When it came to what path Noah would take, it was actually a very simple one.
The complex analysis, the strategic considerations…all of them were interesting exercises in possibility, but Noah had never been one to overthink when his instincts pointed toward an obvious solution.
As both he and the Infiniverse shimmered with seventeen ready-to-use Seed Glyphs of the Principle of Perpetual Harvest between them, the path forward crystallized with perfect clarity.
"An Endowment for Ruination."
The words had barely left his lips when the response came. The green-gold clouds that still roiled above the Early Veiled Shore seemed to concentrate, condensing above Ruination's position like reality itself was taking aim!
A pillar of light descended with the force of recognition demanding expression.
Ruination stood within that pillar with her characteristic stillness, the crimson light that usually emanated from her form now mixing with the green-gold in patterns that suggested endings being transformed into beginnings.
Her complexity and purity surged upward with violence that would have shattered lesser beings, but she simply accepted it, absorbed it, made it part of her nature to ruin and remake.
But even as this process continued its magnificent course, Noah was already turning toward another section of the Shore, his gaze finding a figure who stood watching with that particular mixture of pride that only mothers could perfect.
"Two Endowments for my mother."
WAA!
Yes, he could do anything he wanted. The power was his to distribute, the choice entirely within his authority. He didn't need to do this for his mother…there was no strategic necessity, no systematic reason why Amelia Osmont needed to stand at Duke level.
But remembering how she had stood beside him during that attack, how she had faced impossibility with nothing but maternal determination and a will that refused to let her son face danger alone... he simply wanted to.
And so he did.
Amelia Osmont's eyes widened with surprise that quickly transformed into affectionate frustration that parents had when their children did something simultaneously wonderful and excessive!
She shook her head helplessly toward Noah even as waves of green-gold light began to surge around her form like reality itself was acknowledging what should have always been true.
The prompts that materialized before Noah's vision carried heavy weight!
|Amelia Osmont, The Mother of The Early Creature, Osmont, has carried out unfathomable effort to produce an equally unfathomable anomaly|
|The act of raising what cannot be raised, of nurturing what defies nurture|
|Of believing in impossibility until impossibility became inevitable|
|First Harvest Festival Endowment grants: +10,000,000,000,000(+10 Trillion) Complexity and Purity|
|Second Harvest Festival Endowment recognizes compounded effort|
|The exponential difficulty of maintaining normalcy while raising anomaly|
|Second Endowment grants: +11,000,000,000,000(+11 Trillion) Complexity and Purity|
|Total elevation: +21,000,000,000,000(+21 Trillion) to each parameter|
|Note: Highest possible boon from any Endowment at current stage achieved|
|Maternal effort has been recognized at fundamental level|
Noah nodded toward these prompts with satisfaction.
He hadn't known a single Endowment would grant her ten trillion in one sweep…the recognition of her effort as a mother apparently warranting rewards that exceeded what combat or cultivation could achieve.
He smiled toward his mother, the expression carrying all the things that didn't need to be said between them, before turning to survey the assembled beings across his Shore!
His gaze moved across faces familiar and faces newly arrived, each one representing a thread in the grand musings he was weaving.
Then he began calling out names.
"Titano!"
The massive titan looked up with eyes that widened as a green-gold pillar descended upon his tremendous form.
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