Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse novel Chapter 4336

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Chapter 4336: KNEEL III

"This all works in concert with your new ’Harvest Field’ and your passive defenses. It’s a truly beautiful, synergistic system." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

|Harvest Field Projection|

|Creates zones where all effort flows toward you. Radius: Fold-wide, depending on complexity. Within this field, all work, struggle, and effort becomes your resource. Even metabolic processes, thought, existence itself... feeds you.|

|Effort Redirection Shield|

|A new passive defensive manifestation. All force used against you redirects to strengthen you. Physical, conceptual, existential attacks all count as "effort." The shield grows stronger with each attack absorbed, eventually becoming impermeable to anyone who has tried to breach it.|

|Harvest of Intent|

|Even the intention to harm you is now harvestable. Thoughts of violence directed toward you will actively drain the thinker’s energy and feed your own. Planning your defeat weakens the planner. Conspiracy against you will automatically fail as the conspirators are drained of the very will to act.|

RUIN/EDEN paused, letting the weight of these new laws settle.

"And now, Master... the ’Ultimate Expressions of Perpetual Harvest.’ These are the true, civilization-level applications of your Way. The first of which, you have already unlocked."

|Existential Taxation|

|You can now impose a "tax" on existence itself within your domain of influence. All beings must pay a portion of their daily effort simply to maintain their existence. This tax compounds for those who resist or oppose your will. You can, theoretically, bankrupt an entire Fold of its energy through accumulated, unpaid taxes.|

"The others in this category," she continued, her holographic form gesturing to a series of locked, golden icons, "are... future goals. They are currently locked, but they show us the path to true, conceptual Harvest."

|The Infinite Farm|(Currently Locked)

|Can cultivate conflicts that perpetually generate harvestable effort. Set up situations where beings must struggle eternally. Their eternal struggle becomes your eternal empowerment. Creates recursive loops of effort that feed into themselves.|

|The Reaper’s Due|(Currently Locked)

|Death itself becomes a form of harvest. Those who die opposing you add their entire existence to your harvest. Their concepts, memories, and abilities integrate into your growing power. Death in your service grants them continuation within your existence.|

|Apocalypse Harvest|(Currently Locked)

|Can designate an entire conflict as "one harvest cycle." All effort expended by all parties throughout the conflict becomes yours. Wars fought in your name grant you their total energy expenditure. The larger the conflict, the greater the final harvest.|

|The Final Harvest|(Currently Locked)

|When fully manifested, can harvest "potential effort." Takes not just what was done but what could have been done. Harvests all possible timelines where effort was expended. Retroactively harvests effort from futures that now will not occur.|

|Principle Recursion: Harvesting Harvest|(Currently Locked)

|Can harvest from the act of harvesting itself. Each use of the Principle strengthens the Principle. Creates an exponential growth spiral limited only by the available effort to harvest. Eventually reaches a point where existence itself is one vast harvest field.|

...!

Oh!

RUIN/EDEN let the final, terrible prompt fade. "Of course," she concluded, her expression turning analytical, "such power is not without its cost. A Principle of this magnitude is not a free lunch. It has... an appetite."