The golden pathways of Aeternitas Concordia hummed with activity as Noah continued his impromptu marketplace, the radiant woks floating beside his tyrannical purple throne like captured stars offering their warmth to any bold enough to approach!
His imposing standing had been established, carved into the very atmosphere of this place.
Word had spread through the crystalline towers and golden boulevards...here sat the Weaver of Existence, a Fold Dweller who traded treasures that even Honored Living Existences would want for herbs that most would kill to possess!
The crowd that had initially gathered in shock had evolved into something more calculated.
They had all lived too long, survived too many schemes and betrayals, to rush headlong into confrontation with someone whose resources seemed limitless and whose confidence was warranted.
They had, after all, truly seen him escorted by an Honored Living Existence as his importance was clear, with a unique Royal Living Existence backing him while likely selling...their wares!
Many looked at him as a representative for another. Others thought differently. ๐๐ฃ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ง๐๐.๐๐๐บ
But for all of them...
Even the basest emotional nature that drove all conscious beings toward greed and acquisition was tempered by the harder-earned wisdom of survival.
So they approached with caution wrapped in avarice!
A Prime Living Origin materialized beside Noahโs throne with the fluid grace of liquid authority, her stellar form radiating waves of concentrated power.
In her hands, she held a crystalline vial that pulsed with temporal energy.
"Chronos Petrichor," she said coldly. "Harvested from a deep chambers of the Temporal Doorways, where time itself has crystallized into physical form."
Noahโs eyes lit up with genuine interest as he examined the offering. The herb within the vial seemed to exist in multiple states simultaneously...young and ancient, fresh and withered, as if it couldnโt decide which moment in its existence to manifest.
"Acceptable," he declared with a nod, his hand moving with casual grace to scoop another generous portion from his radiant woks. The golden bowl filled with Early Living Marine Lifeforms that blazed with their own inner radiance, each piece worth more than most Fold Dwellers would see in lifetimes of cultivation!
The exchange was completed, two impossibilities trading hands as if they were nothing more than common commodities.
The Prime Living Origin gazed deeply before departing, her prize clutched against her chest like a talisman against the uncertainties of existence itself!
Another figure approached...a Fold Dweller whose complexity quotients placed him at the absolute pinnacle of what was achievable at Originus Venerant.
His weathered features spoke to eons of struggle, while his eyes burned with the desperate hope of someone who had finally found what he had been searching for across countless lifetimes.
"Void-Heart Chrysanthemums," he said, his voice trembling with barely contained emotion. "Three specimens, cultivated in a Doorway where existence meets Collapse. I... I watched my entire expedition die to harvest these."
...!
Even observing Living Existences were surprised.
This old Fold Dweller actually had such treasures?
The flowers he presented were beautiful in the way that endings could be beautiful...their petals seemed to absorb light rather than reflect it, creating voids in reality.
Yet Noah could feel the concentrated authority they contained!
He looked at the old man with pity as since he was feeling a bit generous...
"Three bowls," Noah replied without hesitation, recognizing the sacrifice that had been made to obtain it.
The Fold Dwellerโs eyes trembled and filled with tears as he accepted the trade, his hands shaking as he received enough of this sacred treasure to potentially elevate him beyond the limitations of Originus Venerant- and his own Existence was telling him this!
From a distance, many eyes watched this unprecedented display of commerce.
Across Concordia, in towers that stretched toward infinity and corridors that hummed with accumulated authority, Honored Living Existences observed.
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