The three men sat within their thrones at tips of the triangle, meditating deeply on the philasophical questions of life that had plagued humanity as a whole for their entire existence.
It was not easy, cementing your place in the universe, but after everything they had been through it was starting to take shape.
Slowly but surely, they were absorbing the souls from around them. Every second a soul would disappear from the crowd and be absorbed into the cube, which would turn them into a stream of energy that it then fed into the three men.
But that was the issue. Even if one per second felt like good progress, in the face of quadrillions of souls it was barely anything.
To put it into perspective, if they continued like this for 10,000 years, then they would only still have made it into the billions. It would take close to 100,000 years - One Hundred Thousand! - to reach the trillions. 3.51 Trillion, to be exact.
