In this contest of wills, Dantioch had been on the defensive from the very beginning.
The "Zahulash" had not taken this insignificant human seriously at all.
What remained of their intelligence simply could not understand why the largest fragment of the Overlord had been occupied by the will of a mere human.
In their view, as long as "they" swarmed him together, they would undoubtedly win this contest of wills.
Dantioch's will and the Overlord's fragmentary will had completely mingled and fused, forming a complex state where each contained the other.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Dantioch began to perceive his opponent more deeply.
"Though the wills of these Overlord fragments are vast and immense, their essence is not much different from the C'tan fragment I encountered on Sotha. They are equally hollow and impoverished."
"They have existed for hundreds of millions of years, yet they have never nurtured lofty convictions beyond primitive instinct or an unyielding spiritual core."
Through his confrontation with the C'tan fragments, Dantioch once again confirmed his speculation.
In contrast, lives as "brief" as humans could produce all manner of profound thoughts within their short lifespans.
Perhaps that was the difference between two utterly different forms of life: one possessed endless material abundance but was desperately impoverished in spirit, while the other lacked material things immensely yet achieved incomparably brilliant heights in the spiritual realm.
The Overlord's consciousness revolved entirely around devouring more energy, plundering more souls, and taking revenge on the traitorous Necrons...
Those crude desires drove them, but they also imprisoned them, like beasts.
They had never considered a higher purpose for their own existence, never thought of protecting anything, much less resisting the Warp that sought to devour all order in reality.
Their power came from the laws of the universe, yet they