Chapter 4636: Actualization I In the region of collapse, Noah’s existence remained in that unique state. There was unfathomable potential for him to tap into, a harvest beyond normal calculation waiting to be claimed. But at this moment, as The Infiniverse emerged from his embrace with hardened expression returning to her features, a howl of someone in immense pain echoed out from behind them. Noah’s gaze became stern as he turned to look. The Disciple of THE Creature had a somber expression as his entire existence was actually shining with increased power from the surge affecting all of reality. But the wailing came from someone else entirely. The beggar. Schrodinger. At this moment, he had a crazed look consuming his features as from his body, a sea of obsidian-gold paradox surged outward. It formed into a manifestation of a clock. This ancient and paradoxical timepiece appeared constructed from compressed contradictions, its face showing impossible geometries. The numbers seemed to shift and rearrange themselves constantly while somehow remaining fixed. The hands moved with jerky, unnatural motion that defied smooth progression. And at this time, those hands could be seen moving with terrible swiftness. From twenty-five. To twenty. To fifteen. To ten. And then, horrifyingly, to five! FIVE! Schrodinger’s wailing words emerged with desperate intensity. "The clock has moved from twenty-five seconds to five seconds! FIVE SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT! Osmont, what have you DONE?! What have you done to accelerate this so catastrophically?! Your actions have brought us ever closer to Midnight! Ever closer to The Fallout! THE Living Paradox wants you to know this! He now displays this clock for all to witness so we know exactly when the bells will ring for Midnight! You are the doom of us all! You are-" BOOM! Noah clenched his hand and punched outward with casual violence. The Phoneme of Paradox flashed brilliantly on his knuckles. A manifestation of a massive golden fist appeared directly below Schrodinger and smashed into him with devastating force. His body was flung upward like a rag doll. Additional manifestations of fists burning with the Phoneme of Paradox appeared in the exact direction he was thrown. They smashed into him again and again. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Multiple fists pounded his figure from different angles with brutal efficiency. Until he looked like nothing more than a bloody mass of pulverized meat barely maintaining coherent form. Thereafter, a blue-gold prison began forming around his ruined body. The prison shone with silent Logos of Imprisonment inscribed across its crystalline walls. Multiple layers of containment wrapping around each other in complex linguistic patterns. The ever-manipulative figure of Schrodinger was locked up completely! In the distance, Noah’s gaze remained exactly the same. The light of glory and defiance in his eyes burned brighter than ever before. Five seconds to Midnight? Five seconds to The Fallout? Okay! They wanted to play games with countdowns and threats? After this Temporal Traversal, after everything he had experienced and survived, he was fucking ready to tear the entire board apart rather than play by their rules. So he moved with absolute dominance as he turned his gaze toward The Disciple of THE Creature. He also saw the shocked Guiders of Order standing far behind in formation. Order. His eyes flickered with deadly light as he raised his stick again. He flung the Goad outward toward The Disciple of THE Creature with devastating intent. The Disciple raised his sword desperately, the blade shining with the power of a Genesis Principle. But Noah thrashed him with the same contemptuous ease as the fists had thrashed Schrodinger. His stick enlarged and descended repeatedly, each strike crushing through the Disciple’s defenses. The Genesis Principle proved utterly insufficient against Noah’s current level of authority. After the Disciple was thoroughly thrashed and beaten into near-collapse, Noah locked him within another cage as well, and the Guiders of Order...they didn’t even deserve more than a sentence as a worse version of this occurred to them simultaneously. And everything in this region of collapse turned unfathomably silent. Alexander Asmodeus stood frozen, his silver light flickering with disbelief. Khor stared with millions of obsidian jaws hanging motionless. The First Farmer’s weathered expression showed profound shock. Elyndra, Riya, Moiraine, and the others looked toward Noah with expressions mixing shock and awe. All entities present gazed at him with the same fundamental question burning in their minds. Just what had happened to him?! What had occurred during his absence to transform him so dramatically?! As they all sought answers, the immense Infinite Potential within Noah churned and shifted. He felt another influx of information flooding his consciousness. All around them, Existence itself felt even more immense and concentrated than moments before. New prompts descended before his vision. |Infinite Potential - Additional Sources Identified| |Boundless Infinite Potential still remains within the Collapsed Primordial Civilizations of Hunger and Origin| |Both Civilizations were significantly influenced by your Way during your time in The Infinite Unfurling| |THE Living Origin - Critical Development:| |Instead of fully aligning with THE Creature as expected, THE Living Origin leaned more toward your Weavings of The First Tongue| |After whatever occurred during the conflict between THE Primordial Chaos, THE Living Temporal, and THE Creature in Ginnungagap, critical events unfolded| |Ul’moreth gave both THE Living Origin and Tor one of the Sparks of your Way that you left behind during the Festival| |This Spark influenced their development across eons| |Preservation in The First Tongue:| |The Infinite Potential of both Tor and THE Living Origin has been preserved within The First Tongue itself| |Their essence remains encoded in linguistic authority| |The Seed of Tor and the Seed of THE Living Origin can now be actualized from Infinite Potential| |This will allow the emergence of their Weavings in your current era| |Records and Influence:| |Records of their Primordial Civilizations remain in Existence as historical fact| |BUT: Their influence toward your Way allowed their records to also remain encoded in The First Tongue| |There is sufficient Infinite Potential from their actions toward you that helped you survive| |And from your actions toward them that helped them advance| |This mutual benefit has created a resonance strong enough for actualization| |Actualization Query:| |Shall the Infinite Potential of Tor and THE Living Origin be actualized in current Weavings?| |Estimated Result: Emergence at THE Surface Depth of Absolute Sovereignty classification| |Both entities will manifest with full memory and weavings they held before collapse| BOOM!