Fucking trash!
The assessment was delivered with such casual precision that it struck those who heard it like a whip!
And none truly had a viable reply against it because they had truly acted like trash!
Then, Moiraine turned her attention toward the broader battlefield where Dead Existences continued their systematic assault upon the forces of the Living.
At this moment, multiple creatures that had been engaged with other opponents suddenly disengaged from their current battles and began moving toward her position with the focused attention of predators recognizing a threat that required immediate elimination.
The sight of Dead Existences abandoning positions to converge upon a single target sent waves of shock through the Living Existences who had witnessed her impossible victory.
They struggled to process what she bad done. Could they truly be sensing the authority of an Honored Living Paradox!? How had she managed to accomplish what even coordinated groups of their number found challenging?
Off to the side, Duke Gwendolyn watched this entire sequence unfold with eyes that shone with blazing interest.
Her other body...the one that operated as a veiled Paradox, had not yet made any moves in the broader battle, but she found herself compelled to observe Moiraine!
She turned toward Noah with her ancient gaze, her voice echoing out.
|Is she really just an Honored Living Paradox?|, came the carefully phrased question.
Noah gazed at her with eyes that remained calm and cold, his mental response delivered with tyranny.
|What else could she be?| he replied, the mental equivalent of a shrug accompanying words that dismissed her inquiry as fundamentally irrelevant to larger concerns.
The simplicity of his response, combined with the evidence they had all just witnessed, left Duke Gwendolyn with far more questions than answers about the true nature of the beings she had agreed to work alongside!
Yet as Dead Existences began converging on Moiraine’s position with focused attention, all such considerations became secondary to the immediate situation unfolding before them.
Noah observed everything with crystal clarity, his perception processing the vast scope of conflict that unfolded across light-years of twisted space-time.
He knew, that in this grand battle between Life and Death, the direct effect he could have through personal intervention was minimal!
His accumulated power, impressive though it was by the standards of most Living Existences, would not be sufficient to eliminate even a single Dead Existence. Each of these cursed entities operated at the Honored level of capability, their advantages making them nearly invulnerable to attacks of even normap Honored Living Existences.
More critically, if he positioned himself close enough to directly engage any Dead Existence that might target him, Yoshinami’s Crown of Inevitable Retribution would activate with devastating precision!
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