Lawrence had been gathering intelligence related to the Incineration of Humanity throughout his journey, though the progress had been slow and difficult.
After all, the Demon God Pillars revealed very little information. Most of what was known so far had come from the accidental encounter in the London Singularity, along with the scant intelligence gleaned from Servants who had, willingly or unwillingly, become entangled with the Demon God Pillars—such as Jeanne d'Arc Alter, Romulus, and Lawrence's own son, Adelson. In addition, the great detective Sherlock Holmes, whom they had spoken with in the Middle Eastern Singularity, had provided valuable information and deductions.
After organizing and consolidating that intelligence, analyzing it together with Roman and Leonardo da Vinci, and now standing within Solomon's second Noble Phantasm—his Reality Marble—Lawrence had finally more or less confirmed a fact.
Although the Incineration of Humanity had indeed destroyed humanity, driving the species to the brink of extinction, the ultimate goal of its mastermind was likely not the destruction of humanity itself. He hated humanity, certainly, but humanity's destruction could also bring him immense value.
Only if both conditions were met would this "King Solomon," who did not even know the true name of his own first Noble Phantasm, have truly been plotting from the very moment King Solomon died all the way until 2018.
To accumulate such vast energy over such a long time merely to destroy humanity—or even the surface of the planet—would have been utterly not worth the cost.
But Solomon looked at Lawrence as if he were an idiot.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Isn't that obvious?"
"I eliminated humanity because humanity deserved to be eliminated. And the most beautiful crystal left behind after humanity's elimination should naturally become my—path and foundation to the supreme throne."
He clenched one fist. The