The pursuit in the void continued.
Interestingly, Annihilation could clearly have escaped into his own world to evade the fate of the present, but he had not. Instead, he kept expanding the impact of this conflict in the void, nearly dragging the entire void into the battlefield.
The gods descended one after another, once again cleaning up after this war that had erupted in the void. They could not allow the universe to collapse, so they had no choice but to work together to restrain the battlefield's violence.
As the instigator of this war, Annihilation was currently weaving through the gazes of the gods. While fending off Destiny, he was also observing the attitudes of the others.
He was not a pure member of the Approach Faction. After the authority concerning Nothingness had been assigned to Nothingness, his desire to draw close to the Origin had faded.
But he was not a member of the Fear Faction either, because he knew that everything he had came from the Origin. This was a fundamental fact he could neither refuse nor change. Thus, he had become an entertainer who carried out Annihilation's will, amusing himself while incidentally satisfying the Origin's expectations of Annihilation.
Of course, he also had a grand aspiration similar to that of the Mother of Prosperity: he hoped that, at the end of the age, the universe could completely advance toward Annihilation, allowing the entire age to end in Annihilation once more instead of ending in the Nothingness that no longer belonged to him.
Such an act of challenging the ruler of the age was highly dangerous, so he also needed suitable allies. At first, Sinking had been his support and Existence had been his target. But as time passed, Sinking fell apart and headed toward true sinking, while