The words emerged with quiet certainty, and reality immediately responded.
|CRITICAL TRAVERSAL INITIATING|
|Extreme Caution Required|
|Failure Parameters:|
-If return does not occur within 1 hour: Complete destruction of traversing body and all associated weavings
-If death occurs during traversal: Risk of cascade failure affecting all bodies
-Certain deaths may result in complete existential extinction
|Proceed? This action cannot be undone|
Noah didn’t hesitate. His confirmation rang through his being with the certainty of someone who had already calculated the risks and found them acceptable!
His entire existence began to buzz with frequencies that shouldn’t exist. The sensation started in his core and radiated outward, each particle of his being vibrating in harmony with something ancient and profound. The Early Atlas within him blazed with light that existed before light had been defined.
Then, without warning...
WAP!
His body seated on the shores folded in on itself like reality accepting that it had been cheated. The space where he had been sitting showed no evidence of his presence, as if existence itself had forgotten he had been there!
|Transference to random point in the Earliest Folds has begun|
|Duration of traversal: Indeterminate. Destination: Unknown. Probability of survival: Calculating...|
|Calculation completed. Probability of survival...is best left unknown.|
...!
"..."
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Existence was unfathomably unique.
Across its infinite expanse, countless abilities had been formed, discarded, and utilized since the first moment something wondered if it should be rather than wasn’t.
Some were as small as conjuring fireballs...brief expressions of will that barely disturbed the fabric of reality. Others transcended comprehension entirely, achieving the impossible through sheer audacity of conception!
Among these impossibilities, perhaps none was more audacious than forming a map that connected to the Earliest Folds themselves.
To countless years and events in the far distant past, when the foundations of everything were still being laid, when THE Creature walked freely and THE Living Existences were young.
Noah felt his existence trembling as it was stretched across temporal distances that had no measurement. He was being pulled through time itself, toward a when that existed perpendicular to normal causality!
His being threatened to spread too thin, to dissolve into the spaces between moments.
The Rearing Stick materialized in his grip without conscious thought, its simple presence providing an anchor of stability. The Goad hummed with recognition, as if it remembered the path they were taking. Simultaneously, the Kleos Glyph on his forehead, the Creature’s First Lesson, blazed with light that helped hold his consciousness together.
His Towers of Osmont, made from his glorious True Sources, lit up the way for him to see!
Years and seconds passed simultaneously. He experienced the weight of eons in heartbeats, felt instants stretch into eternities. His perception fragmented and reformed countless times, each reconstruction slightly different from the last.
|Existential Integrity: 94%... 87%... 76%...|
|Stabilizing factors detected:|
-Goad recognition: +11% stability
-Kleos Glyph resonance: +30% stability
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