"Evil itself is not evil. The use of evil is evil." The Spectre's God's Wrath eyes seemed devoid of emotion, yet filled with fury toward sin as they stared at Koken Novo.
Some Monitors were evolving toward Mandrak, evil itself. But evil itself did not meet the conditions for The Spectre to act.
To The Spectre, using evil was evil, not evil itself.
For The Spectre, who could not act without evil, Koken Novo perfectly met the conditions for his intervention.
First, he had smuggled himself into the New Krypton Universe.
Second, he had arbitrarily used scans involving shallow logic within the New Krypton Universe, affecting the Parallel Universe.
Third, to The Spectre, Monitors themselves were a form of evil that had not triggered the conditions for his intervention.
Monitors were parasites that lived within all universes by drawing upon Heavenly Blood. Like parasites in a human body, they burrowed through flesh and blood, draining the Heavenly Blood meant to sustain the universe until it was left in disarray, ending the universe's life prematurely.
Yet this still had not triggered The Spectre's conditions for action.
That was because the Monitors acted with great finesse. They also aided universes and maintained their existence.
Under ordinary circumstances, the Monitors maintained that balance very well.
But there were extraordinary circumstances as well.
Some Monitors broke away from the Monitors' established system and acted on their own.
Koken Novo was one such Monitor.
So, in truth, Koken Novo had brought this upon himself. He was practically delivering merit to The Spectre.
But this merit had come at a terrible time.
The Spectre had been lying in ambush within Zeus's body, searching for Lucifer, who was hiding in the New Krypton Universe.
Even when he saw a Monitor enter the New Krypton Universe, The Spectre