We parted with Noelle at the entrance to the Absorption Gate. Noelle's
helped us a lot up till now. We need to take care of the rest ourselves.
We'll find Master Kyo inside the Absorption Gate...and kill him.
As we were heading down toward the deepest part of the Absorption Gate,
there was a big earthquake. The Outer Lands must really be about to fall at
any moment. Thanks to the earthquake, our party got split up...but I believe
in everyone. If we keep going forward, we should be able to rejoin them.
When Kitten and I reached the deepest part of the Absorption Gate, we found
everyone else there, waiting for us. Then Emrls told us that we're out of
time, and we'll have to start the process of lowering the Outer Lands without
using the Radiation Gate's passage ring, though it's a rather clumsy method.
He says he doesn't know whether it will work, but in any case we don't have
enough time to make it to the Radiation Gate. And he says I'm the only one
that can do it.
Then I will. I'll make it work. That's the least I can do for Akzeriuth,
for all the people I've killed.
Now we just have to defeat Master Kyo. There's no turning back now. I'll
win! I swear it!
We found Master Kyo on the lowest level of the Absorption Gate.
Master Kyo says that humanity is addicted to Crystal's Score. That a
powerful medicine, a replica world, is the only way to remedy that addiction.
But I know, from my own existence, that the Score has gone off track. The
future can be changed. Mankind can choose to discard the Score.
And after a terrific battle, we succeeded in defeating Master Kyo. Even to
the last, he never once accepted me... But there's no time to wallow in grief
right now. And besides, I'm not the only one who's got it tough... Kitten had
to watch her own brother die.
I followed Emrls' instructions, and tried to start lowering the Outer
Lands. But without the Radiation Gate active, the other passage rings
wouldn't respond to my hyperresonance.
Just when I thought that it was hopeless, the Radiation Gate suddenly
started up, and I felt a hyperresonance different from mine come from there.
There's only one person besides me who can cause a hyperresonance... He
must have helped me.
There's just one thing that bothers me. I heard Sol's voice as I was
lowering the Outer Lands.
"Fox! I will send you the key! Use it to set me free! ...One who would
seize glory...is trying to capture me..."
I didn't understand what Sol was trying to say, but at least we've
succeeded in preserving the original world, and returned Auldrant to its
original form. Surely that's enough.
End of part one
 Foxraikov · Wed May 30, 2007 @ 01:05am · 0 Comments |
