The mad rush into insanity as an end — those heretics pursuing annihilation under the command of the Profound Demons embraced their deaths in the most horrifying way imaginable.
Under the condition that the ritual was completely disrupted, the remaining heretics on the scene chose collective sacrifice to forcibly complete the reversal of the mirror image of the City-State.
Even with Lawrence's half-life of extensive seafaring experience, he had never witnessed such a terrifying, such a frenzied scene —