson.
The last glowing verdant-gold.
They continued flooding out of the rifts with systematic precision.
Until a terrifying monstrous army of 5 million from each faction had fully manifested!
A combined force of 15 Million total entities!
It was utterly excessive, complete overkill for any normal
engagent.
And even this represented only portion of the forces Noah could
deploy!
The vast majority of these fifteen million were, naturally, Primus Inevitabilities who had undergone Specialization.
But the sheer visual spectacle of five million entities colored and
armored identically showed glorious depiction of three separate armies moving under unified command.
One faction displayed armants that pulsed with obsidian-gold shields emblazoned on their chests.
Another bore crimson-gold jaws as identifying markers.
The Vital Chorus carried verdant-gold wings surrounded by leaves as
their symbol.
The mont of their complete arrival...
The Living Laws in the surroundings felt such terrifying sense of
oppression that many of them trembled violently!
Several actually did collapse to their knees despite attempts to maintain composure.
The pressure was simply too overwhelming to resist entirely.
Alexander looked at this incomprehensible display of military force.
He shook his head with mixture of awe and disbelief. "Fucking hell... okay. Let's proceed with this operation." There was no more questioning whether they possessed sufficient
forces.
No more wondering if they'd brought adequate power. Seeing the terrifying army arrayed behind Noah gave everyone present such profound sense of suffocation... They were wholly, utterly glad they weren't his enemies. Amongst those in the assembled army, Khor floated forward with
grace. Behind her, the figures of Sigrid, Riya, Barbatos, and nurous others could be observed. Not entirely adorned in their Civilizational Armors
yet.
Noah nodded toward Alexander with gesture indicating readiness. Alexander turned to face the empty space of the Wandering Territories stretching before them.
His voice erged with formal gravitas as he explained. "The Injunction Sanctuary of Law represents a domain frozen across eons of ti through concentrated power of THE Living Law
themselves. It does not possess preset physical location that one can
simply travel toward to arrive."
He raised his hand
"One simply requires the key. And with the inheritance I obtained
from THE Living Law's remnant will... I possess that key."
His expression grew serious.
"The mont I activate this key, the Injunction Sanctuary, which
currently exists in state without set position, will beco anchored to
this location. A gateway shall manifest for us to make entry."
His tone darkened.
"That is when unfathomable danger will bloom. I cannot predict the numbers of enemies contained within that frozen domain. I cannot
estimate how ridiculously powerful these entities were at ti of their imprisonnt." He paused deliberately.
"And whether after being frozen across eons of ti... they have
sohow beco even more powerful through unknown chanisms, or remained in perfect stasis." His voice carried mounting concern. "Sothing that troubles substantially is that their parent Civilizations within THE Loom have continued advancing over all these eons. The mont these frozen forces are released from THE
Living Law's imposed stasis..."
He looked troubled.
"Whatever boons mbers of their Civilizations...genuine mbers
like them, not the diluted Living Existences populating current Folds, may receive through accumulated advancent..."
His gaze fixed on Noah.
"All of this remains unknown. And because of these fundantal unknowns... we will depend heavily upon your forces."
He turned fully toward Noah after finishing his explanation.
Noah nodded calmly with expression suggesting such uncertainties didn't concern him remotely.
Unknown variables simply ant opportunity for extraordinary harvest. Variables were part of existence.
After all preparations concluded, Alexander breathed in deeply.
He stretched his hand out toward empty space.
His voice erged with formal authority! "Justice delayed is justice denied. No existence stands above the
Law's reach... so let the Law impose itself systematically on the unworthy. Open."
...!
HUUM!
Radiant silver-white brilliance erupted from his outstretched hand!
It sprayed outward across the Wandering Territories like tidal wave of concentrated authority!
In the next mont...
Existence itself splintered directly before them!
A silver-white massive doorway spanning entire Gigaparsec blood
into manifestation, covering absolutely everything in their collective
vision!
The gateway was incomprehensibly vast.
Its edges extended beyond what eyes could track.
Its surface rippled with concentrated temporal authority.
An aura of profound ancientness and terrible imnsity erupted from
this doorway!
It rushed outward like horrendous winds carrying scent of eons-old
conflicts!
Noah observed it with characteristic calm as prompts blood before
his vision.
Sothing that has been systematically locked away for eons since the conflicts in the Earliest Folds has been unlocked. For good or for catastrophe, this action cannot be reversed.
The forces contained within represent genuine Primordial
Civilization military strength from era when THE entities actively
waged war.
The words seed grand and profoundly ominous. But Noah's eyes flashed with pure tyranny as he raised his hands.
He ford them into fists with deliberate motion. The figure of Protos materialized beside him with terrifying presence.
Ahead of them both, the figure of Ozymandias, his other body, floated forward.
Ozymandias spoke in extrely deep and heavy voice that caused existence of all assembled forces to vibrate with resonance:
"What...is your duty?"
...!
And from the 15 Million terrifying beings arrayed in systematic formations...
Their fists rose as single unified motion! Their voices bood outward with such concentrated force that even
the terrifying ancient winds rushing from the newly ford gateway
were actually forced backward!
"OUR DUTY! IS MANA AND HUNGER!"
BOOM!
The declaration struck existence like physical impact! Ozymandias continued voicing commands with cold authority that brooked no hesitation.
"Fullfil your duty."
BOOM!
The mont these words were uttered...
Brilliance of blue-gold radiance shone across all assembled forces!
mbers of The Iron Concordat surged forward toward the massive
gateway with systematic precision, living walls advancing to establish
a defensive periter!
Followed imdiately by The Crimson Hunger specialists whose predatory forms streaked forward like crimson lightning! The Verdant Cycle maintained position slightly behind, ready to provide resurrection and restoration the mont casualties occurred! It was glorious and utterly epic scene that many would struggle to
comprehend or believe unless witnessing it directly in that exact mont!
Fifteen million specialized entities charging toward a gateway containing forces from genuine Primordial Civilizations!
The Living Laws watched with mixture of awe and absolute terror.
Alexander smiled grimly. "Into the breach. Let's discover what horrors await inside."
The gateway pulsed as Noah's forces poured through.
And sowhere in the frozen domain beyond...
Ancient enemies stirred from eons-long slumber!
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