Khor!
Khor!!!
Noah repeated it, feeling how the name seemed to resonate with something fundamental in existence itself!
"Khor." He nodded, then offered his own introduction with equal gravity. "I am Osmont. The Weaver of Existence."
Khor listened to this title and laughed.
She laughed with genuine mirth that made the slumbering Inevitabilities stir slightly in their sleep.
"What? Weaver of Existence?" Her amusement was palpable. "You have to be careful giving yourself such grand titles unless your existence can really back it. Many have claimed to weave existence, to shape reality, to transcend limitations. Most became nothing more than forgotten ambitions."
Noah nodded calmly, his lack of fear allowing him to meet her amusement with steady certainty. "I plan to back it."
Khor studied him with those layered eyes, perhaps seeing something that justified the ambitious title.
Noah looked around at all the Inevitabilities present...beings that moments ago represented unprecedented danger but now had transformed into opportunity. Having discovered such terrifying secrets, having touched truth that most would never know existed, he couldn’t let it go.
He only had limited time here. He needed to elevate the stages of his Towers of Osmont, increase his complexity, complete more of his Heart. Each advancement would allow him to come to the Earliest Folds more frequently, to stay longer, to learn more.
But for now, he wanted to grasp this opportunity while it existed.
"I wish," he said with deliberate clarity, "to give another part of my Everything."
BOOM!
The declaration resonated through the space with force that surprised even Khor. The moment Noah made his intention clear, the Inevitability she had recently awakened turned toward him with excitement that transcended its nature as a devourer.
Its eyes...all of them, blazed with anticipation.
The creature moved toward him with purpose that made reality step aside. Its massive form should have been terrifying, its approach should have inspired panic. But Noah stood calm, fearless not through courage but through the complete absence of fear itself.
The Inevitability’s massive jaws opened, revealing depths that led to everywhere and nowhere. The maw descended upon him with inevitability that justified the creature’s nature!
HUUM!
Noah remained perfectly still as those jaws encompassed his entire form. With the same deliberate clarity as before, he spoke:
"I give the Everything of my Doubt."
The jaws passed through him as if one of them...predator or prey, wasn’t real. But something was taken, something fundamental was removed.
The sensation was different from losing Fear. Where Fear’s absence had been liberation, Doubt’s removal was clarification.
Every uncertainty that had ever clouded his judgment, every moment of hesitation between choices, every question about his own capabilities...all of it condensed into brilliant blue light that the Inevitability consumed with obvious pleasure.
|Second Everything Devoured by Inevitability. Everything of Doubt Removed from Existence!|
|Boon Gained: The Certain Path|
-Decision Acceleration: All choices made instantly with perfect certainty
-Self-Knowledge: Complete understanding of personal capabilities
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