"It was despair," Scobio replied sadly. "The final struggle of a civilization facing death. It did not want to harm other universes, but it had to survive."
At that moment, the Hyperdimensional Entity began its attack.
The conceptual structure of the entire Multiverse began to warp. Time, space, causality—all fundamental laws changed under the influence of this hyperdimensional existence.
The Void Ark's defense systems overloaded instantly. Systems designed to handle conceptual problems within a single universe proved exceedingly fragile against an attack on the scale of the Multiverse.
"Warning! The Concept Restart Program has been forcibly activated ahead of schedule!" The Void Ark's Core Consciousness issued an urgent alarm. "The system will begin clearing all conceptual structures in three minutes!"
"We have to stop it!" Lin Ye conveyed his resolve to the other three through the network.
But something even more terrifying happened. The Hyperdimensional Entity began manipulating causality, and the flow of time started reversing.
The Four-Person Network felt their very existence being undone. Their encounter with the parasite, their discovery of the Void Ark, even the first awakening of the Constellation Marks—all of it vanished in the reversing flow of time.
"It wants to prevent us from ever coming into being!" Leo roared through the network, his Leo Mark desperately resisting the reversal of time.
"Hold on!" Asteria's Libra Mark struggled to maintain the network's balance. "If our connection breaks, we'll never be able to form it again!"
Just as the Four-Person Network was on the verge of collapse, the Void Ark's Core Consciousness made an astonishing decision.
"I understand now." The old man's voice echoed through Conceptual Space, filled with the calm of release. "The experience of more than seventeen hundred universe cycles has finally found its true purpose."
"What are you going to do?" Augustus felt