Ye Buyu asked, "Then do you know where [Fate] is?"
"No. I've never seen it. I've only seen Whispers of Fate."
Seeing the looks they gave it, [Chaos] was somewhat puzzled. Why were they looking at it so strangely?
This was what the world had chosen. Everyone would become a Calamity. What was the point of resisting this destined outcome?
"In the course of the universe, individual choices have never mattered. If something is destroyed, so be it. It only reaches its destined outcome a little sooner. Is it necessary to do all this for those weak little toys?"
It did not understand. These people were clearly powerful, yet they still insisted on doing useless things.
"So you destroyed those civilizations simply because... it was fun?"
[Chaos] nodded. "That's right. Don't you think so? I don't understand. With your power, you stopped being the same kind of existence as them long ago. Is protecting them necessary?"
It had no capacity for empathy, nor even a basic sense of morality. It was like facing a flood that had burst through a dam: they could not persuade the flood to empathize with living beings, much less tell it how precious life was.
Everyone present realized that things like Calamities could sometimes be utterly unreasonable.
"There's no communicating with it."
They could not beat it to death or kill it. Could they only seal it away for now?
Ye Buyu's head throbbed.
"We have no choice. Let's seal it away for now. As for that piece of divine status, Wan Lan, see if you can absorb it."
While they were beating [Chaos] senseless inside the Mindscape, Rong Fan and the others outside only saw them stiffen, then stand there in a daze.
Moreover, an uninvited guest had arrived.
Only a tiny portion of