As the Stardust Train navigated the profit-and-loss currents of the Symbiotic Exchange Realm, the profit-and-loss Taiji Totem in the palm of Arui suddenly burst into a cyan-gold halo—its golden lines splitting apart like fractured measuring instruments, revealing a shattered totem of mutual benefit between abundance and scarcity at its core. Ice Drip's warning halo assumed the shape of an overturned measuring instrument, outlining an expanding rift of existence across the star map: "Abundance-scarcity anomaly detected! At the metrological origin of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'Scission Current of Abundance and Scarcity' is stripping away 'abundance' (existential affluence) and 'scarcity' (existential deprivation) across all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the cosmos into pure domains of absolute abundance and absolute scarcity."
Outside the porthole, the balance of abundance and scarcity that sustained the multiverse was cracking apart like a broken scale. The "abundant energy" and "scarcity focus" of the War-Pattern lava were forcibly decoupled; volcanic magma erupted in such abundance that it flooded galaxies yet failed to light a single match (abundant yet useless), while the lava beneath the crust was so scarce it could barely light a single lamp yet possessed the power to melt stars (scarce yet overwhelmingly potent). The photons of the Spectrum lost their energy distribution of abundance-scarcity symbiosis, crowding into solid particles devoid of e…
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