The loop did not pause.
Absolute Comprehension continued its endless intake, but the focus of the flood shifted. The present Multiverse, with all its living systems and active hybrid experiments, had already been largely mapped. The densest remaining concentrations of unreformed knowledge now lay in the past — in the residues of the dead.
Runar turned his perception toward them.
Extinct universes unfolded before him like vast, silent tombs. Some had died quietly, their laws simply running out of energy and collapsing into formless void. Others had ended in catastrophic principle conflicts, leaving behind scarred remnants of contradictory laws that still flickered weakly in the dark. A few had been deliberately erased by forces long forgotten, their histories scrubbed so thoroughly that only Absolute Comprehension could still read the faint outlines of what had once existed.
He read them all.
