Chapter 4033: Give Everything! IV
She moved among the slumbering Inevitabilities with grace that made reality reorganize itself around her presence.
“At a certain point, you have to ask yourself what you will obtain if you ever do reach their level of complexity. Will you be better off? Happier? More fulfilled?” She paused, her layered eyes reflecting depths of experience.
“There is solace in mediocrity. In simply being. In existing without the weight of infinite possibility pressing down upon your every decision.”
Her voice grew softer, almost wistful.
“The mediocre sleep peacefully. They love simply. They die with fewer regrets because they never knew what they could have become. Sometimes, Outsider, ignorance isn’t just bliss. It is mercy.”
…!
Her words were heavy. But…
Noah shook his head with immediate, absolute certainty.
“The mediocre do not get to make decisions. The mediocre do not have choices.” His voice carried the weight of conviction that transcended simple belief!
“The day that great beings make the choice to do whatever they want in existence, the mediocre only have to follow. If they are told to die, they have to die. If they are commanded to suffer, they suffer.”
His grip on the Goad tightened, the simple stick humming with resonance.
“I do not want to be so mediocre that if THE Creature proclaimed for existence to perish… I cannot say no.”
The silence that followed was absolute. Then Khor laughed with profound interest that made the very concept of amusement pay attention.
“You want to be able to say no to something as vast as THE Creature?”
She shook her head, but her smile remained.
“That is an impossible dream. Very few understand that entity, and even fewer will ever be like him. To stand against THE Creature is to stand against the foundation of current existence itself.”
Noah shook his head at this, his certainty allowing no room for accepting impossibility.
“The Inevitabilities were here before THE Creature, right? THE Creature had to run from the Inevitabilities…does this not mean the Inevitabilities were unfathomably complex? He had to receive help from THE Living Origin, THE Living Concept, and THE Living Paradox to be able to survive against the Inevitabilities.”
Khor listened to Noah’s words with eyes that blazed brighter with each assertion. She tilted her head in a gesture that made dimensions uncertain about their orientation.
“Did he?” Her voice carried amusement that transcended simple humor. “Where did you hear all these Stories, Outsider? Who knows what truly happened between THE Creature, Inevitabilities, and THE Living Existences?”
She moved closer, her presence making the air itself pay attention.
“Did they say this was what happened? Are able to hear things of what happened back then from THE Creature himself? Just who… is making up all these Stories that you have seemingly heard?”
BOOM!
The question struck Noah with a heavy force.
His eyes flashed with light of thought and reflection as implications cascaded through his consciousness.
Every story he had heard, every piece of history he had been told…who had told them? Who had witnessed these primordial events? Who benefited from these particular versions of truth?
Khor laughed at his expression, the sound containing layers of meaning.
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