A pattern emerged.
It was alien, distant—spiraling inward upon itself into a singularity so infinitesimal, so unfathomably deep, that it devoured light, sound, and existence itself, birthing form from the void.
The helix stretched.
It twisted.
It fractured.
It imposed order upon the abstract.
And in its wake, every entity that had ever existed awoke to a new sensation:
Pain.
The Aeon's Agony
IX, the Aeon of Nihility—devoid of fear, of emotion—now knew suffering.
The stars around it shattered under the Demon's scream.
Even at the zenith of its power, even as it unmade its own path, it could not withstand the onslaught.
Not for a moment.
Not at all.
Desperate, IX reversed its nature—summoning existence from the void, birthing life from oblivion.
For an instant, they were.
Then—
They were not.
The helix tightened.
Past and future collapsed.
IX's form flickered—
—between its pre-ascension self and a quasar's dying light.
Then—
The implosion.
A singularity.
An explosion beyond universes.
And IX—
Gone.
Not dead.
Unmade.
The Multiverse Watches
Silence.
Then—
Panic.
"HOLY F—"
"This isn't containment—it's slaughter!"
"How do you fight nothingness?"
Three-Body Universe – Earth
Luo Ji's hands trembled.
"If existence itself is meaningless… what's the point of hope?"
Marvel Universe – Watcher's Realm
Uatu's infinite knowledge faltered.
The Screaming Demon didn't just kill.
It erased the rules.
The Voice That Said "No"
Then—
Text flashed on-screen:
[The Eternal Day comes. The End follows.]
[The scales of order shift.]
[The universe's doom is here.]
And beneath it—
"But not today."
Reality rewound.
Stars rekindled.
Planets reformed.
As if creation itself had been reset.
The chat group exploded:
"WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED."
"That voice— who is that?!"
"Even the Demon obeyed?!"
DC Universe – Watchtower
Superman's breath caught.
"The Administrator."
The Demon's Rage
The Screaming Demon thrashed.
It scratched at the walls of reality.
It hated.
It hated existence.
It hated its own hatred.
But the command held:
[The Screaming Demon returns to the tachyon universe.]
[But not today.]
[Mission complete.]
Site-0
Chu Yun exhaled.
"Too close."
The rewards flashed before him:
Local Recruitment Order (Chance to summon entities from the Foundation universe.)
The Demon's Scream (A whisper of annihilation.)
Ascension (A fragment of divinity—for containing the uncontainable.)
His lips curled.
"Now this changes everything."
The Ninth Recruitment
[Announcement: Ninth recruitment initiated!]
[Selected Universe: Foundation Universe]
[Selected Agent: Lue Mofei]
A name that shook the multiverse.
A being who edited narratives.
And a note:
[Not the "Acid-Satire" version. This is Lue at his base — high-tier infinite layered meta-narrative manipulation.]
The audience gasped.
This was the Foundation's answer to gods.