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[Alexandr Korol]

And this dodecahedron — it represents the Spirit of Death, meaning the fourth season, the fourth element — and I built it separately as well. And then I understood that I needed to somehow integrate both the Spirit of Justice and the Spirit of Death into my main matrix — the one I had previously decoded in the second volume of “Alternative History.” And over the past week, the system began highlighting to me that I need to pay attention to how many tetrahedrons I have in the matrix, since that’s the fifth element, and that these tetrahedrons must be everywhere. So I began remaking my first matrix from scratch. I built a three-dimensional cube, placed tetrahedrons inside it, and then realized that I could also place tetrahedrons not just inside the cube, but outside — meaning I could attach them at the corners of the cube so they protrude outward. I made that as a separate model and set it aside. I’m building everything this way for now — not as a single matrix, but as if they are separate layers, so I have many models of these matrices, a whole lot. My whole cabinet is filled with them — they’re three-dimensional and quite large. Then — what the Spirit, the system, highlights to me — I take the dodecahedron, look at it, and the Spirit tells me that I must create a five- pointed star on each face of the dodecahedron, just in flat form, made of sticks. I start doing exactly that. And when I start doing this, I see that proper triangles begin to form — ones from which I can build outward-facing tetrahedrons, not inward, but outward — triangles. So it turns out that I also have tetrahedrons growing from the corners of the dodecahedrons. That is, I have a cube with tetrahedrons on the corners, and I also have a dodecahedron from whose every corner a tetrahedron — meaning a three-dimensional triangle — grows. It turns into a kind of hedgehog, meaning I have a dodecahedron like a hedgehog, because from every one of its corners these tetrahedrons have grown — triangles, fire. Then, when all this is formed, I realize that I need to place an icosahedron on every face of the dodecahedron. I’m looking at the matrix now. I have to place an icosahedron on each face. And the icosahedron, it can be inserted into the dodecahedron in different ways — these small icosahedrons on each face of the dodecahedron: they can be placed so that they’re sunken inward, with a little cap sticking out, or the other way around — with the small cap inside and the main body of the icosahedron outside.