Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4575: The First Tongue VI

When the obsidian gold light surrounding Noah and Ul’moreth finally faded, Noah found himself descending toward something that expanded his comprehension of scale.

They were approaching the edge of a massive floating landmass that had to be tens of thousands of Gigaparsecs wide at minimum. The sheer size of it was something that many could not fully grasp due to the workings of Ginnungagap!

The edges they were landing toward displayed serene obsidian waterfalls that cascaded downward into the void below. But these were not water in any conventional sense. They were flowing instabilities of existence itself, filled with pure concentrated Mana that had not yet differentiated into any specialized form.

The falls shimmered with all possible colors and none simultaneously, creating visual paradoxes.

Noah’s gaze swept across the vast landscape stretching before him. Endlessly extending forests covered much of the visible terrain, their trees unlike anything he had seen before. Mountains rose in the distance with peaks that seemed to pierce through dimensional barriers.

But what caught his attention most intensely was a figure sitting casually near the edge of this vast floating landmass.

He had to squint and enhance his vision to be certain he was seeing correctly. There was a humanoid entity wearing a simple straw hat, holding a fishing pole with one hand while the line was cast down into the endless unstable obsidian expanse far below.

The being appeared remarkably human at first glance. But as Noah’s perception sharpened, he noticed the malformation that marked this entity as a Ginnu Lifeform.

The figure possessed six arms in total, though only one currently held the fishing pole. The other five rested casually at different positions along their torso. Their skin carried faint obsidian patterns that pulsed with concentrated authority.

Tendrils of obsidian radiance wrapped around the fishing line, extending down into the chaos below as if the entity was literally fishing in the unstable weavings of existence itself.

The being looked up calmly as Noah and Ul’moreth completed their descent and arrival.

|Ul’moreth, what have you brought over now?| the entity asked with a voice carrying relaxed curiosity mixed with mild amusement, of course, it was expressed through The First Tongue!

Ul’moreth replied with measured calm as they landed on the solid surface.

|Something new in existence, or really something unfathomably old depending on your preferred definition,| he said with tone suggesting significance. |Ains, meet Little Anomaly. Little Anomaly, this is Ains, THE Fisherman.|

Noah’s eyes shone brightly with analytical focus as he looked at this tremendously powerful being. He nodded and used pure Primus Mana to express himself in greeting.

|Hello,| he communicated through concentrated pulse of Primus Mana.

The moment his greeting manifested, THE Fisherman’s eyes pulsed with sudden recognition. He squinted with closer examination before speaking with growing interest.

|Is that...|he began with voice trailing off.

Ul’moreth smiled beneath his obscuring hair and nodded with confirmation.

|As I mentioned, a Little Anomaly indeed,| he said with voice carrying satisfaction. |The First Tongue comes in all forms across existence. Sometimes it manifests simply and is easy to recognize. Sometimes it appears in understandable patterns. Other times it presents with tremendous complexity. And sometimes it emerges as something genuinely anomalous.|

His tone became more contemplative.

|I found a truly unique anomaly here. He is simply a living variation of The First Tongue itself. At least, that is how I would prefer for him to think of himself currently. Cannot inflate his ego when he knows so little and remains so comparatively weak. Cannot have him beginning to believe all of existence could potentially fall under his fingertips before he has even survived to maturity...he could die so, so quickly and easily after all because of his potential...|

Ul’moreth’s voice carried dark amusement.

|But hey, how many entities across all of existence have gone into the embrace of The First Tongue so completely? He is already so deeply in tune with it that if anyone does manage to collapse him, he may even make existence itself richer through his dissolution.|

THE Fisherman laughed heartily at this observation, his voice booming across the landscape.

|Bahaha, do not terrify the Little Anomaly with such morbid speculation!| he said with genuine mirth. |You brought him here for what purpose exactly?|

Ul’moreth responded with simple directness.

|Just some foundational teaching and demonstration. Help me out if I am missing anything critical in my explanations.|

As he said this, he turned his attention back to Noah with teaching focus.

Noah looked between these insanely powerful beings with mixture of wonder and assessment. He could not help but shake his head internally at the situation he found himself in.

This Fisherman entity was particularly interesting. Noah had immediately looked at him with his Lens of Civilization upon arrival, but unlike Ul’moreth and the other Ginnu Lifeforms he had encountered, this being had actually veiled himself with intentional obscuration.

All Noah could observe through his enhanced perception was limited information.

|Name: Ains, THE Fisherman|

|Distinctions: THE Patient Angler, THE Keeper of Primordial Hooks, THE One Who Fishes In Chaos|

|Additional Information: VEILED|

|Note: This entity has deliberately obscured deeper analysis.|

It was a unique status sheet!

As for Ul’moreth’s words about not inflating his ego when he remained so weak, Noah understood this truth more intimately than anyone else possibly could.

Just because he was rapidly expanding his knowledge regarding Mana and The First Tongue, learning what it truly stood for and what it meant... that he was apparently the only entity in existence to have successfully declared this as his fundamental Way without catastrophically exploding from the attempt, he still did not view himself as some transcendent being who could now effortlessly control all of existence.

Because he really was not.

All he genuinely had right now was potential.

And potential was an extraordinarily dangerous thing if one mistook it for actual present strength. He had the theoretical potential to arguably stand against and possibly even exceed entities like THE Creature and THE Living Paradox eventually. That was the extent of what his current advantages represented.

He absolutely would not allow himself to be deluded by how boundless and infinite this potential appeared to be. For now, he would calmly continue to expand his knowledge systematically and gather more critical information.

It seemed existence had truly unfathomable depths and mysteries still waiting to be discovered.

So he observed THE Fisherman with attention as he and Ul’moreth came to fully stand before him.

New prompts flashed before Noah’s vision with environmental information.

|You have arrived at: The Primordial Genesis Shore|

|Classification: Ancient Ginnu Settlement|

|Description: One of the first stable landmasses formed in Ginnungagap.|

|Inhabitants: Unknown number of Ginnu Lifeforms of varying power levels.|

|Warning: This location contains entities at THE Surface Depth and potentially beyond.|

|Environmental Properties: Minimal suppression for those who speak/know The First Tongue.|

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