Amid violent shaking.
Hood saw the Blood Flame outside, burning ever more fiercely in madness.
Moreover, since there was nothing outside but endless flames and those five unidentified objects, with no other reference points at all,
although he felt that the Ark of the Mortal World was moving as though it had been picked up like a sugar-coated bean, he could not be certain.
In his heart, he could not help but feel a twinge of worry over what was about to happen...
The other members, sensing that tension, also held their breath.
At last, amid an atmosphere of silence and extreme tension, after an unknown amount of time had passed,
a calm voice suddenly entered their ears without any warning.
Without the slightest delay, even those noncombatants hidden deep within various universes heard the same voice.
"...Not bad. You are more useful than I expected..."
"Still, there are a few too many useless things now..."
"Let's clear them out first..."
Along with those words,
99.9999... percent of the things inside the Ark of the Mortal World automatically established a connection with Orsaga.
Then, in the very next moment,
living beings and even Dead Things began undergoing rapid Demonization Reactions under some kind of contamination.
Mortals turned into bizarre Demonic Beasts and launched into fierce slaughter without restraint.
Above the stars,
mountains, rivers, seas, and lands tilted of their own accord!
From the enormous mouths, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of kilometers wide, split across the surfaces of stars, horrifying tongues that resembled both snakes and worms slowly emerged...
Between the stars, they devoured one another, bored through one another's crusts, and sucked the searing energy from one another's stellar cores.
At the center of black holes' all-destroying gravity, gigantic abominations composed of antimatter and hypergravity structures opened