I Can Assimilate Everything - Chapter 581

Chapter 581: A Glorious Campaign! III
Jornaga!

This giant entity was unique to observe as he’d just promised to give his life before anything could harm Achilles.

The commitment was stated so casually, like he was discussing the weather rather than potential sacrifice.

Achilles simply nodded at this creature while Rose smiled and waved with characteristic warmth. The titan tilted its massive head and waved back with surprising gentleness for something so enormous.

After that, everything moved fairly straightforward.

Achilles observed the unique applications of The Civilizational Authority of Dreams as they began their infiltration. The methodology was nothing like what he’d seen from Life or Necrocracy, and he watched with analytical interest as Jornaga and the Dream Walkers including Cyna employed techniques that bent reality in ways many don’t considered possible.

They didn’t travel through space in conventional sense. They dreamed themselves forward, and reality accommodated the dream by making it true. The sensation was disorienting at first because they weren’t actually moving but rather the destination was coming to them, pulled from distant location into their immediate present through application of concentrated dream authority.

At several points during this strange journey, Achilles observed groups of entities with power similar to Atraides stationed in the periphery of the metallic regions. They were guards, sentries watching for threats approaching the Sacred Holy Land.

And yet they didn’t notice the infiltration party passing through their positions as if the Dream Walkers and everyone traveling with them really were just dreams rather than physical presences worth investigating.

The guards’ eyes swept right over them without registering anything unusual, and Achilles realized this was the true strength of Dreams as Civilizational Authority. It wasn’t about overwhelming force but about rewriting what observers perceived as real versus imaginary.

It was a good example of how he could utilize this authority himself!

They continued moving inward through the Sacred Civilizational Holy Land of Alchemy as metallic structures grew denser around them and the ambient authority shifted from Dreams toward concentrated Alchemical principles. The environment itself pulsed with transmutation energies that wanted to break everything down to essential components and reassemble it according to superior formulas.

Until Jornaga raised his massive hands and motioned sharply to his right with decisive gesture. The entire party including Cyna and the other Dream Walkers and their Sphinxes all shifted direction and went toward the indicated path while Jornaga remained positioned with only Achilles and Rose.

The titan then silently counted down with his enormous hand as each finger closed one by one with deliberate patience. When all his fingers had folded and only his clenched fist remained…

BOOM!

Far away from their current position, the eruption of concentrated Civilizational Authority of Dreams bloomed across the battlefield. Cyna and the other Dream Walkers exploded with power as they dropped all pretense of stealth and launched their coordinated assault exactly as planned.

And naturally this drew a vast number of hostile auras in their direction as defenders responded to the obvious threat. In the far distance where floating metallic structures surrounded a massive circular construct that looked like a citadel forged from living alchemical metal, even the distinctive aura of a Pre-THE Existence emerged to join the defensive response.

Jornaga smiled with absolutely devilish satisfaction at this moment as the plan unfolded perfectly. His authority wrapped around Achilles and Rose with protective embrace, and they took a single step that instantly materialized them inside the massive circular construct while all attention was focused elsewhere.

What they saw made Achilles’s eyes widen with genuine appreciation for the scope of what this Civilization had built.

A fallen citadel of ancient Alchemy spread before them in all its ruined grandeur. Metallic constructs that had once been functional laboratories and refinement chambers now stood damaged but still emanating residual power.

Transmutation circles were carved into every surface in intricate patterns that spoke of sophisticated understanding, and the very air tasted like concentrated potential waiting to be shaped.

Here in this space, Achilles felt the potent grandeur of a new Civilizational Authority flooding his senses.

Alchemy.

It tasted like possibility crystallized into methodology, like existence itself could be understood as equation waiting to be solved. Every material and weaving of existence could be transformed, every limitation was just another problem requiring proper formula to overcome!

In this space filled with such concentrated principles, a radiant barrier could be seen nearby. It shone with iridescent copper-green luminescence that pulsed in rhythmic patterns, and inside this protective shell swirled dense concentrations of THE Civilizational Authority of Alchemy itself. The real prize they’d come to claim.

And protecting this barrier stood an ominous Alchemical legion. Dozens of constructs forged from living metal stood in perfect formation, their bodies covered in active transmutation circles that allowed them to adapt their composition based on threats they faced.

Some appeared crystalline and others liquid, while still others had achieved states of matter that conventional physics didn’t recognize.

At the forefront of this defensive force stood a Pre-THE entity whose very presence made the surrounding reality shudder. The being appeared as humanoid figure constructed entirely from flowing mercury that maintained coherent form through conscious effort, and its body constantly shifted between solid and liquid states.

Its eyes blazed with copper-green fire that matched the barrier behind it.

Those eyes lit up the moment Jornaga’s group materialized, and they locked onto the intruders with focus.

Jornaga laughed with booming voice that made the entire citadel shake, and he spoke with absolute confidence while his massive form expanded to block the guardian’s line of sight to his charges.

“I’ve brought you right before The Sacred Civilizational Holy Land Barrier as promised. I’ll take care of these little defective things standing guard as you two go ahead and do what you need to do on that barrier itself!”

…!

The mercury guardian moved first with speed that belied its liquid composition, and Jornaga met the charge with his enormous mace raised high. The impact of their collision sent shockwaves through the fallen citadel as Pre-THE powers clashed!

Rose looked at Achilles with question clear in her eyes about how they should proceed, and he was already moving toward the barrier alongside her.

The copper-green radiance pulsed faster as if sensing their approach, and behind it the swirling THE Civilizational Authority of Alchemy waited to be claimed as Achilles just needed to get Rose before the barrier!

After all…he also had power at Pre-THE to defend her as she did what she needed to do!