Each of the Phones of The First Tongue surrounding Noah’s body allowed him to feel a distinct sense of protection against THE Civilizational Authority of Heavenly Lightning pressing down from all directions.
Fire provided the will to resist being extinguished. Earth granted foundational stability that refused to be moved. Air represented freedom from constraint. Unity bound all his components together against external force.
Even now, Raijin’s overwhelming Sovereignty continued to be exerted onto his Existence with crushing intent, commanding him to kneel and submit.
And yet the surging Phones of The First Tongue denied this exertion of power, creating barriers of linguistic authority that operated on principles deeper than Civilizational Authority alone.
Raijin’s expression beca noticeably heavy as he observed this continued resistance.
After several monts of contemplative silence, he nodded with what might have been grudging respect and spoke with voice carrying building intensity.
"There are oddities everywhere in Existence, I suppose. You have managed to bear the re expression of my Sovereignty without collapsing, which is noteworthy for soone with no Depth whatsoever. Very well. I will not be tied down fighting conservatively against an entity lacking Civilizational Authority, so let show you what actual power looks like. Begone."
HUUM!
The mont that word left his mouth, booming drums began to play across the vast arena as if reality itself had beco an orchestra.
A glorious symphony kicked off with building crescendo as the sky above transford.
In the surroundings spanning Gigaparsecs in all directions, colorful lightning began descending like drops of rain to batter everything below.
Purple. Gold. White. Violet. Amber. Colors that should not exist in electrical phenona cascaded down with beautiful and terrifying majesty.
And each tendril of lightning carried unique power, an undeniable brilliance that could be felt resonating through Existence itself at fundantal levels.
The mont this transford lightning appeared and began its descent...
BOOM!
Half of the Phones surrounding Noah were instantly crushed and shattered as if they had never existed.
The protective barriers of linguistic authority simply could not withstand the overwhelming force being brought to bear.
The pressure Noah felt increased tenfold in a single instant as he struggled to maintain his standing position.
He kept his expression outwardly calm despite the internal alarms screaming through his Existence, his consciousness imdiately moving to utter more Phones of The First Tongue to replace those that were shattered.
Fire. Earth. Air. Water. Void....
But as soon as they began forming around him...
CRACK!
Any newly ford Phones were imdiately cracked and splintered under the overbearing pressure of the descending lightning before they could fully manifest their protective effects.
New prompts appeared with critical information.
|All currently expressed Phones around your form have the passive support of Grand and Singularity Principles from nearby Existence.|
|However, at this ti, the grandeur of a Genesis Principle has manifested in the expression of Raijin’s Civilizational Authority of Heavenly Lightning.|
|Genesis Principle Detected: The Principle of the Unstoppable Storm|
|Classification: Genesis Principle combining concepts of Heavenly Authority, Elental Dominance, and Purifying Destruction|
|Effect: All lightning manifested carries the weight of existential judgnt and the authority of natural disaster elevated to conceptual absolute|
|Because a Genesis Principle itself is fundantally composed of complex expressions of The First Tongue at the Logos level and beyond, even though it is being utilized crudely and without conscious understanding by Raijin, it still represents a form of more sophisticated linguistic construction than individual Phones.|
|Your own Phones will continue to be broken with increasing intensity if nothing changes in your approach.|
|Individual letters cannot withstand complete words backed by Genesis authority.|
If nothing changes.
Okay.
Noah’s mind processed this information with crystal clarity even as more Phones shattered around him.
He had not elected to fight a THE level entity first without having so semblance of a plan in mind.
He could have taken the safer route of fighting multiple Pre-THE entities, imprisoning them one by one in The Desmoterion, and working his way up gradually to face THE classification after extensive preparation.
But where was the Quintessence in such cautious progression? And more critically, he simply did not have the ti for such thodical advancent.
If he wanted genuine pressure to forge himself stronger, here was pressure in abundance.
If he wanted to struggle in ways that would catalyze explosive growth, here was struggle of the highest order.
Here was Existence itself testing him!
Now, he simply needed to be forged and reborn anew in the fires of this impossible challenge.
While Phones continued to break around him in cascading failures, while he ford them continuously only to watch them shatter monts later, his eyes flashed with decisive determination.
He knew all eighteen letters of The First Tongue’s alphabet. He had personally practiced each Phone internally.
And he had seen a few complete words, the Logos of The First Tongue inscribed on the prisons and throughout this very arena.
He had observed their structure, their grammatical patterns, how individual letters combined into aningful expressions.
And as the seconds passed here in external reality, Ozymandias inside The Desmoterion had already undergone hours of new understanding and practice of The First Tongue under extre temporal dilation.
That knowledge flowed back into Noah’s own comprehension through their paradoxical connection.
Now, even if he was not a natural genius at The First Tongue, he had given himself ti through Ozymandias.
And with enough ti, one did not need to be a genius to eventually exceed.
So at this mont, Noah raised his right hand and focused his will with absolute precision.
On his fingertip, a Phone of Fire appeared, blazing with concentrated blue gold radiance.
As it manifested, he thought carefully about what Ul’moreth had ntioned regarding Inscription of The First Tongue.
The technique was mainly used on objects like weapons or armor, mostly on anything other than one’s own Existence.
Because forcing The First Tongue onto living beings who were not aligned with it risked catastrophic collapse.
But he was fundantally different from other entities.
His Existence itself was perfectly aligned with the very letters he wanted to inscribe because his Way was Mana, which was The First Tongue in its undifferentiated form.
So even though he knew absolutely nothing about the formal techniques of Inscription of The First Tongue, even though he had not learned any proper thodology from Ul’moreth, why could he not simply decide for himself what thod to use?
After all, he was Mana. His Way was Mana. His Way was The First Tongue itself.
Could he really not do sothing as conceptually simple as writing his own native language onto himself?
So at this critical mont, he made his decision.
He would use his finger as his pen. The Phone of Fire blazing on his fingertip would serve as his ink.
And he would write directly onto his own flesh.
Noah’s thought process crystallized with perfect clarity as colorful lightning continued raining down around him.
Since there was lightning threatening to collapse him, he needed to protect himself from electrical phenona.
So he simply had to arrange the correct sequence and variations of Phones to spell out a complete word, a Logos that would provide the protection he required.
A word that most closely translated to the concept of Insulation.
Being protected from electrical flow. Being rendered immune to lightning’s destructive passage through matter.
His mind worked rapidly to construct the proper linguistic pattern.
He would need the Phone of Void, representing separation and the space between things that prevents interaction.
The Phone of Division, creating distinction between himself and external forces.
The Phone of Ending, terminating the flow of energy before it could affect him.
The Phone of Order, establishing the rule that electricity could not pass through.
And the Phone of Unity, binding these concepts together into coherent whole.
Five Phones arranged in specific grammatical structure to create...The Logos of Insulation!
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