The anti-life thrashed and roared and began to spread around him.
"Hurry and withdraw immediately! This is simply not something anyone can accomplish!" Athena yelled out over the chaos. Her composed exterior had given way to panic for the first time in her immortal life.
But Adam did not move. He stood still as his body was approached by the negative energy. Only after a while did he respond, and his voice was surprisingly calm.
"Perhaps I shouldn't tell you this. . .
But Athena, do you know that I am from a mortal race that has not yet been created, and a time in the far future?"
Athena: "...?"
Adam continued. "My race— Humanity— had barely existed for millenia and we'd already driven countless other species to extinction.
And by the time we were widespread over the earth we'd completely destroyed the natural order and irreversibly damaged the world.
