Archai!
For Noah, who had been looking to streamline his power so that he didn’t have so many different aspects of things that he didn’t utilize, the Archai were actually a profound and unique solution. Undifferentiated Principles that could become anything their grander concept represented.
This might even be a way to think about how he could bring down his 159 THE Stanchions of Infinity.
What use was such a high number when he only continued to utilize fully a select few of them?
The Stanchions were powerful, yes. Each one represented a facet of his authority, a pillar supporting the vast structure of his Civilization. But having 159 pillars meant that most of them stood unused, gathering metaphysical dust while only a handful bore the actual weight of his advancement. It was inefficient. It was cluttered. And in a realm where clarity of purpose strengthened one’s Way, clutter was a liability.
If he could condense multiple Stanchions into single Archai that encompassed all their related concepts, he would lose nothing while gaining coherence. A single Arche of Apocalypse could replace a dozen Stanchions related to damage, annihilation, entropy, and collapse. A single Arche of Genesis could replace another dozen related to beginning, formation, growth, and manifestation.
Fewer pillars. Greater stability. More profound expression!
Well, it was something to consider for later.
As he thought about all of this, he focused on the main matter at hand which, at the end of the day, remained his immensity and weight paired up with knowledge of himself and his Formless Depth.
And the two directions now were Muspelheim and THE Corrupted Vault of Ginnungagap.
He was already in the Vault, so he simply had to make his entrance into Muspelheim.
"Is transfer to Muspelheim already possible?"
|Yes, Master.|
Ruination’s response came with accompanying diagrams that illustrated the pathway she had prepared.
|Muspelheim itself is similar to the early Veiled Shore of THE Creature or THE Infiniverse in that the corrupting effects of THE Fallout did not manage to permeate throughout fully. The primordial flames that define that realm acted as a natural barrier against the entropic decay that consumed so much else. That is how I was able to begin spreading the influence of our First Tongue for a few gigaparsecs already to begin gathering information in Muspelheim.|
The diagrams shifted, showing a crystalline structure forming in the space between realms.
|The entry into that primordial realm uniquely is going to be through a pathway that forms into a blue-gold Monolith. A...Dungeon that you and your forces can use to enter as a doorway.|
...!
Noah shook his head at this as he smiled.
A Dungeon.
He remembered how in the blue planet, countless Monoliths had appeared as Dungeons to facilitate gateways for the invasion of the forces of the Demons and Beasts.
Those towering structures had torn through the fabric of the Blue Planet’s reality, allowing armies to pour through from other realms when Dungeon Breaks occured. They had been instruments of conquest, tools of imperialism wielded by forces that viewed humanity as nothing more than resources to be harvested.
And now, here they were.


Who knew whether THE Creature or THE Living Paradox were already close to attaining the Second Scale of Existence?
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