Chapter 5056: Awakening! II

THE Primordial Paradox frowned at her tone, at the implicit dismissal contained within her words. He sought to rise again, gathering his Civilization of Paradox around him in preparation to force himself upward through whatever pressure held him down.

Eon simply waved her hand.

The pressure vanished, and he was able to stand.

His expression remained heavy as he observed her, still seeing boundless golden swirling misty light flowing into her form from every direction. The Observable force showed no signs of diminishing. If anything, it was accelerating, more rivers converging upon her with each passing moment.

"I really need you to explain now."

His voice emerged somber and demanding.

"Why do you feel even stronger than a Singular Cognizance at THE Second Scale when you should only be at THE First Scale?"

...!

THE Secretive Eon turned to look at him with calm and imperious bearing. She placed her hands upon her chest as if sensing her own existence, feeling the changes that the unlocking had wrought within her foundations.

"Because you and I are distinctly different."

Her words carried no apology.

"I was born made different. I tried to live like you and all others, and I failed. Because lifeforms like you, what I tried to be, do not have the capacity to influence Existence to a high enough level."

She paused, her golden eyes studying him with assessment that felt clinical.

"That part of myself has admitted this after falling prey to a fucking fungus and having to be saved by another. Which brings another problem because..."

Eon looked deeper into her existence as she spoke, her attention turning inward.

There, nestled within her foundations, she sensed something that made her frown. An irreversible and unbreakable bond with Quintessence Infiniforce existed within her, something that Osmont had placed in her eons ago in Ginnungagap. Her old self had not known about it. The connection had been subtle, hidden beneath layers of her diminished existence where her sealed perceptions could not reach.

It had entrenched itself into her existence so thoroughly that as she examined it now, she understood she could not expel it. The thing held Infinity within it, and Infinity was not something that could be removed through force alone.

Worse, this Quintessence Infiniforce was actually benefiting from her nature. She could sense her weavings, her authority, her Observable force flowing into the connection.

This would be a problem.

As she frowned at this discovery, THE Primordial Paradox maintained his heavy gaze upon her. He shook his head at answers that only generated more questions.

"What does that mean? What are you, really?"

His voice demanded truth rather than requesting it.

THE Secretive Eon turned to face him with calm that bordered on indifference.

"To understand what I am is to understand what you are."

Her golden eyes held no warmth.

"In Existence, all beings are not born equal. You are among THE Bounded Lifeforms. You and countless others. I am what is known as THE Gilded Lifeform. A different pedigree of lifeform entirely."

She let those words settle before continuing.

"My former self lied to you about my Civilization. My Civilization... is anything I wish among that which is Observable."

BOOM!

As she spoke these final words, she waved her hands to feel the heavy concentrated golden misty light of Observable continuing to flood into her form. The force responded to her gesture, swirling around her fingers as if eager to serve. She looked toward THE Primordial Paradox, who observed all of this with grim expression that could not hide his growing unease.

Eon shook her head at his obvious confusion.

"You required help with your Anchor? Sure. Here you go."

HUUM!

As she spoke, she tapped out with casual gesture that should not have been capable of accomplishing anything significant.

From the boundless power of Observable surrounding her, a blazing golden light began to form. It coalesced into configurations that THE Primordial Paradox recognized immediately, patterns that he had spent eons preparing to forge through careful affirmation and absolute self-knowledge.

A singularity of Paradox, perfect and complete, materialized from the force of Observable.

It entered into THE Primordial Paradox before he could react, flooding his foundations alongside an influx of Observable force that saturated every aspect of his existence. He had not called out any affirmations. He had not established his identity through the declarations that Civilizational Anchors required. He had not done anything except stand there and watch.

Yet an instant later...

BOOM!

A terrifying aura of power emanated from THE Primordial Paradox as shock overwhelmed his features.

A glorious Civilizational Anchor had formed within him without his participation. It felt just as powerful if not more powerful than what he would have forged himself through eons of careful preparation. The foundation of his transition to THE Proterozoic Scale now existed within his foundations, placed there by someone who had treated the process as casual generosity.

Before he could process what had just occurred, Eon looked at him with even greater calm.

"Have your Proterozoic Scale entry as well."

HUUM!

With such words, the tattoos adorning her body shone with brilliance that pressed against perception. Even more golden misty light flooded into THE Primordial Paradox, most of it flowing into his chest where his bones resided. The force pressed into his skeletal structure with intensity that would have destroyed any existence not prepared to receive it.

An aura of a Proterozoic Scale entity began radiating from his form.

His chest bones continued absorbing the golden misty light, transforming through processes that should have required years of careful cultivation. The Observable force was remaking him, elevating him, forcing advancement that he had not earned through any methodology he understood.

While all of this happened, he looked at Eon with incredulity that could not be contained.

"Hey. What the fuck is this?!"

His voice emerged with bewilderment that stripped away all composure.

THE Secretive Eon looked back at him with calm that bordered on boredom.

"A difference in Existence."

Her golden eyes held no sympathy for his confusion.

"I told you, not all beings are born equal. You and I are not born equal. You can understand it as a feat of Existential Engineering, but even that is not entirely true."

She waved her hand dismissively.

"No matter. Acclimate to your power and do not ask too much. I have to understand how the actions of my former self may have tainted me, because now I have a parasite of Infinity latched onto my existence."

She said this coolly before turning her attention inward, beginning to study the Quintessence Infiniforce that had entrenched itself within her foundations. The golden rivers continued flowing into her form, but her attention had already moved past THE Primordial Paradox and his questions.

He stood there stupefied, power he had not earned surging through foundations that barely understood what they had received.

What the fuck were THE Gilded?

Why was he and all others deemed THE Bounded?

Did that Designation apply to everyone he had ever known? To THE Creature? To Abaddon? To Erwin? To Osmont himself?

The questions multiplied within his awareness, each one more disturbing than the last.

THE Secretive Eon continued studying the Quintessence Infiniforce within her, paying him no further attention.

He was beneath her notice now as...perhaps he had always been.

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