Chapter 3685: The Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Echo: A World That Did Not Need Them

The community listened, not with their hearts, but with a new, unfamiliar part of themselves.

They felt a profound sense of dislocation, as if the ground beneath them had suddenly become transparent.

Kael’s words were not a story, but they held a different kind of power, a power that was both terrifying and exhilarating.

It was the power of a world that did not need them to exist, a world that would continue long after their songs had faded.

Some turned away, unable to bear the weight of such a vast, impersonal reality.

But others, a small but growing number, found themselves drawn to the clarity of the vision, the beauty of a world that was, in its own way, a perfect, unending story.