Neve stands in the Garden of Eden, now immortal after using The Adamite Key to unlock her soul

Neve: I’m sure you’re confused Centus and Elghene…you all thought I was a loyal follower of The Century Corps wanting to preserve the culture of the Pionin people

Elghene: You were once…

Neve kicks Elghene in the stomach

Neve: I was so sure of my own existence, of my place in the world, I was the last Pionin, a valued member of The Century Corps, I was to serve my guild with pride but then…I found out I wasn’t alone, there were others like me in The Nightlands, that infernal place of darkness home to enemies.

Centus: So what if there were others like you

Neve: They had lived there but left ME behind on Earth, and they had sullied themselves with Nightlanders due to low population count, they had diluted themselves with impurities

Centus: You’re mad for a little bit of “impurity of the gene pool” even though it saved your species?

Neve: I hated what I saw with the Pionin I got to see, they were monsters, unlike the graceful warriors of nature I saw in the old legends and there were others who felt the same, I swear I could feel them call out to me

Elghene: The Pionin that fight alongside us today are the same warriors, it’s still in their heritage

Neve kicks Elghene again and Centus begins to square up with Neve

Neve: It wasn’t the same either way, the world was wrong and I thought there was nothing I could do. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE? Like you have no purpose, like you’re reason for being where you are is suddenly ripped away. “Last Pionin” my ass there were now a dozen thousand or so. The things that formed my identity were taken away in an instant by a cruel and indifferent universe.

Centus: The things that make up you still exist within you, your thoughts and emotions may change, but they’re still what make you, you’re unique and have an identity as the being you believe yourself to be, who you are is decided by you, you just decided not to update your definition.

Neve: It’s not so easy to just forge a new identity and I didn’t want to, I was CRYING out for death, the death of the entire Pionin race, more specifically the ones who had sullied themselves with The Nightlander brood, I was going to build a Pionin future I could be proud of and it happened when I met Aoenen

Elghene: That shitty side-piece of yours…

Neve kicks Elghene as she begins to transition into narration of a Flashback

3 Years Ago, The Lemurian Belt

Neve (Narrating): I was doing grunt work for your guild, when I first saw him

Neve is carrying Century Corps equipment up and down some stairs, and she drops some

Neve: Darn it…

Before she can reach to grab now, another hand reaches to help her

Aoenen: I’ll help you with that, afterall you are Lady Neve

Neve: I am, and you are?

Aoenen: Aoenen, a member of one of the pureblood Pionin families

Neve: Oh, you’re one of the good Pionin?

Aoenen: You could say that but as the paragon of Pionin are you really going to say something so scandalous like that?

Neve: Well, it’s just that I feel frustrated with the fact that those Pionin chose to forsake the traditions I came to care about so much, so I consider them wrong

Aoenen: I can imagine how you feel, it’s almost as if they reject the very Pionon’s Truth

Neve (Narration): You can imagine my excitement when I saw that a Pionin shared my views and it turned out that I wasn’t alone

The flashback ends and takes us back to the present

The Present, Garden of Eden

Neve: The Pionin’s Truth was born days later, and the relationship between myself and Aoenen would blossom over time, becoming something beautiful

Elghene: He even got you pregnant huh

Neve: You overheard that drivel? Hah, I lied to Kiqi just to get him to stop pestering me.

Centus: Lying, hatred, you remind me of the old me I wished to dispose of

Neve: You must understand that I went through a lot of trouble here, I first learned that Department X had obtained the First Portal Battery weeks ago and then I hatched a plan to begin my ultimate plan?

Centus: Ultimate plan?

Neve: I WAS THE ONE WHO HIRED SINNERS SEXTANT, I did it anonymously and promised a huge sum of cash that wasn’t mine to give.

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Centus: You set this up with a lie so a treasure hunt for the batters would happen?

Neve: Yes, what I didn’t expect was that it would take my beloved’s life but it doesn’t matter, I will use the key to make whatever remains of Pionin’s Truth back in The Coral Chamber immortal and then destroy every other Pionin alive starting with that bitch Kiqi

Centus: Well I see, your hatred is leading you to the path of genocide?

Neve: You could put it like that, either way it would be unwise to stop me

Centus: I am also immortal, do you forget? It will be a fair fight

Neve: If you insist

Centus: I will end this madness you called a plan, I will put you’re machinations in their rightful resting place

Neve: After I dispose of you, this will be trivial

Centus charges at Neve who lunges back

Fight against Neve

When Neve is at 90%

Neve: The immortality given to me by the key makes me stronger and more powerful than before, anyone in way must beware

Centus: You’re new power is nothing compared to my years of experience, I have fought in every war since the birth of man.

Resume

When Neve is at 80%

Neve: I can’t wait to finally get the world me and Aoenen desires, I will kill every Pionin Man, Woman and Child that has the audacity to get in my way for him, I will finish what we started

Centus: I will end you before you get the chance

Resume

When Neve is at 70%

Neve: The Pionin world I imagine is one where the values of old are respected and time honored, one where the virtues of old are exemplified in every model citizen

Centus: Murdering thousands of innocents isn’t virtuous, it’s sinful and evil

Neve: You call them innocents, I call them mistakes

Resume

When Neve is at 60%

Centus: I still can’t believe you kept up this lie for 3 years

Neve: I’m an incredible actor and plus who’d suspect that sweet ol Neve was plotting to change Pionin society irreversibly?

Centus: You sicken me

Resume

When Neve is at 50%

Elghene: I wish I saw the evil pit inside of you Neve, I see it now, it is all consuming, the real you is ugly and disgusting

Neve moves to kick Elghene again but Centus gets the better of her and trips her up

Centus: I think you’ve kicked her enough

Resume

When Neve is at 40%

Neve: This endurance test of ours is getting old

Centus: The novelty of being immortal wears off fast

Resume

When Neve is at 30%

Neve: What punishment will befall The Century Corps for trying to stop my ultimate ambitions?

Centus: You’d really kill all of your old friends for petty revenge?

Neve: I wouldn’t per say, but when you get in my way, I’ll have you pay an unimaginable price

Resume

When Neve is at 20%

Neve: I won’t tolerate failure of myself or anyone else under me, one of the Pionin virtues is perfection

Centus: No one is perfect, people are inherently flawed, you cannot make being perfect a virtue

Neve: You would insult one of the great Pionin virtues?

Centus: They’re not that great if you can use them to excuse genocide

Resume

When Neve is at 10%

Centus: Bravo Neve, you sure did put up an excellent fight

Neve: Don’t count me out yet, I will be victorious in the end

Centus: Accept your loss

Resume

When you beat Neve, she drops the key and it falls down to the ground, Neve looks at Centus

Neve: Who cares that I lost, I’m already immortal, I will simply leave and cause my plan to happen anyway

Neve begins to run but then Elghene fires an arrow from her tail that nails Neve

Neve: Since when were you an archer you stupid brat?

Elghene: I was always

Elghene removes a seal on her body, revealing her to be Woelyn in disguise

Neve: THAT BITCH

Woelyn: Yup, me and Elghene swapped placed right after the call with Darsah and Centus in the Coral Chamber to execute her plan

Elghene: Because I saw right through you

The real Elghene reveals herself emerging from the bushes

Centus: Looks like your plan went just as you thought it did

Elghene: Yup, I bet Neve thought she could hide her hidden intentions from me

Neve: Wait, if you saw right through me then WHY DID YOU LET ME GET THE KEY!!

Elghene: Because you’re a liar and a sinner and you will stay here

Neve: Not on my watch

Neve tries to leave again but two familiar faces jump down from a tree to knock her down

Kiqi: Remember us asshole

Hyuken: We’re leaving you in here, right where you belong

Neve tries to run again but a massive plant begins to grab her and pull her back

Neve: NOW WHAT!!

Another figure reveals themself

Darsah: That right there is the fearsome Beastial Growth also known as the Plant with a thousand Teeth, I gave Centus a special seed to place here before your fight began

Neve: You were never trying to win….

Centus: Yeah…

Neve begins being constricted by the plant she tries to wiggle free but Hyuken punches her again and again

Hyuken: You’re gonna stay in here where you belong, I hope you enjoy your fancy new tomb

Woelyn: See ya chump

Elghene: This is what you deserve for being so heartless

Neve: NO NO NO THIS WON’T BE HOW IT ENDS

Darsah: I’m afraid your fate has been sealed

Centus: Remember that you chose to be heartless monster

Kiqi: This fate…this is one you have earned

The party begins to leave with The Adamite Key as Neve begins screaming as the plant attacks her organs

The Portal Site, Palestine

The group exits the portal and sees the rest of the Century Crops staring at them

Gladian: So what happened?

Elghene: Neve was evil the entire time, we dealt with her after she made herself immortal

Indica: Seems like she sure thought she was though shit huh

Hadane: It is a worth fate for someone with such hubris

Thechr: I can’t say I’m surprised

Nest: So now what?

Sahu: Well...let’s make sure she can’t leave

Atoll: You got it boss

Atoll fires a metal dart into the Portal Batteries causing them fail and the portal to close

Demeui: Now we will never have access to the womb all of mankind came from

Atlantic: Did it really have any other worth aside from sentimentality

Vendil: It’s something that was not worth turning back the hands of time for

Necra: You don’t want to go back into the womb of your mother, why should man go back to where it was born?

Eoontaq: We’re better off leaving this in the past

Larkin: We’ve got a future to build instead

Iehn: The world’s consciousness can heal from a scar like that

Atoll: The consciousness huh

Cosma: Well either way we move forward

Zkn: The march of time stops for no one

Gladian: Whatever the future holds, let’s go to it together

The party leaves the portal site as the portal batteries begin to explode