Chapter 4245: Noah Osmont! II

|Current Status: You are now in a pocket of timeless contemplation. The external existence is, for all intents and purposes, paused.|

|Threat Assessment: [Corruption of Collapse] from the Primordial Lodestone.|

|Nature of Threat: Absolute. The corruption seeks to rewrite your fundamental Code of Existence to that of pure, irreversible collapse.|

|Projected Outcome: The rewriting of your code is absolute. It will occur regardless if your complexity exceeded 1,000 or 10,000 Quadrillion. This is not a battle of power, but of fundamental programming.|

...!

Noah received this information, this pronouncement of his own inevitable unmaking, and yet he remained calm.

He was a prisoner in his own existence, a spectator to his own execution. He could do nothing!

|Counter-Strategy Initiated by [The Cheating Architect].|

|Logic: Instead of fighting the [Corruption of Collapse], which is a futile endeavor, [The Cheating Architect] seeks to redirect it. To allow the alteration of your Code of Existence, but into something controllable and even potentially beneficial.|

|Feasibility: A feat of impossibility. The Architect is currently seeking the means to make it possible.|

|Action: [The Cheating Architect] is calling upon your connected weavings of Existence that could potentially be beneficial in this occasion.|

|The Weavings of Ruination have been called forth.|

|The Weavings of the Infiniverse have been called forth.|

|Analyzing all possibilities...|

The blue-gold light of the sea stretched out towards infinity, and in the distance, two concerned, illusory figures appeared.

Ruination, her form a symphony of beautiful, tragic endings. The Infiniverse, a being of countless, interconnected possibilities.

They blazed with a brilliant light as they came into contact with his suspended form, their very essence gushing out in waves of blue-gold support.

A humming buzz continued to echo in Noah’s senses as Cheats continued its analysis.

Time passed. But what was time here? Was it passing at all in this stretch of infinity? He was suspended, a thought in an endless moment.

He began to think, his mind, now free from the immediate threat, drifting to the very nature of this state, this Time.

The idea that time was not a constant, but a variable, a river that could be bent and shaped by gravity, by velocity.

One’s perception of time is relative to their frame of reference. An observer falling into a black hole would experience their entire future in an instant, while from the outside, they would appear to be frozen for eternity.

’Am I... falling into an endless hole of my own existence right now?’

The epiphany was a quiet, profound thing in the endless blue, his mind buzzing with possibilities!

After what felt like hours, and years, and no time at all, a new set of prompts bloomed.

|A potential solution has been reached on dealing with the [Corruption of Collapse].|

|The Subject, Ruination, shall take on the alteration of collapse.|

BOOM!

The blue sea seethed. Noah’s existence buzzed. What?!

|The Subject, Ruination, sees this end and collapse as something inherently critical to her nature. She has willingly volunteered as she states Master, an ending is only another beginning.|

|Alongside the Subject, Ruination, 50% of all the computing capabilities of the Infiniverse have been added to the mix for stability.|

|As the [Corruption of Collapse] has already permeated across your existence, other parts of you must be given into the mix to forge a beneficial product from this calamity.|

|Systems of Existence under you are either partially or fully going to be fused and integrated.|

|The alteration of the Code of Existence and the units of Everythings contained in the Lodestone will be utilized and directed into the final product.|

|Lastly, [The Cheating Architect] will stabilize everything. It has sacrificed the workings of the Agent Architect of [Tyrannical Sovereign] under it, adding the potential and complexity of that unformed Principle into the mix.|

|Analyzing...|

HUUM!

Noah felt the blue-gold seas seethe and tremble!

The illusory figures of Ruination and the Infiniverse scattered into a billion points of light, a torrent of pure potential that fused into his very being.

After what felt like the passage of years, a final prompt rose.

|Trillions of possibilities have been analyzed and theorized, all pointing towards the same result. Proceeding.|

Noah felt his existence stand on a grand precipice. And then...

|Rebooting Existence.|

One last prompt. His perception blanked out.

He felt nothing, and then he felt everything.

He was a child again, feeling the sting of his father’s hand after he was drunk and hitting anything in sight, the warmth of his mother’s embrace as she told him that everything would be okay.

He was a young man, going to school, going to work, a faceless cog in a machine he didn’t understand. He was a Hunter, his hands trembling as he delved into his first dungeon.

He saw it all, a river of memories, of records, of lives lived and unlived.

Until, after what felt like forever, he woke up.

"..."

The first thing he noticed was his own eyes. His pupils were pulsing, intricate blue-gold lines constantly being etched and re-etched across their surface.

He was in the endless sea of blue, but this time, he could move.

He sat up, the liquid mana parting around him.

As he acclimated, he noticed it. In the bottom right corner of his vision, a blue holographic display.

It showed a swirling, crimson-blue circle, a globe filled with surging authorities.

Above it, his name floated.

Below it, his Complexity and Purity. A compass, a set of cooldown timers, a network of interconnected status bars.

And in the top left corner of his vision... a cluster of pulsing, crimson-blue light that looked like a series of overlapped infinity symbols. It pulsed with a soft, steady rhythm.

He focused on it.

|Welcome back, Master.|

A voice. A prompt. But the voice was different. It was a perfect, chilling fusion of Ruination’s dark, melodic elegance and the System’s cool, monotone precision.

He blinked, his eyes shining. "Ruination?"

The reply was instantaneous, the voice both familiar and utterly new.

|Yes, and No, Master. I am RUIN, and I am also EDEN. I am RUIN/EDEN, your personalized System of Existence, born of Ruination, the Infiniverse, the Architect of Tyrannical Sovereign, the Code of Existence of a Lodestone, an unknown number of Everythings, and all other Systems of Existence under your being, all stabilized by the weavings of The Cheating Architect.|

HUUM!

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