Chapter 12: Ignorance
Dax sat alone at a simple desk within the Isolation Chamber—the quietest place in his entire labyrinthine lab. It was a perfect void: no sound, no light unless summoned, no distraction from the outside world. A sanctuary for the mind.
Books and meticulously scrawled notes lay scattered before him—ancient tomes from Micah's ring, diagrams of mana flows, sketches of soul structures—but he wasn't reading any of them.
He was staring through them.
His mind refused to stay still.
For the first time since awakening in this bloodied world, he felt something he had almost forgotten:
Uncertainty.
The phenomena he had witnessed—the strange reactions of energy, the impossible behaviors of this world's essence, the endless sky that defied physics—none of it aligned with the principles he had mastered across centuries. None of it matched the sciences etched into his very being.
He finally understood a truth he had resisted accepting.
