Chapter 186

In the cold, void cosmic backdrop, time was like congealed grease. Only the occasional distant supernova remnant painted fleeting patches of pale light upon the deep ink canvas. Silence was the sole constant here, until— Hum! A dull, heavy tremor—one that space itself could scarcely bear—approached from afar at a speed surpassing light, closing in on this deep, vacuum graveyard. It was not the sound of tearing through the air; rather, it felt like an invisible, unimaginably heavy giant hammer smashing against the eardrums of space, triggering a resonant hum of the Laws and Rules.