As the Stardust Train traveled through the light-and-shadow veins of the Symbiotic Manifestation Realm, the day-and-night Taiji Totem in the palm of Arui suddenly erupted with a crimson and dark-cyan dual-color halo—the golden lines split apart like a shattered shield and spear, and the core developed an image of a broken totem of offense and defense balancing each other. Ice Drip’s alert halo displayed a form of misaligned offense and defense, outlining an ever-expanding existential rift on the star map: "An offense-defense anomaly has been detected! At the adversarial origin of the Symbiotic Universe, there is an 'offense-defense fracture current' stripping away the 'offense' (existential enterprise) and 'defense' (existential protection) of all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the cosmos into a purely offensive domain of absolute enterprise and a purely defensive domain of thorough protection."
Outside the portholes, the offense-defense balance sustaining the multiverse shattered like a shield. The War-Pattern Clan’s lava-born "offensive sharpness" and "defensive foundation" were forcibly torn apart; a warrior's battleaxe could split stars yet fail to withstand the impact of a single feather (offense without defense), while a shield could withstand a supernova explosion yet fail to convert into a counterattacking force (defense without offense). The Spectrum Clan’s photons lost their energy cycle of offense-defense symbiosis; offensive light particle…
Chapter 388