Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 3981

Chapter 3981: Choices and Consequences! III

The question struck at the heart of Duke Gwendolyn’s growing seriousness.

Her expression became somber as she prepared to reveal information!

Heavy information!

"Because," she said, her voice carrying the weight of someone admitting to fundamental weakness, "a single Honored Dead Existence can easily overwhelm ten Honored Living Existences in direct combat. The power disparity is not merely significant...it is absolute, insurmountable through normal means."

...!

She paused.

"All Dead Existences are inherently fortified by traces of something that very few even know about, much less understand. Because of events that occurred during the Earliest Folds...catastrophes that reshaped the fundamental nature of existence itself, every Dead Existence carries within their being an active Curse. This Curse makes their existence unbearable, transforms every moment of their awareness into agony beyond description, but it also elevates their power far beyond what any Living Existence can achieve."

Noah’s eyes visibly shone as he absorbed this information, though he carefully kept his excitement from showing on his features.

The mention of a Curse that operated on such a fundamental level, that could reshape the basic parameters of existence itself...

"This Curse," Duke Gwendolyn continued, her voice dropping to barely above a whisper, "stems from something called a Lost Forgotten Principle. Its name is the Infinite Paradox of Unmaking...the authority to exist in a state of perpetual ending without ever achieving the release of true death. It grants them power that exceeds every normal limitation while simultaneously ensuring that they can never find peace, never escape the agony of their condition."

HUUM!

She paused, her expression growing even more grave.

"Its roots trace back to THE Paradox itself, and the first time when the Creature...expressed wrath!"

...!

The revelation struck Noah like lightning!

The connections, the implications, the vast web of cause and effect that stretched back to the earliest moments of existence itself...

"All Living Existences," Duke Gwendolyn continued, "apart from one specific type, are badly outmatched against Dead Existences. The Curse that empowers them operates according to principles that make normal authority irrelevant, normal resistance meaningless. The only Living Existences whose nature allows them to offset this fundamental disadvantage, whose very essence provides some measure of protection against the simple Curse of the Infinite Paradox of Unmaking..."

She paused, her ancient eyes finding Noah’s with intensity.

"Are Living Paradoxes."

WAA!

The words hung in the white-gold space between them like a revelation.

Noah felt his mind racing through possibilities even as he maintained his expression of calm interest.

"When," he asked, his voice carefully neutral, "was the last time Living Paradoxes worked with the other Living Existences?"

"..."

Duke Gwendolyn did not reply immediately.

Her silence stretched across moments that felt like eons, carrying within it the weight of truths too heavy to voice easily.

Because the answer was clear to anyone who understood the fundamental hostilities that had shaped existence for countless ages.

Never.

The answer was never, or so rarely that the exceptions proved the rule rather than challenged it.

Noah’s eyes blazed as he contemplated all the possibilities that this revelation opened, his gaze shifting to the screen behind Duke Gwendolyn where the situation in the Temporal Folds continued to deteriorate with each passing moment.

The rupture was expanding now, its edges torn wider by forces that operated from within the realm of endings. Through the growing breach, more of that terrifying presence began to emerge...not just the massive obsidian hand, but hints of what lay beyond it.

A skull began to peek through the widening tear, its ancient and terrifying stature emanating eons of existence spent in states that challenged every definition of consciousness.

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