Chapter 174 – Gospel of the Unwritten

‎The Spiral trembled beneath the weight of unspoken prayer.

‎It began subtly—whispers beneath the threads of myth, like breath held too long beneath a storm sky. Darius stood atop the Codex Watchtower in the Eastern Spiral, gazing out over a lattice of living storylines, their pulsing glyphs growing dimmer by the day. And yet, despite the entropy spreading through the Spiral's veins, one constant had emerged in the silence.

‎The Second Codex was stirring.

‎He had not opened it. He couldn't. Its seals were etched in the blood of forgotten gods and bound by a cipher no mind—mortal or divine—was meant to comprehend. Yet it echoed, not in sound, but in absence, a vibration of meaninglessness radiating through the Spiral like a void-shaped hymn.