We zoom in on Calvert Tower’s 21st and 20th floors, with members of The Century Corps getting ready to make a defiant stand against Optica to save the world from her White World.
Zkn: The plan is that Olivia will fly out and try to grab Optica’s attention, then once Optica is nailed down by the other guild members, we knock her in the portal, sending her to the end of time
Olivia: Got that.
Ehl: And me and Vendil have to make the portal
Cosma: Also correct
Vendil: So, when do we make the portal, it seems like a taxing amount of work
Cosma: I’ll start casting a spell to feed you guys magical energy so the portal’s creation is instantaneous
Ehl: Rodger?
Zkn (Calls through a hole in the floor): Are we ready to begin the plan?
Iseri: Ready when you are?
Olivia flies out into the open sky
Olivia: Hey OPTICA, come get me ya big chicken!
In response, many Light Monsters appear in her place, ready to grab Olivia
Olivia (Fighting them off): SHOW YOURSELF COWARD
More monsters appear, Olivia fights them off with assists from Falconer’s Falcon.
Zkn: Well this isn’t going well..
Gladian: What’s the plan now chief
Zkn: You gotta join her out there
Zkn makes a massive astral bridge for the Century Corps to stand on to fight with Olivia.
Indica: Well you heard them, let’s go
The Century Corps rush across the bridge to join Olivia in the battle
Fight Light Monster Wave 1
When you win
Atoll: Where is she?
Husk/Hyane: Is she hiding?
Atlantic: I believe she is
Viridian: Why would you say that?
Atlantic: She’s scared
Fight Light Monster Wave 2
Zaylee: So she’s turned coward and ran away
Olivia: BAWK BAWK BAWK BAWK, OPTICA’S A CHICKEN
Hudson: I think we gotta send her a message
Atlantic: Nope, she can hear us loud and clear
Falconer: So what will get her to appear?
Fight The Final Light Monster Wave
When you win, Optica appears in a shroud of light
Optica: I’m out of monsters…
Olivia: You..again..you murderer and you monster
Optica: Shut up, we’re one in the same
Olivia: We are not the same, I am my own person independent on you and your crimes
Optica: Once I absorb you, I will become all powerful again, don’t stand in my way again
Falconer: It’s too late Optica, we’re gonna defeat you once and for all
Juni: You’ll get it
Atoll: Got anything else to say
Hudson: Make it quick
Optica: No matter how many of you intrepid fools give your lives…you will never stop me!!
Fight Optica on The Bridge
When Optica is at 50%
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Optica: You bastards sure are persistent
Olivia: I’m determined to never be you or like you
Indica: You’ve terrorized our city for too long
Optica: For all your postering and whining, I’ll always win, I’ll always come back, I’LL NEVER LOSE
When Optica is at 10%
Optica: Mortals cannot comprehend my true power, I am beyond anything you can comprehend.
Atlantic: Why don’t you comprehend getting your ass kicked
When you win….part of the bridge collapses so you have to fall back a little
Optica: This bridge represents your futile attempts to fell me, collapsing underneath your feet, no matter how many times I am humiliated, I have never truly died.
Indica: We’re gonna send you to hell, no matter how many times you insist on otherwise
Husk/Hyane: As repayment for all I’ve done, I’ll help stop you, stop you now and foreveer
Optica: I will kill you, all of you
Fight Optica on The Collapsing Bridge
When Optica is at 50%
Optica: You pests tire me
Atlantic: Will you shut up already?
Optica: Insolent commands are not yours to give
Zaylee: “Insolent commands are not yours to give”
Optica: YOU DARE MOCK ME
When Optica is at 25%
Optica: Why am I struggling so much against you mortals?
Olivia: These mortals are stronger than you ever were
Indica: For all your high minded posturing-
Iseri: You never considered the power of people working together
Optica: Shut UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP-
Atlantic: Insolent commands like that are not yours to give
When Optica is at 10%
Optica: I don’t understand how…you keep on fighting against a foe you know is stronger…in every possible way…I’m superior to every man who has ever lived…
Iseri: The thing is, manly vices like arrogance and pride are things gods like you aren’t immune too
Optica: I-
Atlantic: Shut up
When you win
The Bridge collapses completely and the party rushes back into Calvert Tower
Optica (Battered and wounded): Now…I’ll finally kill you…
Suddenly, Cosma begins speaking.
Cosma: The spell is finally ready
Optica: What!
A beam tears through the floor and puts Optica in a bubble, on cue, Ehl and Vendil open the portal and Zkn creates a fan to blow Optica into it
Optica: Send me throughout time, clever, but I won’t be defeated so easily.
Vendil: Why hasn’t she been thrown in there yet?
Zkn: I have no clue
Optica begins slowly escaping and as that happens, Husk/Hyane begins moving
Falconer: Hyane…what are you doing?
Husk/Hyane: I have to bear myself for all the wrong I have done, and put myself aside
Gladian: Hey man what are you saying
Husk/Hyane: Unless Optica is defeated, there will be no joy, no love, no sadness and a still world, unmoving and ugly
Juni: Dude, what are you about to do?
Husk/Hyane: I want everyone to take care…
Zaylee: No Husk you don’t have to do this?
Husk/Hyane: I’m the only one who can….
Indica: Uhm-
Husk/Hyane: Save the world…I have too
Falconer: WAI-
Husk/Hyane jumps through the hole and latches onto the almost broken bubble Optica is contained in
Optica: What is the meaning of this?
Husk/Hyane: You won’t escape, you’re coming…with me
Husk/Hyane grabs Optica and throws her into the portal along with himself
The portal closes immediately
Vendil: Did he just…sacrifice himself?
Falconer: Hyane really did it…through himself right in the line of fire for us again…
Gladian: Well….Optica really is gone now…
Indica: We can go home now…
Juni: We don’t even have a body to bury…
Zkn: I don’t think Hyane would want you to feel sorrow, he would want you to remember the good times and the joy you felt and be glad that you got to experience that
Viridian: Our good friend is gone, let’s be sad about that
Cosma: But we should also celebrate, that he saved the world through a single action..
Iseri: We need to throw a proper funeral and send the warriors who gave their lives a proper send off..
Atoll: I’m down for that
Olivia: I’m also down for that…It feels so good, to be free of Optica and be the person..I want to be
Zaylee: I think..that sounds great
Hudson: Then let’s not waste any time
Atlantic: I’m so glad…to be here…with you
Gladian: I feel the same…
As The Guild walked home in the present, at the far end of the Universe, Husk/Hyane and Optica landed in the distant future, at the end of The Univese.
Optica: Where are we?
Husk/Hyane: The end of time…we sent you here…with no way home and to a place where you have no influence
Optica: Insect, well…you will pay with your life for your challenge to my power
Husk/Hyane: Even if you kill me…you will be trapped here forever
Fight against Optica for the final time
When she is at 75% health
Optica: Why…am I losing…to one man
Husk/Hyane: Your power isn’t real power…real power is from the experiences you live and the friends you make, it’s the things that make life worth living that make me determined to defeat you even here where it won’t matter
Optica: I…I….Won’t stand for your nonsense
When she is at 50% health
Husk/Hyane: When will you learn that your pride and arrogance only gets in the way
Optica: I-
Husk/Hyane: Have no response in the face of a world that rejects your way of thinking, that’s what I thought
When she is at 25% health
Husk/Hyane: Seeing the universe at it’s very end is depressing, it’s missing the life that makes life worth living, it’s missing the very essence of being..of living…
Optica: You call the reason for living the fact that you are..life is just a stain on a perfect universe made up of life
Husk/Hyane: No..life is the reason our universe is so very perfect…it’s the thing that makes gives me to fight on… even when I have no more reason too
Optica: I HATE YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR
Husk/Hyane: The feeling is mutual
When she is at 10% health
Optica: I cannot..THIS CANNOT BE HOW IT ENDS…
Husk/Hyane: I didn’t expect to be here either, but I’ll do anything, to finally see you defeated once and for all.
When you win
Optica: Impossible…I cannot be…defeated…
Husk/Hyane: Goodbye..Optica
Husk/Hyane thrusts his daggers through Optica’s eyes, ending her life and killing her forever, Husk/Hyane then sets down and watches the universe end before him
Later that night….
Members of The Century Corps have all assembled back home, rebuilding The Guild but also they’ve come back home for a special service.
Iseri, who is now temporary Grandmaster, takes the microphone as 3 coffins ly together, away from three graves
Iseri: We’re here to celebrate the lives of three heroes, Xen, Beline and Hyane. Xen was the grandmaster of this guild before me and all of you know him, Xen was a hero who has saved countless lives, Xen is a man I was proud to call a friend. Beline was also bright as could be and she had previously given her life to restart The Idol of Light, Beline is a hero and we owe our lives to her. Finally, Hyane. Hyane was known by many as Husk and both sides of the man were admirable and people who I deeply admired. Hyane is someone who could always see the joys in life. So let’s mourn their deaths by celebrating their lives
Iseri blows a horn and the party begins. Falconer moves over near Cosma.
Cosma: Hey man, what’s up…
Falconer: Hey, make sure to say, what you mean, and the things you want too, too the people most important to you…because those are the people…that are the hardest to admit what you want too
Cosma: Was there something you wanted to say to Hyane
Falconer: There was…something…I really waned to say…three words…I wanted to say..more than anything else…in the entire world…
Cosma: Bear your feelings to witness anyway, let the whole world know…I already know what you wanted to say…
Falconer: You do?
Cosma: Remember, love and grief go hand in hand…just trust your heart..everything will work out in the end…
Falconer: Alright…but I wish..he could hear them too…