I Can Assimilate Everything-Chapter 654: Existential Lattice I
Achilles watched the emergence of the purple obsidian crystals with an expression that betrayed nothing of the calculations churning beneath his stellar features.
The growths looked like semi-solid semi-liquid mixtures of cancerous expansion, tumor-like formations that spread outward from the Civilizational Convergence Engine with hunger that seemed almost conscious. They radiated a heavy immensity of chaotic Civilizational and heterogeneous authority, pressure that made even his enhanced foundations tremble slightly as they passed.
Within them were mixtures of Chaos, Paradox, and Existence...but mutated and altered in a horrid way that made them look distorted and wrong.
"What... is this?"
His voice emerged somber as he watched the crystalline growths stretch for light years in moments, purple brilliance consuming everything in their path of expansion.
THE Prisoner floated upward with motion that held theatrical grandeur, swinging his arms wide as his clasps and chains clinked together with sound that seemed almost celebratory. His burning eyes blazed with excitement that he made no attempt to conceal, and the Absolutes all around...looked the same!
"What you see before you is the Existential Lattice."
His voice carried weight that demanded attention as the growths continued expanding behind him.
"It is, in essence, a mine. But not a mine that extracts resources already present. No, that would be too simple, too limited, too slow for beings of our caliber."
He gestured toward the spreading crystals with pride that bordered on reverence.
"The Existential Lattice uses the lifeblood of Observable Existence itself as raw material. It draws upon the fundamental essence of this reality, the very substrate upon which everything here is built, and transforms it into something far more valuable."
The purple obsidian growths continued their expansion, spreading like cancer through healthy tissue. They moved through the void with complete disregard for what lay in their path, crystalline tendrils reaching toward distant regions of Observable Existence with speed that defied measurement.
"In a properly developed Observable Existence, certain lifeforms emerge naturally during the processes of differentiation and undifferentiation. Primordial Architects, children of the union between differentiation and undifferentiation. Undivided Ones, beings who refused to participate in differentiation entirely. Formless Terrors, entities born from the spaces between defined states."
Lamashtu’s smile widened.
"These lifeforms are composed of ingredients that are incredibly conducive to Civilizational advancement. Consuming them, integrating their essence, harvesting the unique properties they possess, all of this accelerates growth in ways that conventional cultivation cannot match."
He turned to face them fully, his massive form blocking out the light of the Civilizational Convergence Engine.
"But this Observable Existence is stunted. Those lifeforms never emerged here because Chaos was absent during the critical moments of formation. The ingredients exist in potential, scattered across the fabric of reality, but they never coalesced into the beings they should have become."
His chained hands spread wide with gesture that encompassed everything around them.
"The Existential Lattice forcefully induces the growth of those ingredients. It draws them together, concentrates them, forces them to manifest in crystalline form that we can then harvest. It permeates across Observable Existence, spreading through every region it can reach, and after it is fully established..."
His burning eyes blazed with hunger.
"The harvest can begin."
Achilles watched the purple obsidian growths continue their cancerous expansion. They truly spread like tumors through the body of Observable Existence, crystalline tendrils that cared nothing for what lay in their path. They would pass through Folds and Domains and Star Seas with complete indifference, overwhelming everything in their wake as they continued their endless growth.
"This growth."
His voice emerged heavy with weight that he could not fully suppress.
"It will permeate across the Folds. The Void. The Domains. It will... destroy anything in its wake."
...!
A calm smile spread across Lamashtu’s burning features at such words. He looked at Achilles with expression that held patience one might show a child asking obvious questions.
"Are you.... worried about those in the Level Zero Scale of Existence or below?"
His voice carried dismissiveness that made the question seem almost absurd.
"Such things are like ants. Bacteria. Well, very tiny things, as even bacteria have their uses in certain contexts. But things that have not even attained Civilizational Scale are not things we should bother ourselves with."
He waved his chained hand with gesture that dismissed countless lives as irrelevant.
"Their existence serves purpose now. They become part of the raw material that the Lattice transforms into something valuable. In death, they contribute to the advancement of beings who actually matter."
He turned back toward the spreading crystals with expression of anticipation.
"Now, come on. Let us observe the formation of this glorious wonder. Afterwards, all of us will be delving into it to harvest the resources it produces."
His burning gaze swept across Achilles and THE Resplendent Paradox with assessment.
"While harvests form within it, Mutated Anomalous Weavings also unfold. The process is not clean. The forceful coalescence of ingredients creates entities that will defend what they consider their territory. They will not just be sitting there for us to take."
His smile held anticipation that bordered on excitement.
"Be ready, kids. Be ready. Glory is upon us."
...!
Achilles’s gaze became heavy and stern at this moment.
He thought about the countless lifeforms across Observable Existence who may be collapsed in the next few moments. The Folds where families lived and civilizations flourished. The Domains where beings cultivated toward advancement they would never achieve. The Star Seas in the Void where life had emerged and evolved across eons of patient development.
All of it would be consumed by cancerous growth that he had helped create.
His hand had touched the Civilizational Convergence Engine. His Chaos had been channeled through it alongside Paradox and Existence. He...was complicit in what was now spreading across his home reality with hunger that would spare nothing in its path.
The weight of that complicity settled into his chest like cold stone!
The heaviness was hard to explain as even if he were to say he was forced into this position, he gazed at his hands as on them...he saw the crimson blood of countless many!
"..."
He did not want to sit still. He did not know this would happen, but now that it had...he spurned his other bodies spread out across Observable Existence to move as if it wss not safe for many out here...he would do all he could to save as many as he could as he could always bring the masses...to his Inner Dominion.
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