The Primordial Record - Chapter 2156 The Battle of Concepts

Chapter 2156  The Battle of Concepts

This crazy process was to be repeated at an exponentially accelerating rate, with each iteration being overseen by Primordial Number, who set a limit, like a terminus, forcing each new fractal layer to be both an expression of the last and its absolute end.

To do what they were doing, it required each Primordial here to not just have a complete understanding of their Origin, but also the Origin of all the other Primordial.

This process could not be repeated by any Primordial or group of Primordials because that would require them to not only understand their Origin, but those of six hundred fellow Primordials.

With such a barrier, it was normal for such a formation to have never been created before… The lowest barrier for its creation was just too abnormal.

The Incarnation was weaving a conceptual abyss, an infinite regress of defined and yet unrealized forms.

Essentially, this formation was to be a paradox machine that generated a new, self-contradictory law of reality with every infinitesimal fraction of a moment.

Eos had created various tactics that he believed could help him in the upcoming battles ahead.

He did not know the entirety of his enemies’ abilities, but he could theorize about them and seek to find solutions to whatever forms that danger would take.

Many of the tactics he created for battle were powerful, but it was a shame that most of them could not be shared with his children because they were incapable of handling such powers.

This formation he created in the past took advantage of the unique advantages of his Incarnations.

Six hundred Primordials poured their very essence into this construct, their forms thinning, becoming conduits.

This formation was meant to harness the powers of all ten thousand and eight Incarnations, but they were not complete, and so it had to be changed from a killing formation to a trapping formation.

The formation would not trap Luminous Silence’s body, but for his attention. They would present him with a riddle so profound, a complexity so entangled, that he would have to engage with it to resolve it. And in that moment of focus, they would strike.

Eos had taken a long time to decipher the core of this formation, and if this could hold even him back for long, then even a Luminious would have a problem figuring out how it worked.

Luminious Silence observed this formation being created while being amazed by the speed at which the Primordials were making their move. With his long life, was there anything he had not seen? Eos could surprise him, but that was because that being was a freak. On the matter of conceptual formations, he had learned a lot, even if he had not really focused on learning it.

If you had a mind with a perfect memory, after countless eternities, you would become a supreme genius at every topic.

Luminious Silence did not fully understand this formation, but he understood their tactic at a conceptual level, and he could not help but find it to be elegant. Although it appeared to be desperate, Luminious Silence knew that if he did not take this formation with the seriousness it deserved, then he deserved his downfall.

From the vast immensity of his conceptual form, Luminious Silence moved with precision as he extended a single, focused filament of his being, a line of absolute quiet, directly at Primordial Spiral, whom he thought was the anchor of the entire construct.

He cut through many of the obstructions in his sight and went for the core of this formation. Perhaps this action would lead to the destruction of this portion of his body, but it should be enough to wipe out this formation, giving him access to hundreds of their core and crushing them all into oblivion.

The filament was quicker than thought as it wrapped around the Primordial, and he excluded him from the formation, thereby creating a gap in its operation.

With this action, Luminious Silence had introduced a single point of absolute zero within the infinite regress.

It was a rather fascinating and profound way to destroy this formation as the captured primordial was indeed the visible core of the formation on the surface, and so the unbroken iterative motion that should continuously be growing, found itself at a point where iteration was meaningless.

The entire formation froze, resembling a perfect, static spiral.

This freeze was so sudden, it was as if a car moving at the speed of light suddenly rammed into an unbreakable wall because the space in front of them no longer existed.

The entire formation was dependent on its motion, and without this missing Primordial, the paradox collapsed in on itself, and the six hundred Primordials who had woven themselves into its fabric were caught in the detonation of their own unmade riddle.

Their forms shattered into a blizzard of semi-coherent concepts, fragments of potential, echoes of loss, and broken numbers that rained across the battlefield.

Another six hundred were gone in an instant.

But the gambit was not a total failure; the formation, even in its collapse, had served its purpose. It had forced Luminous Silence to act with specific intent rather than general expansion.

In other words, the act of Luminious Silence materializing and reaching out with a portion of his body was the entire point. Luminious Silence was ready to sacrifice this small portion of himself to stop this formation because he believed the Primordials wanted to trap him, but the Incarnations were not here to trap Luminious Silence; they wanted to kill him.

After the successive clash they had with this Luminious, they knew that he was someone who would run from a fight; the opportunity presented itself, and this made their plans also difficult to execute.

The trap would have to be visible, and there needed to be sacrifices made, and the only advantage they had over this being was the fact that, innately, Luminious Silence was a selfish creature and would not understand how someone would give up their life for another.

It was the simplest of concepts, but this was the core of their entire plan.

In that moment of focused action, Luminious Silence had revealed a limit: that is, he could only resolve so much complexity so quickly.

The remaining Primordials saw it. He was not infinite in his application, only in his potential, even though this potential was so vast it was almost hard to differentiate between the former and the latter.

Primordial Light, having watched two thousand of his kin fall, underwent a transformation. He had been furiously mastering the concept of light at the transcendental level, using the new way he saw reality to upgrade all of his previous layers, and now he unleashed all of that growth in the form of a force for revelation.

Eva had followed this path, and Primordial Light drew inspiration from the Lady of Shadows, transforming his light to become a weapon of absolute exposure.

At this point, Primordial Light felt something aiding this process, as if reality was shifting to adjust to this plan he was about to make, and what he would not know was that Eos, his main body had not just pushed the concept of Truth to the ninth dimension, transforming it into an Origin Concept, but he had also reached its fourth layer, and even though they were separate, a part of that power had just influenced his decision making process.