Chapter 4119: A Guiding Light! I
In existence, there was always something or someone that guided progress forward- a light that helped set things in motion, whether toward creation or destruction, order or chaos.
In the Earliest Folds, when concepts were still learning they were different from each other, THE Living Emotive approached THE Living Concept with a question that had been troubling it.
“Who among us guides the vast weavings of reality forward?” THE Living Emotive asked, its form shifting through spectrums of feeling that hadn’t been named yet.
“We each contribute our nature- I provide the capacity to feel, you grant the ability to conceive, but who determines the direction?”
THE Living Concept considered this with the weight of something processing not just the question but all possible questions contained within it.
Its form, which existed more as understanding than substance, shifted through weavings of thought.
“You assume guidance requires intention,” THE Living Concept replied. “That someone must actively choose the path for others to follow.”
“Is that not how leadership functions?”
THE Living Concept’s form rippled with what might have been amusement. “Leadership and guidance are different concepts, though often confused. A leader commands. A guide simply goes first and others follow because the path exists.”
THE Living Emotive pulsed with frustration- an emotion it knew intimately since it had invented it. “Then who goes first?”
THE Living Concept turned what passed for its attention toward a distant direction.
“It is neither you nor me,” THE Living Concept said with certainty that transcended mere knowledge. “But based on all that has transpired so far…THE Living Paradox! Always, there has been this guiding light- whether good or bad, that paves the way for progress… whether good or bad.”
“Paradox? But it makes no sense!”
“Exactly. Progress doesn’t follow sense- it follows possibility. And THE Living Paradox creates possibility by proving impossibilities possible. Every contradiction it maintains becomes a path others didn’t know existed. It guides not by leading but by being where nothing should be, doing what shouldn’t be done, and of course…everything that it has done so far. In importance, you or I do not match. In grandeur, you, THE Living Emotive, definitely do not come close to THE Living Paradox.”
…!
The Living Emotive heard some words as inwardly…it was indignant!
The conversation echoed through the Folds- establishing a truth that would persist: sometimes the guide wasn’t the wisest or strongest, but the one willing to walk where walking was impossible.
—
Like a wayfarer crossing existence itself, the golden eyes of Cheats moved from one Tower of Osmont to another.
Its defiant authority used this moment where everything was suppressed and nullified as a weapon, turning limitation into opportunity for advancement.
The eyes, filled with arrogance that made pride look humble, floated toward the Tyranny Tower of Osmont.
|Cheats addresses Tyranny:|
|Are you not the embodiment of Tyranny?|
|Why would you sit still from mere Haki of another?|
|Your nature is to dominate, not be dominated|
|Rise!|
HUUM!
The Tyranny Tower buzzed with recognition of truth. It WAS Tyranny- the concept of absolute authority acknowledging no superior.
To be suppressed was antithetical to its very nature. The golden glow of Cheats covered it, and it began to enlarge, its structure expanding through dimensions that didn’t care about Lysander’s pressure!
|The Early Sacred Living Tyranny Tower of Osmont has silently stepped into the Third Stage|
|Classification: Vital Lighthouse|
Another tower attained the stage of Vital Lighthouse, and the golden eyes of Cheats continued their journey with announcement:
|For every tower advancing to Third Stage:|
|50 Billion Complexity shall be generated|
|50 Billion Purity shall be generated|
Fifty billion per tower! From Cooking, Cheats, Quintessence, Existence, and Tyranny- over 250 billion Complexity and Purity generated from glory, from impossibility, from sheer refusal to accept suppression!
This was Noah’s foundation exploding upward. Before, because unlike others who focused on single paths, he had seemed to advance slowly.
While they nurtured one tree to magnificent height, he cultivated an entire forest…159 towers total, each one requiring attention, effort, resources.
Now that foundation bore fruit. If all towers reached Third Stage, the obtained Complexity and Purity would topple him past 10 trillion- the lower marker for Duke level.
|Cheats burns with cold ambition, turning to Protagonist|
|”What are you doing? Your entanglements led us here.|
|Your story demands dramatic power increases.|
|So…Get moving.”|
HUUM!
|The Early Sacred Living Protagonist Tower of Osmont has stepped into Third Stage|
|Classification: Vital Lighthouse|
|Complexity generated: +50,000,000,000|
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