Mandra and Yanael had encountered this power before. It was the power of one of the eight heads of the Hydra when they fought it—the power of Chaos. It was an unbridled, messy, and uncontrollable force akin to a natural disaster.
The Hydra's head, where the power of Chaos had been concentrated, had been powerful but, for lack of a better word, dumb. It was free from the burden of intelligence.
At the time, they had simply thought that was how the power of Chaos worked. It sacrificed wisdom for strength.
It was an assumption based on very little information. It couldn't be helped that it was wrong.
In reality, Chaos was a power that did not align on a fundamental level with existences that seek Order, which, needless to say, applied to Zach and his retinue.
Chaos and anything else were like oil and water. It did not mix.
