"Tuner! Think of something, quickly!" Harmonic Leaping Note cried urgently. "Paradox is unraveling their confidence in their own existence!"
The purple-gold flames in Lin Ye's eyes burned at their fiercest.
Suddenly, he smiled.
"Playing paradox games with me?"
He stepped forward, charging straight into the Paradox Eye's observation range!
"Come on. Take a good look at me."
He spread his arms and stood utterly defenseless before that eye, which could drive even a supreme god to collapse.
"Analyze my existence-see how many paradoxes I carry."
The Paradox Eye faltered slightly.
Then it began observing Lin Ye in earnest.
The next instant-
BOOM!!!
The Paradox Eye convulsed violently!
What had it seen?
It saw a man carrying the obsessions of three hundred and seventy-one devoured civilizations within him-obsessions that should have clashed, repelled one another, and torn each other apart, yet coexisted harmoniously under Lin Ye's will.
It saw a man walking between order and Chaos in the name of the Tuner-belonging neither to the Blueprint nor to Paradox, yet regarded by both as a valuable anomaly.
It saw a man who, in a desperate situation, had made a pact with the embers of two ancient civilizations, willingly shouldering endless karmic consequences-an act that offered no benefit from a purely rational perspective and was far too burdensome from a purely emotional one, yet he had done it as though it were only natural.
Most fatal of all-
It saw, within Lin Ye, the thread of Existence Obsession he had comprehended from the Disintegration Node, the Dreamweaver's Echo's obsession with Guardianship, Before Completion's obsession with continuation, and the obsessions entrusted to him by three hundred and seventy-one civilizations whose souls he had laid to rest, all interwoven into a single-
Unity of contradictions that no single logic could classify.
"What exactly are