The impact created devastation that spread across the remaining multicolored seas like a wound expanding through flesh.
Everything within ten light years of their collision simply disappeared, transford into nothing by forces that existence itself could not withstand. Noah felt his arm screaming with pain, his bones burning with transformation that was being forced toward completion by the violence demanding expression through them.
He held his ground.
Barely!
His feet, if feet could be said to exist in this space of floating combat, pressed against nothing and found purchase anyway. His foundations refused to retreat further. His will, that tyrannical certainty that had defined him since before he understood what power ant, declared that he would not be moved!
Fuck that!
|Hadean Bone Formation: 78% complete.|
|Observable Force influx: Critical volu achieved.|
|Transformation acceleration detected.|
Beowulf pressed harder, putting everything behind the strike that was supposed to end Noah’s existence. His armored face contorted with effort that seed inappropriate for soone who should have been ending this exchange with casual superiority. He was struggling!
THE Primordial Armor was struggling against a First Scale entity.
|Hadean Bone Formation: 89% complete.|
Golden light erupted from Noah’s right hand with brilliance that painted the destroyed battlefield in hues that had nothing to do with the multicolored seas that had previously occupied this space.
His bones blazed with transformation reaching completion, Observable force crystallizing into golden rivers around him that declared his hand to be sothing fundantally different from what it had been monts before.
|Hadean Bone Formation: 95% complete.|
|Hadean Bone Formation: 99% complete.|
|Hadean Bone Formation: Complete.|
HUUM!
Noah’s right hand beca visible through his flesh as the bones within shone with imperious gold that pressed outward against the skin containing them.
Every structure within that hand blazed with light that declared transformation accomplished, authority crystallized into physical form through thodology that should not have been possible at THE First Scale.
His carpals glowed golden at his wrist. The tacarpals all radiated with Observable force that had been integrated into their very composition.
His tacarpals blazed with brilliance that extended from wrist to knuckles, five bones that now channeled authority their original design had never anticipated.
His phalanges shone brightest of all, fourteen bones forming his fingers and thumb that now grasped the Spear of Civilization with grip that could not be broken by any force Beowulf could bring to bear.
|Hadean Bone Formation Complete.|
|Designation: THE Hadean Hand of Infinite Grasp.|
|Components: All carpals, tacarpals, and phalanges... of right hand transford through Observable Force integration.|
|Capability: Grip strength now theoretically infinite. Anything grasped cannot be released except by wielder’s will. Force channeled through hand is multiplied by a factor of Observable concentration.|
|Full capabilities unknown. Field testing in progress.|
...!
Noah grasped his Spear of Civilization with his newly transford hand.
The weapon buzzed with resonance that seed almost joyful, as if the crystalline armant recognized that its wielder had finally developed a grip worthy of what it contained. Observable and Unobservable forces swirled around the spear with intensity that exceeded anything he had channeled before, golden and clear rivers pressing outward from the weapon’s tip with fury that demanded release.
Beowulf felt the change.
The Primordial Architect’s eyes, invisible behind that armored helm, widened as he perceived what had just occurred within Noah’s existence. His hamr, still pressing down against the spear blocking it, began to vibrate with frequencies that suggested strain rather than dominance.
Noah smiled with tyranny that had no trace of rcy.
He pushed.
CRACK!
His newly transford hand channeled force through the Spear of Civilization with intensity that exceeded everything he had managed before this mont!
The Observable force from Eon’s existence, the Unobservable weavings integrated into his weapon, the Quintessence Infiniforce saturating his foundations, all of it condensed into a single point of contact between crystalline spear and crimson-boned hamr.
Beowulf’s weapon began to crack.
|Damage Detected: Enemy weapon structural integrity compromising.|
|Proterozoic Bone within hamr experiencing resonance overload.|
The Primordial Architect attempted to withdraw, to create distance that would allow him to reassess this confrontation that had shifted so dramatically against his expectations. His massive form pulled backward with speed that demonstrated Second Scale capabilities even in retreat.
Noah did not permit retreat.
THE Hadean Hand of Infinite Grasp closed tighter around his spear as he thrust forward with motion that carried the accumulated force of their entire exchange into a single piercing strike. The crystalline tip of his weapon pressed against the hamr that Beowulf was attempting to interpose between them.
BOOM!
The hamr... exploded.
|Enemy Weapon Status: Destroyed.|
|Proterozoic Bone Status: Exposed. No longer integrated into armant structure.|
HUUM!
The weapon that had terrorized countless existences across eons of conflict simply ceased to exist as a unified construct. tal and authority and accumulated enchantnt all dissolved outward in rings of destruction that pressed against everything within range. Only the crimson obsidian Proterozoic Bone that had been integrated into its structure remained, that single transford component falling through the space where the hamr had been.
Beowulf stared at his empty hands with shock that pressed against the fury he had been maintaining.
Noah did not pause to appreciate the mont.
His newly transford hand grasped his Spear of Civilization as he swung with motion that felt impossibly heavy and impossibly fast simultaneously!
The Observable force crystallized into his bones channeled through every aspect of the strike, golden light trailing behind the weapon’s arc like a cot burning through atmosphere that did not exist.
A massive crescent of golden brilliance erupted from his spear’s path.
The strike surged forth across the distance separating him from Beowulf with speed that exceeded what the Primordial Architect’s shocked state could process. Sharp multicolored edges bordered the golden crescent, Quintessence Infiniforce, Observable and Unobservable forces woven together!
It smashed onto Beowulf’s massive figure.
...!
OH!
BOOM!
|Strike Impact: Direct hit confird.|
|Target Status: Armor breached.|
The armor that had defined THE Primordial Armor since before most current beings had learned to exist received a diagonal cut from shoulder to waist. tal that should have been impervious to anything THE First Scale could produce parted like flesh before a blade, edges glowing with heat that had nothing to do with friction.
Beneath that parted armor, sothing was revealed that Noah had not expected.
Wriggling physiology that resembled nothing human or humanoid occupied the space where internal organs should have resided. Living tal that moved with autonomous purpose, tendrils of animate armor that had grown into Beowulf’s existence so thoroughly that the distinction between being and equipnt had long ago ceased to have aning.
And alongside that horrifying revelation, a roar erupted from Beowulf’s armored helm.
"OOOOOH!"
It was the first sound the Primordial Architect had made since their genuine combat began. Lividity and pain mixed together in that bellow that echoed across the destroyed battlefield, across the space where multicolored seas had once spread as far as anyone could see, across the illusory screens that continued broadcasting everything to Observable Existence.
THE Primordial Armor had been wounded.
THE motherfucking Youngest had drawn blood!
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