The sealing of the rift had saved the multiverse, but the sheer force of channeling five planetary anchors through a single human body had left the Needle’s internal physics in a state of exhaustion. As the golden light faded, a strange sensation washed over the city of Jiangnan. It wasn't the violent "Falling Upwards" of the previous glitch, nor was it the crushing weight of the General’s Throne. It was a complete, eerie stillness.
The Needle had entered a "Gravity Reset."
Across the harbor, ships from the 14th Earth and the Prime floated half a meter off the ground, their engines humming in confusion. Merchants found themselves bobbing gently in the air, their crates of Cloud-Grain drifting like slow-motion bubbles. In the streets below, children laughed as they discovered they coul
