The expansion system functioned even at the level of elementary particles.
Around the singularity, a vast and intricate system had been constructed. Its logic had been designed by someone—its theories refined through countless experiments—until the system itself reached completion.
By then, its creator's death lay buried in the distant, eternal past.
The system continued to operate regardless. It was never meant to be inherited.
At the heart of this system—at the center of a city as vast as the universe itself—an existence had been constructed. Dull black radiation spilled outward, erasing the boundary between inside and outside.
This was a singular point of the world—a place where physical laws no longer applied. Life could not reach it.
Anything that attempted to approach was eradicated, like metallic antibodies protecting a vital organ.
And yet—
Standing before the singularitywas a single being.