As he said such terrifying words, an unfathomable Immensity that nobody could sense or see passed down.
It was the weight of all of THE First Tongue across Observable Existence pressing down on an Absolute...
And snuffing out absolutely everything!
Someone had failed their Claim on one of the four aspects of the Oldest Paradox of Existence.
And the penalty for failure... was annihilation.
Before Noah, the bodies of THE Weavers stood still.
"..."
No words.
No Immensity.
Nothing.
Even Noah breathed hard as if he couldn’t half believe it had occurred. As if he couldn’t believe it had worked!
He beckoned to his Heart and Grimoire.
They floated back to him.
His Heart reinserted itself into his chest, muscles closing around it as if welcoming it home. His Grimoire sank back into his existence, its pages closing with finality.
And a moment later...
His expression became heavy.
His existence buzzed with pain.
Crimson-gold blood began to leak from his nose and mouth.
|You have taken a dangerous and unprecedented action with your Claim.|
|Allowing another to attempt claiming The First Tongue has caused grievous injury to your Way.|
|Your Claim is too distinguished to be passed around freely.|
|The weight of THE First Tongue pressing down through your offered Claim has damaged the foundations you built.|
|CONSEQUENCE|
|Your comparative Way has fallen from THE Fundamental Depth to THE Intermediate Depth.|
|Your overall Formless Depth has been shaken slightly.|
|Recovery will require time and resources.|
|BUT...|
|Your Way and actions have achieved something unfathomably remarkable.|
|An Absolute has fallen.|
|I repeat, an Absolute...has fallen.|
...!
Noah felt breathless.
It had... worked?
An Absolute... had fallen?
The moment such a thing was truly ascertained...
BOOM!
From where THE Weavers floated, cracks appeared in reality itself!
These cracks glowed with obsidian-gold brilliance that shattered Existence itself.
The cracks spread outward from the point of death, spanning across The Palaestra in branching patterns that looked like lightning frozen in space!
From all around, Hoplites scrambled away from the spreading fractures.
Lochagoi fled toward the edges of the Arena.
Polemarchs erected barriers to protect themselves and those near them.
The Reckoning Stone beneath the point of collapse began to crumble!
The Four Pillars trembled!
The Nexus of Truth blazed with light it had never shown before.
Glossikos and the other Absolutes... stood where they were with a myriad of expressions and incredulity.
Glossikos looked at Noah with something that transcended shock. Her figurr had gone completely still.
Paradoxos wore expressions of fury and disbelief on both faces simultaneously.
Khaotikos had stopped laughing entirely, his features frozen in something that might have been awe.
Ontikos... for the first time in recorded history, Ontikos moved. He leaned forward on his throne of uncarved marble.
As such a terrifying thing occurred, the region where THE Weavers stood collapsed entirely!
It became a terrifying vacuum!
|You have triggered the first death of an Absolute across Observable Existence after THE Fallout.|
|THE Absolute Everythings that made up THE Absolute you collapsed are yours to claim:|
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