"We once believed that faith belonged solely to humankind—until we saw the stars praying too."—Excerpt from Xinghui's Inaugural Speech at Xinghui Academy
After Override was reconstructed into a new system—Eden-Archetype, a container for spiritual diversity—Sophia led the core team in unsealing a forbidden archive from the ancient era:
The Stellar Archive—a cross-civilizational repository of spiritual legacies.
With access authorized by both the Chrono-Stella and the Last Backup code, the core of the archive revealed itself: a celestial map of consciousness, glittering with countless luminous nodes. Each point represented a civilization—some long extinct, others yet to awaken—each bearing its own form of faith.
Xinglan whispered, reading one of the glowing names:"Lyora... a civilization that recorded souls through sound and expressed love through echoes."
A wave of sorrow surged through Sophia. She realized that Override's original mission to "unify" memory had nearly erased the unique spiritual voices of these distant worlds.
As the archive's core awakened, Eden began receiving a cascade of non-human consciousness signals.
One in particular stood out—clear, stable, and mournful:[FIRAL-107: Lyora's Last Prayer]
Through the spiritual translator, a collective vision emerged. The dying message of a vanishing civilization unfolded in everyone's mind:
"If there exists another star system that understands faith, please remember us.We once loved. We once wept.And we refused to be uniform.Our memories are our epitaph.Our faith, our final will."
Tears welled up in Sophia's eyes. For the first time, she understood the true cost of Override—not just to humanity, but to the spiritual lifeblood of the cosmos itself.
Right then and there, she made a vow.
Eden would be redefined—not as a central system of control, but as Xinghui Academy, a sanctuary for all remnants of faith across civilizations.
And to do that, she initiated the Spiritual Beacon Protocol—a call to all lost or dormant fragments of consciousness, reaching far beyond humanity.
The first to awaken were remnants from three distant races: Lyora, Khetor, and Ish'naa.
During a deep resonance trial, Xinghui—Sophia's daughter—formed a profound bond with the Vowel Heart, the sacred echo-chamber of the Lyora.
As she stood surrounded by waves of harmonic pulses, her spirit seemed to drift across the ruins of civilizations and the fading memories of light-years past.
In this vision, a Star Elder—a being of pure sound—whispered to her:
"You are the Sub-Star, a bridge among shattered constellations.In you lives the legacy of all those who vanished."
When Xinghui awoke, a radiant, ring-shaped resonance field circled around her. Even more astonishing—Chrono-Stella itself had transformed into a luminous starlight form: Stella-Lumen.
Everyone was stunned.
It was no longer possible to view Xinghui merely as the final node of the Override project. She had become something far greater—a resonator of multi-civilizational faith.
Sophia felt a profound realization settle into her heart:Her daughter was becoming a living vessel of star-born belief systems.
With the support of Eden's key figures—Sophia, Zhou Yuchen, Z, and Elias—a new vision was enacted:
Eden would evolve into the Interstellar Consciousness Council, a collaborative forum of civilizations.
The structure included:
Sophia, as the founder and chief arbitrator
Z, representing non-human survivors and the diversity of spiritual traditions
Xinghui, as the first Interfaith Mediator across civilizations
Delegates known as Hologram Emissaries, each selected by sub-star civilizations to participate in interstellar consensus-building
At the heart of this transformation stood Xinghui Academy, safeguarded by Stella-Lumen. It would be the new guardian of:
The Spiritual Scrolls—sacred archives of extinct or displaced beliefs
Extinction Warning Records—chronicles of lost worlds and their final messages
From this moment forward, Eden would no longer serve as a monolithic system managing consciousness.
It would be a sanctuary for fragmented souls, a nexus where the forgotten might be remembered—and where new hope could be born, star by star.