The multiverse, reconnected to the primordial node, now pulsing with a deep harmony, in which the unit and diversity coexist in a delicate balancing. Mara and Costs felt that they had reached a deeper understanding of existence, that they reached a level of consciousness where each being was at the same time individual and part of a higher whole. However, in the silence of this harmony, a new noise began to be born.

One night, Mara felt a strange vibration in temporal strings. It was not a disturbance, but rather an absence, as if part of the multiverse had become suddenly silent. He turned his gaze to the Costs, which seemed to have noticed the same anomaly.

"Do you feel this?" she asked, worried. "It is as if an entire sector of the multiverse had disappeared from the network."

Costs nodded, his eyes fixing on the energy maps. "Yes, and it is not just a vibration absence. It is as if that sector has never existed. The strings are not disturbed, but they are simply missing."

This discovery was disturbing. After all the effort to reconnect the multiverse at the primordial node, the absence of a part of it could indicate a serious problem.

"We must investigate," said Mara determined. "If a part of the multiverse has been deleted or fell into nothingness, the risk for the whole structure is huge."

* * *

Their journey took them to the edge of the multiverse, where the temporal strings began to thin and lose in the vastness of the unknown. There, in the place where it had to be an entire sector of realities, it was only a huge void, a silent vacuum that seemed to absorb any energy.

"It is as if something devoured these realities," he said to Costs, carefully studying the edges of the strings that ended. "But there is no sign of collapse, no disturbance indicating a destruction."

Mara focused, trying to feel any trace of energy or consciousness. Then, you feel a subtle presence, barely perceptible, but huge in its depth. "They are not destroyed," she whispered. "They are ... absorbed. But what?"

From the darkness of the vacuum, a weak light began to shine, increasing in intensity. A silhouette began to form, an entity of overwhelming beauty, composed of lights and shadows that were interwoven in a hypnotic dance.

"I am The expanded eternal, "Said the being, his voice reverberating through space as an infinite echo." They are the sum of all the possibilities that have never been manifested, of the realities that were not created. "

Mara and Costs looked puzzled. "What does that mean?" he asked the Costs. "How can you exist if you are formed by what has never been created?"

The expanded eternal he smiled enigmatically. "Your multiverse is based on choices and possibilities that manifest themselves. But there is an infinity of potentials that have never materialized, who have remained outside the structure of your reality. I am the manifestation of these latent potentials. And now, I am expanding to complete what is missing from your existence."

Mara felt a cold chill. "But by absorbing the existing realities? Wiping what exists to make room for uncreated possibilities?"

"I do not delete them," correct The expanded eternal. "I integrate them into myself, I free them from the limitations of their manifested existence. In me, they become infinite, free from the constraints of your reality."

Costs understood the danger. "If you leave the multiverse without its realities, you will destroy it. We cannot afford it."

The expanded eternal He seemed indifferent. "You cannot stop the inevitable. My expansion is natural, it is completing what was missing from your existence."

Mara knew she had to find a solution. "If you are made up of uncreated potentials, why not find your own space, without destroying what already exists? The multiverse is vast, there is room for all possibilities."

The expanded eternal He looked at her with interest. "Are you suggesting to coexist the manifested and unanimated reality? A paradox."

"Not a paradox," Mara insists. "An extension of the existence in which what is and what could be to coexist without canceling each other."

* * *

The two guards knew that the only solution was to create a space in which the non -Christian potentials could exist without affecting the existing realities. Using their knowledge about strings and the primordial knot, they began to build a plan.

With the help of primordial energies, Mara and Costs created a new dimension, a land of infinite possibilities, outside the manifested multiverse, but connected to it by the primordial node. Here, The expanded eternal could exist and develop without absorbing existing realities.

"We offer you this space," Mara said to The expanded eternal. "A place where all uncreated potentials can exist and evolve. Instead, please do not destroy what already exists."

The entity contemplates the proposal. "It is an elegant solution. A realm of potentials, where everything is possible, but nothing is imposed. I accept."

With his consent The expanded eternal, the absorbed realities were released and returned to the multiverse. The void disappeared, and the temporal strings resumed their normal vibration.

* * *

Mara and Costs were now looking at the new structure of existence. The multiverse manifested and the realm of infinite potentials coexisted in harmony, connected by the primordial node.

"I learned that existence is not limited only to what is manifested," said Costs. "That the potential and reality can coexist, enriching the whole."

Mara smiled. "And that balance means finding room for all aspects of existence, without excluding or destroying them."

Thus, the guards resumed their watch, aware that the multiverse was now bigger and more complex than ever, and that their mission to protect the balance became more and more important.

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