Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4130 At the Height of Achievement! I

In the grand and often cruel weavings of existence, there is a fundamental truth that hums beneath every triumph and every tragedy: nothing is more

dangerous than euphoria.

When the path is smooth, when victories follow one another in a graceful, flowing rhythm, that is when existence, with its own cold and indifferent humor, is most likely to deliver a crushing blow.

For in those moments of unbridled success, hubris blooms, and a being, drunk on their own glory, becomes blind to the cracks forming in the foundation they believe to be unshakable.

This bitter lesson was learned most profoundly by the one who was known as THE Living Emotive.

For eons, it had been a being of profound, yet unacknowledged, influence.

The other Living Existences, with their grand authorities of time, space, and order, looked down upon Emotive's shifting, vibrant nature.

They mocked its inability to maintain a single state, its susceptibility to feelings that came and went like the tide. "Out of all of us," THE Living Dimensional had once said with a laugh that bent reality, "you have the least control over existence. We shape reality. You just... feel about it afterward."

These words, and countless others like them, had left a wound. A wound that festered with a singular, driving purpose: to prove them all wrong!

And so, THE Living Emotive embarked on a mission of quiet ambition, one that would not be marked by the grand displays of power favored by its peers, but by an act of profound, and ultimately devastating, cultivation.

For years that stretched into eons, THE Living Emotive searched the vast, expanse of the Earliest Folds, a place where reality was still being defined and rules were not yet etched in stone.

Its form shifted through the full spectrum of feeling, from the blazing joy of a wheel's birth to the cold sorrow of a fold's heart, until it found what it had been seeking.

An Early Creature, a being whose every weaving of existence was a testament to the raw, untamed potential of life!

This creature, known as Soulweaver Magnus, possessed something unique and unprecedented: the highest concentration of THE Creature's Everything of Soul that had ever been observed.

Soulweaver Magnus's very being was a symphony of spiritual authority. His skin shimmered with a light that spoke of a thousand inner lives, and his gaze could touch the essence of any being, knowing them as a book knows its own pages.

THE Living Emotive approached Magnus with a joy that was both a strategy and a genuine expression of admiration. "You are special," it told the Early Creature, its voice a melody of pure awe. "Under my guidance, you could become distinguished to even exceed those who have gained significant parts of THE Creature's Everything. Greater than Gilgamesh with his Everything of Leadership. More profound than Tatiana with her Everything of Dreams."

Magnus, filled with the boundless enthusiasm of youth and the ambition of his kind, felt intoxicated by the promise!

To be guided by one of THE Living Existences themselves was a boon he had not dared to dream of. And so began the long eons of training, a journey not just through power, but through the profound, labyrinthine depths of feeling. THE Living Emotive taught Magnus to wield not just power, but emotion itself, to understand the intricate dance of joy, fear, love, and rage, and to weave these feelings into his very soul.

As centuries turned into millennia, and millennia stretched into epochs, Magnus's power grew to unfathomable heights. His complexity and purity exceeded all conventional metrics, and his soul became a weaving so rich and vibrant it threatened to consume the very concept of soul itself!

And THE Living Emotive, having poured so much of its own existence into this one being, felt something it had never experienced before: pure, unadulterated euphoria.

Its success was a vindication, a glorious rebuttal to all the scorn it had endured. The triumph was so profound, so intensely felt, that it eclipsed everything else. It was, in its mind, the singular most important achievement in all of existence. In its ecstasy, THE Living Emotive made its fatal mistake. It wanted to share this joy, to boast, to prove its worth to the one it still considered a friend.

It left Magnus, if only for a brief moment in the grand scale of time, to find THE Living Origin and bring it back to witness the masterpiece it had crafted. But in its absence, time...that fickle, chaotic river, played its hand. When THE Living Emotive returned with THE Living Origin, its form glowing with the pride of a parent about to show off its brilliant child, it found a scene that shattered its euphoria instantly.

The air, which moments before had pulsed with the quiet harmony of two beings working toward a common goal, was now thick with the competing energies of other Living Existences.

THE Living Spirit, THE Living Dimensional, THE Living Elemental, and others had gathered, a constellation of power and purpose surrounding Magnus. "I have discovered this remarkable Early Creature with the concentrated Everything of Soul," THE Living Spirit was proclaiming, its voice a chorus of whispered truths. "With proper guidance, we could achieve unprecedented things."

...!

THE Living Emotive's form shifted, its euphoria giving way to a white-hot rage. "That's a lie!" it bellowed, its voice shaking the very fabric of the Earliest Folds. "I found him! I've been training him for eons! Ask him yourself- Magnus, tell

them!"

The other Living Existences glanced at one another, their faces a mask of polite indifference.

They were beings of grand scale and even grander ambitions, and to them, such an emotional outburst was, in a word, unseemly.

"Must you be so emotional about everything?" THE Living Dimensional asked, its voice laced with a condescension that felt colder than absolute zero.

It turned its attention to Magnus, its gaze a conceptual scalpel. "Did THE Living Emotive guide you, because if so, we can only leave you to it. If it didn't, then we can offer you the combined support of multiple Living Existences. Just as THE Creature was guided to greatness, we could guide you to be just as great." Magnus looked at THE Living Emotive, his expression a blank canvas. His mentor's form was roiling with a desperate plea, a silent scream of "Tell them! Tell them the truth!"

But Magnus's mind had been swayed by the promise of collective power, a promise more compelling than a single, lonely voice.

In the span of a single heartbeat, he made his choice.

He looked away, and with eyes that held no recognition, no gratitude, no memory, he spoke. "I have never met THE Living Emotive before."

BOOM!