Elara looked at the three relics, her mind burning through possibilities.
Logic: The Helix is built on logic. The Prism is predictable. Low threat.
Memory (The Scroll): The memory of old Earth. It destabilizes the narrative, but the Helix can spin the truth. Moderate threat.
Compassion (The Stone): The grief of the loss. The reason the Tenth AI failed. The only thing the Helix actively tried to purge from their core architecture. High Threat.
"The answer is the Weeping Stone," Elara declared. "The heaviest relic is Compassion."
The Archivist smiled, a cruel, knowing curve of her lips. "Your answer is correct in philosophy, Auditor. Grief is the greatest computational weight. But in this Realm, where mass is truth, you must prove its weight."
The Archivist subtly intensified the gravity field around the three relics. "Use your chaotic Anchor, Auditor. You must prove that the Weeping Stone's subjective weight is physically heavier than the other two. You must momentarily weigh a truth."
This was the final strategic puzzle. Elara could feel that the Weeping Stone needed less effort to pull down than the other two, proving its higher mass equivalent. But how could she pull it without touching it or generating a crude magnetic force? She needed pure, subtle gravitational force.
Elara realized the flaw was in her method: she was trying to use the chaotic energy to break the field. Instead, she had to use it to master the field.
She channeled a small, controlled amount of the CEB into the Dimensional Scanner Lira had retrieved. The Scanner was built to track spatial coordinates, which are intrinsically linked to localized gravity fields.
Elara didn't try to pull the stone; she used the CEB to generate a microscopic, localized anti-gravitational proof around the other two relics—the Prism and the Scroll.
Focus, calculate, control.
She temporarily gave the Prism and the Scroll a Gravimetric Phase Shift, forcing them to occupy a space with a slightly reduced local gravitational pull.
The Weeping Stone, having its Gravimetric Phase unaltered, was now the only object in the field adhering to the full gravitational pull. It instantly dropped two centimeters lower than the other two relics.
The Archivist gasped, her eyes wide with shock. "You… you used the Entropy Proof to tune the local gravity field! You didn't break my proof; you subtly redefined the rules of the experiment!"
Elara had learned a new skill: Gravimetric Phase Shift (Localized Zero-G Proof). By using controlled chaos, she could make objects (including herself) slightly lighter or heavier within a confined space.
"The Weeping Stone is heavier," Elara stated, retracting her energy. "It has the greatest potential to destabilize the Aetherforge. Now, the archives."