Primordial Chaos reactivation confirmed.[sr]All components will be deemed unnecessary.
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＠Shrine Voice
Emergency alert. Emergency alert.[sr]Chaos has manifested.
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They will soon begin harvesting the planet's resources, and will then revert the planet's surface to its primordial state.
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In accordance with interstellar migration treaty, thirty-seven percent of this unregistered planet's volume will be consumed.
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All intelligent life-forms on this planet[sr]are encouraged to evacuate immediately.
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＠Holmes
...Setting aside the self-serving nature of that announcement, as well as the timeline it details...
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＠Holmes
It sounds as though Chaos intends to scoop out[sr]thirty-seven percent of Earth's surface.
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？1：What!? B-but... They can't DO that!
？2：What's the point of unbleaching the Earth if it's[csr]just gonna have a huge gaping hole in it!?
？！
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＠Holmes
Indeed. Suffice to say, if Chaos is successful, Earth[sr]will no longer be a suitable planet for human life.
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＠Musashi
Well, hang on.[sr]It doesn't seem like it's going to attack us, right?
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＠Europa
Chaos perceives the universe on a vastly greater scale than Zeus. I suspect they are not even aware of us.
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＠Europa
The magical energy they fired at[sr]Ares was more akin to a reflex.
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＠Europa
They don't mean to attack us. Their only intention is to make off with this planet's surface, Lostbelt and all...
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＠Europa
...and set sail on another[sr]voyage across the sea of stars.
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＠Caenis
So they just wanna turn us into fuel or some shit for an interstellar pleasure cruise? Screw that noise!
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＠Caenis
I don't know who this Chaos bitch thinks they are,[sr]but I'm sure as shit not letting that happen!
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＠Mash
...That's right.
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We still haven't cut down the Tree of Emptiness.[sr]...We can't afford to stop now.
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＠Mash
...The Black Barrel has sustained damage. The Ortinax's[sr]total output has fallen below fifty percent...
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＠Mash
...but the auto-maintenance function is still working.[sr]I can temporarily boost output to sixty percent for combat.
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＠Mash
My shield remains intact,[sr]and Aegis's protection is still in effect.
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？1：Yeah. We can't afford to stop here. We have to keep fighting back.
？2：The only question is, how do we fight that thing?
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＠Mash
Right!
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＠Holmes
...I'm afraid we can't.
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＠Holmes
It must be at least twenty thousand meters away from us. We simply have no way of reaching it.
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＠Holmes
And even if we could...we would need[sr]to fight them inside that rift.
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＠Holmes
And fighting in outer space is uncharted territory even for Heroic Spirits like us.
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＠Holmes
Even if there were a spacefaring Heroic Spirit here, the battle would be over by the time they were to reach Chaos.
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＠Holmes
Goetia, the King of Demon Gods, managed to store all the magical energy of human history in bands of light...
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＠Holmes
...but even if we had equivalent energy at our disposal, we would still be unable to destroy Chaos.
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＠Mash
That... That can't be[line 2]
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＠Musashi
Excuse me, Mr. Holmes? I have a question!
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＠Holmes
...Go on.
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＠Musashi
Remind me, are these machine gods[sr]different from conceptual ones?
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＠Holmes
They aren't. It's difficult to convey accurately, but they are close indeed to gods born from deified natural phenomena.
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＠Holmes
So while they are fundamentally dissimilar to natural gods, they still function as gods who preside over nature and various phenomena.
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＠Holmes
I'm afraid I can't explain it any better than that.[sr]Do you understand now, Ms. Miyamoto?
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＠Musashi
I see, I see.[sr]So they're basically still natural phenomena, huh.
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＠Musashi
Great! No problem, then!
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＠Musashi
I might not've been able to beat Zeus on my own,[sr]but I can totally take this Chaos thing.
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？1：Musashi?
？！
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＠Mash
Wow, Musashi, that's amazing![wt 0.5][charaFace D 0][sr]But...are you sure?
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＠Caenis
Cut the shit. I know you wanna put on a brave face, but this ain't the time for jokes.
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＠Holmes
Thank you, Caenis. That may be the first helpful[sr]assertion you've made since we first met.
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＠Holmes
Ms. Miyamoto, I'm afraid that, regardless of how exemplary your sword skills may be, there is simply no way you can destroy that enormous mass from[line 2]
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＠Musashi
Who said anything about destroying it?
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＠Musashi
That overgrown temple up there usually sticks to its own side of the universe and never interferes with ours, right?
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＠Musashi
The only reason it's able to stick its, uh, pupil into[sr]our business now is because of that hole up there.
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＠Musashi
So in that case, all I've got to do is get rid of the hole. I might not be able to destroy the eye, but I can close the window it's looking through, so to speak.
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＠Holmes
True, but the problem is, that hole is not a window.[sr]It's a hole in space itself[line 2]a total absence of form.
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＠Holmes
It is a void...[wt 0.5][charaFace C 5][sr]Ms. Miyamoto!
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＠Musashi
Now you've got it. I finally figured out why I've kept popping up around you guys all this time.
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＠Musashi
Haha, I know I said there was something out there I've[sr]still yet to slice, but I never thought I'd find it here!
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？1：Wait. Hang on.
？！
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＠Musashi
Nope, sorry. We don't have time to wait for permission from some high-and-mighty official, not my style.
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＠Musashi
Every Heroic Spirit here gave everything[sr]they had to save Proper Human History.
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＠Musashi
I might not be from there myself,[sr]but it's not like I have anywhere else to go right now.
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＠Musashi
And hey, remember what I told you before?[sr]About how I got to Olympus ahead of you guys?
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＠Musashi
I've tried lots of times to get back to my own world,[sr]only to end up drifting into all sorts of others.
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＠Musashi
When I get to the boundary between worlds,[sr]there's a light field I always end up falling through.
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＠Musashi
You can see hundreds of entrances to all sorts of worlds there beneath your feet, so I'd always pick one and jump in, thinking that would be the one that finally gets me home.
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＠Musashi
But I always just ended up in a different world each time. That's how I happened to run into you in Shimousa.
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＠Musashi
Oh, though we did have that really close call back in[sr]the American desert, didn't we!? Man, that place was a blast!
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＠Musashi
But anyway... The more I drifted, the fewer entrances were left with each trip.
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＠Musashi
It's no surprise, really. I knew that eventually, there[sr]wouldn't be a world left that would accept me.
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＠Musashi
“There is no place for you in any world.”
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＠Musashi
I mean, it only figures, right? The Japan I came from was long since pruned away. Looking back on it now, it must've been a Lostbelt itself.
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＠Musashi
And so, I became a wanderer[sr]drifting through space-time.
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＠Musashi
I kept barging into all sorts of worlds under the pretense of finding my way home, and kept getting kicked out.
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＠Musashi
...Sometimes, when I found myself in a really nice world, I'd even try to settle down there.
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＠Musashi
I didn't want to face reality. My options were dwindling rapidly and I didn't want to deal with it.
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＠Mash
Then...when you said you'd stopped ending up in other worlds[line 2]
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＠Holmes
...She meant that this one would be her final stop. Coming here was her fate.
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＠Holmes
When I first heard about her condition in Russia, and how this was the only world she had ever revisited via Shimousa...
After a fierce and daring battle against the Zeus terminals trying to keep us away from the shrine, we're here and ready to back you up!
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＠Mash
The Storm Border!
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＠Musashi
Perfect! Just what the swordfighter ordered!
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＠Goredolf
Wait. [wt 0.4][messageShake 0.02 3 3 0.5]Just what in blue blazes is going on here!?
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＠Goredolf
When I had Captain enable the Border's secret[sr]jet feature to bring us up past the clouds...
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＠Goredolf
...the last thing I expected to[sr]find was a...crack? In the sky?
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＠Goredolf
Wh-wh-what IS that...thing up in the stratosphere!? And is it just me, or is it the most terrifying enemy we've faced!?
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＠Da Vinci
I can't get a read on its magical energy! It's got to be either a Divine Spirit, or a machine god[line 2]
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＠Musashi
You got it, Da Vinci![sr]That thing is the original Chaos!
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＠Musashi
It's the literal mother of all machine gods,[sr]including the Twelve Olympians themselves!
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＠Musashi
Now they say they're going to dissolve and absorb almost half the planet's resources before just setting sail on a voyage across the sea of stars! Talk about a pain-in-the-ass deity, huh!?
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＠Da Vinci
So it's going to slurp up the whole planet!?[sr]Can it just transform anything into magical energy?
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＠Goredolf
!?
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＠Goredolf
Welp, hard turn to starboard! Let's just go back to the ground and pretend we never saw a thing!
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＠Musashi
Sorry, can't let you do that![sr]Hup!
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？1：Musashi! Get back here!
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＠Musashi
Hehe. As if that's ever worked on me before! I don't[sr]even go back to restaurants to pay my checks!
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＠Musashi
Just keep the ship headed for that fissure, Director! I've got a special move that'll take care of this in a flash!
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＠Goredolf
Wh-what are you saying!?[sr]Surely that can't be possible!
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＠Goredolf
Go on, [%1], say something![sr]Is there any way she could possibly pull this off!?
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？1：Don't ask me!
？2：Not a chance in hell!
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＠Goredolf
I knew it. Fortunately, as you can see,[sr]I always make it a point to keep a level head.
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＠Goredolf
And right now, my level head is telling me this nightmare I'm seeing before me could actually destroy the world!
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＠Goredolf
Technical Advisor! Administrative Advisor![sr]Which one do I believe!?
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＠Musashi
Me, of course![sr]Besides, in the first place[line 2]
