Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4677: THE Research and Development I

In the region of collapse where a beggar was erased out of existence.

Noah floated with a drink in hand as he thought about many things while contemplating even more others.

One of those things was Creative Mode.

This was something unique that Noah had begun to play with, and it became especially important after his conversation with THE Living Paradox.

Things were currently in a unique state as he expected the descent of The Fallout at any moment, and he had already prepared his people and had another body with Anaximander in The Early Veiled Shore of THE Creature as he succeeded in drawing in the vastness of lifeforms in Existence into this home of THE Creature.

What was left was preparations, and Creative Mode gave an accelerated viewing of possibilities that allowed Noah to contemplate and put together everything he knew about Existence and everything he knew about his newfound power.

At this moment, he closed his eyes and focused on Creative Mode.

On THE Creative Sandbox.

Currently, he was looking at the glorious image of THE Living Temporal that was utterly still.

He chose the map of the Primordial Genesis Arena as unbreakable floors stretched out endlessly all around them alongside a vibrant obsidian skyscape that seemed to swallow light itself.

The copy of THE Living Temporal was currently still because he had just finished thrashing Noah in this space. Noah had used Creative Mode to set the power of THE Living Temporal to THE Intermediate Depth of Absolute Sovereignty, and even with this set power, this entity utterly thrashed him even with his usage of The First Tongue.

But because of this, it meant that he had a tremendous amount of practice and battles in this augmented version of Existence that still held the same workings of normal Existence.

He was able to put into practice what his power meant when he could utter Logos and Philologies!

Basically, he got to understand the edge one held when they were proficient in The First Tongue that structured Existence, compared to THE entities who were not proficient in The First Tongue and only altered Existence with their Sovereignty.

As an example...

"Set his power to THE Surface Depth."

Noah spoke lightly to the surroundings as the immensity the figure of THE Living Temporal gave off significantly reduced.

THE Living Temporal stood before him in all his cold, callous glory. His form was humanoid but barely so, wrapped in robes that seemed woven from crystallized moments.

Purple rivers of time swirled around him in lazy spirals, each one containing glimpses of past and future that flickered like dying stars.

His eyes were voids of absolute temporal authority, and even diminished to Surface Depth, he radiated the presence of an entity who had existed since the earliest differentiation of Observable Existence.

Noah looked at him calmly as he stretched while uttering out, "Alright, start the battle."

HUUM!

Noah watched as THE Living Temporal came to life, and this fucker was a scary one.

Even in Creative Mode, all surrounding Existence around THE Living Temporal turned into tumultuous purple as his Sovereignty covered everything. The obsidian skyscape bled violet. The unbreakable floor beneath them rippled with temporal distortions.

Any THE Surface Depth entity entering the affected area would find themselves unable to do anything as it would feel like all of Existence operated under the Sovereignty of Temporal.

This was Way Expression at THE Surface Depth: Assertion.

Assertion!

And when it came to Assertion of The Way, it could be Personal Assertion or Environmental Assertion.

THE Living Temporal asserted his Way upon the environment with terrifying grandeur. His Environmental Assertion declared "Time bends to my will in this place," and Existence acknowledged this truth.

The Principles of Causality, Sequence, and Duration all resonated with his Way, amplifying his authority until the entire arena became an extension of his being.

But...

Noah went forward with his Goad as it pulsed with THE Philology of Undifferentiated Mana.

The glorious blue-gold stick moved across the space affected by the Sovereignty of Temporal, and where it passed, that authority parted away like water before a ship’s prow.

The purple rivers of crackling temporal energy that tried to ensnare him shockingly changed into blue-gold Mana as THE Philology of Undifferentiated Mana reminded them of what they truly were.

Time was Mana. Space was Mana. All differentiated concepts were merely Mana wearing different masks.

THE Living Temporal’s eyes widened fractionally as his Sovereignty was being undone through superior understanding of Existence’s fundamental structure.

He used his Assertion to become lost in time, phasing between moments to evade the approaching Goad.

He moved away, appearing behind Noah, then to the side, then above, each movement a leap through temporal streams that should have been impossible to track.

But Noah continued with the exertion of THE Philology of Undifferentiated Mana as it unwound and reversed everything.

Where Temporal tried to hide in the past, Noah’s Philology declared that past and present were the same Mana. Where Temporal tried to escape to the future, Noah’s Philology asserted that future and present shared the same undifferentiated source.

Terrifying eruptions of authority exploded across the arena as purple clashed with blue-gold, Sovereignty against Philology, Assertion against fundamental truth.

Eventually, the tip of Noah’s Goad struck the shoulder of THE Living Temporal and froze him.

The copy stood motionless, caught mid-movement, his temporal rivers dissipating around him like morning mist!

Oh!

So on top of Noah fully utilizing his own Sovereignty to deny and try to overcome THE Living Temporal’s Sovereignty, he used one of the core workings of Existence backed with his Way, Philologies, to reject the Sovereignty and even overcome it.

He had done battles like this by the dozens as he came to grasp the key points of power of those at THE Surface Depth versus those at THE Intermediate Depth and THE Fundamental Depth.

The power of THE and its majesty became even more clear and designed in Noah’s eyes.

THE Depths of Absolute Sovereignty represented the stages of mastery over the fundamental relationship between one’s own existence and the surrounding fabric of Observable Existence. Each Depth granted progressively greater authority over Existence, Principles, Philologies, and the very rules that govern reality.

At its core, advancing through the Depths is about expanding one’s sphere of influence from internal mastery to external dominion, from borrowing power to creating it, from following the rules of Existence to writing them.

However, raw Depth alone does not determine an entity’s power.

The profundity of one’s Way, the clarity of their Absolute Sovereignty, shapes how effectively they can exercise their Depth’s capabilities.

Two entities at the same Depth can vary wildly in their ability to alter Existence based on how refined, how certain, and how absolute their Way has become.

Noah’s findings so far allowed him to come up with three critical aspects of one’s Way after all his mock battles in Creative Mode.

And the Role of one’s Way could be broken down to...their Clarity, Conviction, and Completeness!