White-Ghost Territory
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Master Road
A Wounded Return
The El Search Party were back in Elrianode, the priestesses find the group and notice that Ain is unresponsive. Unable to heal him, they concluding that they must seek the aid of the El Lady. Eve, Add, Elsword, and Raven volunteer to take Ain to Elysion. With the priestess' help, they are sent off to Elysion. The remaining group learn that the seal beneath the El had been shut tight after the previous incident and conclude that they have to use the portal in Debrian Laboratory.
In order to gain the Demon Realm's coordinates, Gaia proceeds with his plans to retrieve Calonne alongside Laby, Ara goes along to visit her homeland.
Elesis, Lu, and Ciel decide to speak with Rosso. They find the fire master training in the outskirts of Elrianode. They learn that Rosso made it to the Demon Realm through the fissures opened up in the wake of the El Explosion, however not progress to their own ends.
After their return to Elrianode, Rena found herself fatigued and fell unconscious. Darkmoon and Anduran went to tend to her. Rose seeks Ventus out to try and help her establish radio communication with the people in Rigomor. Ventus takes her and Zero to an Elriabrunnr where he and Rose spar in order to create El waves. Eventually they successfully manage to receive a radio transmission, though unclear, appeared to be an individual who had located a fragment of Aegirp's soul and had assured the safety of Rigomor.
When Rena awoke, Ventus offered to aid her and they sneak out to visit an Elriabrunnr which greatly revitalizes Rena. Lincy attempts to talk Rena out of going to the Demon Realm. Ventus knew they wouldn't be able to stop her from going, instead revealing that they had briefly seen another Elf in the Demon Realm. They then return to Elrainode where they get scolded by Anduran.
With the others having left, Aisha and Chung decide to also spend their time seeking aid for their next venture to the Demon Realm. Meeting with Denif, the Water Master shows them a compass of his which seeks out the power of the Water El, suspecting it may work with Dark El. The two agree to use the compass however must break the seal which binds it solely to Denif, though a trial of resolve. Both manage to pass the seal's test, now with the ability to use the compass. Aisha suggests Chung keep the compass.
The El Search Party still in Elrianode reconvene with each other with what they had learned individually. From the message gathered by Rose and Zero, Lu suspecting the message came from the Far North based on the codenames.
Reunion
Elsword, Raven, Eve, Add, and Ain arrive in Elysion where they are greeted by Hernia and Solace. Hernia take Ain to tend to his condition while Elsword follows Solace to ask him something while Raven follows. Eve and Add go to meet with Adrian.
Eve meets up with Adrian who provides her with the necessary tools and facilities to conduct her repairs. While she went off to repair herself, Add confronts Adrian. Add and Adrian strike a deal, Add would provide Adrian combat data on himself for components for Add's time travel. After multiple tests against Durenda, continuing his conversation with Adrian, Add begins to loath the Nasod creator's mentality and calls off his offer. Soon after Eve completed her repairs and too wished to speak with her creator. She learned of Adrian's choices to abandon Elrios and start anew and declines his offer to stay in Elysion, wishing to become the Nasod Queen he had originally designed her to be.
Elsword asks Solace if it is possible for him to gain the power of the El Masters to become stronger. Solace tells them the power must come from the individual and critiques the two, resulting in a confrontation. After their spar, the Elsword manage to vent his frustrations with his own weaknesses, accepting who he is, however Solace notes that there is much more to the boy, as one who he'd been keeping an eye on and the one who managed to restore the El though their own power. Raven comes to speak with the master and notices that Solace it too part Nasod, Solace urging Raven to not do anything he will regret in his quest for atonement, especially noting Raven's shortened lifespan.
Hernia treats Ain, she already knows he was an angel of Ishmael and knew to transfer her El energy into him. Ain begins to see flashes of Hernia's memories before Hernia herself appeared in his mind, there she helps Ain confront his lingering regrets about straying from his intended purpose in the eyes of the angels and Ishmael. Facing the manifestation of his anxiety, he regains consciousness.
Preparation
The group in Elysion reunite and return to Elrianode, when the entire party barring Ara and Laby regroup, they discuss what they had each learned. Elesis comes back from messaging Velder and learns of missing nobles during the Demon Invasion that were suspected to have been taken into the Demon Realm. However without much more to do, they decided they should continue to investigate the message Rose received. As their conversation closes, they notices Gaia, Ara, Laby, and Calonne approach the city. During this time, the Master and Priestesses were having their own conversation, the El Masters reveal to the Priestesses that Ebalon was in fact the one responsible for the El Explosion and that they'd be conducting their own investigation into Henir's Order's true motivations independent from the El Search Party.
The Brother in Elrianode
Unfamiliar Home
Noah and the Landar Camp arrival to Elrianode, Noah decides to part ways and explore the grounds on his own. Noah encounters Darkmoon and Rosso investigating the aftermath of Henir's Order's attack. Rosso notices Noah and then notices the ring Noah took from Titania, causing things escalate quickly before Ventus and Lincy defuses the situation. Lincy was able to communicate with Clamor, averting suspicion. The El Masters learn that Noah alleges to be Ebalon's brother from the past so they take him to El Tower for further questioning.
Everyone's Reason
Denif, Gaia, and Artea work to set arrangements for the Landars when the other Masters and Noah arrive. The two parties interrogate one another. Denif affirms they can trust Noah and they allow each to their own devices. Rosso decides to tail Noah due to learning the boy went to the Rosso Manor. Rosso probes Noah for what he knows and they discuss about Henir's Order, what they've done in the past and the location of their base potentially being one of the Seven Tower, taken to the Demon Realm. Noah and Rosso get into a heated argument and Noah passes out. When he comes to and levels out, he learns of Rosso's choice to become the Fire Master to prevent anybody else from having to shoulder the burden of the role. He then tells Noah that Darkmoon had been to see him and sends the boy off.
Righted Memory
Meeting with Darkmoon, she had learned Noah had passed out again and aimed to help heal him. They talk about the first Moon Priestess, Misty, and she takes Noah to the Elriabrunnr to heal him. The boy goes into slumber and enters his mindscape where he is confronted by his younger self. He was able to properly converse with his younger self, processing his thoughts and learning that his memories were even further altered than what he even knew now. Coming to, he needs to find out what memories had been altered.
The One Hidden
Upon learning of Noah's appearance in Elrianode from Solace, he and Hernia travel to Elrianode to meet the boy. Darkmoon seeks out the El Lady to pry deeper into Noah's memories. Hernia agrees to help and puts the boy into slumber once more. Noah it taken first through Hernia's lost memories, seeing a moment before the false Ebalon erased her memory and then was taken through into his lost memories. There he can peak into a conversation between Misty and the false Ebalon, revealed to be a leader of Henir's Order, Dantelion, as well as knowledge of some entity which had come out of the El and the Dark El. Upon awakening, Noah relays this knowledge to everybody, the group ponder the order's next act. Noah decides he must head to the Demon Realm next.
Pruinaum
To White-Ghost Land
The El Search Party and Calonne catch each other up on all the information they know about the current situation regarding Berthe and the White-Ghost Army. Calonne readily accepting to aid the group and manages to get the portal in operating order. Providing the El Search Party with his useful though dated knowledge of Aegirp's soul fragments. He speculates the potential location of the Aurora base the El Search Party mentioned and plans to send them by the Deap-Seal Tunnel's surface entrance. The El Search Party depart, after they left, Calonne asks if the El Masters would allow him to use the portal once more.
First Soul Fragment
Teleported into the cold tundra of Pruinaum, the group tried to find the secret Aurora Operation Site to little success. They were tracked down and ambushed by Asella and her men, however just before things got bad, Nichel arrived and vouched for the El Search Party. Nichel catches the group up on their situation as they return to Aurora. Once at Aurora, the El Search Party provide them with the map they had gotten from Calonne which greatly narrowed down where the soul fragment Aurora had already been searching for was, Nichel volunteers to escort the El Search Party to find the soul.
Guiding the El Search Party through the terrain which had changed drastically from the map Calonne had provided. As they travel down, a disembodied voice suddenly calls out of Nichel. Aegirp's soul fragment began to relay memories of her struggles to maintain the White-Ghost Army, other El Search Party members began to hear the voices as well. Approaching it, they find the Old Village Site and the mist parted revealing the soul's location. Arriving at the altar, they are attacked by a yeti, Meson, who had absorbed a portion of the soul's power. Defeating him, they secure the soul, which Lu let's Nichel hold onto. Nichel sends a report back to Asella as the group prepare to head off to the location of the next soul fragment.
Second Soul Fragment
The group depart to the next location Winster had given them which they'd been informed was now under White-Ghost occupation. Approaching they connected with Aegirp's soul again and learn of the White-Ghost King's mixed Garen Nous heritage. Making it to the Sanctuary of the Soul, the El Search Party split up and launch a surprise attack against the White-Ghost forces. They manage to round up all the soldiers so none of them could warn Berthe and manage to swiftly secure the soul fragment. The leader of the demon squad, Baryon converses with the El Search Party, willing to tell them everything he knows in exchange for their own safety from Berthe and his forces. The El Search Party gather that Haivan was now helping Berthe and managed to find a way to search for soul fragments and Berthe was now preparing to launch another invasion of Elrios. The group return to Aurora with their captives.
Upon returning to Aurora, the group receive a remote message from Winster informing them to stay put and that the souls were being tracked. The El Search Party were backed into a corner since they didn't want to expose Aurora's location, they decide to take the souls they do have and make their way to the capital to confront Berthe. Baryon tells them about the abandoned railway that leads straight to the capital. The Auora forces lead a distraction to lure the White-Ghost forces around the train away and the El Search Party sneak into the station. They find the train Baryon mentioned was not there, but another train was on the next station over. The group board the train, then it suddenly begins to move one its own, it was a trap set up by Haivan. Unable to stop the train, Haivan manages to steal their soul fragments and flee while the train was diverted away from the capital. The train enters a cave in the outskirts of the capital where they run into Winster, who'd managed to escape his imprisonment. They learn the Aurora messages was a ruse by Haivan. Winster agrees the lead to the El Search Party back to the capital to try and destroy Berthe's portal.
End of Long Standing Enmity
Returning to the capital, they are immediately spotted by Haivan. They try to understand the reason behind Haivan, but he remains vague as they had caught him at a bad time. The alarms are rung as he retreats into the capital as all the White-Ghost Army are alerted of the invaders' presence. They were soon to be overwhelmed by the army coming from both sides, fortunately Asella and the Aurora forces arrive due to Nichel's updates. The Aurora forces fend off the White-Ghost Army as the main cast enter the castle. Hadron intervenes and faces off the El Search Party. A portal sudden opens up and Deborah steps out, by shire coincidence, Deborah's reckless entry through the portal in Elrianode resulted in her popping up at the right place at the right time to take on her former subordinate.
Halted in front of the portal gates, they are suddenly rerouted into the basement of the castle where they are greeted with an entire arsenal of Iserlohn weaponry and Haivan. Once defeated, he tells them his actual intention of having Berthe obtaining Aegirp's soul and have their conflicting souls clash and destroy each other. Nichel asserts that Aegirp had a dream, even before she rose to power, and that they want to revive her to continue reaching that dream. Haivan let's the them go to attempt to save Aegirp.
Reaching the portal, they come face to face with Berthe for a final confrontation. The Garen much more powerful than he was before, put up a fight. Though his immense power started to become imbalanced, then the power began to consume him. As his conflict with Aegirp's soul ate away at himself, Elsword demands to know the motive for their invasion of Elrios, Berthe tells them that Elrios was merely a stepping stone for their conflict with the heavens. Berthe notes Elsword's very existence as proof of their cause before the demon goes completely mad from the dysphoric power. The new form created from Berthe and Aegirp's clash created a barrier which consumed the entire castle. Haivan realized something had gone wrong and had Nichel and Winster escort him to the El Search Party. Reaching the El Search Party, Haivan speculates that the White-Ghost King's will is attempting to destroy everything in the area to keep the portal from falling into the wrong hands. Haivan hatched a plan to get close to Aegirp's soul and take it into himself, sacrificing himself but averting the crisis. Nichel rejects his plan and decides that she will take the soul in herself, not as a sacrifice but believing she could convince the White-Ghost King. The El Search Party face Aegirp's soul.
Nichel successfully comes in contact with it. As the mist settles, Aegirp emerged in Nichel's body. In the aftermath, Aegirp catches up with her subordinates. Nichel regain control and thanks the El Search Party. Haivan approaches them and asks about Nero and mentions that the demons preparing for the invasion of Elrios were camping in the Red-Demon Territory. The El Search Party grow concerned that Ran may have something up his sleeve and decide that the Red-Demon Territory would be their next destination.
Pruinaum Outskirts
Ancient Beast Slumbering in Pruinaum
While the El Search Party remained in Aurora, expedition teams discovered ruins emitting a powerful presence equal to that of a Demon God. They learn the seal is being slowly undone, however were unable to simply reseal the beast. They then deciding to undo the seal themselves to strike down the beast before it reaches full strength. Traveling deeper into the underground ruins, obtaining one half of the sealed door's lock mechanism down the left path. On the right, they found a place which was under such distortion that the underground cavern appeared to have a sunset sky and the area was lush and warm despite being hidden in the tundra of Pruinaum. They obtain the other half of the lock mechanism. Using the two pieces, the ancient demon was unleased and the El Search Party fought against it. At the time, Noah had also just arrived in the demon realm and caught up with the group in the midst of their fierce battle. The manage to defeat the beast and apply a new seal over it. Now once again lying dormant within the temple, the Aurora forces kept watch over the area.
