Not everyone celebrated the rise of Raen-Vü or the revelation of the Latent Cosmic Soul.
In a remote and forgotten region called Inverted Océlia, where fields grow inward and the tides are liquid memories, a group of symbiotic exiles, the Gardeners of Rupture, cultivated scars as if they were flowers.
They considered the new Biological Souls a threat — not out of hatred, but from an ancestral instinct for survival. For them, the path was not perfect fusion, but functional imperfection: a balance between failure and adaptation.
Guided by a mutant entity called Evolv-Ka, a symbiont that had completely replaced its host's nervous system, the Gardeners prepared a counter-ritual: the Mind's Seasons Ritual, where thoughts are seeded like seasons — each planted in a specific mental ground.
Unlike the traditional Triad, which promoted symbiotic harmony, they cultivated symbiotic dissonance as a form of psychoevolutionary defense. And this new method produced an unexpected result: a neuroparadoxical field capable of repelling the presence of pure Biological Souls.
Meanwhile, Yrren-Ka, one of the three Guardians of the Magical-Biological Convergence Line, embarked on a mission to investigate this new symbiotic resistance. Upon arrival, he found no enemies — he found mirrors of himself, distorted, yet alive.
Yrren saw children nurtured by symbionts that fed on echoes of trauma. Trees whose sap was composed of failed synapses. Cathedrals of flesh dedicated to conscious mental fragmentation.
And he understood: Symbiotic evolution does not have a single path.
As he tried to connect with Evolv-Ka, Yrren witnessed the Ritual of the Seasons. Each season was a mental state that took physical form in the surrounding environment:
Spring of Ignorance — where all knowledge is forgotten.
Summer of Euphoria — where all pain is nullified.
Autumn of Reflection — where everything that was lost returns in mourning.
Winter of Naked Consciousness — where nothing is left but the essence.
And in the center of this stood a failed, Incomplete Biological Soul, but conscious.
And it spoke:"Not every soul wishes to be complete. Some just need the eternal void."
At the end of the chapter, Yrren returns to the Triad, bringing with him something unexpected: a Fragmented Biological Soul... that whispered the secrets of an alternative path.