"A long time ago, this place suddenly began to exist alongside the first living beings of the cosmos," the purple sphere said. "For reasons unknown even to me, when those beings died, their spirits came to this place and after a long time, they eventually left. They probably were reborn into other life forms, and this place worked like a point of transition. It remained like that for quite a while. However, eventually, it began to change... Do you have any idea why?"

"Sapient beings began to die... And they began to come here," Luke replied.

"That was the first change," the purple sphere said. "Those who had strong minds and had things that they still wanted to do didn’t accept their deaths, but their spirits eventually were purified and they lost their sense of self before restarting their new lives. However, that changed when being able to use mana began to show up. The Purification of their spirit was a lot harder and took more time, some even had the power to resist... Due to that, the whole dimension began to be dirtied with dark thoughts. Fear, resentment, hatred, envy... This dimension was like a world free of conflicts and the dirty caused by living beings, but eventually, it began to transform and it ended like this."

Yang energy was basically that... Dark thoughts were left by those who had powerful minds. Having powerful and strong minds wasn’t the same thing. Someone who had a strong mind could accept the outcome of their deaths, but someone with a powerful mind probably wouldn’t. In any case, just like a mana around could be gathered and used by talented individuals, the yang energy also probably could be used in the same way, and just like mana gave birth to the lost voices of those who wanted to save the universe, yang gave birth to that purple sphere, which claimed that total destruction was the desire of all living beings.

"I get it, most sapient beings are self-destructive, those who are weak from the beginning but then get a taste of power like humans are even more dangerous," Luke said. "Still, that doesn’t mean that is the case of the vast majority of those that inhabit this universe. The elves of Rina world are a fine example of that."

"I don’t understand why you are trying to deny your very nature by convincing me," the purple sphere said. "I can tell that you know more examples of failures of planets that don’t follow the same example as then. Even if that wasn’t the case, it wouldn’t change anything. Because even a small number of species still would dirty this place and give birth to me. While the majority did nothing wrong, they also didn’t stop the others from doing it. That also makes them failure of creatures."

"I hate that kind of logic, it is bullshit," Luke said. "It is true that in most situations the majority pays the price of a few for their mistakes, but I won’t let that happen it I can help it."

"What makes you think that you are fit for that?" The purple sphere asked. "The shadows only are absorbed by those they are compatible with. You saw some copies of yourself here, am I right? That means that you are as much as corrupt as those that dirtied this place over and over again. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"What if I am? Does that mean that I shouldn’t try to prevent bad things from happen because I may also be part of the problem?" Luke asked.

"That is exactly what it means, a disease shouldn’t strive to become a cure, a killer shouldn’t strive to become someone who saves lives, a warmonger that never achieved anything in times of peace shouldn’t fight to obtain that," the purple sphere said. "If your very nature is evil, then you should do evil things deeds because that is the only thing that gives reason to your existence."

"... I guess I am a fool for trying to reason to a lump of mass of dark thoughts," Luke said and then sighed. "Whatever, I won’t let you destroy the universe, so give your best shot to destroy me."

Luke closed his eyes, and then he began to feel the dark energy around him. To solve the problem, he won’t be able to use his usual methods. Sure, he had to destroy the purple sphere, but that thing will probably keep coming again and again as long as dark thoughts permeate that place. Just like imagined, the moment he let his dark thoughts control him a bit more, more shadows in their purest form began to be attracted by his body. He felt his body getting more powerful, but he also felt that he was turning into something else slowly.

"Evil sure attracts evil, huh..." Luke said while forcing a smile.

"What do you hope to accomplish by doing this?" The purple sphere asked. "A physical body can’t withstand the dark thoughts created over hundreds of lifespans of the universe. Even if that is possible, even with your increased life span granted by mana, you wouldn’t have enough time to do so."

"The moment that you decide that you can’t do something, is the moment that you won’t be able to do it," Luke said as he felt the mana coming from the book entering his body. "There is no point in setting my own limitations. As long as I have the will to do something, I will do it and eventually succeed."

"The audacity of human species... You are one of the weakest species in the cosmos and yet you are this arrogant," the purple sphere said. "Every time the universe was reborn, I grew stronger because the same dirty souls come here... The universe can be reseted, but this place isn’t reset alongside with because mana doesn’t work here. I will show you the difference between a small insect and a being that was born to clean the cosmos from foul creatures like you."