I Can Assimilate Everything-Chapter 595: Choices and Consequences!
Chapter 595: Choices and Consequences!
Every choice led to its own consequences.
This was a truth so fundamental that it transcended Civilizations and Scales of Existence, applying equally to the smallest decisions of insignificant beings and the gambits of THE entities whose actions shaped reality itself.
THE Corpse Hierophant had chosen to wage war against all other Primordial Civilizations rather than cooperate toward shared goals, and that choice had led to mutual collapse that reduced every participant to shadows of their former glory.
THE Endless Dream had chosen to seek alliance with an anomaly rather than join those hunting him, and that choice had positioned her to potentially become the first among Collapsed Civilizations to fully recover.
THE Sovereign Catalyst had chosen to ally with his former enemy against a common threat, and that choice had led to his manifestation being consumed by the very target he sought to eliminate.
Rose had chosen to stand beside Achilles through thick and thin, and that choice had elevated her from a normal woman to being capable of devouring THE Civilizational Authority alongside entities who had shaped Observable Existence for eons.
Achilles himself had chosen to Assimilate when every warning screamed against it, and that choice had transformed him into something that THE entities now recognized as an existential threat requiring unprecedented cooperation to address.
Choices cascaded through Existence like ripples in water, each one creating consequences that birthed new choices that created further consequences in chains stretching toward horizons that even prophetic sight could not fully perceive.
Sometimes a single seemingly inconsequential choice could lead to change that swept through the entire Observable Existence, reshaping power structures and rewriting histories in ways that none of the participants could have anticipated when they made their initial decisions!
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In that domain of Alchemy where Achilles, Eyyanah, and Rose sat in a circle as they finished absorbing THE Civilizational Authority from the broken containment barrier, the atmosphere held strange tranquility that contrasted sharply with the violence that had occurred here not long ago.
While Achilles was holding conversation with THE Endless Dream about keys and the true reason behind the Age of Collapse, he was only half present in that discussion. Much of his consciousness was currently focused on something far more immediate and intoxicating.
Principles.
He could perceive them with clarity that his previous existence could never have imagined, fundamental truths of reality hovering in his transformed awareness like mathematical constants waiting to be incorporated into equations. And he could Assimilate them. This alone provided him an immense source of power that truly could not be explained by words alone.
It was basically like learning about the vastness of the Shattered Folds and Observable Existence and how many things were locked away behind barriers of comprehension and elevation, and at this moment he had just been given all the keys to every door simultaneously.
Well, this was a somewhat apt analogy when Eyyanah was also mentioning keys in their discussion about THE Resplendent Paradox and the war she had inadvertently sparked.
But at this moment, Achilles’s attention shifted entirely toward the Principles he could sense permeating the Sacred Holy Land around him.
The Grand Principle of Transmutation pulsed with copper-green radiance that spoke of endless transformation. The Grand Principle of Dissolution whispered of entropy’s patient victory over all ordered arrangements. The Grand Principle of Synthesis hummed with silver-gold waves promising creation through combination. And beyond these, he could sense fainter traces of even more fundamental truths waiting to be grasped.
He had already consumed the Grand Principle of Stability, had already begun understanding the Phoneme of Earth that composed its deepest structure. Why stop there when so much more lay within reach?
As he focused on the Principles surrounding him, he silently whispered in his mind with conviction that admitted no hesitation.
‘Assimilate!’
…!
Immense waves of authority flowed into him once more as earthen bronze and copper-green and obsidian and silver-gold streams of fundamental truth poured into his existence simultaneously!
The sensation was ridiculously euphoric in ways that transcended physical pleasure to touch upon something more primal, the satisfaction of a being consuming exactly what it was designed to consume.
At this moment, even Eyyanah stopped speaking mid-sentence as her jeweled eyes widened with shock at what she was witnessing.
When she looked above Achilles, she could see jagged lines of the very code of Existence itself that were currently flowing into his body like rivers finding their way to an ocean that welcomed them home. His entire being emanated an ethereal glow that shifted through multiple spectrums simultaneously, bronze and green and obsidian and gold swirling together.
She watched on with immense disbelief as Achilles charged forward without caution or restraint, Assimilating four Grand Principles simultaneously in act of horrid gluttony that should have been impossible!
As he did so, prompts cascaded through his awareness with information that made his already racing heart beat even faster.
|Multiple Assimilations in Progress|
|Grand Principle of Transmutation: Integration commencing|
|Grand Principle of Dissolution: Integration commencing|
|Grand Principle of Synthesis: Integration commencing|
|WARNING: Existence Corruption Value is steadily rising due to rapid heterogeneous integration…|
|…and being automatically devoured by your Existential Corruption Resistance simultaneously. Current resistance increasing from 10% to 12% as corruption is converted to fuel.|
|You are Assimilating into your being even more Principles that have within their makeup traces of The First Tongue.|
|New Phoneme Exposure Detected: You are gaining foundational knowledge regarding the Phoneme of Fire through the Grand Principle of Transmutation.|
|New Phoneme Exposure Detected: You are gaining foundational knowledge regarding the Phoneme of Water through the Grand Principle of Dissolution.|
|New Phoneme Exposure Detected: You are gaining foundational knowledge regarding the Phoneme of Air through the Grand Principle of Synthesis.|
|These join the already exposed Phoneme of Earth from your initial Principle Assimilation.|
|Current First Tongue Comprehension: 4 of 18 Phonemes partially understood.|
|The Weight and Immensity of your Way of Assimilation is reaching its highest levels and continuing to exponentially rise in elevation.|
|Your Civilization of Assimilation grows stronger with each fundamental truth you integrate.|
|PROJECTION: When you fully Assimilate an entire Grand Principle rather than partial integration, the understanding of its complete framework alone will likely elevate your Immensity to THE Surface Depth of Absolute Sovereignty when paired with the Manifestations of THE Entities you have already consumed.|
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Achilles’s eyes shone brightly as he processed these revelations while continuing to draw Principles into his being with hunger that seemed to have no ceiling.
Truly, the future was unknown and filled with possibilities that branched in directions he couldn’t fully perceive. But he wanted to go all out and make the choice to do something others could not even imagine, to push beyond limits that THE entities themselves had apparently never crossed despite their eons of accumulated power and understanding. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
So at this moment, as he absorbed four Grand Principles simultaneously with his existence screaming in euphoric protest at the overload, his gaze turned upward with luminous intensity as he reached for something even more fundamental.
He could sense them now, faintly, hovering at edges of his expanded perception like stars too distant to clearly observe but bright enough to confirm their existence.
Singularity Principles of Existence.
A tier higher than the Grand Principles he was currently devouring, truths so fundamental that they served as foundations upon which Grand Principles themselves were built.
Even if his Existence Corruption Value increased rapidly from attempting to consume such elevated concepts, so what? He would just Assimilate that corruption too, convert it into resistance, and continue forward without pause or hesitation.
A plan was gradually forming in his mind as he continued this feast while simultaneously reading through the scattered memories of THE Corpse Hierophant and THE Sovereign Catalyst that still integrated into his consciousness.
He was learning where their Sacred Holy Lands were hidden, where the concentrations of their recovering Civilizations could be found.
He did not wish to give them time or respite.
Given time, people could do many things. They could coordinate responses, build alliances, prepare defenses, develop countermeasures against threats they had time to study and understand. He did not even want them to have the choice of doing such things before he went to find them and erase everything they had rebuilt of their Collapsed Civilizations.
This was his Dream, formed from understanding that mercy toward enemies who would show him none was simply delayed suicide.
And this was his choice, made with full awareness of consequences that would cascade through Observable Existence in ways that even THE entities could not anticipate!
1/1 Onwards!
