The coordinates pulsed in the air of the laboratory, radiating a cold, purplish light. Kael stood motionless in the corner of the room, staring at the coordinates as they slowly formed a labyrinthine pattern before his eyes. This isn't just a message, he thought. It's an invitation to enter the void."What do you see, Kael?" Sari's voice broke the tension, trembling violently. "You've been silent this whole time. Do you feel the pull from those coordinates?"Kael drew a deep breath, trying to steady his erratic heartbeat. "I feel it, Sari. Not as visual data, but as a gravitational pull. The empty space beyond time... it's calling me. It's calling my name."Aeris stepped forward, reaching toward the glowing light, but immediately pulled her hand back when a spark of energy struck her fingertips. "Don't even think about touching it, Kael. It's a trap. Its pattern doesn't align with any law of physics we know.""If I don't go there, who will find out what happened?" Kael asked, his voic

The air around Lyra trembled violently, sending golden shockwaves rippling outward and sweeping away the remnants of the void left behind by the collapse of Bara Station. Before her, a tiny entity made entirely of pure radiance floated up and down, stirring particles of cosmic dust with the wave of its small, translucent hands. The Entity Baby curled in on itself, emitting a soft hum like the melody of a newborn star.“Easy, little one,” Lyra whispered, slowly stepping forward with her palms open. Her chest still rumbled with the lingering terror caused by losing contact with Bara and Kael. Yet her gaze was now locked on the tiny creature that held complete control over the local reality surrounding them. “Don’t be afraid of the ripple.”The Entity Baby turned its head, its nebula-like eyes spinning rapidly as they stared at Lyra. “Ripple...” Its voice whispered directly into Lyra’s mind, as faint as the first breath of wind in the morning. “World... cracked.”“Yes, the world is crack

The vortex of parallel space tore at Lyra’s consciousness through seconds that seemed impossibly long. Before she could reach for the Entity Baby that had slipped from her arms, the ground beneath them vanished, replaced by a dense gray void.“Lyra!” a hoarse voice shouted, cutting through the roar of dimensional winds.Lyra blinked, forcing her eyes through the swirling energy fog in the central coordination chamber. Before her, Aeris stumbled to the ground, breathing heavily, while the remnants of shattered holographic screens scraped against one another, producing a deafening screech.“Aeris? You survived the collapse of the corridor?” Lyra asked quickly, her fingers feeling along her torn robe.“I managed to pull myself out of that pileup of alternate realities,” Aeris replied as she rose, wiping fresh blood trickling from her temple. “But this place... our coordination center is no longer the same.”The vast room where they usually monitored the Life Network now looked utterly un

“Hold them off!” Aeris shouted as she hurled a wave of pure light toward the shadows creeping closer to Bara.Sari swung her hand, summoning a holographic data shield to deflect the onslaught of dark claws from within the Void. “Hurry, Bara! This shield won’t hold for long in this lawless place!”“Just a little more... the crystal wall is almost collapsing!” Bara groaned, cold sweat mixed with energy radiating from his temples.With one final, ear-splitting surge of frequency, the cracks across the surface of the time crystal widened before shattering into countless fragments of light. The figure trapped inside fell forward, immediately caught by Lyra.“Kael! Can you hear me?” Lyra cried, gripping the young man firmly by both shoulders.Kael blinked slowly, gasping for breath as he looked at each of his companions in turn. “You... you really came to this cursed place for me?”“Of course we did, idiot,” Sari replied, her voice trembling with emotion as she immediately pulled Kael into

“Run, Lyra! Open the gate now!”The voice inside her own mind thundered, racing against the shriek of giant metal as it crushed the headquarters. The air around her froze, leaving an ever-narrowing space to breathe as claws of the Void began tearing through the laboratory roof.“Emergency authorization... Sector Nebula Umbra!” Lyra cried, her trembling fingers pounding against the console, which was beginning to blister. “Consciousness transfer... now!”A burst of pure golden light erupted, swallowing her luminous body just as the entire headquarters collapsed into cosmic dust.Silence.The next second, unfamiliar gravity hurled Lyra onto a cold, rocky surface. All around her, violet and blood-red cosmic gas slowly swirled, forming a colossal wall of mist.“Am... am I alive?” Lyra whispered, feeling her chest throb irregularly. “What is this place?”“You are at the final boundary, Lyra,” a gentle yet profoundly majestic voice answered from beyond the mist.Lyra jolted upright, the gol