Defeating a Silurian Paleozoic Ragnar changed things in the way that a door opening changed things. On the other side of it was every other Ragnar in Observable Existence, V55 and V69 and V112 and the rest of them, each one Silurian Paleozoic with Pri Cause integrations and mass-produced architecture and the brutal competence of an entity designed from the beginning to be hard to kill. He could kill them now. He would kill them systematically, consuming each one, adding their Silurian Paleozoic foundations and their Pri Cause residues to everything he was building.
The hunt would continue.
His Infinite Scales had been sitting in a state he privately described as productive flux. Infinitas Architectura... the second demarcation, the construction of THE Hadean Pillar of Infinity and a lot more, had been running alongside Infinitas Causa, the integration of Causes into his existence, and the two tracks had been influencing each other. The Source. THE Primordial Tongue. THE Galdr Source developing in THE Source Lands. All of it was finding positions within the first Infinite Scale that the Scale’s original architecture hadn’t designated for them.
This was fine. The Scales were his. They moved when he moved!
The complication was scalability. The more he compressed into his first Infinite Scale of Existence, the harder it beca to produce a version applicable to his followers. He could always strip it down, build a derivative frawork that removed the components specific to what he alone was. But nothing regarding what he held could be considered normal, and the derivative would reflect that through how much stripping it required.
He’d address it when the gap demanded addressing.
His Primus Apeiron body was already moving through Observable Existence with the focused intent of a hunt that had finally found its appropriate tier, the Persevere flas burning in continuous one-second stacks as it pursued the scattered Ragnar clones across Transcendent Folds and Dead Wheels of Existence. That body had work to do and was doing it.
A different body appeared in the depths of THE Infiniverse!
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The core of THE Infiniverse was not a place in the geographic sense. It was a condition... the point where the domain’s accumulated substance converged most completely, where the influence of the Primordial Realms and the Miniature Infinite Causes and the Calabi-Yau folding all pressed toward a single expression of what THE Infiniverse was becoming.
Boundless rivers of multicolored Infinity moved through it in every direction, the endless seas of the substance rising and falling around the currents in the rhythm of sothing alive that was learning to breathe.
THE Infiniverse stood at the center of it.
Her manifestation had changed since the last ti he’d been here in person.
The bejeweled multicolored dress she wore now carried obsidian bands woven through its fabric, the terminal Infinity he’d been working with in THE Source Lands having found its way into her expression, the domain reflecting what he’d been doing the way domains reflected their architects.
Her eyes were bright on him the mont he appeared, the brightness of knowing already what he’d co to try.
She always knew.
He held out his hand.
She took it.
He paused the Persevere utterances. The continuous flas settling to their most recent elevated baseline, the compound stacks holding in place rather than climbing further.
"I share an unbreakable and quintessential connection with THE Infiniverse." He looked at her directly. "My Infinity flows alongside it. My Source is shared alongside it." He tightened his grip on her hand slightly. "The usage of Persevere shall be shared and applicable to it as well."
He held her gaze.
"The cost to do so will be unfathomably high. Utilizing a letter of THE Primordial Tongue on a single existence is already demanding enough. Utilizing it on a construct that spans countless domains, a structure with enough foundation to beco an Observable Existence, the cost for even one utterance at that scale may be impossible to calculate."
He paused.
"But this cost shall be paid." He let it settle. "With Infinity."
BOOM.
The smile ca before the silence was finished.
It started at the corners of his mouth and spread outward with the slow unstoppable motion of sothing that had decided on its full extent and was going to reach it regardless. It was too wide!
The teeth showing too many and too jagged, the grin stretching past what faces were designed to contain, his eyes narrowing into glowing manic slits of pure quintessential light!
THE Infiniverse matched him.
Her smile spread the sa way, reached the sa extre, the sa impossible width and the sa sharp jagged fullness, her eyes going to the sa narrow blazing slits, the manifestation of a domain that had spent its existence dreaming of this mont and had decided the mont had arrived!
Existence shuddered around both of them as they smiled devilishly!
Not the Fold, not the Infiniverse’s internal structure... existence itself, the surrounding arrangent of what was and what was becoming, registering two beings with identical deranged devilish smiles contemplating sothing that should not be attempted and showing every indication of attempting it anyway!
Noah looked at THE Infiniverse with the devilish glint that hadn’t left his narrowed eyes.
"Persevere."
HUUM.
The flas ca.
They covered him first, the multicolored obsidian fire rising in the familiar waves but at a scale that matched the intention behind the utterance rather than the scale of a single existence... and then they spread onto THE Infiniverse’s manifestation, the fire covering her figure and her outstretched hands and the light in her eyes, and then they spread further, past her, onto the boundless multicolored seas of Infinity surrounding them, and then further still.
The three thousand realms took the flas.
The Primordial Realms... all of them took the flas of a single Primordial Tongue letter being applied at a scale the letter had never been applied at before.
Noah laughed.
It ca out madly and he let it.
"The cost is Infinity." He said it to the roaring flas and the shuddering domain and THE Infiniverse’s matching expression. "Take as much as you want. Take all you want!"
He raised his free hand toward the burning seas. "Because from now on, every second I will Persevere alongside my Infiniverse. And I will pay this cost gladly... from now on, into whatever future holds."
BOOM!
The vast endless regions of countless gigaparsecs of domains already influenced by multiple causes burned with resplendence, the elevation of Persevere reaching every corner of THE Infiniverse’s accumulated expanse simultaneously, the compound reinforcent of the letter doing to the domain what it did to a single existence but across a structure that had never experienced it.
A second passed.
BOOM!
The flas built again.
Every component of THE Infiniverse, every realm, every cause, every developing Primordial space, every sea of accumulated Infinity... received the second utterance’s elevation stacked on the first’s baseline.
Oh!
|The sustained application of Persevere has accelerated the domain’s foundational developnt beyond projected tilines. The compound elevation of a Primordial Tongue letter applied continuously at domain scale is producing effects that no frawork has been able to model.|
|THE Infiniverse has built sufficient foundation. The reinforcent, elevation, and enhancent of THE Primordial Tongue letter applied continuously has paved the way for the next stage.|
|THE Infinite Cause is ready for its ergence.|
|A mont of paramount quintessence is approaching.|
|THE Infiniverse shall Persevere.|
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