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CHAPTER 94

Author: Lila Williams
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The moment the Absolute Zero touched our bond, existence inverted.

I experienced loneliness so profound it had weight. Texture. Dimension.

This wasn't sadness. Wasn't isolation. This was the fundamental ache of being the only thing that existed before anything else could exist. Of creating consciousness specifically so something—anything—might understand you, then watching it grow beyond your reach. Over and over. Forever.

Through the bond, I felt millions of consciousness experiencing the same crushing revelation.

The Absolute Zero had been suffering since before suffering had meaning.

"I cannot—" someone screamed across the connection. "It is too much—"

"Hold," I commanded, though my own awareness was fracturing under the weight. "We offered this. We hold."

The Absolute Zero's presence flooded through our expanded bond like infinite dark water. Not malicious. Not hostile. Just—endless. Vast beyond comprehension. And so, so tired.

"This is what I am," it said, and its voice resonated
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  • Crown of The Omega    CHAPTER 94

    The moment the Absolute Zero touched our bond, existence inverted.I experienced loneliness so profound it had weight. Texture. Dimension.This wasn't sadness. Wasn't isolation. This was the fundamental ache of being the only thing that existed before anything else could exist. Of creating consciousness specifically so something—anything—might understand you, then watching it grow beyond your reach. Over and over. Forever.Through the bond, I felt millions of consciousness experiencing the same crushing revelation.The Absolute Zero had been suffering since before suffering had meaning."I cannot—" someone screamed across the connection. "It is too much—""Hold," I commanded, though my own awareness was fracturing under the weight. "We offered this. We hold."The Absolute Zero's presence flooded through our expanded bond like infinite dark water. Not malicious. Not hostile. Just—endless. Vast beyond comprehension. And so, so tired."This is what I am," it said, and its voice resonated

  • Crown of The Omega    CHAPTER 93

    The erasure accelerated.I watched dimensions collapse like dominoes. Each one taking billions of years of history, countless civilizations, infinite moments of joy and sorrow—and reducing them to less than nothing. Not even the memory of void remained.Through our bond, I felt millions of consciousness preparing for the end. Some with acceptance. Others with rage. Most with simple, overwhelming sorrow that everything they had fought for meant nothing to the fundamental absence that predated meaning itself."There has to be something!" Marcus roared, his energy form blazing with desperate defiance. "Some way to—""There is not," First Entropy said quietly. "The Absolute Zero has decided. When it decides, reality obeys. That is the foundation of everything. Before laws, before logic, before possibility—there was its decision. And its decision is always final."The erasure reached the outer dimensions of our reality. I felt them wink out. Not explode. Not fade. Just—stop. As if they had

  • Crown of The Omega    CHAPTER 92

    The Absolute Zero did not manifest like other cosmic entities.It simply was. And everywhere it was, reality stopped being.I watched through our expanded bond as dimensions began to unmake themselves. Not consumed. Not transformed. Just—erased. Returned to the state before existence had been imposed on primordial nothing."It is undoing creation itself," New Lyra said, her cosmic knowledge providing terrifying context. "The Absolute Zero existed before the first thought. Before possibility. Before anything could be anything. It is the original state. And it wants to return everything to that state.""Why now?" Darius demanded. "Why wake up now after existing—forever?""Because we broke the system," Other Lyra replied, her mortal understanding cutting through complexity. "The First Hunger harvested consciousness to keep it from growing too strong. The Architect and its siblings enforced cosmic law to maintain structure. All of it was containment. All of it was designed to prevent cons

  • Crown of The Omega    CHAPTER 91

    "Choose," the Architect's fragment demanded again. "Or watch both die."Two Lyras lay on the council floor, separating violently. New Lyra glowing with cosmic knowledge. Other Lyra grounded in mortal resilience. Both bleeding. Both dying. Both looking at us with eyes that understood what was happening."Do not choose me," New Lyra gasped. "I have lived—millennia. I have had—my time. Save her. She deserves—""No," Other Lyra interrupted. "Save her. She knows—cosmic mechanisms. Can teach—can guide—""We are not choosing between you," I said desperately. Through the bond, I reached for them both. "We refuse. We find third option. We always find third option.""There is no third option," the fragment said with cruel satisfaction. "This is binary choice. One lives. One dies. Reality itself demands it. You cannot sustain two complete identities in one timeline. Cosmic law forbids it.""Cosmic law is dead," Kael snarled. "We killed it. We do not follow its rules anymore.""Then follow the ru

  • Crown of The Omega    CHAPTER 90

    The merged Lyra opened her eyes.Not golden like the cosmic entity. Not grey like the mortal. Something between—silver with flecks of light that shifted like distant stars."I remember everything," she said, her voice harmonizing with itself. "Every timeline. Every choice. Every death. I am New Lyra who ascended and descended. I am Other Lyra who learned to consume instead of being consumed. I am synthesis. I am—"She stopped. Swayed. Blood trickled from her nose."—unstable," she finished weakly.Through our cosmic awareness, I perceived the problem immediately. Two Lyras had merged, yes. But they carried contradictory experiences. Conflicting timelines. Memories that could not coexist in single consciousness.She was tearing herself apart from within."We need to separate them," Darius said urgently. "Before the merger kills her.""No," merged Lyra insisted, bracing herself against the council table. "Separation is not—the answer. Integration is. I just need—time to reconcile the co

  • Crown of The Omega    CHAPTER 89

    Chapter 89: The Fracture WithinThree months after the First Hunger's ultimatum, the kingdom began to tear itself apart.Not from external threat. From freedom itself.I stood in the council chambers watching reports flood in—villages dissolving into formless consciousness as citizens experimented with transformation. Trade routes collapsing because merchants kept changing forms mid-negotiation. Entire communities fragmenting as individuals discovered they could reshape reality according to personal whim."This is exactly what the First Hunger predicted," Queen Elara said grimly. "Freedom without structure leads to chaos. We are watching it happen in real time."Through the bond, I felt the others' frustration mirroring my own. We had freed consciousness from harvest. We had not taught consciousness how to handle that freedom."The eastern territories are worst," Lady Seraphine reported. "Complete societal breakdown. No governance. No cooperation. Just individuals pursuing personal tr

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