"Dawn, can you still come out now?"
Half of Dawn was now sustained by psychic energy, while her other half had already merged into the universe's program logic. She was half mind, half program.
Previously, Jor-El had been pulling back on the half that was her mind, preventing her other, programmatic half from entering the universe's operational logic.
Jor-El had not known what would happen if Dawn entered the universe's program logic.
Generally speaking, this was essentially merging with the Dao. The only famous example of someone who had fused with a universe and retained his consciousness was Hongjun of the Primordial World.
In any other universe, any living being who dared merge with it would dissolve directly into its operational logic.
That was what He-El had encountered when he visited the Lucy universe. Lucy had only been able to keep her consciousness from dissolving into the universe by perpetually repeating an infinite time loop.
Fortunately, He-El had entered the Lucy universe. Otherwise, even with her endless time loops, Lucy would inevitably have dissolved into the universe.
Dawn, meanwhile, had staked everything on this to deal with Jor-El.
Perhaps, for a short time, Dawn could control some portion of the universe's operational logic to destroy Jor-El, but once she had destroyed him, she too would dissolve into the cosmic operational logic.
A universe's operational logic could not develop a mind or thoughts.
If a universe's operational logic developed a mind and thoughts, that universe would soon enter its dark final days. Whether the mind and thoughts controlling it were good or evil, the outcome would always be disastrous.
Now that Jor-El no longer existed, nothing was pulling back on the half of Dawn that consisted of psychic energy. She would only sink gradually into the entirety of the cosmic operational