Was Ilúvatar plotting something else...? That was certain.
No matter which path one took, once one reached a sufficiently high level, one could basically achieve a degree of omnipotence.
Ilúvatar, who had already become the God of a world, was naturally no exception. Therefore, every word and action of his was bound to carry a powerful purpose.
It was certain that Ilúvatar intended for him to do something, and that he himself could benefit from it.
However, whether Ilúvatar harbored ill intent was another matter entirely.
Exploitation had never simply been a derogatory term for harming others to benefit oneself. Catching a ride also counted as making use of someone.
Considering that the other party had said from the very beginning that he saw the traces of many beings upon him, he was probably referring to the Three Pure Ones, Buddha, Mara... and perhaps even Yahweh himself.
Being connected to all those beings at once was not something that could possibly make one an easy target.
If those connections were positive, then even Yahweh himself could not withstand being ganged up on by all of them. And if they were negative, then anyone who could provoke all those beings simultaneously without being beaten to death was clearly not someone the other party could afford to provoke.
Under such circumstances, so long as Ilúvatar was in his right mind, he would not do anything harmful to Adam.
Of course, that was assuming he was in his right mind.
Yahweh himself had most likely died from contamination. Given the nature of those concepts beyond the Sea of Worlds, had these projections truly remained completely unaffected?
Moreover, from Ilúvatar's perspective, what he believed to be harmless to Adam and what was genuinely harmless to Adam might have very little overlap. That was also