The Gap Between Power Systems

For a normal plane itself.

What difference was there between so-called villains and heroes?

Most of the time, there was no difference at all.

They were merely factors used by the plane's consciousness during a given period to propel the course of fate.

Whether what they did was for slaughtering people and destroying nations, or saving people and saving the world, there was not much difference.

At its root, the effects they created were almost entirely directed at the lifeforms and things within the plane.

Unless an individual was extremely powerful, their interference with a world—or even a plane—was infinitesimal.

Whether it was destroying a house, demolishing a mountain peak, even blasting apart stars and seas, or turning fire into water, earth into metal, and living creatures into stone statues... it merely caused slight changes to the outward forms of energy and matter.

For a plane capable of internally circulating energy, that was ultimately nothing more than robbing Peter to pay Paul. The plane's actual volume would not change because of it!

Only invaders like Abyss Demons, who snatched things and fled to Outer Planes, causing resources to leak away, could inflict actual losses!

As for so-called internal slaughter.

Whether humans killed dogs, dogs killed humans, humans killed humans, or dogs killed dogs, to the plane's consciousness, they all meant the same thing. Just as humans regarded bacteria devouring one another, it considered it perfectly natural.

Merit? Good Fruit? Evil Fruit?

Those pointless things held no meaning whatsoever to the plane's consciousness.

Just as normal humans would not think bacteria devouring one another required them to assign each side a position.

If one truly wanted to split hairs, what difference in status could different species possibly have in the eyes of the plane's consciousness?

Then the sole factor creating a