Evan had several possible answers in mind, but the one he got was the least likely of them all.
It wanted to survive?
That was a normal thing for any living being to want, but he hadn't expected the Earth's core, of all things, a vessel of the void, to want something like that, especially knowing it shouldn't have been possible under the laws of the universe.
And yet, there it was. From what he could see, Bruce was fully intent on making it happen.
That inevitably led him to ask how it planned to do so, and the answer caught him off guard once again.
"The Abyss is a defense mechanism against anomalies. It's born and it dies for that single purpose. And its current purpose, the reason it was born this time, is exclusively to eliminate me and every trace of mana in this world," it said, something Evan more or less already suspected.
