The seven newly born Guardians fell silent.
They could feel the changes within them. The urge to destroy everything was gone, replaced by a sense of... responsibility?
Silence filled the monitoring room.
Theta murmured, "He isn't fighting. He's... creating a new order."
Aristostes was stunned speechless. "Turning enemies into allies... what a vision..."
The various factions watching through the conceptual network also fell silent. They had witnessed countless battles, but never an ending like this.
Lin Ye had not destroyed his enemies. He had transformed them, making them part of the Multiverse's order.
"Why did you do this?" [Abyss of Annihilation], now [Cloud of Balance], asked. "Wouldn't it have been simpler to destroy us outright?"
"Because nothingness needs to exist," Lin Ye replied. "Without death, there is no new life. Without endings, there are no beginnings. Without nothingness, existence has no meaning."
"I don't want to destroy nothingness. I want to put it back where it belongs."
The seven Guardians exchanged glances, then dropped to one knee together.
"We... are willing to serve as Guardians."
That scene was forever recorded in the history of the Multiverse.
Lin Ye put away his staff and turned toward Alliance Headquarters. "The crisis of nothingness is over. Now we have new allies."
But just then, his expression suddenly changed.
He sensed something far greater and far more ancient awakening.
It was neither nothingness nor existence, but something more primordial than either.
"Interesting..." Lin Ye said softly. "Looks like 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 mode of existence was entirely different from that of the Seven Pillar Gods. If the Seven Pillar Gods were a