novelno Chapter 731: Everything!
Chapter 731: Everything!
The Assimilation Cause bloomed.
It did not announce itself the way external forces announced their arrival, with pressure preceding presence and authority pressing against the surrounding space as warning.
It emerged from within his Inner Dominion the way something that had always been present finally acknowledged itself!
Oh!
It held a quality that had defined every aspect of his existence since the moment his Civilization first awakened now finding its foundational expression at the Prime level.
The process began with the realms.
The Realm of Assimilation, the Realm of Chaos, the Realm of Apatheia, the Blind Depths, all the territories he had cultivated and consumed and built across his entire existence began moving toward each other with the inevitability of pieces that had been separate long enough and had finally found the configuration they were always meant to occupy.
|All Realms within your Inner Dominion are being Assimilated into one.|
WAA!
They did not merge in the sense of losing their individual character. They integrated, each realm retaining what made it distinctly itself while becoming part of something that was larger than any of them individually and different in nature from all of them combined.
THE Primordial Realm of Assimilation emerged from that integration.
Multicolored brilliance erupted across its interior in patterns that his perception could not fully track, colors that had no names in any language he had encountered moving through the space in configurations suggesting the full diversity of everything he had ever consumed now finding simultaneous expression within a single foundational domain.
It looked vast in ways that defied the word vast, countless Gigaparsecs of territory containing mountains and plains and seas and stars and entire galaxies rotating through its interior with the patient grandeur of something that had been given sufficient space to become what it actually was.
And yet it was contained within him.
All of it. Every Gigaparsec of that impossible interior existed within the boundaries of his physical existence, held within the architecture of a being who had been walking through observable realities and sitting beside Rose in the Sea of Thalassara and conducting operations through spores and fragments of consciousness while this had been building toward emergence inside him.
THE Prime Cause of Assimilation, THE Assimilation Cause, surrounded THE Primordial Realm, present at its boundaries the way THE First Cause was present at the boundaries of Observable Existences, foundational and absolute and governing the nature of everything contained within its influence.
Achilles looked at all of it.
Then he spoke.
"On this day, I form my Civilizational Anchor."
His voice carried the particular weight of someone stating something that had always been true and was only now receiving its formal acknowledgment.
"Assimilation is everything. Assimilation is at my core. My Way is the Way of Assimilation, my Civilization is the Civilization of Assimilation."
The multicolored brilliance of THE Primordial Realm of Assimilation responded to his words, the interior brightening with each declaration as though the domain itself was listening and finding confirmation in what it heard.
"I do not need any affirmation from the Scales of Existence. I do not need affirmation from anything outside myself."
His eyes burned with star-like pupils shining gold and blue.
"I will only continue to Assimilate. I will Assimilate all that stands against me. I will Assimilate all that stands around me."
A pause that carried the weight of what came next.
"I...will Assimilate Existence itself."
His voice dropped to something quieter and therefore more absolute.
"I...Assimilate Everything."
BOOM!
Brilliant multicolored light erupted around his physical form, pouring outward from his existence with the quality of something that had been contained at every previous expression and was now releasing at the level it had always been building toward!
The Sea of Thalassara responded, the blue-gold waters pulling back from his immediate position as the light pressed against the surrounding environment with authority that the sea deferred to without requiring instruction.
Rose watched everything with flaming green eyes that had gone wide and bright with fervor and love simultaneously, the two emotions coexisting in her expression without competing, her hands pressed together before her as the man she had walked through every adversity alongside became something that the scales and frameworks and classification systems of existence had never categorized before!
Her expression communicated that she had always known this was coming.
That she had never doubted it for a single moment across potential deaths and every consumed enemy and every terrifying escalation!
Achilles felt his immensity rise.
It came up through his foundations, the combination of his Civilizational Anchor and THE Primordial Realm of Assimilation and THE Prime Cause surrounding it.
The accumulated integration of everything he had consumed produced a density of existence that pressed outward against the surrounding space with force he recognized from prior encounters.
He felt like Mansa Nguna had felt when she stood before him in THE Gilded Laboratory Outpost #32.
Then he felt his immensity continue rising past that point.
Past what a Third Scale entity had felt like.
He exceeded her!
He genuinely exceeded what an Ordovician Paleozoic Third Scale entity had radiated simply by standing in the same space!
And he had not even begun to explore the capabilities of THE Prime Cause of Assimilation, had not begun to understand what Pulses derived from it or what accessing it at full depth would produce or how the foundational truth that existence integrates would express itself when wielded at the level of a Prime Cause rather than simply a Civilization.
This was his path.
This was his power!
Not borrowed from what he had consumed, not derived from the Engineering of a Gilded One or the memories of a Singular Cognizance or the Aurora of an emerging Observable Existence, though all of those had contributed to arriving here!
This was the truth that his existence had been organized around since the beginning, now finding its expression at the level where foundational truths actually lived.
He looked inward at THE Primordial Realm of Assimilation.
Endless rivers and seas of Observable Force flowed across mountains and plains and stars and entire galaxies rotating in the vast interior of his foundational domain, the multicolored brilliance of the Prime Cause surrounding everything with the patient authority of something that had no reason to hurry because it was not going anywhere.
He felt immense.
He felt like he was just beginning!