"I know it was centuries, at least," Lea said. "Probably not millennia, or even a full millennium, though it might've been close to the latter. Suffice to say, it'd been around for a while. There was a fair amount of bureaucracy; kinda had to be with any kind of government that size, hence all the paperwork. But once they and the train figured out we were all basically on the same side, they were alright for the most part."
He nodded at Nita's phrasing. "Seemings made solid is a good way of putting it. Zexion- and maybe Ienzo too- back home specialized in that kind of magic, though good as he is, he couldn't hold a candle to what this Chaos entity could do."
"The entity itself... as I understand it, it was an amalgamation of bits of the minds of a world full of beings that got wiped out by the World Eaters that somehow got caught up in the Void and melded together into this, half-crazed, amorphous.... thing. And what it was trying to do, in the end, was recreate the world it had lost. The problem was, it tended to wreck what was already there in one form or another, so it would cause disasters wherever it went, and didn't seem to much care about the damage it was causing trying to accomplish its goals. It was ready to kill off whole populations to free up worlds for it to rework the way it wanted."
"And almost did, twice. Once through war, and once be luring the places population out of the relative safety of an enclosed city with its illusions to suffocate in a poisonous atmosphere. The latter was where we first encountered it face to face, so to speak, and found out that it was behind the other two incidents that prompted the previous couple missions."
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He nodded at Nita's phrasing. "Seemings made solid is a good way of putting it. Zexion- and maybe Ienzo too- back home specialized in that kind of magic, though good as he is, he couldn't hold a candle to what this Chaos entity could do."
"The entity itself... as I understand it, it was an amalgamation of bits of the minds of a world full of beings that got wiped out by the World Eaters that somehow got caught up in the Void and melded together into this, half-crazed, amorphous.... thing. And what it was trying to do, in the end, was recreate the world it had lost. The problem was, it tended to wreck what was already there in one form or another, so it would cause disasters wherever it went, and didn't seem to much care about the damage it was causing trying to accomplish its goals. It was ready to kill off whole populations to free up worlds for it to rework the way it wanted."
"And almost did, twice. Once through war, and once be luring the places population out of the relative safety of an enclosed city with its illusions to suffocate in a poisonous atmosphere. The latter was where we first encountered it face to face, so to speak, and found out that it was behind the other two incidents that prompted the previous couple missions."