Chapter 5299: Evolution! II

The first hour of the battle taught him that significant effort was an understatement that deserved a more honest word when one fought against monsters.

Osmontian Absolute Infinity was being pressed in ways he hadn’t felt it pressed before!

The living expressed identity that composed his Infinity had always been dynamic and responsive, the thing that made it impossible to bind, impossible to Still, impossible to fully address through conventional attack. It had met every prior challenge and found those challenges addressable.

THE Creature and Calypso were not prior challenges.

Calypso hit him with the Primordial Source running through every strike at the foundational level, the force of each contact not attacking his Infinity so much as trying to ignore it entirely.

THE Creature hit him with...Existence itself behind every strike, his foundations a record of every adversity he had survived and converted, and what that produced were strikes carrying evolutionary pressure in them rather than simply force.

Two different directions. Simultaneously.

He felt the dynamic expression of his identity being squeezed between the two forces, the living architecture of his Infinity maintaining coherence under the pressure.

Then... the obsidian flames came down from the sea above.

Unfathomably pure and grand these flames were!

They descended in a wave that found the exact coordinates where the pressure had been grinding against his foundations and melded into them, the Prime Exelissomai responding to what the Evolutionary Arms Race was doing.

|Prime Exelissomai- Reinforcement sequence: Active. Sustained pressure from Biotic and Environmental sources has triggered the Arms Race’s primary mechanism. The pressure being applied to your Osmontian Absolute Infinity is producing the exact conditions Prime Exelissomai requires to initiate genuine evolutionary change. The obsidian flames descending from the Environmental Pressure above carry concentrated and pure traces of Primordial Source. They will reinforce your existence to induce an unknown change. This process will repeat each time pressure produces meaningful stress on your foundations.|

He absorbed the reinforcement and felt his immensity widen fractionally.

He kept fighting!

Hours passed in THE Early Veiled Shore with the Primordial Bloom accumulating in the atmospheric layers above and the three of them trading impacts at a rate that kept the golden sands in continuous motion, the surface of the most beloved space in THE Infiniverse being slowly redistributed across a wider area with each exchange.

He used the time deliberately.

THE Bellum Cause paired with THE Prime Cause of Adversity in the first exchanges.

THE Prime Cause of Harvest sent its golden tentacles into each exchange and converted fractions of what hit him into foundational fuel, the conversion consistent across hours.

Then he reached for THE Prime Cause of Tyranny.

He loved this one immediately.

The foundational truth of hierarchy pressed outward from him the moment he engaged it, the governing principle that dominance was structural rather than claimed moving through his body in a wave that was different from every other Cause expression he had tested.

It didn’t produce a visible weapon. It didn’t produce a surge of energy. It produced something quieter and considerably more useful, a suppression that moved from his foundations outward and found the foundational architecture of every existence within its range and pressed against their capacity for autonomous movement with the authority of a truth that had been written into the structure of existence itself before any being had been alive to contest it.

When be activated it...

THE Creature froze.

Calypso froze.

One instant. Not long! The Prime Cause of Tyranny at his current integration level could hold them for a fraction of a moment before their respective Primordial Source connections and their foundational depth pushed back against the suppression and broke it.

But a fraction of a moment was a fraction of an instant and he was not interested in wasting it.

He moved!

His fists found THE Creature’s frame three times in the interval before the freeze broke, each strike carrying the full expression of Osmontian Absolute Infinity and the Bellum Cause and the Harvest tentacles converting what contact they made, and he had already redirected toward Calypso by the time THE Creature’s foundations pushed the Tyranny suppression off and he was back in motion.

Two strikes on Calypso before the Relictus broke through.

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM!

THE Creature looked at him when the freeze released with a burning gaze as Noah looked back with Tyranny!

Calypso’s flat cold attention assessed what had just occurred as she roared...

"I told you all to stop eyefucking each other! Fucking gross!"

BOOM!

He ignored her words did it again moments later.

THE Prime Cause of Tyranny. The freeze. The pummeling in the interval. The release, and then continuing like nothing had happened, because from his perspective nothing catastrophic had happened!

From theirs, they had just discovered that the youngest being in the battle could stop their bodies, and they were trying to counter this.

He liked that!

He liked that they were adapting to him while he adapted to them. This was the Arms Race functioning exactly as designed, the mutual pressure producing mutual evolution, both sides being forced to become more than they had been because the other side kept demanding it.

In the third hour he called on Osmontian Absolute Infinity as raw material.

Two massive swords formed between his palms, obsidian and multicolored simultaneously, the Infinity taking the shape his identity required for what this moment demanded. He raised both.

What followed occupied the space above the golden sands in a continuous register of impacts, his dual blades meeting THE Creature’s obsidian-flamed strikes and Calypso’s ancient Primordial Source force dozens of times per second, each contact producing a shockwave that threw the golden sands outward in rings, the Early Veiled Shore’s surface being rewritten with every exchange!

BOOM!

He used the Tyranny freeze in the middle of a blade combination and took three clean hits on THE Creature before the release, the obsidian flames around THE Creature burning brighter from the contact!

And as the battle continued...the reinforcement waves from above came on their schedule. Each wave left him with fractionally more than the prior exchange had spent.

Across hours the accumulation was becoming something he could feel building in his foundations.

He felt it coming. Something was coming!

He kept his dual infinity swords raised and went even faster, because the threshold would arrive when the conditions were right and not a moment before, and the only thing he could do in the time between now and then was ensure that when it arrived, he had done everything available to him to deserve what it would produce!

The golden sands of THE Early Veiled Shore continued their redistribution.

The critical moment continued its approach!

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