Khan didn't miss how the Nak was far more articulated than the corpses he had questioned in the past. Still, that hardly mattered compared to the topics and details the alien was revealing.
The fact that the mana had been able to give birth to the most infamous species in the universe already was deeply shocking, but the Nak's following revelations had been even more troubling.
Everything had a limit. That went for warriors and, apparently, for the mana, too. It seemed that miraculous energy had eventually hit a wall in its potential and had sought ways of overcoming it.
Nevertheless, that search wasn't born from ambition. According to the Nak, the desire to evolve had been natural, intrinsic to the very mana. It was how higher forms of energy worked, and Khan could spot similarities with the behavior of some simpler living beings.
