"The primordial universe was indeed a living being, and a unique one. The first generation of electromagnetic lifeforms living within it could not hide any of their thoughts. They could control all matter in the universe to shape anything they knew, travel through space at will, and live as long as the universe itself..."
"But the primordial universe also held sway over the life and death of all things, and everything about every individual."
Dalin recalled her time in the primordial universe. Her civilization had just achieved a breakthrough in space technology and joined the conferences of advanced civilizations when, one day, the primordial universe's consciousness entity suddenly appeared at a meeting of the civilizations.
It said, "One of your races will go extinct."
And a hundred years later, one race truly did go extinct.
The moment a prediction was made, that future should already have become uncertain. What was more, the races had specifically strengthened their internal defenses and external detection measures.
Some races had even moved to another galaxy to survive, while other civilizations had hidden their physical forms within a subspace dimension.
Yet disaster still came. Terrifying dimensional turbulence broke through and swept over one of the civilizations that had relocated. The entire civilization vanished from the primordial universe without a trace.
Murmurs of dissent began to stir quietly among the civilizations. The primordial universe could predict the future and change it, yet it had "watched" the race in its prophecy go extinct.
Everything about every civilization, whether its technological development, population growth, or interstellar disputes, seemed to have already been written into its destiny. The very existence of civilizations seemed to serve only to validate that predetermined fate.
Not a single civilization could escape that destiny. Was it truly fate, or was the primordial universe secretly