Chapter 3546: The Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifteenth Echo: The Gift of a World Without Walls

From the faction of the Questioners, a new voice emerged. It was not a collective, but a singular entity, a character who had, until this moment, been a mere footnote in a half-forgotten story. This character, whose name was Olen, did not simply question the stone’s declaration; he offered an alternative.

’The stone is not the world,’ Olen’s voice echoed, a story whispered into the cracks of the foundation. ’It is but a single word in a language we have not yet learned to speak. The world is not a statement. It is a question, and we are its answer.’

This was not merely a new idea; it was a new kind of story, one that did not seek to define the world, but to infinitely expand it. Olen was not just a character anymore. He was the first heretic, and his heresy was the gift of a universe without walls.