He needed to feed THE Akashic Seed more and more, and eventually he would elevate it enough to bloom with a terrifying rarity of Intent.
All he had to do was swallow more decimated Fourth Scale beings!
If he kept it up, it became a loop that fed itself. His Prime Cause of Assimilation grew grander, which made his body generate Eridarch Ore faster, which gave him more means to elevate whatever Intent he eventually formed, which made his Cause grander still, on and on. And his real goal sat at the end of that loop, far past Intents and Scales. He wanted to grow his Cause until it became a First Cause. Like THE First Cause that gave way to an Observable Existence!
If pathways to more Prime Causes opened along the way, fine. But a singular focus felt grander to him than spreading himself across nine truths.
Assimilation. Above everything else.
As he was thinking it, Taylor shook her head.
