[...A lot of that sounded too insane to even remotely believe, eyes still sharply focused on Noctis as he tried to figure out just what the angle was here. Even he wouldn't make up something like that, but...it was impossible. Beyond impossible.]

[So instead, he focused on what Ardyn saw as the underlying point.]

So you're to be another one that thinks there something able to be salvaged in all of this? Why, blind stupidity is more contagious than I first thought. Perhaps all of you can get together and commiserate over some worthless shade two thousand years out of date.