The fall of thirteen universes had plunged the Multiverse Guardians Alliance into an unprecedented crisis.
"The concept of aesthetics in Universe 998 has been corrupted," the Truth Seers Collective reported gravely. "Life there has lost its perception of beauty. Art and creativity have vanished entirely."
"The concept of morality in Universe 333 has been distorted." The chorus of the Voice of Many Hearts faltered. "The boundary between good and evil has vanished, and civilization's order has collapsed completely."
Through the Four-Person Network, Lin Ye felt one universe after another die. Each loss was like a knife driven into his heart, and the light of his Sagittarius Mark grew dim.
"How much longer can we hold out?" Astria's voice betrayed a rare despair. Her Libra Mark struggled to maintain the network's balance, but the number of fallen universes had already exceeded her ability to compensate.
Leo's Leo Mark still burned with steadfast light, but he, too, could feel the Alliance's morale plummeting. "At the current attack rate, we can hold out for no more than three standard time units."
Scobio's report was even more disheartening. "The Transdimensional Entity grows stronger after every successful attack. His ability to distort concepts is now ten times what it was at the beginning."
Just as the Alliance faced total collapse, Lin Ye's Sagittarius Mark suddenly erupted with an unusual resonance.
This resonance came not from the existing conceptual structures, but from something deeper. Lin Ye felt a strange pull, as though some forgotten memory were calling to him.
"Did you feel that?" Lin Ye asked through the network.
"What?" Astria asked, puzzled.
"Those fallen universes... they haven't disappeared completely." Lin Ye's voice was full of confusion. "I can feel their conceptual echoes."
Scobio immediately turned his insight toward the regions of space where those universes