The results of Noah’s actions began to unfold.

THE Infiniverse responded to six simultaneous catalysts the way a prepared environment responded to precisely the right combination of inputs, not with the gradual accumulation of change but with the specific sudden expression of change that had been building toward a threshold and had just crossed it.

The first things to emerge were the trees.

They arrived, as if THE Infinite Tongue had spoken their existence into the substrate and they had simply agreed to be there, rising from the Infinity-saturated ground of multiple Realms simultaneously in configurations that made the concept of Yggdrasil feel preliminary!

Each tree was enormous in the way of things that had been given Infinite catalysts rather than ordinary growth conditions, their trunks wider than most structures Noah had encountered across his life, their canopies extending upward into the upper atmospheric layers of THE Infiniverse and spreading outward to cover territories the size of Folds!

Their bark carried the multicolored luminescence of THE Infiniverse’s ambient Infinity, each ring of it a different color, each color corresponding to a different Cause or Civilization or truth that the tree had incorporated into its growth as it rose.

Their roots drove downward through the substrate with the reach of things that were looking for the deepest available source of nourishment and intended to find it.

The Primordial Realms followed.

|THE Infiniverse- Primordial Realm emergence commencing.|

|Six Miniature Infinite Causes have exceeded the threshold required to catalyze Primordial Realm formation. The following Primordial Realms are emerging:|

|THE Realm of Duat: Drawing from the concept of the luminous upper domain that sits above all mortal arrangement, this Primordial Realm is forming in THE Infiniverse’s highest atmospheric layer as a space of concentrated Infinity where the boundary between cultivated power and pure Cause expression is thinner than anywhere else in the domain. Beings who enter Orun will find their Cause connections amplified and their comprehension of Prime Causes accelerated. Drawing from the concept of the domain of becoming, where existence undergoes transformation rather than cessation, this Primordial Realm is simultaneously forming in the deeper substrate layers of THE Infiniverse as a space specifically optimized for existential engineering and refinement. Nascent Hadean transformation processes that occur within Duat will complete at accelerated rates.|

|THE Realm of Patala: With the mindset of a creative domain, where the foundational substrate of existence is most concentrated and most malleable, this Primordial Realm is forming at the convergence point of three Infinite Observable Trees as a space where Civilizations can be actualized at rates that THE Absolute Forge of Infinity’s ordinary timeline does not produce. This realm is also existing below many in a relationship of foundational support rather than hierarchy, this Primordial Realm is forming at THE Infiniverse’s deepest available stratum as a space connected to the most concentrated Infinity available anywhere in the domain. The Infinite Flood catalyst has filled Patala with Infinity-rich substance at densities approaching what THE Braneworld Observable Existence carries.|

|Growth velocity has increased. THE Infiniverse is utilizing every available resource to accelerate the transition toward Observable Existence standing. THE Infinite Culmination Directive is being honored at maximum operational capacity.|

|Estimated acceleration of development timeline: significant. Precise projection unavailable due to the unprecedented nature.|

|She...is trying her best, Master.|

...!

Ruination stood up for THE Infiniverse at this time as if to tell Noah they really were doing everything and exceeding, but the process simply took time!

Noah looked at THE Realms forming in the layers above him, its luminous golden substance pressing outward into the upper atmosphere of THE Infiniverse.

He looked at the Infinite Observable Trees rising across the Realms below and beside and above him, their canopies beginning to touch each other at the upper reaches, the first connections between separate trees forming the beginning of a continuous canopy that would eventually cover THE Infiniverse the way a civilization’s infrastructure eventually covered the landscape it had been built within.

He pressed his feet deeper into the golden sand as he breathed out. At some points, one had to take a moment...to just breathe.

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While one body observed the progression of THE Infiniverse in relaxation.

In THE Braneworld Observable Existence, countless miles from Velanthra and from every familiar reference point Noah had managed to accumulate since his entry, the procession moved.

He followed Ubergulden Adelheid and Sororis Prima Evangelina through the exterior of the vessel onto the obsidian floating platform that served as their anchor point, the air here carrying the quality of THE Braneworld at its most concentrated, the Observable Force density pressing against every surface with the patient insistence of a medium that knew its own significance.

Behind Evangelina’s delegation and the attending Custodes, Dietrich moved with the unhurried authority of a being who owned the sky he walked upon and found no reason to pretend otherwise.

His eyes found Noah’s position every thirty seconds or so.

Noah looked back at him with the serene expression of an innocent man.

Which he was, essentially. In the relevant sense!

In the sense that Dietrich had no verified information about anything Noah had done recently, and verified information was the only kind that produced legitimate suspicion. The fact that Noah had, in the preceding time, compressed a Sororis Prima into a sphere and eaten her whole, devoured approximately a few hundred Ordovician Paleozoic Scale Gilded Ones, collapsed at the hands of a Silurian Paleozoic Ragnar clone and detonated across a gigaparsec radius on the way down, and scattered the assembled Gilded forces of Gilded Ones to the most inhospitable coordinates Observable Existence had available...was information that Ubergulden Dietrich did not possess.

He also did not know that the Sororis Prima Adelheid had once referred to as a friend had tried to have Noah killed.

So she had died. Cause and effect. Basic!

Noah was innocent!

He smiled pleasantly at Dietrich’s continued scrutiny and returned his attention to what was in front of him.

And then he blinked for a moment because what was in front of him required stopping for.

The Veiled Causal Site stretched outward in every direction.

Vibrant auroras of obsidian-gold light swept across the surrounding space in massive slow-turning arcs that covered more territory than Noah’s immediate perception could fully track, the auroras not merely decorative but carrying the specific quality of Cause authority broadcasting itself through a medium it had thoroughly saturated.

Incandescent obsidian-gold rivers flowed between the auroras in continuous currents, rivers that did not require channels or gravity to maintain their trajectories but moved according to the specific patterns of a Prime Cause pulling its own expression through the ambient space.

And the citadels.

They floated throughout the Site, each one a structure of obsidian-gold that carried the architectural ambition of beings who had decided that the expression of a Prime Cause required a physical form worthy of it.

They rose in vertical configurations of stacked platforms and soaring towerd, each platform carrying its own clustered structures, each tower rising from those structures toward the ones above it until the full citadel occupied vertical territory that measured in light years from base platform to highest point.

Their surfaces were smooth and absolute in the way that obsidian was smooth and absolute, but carrying the gold threading of...yes, THE Mortis Cause.

THE Mortis Cause!

Every surface breathed.

That was the only word for it. The gold threading along the obsidian pulsed in slow rhythms that suggested respiration, the Prime Cause light moving through the citadels’ structures in cycles that carried the specific cadence of something alive operating according to its foundational truth.

THE Mortis Cause. The truth that existence concludes.

The citadels burned with ending, and they were magnificent!