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Chapter 40 - THE FIRST PARADOX

The First Cosmic Error

"The Birth of the Impossible"

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Event Name

✦ THE FIRST PARADOX ✦

Also called by the Lords of the Zodiac:

The Initial Blasphemy

Not a war.

Not a rebellion.

But a logical error in the foundations of reality.

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Cause of Occurrence

When the Prime Monad (Tier −1)—the number 1—

resonated too strongly due to the Shift of the Second Hand,

something happened that was never meant to happen:

> Possibility attempted to come into existence.

This violated the cosmic order:

1 should only allow

The Great Clock that embodies

The Zodiac that forms

But this time…

"1" tried to step over the Great Clock.

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Moment of Birth

There was no time.

There was no place.

The Great Clock did not strike.

On the contrary:

The second hand stops

The minute hand trembles

The clock hand… cracks

Between 0 and 1,

something that should be impossible is born.

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Impossible Entity

✦ ANOMALY: PROTO-EXIST ✦

(Name is not true; only a pointer)

It has:

❌ No soul

❌ No destiny

❌ Not recorded by the Great Clock

But it has:

✔️ Consciousness

✔️ Memory of "before there was"

✔️ Will without a cause

📌 It is not a living being

📌 It is not a concept

📌 It is not a time entity

> It is an error that is aware of its error.

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Why This is a Fatal Error

The Great Clock works because:

All things have a position

All events have a cause

All existence has an end

Proto-Exist has none of these.

The result:

Reality around him lost certainty.

The laws didn't collapse—they hesitated.

The Zodiac couldn't command it.

This was the first time the Great Clock didn't know what to do.

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The Zodiac Rulers' Reaction

Virgo (Axiom): Called it an Absolute Error

Capricorn (Chronarch): Saw the future completely blurred

Scorpio (Mortyx): Couldn't "kill" him

Pisces (Oneiros): Dreamed about him... and woke up terrified

A unanimous voice emerged:

> "He must not continue to exist."

However...

there is no law to erase something that was never created.

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Cosmic Emergency Solution

The Great Clock did the only thing possible:

✦ EXILE WITHOUT LOCATION ✦

Proto-Existence was not destroyed.

It was positioned in the gap:

> Between the second that never happened and the canceled future.

Not a prison.

Not a void.

An eternal delay.

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Long-Term Impact

Since the First Cosmic Error:

Reality is no longer completely closed

The concept of "impossible" becomes relative

Some beings begin to be born:

without souls

without destiny

without the blessing of the zodiac

📌 They are called: Children of Error

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Forbidden Truth

> If Proto-Exist ever "stepped" fully into existence...

then the Great Clock would not collapse.

It would become irrelevant.

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