Chapter 128

The Entropy Remains Graveyard slumbered beneath a scab of rust-colored blood. Fragments of frozen star-corpses floated like bloated, putrid chunks of flesh amid the rust-red folds of space-time. Viscous rust-slime, resembling congealed blood, clogged the fissures of gigantic scars, and occasionally, a speck of dark red—deep as dead blood—surged sluggishly within it, mirroring the final, struggling heartbeat of a dying soul. Cold. Utterly desolate. This was the sole theme of this cosmic mortuary. In the nether-abyss of this decayed frozen wasteland, at the very core of the inverse crystal singularity ruin, which was blanketed by rust-bound ice dust, lay a tiny glimmer of ash-white light. So infinitesimal that no detection method could possibly perceive it, it flickered faintly between the rust shell and the ice crystals like an unextinguished ember deep within the permafrost. Within that light curled an embryo composed of the purest remnants of existence—the Ash Sub-Core.