And at such a ti, Noah actually turned his gaze behind him.
He locked eyes with Naldine, observing her expression shift. Her fingers remained poised over the strings of her Vihuela. Her singularity-dotted eyes held intensity that demanded he choose wisely.
"The next few seconds are going to be very critical ones."
HUUM!
His calm words were an answer, though not the answer anyone present had expected.
He could have chosen to say many things. He could have accepted the diplomacy Grimvault offered, could have released Beowulf and retreated to fight another day, could have recognized that three Proterozoic Scale entities including one at the Calymmian Tier represented a threat he could not overco regardless of his Infinity.
He chose none of those options.
Behind him, a shimring golden crack of existence blood into being.
The crack appeared in the fabric of reality itself, multicolored light bleeding through the fracture. Massive hands appeared at the edges of that crack, fingers the size of buildings grasping the boundaries of the opening. Those hands tore the crack wide, ripping existence apart to create space sufficient for what was coming through.
|THE Hadean Organ of Civilization: External release activated.|
|Entity: Ozymandias.|
|Source: THE Hadean Desmoterion.|
|Status: Erging into Observable Existence.|
An utter wonder stepped out.
Ozymandias erged from the golden crack with presence that pressed against everything within range. His form was titanic, a humanoid configuration of muscle and authority that dwarfed even Grimvault’s massive armored fra. His skin held the sa complexion as Noah’s, stretched over musculature that had been cultivated across Civilizational Eons of Developnt. His features bore resemblance to Noah’s own, the sa bone structure, the sa set of the jaw, the sa shape of the eyes, though scaled to proportions that made the similarity sowhat unsettling.
He floated inches away from Noah’s body, their two faces being sowhat alike in ways that declared their connection without requiring explanation.
|Entity Released: Ozymandias.|
|Classification: THE Hadean Avatar.|
|Current Scale: THE Proterozoic Scale - Rhyacian Tier.|
|Proterozoic Bones: THE Hadean Limb of Infinite Hunger (right leg, complete). THE Hadean Arm of Infinite Reach (right arm, complete). THE Hadean Skull of Infinite Perception (skull, complete).|
|Proterozoic Organ: THE Hadean Mind of Infinite Calculation (brain, complete).|
|Active Duration Outside THE Hadean Desmoterion: 81 seconds.|
|Note: Duration increased from 9 seconds due to influx of Observable force from Gilded Existence. Connection to THE Secretive Eon has enhanced all Hadean paraters.|
The aura of a thick and heavy Second Scale perated across the body of Ozymandias.
It pressed against everything within range with authority that declared his classification to all who could perceive it. His Proterozoic Bones radiated light that shone through his flesh, his right leg blazing gold, his right arm matching that brilliance, his skull illuminating from within with intensity that painted nearby space in hues of multicolored authority. And beyond those bones, his Proterozoic Organ pulsed with power that exceeded what most Second Scale entities possessed.
THE Primordial Paradox observed this ergence with expression that shifted through shock into assessnt. His obsidian titanic form, which had seed massive beside Noah’s humanoid body, now stood comparable to Ozymandias’s fra. Another Second Scale entity had just appeared on their side of this confrontation!
Naldine’s fingers paused on her strings as she processed what she was witnessing. Her singularity-dotted eyes widened slightly before returning to their normal configuration. She had known Noah possessed capabilities beyond what he displayed, but this was beyond what she had anticipated. He had been concealing a Second Scale entity within his existence!
Behind them, Beowulf’s screams paused for an instant as even that tortured Primordial Architect perceived the shift in the battlefield’s dynamics. Alexander continued his work, but his eyes flickered toward the newly erged titan.
Grimvault, Sammarthiel, and Vahrkosis observed Ozymandias with coldness. Three Scale 2s against two had beco three against three, with one of the new arrivals radiating Proterozoic authority that declared him a genuine threat.
Noah’s eyes were unfathomably bright at this ti.
The muscular visage of Ozymandias roared grandly toward Grimvault, that titan’s voice erging with force that pressed against the destroyed battlefield with a challenge that could not be ignored. His massive chest expanded as he drew breath that should not have been necessary for a being at his classification, and then he released everything he had been containing.
His head illuminated with terrifying light.
THE Hadean Skull of Infinite Perception blazed with multicolored brilliance that pressed outward from Ozymandias’s form in expanding waves. The light washed over everything within range, painting Grimvault and his companions, painting Naldine and THE Primordial Paradox, painting the destroyed battlefield and the suspended rain and the screaming figure of Beowulf.
And then sothing impossible occurred.
|Proterozoic Organ Activation: THE Hadean Mind of Infinite Calculation.|
|Ability: Infinite Temporal Perception.|
|Effect: User’s perception of ti becos infinitely malleable. Instants can be stretched to feel like days, months, or years according to user’s will. This is perception only and does not affect external reality. Others continue to move at normal speed while user experiences expanded awareness.|
|Duration: Determined by user. Can be maintained indefinitely within active period outside THE Hadean Desmoterion.|
|Note: This ability affects Noah Osmont through connection to Ozymandias. Both entities share expanded perception while ability is active.|
|Current Perception State: One instant stretched toward infinity.|
Everything seed to freeze!
Grimvault’s brutal smile remained fixed in place, those pale fires in his wolf skull helm suspended mid-flicker. Sammarthiel’s wings of swords hung motionless, thousands of blades neither rising nor falling. Vahrkosis’s serpentine coils had ceased their undulation, forty-seven arms frozen in positions that suggested readiness for violence that would not arrive until perception returned to normal speed.
The multicolored rain hung suspended in the air around them!
The screams of Beowulf had paused mid-sound, that note of agony stretched into silence that would resu when infinity concluded!
Noah observed this frozen landscape, this mont stretched beyond what monts were designed to contain. He sighed with breath that felt like it could last for centuries if he wished it to.
In his perception, he had days or months if he wished in this span of an infinity. Even though he did not freeze anyone or anything, even though external reality continued at its normal pace, he could experience this single instant as an eternity of contemplation.
But such a space was not ant for rest.
"Hey."
His voice erged within this stretched mont, audible only to himself and those he chose to include.
"You say you are here to be by my side and help so that the Splintering of Observable Existence does not occur, but why keep such good material like THE Pulse of The Scales away from ?"
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