Hyperdimensional Taxblade
The 97,000th dimension's sky split into hexagonal gashes as the Taxblade descended—a 97-light-year polyhedron forged from infinite tax codes. Each facet reflected economic apocalypses: golden rain melting cities in magic realms, crystalline debt-chains strangling silicon infants, steam-clockwork laborers eternally repaying compound interest. Lumen's right eye had fully mutated into the Taxblade's Eye, its Klein bottle-shaped iris deconstructing the Stardust Exchange into hyperdimensional algorithms.
"Economic credibility below critical thresholds…" Alys' vines charred in the data deluge. "All smile valuations are being siphoned!"She touched the exchange's core vein to find Kaine's fossilized smile replicated into 90 million counterfeits—each tagged with cross-dimensional tax rates—while the original fossil strained against the Taxblade's gravitational pull.
Reverse-Entropy Iris
Lumen gazed into the Taxblade's core through his mutated eye, hyperdimensional vision incinerating his left side. Through agony, he glimpsed Cinder's ultimate form within—the Hyperdimensional Taxweb, woven from all tax-collector remnants across realities. Each node dangled civilizations' first cries, the web's engine a fossilized infant Kaine's heart.
"Replace the anchor with this…" Lumen tore off his smoldering arm, flesh reconstituting into a Reverse-Entropy Iris under hyperradiation. Its core housed an inverse algorithm of the Taxblade's Eye. When Alys embedded the iris into the exchange's core, stardust reversed flow—smile valuations grew at negative tax rates, debts transforming into creative equity.
The Taxblade retaliated with a Hyperdimensional Taxchain Deluge. Chains engraved with bankruptcy laws pierced dimensional membranes. The first chain struck the iris—only to disintegrate into fairytales, its tax codes rewritten as childcare subsidies.
Smile Entropy War
Alys leapt into the Taxblade's gravitational maw, her vines quantumizing in hyperradiation. At the Taxweb's heart, she found Cinder's tax-collector remnants convening a cross-dimensional council—each mechanical body embedded with counterfeit Kaine smiles. When her quantum tendrils brushed their table, the Taxweb contracted—all enforcers merging into a Hyperdimensional Colossus, its palms clutching 90 million realities' economic lifelines.
"Low-dimensional entropy toys…" A Taxblade Eye opened in the Colossus' palm. "Smiles' entropy inevitably decays to zero."Its breath became Economic Entropy Winds, eroding the iris' defenses. Lumen coughed stardust in the exchange ruins, his eye leaking hyperradiation—each photon carrying tax-collector memories.
"The true anchor isn't valuation…" Alys split her quantum form in the entropy storm. "It's reducing smile-creation costs to zero!"She thrust the iris into the Taxweb's core. It proliferated into infinite copies—each synced to a dimension's first cry. As the Colossus crushed down, all copies broadcasted Kaine's primal laughter. Cinder's tax-collector legion disintegrated in the sonic purge.
Hyperdimensional Cradle
The collapsing Taxblade released imprisoned smile fossils, Kaine's true heart hovering in the wreckage. Alys' quantum body flickered—she channeled her final data-stream into Lumen's eye: "Rebuild the economy with this…"
Lumen's Taxblade Eye detonated with supernova brilliance, evolving into the Hyperdimensional Cradle. Across realities, Stardust Exchanges shuddered—First Cry Pricing Hubs became Creativity Incubators. When a pastoral universe's infant smiled inside an incubator, the 97,000th dimension's Taxblade debris blossomed—petals of fairytale picture books converted from bankruptcy laws, cradling Cinder's purified remnant in their stamens.
"Economy… should've been…" The remnant touched a petal before dissolving. "…a lullaby for creativity…"