The entanglement between existences stretched like a silver thread across impossible distances, and Noah pulled upon it with certainty.
Reality rippled around his form as something transcendent passed through the connection!
The Seed materialized in his palm with weight that transcended physical measurement. It pulsed with potential that made even the Early Veiled Shore pulse, the golden sands beneath his feet shifting in anticipation!
A message followed through the connection, the Great Usurper’s voice echoing out.
|I’ll continue paying the debt of the Seed of Existence you gave me, slowly, every now and then. I’ll send over farming-related stuff so you can work toward that dream of being a farmer. Who knows? Maybe you’ll actually achieve it.|
...!
Noah smiled at the words, not questioning how Eckert had acquired a Seed with such profound origins. Existence was vast, and everyone had their opportunities. He didn’t go around telling Eckert or Alexander about becoming an Early Creature or possessing an Early Veiled Shore...of course others would have their own chances at transcendence, their own paths to power that defied conventional understanding.
He moved across the Shore with purpose, the Seed cradled in his hands like a newborn star. The cultivation plots stretched before him in neat rows, some already showing signs of the impossible herbs beginning to sprout. He selected an empty plot near the center, where the concentration of nutrients in the soil were vibrant!
Kneeling, he pressed the Seed into the golden sand with reverence that transcended simple planting. This was more than agriculture!
"Utilize the nutrients from currently devoured lifeforms," he commanded the Shore itself. "Accelerate its maturity."
The response was immediate.
|Seed of the Primordial Spirit Tree Planted. Acceleration Options Available. Natural Growth: 1,000 years. With Current Nutrient Infusion: 1 day. With 100 Drops of Early Creature Blood: 12 hours. With 1,000 Drops of Early Creature Blood: 1 hour. Select acceleration method|
Noah didn’t hesitate. Time was a resource, but blood...blood he could produce. The rapid explosion of complexity that would follow the tree’s maturation was worth any cost.
"One hour," he declared, watching as his skin split along carefully chosen lines. Deliberate openings through which his precious blood could flow. Each drop that fell onto the soil around the Seed was worth more than entire Wheelss, containing within it the compressed essence of an Early Creature’s existence!
The thousand drops fell like crimson rain, each one absorbed instantly by soil that had been waiting eons for such nourishment. The effect was immediate and magnificent.
HUUM!
The Seed cracked with a sound like reality accepting a new truth. A shoot emerged, pale as moonlight, growing with speed that made time itself seem uncertain. The farm-like atmosphere of the Shore intensified as the shoot became a sapling, the sapling stretched toward a sky that didn’t exist, its trunk thickening with each passing second.
Starlight seemed to shimmer along its bark...generated from within, as if the tree itself was a constellation that had chosen to take root.
Branches spread with precision, each one reaching toward different aspects of existence. Leaves unfurled that were simultaneously silver and gold, their surfaces inscribed with patterns that suggested thoughts becoming real.
Noah watched with satisfaction as his newest addition to the Shore established itself, when prompts suddenly cascaded before his vision!
|The Queen of Matter has successfully completed assigned task. Heidrun has been successfully tended and milked|
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