Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 4395

Chapter 4395: The Doctrines of Hunger II

As he contemplated this, the scene before him shifted.

He found himself observing a different location, a different moment in Khor’s history.

This time she was helping an injured Tor inside a Nest of Inevitabilities...a gathering place where their kind congregated for rest and communion.

Her young expression was fierce and livid with barely contained rage.

"What did this to you?!" she demanded, "Who dared?!"

Tor smiled despite obvious pain, his form partially destabilized.

"You do not have to worry about that right now," he said with gentle deflection. "But tell me...what is the Second Doctrine of Hunger?"

Fighting back anger and pain, young Khor’s voice steadied as she recited.

"The Second Doctrine of Hunger states that Hunger must remain carefree in its pursuit. To hunger with desperation is to corrupt the purity of desire. To devour with frantic need is to diminish what is consumed. We must approach all things with lightness, understanding that existence is vast and opportunities are endless. Anxiety about what we lack poisons our capability to appreciate what we gain. Be hungry, but be joyful in that hunger."

Tor nodded with satisfaction despite his injuries.

"Exactly. So do not let concern for my matters weigh heavily upon you. I will recover or I won’t...either outcome is simply another experience to devour. For Hunger needs to be carefree, even in the face of potential loss."

The scene dissolved before Noah’s perception, existence shifting once more.

He found himself observing a glorious sight.

Khor and Tor stood atop a crystalline obsidian cliff that overlooked vast territories. Trillions of powerful tentacle-formed Inevitabilities swirled around them in organized patterns.

They were paying respect- fealty, Noah’s mind corrected, all of them bowing toward Tor with gestures that suggested absolute loyalty.

Young Khor looked at this scene with shining eyes full of wonder and aspiration.

"How did you do this?" she asked, genuine awe in her voice. "How did you gather so many to follow willingly? They want to serve you. What makes them choose this?"

Tor’s expression showed satisfaction as he turned to face her.

"Tell me the Third Doctrine of Hunger."

With eyes blazing with understanding, Young Khor recited.

"The Third Doctrine of Hunger states that true Hunger establishes natural hierarchy. Those who hunger most powerfully, most purely, become inevitable leaders because others recognize something worth following. Leadership is not taken, it is devoured from the willing offering of those who see greater Hunger than their own and choose to feed it. We do not command; we simply hunger so magnificently that others cannot resist contributing to our consumption. Authority flows toward the hungriest as naturally as water flows downhill."

Once she finished, Tor nodded with deep approval.

"One day, your mere presence will wash over Inevitabilities, and they will not be able to resist your leadership. Your Hunger will be so vast, so pure, that serving it will feel like privilege rather than obligation."

The scene flickered, Noah’s perception pulled forward through time once more.

Now he focused on Khor...no longer quite so young, but not yet ancient, standing defiantly against a hazy titanic creature radiating an air of ancientness and multicolored brilliance that made the surrounding Inevitabilities flee in terror.

Khor looked at the entity coldly, her voice ringing with arrogant certainty.

"Your existence exists only to serve my Hunger! You are prey, and I am predator! Submit!"

She opened her mouth impossibly wide, her Hunger manifesting as physical force that tried to devour the titanic entity entirely.

But shockingly, that hazy creature raised one massive hand and brought it down with dismissiveness.

And Khor was horrified to feel the weight of all surrounding existence crashing down upon her.

Not just physical pressure...existential weight. Her own Hunger, her own Way of Hunger, was being used against her, forced to collapse inward and consume itself in catastrophic feedback loop!

She saw her collapse in that moment. Saw the end of everything she was becoming. Saw death in ways Inevitabilities rarely experienced.

But...

BOOM!

"Little Hunger, how did you manage to provoke something at the level of THE? Do you have any sense of appropriate targets, or do you simply challenge everything that looks interesting?"

Noah watched as the moment Khor’s eyes shut, the vision flickered and disappeared, simply vanishing as if existence itself had been edited.

When the vision resumed, time unknown, could have been seconds or days, Khor opened her eyes to witness devastation.

And before her stood Tor once more, smiling... but half of his body was missing.

"What is the Ninth Doctrine of Hunger?"

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