The silence that followed weighed like a slab on the motionless grass.
Sakolomeh remained frozen, gaze lost, deeply marked by what he had just learned.
How could he be… what everything refused?
The creature continued in a low voice, almost compassionate:
— You're probably wondering how the "0 accident" that you are could have appeared…
She slightly raised her hand, as if to draw in the invisible air a schema that only she could see.
— You were probably born from an incident where the My0x code produced a result without correspondence: neither in the Metaworld, nor in the Dream, nor in the Chôrion.
An impossible state.
A value rejected by all layers of existence.
A residue from a cosmic calculation that should never have generated anything.
She paused.
— The My0x is an equation that articulates everything:
M: the Metaworld.
X: the Dream.
Y: the Chôrion.
0: the empty zone. The mute slot. The field that must never receive a value.
She insisted:
— The 0 is not a number.
It is an absence.
A non-variable.
A space that remains silent since the first tensions of the Metaworld.
No one has ever been able to activate it.
Even we, the Bearers, have never managed to give it meaning.
Her pupil-less eyes shone with a strange gleam.
— And yet… one day, M, X, and Y interacted unstably.
The Metaworld contracted.
The Dream froze at a place where it should never have crystallized.
The Chôrion, it, exhaled at the same instant, releasing an abnormal breath.
The three forces then created an alignment… impossible.
An alignment that launched a "request" into the equation.
A metaphysical query.
A calculation was triggered.
She articulated each word with grave slowness:
— But here's the problem:
M can produce values.
X can produce values.
Y sometimes produces impossible values.
But 0… 0 produces nothing. 0 must never produce anything.
And yet…
— The calculation returned "0".
Where no value should exist.
A "result" come from nowhere.
A non-value become existence.
Sakolomeh felt a shiver run down his spine.
— This fragment without origin…
This segment of reality without cause, without logic, without root in any layer…
She placed a hand on his chest, right at heart level.
— …it is what took form.
And this form…
She fixed him, deeply, as if contemplating through him a bottomless gulf.
— …was you.
The creature slowly brought a hand to her chin, as if evaluating an idea too great even for her.
— So… would all this be, in part, our fault? she murmured.
I still struggle to believe that I stand before an anomaly like you.
It's… terrifying. Yes. Even for me.
Sakolomeh lowered his eyes, crushed by the weight of these words.
The creature softened her voice slightly:
— Don't be overwhelmed. Strangely, despite what you are… you were seduced by the Dream. Educated by it. Guided by its forms, by its stories, even before being aware of your true nature.
And that is what saved us.
She breathed — or pretended to breathe.
— When your awakening nearly destroyed the Dream, I wanted to intervene.
But… what could I do against you?
I am an Exentity.
I carry within me the forces of X and Y.
I traverse the layers of the Metaworld.
And yet…
She shook her head, almost with inconceivable humility:
— …I could have done nothing. Nothing.
You are incompatible with everything.
And because of this incompatibility, nothing can destroy you.
Nothing can harm you.
Nothing can thwart you, for nothing is capable of understanding what you are in order to know how to annihilate you.
Sakolomeh swallowed, heart tight.
— Fortunately, she continued, you regained your control.
At the precise moment when you could have dissolved the Dream… your mind clung to something.
And it was at that instant that you perceived my call.
An echo, a resonance…
Enough to lead you to me.
For the first time, despite her absence of mouth, the creature seemed appeased.
— I don't know where you truly come from.
We try to resolve your existence with the tools we have.
But even combining our knowledges… we cannot.
A lightning bolt suddenly tore the sky.
Rain began to fall in heavy drops, as if the Metaworld itself reacted to their words.
The creature straightened, grave:
— Sakolomeh… there is something you must know.
He raised his head, his gaze now almost empty, weary from these revelations that painted him endlessly as a stranger in his own reality.
The creature continued:
— My inability to contain you… caused a terrible consequence.
It made the Metaworld vibrate.
And from this vibration… something was born.
Sakolomeh blinked, surprised, worried:
— Something?
What do you mean?
The Exentity nodded slowly.
— An emanation.
An emanation of the Metaworld in its absolute purity.
It appeared… for you.
An icy shiver ran up Sakolomeh's spine.
— For… me?
— Yes.
And its purpose is clear.
Its purpose is to be the Whole in the Whole.
The Metaworld in the Metaworld.
A perfect, total reflection that refuses all that is not it.
She marked a final pause, and her voice became almost a breath:
— It comes to replace you.
Sakolomeh murmured, voice filled with incredulity:
— The emanation of the Metaworld…?
The creature nodded slowly:
— Your existence is a contradiction in the Whole that it incarnates.
You are… an aberration in its eyes.
It was logical. Inevitable, even.
The Metaworld, to maintain its equilibrium, must generate a counterweight.
This is called: Absolute Resonance — the Whole in the Whole.
A unique entity, born as the Metaworld's self-defense, integral manifestation of its totality, but contained internally, pure and absolute reflection of all that it is and could become.
If Sakolomeh represents absolute deficiency, incarnate annulment, this Resonance represents absolute oversaturation, integral filling, conscious excess of the Whole.
It does not seek to be a simple element of the Metaworld:
— it wants to be the Whole made conscious.
It has the mission to reclaim the place that Sakolomeh threatens to create,
to prove that no void can exist,
to prevent cosmic annulment from becoming a principle,
and to restore an immutable law: Whole = Whole, without exception.
But its existence is a danger not only for Sakolomeh,
— but for everything the Metaworld contains.
It will want to absorb:
— the Dream, too unstable,
— the Chôrion, too independent,
— the Exentities, too ancient,
— and above all you, 0, the anti-Whole.
In its implacable logic, no individual existence must persist.
Even divinities, even the most ancient entities, are anomalies to erase, illegitimate fragments of the Whole.
It is an omnivorous entity, without concept of limits, incapable of tolerating the slightest independence.
It is convinced that it "repairs" the Metaworld by swallowing everything that escapes its totality.
In all this, it is the exact opposite of the Exentities, which content themselves with existing.
This emanation — called Absolute Resonance — is not a simple entity among others:
It incarnates the Metaworld in its totality, which makes it supra-existent relative to the Exentities.
The Exentities, they, are passive, stable, and calm resonances. They exist since the very first tensions of the Metaworld, but they do not seek to impose their will on all that exists. They are guardians, silent, fragmentary.
Absolute Resonance, on the other hand, is active, willful, and focused on its purpose: it wants to absorb, uniformize, and represent the Whole in the Whole.
In terms of hierarchy, the Exentities are fragmentary entities, limited to their original resonances. Absolute Resonance, it, is the conscious incarnation of the Metaworld itself. It surpasses all that exists in the Metaworld, for it is not only a reflection or resonance: it is the conscious totality.
Sakolomeh grasped the magnitude of the threat. Unlike the Exentities, which tolerate the existence of other entities and let their resonances persist, Absolute Resonance wants to integrate or neutralize all that exists.
Its complete representation of the Whole is not limited to the Metaworld: it encompasses all possibles and impossibles, all resonances, all layers of the Dream and the Chôrion. Compared to it, the Exentities seem fragmentary and limited.
And if the Exentities are ancient, they are confined to their resonances. Absolute Resonance, it, can extend infinitely into all planes and all realities, for it aims at the ultimate concept: the "Metaworld in the Metaworld", a level of totality that surpasses all other entities.
Sakolomeh let out a sigh. Facing this entity would be equivalent to defying everything the Metaworld contains at once: Exentities, Dream creatures, Chôrion entities…
In code terms, one could say that Absolute Resonance can control almost all the My0x code, except the 0. But after this battle, its objective will also be to absorb this 0, to integrate it into its totality, thus erasing all anomaly and consolidating the Metaworld in the Metaworld.