Chapter 106: The Source Code
The descent of a universal administrator did not obey terrestrial physics. It was never meant to possess mass, gravity, or biological consequence. When Ren locked his heavily armored, tungsten-sheened fingers onto the pillar of blinding platinum light and violently pulled, the massive, miles-wide geometric rings of the Cosmic Auditor did not simply fall through the Earth's atmosphere. They were forcefully, catastrophically dragged through the localized fabric of reality itself.
The shattered, fractal sky above the Australian desert screamed in sub-atomic agony.
For the first time since the System had automated the infinite cosmos, an administrative entity was subjected to physical gravity. The colossal structure, forged entirely from pure, unadulterated system mathematics and rotating platinum halos, crashed directly into the scorched, fused black glass of the Tartarus crater.
