Chapter 3929: Quintessential Tyranny! IV What was more tyrannical than lecturing and talking down on someone so much more powerful?! "Let me educate you about hesitation," he continued, "Hesitation is the luxury of those who believe time is infinite, who assume that opportunities will always present themselves again if the first offer is declined. But existence operates according to different weavings entirely." WAA! His gaze swept across the assembled crowd, ensuring that his words reached every being within hearing range. "Those who delay, who spend precious moments wondering if they should act rather than acting decisively, invariably find themselves losing the most critical opportunities of their existence. Existence does not wait for the hesitant. It rewards the bold, elevates the decisive, and abandons the cautious to watch from the sidelines as others claim the prizes they were too afraid to reach for!" HUUM! The weight of his words seemed to press down upon everyone present like a physical force! Even though he was a mere Fold Dweller. But he seemed to hold such an astonishing imposing demeanor! "So choose now, Little Elemental. Will you be the one who acted when action was required, or will you be the one who hesitated until the moment passed and left you with nothing but regrets?" The confrontation had transformed from a simple trade negotiation into something approaching a lesson! At such a critical juncture, the Living Elemental gritted his teeth and forced the words out with conflicting emotions "Deal! I will take the bowl!" The declaration echoed across the golden pathway, marking the moment when desire finally overcame caution and need triumphed over pride! Noah smiled and nodded with the satisfaction of someone whose careful planning had achieved exactly the desired result. With a casual wave of his hand, he caused the Wok with its shocking scent that had drawn Living Existences from across the immediate area, to disappear back into his weavings, leaving only the simple bowl floating in the space between them. "Pack it up for me," Noah said with the tone of someone concluding a routine transaction. Pyrion Aureus nodded without taking his eyes off the bowl, his attention so completely focused on his prize that he seemed unaware of anything else in his immediate environment. With a snap of his fingers, he caused the entire garden to collapse inward upon itself, the Auric Vitae Grass and all the carefully cultivated beauty of his display being drawn into a treasure that looked like an Elemental Wheel of Existence that he produced! The compressed treasure had the gardeb in it and pulsed with its own inner light as he presented it to Noah, who allowed the bowl to float across the intervening space toward its new owner with unhurried grace. The moment the trade was completed, Pyrion’s expression transformed into one of pure joy. He instantly wrapped the bowl in high concentrations of Living Elemental Authority, creating layers of defense that would have been sufficient to protect one’s progeny! His eyes darted around the immediate area as if he were worried that other Living Existences might attempt to take his prize by force. "Do you need anything else?" he asked with the eager tone of someone hoping to extend a profitable relationship. "I have many things found across the Doorways of the Loom on the higher floors..." He pointed to the building behind him as he spoke. His words sparked immediate reactions from the Living Existences who had been drawn to the area by the scent of Noah’s offering! They began gathering around Noah and Sigrid with eyes that shone brightly, several of them speaking up simultaneously to declare their own readiness to trade for bowls of his miraculous treasure! "I have a Panacea of Inevitability that will instantly grant a hundredth of the whole complexity of the Originus Venerant stage..." "I have 3 Sparks of Everything!" ...! Their voices rose grandly! And yet... Noah looked at all of them with the calm, cold assessment of someone who had just witnessed the fundamental hypocrisy of power reveal itself freely. When he spoke again, his voice continued its weavings of Tyranny! "How could I possibly trade with such esteemed Living Existences when I am merely a Fold Dweller from Paradoxical Folds?" he asked, his tone dripping with mock confusion as he gestured toward the obsidian marking that still blazed above his head. "You all still see that, right? Nothing has fundamentally changed about my nature or my origins, correct? I am still the same being who was deemed unworthy of your attention mere moments ago, still a sinner by association, still marked with the stigma of Paradox, still everything you found so distasteful when I first appeared before you." His voice began to rise, taking on the booming quality of someone delivering judgment from a position of absolute authority! "Or does having something you desperately want suddenly make all of that acceptable now? Does possession of treasure somehow cleanse the stain of my origins, transform my fundamental nature, erase the sin of association that made me so unpalatable to your great weavings of Existence?!" BOOM! "Tell me, O enlightened ones! which is the truth? Was I unworthy when I possessed nothing you wanted, or am I suddenly acceptable now that I have something you need? Because the weavings of my existence haven’t changed. The only variable that has shifted...is your perception of what I might offer you in return for your temporary tolerance." ...! |Quintessential Tyranny!| |The advancement of your existence has accelerated even further exponentially and quintessentially for the next day due to your unbound Tyranny!| His weavings of existence buzzed with interminable glory. In the Early Veiled Shore, his main body became surrounded by seas of multicolored brilliance as a Tower of Osmont was completed right away, and another Tower started forming right after! In the small region of Concordia where he and Sigrid stood...the golden pathway fell silent! Utterly and completely silent as no Living Existence said anything, but their eyes burned with a chilling light as nobody...liked to be talked down and pointed of their faults like this, or have their hypocrisy laid out so blatantly. So now, as dozens of Living Existences surrounded Noah and Sigrid, how would this situation resolve itself?!