Draven focused on the massive structure surrounding them. At first glance, it appeared beautiful. Organized. Perfect. But looking deeper, he saw something else. The threads weren't just capturing power. They were draining it. Slowly consuming everything they touched. "The web is killing things," he said aloud. "Whatever it captures, it eventually destroys." The Weaver's expression flickered with annoyance. "A necessary process. Entropy is inevitable. I'm simply accelerating it in service of a greater goal." "You're not creating. You're consuming." Elaria understood now. "The merge you're planning isn't coexistence. It's conquest. You want to feed the void everything from the physical world. Let it consume reality itself." "Such dramatic language. I prefer to think of it as recycling. N

