The moment the Outer Architect materialized, reality screamed.The cliffs shattered into light; rivers turned to threads of raw data; the sky bent inward as though the stars themselves were falling toward Kai. Storm against structure. Creation against the thing that once wrote creation.Kai’s aura burned white, a hurricane made flesh. Sylvia, Mandy, and Sahra struggled to stand, their forms flickering under the pressure.“You were not meant to exist,” the Architect’s voice echoed, thousands layered into one. “Your realm is an aberration.”“Then why,” Kai growled, “does it call me its master?”He raised his hand, lightning spiraling out in fractal arcs. The Architect met it with a beam of pure code, the two forces colliding mid-air, tearing open a void that devoured color itself.The world shook. Mountains collapsed into silence.Then—something else awoke.A deep resonance rippled through every particle of existence. The Dimensional Core spoke—not as a voice, but as a vibration of