Alvian stepped forward, the darkness around him rippling like water. "You treated the Convergence like a bug to be fixed. I treat it like an enemy to be killed. If the file size is too big, I will compress it. If the transfer is corrupt, I will purge the data."
"The System isn't trying to destroy Earth," Prime warned, his legs beginning to turn into pixels of white light. "It's trying to save it from something else. Something older. That is why it merges worlds. It needs the mana density to fight the Outer Gods. But the method... the method kills the patient to cure the disease."
Alvian froze. Outer Gods? That was lore that went beyond even his future knowledge. In his first life, humanity had barely survived the initial Convergence. They hadn't lived long enough to see what came after.
