Chapter 5608: Tesseracts! I
Chapter 5608: Tesseracts! I
Silence fell over the cliff!
Seo-yeon’s mouth opened. And Amelia turned her head slowly toward her son, looked at him for a long moment, then shook her head with the exasperation of a mother who had given up on receiving news in a timely fashion, walked forward, and raised Thalia’s bowed head with both hands and a smile.
"How did he hide you for so long without me knowing?" She kept hold of her. "Come on. Let us get to know each other."
"Mm!"
Thalia smiled brightly and nodded.
"I know you like fishing," she said as they walked. "I have a technique that lets you fish across Dimensions, from your own home. The things you can catch..."
And she began talking to his mother so naturally, so easily, that both Noah and Seo-yeon stood there astonished, watching the two of them stroll off along the cliff together like they had been doing it for years.
And as they walked, Thalia’s voice arrived quietly in his mind.
’I will relax by Mother’s side for now. See if you can get started on expanding the backing of Causes on those closest to you. Existence is vast and full of terrors, and dangers are going to come at you and yours from all sides. You may be invulnerable... but your enemies will look for the easiest way to hurt you, and that way runs through the Provenance of those around you. And THE Sealed One is not your only enemy. To get me, you offended a great many Provenance Lifeforms. And another one of Those Who Remain.’
...!
Such crazy words dropped on him, and Noah shook his head slowly while Seo-yeon leaned up and whispered against his chest.
"Aba. She is very pretty. I approve!"
Noah sighed.
"I approve as well."
He definitely approved. Everything this woman did and said was magnetizing to his very existence! But there were much more important matters right now, and his mind had already gone to them.
He knew the threads of existence connected to him. A few dozen beings within THE Infiniverse whose threads ran thick and bright, and many more whose connections were thinner but present all the same. To protect them all through Causes was hard, and it was also simple. Even Those Who Remain worked this way. Even THE Sleepless Fiend played with Causes inside the bodies of Steeds!
And for him to back somewhat weak lifeforms with Causes, the easiest way was something he had already done three times, for Seo-yeon, for Henry, and for his mother.
When he had made them backers of their own emerging Observable Existences.
THE Genesis Tesseract!
The thing he had gained from THE Tide That Owes Nothing, in return for reaching into a drowned existence and giving it another chance.
And THE Tide had been preserving the generation of boons for everything he had done and never claimed, for a while now, growing past all precedent while he told it to continue and walked away!
It seemed that now was the time to take all of it. Every generated boon, in the form he needed most.
Genesis Tesseracts.
It would mean the birth of many, many Observable Existences with many different founders, nested inside THE Infiniverse, and that would elevate HER as well, her Dimensionality, her Causes, the whole architecture of what she was, guaranteeing a web of Causes standing beneath everyone he loved!
Noah stretched his neck, and looked up at the warm golden sky of his mother’s realm.
"Infiniverse. It’s time to unleash all that has been generated within THE Tide That Owes Nothing."
...!
From the surroundings, a grand affirmation came!
|Understood.|
The sky above his mother’s realm changed.
It began with a single point of light kindling high in the warm gold, and then another beside it, and then a hundred, and then the whole vault of the heavens was catching fire in quiet increments as the preserved generation of THE Tide That Owes Nothing came due all at once!
They bloomed into being like stars arriving early.
Every one of them a hypercube of deep blue-white, a cube nested inside a cube and joined across an axis the eye kept sliding off, edges burning with a light that had no business being that clean, and each one turned slowly in place, unfolding and refolding through a dimension that the sky of an Observable Existence simply had to make room for!
They littered the heavens from horizon to horizon, uncountable at a glance, a canopy of geometry hanging over golden fields and a radiant river, and the fields below lit up blue as their light came down through the orchards!
Seo-yeon’s eyes opened wide.
Far along the cliff, Amelia had stopped walking and beside her, Thalia Vasiliou looked up at a sky full of folded beginnings with an expression Noah could not read from where he stood.
HUUM!
|THE Tide That Owes Nothing has released everything it preserved for the first experiment of a Generation of a select prior reward. It bodes well for targeting the Laestrygonians as further rewards.|
|Ledger settled. Boons generated and held in trust for: leadership given to a domain. Protection given to millions. Marks given to the marked. Affirmation given to the grieving. Salvation given to the dying. A lineage given back to its bearer. A Sovereign given to existence. Death granted to a unique lifeform. Every act of giving you performed and never claimed a return for.|
|The Tide has answered in the form its ledger judged most fitting to what you gave.|
|Yield: 1,800 GENESIS TESSERACTS.|
|Each holds the Infinite Source Potential of a First Cause, and the latent template of all nine Prime Causes folded within. Each is the graspable seed of an entire Observable Existence, awaiting a founder honest enough to tell it what is true.|
|This is the largest single return in your records.|
...!
Eighteen hundred!
Noah looked up at a sky he had accidentally filled. Eighteen hundred foundations, eighteen hundred nine-Cause structures, eighteen hundred sets of roots that could be planted beneath the existences of everyone who mattered to him!
It was a ridiculous number.
He raised his hands.
And he called them down.
WAA!