"You mean she was doing this to deal with us?" Watching Demeter's True Body move from one area to another after destroying it, then attack and destroy the next, Mash and Ritsuka had initially been unable to understand why she was doing this. But after Macarios revealed the truth, they found it hard to believe.
"This was how we failed before," Macarios continued. Demeter's attacks did not distinguish between friend and foe. Many Servants had died under her attacks before. Her attacks were tremendously powerful; even the underground base they were currently in would be unable to withstand them if Demeter appeared overhead.
The God-Slaying Alliance's base still existed only because the gods of Olympus believed all the Servants had been wiped out and had not continued their assault. Otherwise, by the time Chaldea's people arrived, the base would likely have vanished. Macarios and his sister might not have died from the attacks, but the equipment and supplies stored in the base could not have been preserved. For example, the Divine Heritage—there were no temples here for Chaldea to acquire any Divine Heritage from.
Based on the information they had previously obtained from the Macarios siblings, the so-called temples were actually just remnants of destroyed Machine Gods, so they contained only a small amount of Theosklynomia.
The footage they had seen earlier of Tesla, Edison, Helena, and the others fighting had actually been footage of the battle against Demeter.
"Senpai, what should we do now?" Looking at the city Demeter was destroying in the footage, Mash immediately turned to Ritsuka beside her. Although the Macarios siblings had told them that Olympus's residents who died under Demeter's attacks could later be revived through Authority, Mash still did not want to witness such a tragedy. People could be revived, but the pain