Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 4007

Chapter 4007: True Enemies!

Schrodinger had asked if they wanted to hear a story from the Earliest Folds!

But…

The collective eye-roll that followed was almost synchronized, as if they’d performed this routine countless times before. The Living Concept actually sighed, the sound like ideas deflating.

“Not another one of your possibly-true, possibly-invented parables,” someone muttered. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Schrodinger laughed, the sound genuine and warm despite the weight of their discussion. “Listen, this one is particularly relevant. I promise.”

He settled back slightly, his posture shifting into the comfortable stance of a storyteller who knew his audience couldn’t resist despite their protests.

“At a time when chaos was most rampant in the Earliest Folds…when Early Creatures hunted for sport and Inevitabilities bloomed like flowers after rain…there was an Early Creature who happened to overhear a conversation. This creature, whose name has been deliberately forgotten, witnessed THE Living Law visiting the locked Paradox in its prison of contradictions.”

HUUM!

The mountain seemed to grow quieter, even the flow of Conceptual Authority beneath their feet stilling to better hear the tale.

“THE Living Law stood before the chains of impossibility that bound THE Living Paradox, and she asked a question that had been burning in her consciousness since the first Inevitability emerged. ‘Are Inevitabilities the true enemies of all Existences?'”

Schrodinger’s voice took on different tones as he embodied each character, his talent for storytelling evident despite the tattered appearance he maintained.

“At such a question, THE Living Paradox laughed…an eerie sound that existed simultaneously as mirth and despair. ‘What,’ it said, ‘just because even before THE Creature, the Inevitabilities were there? Just because they predate understanding, and the very conception of what should and shouldn’t be?'”

The storyteller paused, letting tension build before continuing in a voice that captured the bound Paradox’s terrifying certainty.

“‘No,’ THE Living Paradox said, its voice carrying that particular quality of statements that were simultaneously true and false. ‘Even Inevitabilities are not the true enemies of all Existences. No, the biggest enemy of Existences… is existence itself.'”

HUUM!

Several of the listeners shifted uncomfortably at this pronouncement, recognizing philosophical depths that threatened to drown rational thought.

“‘Existence is feeble,’ the Paradox continued. ‘Undecided. Uncertain. It doesn’t know whether it wants to be or not to be, whether it should expand or contract, whether consciousness is blessing or curse. That was why I sought to put it under my control…to give it the direction it so desperately lacks.'”

Schrodinger’s voice grew lighter, more mocking as he continued channeling the bound Paradox.

“‘The true enemy of Existences?’ THE Living Paradox laughed again. ‘Who knows? I could be the true enemy…after all, I’m talking to you right now, aren’t I? Or perhaps it’s you, THE Living Law, with your rigid insistence that everything follow rules. Maybe it’s any of the others, or all of them together. Perhaps it’s THE Creature itself.’ A pause, then with something almost like fondness: ‘How is that kid doing nowadays anyway? Without my guidance, he may be getting lost. You all haven’t done anything crazy without me, right?'”

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