Hal placed his hands on his hips and looked up as he said with his wide grin unchanged,
"Take away governance and it creates a vacuum of power, it creates anarchy. Once you have been taken out of the equation, the Continent will collapse atop itself if left unchecked for too long but that vacuum is exactly what I require. I can not replace you as the innate governing force of the Dystopian Continent if I don't get rid of you first after all"
The atmosphere in the hall stilled and the tension of combat heightened which Hal expected and accepted with a smile as pressure attacked him from all sides aiming to cripple his consciousness which he was using to infiltrate the core of the Nexus stone.
Before the pressure could hit Hal's consciousness, which appeared like a full-sized apparition of the real Hal, he vanished into the concept that all of Hal's power was now being based on or at least being improved upon in the case of his Sovereignty.
