Chapter 4877: Echoes! I

Noah had eaten a lot of things across his life.

Some good, some bad, some tantalizing beyond description.

Some things he ate on a regular basis as he never stopped. He had consumed Absolute Everythings and Weavings of collapsed entities and treasures that entire civilizations would have gone to war over.

The Spark Fragment of THE First Cause instantly shot up to the number one spot of things he would love to be eating every day.

As ludicrous as it was to mention it, the sensation flooding through his existence made everything else he had ever consumed feel like pale imitations of what food should actually be. Every aspect of his being was amplified, every fiber of his foundations singing with pleasure.

He imagined this was the type of high that drug addicts felt, the kind that kept them going back even if they were destroying their lives in the process!

Because damn.

The things he would do for this sensation.

He would fight Bazuman again. He would steal from a thousand Primordial Serpents! He would challenge THE Undivided Ones themselves if it meant experiencing this feeling one more time.

But...

HUUM!

His existence buzzed with Immensity as he forced himself not to be lost in the sensation, pulling his consciousness back from the edge of euphoria in order to truly understand what was happening to his existence. The pleasure was seductive, yes, but pleasure without understanding was just distraction from the truth of what he was becoming.

And...

And...?

"Hmm?"

He wasn’t seeing any immense and unfathomable changes that he expected.

Yes, his foundation was rising rapidly across Surface, Intermediate, and Fundamental Depths. He could feel the weight of his existence growing heavier with every passing moment, his Immensity scaling upward at rates that should have been impossible.

But... he felt like this shouldn’t be it.

He was looking for something truly grand.

A Spark Fragment of THE First Cause, a piece of the very moment when differentiation began, and all it was doing was making his foundation heavier? That seemed almost anticlimactic given what he had risked to acquire it!

He had stolen from an ancient Primordial Serpent, had been chased by an Undivided One, had opened The Interstices in a place where The Interstices should never have been opened.

For foundation growth?

He frowned as he didn’t understand, but this moment of reflection allowed him to focus as he looked around him.

He had attempted to enter The Interstices when he apparently should not have, and right now he was somewhere that defied easy description. The space around him wasn’t differentiated in the way that Observable Existence was differentiated, but it also wasn’t undifferentiated in the way that THE Prima Indifferentia was undifferentiated.

It was somewhere in between.

Somewhere that shouldn’t exist.

|Critical Navigation Error - Existential Analysis|

|Accessing the spaces between spaces while within a region of undifferentiation would normally result in the collapse of even Absolutes. The combination of differentiated pathways and undifferentiated origin creates paradoxical weavings that trap existence in endless loops between definition and undefinition.|

|However, the weavings of your Infinities paired with the consumption of the Spark Fragment of THE First Cause are funneling your existence across these treacherous pathways without collapse. You are surviving what should not be survivable.|

|The issue is navigation rather than survival.|

|To define yourself at a certain time and location, existential coordinates would need to be viable and established within the weavings you are currently crossing. You would need to specify where you wish to emerge and when you wish to emerge there.|

|But due to the weavings of unclear and chaotic definition and undefinition surrounding everything in this space, no known coordinates of locations or times are currently viable for selection. The pathways cannot distinguish between differentiated destinations because they themselves are not fully and stably differentiated.|

|In simpler terms: you cannot choose where to go because the paths cannot understand what "where" means.|

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The prompts may have been hard to understand at first, but Noah’s eyes turned sharp as he realized they were basically saying that he was funneling across regions that had no clear stable definition. And because these regions had no clear definition, he couldn’t give them clear coordinates of where to go.

So he couldn’t leave.

So...was he just lost here endlessly, trapped in spaces between spaces that would carry him forever without ever depositing him anywhere real?

He shook his head at such a thought as the one thing he could appreciate about this place being both defined and undefined was that time didn’t seem to be a factor here.

And he loved having a moment to breathe.

For the first time since entering THE Prima Indifferentia, he actually had space to think without being chased by Undivided Ones or threatened by Formless Terrors or forced to make split-second decisions that determined whether his temporal traversal continued or ended.

Right now, he wanted to figure out exactly what was going on with the weavings of THE First Cause.

Surely the boons of something so grand would not be as disappointing as his foundations simply being elevated, right? There had to be more. There had to be something that justified the significance of what he had consumed!

He looked deep within himself where the grain-sized object spun rapidly at the center of his Organ of Civilization, his Infinities breaking down its authority with appetite. What was being broken down was scaling his foundation upward with speed that made his previous growth look glacial by comparison.

|Foundation Status - Updated Assessment|

|The Immensity of your Surface Depth has now reached 1100% comparative weight to THE Primordial Paradox at equivalent stage. This represents 11 times the foundation weight that THE Primordial Paradox possessed at Surface Depth before he became an Absolute.|

|The Immensity of your Intermediate Depth has now reached 1050% comparative weight. This represents 10.5 times the foundation weight of THE Primordial Paradox at equivalent stage.|

|The Immensity of your Fundamental Depth has undergone the most significant transformation.|

|Your Fundamental Depth has now reached the same level as THE Primordial Paradox and THE Creature before they took their steps to become Absolutes.|

|It is untested and purely theoretical, but as of right now, your collective Immensity may be arriving at the level of weak Absolutes, even without having attained this stage yourself.|

|Your Depth remains at Infinite Formless, but your weight may rival those who have transcended to Absolute. Weak Absolute. It cannot be stressed enough- hypothetically weak Absolutes.|

|This configuration has no precedent and requires verification through actual combat to confirm.|

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