The Tide of Samsara found itself in a pickle for the first time ever. It had been surprised that there was a branch of the virus that could resist it, especially after all the experience it had with infected worlds. The protocols it had developed were airtight, allowing it to deal with the usual tactics of the alien virus very easily.
But this time, the alien virus could directly tamper with the very fabric of reality in a combat-effective manner.
The Anicca Current that the Tide of Samsara used to erase the order of life, reducing all life to death, was reduced in potency immediately. The Tide of Samsara sensed that the alien virus was manipulating the information dimension into tampering with the efficacy of the chaos and entropy in the poison that it used to destroy life.
