As the Stardust Train sped through the unfolding tapestry of the Symbiotic Reincarnation, the Primordial-Sequential Taiji Totem in the palm of Arui suddenly erupted with a halo interwoven with gilt and dark brown—its golden lines reorganizing like broken chains of causality, revealing a shattered totem of sequential interdependence at its core. Ice Drip's warning halo flashed in the shape of an inverted hourglass, tracing an expanding chronological rift across the starmap: "Sequential anomaly detected! At the chronological origin of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'sequential cleavage current' is stripping away the 'prior' (chronologically before) and 'posterior' (chronologically after) across all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to dismantle the cosmos into absolute, purely prior realms and entirely posterior domains."
Outside the portholes, the sequential balance that sustained the multiverse shattered like causality chains. The War-Pattern Clan's molten lava had its "initial-strike energy" and "subsequent potential" forcibly severed; lava that erupted first took a millennium to reach its target (prior yet lagging), while lava that erupted later struck its prey ten thousand years in advance (posterior yet preemptive). The Spectrum Clan's photons lost the chronological law of sequential symbiosis; early-emitting light grains remained forever at their departure point (prior yet motionless), while late-emitting light grains instantly surpassed all pioneers (posterior yet h…
Chapter 404