The seven newborn Guardians fell silent.
They could feel the changes within themselves. The impulse to destroy everything was gone, replaced by a... sense of responsibility?
The monitoring room was utterly silent.
Theta murmured, "He isn't fighting. He's... creating a new order."
Aristothos was too stunned to speak. "Turning enemies into allies... such vision..."
The forces watching through the Concept Network also fell silent. They had witnessed countless battles, but never an ending like this.
Lin Ye had not destroyed his enemies. He had remade them, turning them into part of the Multiverse's order.
"Why did you do this?" Abyss of Annihilation, now the Cloud of Balance, asked. "Wouldn't it have been simpler to destroy us outright?"
"Because the Void has a reason to exist," Lin Ye answered. "Without death, there can be no new life. Without endings, there can be no beginnings. Without the Void, existence itself would have no meaning."
"I am not here to destroy the Void. I am here to return it to its rightful place."
The seven Guardians exchanged glances, then dropped to one knee in unison.
"We... are willing to become Guardians."
This scene was forever recorded in the history of the Multiverse.
Lin Ye put away his staff and turned toward the Alliance Headquarters. "The Void crisis has been resolved. Now, we have new allies."
But at that moment, his expression suddenly changed.
Because he sensed an even more immense, more ancient existence awakening.
It was neither Void nor existence, but something more primordial than both.
"Interesting..." Lin Ye said softly. "It seems this is only the beginning."
The rift in the sky took on an eerie gray hue. It was neither pure darkness nor the opposite of light, but a more primordial state.
Three figures slowly emerged.
Their manner of existence was