I Can Assimilate Everything Chapter 741: Eridarch!

The Gilded Ones fell to THE Gamaidjan, and it was not a pretty thing to watch!

Their eyes went fully blue, pupils swallowed by the madness, and the disciplined pride that had governed their entire existence curdled into the shapeless certainty of beings who had touched Infinity and lost the anchor that kept them separate from it.

One of them began laughing, the sound wrong in every way a sound could be wrong. The other stopped moving toward Achilles and started moving toward nothing in particular, swiping at the air, snarling at threats that existed only inside a mind that no longer worked the way minds were supposed to.

Achilles took everything else while they came apart!

He drank their Observable Force down to the last current, siphoned the Sources of their existence out of them in steady relentless pulls, hollowing them from the inside while their bodies still stood twitching on the obsidian sand. He left the Infinity for last, the way he always did, the one ingredient his foundations refused to let him swallow in large amounts, and he stripped away everything around it until there was nothing holding the two Gilded Ones together except the wild Infinity itself.

Then he imposed the weight of his Civilization.

He brought THE Assimilation Cause down on them with the full density of what he had become, and with nothing left to give their existence structure, they simply collapsed!

Their forms came apart into pure rivers of Infinity, blue and wild and no longer attached to anything that could be called a person, and those rivers dispersed into the surroundings, soaking away into the dense air and the obsidian sand until there was no sign two Devonian Paleozoic Scale beings had ever stood on this beach at all.

HUUUM!

Achilles breathed heavily.

Not from exhaustion. From the work of digestion, the processing of two Third Scale existences' worth of memory flooding into him at once, his Inner Dominion sorting through everything he had pulled out of them before they dissolved.

|Assimilation processed: partial. Observable Force, Sources, and memory integrated. Infinity largely rejected and dispersed.|

|Subject identities recovered.|

|These were Superbius Gilded Ones of THE Ubergulden House, a Gilded family of considerable standing within the broader structure of THE Magna Sorora's allied houses.|

|They entered THE Source Lands through unauthorized means, exploiting a method their House has discovered and concealed. The method is not fully detailed in their recovered memories, suggesting compartmentalization within their House to protect it.|

|They were here, along with others of their House, to harvest Source Beasts and ultimately attain THE Primordial Source. The Pure Primordial Essence and Source-aligned foundations of these creatures serve as progression material the Gilded cannot ordinarily obtain. This harvesting is the cause of the increased deaths your mission was sent to investigate.|

His eyes shone as he processed it.

The mystery was not much of a mystery once the memories laid it out. Source Beasts were dying because Gilded Ones had found a way into a place they were never meant to reach and had started killing the residents for parts. The only real question was how the Ubergulden House had managed access to THE Source Lands when access was the single thing the Gilded had been failing to achieve across their entire history, and that question the dead had not been trusted enough by their own House to answer.

Or they had terrifying measures to even restrict records and memories of the methodology of entry that these beings utilized.

He thought for a moment, and then…

He reported what he had through the marker in his hand.

"The deaths of Source Beasts in THE Strand of Broken Scales, and likely in other regions of THE Source Lands, come down to Gilded Ones gaining unauthorized access," he said, calm and plain.

"They are harvesting the creatures for progression material. I encountered two Superbius Gilded Ones of THE Ubergulden House here and collapsed them both. Devonian Paleozoic Scale. They came through some concealed method their House developed."

...!

His mark buzzed for a moment and then went still.

An instant later it shone brilliantly, and the light in it shifted, behaving now like a compass rather than a record, and he felt a movement above him much like the movement that had carried him here. The dense air parted, and three beings descended onto the beach.

The first was a Sword of Existence, adorned in a black robe, his presence carrying the same weight Achilles had felt from Sir William and the Guardian of the Stone, that unmistakable mark of a being with THE Primordial Source running through its foundations. The other two were Attendants, both women, each bearing a marker on her hand like the one on Achilles's own.

The Sword looked at Achilles, then waved his hand. A vibrant obsidian-blue crystal formed in the air and shot toward him, and Achilles caught it.

"You did well checking up on this mission and surviving," the Sword said. His voice was even, the tone of someone who handed out rewards often enough that the handing had become routine. "Consider this your reward. Gilded Ones in THE Source Lands, eh? We will let the relevant departments know and begin cleansing them soon enough."

...!

Achilles looked at what he had been given, and that familiar sensation rose in him at once, his existence crying out for him to assimilate the thing in his hand as quickly as he possibly could!

Immediately even!

|Resource: Eridarch Ore.|

|A crystalline metal in which pure stable Infinity and Primordial Source are bound together in a single lattice. Among the most effective progression materials for Third, Fourth, and Fifth Scale beings in existence. Refining with Eridarch Ore allows a lifeform to smoothly form their Akashic Civilizational Intent and step into the Fourth Scale, and has shown the capacity to elevate an Intent toward a higher rarity, as well as to ease the path toward the Fifth Scale.|

...!

He wanted to assimilate it!

He needed to assimilate it!