"The song that destroys the world truly exists!"
That was Carol's objective. Because of Raye's existence, she could not obtain the crucial component needed to complete the world's disassembly—the Spirit Vein map of this world.
Therefore, she intended to use Raye's Domain, which connected her to the world, and its close link to the world's Spirit Veins, to send the energy released by this floating city to disassemble the world along that path.
In the end, all the information obtained after disassembling and analyzing the world would be recorded within Mirror City, completing Carol's self-proclaimed mission: the Apocalypse of All Things.
"So that's what you were thinking? Using the power of Alchemy to disassemble the world and analyze it... what meaning is there in that? Judging by the structure, you weren't planning to reconstruct the world through reconciliation or anything afterward, were you?"
Watching the green light bombard her Domain, Raye roughly understood Carol's objective... not at all.
Raye simply could not understand how someone could go to such lengths just to destroy the world, then record its information.
Everything she had learned throughout her life since gaining consciousness told her that such a thing was utterly incomprehensible and unreasonable.
"Hmph. How could someone who merely treats Alchemy as a tool understand the task Father entrusted to me? It doesn't matter. Mirror City has already begun operating at full capacity. The world's disassembly has begun... huh?"
Carol, immersed in self-satisfaction, suddenly discovered that her process of disassembling the world had failed.
Countless azure shield plates formed amid the light, arranging themselves in neat layers above the Domain, facing Mirror City. The rippling energy they emitted formed a massive, heavy blue-green curtain of light.
When Mirror City's fierce light, meant to disassemble the world, washed over the Domain, it was completely