The words carried different weight when speaking them about himself.
It was not authority directed outward but recognition turned inward!
The green-gold leaves that materialized around him seemed more personal, more knowing, as if they could see every effort he had ever made, every struggle he had pushed through, every moment he had chosen to continue when stopping would have been easier.
|Harvest Festival Endowment activated|
|Target: Self|
|Measuring existence and worthiness...|
|Warning: Recursive loop detected|
|One who grants harvest harvesting from themselves|
|Calculating paradox resolution...|
|Resolution found: Effort to help others harvest creates its own harvest|
|Complexity gained: +24,000,000,000|
|Purity gained: +24,000,000,000|
BOOM!
The influx of power was immediate but controlled, flowing back into him with the particular satisfaction of effort recognized. His complexity soared past 50 billion again even though it was halved not too long ago!
