– Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 13 After all, she now obtained the power to freely manipulate the vast Human World and eternal beauty as well. She was in ecstasy... the zenith of ecstasy. Enough to shed a sheer, sliver of her sanity..." Cardinal's large eyes suddenly narrowed deep beyond her spectacles. As though she was mocking mankind's foolishness— or perhaps, pitying them. "—It would have been for the best if she was satisfied there and then. However, it turned out there truly was no bottom to the gaping hole within Quinella's heart. That one knew not what was enough... she could not even permit the existence of one who held equal authority to hers." "Was that... in reference to the Cardinal System itself?" "Indeed. She also tried to remove a bundle of programs that held no awareness. However... even with her proficiency at the sacred arts, Quinella in the end is nothing more than an Underworld inhabitant, unconnected to the scientific civilization. There was no possibility of her understanding the complex syntax of the commands from the supervisor-level authority in a single night. Quinella recklessly tried to decipher the reference written for the sake of Rath's engineers... and she erred. A mere, single, and enormous mistake. She thought of taking the whole of Cardinal within herself, devised an extensive command, and then recited it. As a result..." The girl spoke with a murmur much like a sigh. "...Quinella ended up burning the primary instructions assigned to the Cardinal System into her own fluct light as a read-only behavioral principle. She intended to steal the authority level alone but ended up fusing Cardinal with her own soul!" "...What... what was that...?"