Madness leads the Heretics to their chilling doom—they embraced their deaths in the most horrifying way, following the Profound Demons of the Saint.
In a situation where the ritual was completely destroyed, the remaining Heretics chose mass sacrifice to forcibly complete the inversion of the Mirroring City.
Even with Laurence's half lifetime of extensive maritime experience, he had never seen such a terrifying, such a frenzied scene—
Hundreds of Heretics ecstatically threw themselves into the churning mud pool, where they melted, disintegrated, yet revelled madly as the Profound Demons with which they shared their lives fiercely detached from their chains, self-detonating violently around the "pool," and a giant thorn tree crown rose from the center of the mud pool. As the Heretics' frantic sacrifices continued, it rapidly grew in size, covering the entire hall in the blink of an eye.
"I have realized!"