Dawn, Karmic Fire
Last updated 2026-02-22
Dawn, Karmic Fire is the sixth episode of Season 2 - Chapter 3: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night in Phaethon's Story.
Parts
- Sarah
- Sacrifice Crisis
- Attack on Waifei Peninsula
- VIP Target
- Flames of Rage
- Vengeance and Protection
- Magus' Choice
- Gunshots of Vengeance
Steps
- Head to the hidden Exaltist base
- Stop the Exaltist ritual
- Investigate the Miasma Device
- Prepare to attack
- Head to the mountain road with Obol Squad
- Head to the mountain road area
- Exterminate the Sacrifices
- Exterminate the Sacrifices
- Destroy the Obscura
- Investigate clues about the hidden Obscura
- Destroy the hidden Obscura
- Keep pushing on
- Eliminate the Exaltist enemy
- Keep pushing on
- Search for the source of the distress call
- Defeat the Sacrifices and rescue those trapped
- Calm down the rescued Dante
- Keep pushing on
- Go after Lorenz
- Stop Lorenz
Gameplay Notes
- During steps 1–3 and 6–19, a trial
Orphie Magnusson & Magus, 
Seed, 
Trigger, and 
Mercury are added to the squad. - During step 4–5, the player cannot leave Seagaze Road or access most activities.
- Likewise, during steps 6–19, the player cannot pause the story during the combat section.
- During step 7, the player is able to briefly skip talking to the Scared Corporate Executive and destroy the nearby Obscura once the Sacrifices are defeated. However, the second Obscura will not appear until she is spoken to.
- Similarly, the player can briefly skip Lucro during step 14; Dante will not appear until Lucro is interacted with.
Trial Mode
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Dialogue
- (After the cutscene)
- Orphie: It's not often I find myself thinking, "Maybe I'd be better off without comrades like them..."
- Magus: I have to agree with you, Orphie.
- Magus: But our top priority now is to hit the Exaltists' main base — no time to slow down!
- (Interact with the Hollow Fissure)
- Ether turbulence surges from the fissure...
- Magus: Even if it's not the Exaltist headquarters ahead, it's at least a heavily fortified stronghold! Get ready for combat!
Stop the Exaltist ritual
- (Enter combat)
- Sarah: Faithful servants...
- Sarah: Let's drive out all the blasphemous unbelievers who desecrate our noble cause!
- Magus: There sure are a lot of Exaltist rats hiding in here.
- Orphie: The Proxy's intel has been a huge help!
- Magus: They keep saying something about the "final sacrifice." We have to stop them!
- (After defeating the enemies)
- Magus: Keep moving forward and take them all down!
- (Approach Sarah)
Sarah
The following is recorded in the Video Archive
"Sarah"Video Summary: Long time no see, villain.
Story Description: After finally meeting the long-unseen enemy Sarah, she puts on a mysterious act and speaks in riddles, claiming that "the end" is near.
- Sarah: It's been a while... Phaethon.
It certainly has... villain.- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Sarah... How many of the Exaltists' crimes have you been quietly orchestrating from the shadows?
- Sarah: "Crimes"? Ah, you mean those reasonable and necessary "sacrifices"?
- Sarah: As a loyal servant of the Creator, my answer is, of course... every single one.
- Sarah: I have to say, among the masses of ignorant and arrogant unbelievers, you stand out as particularly detestable, Phaethon.
- Orphie: Captain Magus, that woman is making personal attacks on the Proxy!
- Magus: Hmph... I might not be good at personal attacks, but I'm an expert at suppressive fire!
- Magus: Prepare to die!
- Orphie: Prepare to meet your end, you...!
- Sarah: You stubborn fools... Struggle all you want.
- Sarah: The Overseer has already reached the gate of the "final domain." With just one more gentle push...
- The Overseer...
- She means Mevorakh...
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Mevorakh... (I've gotta admitI've gotta admit /
Gotta admitGotta admit), that one's hard to kill. - Sarah: "Death" is a cruel fate... but the "Creator" does show mercy to the most faithful servants at times.
- Stop messing around!
- So stubborn!
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): No matter what tricks or lies you try to use... We won't let anyone threaten New Eridu!
- Sarah: "Threaten New Eridu"...? Young unbeliever, the parasites devouring this city aren't here.
- Sarah: The real poison has always been lurking in the very blood of this city.
- Sarah: Which actually makes you and me allies, not enemies...
- Magus: Don't you dare compare my Proxy to you!
- Sarah: ...
- Sarah: But I don't think we'll have the opportunity to work together... the end is drawing near.
- Sarah: The Overseer's ritual must not be interrupted!
- Sarah: Faithful servants, the Creator will remember your names...
- (After the cutscene)
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- (Sarah summons her servants, including an Avarus, while she flees)
- Sarah: The arduous journey to the Creator is always filled with sacrifice...
- Sarah: The path back to the Master is always paved with blood and bones...
- Faithful Exaltist: For... the Creator!
- Obsessed Exaltist: For the Creator!
- Sarah: Life and death, existence and annihilation, brilliance and decay, bliss and suffering... all shall return to the Creator...
- (After defeating the enemies)
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): That's the target, right?
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Let's go take a look.
Investigate the Miasma Device
- (Interact with the Miasma Device)
- Within the core mechanism you find a device the Exaltists use to manipulate the Miasma.
- (Miasma Device: Core added to the Workbench)
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- Miasma Device: Core
- A strange device discovered in the Exaltist underground base, the core piece installed at a large Miasma facility, used to control the flow and form of Miasma.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): (It's likely an amplifier designed to boost the power of the Miasma device, allowing the Exaltists to control and concentrate large amounts of Miasma...)
- Magus: Roar—
- Magus: My laser can't break through either?
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): The equipment is shrouded in thick Miasma — any attempt to connect through Eous' port would lead to Corruption.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Even the Perception Technique is useless... Maybe we need someone with Yixuan Shifu's level of skill for this.
- Magus: We can't do anything about these things right now, so let's just focus our efforts on tracking down those bosses...
Sacrifice Crisis
The following is recorded in the Video Archive
"Sacrifice Crisis"Video Summary: A roar echoes in the shadows.
- (A cinematic plays)
- Defense Force Soldier 1: Line up! No pushing!
- (Above Failume Heights, the Exaltists initiate a ritual)
- Exaltists: May the Creator... refine us...
- Exaltists: Sanctuary's chosen, favored by the Creator...
- (Sacrifices descend upon the city)
- Defense Force Soldier 2: What's that...?!
- Defense Force Soldier 3: Run! Get out of here!
- Citizen: M—Monster!
- Defense Force Soldier 4: Protect the citizens!
- Defense Force Soldier 3: Fire!
- Major General's Adjutant: Sir... The boxes in the city...
- Major General Lorenz: ...Retreat!
- (The Sacrifices, having killed multiple soldiers, turn their attention towards the civilians)
- (Yixuan blasts the monsters away)
- Pan Yinhu: Shifu!
- Ju Fufu: Shifu!
- Yixuan: The monsters have swarmed the entirety of Failume Heights...
- Yixuan: Be sure to stay vigilant!
- (Cinematic ends)
Attack on Waifei Peninsula
The following is recorded in the Video Archive
"Attack on Waifei Peninsula"Video Summary: The threat lurking in the shadows finally descends upon Waifei Peninsula.
Story Description: Just as you are about to pursue Sarah, you hear news that Waifei Peninsula has been attacked by Sacrifices. Obol Squad has no choice but to return to Failume Heights to provide support in the city.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): (Wise, we've got an emergency!Wise, we've got an emergency! /
Belle, we have an emergency!Belle, we have an emergency!) Exaltist priests and Sacrifices are attacking Waifei Peninsula! They're pouring out of the Obscura... and there's a lot of them! - Oh no!
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Our attack on the base in the Hollow led to chaos in the city outside... Are they using the attack as a cover to escape?
- Orphie: The city is under attack? Do we keep pursuing or fall back to assist?
- Magus: A rather obvious and sloppy scheme...
- Magus: Our comrades from Obsidian Division are stationed in the city, along with the mystics of Yunkui Summit. The city should be in good hands for the time being...
- (SiblingSibling): Yixuan Shifu and the other disciples are helping suppress the Sacrifices in the main district... but there's a gap in the defenses on the mountain road above Failume Heights!
- Orphie: The mountain road... but according to the distribution map we received, there shouldn't be any Obscura in that area...
- Magus: Which is why we didn't deploy heavy defenses near the mountain road.
- Orphie: Oh no... There are many residential areas near there!
- I'll plan the evacuation route.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Got it. Calculating a route from the Hollow back to Waifei Peninsula for evacuation. Almost done...
- Orphie: We're counting on you, Proxy!
- (SiblingSibling): (WiseWise /
BelleBelle), Captain Magus, you're finally back! - (SiblingSibling): The Sacrifices in the city are being held back by Yixuan Shifu and the others, but more have suddenly appeared on the mountain path.
- Magus: The mountain path... but our Obscura positioning data didn't show any devices there!
- Magus: Something's wrong with Isolde's intel?
- (SiblingSibling): Long story short, our main forces and the Suibian Temple masters are all tied up fighting Sacrifices in the city. The mountain road area wasn't assigned any defensive troops beforehand — the defenses there are severely lacking!
- No time to lose.
- Let's hurry up and go provide support!
- (Talk to Orphie)
VIP Target
The following is recorded in the Video Archive
"VIP Target"Video Summary: The threat lurking in the shadows finally descends upon Waifei Peninsula.
Story Description: Magus outlines the current objective: protect Lucro and Lorenz during their retreat through the mountain road.
- Magus: Thanks to the support from Yunkui Summit, the Sacrifices in the main district have been suppressed, and the civilians in the city are safe!
- Orphie: Our mission is to eliminate the Sacrifices and Exaltists around the mountain road area while protecting two "VIP targets."
- Magus: Which are... the annoying Porcelumex Executive, Lucro, and the even more annoying Obsidian Division Major General, Lorenz.
- Orphie: Bad news: We've lost contact with Mr. Lucro... Good news: The Major General is en route to the evacuation point below the mountain road!
- Magus: Hard to say which is the good news and which is the bad... *cough*
- Magus: Like them or not, the mission still has to be completed. There are plenty of homes around the mountain road area, so there's no time to waste. Let's move out!
Attack now Prepare first
- (Repeat dialogue)
Exterminate the Sacrifices
- (Enter Dawnlight Mountain Way)
- Magus: Prioritize eliminating the Sacrifices emerging from the Obscura!
- Trigger: Roger that, Captain!
- Magus: Luckily, there aren't many residents near the highway. Otherwise, this would've been a real problem...
- (Enter the tunnel)
- Orphie: There's an ambush in the tunnel!
- Seed: Ugh... What an ugly bunch!
- Orphie: The people on the ground... seem to be members of Porcelumex.
- (Talk to Scared Corporate Executive)
Flames of Rage
The following is recorded in the Video Archive
"Flames of Rage"Video Summary: Revenge or protection? The choice is hers to make.
Story Description: After Lucro's death by the Sacrifice attack, Isolde finally reveals the whole truth to Magus: the real culprits back then were Lucro and Lorenz. How will the enraged Magus choose to respond?
- Scared Corporate Executive: Th—Those...
- Scared Corporate Executive: Those monsters... Ethereals...
- Orphie: Calm down, ma'am.
- Scared Corporate Executive: No... They weren't Ethereals...
- Orphie: We're from Obsidian Division. You're safe now!
- Scared Corporate Executive: They're... They're all dead!
- Orphie: Remain calm. You're not in danger anymore.
- Scared Corporate Executive: Those deadly ghosts got them!
- Orphie: This woman's experiencing shock. Her companions were likely killed in the recent attack.
- She's from Porcelumex.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Judging by her (clothingclothing /
outfitoutfit), she's from Porcelumex... and I remember seeing her at the banquet. - (ProtagonistProtagonist): Her companions were most likely... Porcelumex executives.
- Magus: Though I really can't stand those people... They didn't deserve this...
- Isolde's voice comes through the military radio on Orphie's chest.
- Isolde: Magus, aren't you curious... who exactly was responsible for killing our comrades all those years ago?
- Isolde: The blood debt partly falls on Porcelumex for offering the bribe... and partly on the commander who accepted it.
- Isolde: Well, Porcelumex's share of that debt... was just paid in blood.
- Magus: Isolde, what are you saying...?
- Isolde: That's right. The mastermind behind bribing the military commander back then... was none other than Porcelumex's Lucro.
- Isolde: Of course, the ones who benefited from it weren't innocent either. Going down with him was only fitting.
- They weren't innocent either?
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Even if they (were guiltywere guilty /
weren't innocentweren't innocent), they should have at least (stoodstood / had ahad a) trial... - Isolde: Forget it, Proxy. Your sense of righteousness is admirable... but I also believe you've been through something like this yourself.
- Isolde: Unjust accusations, hopeless justice, endless... struggle.
- Isolde: The Defense Force, Public Security, the HIA, HAND, TOPS... You're standing against giants. How much injustice have you endured, and how much justice have you achieved?
- Magus: But... Isolde, you've always told me that justice will come.
- Isolde: Correct! Justice will come! But it will be through my hands, and your gun!
- Isolde: We no longer need to rely on the sympathy of others, nor wait for mercy from those in power!
- Why do this now, of all times...?
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Why are you doing this, Colonel? Why, of all times, (would you revealwould you reveal /
revealreveal) this to Magus now? - (ProtagonistProtagonist): Your goal isn't just to let her know the truth, is it?
- Isolde: Magus, don't you want to know the name of that commander from back then?
- Isolde: The one who sent us into the jaws of battle just to secure that huge check from Porcelumex...
- Isolde: The one who deliberately withheld support from our unit to cover up the bribery...
- Magus: It was Lorenz...
- Isolde: Yes, Colonel Lorenz, eleven years ago... the very same Lorenz who has now risen to Major General.
- Isolde: Eleven years ago, he colluded with Lucro. And now, eleven years later... hahahaha.
- Magus: Lorenz... The lives lost, my years of suffering, this ridiculous body of mine...
- Magus: Is it all because of him?
- Isolde: Lucro is already dead, and Lorenz stands right before you, at the end of this road.
- Isolde: I've already made my choice. Now it's time to make yours, Magus.
- Isolde: We're the only ones walking this road... Don't let me down.
- Isolde's call ends abruptly.
- Magus: Isolde... Isolde?!
- Orphie: Colonel Isolde... Commander Lorenz... How... How could this be...?
- Magus: The only way we can know is by finding Lorenz and getting answers from him directly.
- Easy, Magus.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): (Magus, now's not the time to lose your head.Magus, now's not the time to lose your head. /
Magus, this is the moment when you need to keep your cool...Magus, this is the moment when you need to keep your cool...) Isolde hasn't given us any evidence to back up her accusations. - Magus: Evidence? Don't tell me you want to start preaching about procedures and justice, Proxy!
- Magus: If there were any justice in this world, my teammates wouldn't have sacrificed themselves eleven years ago!
- There's something fishy about Isolde's claims.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): (Stop and think about the timing — why would she drop all this now? She's deliberately steering you somewhere...Stop and think about the timing — why would she drop all this now? She's deliberately steering you somewhere... /
Seriously, think about the timing. Why's she dropping all this drama now? She's trying to steer you somewhere...Seriously, think about the timing. Why's she dropping all this drama now? She's trying to steer you somewhere...) - Magus: She wants me to join in her revenge plan. Is there something wrong with that...?
- Magus: She was right about one thing — I'm the only one walking this road with her...
- Trigger: With all due respect, Captain... that was a real kick in the gut, you know?
- Trigger: Remember when we first joined this squad? We signed up because we felt the same pain, we carried the same scars...
- Trigger: We were here for justice — maybe even a little glory — for the ones we lost, the ones we loved.
- Trigger: And now you're saying that we're not your companions? That you're all she has?
- Seed: Seed would like to teach that meanie a lesson... but...
- Seed: But... but I can't shake the feeling that something really bad might follow.
- Seed: If Seed Sr. were here, I think he'd be all gruffy and say, "Nope, not happening, Captain," and "Nope, not you either, Seed."
- Seed: Oh well... I was never good at comforting speeches anyway. If you've made up your mind, Captain, I'll follow your lead, no matter what!
- Magus: You think you're helping, saying all these useless things... but you don't understand...
- Orphie: Captain...
- Magus: You don't understand what I'm going through either, huh, Orphie?
- Orphie: Open your eyes, Magus!
- Orphie: You and Isolde, walking the same path? Come on! Without me, you wouldn't even be able to walk! If anything, you and I are the real companions here!
- Orphie: And the others... the squad, Proxy — we've been in this together from the start!
- Orphie: We've all lost people we love... But you were the one who brought us back, who pulled us out of that whole mess of grief and revenge!
- Orphie: And now you want us to just stand here and do nothing? All so you can feel that we "understand" you?!
- Magus: ...
- Orphie: I...
- Orphie: S—Sorry, Captain... I didn't mean to snap like that...
- We're still on a mission.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): We're still on a mission here. Whatever personal stuff we're dealing with, it doesn't outweigh the lives of all those citizens depending on us. You with me, Captain Magus?
- Magus: I agree. Let's move out. We'll clear out the Ethereals as we go.
- Magus: Obol squad... gear up and get ready.
- (Approach the Sacrifices)
- Trigger: There is an unopened Obscura nearby.
- Orphie: The monsters are crawling out of those devices!
- Magus: Eliminate the nearby Obscura to cut off the source of the threats.
Destroy the Obscura
- (Interact with the Obscura)
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- (Start Ether Tuning)
- (Complete Ether Tuning)
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- (The Obscura opens and reveals a Miasma Node)
- (Disintegrate the node using Perception Technique)
- Trigger: The Obscura have been confirmed to be deactivated.
- Orphie: The locations of these Obscura... don't appear to be included in the Colonel's intel.
- Magus: There might be gaps in the intel... Proxy, can you help search for nearby Obscura?
Destroy the hidden Obscura
- (Destroy the nearby Miasma and interact with the Obscura)
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- (Start Ether Tuning)
- (Complete Ether Tuning and destroy the node)
- Orphie: There are Obscura deployed up ahead!
- Magus: Clear out these filthy things!
Keep pushing on
- (Interact with the Rusty Iron Gate)
- Magus: You can get to the other side of the residential area through here.
- (On the other side, an Exaltist summons more Sacrifices)
Eliminate the Exaltist enemy
- (Enter combat)
- Magus: Sacrifices incoming! Stay alert!
- Magus: Monsters that can operate outside the Hollow... Truly terrifying weapons.
- Orphie: If they enter the city...
- Magus: We won't let that happen!
Keep pushing on
- (Continue down the road)
- Orphie: Major General Lorenz retreated in this direction.
- Magus: Keep moving. He might not be the most likable guy... but we can't let anything happen to him!
- (Approach the corpses)
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- (Lucro lies amongst them)
- (Interact with Lucro)
- Orphie: These bodies couldn't be...
- Magus: They're from Porcelumex?
- Wait... that body...
- Magus: Is that... Lucro from Porcelumex?
- Orphie: Oh no, don't tell me the Major General is...?
- Magus: Pick up the pace — I have no intention of explaining myself in a failed op report!
Search for the source of the distress call
- (Approach the house)
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- (A crying child is surrounded by Sacrifices)
Calm down the rescued Dante
- (Talk to Dante after defeating the enemies)
Vengeance and Protection
The following is recorded in the Video Archive
"Vengeance and Protection"Video Summary: Revenge or protection? The choice is hers to make.
Story Description: After coincidentally saving Dante—the nephew of a fallen Defense Force soldier—he tells Magus in an innocent voice: perhaps "protecting" is more important than "revenge."
- Dante: You're... the ladies from the Defense Force!
- Orphie: There's a little kid here! Maybe he got stranded when the Sacrifices suddenly appeared on the mountain road?
- Are you okay, Dante?
- He's from Sailume Bay.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): You're not hurt, are you, Dante? What are you doing all the way out here? Is your mom okay?
- Dante: (WiseWise /
BelleBelle), you're here too! - Dante: I was just playing on the mountain path with Mellow and A-Yue, like we always do...
- Dante: It was hide and seek, and I hid inside that empty grocery store by the road...
- Dante: But then, monsters started crawling out of those boxes... Th—The ones that make the sighing noises! There were monsters inside!
- Dante: Mellow and A-Yue ran down the mountain path back to Sailume Bay, but I got stuck here...
- You're safe now.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): It's alright, Dante. The Defense Force is here. You're safe now.
- Orphie: You know this little one, Proxy?
- His uncle was a soldier, too.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): (ThisThis /
His nameHis name) is Dante from Sailume Bay. His uncle used to be a Defense Force soldier, just like you all. - Magus: Used to... be?
- Well, Dante's uncle...
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Just like your old comrades, Dante's uncle also died in the fall of the old capital eleven years ago...
- Magus: Oh... So he's family of one of our old comrades, huh?
- Dante: Old comrade? Is th—this gun-lady one of my uncle's friends, too?
- Magus: That's right, kid. Your uncle and I... We fought side by side.
- Dante: Whoa... you must be a super strong soldier!
- Dante: My uncle was really strong too... but he never came back.
- Dante: I hope you and your team all make it home safe! I... I'm sure someone's gotta be waiting for you at home...
- Magus: ...
- Orphie: We will, Dante! Don't you worry!
- Magus: Hey, Dante... tell me something. If you had the chance to get revenge for your uncle, would you take it?
- Dante: G—Get revenge? But... didn't Uncle give his life to protect us?
- Magus: Like, if I found the bad guy who killed him, or the monster that hurt him, would you want me to kill them? Would that make you feel better?
- Dante: F—Feel... better...?
- Dante: I want those monsters gone too! But... that won't bring my Uncle back, right?
- Dante: I think Uncle became a soldier cause he wanted to keep people safe, even if he had to face scary monsters...
- Dante: So instead of fighting to hurt people, I wanna be the kind of soldier who protects everyone! I wanna be strong and take care of Mom!
- Dante: That's why I hope you all go home safe. You shouldn't get hurt and make your moms or your kids cry!
- Magus: ...
- Magus: Yeah... Dante, you should go home now. Your mom is probably worried sick about you.
- Orphie: The Defense Force and Yunkui Summit will keep you and your mom safe!
- Dante: Oh, right! Mom's probably waiting for me! I'd better get home, fast!
- The squad calls in support over the radio to escort Dante back to Sailume Bay.
- Orphie: Dante's such a sweetheart.
- Magus: He's a good kid... But people like Lorenz, back then and even now... How many kids have lost their families because of scum like that?
- Orphie: Captain...
- Magus: Alright. Let's keep moving.
- Magus gives a quiet order. The squad keeps marching...
Their target: Major General Lorenz.
Keep pushing on
- Orphie: That about does it for Sacrifices around here.
- Orphie: C—Captain Magus? What're your orders...?
- Magus: Lorenz... I need to question him face-to-face and get to the bottom of this.
- Orphie: Captain Magus... please don't do anything reckless.
- Magus: ...
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Magus, I (understandunderstand /
knowknow) how much you want revenge. But remember... We're here with you.
Go after Lorenz
- (Approach the soldiers)
- Magus: That's the direction Lorenz evacuated in, right...?
- Orphie: Magus... You have to stay calm!
- Trigger: Now's not the time to pull the "trigger."
- Seed: I stand behind the captain...
- Magus: With both the truth and my enemy right before my eyes, how could I...
- The truth and hatred are too heavy to bear.
- But don't forget about us.
Stop Lorenz
- (Idle)
- Major General Lorenz: How could we miss such important cargo?
- Major General's Adjutant: I have failed in my duties...
- (Approach Lorenz at Sailume Bay)
Magus' Choice
The following is recorded in the Video Archive
"Magus' Choice"Video Summary: Revenge or protection? The choice is hers to make.
Story Description: Orphie and Magus stand before Major General Lorenz, confronting him with Isolde's accusations... but in the end, Magus can't pull the trigger.
- Orphie and Magus stand before Major General Lorenz, confronting him with Isolde's accusations.
- Major General Lorenz: ...
- Major General Lorenz: Who filled your head with such baseless claims and slander, Captain Magus?
- Magus: Please, General Lorenz, while I can still hold myself back... I just need you to answer me — "yes" or "no."
- Major General Lorenz: Such groundless accusations are enough to get you court-martialed, Captain Magus.
- Major General Lorenz: Or is all this just an attempt to stir up trouble and cover up your unauthorized attack earlier?
- Magus: Answer me, Lorenz. Yes or no?
- Major General Lorenz: Eleven years ago, countless squads under my command were lost when the old capital fell!
- Major General Lorenz: You think it was only the frontline soldiers like you who had to shoulder the pressure?!
- Major General Lorenz: Do you know how many questions I faced because of your crushing defeat and your incompetence...? Do you know how much blame I have taken? How many concessions I have made to appease their greed!
- Major General Lorenz: War, politics, and the survival of this city are not problems that can be solved merely by you all pulling your triggers on the front lines!
- Major General Lorenz: I don't expect your brain, if there's anything left of it in there, to possibly comprehend such complicated matters.
- Major General Lorenz: But I want to remind you of one thing...
- Major General Lorenz: You're not here alone... Isn't Obol Squad standing with you?
- Who are you threatening?!
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): That's an outright threat, General Lorenz! As the mayor's representative, I won't just stand here and let that slide!
- Major General Lorenz: ...I must say, naive fools really seem to get along well together.
- Major General Lorenz: If you're that set on burning everything to take me out, and won't consider your own future... then perhaps you should think about theirs.
- Major General Lorenz: Don't be so selfish, Captain Magus.
- Major General Lorenz: Even if it was me... so what? I didn't get where I am today by being noble and playing by the rules.
- Before Lorenz brushes past Obol Squad as he finishes speaking. Magus's trigger quivers... but she never pulls it.
- Magus: ...
- Orphie: Captain Magus...
- You made the right choice.
- (ProtagonistProtagonist): Captain Magus, I understand how you feel... Even though it might sound (a littlea little /
kindakinda) cruel, I think you made the right call holding yourself back. - Magus: He made a fair point. I have my squad members and the Proxy counting on me. Acting recklessly wasn't an option.
- Magus: But I... and Isolde... wouldn't just stand around while he makes things spiral out of control. There must be a reason why she has revealed all this now.
- Orphie: Where could Colonel Isolde be?
Gunshots of Vengeance
The following is recorded in the Video Archive
"Gunshots of Vengeance"Video Summary: Bullets streak through eleven of sleepless nights.
- Major General Lorenz: Accusations without evidence
- Major General Lorenz: Are just baseless slander against your superiors
- Major General Lorenz: We'll settle this later
- Major General Lorenz: After this operation...
- Major General Lorenz: No one will be able stop the Defense Force from staying here
- (Isolde intercepts Lorenz at the pier)
- Isolde: You're right, Sir
- Isolde: No one can stop you from staying now
- Major General Lorenz: Isolde?
- (Magus and the others notice the commotion)
- Major General Lorenz: Why don't you come with me, Colonel?
- Major General Lorenz: We can't leave our big hero behind
- Isolde: Hero?
- Isolde: All the soldiers who never made it out...
- Isolde: The ones you abandoned...
- (Isolde touches her brooch)
- Isolde: Weren't they also your stepping stones...
- Isolde: Your "heroes"?
- (She shoots Lorenz)
- Major General's Adjutant: Traitor! We're under attack!
- Major General's Adjutant: Sir!
- (Obol Squad rushes toward the scene as Isolde escapes amidst gunfire)
- Magus: Isolde...!?
- Defense Force Soldier: Stop her!
- Magus: Isolde—!
- Defense Force Soldier: Don't let her escape!
- Isolde: Magus...
- Isolde: The promise you couldn't bring yourself to keep
- Isolde: I kept it for you
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Dawn, Karmic Fire |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 今朝，孽火 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 今朝，孽火 |
| Japanese | 刻下の業火 |
| Korean | 오늘 아침, 업화 Oneul Achim, Eophwa |
| Spanish | Albor del fuego kármico |
| French | L'émergence des flammes de la vengeance |
| Russian | Карающее пламя Karayushcheye plamya |
| Thai | เพลิงบาป ที่ลุกโชนในวันนี้ |
| Vietnamese | Ngày Nay, Nghiệt Hỏa |
| German | Morgengrauen des karmischen Feuers |
| Indonesian | Api Dosa yang Membakar |
| Portuguese | Chamas do Fogo Cármico |
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