A cold pulsation. The purplish-black core slowly contracted and expanded within the dead scar of the universe, resembling a colossal embryonic heart sleeping in absolute zero. With every pulsation, it pulled the surrounding chaotic sea of light—composed of devoured matter and shards of consciousness—into ripples, like a viscous nebula breathing.
Lucia Antoinette's shards of consciousness were imprisoned deep within the core's logical structure, trapped at a tiny checkpoint named "Lucia Antoinette." This was no longer a frozen lake, but... the absolute ice sheet of logic. The fragments of order imprinted by Olivia, the purifying will of the Fire of Nirvana, the cold directives of "sterile processing" from the Deep Space Alliance... These forces, which pursued absolute stillness and purity, were repeatedly tempered and purified in the furnace of the Seed of Demise, ultimately condensing into this unbreakable absolute ice wall that sealed off all "entropy increase pollution."
Inside the ice wall lay the ruthless operating logic of the Seed of Demise—survival, expansion, devouring, optimization. Outside the ice wall lay the chaotic sea of light formed by pain, fear, despair, and forcibly crushed imprints of life—deemed as sources of "entropy increase pollution" that must be isolated and cleared.
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