Lyra's POV"The Architects didn't just leave behind Seeds," Luna announces, his temporal fluctuations momentarily stabilizing. "They left weapons. Tools specifically designed to fight the Devourers."We stand in what was once the Grand Archive, now a shifting labyrinth of living information. Around us, reality pulses with newfound awareness, showing us glimpses of artifacts hidden in dimensional pockets."There," Xander points to a crystalline map forming in the quantum foam. "Three weapons, three trials, three chances to save existence."The map burns itself into our enhanced consciousness: The Sword of Unmaking in the Depths of Never, the Crown of Infinite Possibility in the Maze of What-Could-Be, and the Shield of All-That-Is in the Void Between Choices."We split up," I decide, watching time fracture around Luna. "We don't have enough of it to go together."The first trial falls to me. I step through a portal into the Depths of Never—a place where all failed possibilities collect
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