At this moment, those allies had also become a source of pressure—
They demanded that the doctor produce an effective solution, or they would violate the alliance agreement they had made in the beginning.
Under immense pressure, the doctor could only make a choice against her own wishes and begin the Mental Awakening experiment before preparations were complete.
However, as you know, Mental Awakening failed, and the Torch Fleet, which had gradually begun to shine in battle, became the Ember Fleet.
The plan upon which the entire world had placed its hopes failed before everyone's eyes. People's hearts fell into ruin, and order collapsed.
Before the Insect Swarm breached every line of defense, humanity in the Native World had already plunged into self-destruction amid its final carnival before the apocalypse.
In those final days, after the Native World had been severed from the Imaginary Tree, the doctor activated the results of her research into the Sea of Quantum, using the many World Bubbles within it as testing grounds to carry out evolution experiments on the ship girls."
As she finished, Record Player looked at Gwen as though hoping to receive some sort of answer from his eyes.
However, Gwen did not directly respond to the expectation in her gaze. Instead, he voiced the continuation that Record Player had left unsaid—
"To preserve that once-glorious civilization?"
As he listened and continuously absorbed the information Record Player conveyed, Gwen activated the third level of the Gene Lock to enhance his thinking ability, doing his best to reconstruct the full story.
Gwen had no desire to mock Anzeel for falling from a position where she could once be considered the nominal leader of the world into a situation where she had nearly been driven into a corner. If anything, he felt that it