The Primordial Genesis Shore was unfathomably vast and filled with wonder that defied easy comprehension.
Even the regions that Noah was currently crossing with Ul’moreth were filled with their own unique wonders and intricacies that would require years to fully explore and understand.
The landscape was more stable than the outside regions he had crossed not too long ago, where reality itself seemed to constantly teeter on the edge of collapse. But this stability was held together loosely by civilizational authority woven throughout the environment.
They walked through forests of unfathomably tall trees that stretched toward the sky like pillars supporting heaven itself. The trunks were wider than entire cities, their bark formed from compressed layers of crystallized existence. The canopy far above created a ceiling of interwoven branches that filtered the strange light of Ginnungagap into patterns of obsidian gold illumination.
Each tree seemed to pulse with different types of civilizational authority, as if entire civilizations had somehow crystallized their essence into these ancient growths. Some radiated the authority of conquest and expansion. Others carried the weight of accumulated knowledge and philosophy. Still others hummed with the concentrated power of technological advancement compressed into organic form.
But at the baseline of all of it, obsidian waves of pure Mana could be distinctly felt by Noah. Even more so now that he was beginning to understand The First Tongue a little bit better, he could perceive how these trees were fundamentally expressions of undifferentiated Mana that had been spoken into specialized forms.
As they crossed through this vast primordial forest, Ul’moreth’s voice took on a more somber quality.
|Do you know why Ains is sitting and fishing at the edge of this endless shore?| he asked with a tone suggesting deeper significance.
Noah blinked with mild surprise and looked back in the direction they had come from, though the fishing figure was long out of sight. The question had not struck him as particularly significant before. He had simply assumed the entity enjoyed fishing as a pastime.
So he shook his head to indicate his ignorance. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Ul’moreth continued with voice carrying weight of ancient history and consequence.
|Malformed Ginnu Lifeforms have a very unique bond that binds us together across all of Ginnungagap and beyond,| he explained with careful emphasis. |Collapsing any single one of us is considered akin to collapsing all of us in terms of offense and consequence. Those who do so, regardless of their power or justification, are hunted down by every Ginnu Lifeform across existence until they are found and eliminated. This is our law, absolute and inviolable.|
|Ains, well, something happened long ago. He collapsed a THE Fundamental Depth of Absolute Sovereignty Ginnu in a conflict whose details have been lost to time. It was a monumentally significant event that shook our entire community. I vouched for him among others, arguing that circumstances justified his actions, that the collapsed entity had transgressed first in ways that demanded response.|
|But even with my support and the support of others, there were consequences. For the past countless eons, he has had to sit at the edge of this shore as penance and observation. Never leaving it for anything else, never venturing into the deeper territories or beyond Ginnungagap’s boundaries. It can get quite lonely for him sometimes, fishing in those chaotic waters with only occasional visitors for company.|
Noah’s eyes shone brightly with surprise and contemplation. He had not even considered something like this, had not imagined the complex social structures and consequences that existed among these ancient beings.
Existence was vast with its own intricacies, and everyone held their own stories of triumph and tragedy, of mistakes and redemption.
Ul’moreth perceived his contemplative silence and spoke with philosophical acceptance.
|Haha, do not worry yourself too much about such things, Little Anomaly. Existence is as existence is. We live, we die, and existence continues on regardless of our individual dramas. In the meanwhile, we enjoy The First Tongue and Existence itself and do what we can to understand the unfathomable mysteries out there.|
|If you ever find anyone telling you they have discovered everything or know everything about existence, then such entities have already veered far off the path of genuine understanding. Nobody knows everything, Little Anomaly. Even for me, someone who has existed since the formation of structured reality, there is infinitely much that I do not know and may never comprehend.|
Nobody knew everything.
Noah nodded at these words with genuine agreement. There were countless things in existence, layers upon layers of complexity and mystery. And most entities were only grasping at the very tip of existence’s iceberg, barely scratching the surface of what was truly out there waiting to be discovered.
Ul’moreth continued calmly as they walked deeper into the ancient forest, his teaching focus returning.
|Now, Little Anomaly, you have successfully spoken your first Phoneme of The First Tongue, which is a genuinely remarkable achievement,| he began with voice carrying both praise and expectation. |But speaking it once, even successfully, does not constitute mastery. You are currently at the Novice Speaker level, which means you can produce the Phoneme with basic accuracy. To advance to Fluent Speaker and eventually Perfect Speaker, you need to repeat it constantly until the structure becomes as natural to you as breathing.|
His obsidian gold hair flowed as diagrams began forming around them in the air, showing intricate patterns of energy flow and linguistic structure.
|However, here is where most entities who attempt to learn The First Tongue make a critical mistake that severely limits their progression. They believe they need to speak The First Tongue again and again externally, producing the effect over and over in the physical world to build proficiency. And yes, this does work to a degree. But it is extraordinarily exhaustive on your existence in ways that are not immediately obvious.|
|When you speak a Phoneme outward, you are not merely releasing your own Authority. You are creating a linguistic bridge between your internal existence and all the surrounding Principles of Existence that respond to that utterance. You are essentially opening yourself as a conduit, allowing existential forces to flow through you to manifest the effect.|
|Each time you do this, you are forming and then dissolving that bridge, opening and closing that conduit. Your existence must maintain structural integrity while these tremendous forces pass through it. The Phoneme draws upon Grand Principles, Singularity Principles, even Genesis Principles depending on your mastery level. And when you can eventually connect multiple Phonemes to utter Logos, yes yes, I see your interest in Logos, I will tell you about them in a bit. But all of that accumulated weight flows through your being to manifest externally.|
His presence intensified with technical explanation as the diagrams showed the strain on a body channeling such forces.
|Think of it like this. Your existence is a vessel, and speaking The First Tongue externally is like repeatedly forcing an ocean through a cup. Yes, the cup can channel the ocean’s power for that moment, but the strain of containing and directing such force, over and over, will eventually crack even the strongest vessel. Your Civilizational Authority reserves can deplete. Your structural integrity weakens. Your capacity to maintain the linguistic bridge diminishes with each repetition until you must rest and recover.|
|This is why entities who learn The First Tongue through conventional external practice require years or even decades to master a single Phoneme. They must speak it many times, rest for extended periods, speak it again, rest again. The cycle becomes painfully slow.|
The diagrams shifted dramatically to show a completely different approach, depicting internal pathways within a body with remarkable anatomical detail.
|But there is a trick, Little Anomaly, one that many who attempt to learn The First Tongue do not know or do not understand how to implement properly. The secret to rapid mastery without exhausting your existence is to practice the Phoneme internally rather than externally. To speak The First Tongue within your own existence instead of projecting it outward into reality.|
|What I mean by this is technical and requires deep understanding of your own physiological foundation and existential structure. Foundation, foundation, foundation! I say it three times because it is absolutely critical to everything. When you form a thought, Little Anomaly, how does that thought actually manifest within your being? It passes through neural pathways, through synapses firing in specific sequences, through electrochemical signals cascading through your nervous system. Your cells communicate with each other through these pathways to create consciousness, awareness, intentionality.|
|A strong foundation has infinitely stronger and more intricate pathways for processing such information. Now, what if instead of passing normal thoughts through these pathways, you passed the structured power of The First Tongue itself? What if, when you thought about fire, you actually structured that thought as the complete Phoneme of Fire, with all its proper frequency rises, compressions, accents, and expansions?|
|When you utter the Phoneme of Fire internally in this manner, the fire itself will course through all of your nerves, synapses, cells, organs, tissues, every single component of your physiological and existential structure. The linguistic pattern will propagate through your entire being like a thought propagates, following the natural pathways that already exist within you for processing information and forming awareness.|
|But unlike a normal thought, this is The First Tongue being spoken. So as the Phoneme of Fire courses through your nervous system, it is not merely an abstract idea of fire. It is Fire itself at a conceptual level, the platonic ideal of combustion and transformation, flowing through your internal structure.|
|Your nerves will learn the pattern of Fire through constant exposure. Your synapses will adapt to transmit the concept of Fire with increasing efficiency. Your cells will integrate the principle of Fire into their fundamental operation. Every organ system in your body will gradually align itself with the Phoneme you are internally practicing. And by extension, align you with The First Tongue even if you have differentiated and specialized|
|And here is the magnificent part, Little Anomaly. This process actually elevates your entire existence as you do it. Your Way, you body, your mind, your spirit, all of it becomes more refined, more complex, more capable of handling sophisticated concepts. You are not exhausting yourself through this internal practice. You are strengthening yourself, training every component of your being to understand and embody The First Tongue.|
|You master Phonemes exponentially faster through this method because you can practice continuously without rest. There is no external manifestation draining your reserves. There is no existential bridge exhausting your structural integrity. You are simply thinking in The First Tongue, allowing the linguistic patterns to flow through pathways that are designed to carry information.|
|Of course, there is a critical requirement for this technique to work safely, Little Anomaly. You must be proficient enough in the Phoneme to not speak it incorrectly within your own existence. Because if you make an error, if you mispronounce the internal utterance or corrupt the grammatical structure, you will not be scorching the external environment. You will be scorching your entire existence from the inside out.|
|Imagine speaking the Phoneme of Fire incorrectly while it courses through your nervous system. Your nerves would burn away to nothing. Your synapses would combust completely. Your cells would immolate from within. There would be no external manifestation to warn you of the error before catastrophic damage occurred. Just immediate internal devastation as The First Tongue, even imperfectly spoken, draws upon surrounding Principles and channels that power directly through your physiology.|
|This is why I emphasize that you must already be able to speak the Phoneme correctly at least once before attempting internal practice. You need that baseline competency, that Novice Speaker level of mastery, to ensure you understand the proper structure well enough to avoid lethal mistakes.|
|But assuming you maintain proper pronunciation and structure, Little Anomaly, internal practice is the fastest and most effective method for advancing your mastery of The First Tongue. You can practice the Phoneme of Fire constantly, every moment of every day, letting it flow through your thoughts and your physiological processes until speaking it becomes as natural as your heartbeat. Your foundation will become grander and grander with each passing moment.|
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