What she needed was the annihilation effect, the flawed, unstable aspect of Orion that everyone else considered a failure. Like chemotherapy targeting cancer, it had to destroy the corrupted part of her soul without collapsing everything else.
Too much power, and her entire soul would shatter.
Too little, and the mutation would survive.
There was no margin for error.
That was where Ivy came in.
Using Simulate, combined with all the data she had gathered from Remedy's soul and Orion's output, Ivy had calculated the exact threshold required. Not an estimate. Not a guess.
A precise value.
Perfectly balanced.
It was something no one else could have done. Not even entire teams of top-tier artisans. Only Ivy, with her obsession and her evolved talent, could reach that level of control.
And because of that, Remedy was alive.
