"The rules of the Void Realm are actually easy to understand. You can think of them as a simple piece of code. Their purpose is to keep the entire Void Realm running, so what they have to do is very simple: maintain balance!"
"Balance the entire Void Realm. To us, the Void Realm might seem endlessly vast, boundless in every direction. Even a Supreme Existence cannot travel through all of it. But in truth, no matter how vast the Void Realm is, all sorts of civilizations have emerged in every part of it. All sorts of living beings inhabit the entire Void Realm."
"When civilizations grow powerful enough that even the Void Realm judges them to be more than it can sustain, a burden beyond its capacity, it will restore balance to the Void Realm."
"And we of the Remnant Clan came into being because the Void Realm needed to balance countless alien civilizations..."
Mata's words exploded in Merlin's ears, leaving him utterly stunned.
This was simply too incredible. The incomparably powerful civilization of the Remnant Clan had actually been deliberately "created" by the Void Realm. It was hard to believe.
Still, Merlin had a deep understanding of the balance Mata spoke of. His Illusory World had only become fully complete because he had grasped balance. Balance was therefore crucial to a world.
Yet to maintain balance, the Void Realm had brought forth a civilization as powerful as the Remnant Clan, then "rejected" it and incited the other alien civilizations to unite and wage war against it.
Ultimately, it had all been for balance, to deplete the alien civilizations throughout the Void Realm. Countless living beings had died in that catastrophe. In the end, the Remnant Clan had been wiped out, while the entire Void Realm had suffered grievous losses,