Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

Chapter 4576: The First Tongue VII

Noah processed this information with growing understanding of just how significant this location was. The Primordial Genesis Shore!

One of the first places where chaos became order, where The First Tongue permeated thoroughly!

He stared at the seeming endlessness of the landscape stretching before him and wondered with genuine curiosity what other terrifying entities and incomprehensible things lay within its vast depths.

|Little Anomaly.|

Ul’moreth’s voice called out to him with focus, pulling his attention back from contemplation of the environment.

|Before I take you deeper into the Shore to meet others and show you more of what exists here, let me provide you with some rudimentary foundational knowledge,| he said with measured purpose. |So that someone with your extraordinary potential does not embarrass themselves through ignorance when encountering those who understand these concepts intimately.|

The space around Ul’moreth began to shimmer as his obsidian gold authority manifested into illusory diagrams that would illustrate his upcoming explanation.

|You vibrate your Mana with such remarkable purity, Little Anomaly, and yet you do not truly speak in the linguistic sense,| he began with voice carrying patient instruction. |You shout formless intent into the void and expect existence to interpret your meaning successfully. Like an infant crying without developed vocabulary, relying entirely on others to guess what you need based on emotional tone alone.|

An illusory image formed showing an entity releasing shapeless bursts of energy.

|But what if I told you that The First Tongue is not merely a poetic metaphor I use for dramatic effect? What if I explained further that Mana, or more accurately The First Tongue itself, is quite literally a language with grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and structural rules as precise as any spoken tongue? In fact, considerably more precise than any verbal language could ever achieve.|

The diagram shifted to show structured patterns of Mana arranged with glorious precision.

|This knowledge is not known by many across the vast expanses of existence,| Ul’moreth continued with emphasis. |Beyond us Ginnu Lifeforms who were born when The First Tongue was still actively being formed and refined, and perhaps a scattered handful of truly exceptional entities across all the eras who somehow stumbled upon fragments of this understanding through extraordinary circumstances, virtually no one in the Infinite Unfurling comprehends that Mana, that The First Tongue, can be wielded as the fundamental language of existence itself rather than merely as raw energy to be shaped through will.|

|The First Tongue, at its most fundamental basic unit of expression, contains what we call a Phoneme. A single letter in the alphabet of reality itself. Every Phoneme, every deliberately structured pulse of pure undifferentiated Mana, represents a fundamental unit of meaning. Like the letters of any alphabet, individually quite simple in isolation, but capable of infinite complexity when properly combined through grammatical rules.|

The illusory diagrams showed individual pulses combining into more complex structures.

|What you have been doing, spreading your infinite Mana across Ginnungagap’s domains, is functionally equivalent to shouting the same vowel sound repeatedly at progressively increasing volume,| he said with tone mixing observation and instruction. |Impressive in its raw power and fundamental purity, absolutely. But utterly lacking in sophisticated linguistic meaning. You produce the raw sound successfully, but you do not form actual words. And without constructing proper words, Little Anomaly, you cannot speak the complete sentences that reshape reality at its deepest foundational levels.|

|I tell you this not to diminish what you have already accomplished, which is genuinely extraordinary,| Ul’moreth added with reassuring emphasis. |But rather to illuminate how much further you can potentially advance from this already impressive foundation. You already possess what nearly all of existence does not have access to. The direct connection to pure undifferentiated Mana that allows The First Tongue to be spoken freely at all.|

|This is extraordinarily rare beyond measure. Most entities could dedicate eternity itself to trying to learn what I am about to teach you and never succeed in even basic comprehension, because they have specialized too far from the primordial source. They have traded versatility for focused power and cannot return to the undifferentiated state.|

The diagrams showed branching paths, with most leading away from a central source while one path maintained connection.

|The First Tongue operates across multiple fundamental tiers of expression, each building upon the previous level like a tower reaching toward absolute comprehension of existence itself. But we will start with the foundation.|

Nearby, Noah listened with complete focus as his existence continued to advance with each piece of new information. His THE Organ of Civilization was making measurable progress with every additional concept integrated into his understanding!

He noticed THE Fisherman shake his head with apparent boredom at Ul’moreth’s lengthy explanation.

The entity pulled up his fishing line and examined it, finding nothing caught. He cast it back out into the chaotic waters below with practiced motion.

|Ul’moreth, all your extended talking has thoroughly bored me,| THE Fisherman said with voice carrying playful criticism. |Let me take over the explanation for the Little One here. My voice has considerably sweeter quality to it than your ancient droning, yes?|

He turned his attention directly to Noah with more animated energy.

|So Little Anomaly, continuing from where Ul’moreth was heading before he put us all to sleep with excessive verbosity, let me explain the basic foundational level of The First Tongue with more efficiency.|

|The first tier of expression is what we call Phonemes as he was trying to mention. These are the individual pulses, the basic units of structured Mana that every entity across existence manipulates and releases, usually without any conscious awareness of what they are truly doing from a linguistic perspective. When you release a burst of Mana to create some effect, you are producing Phonemes. But you produce them as raw, unstructured expressions.|

THE Fisherman gestured with one of his free hands for emphasis.

|We Ginnu Lifeforms understand Phonemes as letters, as the fundamental alphabet of existence itself. We know intrinsically that each pulse can be shaped with intentional structure, with grammatical precision, to produce effects that completely transcend mere energy manipulation. This is why our malformed bodies can wield authority that seems utterly impossible by conventional understanding. We are not breaking or violating the rules of existence, Little Anomaly. We are speaking fluently in its native language while all others fumble awkwardly with broken dialects and corrupted vocabulary.|

He looked over at Ul’moreth with amused expression.

|Bahaha, Ul’moreth, how was that explanation? More concise, yes? I believe I captured the slight undertone of arrogance in your typical voice quite accurately, yes?|

Ul’moreth’s form remained still, though Noah imagined the ancient being was blinking with mild exasperation beneath all that obscuring hair. They turned their attention back to Noah and continued the lesson.

|I will resume the explanation from here,| Ul’moreth said with patient tone. |There are higher tiers of expression beyond individual Phonemes, structures of increasing linguistic complexity that I will not burden you with until you have properly mastered the basics. Let me focus your attention on teaching you to speak individual letters correctly before we even attempt to construct complete words.|

|Even this foundation, properly understood and applied with skill, will elevate your capabilities beyond what most THE level entities can achieve across their entire existence.|

His presence intensified with significance.

|This is the gift I offer you, Little Anomaly. The ability to speak rather than merely shout, to construct precise linguistic meaning rather than rely entirely on formless intent. Are you prepared to learn The First Tongue as it was originally meant to be spoken?|

The question hung in the air with tremendous weight.

Noah felt his rapidly expanding existence resonating with the knowledge being shared. He replied with simple conviction as his eyes pulsed with a glorious sense of tyranny!

|I am ready to learn.|