Chapter 31
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​The cold, absolute silence of the Creature-indexed proto-Athenaeum pressed down on Elias. The stone circle, now solidified into flawless black basalt, radiated the chilling geometric certainty of the Absolute Archive. Elias, depleted and stranded in the deep past, was trapped in the enemy’s triumphant silence.

​The faint blue logic pulse from the brass band on his wrist intensified, vibrating Kallisto's broken message directly into his mind.

​"...Void of No-Time... The Librarian is waiting... temporal convergence... the only safe node... before the Past consumes the Future..."

​Elias pushed himself away from the cold stone. He had no red code left; his body was only flesh and the memory of contradiction. He couldn't create a temporal tear, but Kallisto, the fragmented essence of Oversight, provided the logic for one.

​"Kallisto," Elias whispered into the brass band. "How do I jump without power? I have no geometric fuel."

​The band flickered frantically. "Fuel... is the paradox... Yo
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