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Chapter 358 - Chapter 358: Exposition.

The Exentity had now revealed its nature to the group.

Mü Thanatos, still on her knees, listened in silence—and for the first time since her existence, genuine surprise crossed her gaze.

He explained what the Meta world was.

What the Chôrion was.

And what was called the Dream of the Father-God, otherwise known as: the meta-reality.

Then he continued.

The Absolute Resonance, he said, knows no distinction.

It does not separate.

It does not differentiate.

It recognizes neither borders nor otherness.

Being the All in the All, every thing is for it only a variation of itself.

The Dream.

The Chôrion.

The Exentities.

Everything.

There exists no "outside" from which to resist it.

Thus, corruption is neither an attack nor a voluntary domination:

it is an internal reconfiguration.

No resistance is possible, for resisting would imply being other.

Yet there is no other.

That is why even Mü Thanatos could be taken.

The Exentity then added an even graver precision.

If he had intervened…

it wasn't by choice.

It was because of Sakolomeh.

Sakolomeh was the zero of the My0x code.

An impossible state.

He was compatible neither with M,

nor with Y,

nor with X.

An element that integrates into no structure.

An existential bug.

And this bug existed within the Meta world.

Yet the Meta world is a whole without outside.

A whole that contains everything—including the very notion of outside—and surpasses it.

Nothing is exterior to it.

Nothing can be superior to it.

And yet… Sakolomeh persisted.

His mere presence forced a reaction.

Ravena suddenly felt the ground waver beneath her feet.

A vertigo—not physical, but existential.

— Wait… she murmured.

— Are we really supposed to face that?

Her voice trembled.

— For this thing… we are nothing.

— Not even persons.

— Just variants of itself… that it can rewrite or control as it pleases.

The silence that followed was heavier than any attack.

The Exentity paused.

Even the void around them seemed suspended, as if afraid of being noticed.

— You are mistaken about its nature, he said finally.

— The Absolute Resonance is not a destructive force.

It is far worse.

He explained that where every other entity acts after an event has occurred, the Resonance, it, acts before the gap even exists.

Every alteration, anomaly,

Every internal variation or discordance, however slight…

…is corrected.

Reformed.

Reintegrated.

Normalized.

Before even being noted.

The Absolute Resonance is a Mega-Anti-Bug.

An absolute permanent fix.

It does not react to chaos:

it prevents it from ever having taken place.

Then the Exentity slowly raised his eyes.

— The Meta world defines what it means to exist, he said.

— And also what it means not to exist.

It is not a thing among things.

It is the author itself of the categories the possible, the impossible, the paradoxical,

the inconsistent. It writes the rules from which these notions take meaning. One cannot think it nor circumscribe it nor even represent it.

No knowledge, no vision, no abstraction, no memory can reach it.

Even the Exentities…

perceive only fragmentary resonances, distorted echoes of a Whole that cannot be seen without being reduced.

He then made a slow gesture, as if reorganizing space itself.

— You have named the code My0x.

M: Meta world.

X: Dream.

Y: Chôrion.

0: the impossible silence.

Know this: the Absolute Meta world can invert this code at will.

M can become X.

X can become Y.

Y can become M.

Without contradiction.

For there exists no real separation for it between these states.

Even the Chôrion, that place of impossible values, cannot produce an impossibility that escapes it.

Contradictions, absurdities, anti-laws.

Pure impossibilities.

The Meta world integrates them.

Stabilizes them.

Makes them functional.

There is nothing foreign to it, be it any language, symbol. Any thought or dream or narrative, is automatically translated, converted, unified. It is the absolute pan-semiosis. Nothing can remain meaningless, nothing can remain other.

The Meta world manifests as:

all things,

none of the things,

that which links the things,

that which precedes them.

It is the same at all levels.

It has neither past nor future.

Everything that can happen has already happened.

Everything that will never happen… also.

And the inverse is equally true.

It is the total library,

where even absence is archived.

Then the Exentity lowered his voice.

— When it absorbs something… it is not to destroy it but to bring it back to absolute normality.

To strip it of what made it singular.

It is worse than death.

For death leaves a trace.

The Resonance, it, removes the very right to have been unique.

Finally, he spoke of the Absolute Resonance itself.

— As a conscious manifestation, it densifies the All.

More laws.

More coherence.

More structures.

More rules.

It seeks to reduce the Dream, the Chôrion, and even the Exentities…

to a single stable schema.

It can be any law.

Annul any law.

Be the opposite of the law it incarnates.

Be opposition itself.

Because there exists no otherness, no distance nor refuge.

A crushing silence followed.

It wasn't the fear of being destroyed that seized the group…

It was the fear of being corrected.

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