When the world is rewritten into a game, everyone chases power.
Rankings. Talents. Glory.
Axiom does not.
Reborn before the descent, he knows the truth no one else does:
individuals do not survive the end of the universe—civilizations do.
While others gamble everything on champions and miracles, Axiom builds something colder, quieter, and far more terrifying:
Iron Continuum—a civilization designed to endure loss, absorb failure, and function even as reality itself begins to decay.
No heroes.
No chosen ones.
No reckless sacrifices.
Every profession is an organ.
Every battle is a calculation.
Every victory is measured in survival rate.
When empires rise and fall, when elites burn themselves out chasing supremacy, Iron Continuum does not conquer.
It remains.
And in a dying cosmos, endurance is the final form of power.

Chapter 3 - Chapter 3: The Quiet Tightening