Up in the Void, Red watched the feed closely.
He absorbed that specific detail as the pieces instantly clicked into place in his mind. The glass-ash storms were absolutely not random weather events. And the System itself was fighting back.
The game engine was generating extreme environmental hazards as an automated antivirus protocol. The base code could not outright delete the Void-Eater's glitch from the server, so it was throwing localized wipe-mechanics at the infected mobs to quarantine the spread.
The world was actively trying to heal itself. Or so Red thought.
"I could be wrong. I don't know anything about the game or its lore, but the other gods surely do. However, they are also unaware of the origin of the void-eater. They said it didn't exist in the game."
Red pondered for a while, staring at the empty expanse of his domain.
