The Architect archive did not slow down.
If anything, the deeper Lysarra pushed into its structure, the more intricate it became.
At first the vault had appeared to contain straightforward historical records—battle simulations, containment schematics, devourer classifications. That alone would have taken centuries for even an advanced civilization to fully analyze.
But now the archive was revealing something else.
Hidden layers.
Systems designed not only to record history…
…but to analyze the fate of entire universes.
Inside the Convergence Axis chamber, the projections surrounding the triad shifted once again.
The reconstructed battlefields dissolved into drifting motes of light.
Star maps faded.
Ancient war simulations collapsed back into streams of Architect code.
In their place appeared something far more abstract.
At first Ethan thought he was looking at tangled strands of glowing vines stretching across the chamber.
