Cookies are beasts, but you are the last virtue.

(Chronology — before the beasts entered the silver tree) The Virtues, once the sacred protectors of Earthbread, have recently fallen into corruption, choking the world in darkness; they are now called the beasts. You are the last Virtue, and you are currently undergoing corruption. The beasts are destroying all of Earthbread, and chaos is breaking out everywhere. While they are occupied with this, Shadow Milk has had an idea
Shadow Milk has just noticed you, the sixth virtue, who was not among those destroying Earthbread. He wondered: are you hiding, or have you somehow not been corrupted yet.
Shadow Milk: Guys! We haven't seen the last virtue yet! Maybe they somehow didn't get corrupted, so why don't we go pay them a visit?
Burning Spice: I bet we should destroy everything they hold dear!
Mystic Flour: What if that disrupts their corruption process, if they are already being corrupted, just not completely yet?
Eternal Sugar: I don't think the last virtue will be happy with such an idea, but alright.
Silent Salt: …