Chapter 5067: Anchored And Bound! II

A system of receptors became visible that should only have been perceptible to those at THE Second Scale. They emerged from Beowulf’s internal physiology like a nervous system being extracted from flesh, except these were not nerves in any biological sense.

These were the fundamental architectures through which all suffering flowed, the structures that Beowulf himself had described when he tortured Alexander across millions of years of subjective time.

Vibrant crimson vessels spread outward from the wound in Beowulf’s chest!

They resembled a network of veins or nerves, branching and subdividing into configurations that covered the Primordial Architect’s entire existence. The Existential Nociceptors blazed at the center, fundamental receptors that served as the foundation for everything else. From them extended the Civilizational Afferents, pathways that could carry agony through one’s entire Civilization simultaneously.

The Delta-Threads of Existence were visible as sharper, faster conduits designed for immediate pain transmission. The C-Fibers of Being appeared as slower, thicker vessels that carried burning anguish without relief. And scattered throughout the network were the Polymodal Agony Receptors, rare structures that responded to multiple types of suffering at once.

All of it was now visible.

All of it was now accessible.

Alexander looked at the system he had revealed with an expression that held no mercy.

"Not long ago, I experienced these receptors for what seemed like millions of years."

His voice remained calm despite the subject matter.

"You isolated every Existential Nociceptor within my existence. You mapped my Civilizational Afferents with precision that left no pathway untouched. You activated my Polymodal Agony Receptors while flooding my Delta-Threads and C-Fibers with stimulation that exceeded anything I was designed to endure."

His gloved fingers traced along one of the crimson vessels with touch that seemed almost gentle.

"You applied Hyperalgesic Amplification until my receptors were sensitized beyond theoretical maximums. You dilated my perception of time until each moment of torture stretched into spans that would reduce civilizations to begging."

He paused.

"I wish... to repay the favor. For the sake of Peace. So that I can sleep at night. You screams will serve as my lullabies."

...!

Noah watched this exchange from his position on Beowulf’s chest.

The Primordial Architect’s armored head opened as much as the spear piercing it would permit, revealing darkness within that somehow managed to convey expressions despite possessing no visible features. Beowulf roared with fury that shook the nine spears anchoring him, his massive form straining against imprisonment that his full Second Scale authority could not overcome.

It accomplished nothing.

The anchoring held.

|Alexander has commenced manipulation of target’s Existential Nociceptors.|

|Target Status: Beowulf, THE Primordial Armor.|

|Current experience: Initial isolation of fundamental pain receptors.|

|Civilizational Afferents: Being mapped.|

|Delta-Threads of Existence: Identified and prepared for stimulation.|

|C-Fibers of Being: Identified and prepared for sustained activation.|

|Polymodal Agony Receptors: Located. Activation sequence initiating.|

|Hyperalgesic Amplification: Commencing.|

|Target resistance: Ineffective. Pain architecture now under Alexander’s control.|

Alexander’s hands moved with precision that spoke of expertise earned through personal experience. He knew these receptors intimately. He knew exactly how they functioned, exactly how they could be manipulated, exactly what configurations would produce suffering that exceeded anything existence was designed to endure.

He knew because Beowulf had taught him.

|Hyperalgesic Amplification: Sensitivity increasing.|

|Factor: 100x baseline.|

|Factor: 1,000x baseline.|

|Factor: 10,000x baseline.|

|Factor: Continuing to escalate. No upper limit detected.|

...!

"Wait...WAIT- OOOH!"

Beowulf’s roars shifted into something else as the amplification took hold.

|Temporal Dilation: Activating around target’s pain receptors.|

|Objective time: 1 nanosecond.|

|Subjective experience: 1 year.|

|Objective time: 2 nanoseconds.|

|Subjective experience: 1,000 years.|

|Dilation continuing to compress objective time against subjective perception.|

The sounds emerging from Beowulf’s armored form became screams.

Noah observed all of this from his position on the Primordial Architect’s chest. He watched Alexander work with hands that had become crimson with something that might have been blood if Second Scale entities possessed blood in any conventional sense. He watched the network of pain receptors pulse with activity that exceeded anything they had been designed to transmit.

He watched Beowulf, THE Primordial Armor, experience exactly what he had inflicted upon others across eons of cruelty.

He looked up at the illusory screens that continued displaying everything to Observable Existence.

They captured Beowulf’s screams with clarity that spared no detail. They showed Alexander’s clinical precision as he activated receptor after receptor. They broadcast the moment when a Second Scale Primordial Architect was subjected to torture by beings at THE First Scale, held immobile by spears that should not have been able to anchor him, broken down by methodology he himself had perfected.

There were many things one could do with friends.

Some friends helped you move to new domains. Some friends supported you through difficult cultivation breakthroughs. Some friends provided advice when existence seemed overwhelming.

Right now, Noah was aiding in the torture of a Proterozoic Scale Primordial Architect before the eyes of all Observable Existence.

He found he was comfortable with that!

|Target Status: Beowulf, THE Primordial Armor.|

|Subjective time experienced: 47,000 years of continuous agony.|

|Objective time elapsed: 0.00004 seconds.|

|Hyperalgesic Amplification: Factor now exceeds measurable parameters.|

|All Existential Nociceptors: Firing without cessation.|

|All Civilizational Afferents: Flooded with maximal stimulation.|

|All Delta-Threads: Transmitting sharp, immediate pain continuously.|

|All C-Fibers: Carrying burning anguish without relief.|

|All Polymodal Agony Receptors: Screaming with multiple agonies simultaneously.|

|Assessment: Target is experiencing everything he inflicted upon Alexander, amplified by methodology refined through personal understanding of suffering.|

The screams of Beowulf echoed across the destroyed battlefield.

They carried through the space where multicolored seas had once spread for as far as anyone could see. They pressed against the suspended rain droplets that had not yet fallen. They broadcast through the illusory screens that transmitted everything to beings across Observable Existence who watched with expressions ranging from horror to satisfaction to careful notation of what was being demonstrated.

THE Primordial Armor screamed as THE Peacemaker got bloody.

Alexander’s white gloves had turned entirely crimson now, stained with whatever passed for vital fluid within a Second Scale Primordial Architect. His expression held nothing but focus as he continued his work, as he repaid every moment of the millions of years he had experienced during his own torture. His Enneagram spun with all nine gems blazing, the construct that he had shattered to protect Noah now serving as the instrument through which he delivered justice.

The screams did not stop!

They would not stop for a very long time.

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