I Can Assimilate Everything Chapter 746: The Akashic Seed

Achilles watched and waited.

Even Taylor did not have much to do. All the Attendants here stayed back, support and nothing more, because the Relictus and the Swords of Existence were terrifying enough that they did everything themselves. There was no role for a Third Scale being in a fight being settled by THE Fourth Scale. The Attendants were spectators with badges, and Achilles was content to be the most attentive spectator of them all.

"I sense a bit of what you’re doing, Adrastia. Just be careful not to get caught."

Taylor whispered the words straight to his existence, and he smiled and gave her a small nod.

She did not tell him to stop!

With the Source Lifeforms holding everything under control, the whole thing felt less like a battle they were part of and more like a brutal war they had wandered up to watch. They strolled the edges of it. They observed. And sure enough, seconds in, the first of what Achilles had been waiting for arrived.

He watched Sir George send his Source Armament flying.

The blade carried the man’s whole record with it, an intent built to cleave, and it found an injured Fourth Scale Gilded One who had no time left to gather a defense worth the name.

BOOM!

Existence nearby guttered and buzzed as a grand record was torn apart, the death of a Triassic Scale being registering in the weavings of Existence the way the death of a smaller thing never did. Achilles did not waste a second. The moment Sir George moved deeper into the settlement, other Swords and Relictus flowing inward alongside him, their attention pulled forward and away.

"Assimilate!"

HUUM!

His spores converged on the collapsed pieces of the Fourth Scale Gilded One. They vanished from the bloodied ground, scattered fragments and severed record alike, and his internal existence began to buzz with the weight of what he had just taken.

This was different from the Third Scale corpses he had been quietly eating.

From the collapsed Fourth Scale Gilded One, a record of who they had been remained intact enough to read. Their intent. Their power. The whole shape of an existence that had lived long enough and done enough to forge a weapon out of its own history!

|An extremely concentrated level of power and history has been Assimilated.|

|Due to the overabundance of history and record carried by the Assimilated lifeform, a great many memories are being grasped and filtered.|

|Memories regarding Akashic Civilizational Intents are being filtered first.|

...!

Achilles’s eyes shone.

The levels of power became clearer to him all at once, and with them came an understanding of exactly how terrifying the Source Lifeforms truly were. He had known they stood above him. Now he knew the architecture of that height, the rungs of it, the names!

The prompts laid out THE Fourth Scale the way the dead Gilded One had understood it.

|An Akashic Civilizational Intent is the record of a being’s entire existence compressed into a force imposed upon reality, formed at THE Triassic Scale, THE Fourth, and carried thereafter. Within Vakochev’s Scales, a being’s Intent is fixed at the rarity it forms at and does not rise on its own. Only an external means such as Eridarch Ore can elevate it.|

|THE First Rarity: Naiad Intent. The foundational rarity, the most common form an Intent takes upon formation. Its reach is local. A being carrying a Naiad Intent imposes their record on the existence immediately around them, shaping a limited span of reality to conform to who they are. Genuine within that reach, but it presses against existence rather than commanding it. The vast majority of Fourth Scale beings form a Naiad Intent and never rise above it.|

|THE Second Rarity: Nereid Intent. Broad where the Naiad is local. The being’s record reaches outward beyond their vicinity to shape territory, regions, and the beings within them at a remove. Where the Naiad presses on what is near, the Nereid extends across distance. It marks a being whose presence is felt across a region rather than a room.|

|THE Third Rarity: Titan Intent. This is where an Intent stops pressing and begins to rewrite. A Titan Intent imposes the being’s truth with enough authority to overrule the records of lesser beings, replacing what was with what the being declares. The jump from Nereid to Titan is the jump from being heard to being obeyed.|

|THE Fourth Rarity: Olympian Intent. The record becomes structural. Within its reach, reality reorganizes around the being’s truth as a binding law that existence itself enforces. Those subjected to it do not experience an attack to resist. They experience the way things now are.|

|THE Fifth Rarity: Primordial Intent. Foundational, and near-mythical. The being’s record is woven into the bedrock of existence itself rather than layered on top of it, treated by existence as foundational rather than imposed. Nothing at THE Fourth Scale or below can meaningfully stand against a genuine Primordial Intent, because such a being is not arguing with reality but participating in its foundations.|

|Naiad presses on what is near.|

|Nereid extends across what is far.|

|Titan overwrites what is weaker.|

|Olympian reorganizes reality as law.|

|Primordial participates in the foundation of reality itself.|

...!

The Intents made themselves clear, and Achilles turned each one over with the hunger of a being who had just been handed a map of a place he fully intended to conquer.

A whole ladder. Five rungs, fixed at formation, immovable by ordinary means. A Fourth Scale being formed their Intent at whatever rarity their record could manage and carried that ceiling forever, unless something external came along to lift it.

Eridarch Ores lifted it.

And Achilles produced Eridarch Ores from his own existence now.

OH!

He almost laughed at the shape of it!

A moment later, the deeper integration finished, and the prompts told him what THE Fourth Scale Gilded One had truly given him.

|THE Prime Cause of Assimilation is integrating THE Nereid Intent of THE Prideful Tyrant.|

|All of this scattered Intent is coursing across your existence.|

|The Assimilation is allowing for THE Akashic Seed to bloom within your existence.|

|If THE Akashic Seed is fed more and more records, more and more Intents, it will reach different tiers, allowing you to bloom with a high rarity Intent of your own.|

...!

The Akashic Seed!

Achilles felt it take root somewhere deep in THE Primordial Realm of Assimilation, small and new and patient, a thing that would grow into exactly as much as he fed it!

And once it was fed enough...it would allow the emergence of his own Intent!