Chapter 4782: Leaders and Kings VI

The impact sent shockwaves rippling through the Stoa of Dogmata! Ancient pillars cracked! The floor beneath them cratered!

Noah held him down with one hand while using another hand filled with the Weight of his Way to heavily impose and hammer everything that Gilgamesh stood for!

How exactly was the Weight of someone that exceeded even the foundation of THE Creature at THE Surface Depth and THE Intermediate Depth by more than 200% each?

At this moment, Noah knew.

It was enough to rock Gilgamesh, who was grander than other THE Fundamental Depth entities, to the extent that his golden pupils developed cracks in them.

BOOM!

His left hand remained on Gilgamesh’s shoulder as he clamped down.

He looked into the eyes of this being calmly.

"With that strike just now, I saw cracks permeating across your Unity."

His voice came measured and analytical.

"An impossible thing for you to fathom, I imagine."

His grip tightened.

"I’m sure that like me, you dreamed of your path and all that you would accomplish after THE Fallout. Was the future you saw brilliant? Filled with your glory?"

As he said such words...

BZZT!

His stomach buzzed with impact!

The tips of two spears grabbed by Gilgamesh smashed onto him! They carried a Declaration of being capable of piercing anything.

The authority behind them would have punched through Fundamental Depth entities without resistance!

And yet 15 Seals were swirling over his front!

They ground down and denied that Declaration completely.

The spears stopped as if they had struck an immovable wall!

Thereafter, Noah looked at this being as he spoke out.

"My fist carried a severing light that is meant to sever Unity above all else."

BOOM!

A heavy Thesis backed by the Weight of a foundation that even THE Creature could not match!

Noah threw his hand out again!

It smashed into Gilgamesh’s chest like a hammer forged from the authority of Existence itself.

The blast and impact caused blue-gold flames to flash and burst around their two figures like a volcanic eruption! Fire and light and concentrated power exploded outward in waves that made the entire Stoa tremble.

The ancient inscriptions on the walls blazed brighter as if trying to contain the devastation!

And after he did it once...

Noah proceeded to do it again.

BOOM!

The second impact cracked something fundamental in Gilgamesh’s chest!

Gilgamesh laid out his own Declaration! Weapons swirled from all around to pierce into Noah! Golden spears and swords and legendary axes descended like rain!

But they were dissolved into Phonemes before they could touch him!

BOOM!

The third impact! The fourth!

Even when weapons neared his body, the Seals covering his skin dissipated them into harmless light!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The fifth! The sixth! The seventh! The eighth!

Each strike carried the severing light meant to destroy Unity! Each impact added to the cracks spreading across Gilgamesh’s existence! Each hammer blow pushed The First Leader closer to collapse.

BOOM!

On the ninth impact, Gilgamesh’s body was filled with cracks!

Crimson-gold blood leaked from fissures that had formed across his golden armor. His flesh, saturated with Paradox and Unity intertwined, showed damage that should have been impossible for something at his level to sustain.

And yet his face remained regal.

That of a leader.

That of a king.

Even broken and bleeding, he did not show weakness. He did not show fear. He showed only the dignity of one who had commanded since before time learned to count.

But...

"Your Unity is tattered, pounded, and broken down."

Noah said such words calmly while his left hand continued to literally hold the Depth and Immensity of Gilgamesh right before him.

And at this time, Gilgamesh held a light of defiance!

He didn’t even acknowledge this assessment!

And because he didn’t acknowledge it, it almost acted like a Declaration!

His Way began to heal itself!

Unity putting itself back together piece by piece!

But...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

In a femtosecond, Noah smashed out 18 times!

The combined Weight of his 27 Seals battered against Gilgamesh with force that transcended normal parameters of violence! Each strike was a statement! Each impact was a Thesis! Each hammer blow declared that Unity would break before Noah’s authority.

On the 18th time, his hand cleanly pierced into the chest of Gilgamesh!

It went through golden armor that had withstood the attacks of countless others!

It went through flesh saturated with the authority of one who had led since the earliest ages!

It went through everything that protected what lay within!

And his hand grasped a beating Heart of Unity.

THE Heart of Unity!

The core of Gilgamesh’s Civilization!

The representation of everything he had built, everyone he had led, every accomplishment he had achieved across eons of existence!

With a single pull...

Noah ripped it out!

The sound was horrific!

Flesh tearing! Bone breaking! The wet separation of something that was never meant to be removed from its housing.

Crimson-gold blood sprayed across Noah’s face as the Heart came free!

It continued beating in his grasp, each pulse sending ripples of fading authority through the air.

Multiple Seals flared all around Noah like chains.

They wrapped around the hands of Gilgamesh!

They bound his feet!

They dragged him down to his knees with weight that even The First Leader could not resist.

Then the Seal of Tyranny formed into a purple throne behind Noah!

It materialized from concentrated authority, a seat of power that declared dominion over all who knelt before it!

Noah proceeded to regally sit upon it as he breathed out.

His hand grasped the beating Heart of Unity as he examined it with clinical interest.

It had bright hues of purple and gold, the colors of leadership and glory intertwined. And mixed in here and there, threads of obsidian that spoke of Paradox woven into its very structure.

"Hatred brings with it a sense of brutality."

His voice came heavy with something that might have been regret.

"I don’t need to do this. I truly don’t."

His eyes met Gilgamesh’s defiant gaze.

"But I am only human. I wish to express my hatred. I wish to give back. I wish to answer your curiosity."

...!

The image was one that would burn itself into the memory of any who witnessed it!

The First Leader, Gilgamesh, bound by Seals of terrifying Immensity!

Kneeling before a throne of Tyranny!

The Heart of his Civilization, something that one had to protect against all cost, grasped by another!

And while he grasped it and sat grandly upon his throne, Noah looked at the defiant visage of Gilgamesh.

Then he took the Heart of his Civilization...

And began to take bites out of it.

The first bite tore away a section of beating muscle!

Immense Depth was devoured!

Crimson-gold blood savaged leaked around Noah’s mouth, running down his chin in streams that painted his chest! The taste was iron and authority and the accumulated glory of eons!

His eyes remained locked with Gilgamesh this whole time!

He chewed.

He swallowed.

He took another bite.

It was brutal!

It was savage!

It was the act of a predator consuming the very essence of its prey while that prey watched!

And while he did this, Declarations were shockingly forming around Gilgamesh even now.

Even with his heart torn out!

Even with his body bound!

Even with his Unity shattered!

The First Leader still fought back!

Golden light blazed as he tried to reclaim what was being taken! Authority surged as he attempted to stop the consumption of everything he had built.

But every single Declaration was dissolved or dispersed.

Noah’s presence, his Weight, his authority over The First Tongue itself... it negated everything Gilgamesh tried.

Noah continued eating.

Blood ran down his chin.

His eyes never left Gilgamesh’s.

"I am doing everything I can so that one day, I never sit where you sit. Watching another man devour my Civilization."

He took another bite.

"This is my leadership to you as I show the Way."

Another bite.

"However brilliant you were, this was not something you saw being possible."

Another bite.

"However brilliant I am, I will take this as a lesson."

He swallowed the last piece of the Heart of Unity.

"Keep the defiant light. Remain true to who you are to the very end."

His voice grew softer.

"At the very least, you will not lose your title of a Leader."

...!

Noah said such heavy words as he brutally finished devouring the Civilization of Gilgamesh.

The First Leader knelt before him, bound and broken, his Unity consumed, his Civilization destroyed.

And yet those golden eyes still blazed with defiance that refused to die.

In the distance, THE Secretive Eon looked at this scene with shining eyes.

Moments later, she shockingly licked her lips.

As if she was parched.

As if she felt...a bit hungry herself.

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