Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4565: Ginnungagap! I

Power.

Khor knew power intimately. Khor understood power at its most fundamental level.

In the Earliest Folds, she had held a tremendous amount of concentrated authority and influence.

One could always pose the philosophical question and ask: if one’s Civilization was systematically collapsed, and the very Heart of their Way of Existence was violently taken from them, and they somehow found themselves returned to existence years later through extraordinary circumstances, could they ever truly reclaim their original power?

In Khor’s mind, such a question was profoundly stupid and revealed fundamental misunderstanding.

If the sun lost a portion of its mass and light, was it no longer the sun? Did it cease to be what it fundamentally was?

Khor had lost her Heart of Hunger to THE Living Paradox’s brutal assault.

Since she emerged from the Seed of Inevitability that had been planted by The Outsider, she had begun systematically cultivating her Heart of Hunger again from foundational principles.

Her Way of Hunger remained fundamentally the same. Her existence at its core was still identical. She had simply lost a critical segment of herself that needed reconstruction.

But she was an Existence who had achieved THE Civilizational Scale. Since she had been THE once, she would always carry that fundamental classification within her being.

So right now, at this critical moment...

"Thank you, Outsider," she whispered to herself with eyes closed, feeling the profound weavings of Hunger flowing through her existence with increasing clarity.

THE True Expression of The Sovereignty of Mana and Hunger held capital THE classification within its structure. For her specifically, it functioned as a unique catalytic tool because it acted like an enzyme in biological processes.

It dramatically accelerated her return toward THE by providing the exact foundational pattern she needed to rebuild around. The expression served as a template that her own Hunger could recognize and align with, speeding up reconstruction exponentially.

She already possessed the complete blueprints of THE within her existence. They had been obscured and darkened before by her diminished state, but The Outsider had shone a brilliantly bright light directly on them through his advancement.

It now made everything unfathomably easier and more accessible. If she could not successfully leverage things from this advantageous position, she truly did not deserve the tremendous power that she had wielded before her fall.

She opened her eyes with sudden clarity and spoke with absolute conviction.

"Merely Pre-THE?" she said with voice carrying weight. "I have been at this threshold before. I know this power intimately."

BOOM!

The moment she declared this understanding, a terrifying pillar of obsidian-crimson light erupted from her small form and shot upward into the collapsed sky above.

Her power emanated terrifically intense waves of pressure that caused all the powerful entities gathered on this battlefield to immediately turn their collective gaze toward her position.

The False THE Avatars from THE Loom looked over with expressions shifting from dismissiveness to genuine concern as they reassessed the threat she represented. Their forms pulsed with defensive authority instinctively.

The Pre-THE entities, Damian and Schrodinger both turned their full attention toward her with analytical focus. Damian’s crimson eyes gleamed with interest mixed with recognition. Schrodinger’s expression showed surprise at the rapid transformation.

At such a pivotal moment, the visage of The First Hunger turned her head to look directly at The Infiniverse’s position.

She spoke with a voice carrying gratitude and determination.

"Give my sincere thanks to The Outsider," she said with measured intensity. "Tell him that I am genuinely sorry that I have not been properly acting according to my true stature this entire time. He has had a THE entity by his side throughout his struggles, and yet she had not been contributing adequately to deserve that distinction."

Her eyes gleamed with renewed purpose.

"Tell him not to worry about what is currently playing out right now in this present era, and for him to focus completely on whatever critical tasks he is accomplishing in the Earliest Folds. I am admittedly upset that he was not able to bring me along with him this time around on his Temporal Traversal, as who knows which specific time period that entity appeared in..."

She shook her head with resignation.

"But it simply was not meant to be in this instance. However, he can relax completely regarding this situation. I will take care of everything here with absolute certainty."

She spoke such words with profound confidence radiating from her being.

The Infiniverse did not correct Khor’s assumption about Noah being in the Earliest Folds. She chose not to reveal that he was actually meeting with Tor in the Infinite Unfurling, as this information might be too much for Khor to process right now.

So The Infiniverse simply nodded with acceptance of the message.

And thereafter, the transformation continued with accelerating intensity.

Rivers of extremely concentrated crimson and obsidian waves of light began systematically wrapping around Khor’s small form. The unmistakable aura of Pre-THE Existence bloomed from her with maddening allure and terrible beauty.

Her eyes became immeasurably cold while she looked at all those gathered on this battlefield with analytical assessment.

In the next moment, she opened her mouth as if to consume something and spoke with terrifying authority.

"I hunger for these Folds that everybody currently occupies," she declared with voice that resonated across reality itself.

A single simple statement.

And yet in the next moment, everything changed catastrophically.

BOOM!

The surroundings disappeared instantly and transformed into a region of pure collapse and devastation. The Transcendent Paradoxical Folds that had contained this confrontation simply ceased to exist.

A prompt appeared before the vision of all those belonging to The Civilization of Mana and Hunger.

|The First Hunger has taken a conceptual bite and completely devoured The Transcendent Paradoxical Folds in their entirety.|

|All constituent Folds within this domain have been consumed.|

|Weak lifeforms within affected Wheels of Existence have been automatically sent to The Infiniverse for processing and protection.|

|Environmental Status: Complete Collapse|

...!

The surroundings instantly transformed into regions of endless Collapse as truly with a single statement and conceptual action, Khor had extinguished the light of an entire Transcendent domain!