Chapter 5171: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust! I

He looked at his hands, sensing the profound and terrifying weight of the power coursing around him, a current of Absolute Infinity that still hummed with the cold, efficient geometry of the state he had just narrowly escaped.

​The transition was not a simple storage of energy, but a structural rewriting of his very foundation as the organ buckled and then hardened under the influx, its purpose evolving to match the paradoxical nature of its new contents.

​He called out the name with warmth, acknowledging the one he had nearly blacklisted during his descent into the apathetic void. Ruination stepped forward from the shimmering air, a soft, relieved smile gracing her illusory features as she waved her hand, causing a cascade of prompts to bloom before his eyes.

|THE Hadean Organ of Civilization is undergoing a permanent structural metamorphosis to also become THE Absolute Forge of Infinity.|

|As a finite being, your own scope and perspective act as a natural ceiling to the boundless; you are the limitation that prevents Infinity from being absolute. Until a form of solution can be attained to bridge this existential gap, Nearu Absolute Infinity shall be utilized and mediated exclusively through your Organ, THE Absolute Forge of Infinity.|

His own being was a limitation to the power he wielded, yet even with that knowledge, he felt no regret for his choice. He did not wish to become a cosmic automaton, a robot of progression for whom the journey held no value beyond the destination, because what he loved about existence was the raw and unadulterated wonder of it all!

He realized now that he could still carry the efficiency and ruthlessness of that Absolute state within him, utilizing it as a tool when necessary without sacrificing himself.

He felt something deep within the newly formed Absolute Forge, the manic engine of emotions that was THE Heart of Emotive, which had served as the signal flare to bring him back from the brink of total self-extinction.

"I’ll be back," he murmured to the two manifestations beside him.

Emotive was there, her manic violet hair muted and her eyes filled with a desolation that seemed to have aged her eons in a single hour, but when she looked up and saw him, her expression changed with a staggering and visceral intensity.

When she confirmed it, when she saw the return of the Noah who could still look at her coldly and tyrannically, she did not hesitate!

"I thought your brilliance was gone forever!"

Noah looked down at the woman currently clinging to his body, and his internal reactions were a conflicted.

Despite her faults and her history and her irritating manic nature, this woman had plunged her hand into her own chest and surrendered her very heart to him when she truly did not have to.

Beside them, Anaximander rose from the stone and shook his head incredulously.

"Ah, my apologies, Sir! I was just taken away by... huh?"

Noah had to sigh again as he looked at her, his Hadean perception already tracing the source of the anomaly.

Because her Heart, the very core of her Civilization and her claim to Chaos, was currently residing within his Absolute Forge of Infinity, it was being bathed in the boundless currents of the Absolute, and by extension her existence was being dragged upward along his own path while forced into a metamorphosis that neither of them had anticipated.

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