Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 4667

Chapter 4667: Zero II

He paused and looked at Noah with eyes that held centuries of gratitude for a being who had shown him kindness when he deserved none.

"I told THE Creature to spread my Weavings out across Existence so that I could hide in fragments until the time was right," Anaximander continued. "I set up new Guidelines to make it possible, declaring that my existence could be divided and scattered without diminishing my core self. When a time in the future came when things settled down, a friend could come and wake me. I thought that friend would be THE Creature returning after his victory, but it turned out to be you."

He smiled with genuine warmth.

"So here we are, Friend."

...!

Here they were.

Noah silently thought about everything he had just learned before he looked at Anaximander closely and asked the question that had been burning in his mind since he first encountered this impossible being.

"What is your Way?"

...!

His Way.

Anaximander smiled at this question as he looked up to the endlessly obsidian ceiling above them, his expression one of peaceful contemplation as he considered how to explain something that defied conventional explanation.

"My Way is My Way," he began with that familiar tone of a scientist trying to describe something beyond normal parameters. "My Way is The Way. THE Creature called it The Way of THE Way when we discussed it during our conversations. I called it just... My Way. The Way of Self."

He looked back at Noah with eyes that held the weight of profound understanding.

"You can call it another name if you wish, but it is simply a relationship between me and Existence," Anaximander continued. "I tell Existence how things should be, and Existence simply needs to listen. That is the Way. That is my Way. I do not fight against reality or bend it through force or authority. I simply inform reality of how things are for me, and reality accepts my declaration as truth."

...!

BOOM!

The Way of THE Way.

The Way of Self.

A power that allowed its wielder to redefine their relationship with Existence itself, to make declarations that reality was obligated to accept, to exist outside the normal parameters that bound even THE entities.

Noah looked at Anaximander with new understanding as the pieces fell into place. This was why THE Living Paradox wanted him destroyed so badly. This was why THE Creature moved to protect him despite the betrayal. This was why such a being had been hidden in fragments across Existence rather than allowed to remain whole.

Anaximander’s Way was a threat to the very order that THE Living Paradox sought to impose through THE Loom and The Fallout.

Because how could you destroy someone who simply declared that they could not be destroyed?

How could you impose your will on someone who had already declared that external wills did not apply to them?

How could you win against someone who had decided that they had already won?

It was an absurd Way, and even with it, that bum, Paradox, had still won against it and Existence itself in their first clash.

"..."

Noah frowned as he thought about all of it!

As Noah thought about many things, Anaximander in front of him smiled as this being began to rise up on unsteady legs that grew stronger with each passing moment.

"I am an explorer," Anaximander said with that familiar tone of someone who had spent their entire existence chasing understanding. "I am a scientist. I questioned and I wondered, but in my quest for knowledge, I brought a lot of things onto my plate as at this moment I have to try and set things straight. My power is returning ever so slowly and it is not to the point that I can do what I used to do before, but... will you help me, friend?"

Noah looked up at this being as his eyes shone sharply with curiosity and calculation.

"What exactly do you need help with?"

Anaximander smiled and stretched his hands as if testing the limits of his recovering existence.

"THE Early Veiled Shore of THE Creature," he said with weight behind every word. "I have to get back into it, and I need help in this as I do not know how much time we have. My actions brought about the result of many things, and Existence does not need to suffer because of me. Countless lifeforms do not need to suffer because of me. Please, help me right this wrong."

BOOM!

THE Early Veiled Shore of THE Creature?

Noah’s eyes shone luminously at such words as he got up from his seated position.

The First Farmer had mentioned a while ago that he heard a voice telling him to find THE Early Veiled Shore of THE Creature as a method to surviving The Fallout. At the time, Noah had filed that information away as something to investigate when the opportunity arose.

Noah did not particularly need this given his own preparations and the fortress he was building with THE Infiniverse, but he was definitely interested in what secrets THE Creature’s personal Shore might hold.

So he looked toward the figure of Anaximander, this ridiculous oddity who defied the very laws of Existence through sheer declaration, and he said with a slight smile, "Just show me The Way."

Within THE Loom.

Nobody understood what THE Living Paradox had to do to get where he was now, to even be capable of laying claim to The Oldest Paradox of Existence and stand as one of the few entities that could challenge the very foundations of reality itself.

Very few in Existence knew, but THE Living Paradox was actually born a peasant.

"I was born a peasant," he said with a voice that held both pride and a strange sort of acceptance. "I will die a peasant. But in between... in between all of this, there will be immensity. There will be glory."

HUUM! 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

The time to Midnight was zero.

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