The moment the Scroll was torn, it blossomed with radiant golden threads, which wove into a complex, illusory image within seconds.
As a crucial piece of strategic ordnance, one of the greatest advantages of the Alchemy Bomb was its exceptional reliability and control. Each bomb could be linked to a control Scroll. Only after being unsealed and its Technique activated via the Scroll would an Alchemy Bomb enter its active state. Otherwise, they were extremely difficult to detonate.
Each of the countless "threads" spilling from the Scroll Westheid held represented the switch for a group of Alchemy Bombs.
He snapped them all.
"Alchemy Bombs, activate!"
Following Westheid's sonorous cry, all the golden threads snapped in unison.
Time seemed to freeze for an instant. The next moment, an earth-shattering boom echoed from the distance.
BOOM—
