NOVGO.NET Chapter 4781: Leaders and Kings V
Chapter 4781: Leaders and Kings V
The Pool of Mnemosyne flowed toward the center, its waters that helped one remember and integrate all knowledge they had ever encountered merging with the streams from other sources!
And multiple other pools followed!
One massive swirling sea formed where six separate pools had been!
The waters churned with colors that shifted and merged, obsidian and gold and silver and crimson and white-hot flame and the deep blue of existential depths! Steam rose in patterns that wrote Phonemes in the air! The artificial sky above blazed brighter as if recognizing the magnitude of what had been created!
|The following pools of THE Thermae of Cyclic Refinement have been temporarily combined by Strategos authority:|
|The Pool of Mnemosyne (Memory): Helps one remember and integrate all knowledge they have ever encountered.|
|The Pool of Styx (Invulnerability): Hardens foundations against external corruption during refinement.|
|The Pool of Acheron (Sorrow): Allows one to process and incorporate painful experiences into strength.|
|The Pool of Cocytus (Lamentation): Releases trapped potential that grief has locked away.|
|The Pool of Phlegethon (Fire): Burns away weaknesses with purifying flame.|
|The Pool of Oceanus (The Existence-River): Connects one’s foundation to the fundamental flow of Existence itself.|
|COMBINED EFFECT:|
|Stepping into the sea combining all pools will grant exponentially greater effect to Katharsis.|
|Multiple cycles may be completed simultaneously.|
|Warning: The intensity of this combined refinement may exceed normal parameters.|
|Recommendation: Proceed. Your fat foundations can handle it.|
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With shining eyes, Noah looked at the nonchalant Glossikos who remained in The Pool of Lethe.
"Thanks."
The word was simple.
But it carried genuine gratitude.
Then his body delved into the vibrant sea.
The multicolored waters surged around him the moment he entered! They penetrated into every layer of his existence! Memory and invulnerability and processed sorrow and released potential and purifying flame and Existential connection all merged into a single overwhelming experience.
The waters bubbled and churned!
Then they surged into his existence with force that would have destroyed anything less than what he had become.
As such a process began, Noah found himself in a very nostalgic mood.
He felt the immensity of his 27 Seals heading toward an unfathomable level as everything happening here was all connected.
Because as he continued to get stronger here every second...
A battle outside THE Agora of Primordial Judgment, in The Stoa of Dogmata, was being greatly affected by the rising immensity of his brilliance.
In a heavy and disastrous battle, many would only see the flashy impacts and terrifying expressions of power.
They didn’t truly have an idea how those involved in the battle were feeling.
At this moment, in the Stoa of Dogmata, with an Absolute watching calmly in the distance, Noah had his eyes on Gilgamesh.
Every move he made was for the purpose of bringing Ruin against this being.
He really felt like fights were a unique thing. To fight against something, one did not necessarily have to hate it.
When he first fought against apes and wolves in the first few dungeons after he became a Hunter, he didn’t particularly hate them. For him, they were only beasts that served as obstacles. He found them, killed them, and moved on with the loot.
But then, there were a few enemies across his existence where he genuinely hated them.
When he fought against these enemies, he found himself unfathomably focused. Truly and fully weaponizing his hatred in the most efficient manner until the enemy before him had that brilliance in their eyes collapse into nothingness.
So...
BOOM!
Even though Gilgamesh was surrounded by swirling weapons rushing from golden pools endlessly, each one carrying his Depth...
And it was a heavy Depth at that...
Noah threw his Absolute Seal of Infinity forward!
It acted like an unstoppable hammer, crashing and pulverizing the swirling weapons around Gilgamesh before it was eventually knocked back toward him!
But this was seconds ago.
Before he began Katharsis.
As his Weight became grander and grander, the Weavings of Gilgamesh that were already on the defensive... he began to pierce through them while nothing passed through to him.
Because he had the fragment of THE Axiom of Differentiated Tongue floating around him!
Anything that neared was broken down and dissolved into components of The First Tongue! Spears became Phonemes. Swords became scattered Logos. Axes became fragments of meaning that dispersed harmlessly into the air.
He proceeded ahead toward Gilgamesh more and more.
And all this time, his expression still remained bright.
At this moment, Noah took the 27 Seals of Absolute Tongue swirling around him and branded them over his skin!
One by one, they pressed into his flesh like tattoos being seared into existence itself!
Infinity blazed across his right arm!
Quintessence burned over his left!
Tyranny marked his chest!
The remaining Seals spread across his body in patterns that spoke of absolute authority, each one adding its Weight to the whole!
His entire body became shrouded with plasmic blue-gold flames!
"A leader shows the path forward."
His voice came heavy with conviction.
"I will lead you now and take you on your path to a grave of endless darkness."
His eyes locked onto Gilgamesh with the focus of someone about to end an existence.
"I’m getting a bit more serious. Get ready."
BOOM!
The moment he said this, his body erupted outward like an Existential nuclear warhead!
His Weight and Immensity became so terrifying that the very air compressed before him! The Stoa of Dogmata groaned under the pressure! Ancient inscriptions on the surrounding pillars flickered and dimmed.
He smashed across all weapons surrounding Gilgamesh.
Golden spears shattered!
Existential swords broke!
Legendary axes that had conquered civilizations crumbled into fragments!
He appeared right before Gilgamesh in an instant!
Gilgamesh’s eyes opened wildly!
A Declaration instantly erupted from him, golden light blazing with authority that had commanded armies since before most civilizations existed!
But Noah didn’t even care for what such a Declaration was or what it was trying to accomplish!
His fist blazed with the Absolute Seal of Quintessence.
His left hand grabbed the shoulder of Gilgamesh with grip that could crush mountains!
He looked deeply into the stern eyes of this being.
Then his right fist thundered and hammered itself into his chest!
DOONG!
It was like metal meeting metal!