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Culdcept, Vol. 4


Flashback! Kigi's big sister (I'm guessing) Chiki has to be sacrificed to the Old Willow because marks are appearing on her body. If that process finishes, she will become a being of evil, so folks get sacrificed before that happens. In the present day, Kigi is starting to get the marks too, but she's gotta hold out to oversee Naja's progress and stop the bad guys. She runs across the splinter group and it probably doesn't end well for them.

Naja can sense that she's going to wind up fighting Kigi, but she doesn't see a means by which Knight can beat her Gargoyle. Kigi wipes out the splinter group, but Naja shows up for the save before she can kill the leader. Naja is turning into a dark nymph, but she needs to find somebody who can confront the Dark Force. That appears to be her true job as a gatekeeper or whatever. Kigi quickly gets the upper hand, but Naja has her FRIENDS. Still, this is gonna be rough. I guess the rest of this civilization got wiped out by demons, and nobody thinks humans are up to being the last hope of the world. Naja wins from behind by pumping up Knight's defense to withstand Gargoyle, then converting all that to attack with Changing Salve. The win makes Naja the Mistral, we go through the last Gate, and we're gonna be friends now.

So now it's time for the real bad guy to show up! Black Cepter #2, Nepenthes of the Mire...along with Mochigan the Staff, and I think a weird plant-mecha-golem-zombie thing, which I guess ate Dum-Dum's group. Anything Black Cepter-related has been super creepy and Eldritch so far, but it makes it kiiiinda hard to follow action sequences. The plan was for the humans and Nymphs to wipe each other out so we could harvest a lot of souls, but Naja messed that up by passing the tests. Bad Guy PlantMan kidnaps Naja and takes her to the much hyped "treasure" of the Nymphs- the Old Willow, which has sealed away Dark Master, Foul Lord of the Earth. That's who has been cursing the Nymphs, and why we need to sacrifice them to keep him at bay. So we weren't guarding treasure from the outside- we were guarding the outside from this thing! Bad Guy fries the Priestess, the last surviving Nymph other than Kigi, but she seems hopeful about Naja's presence.

Time for Zeneth! He shows up for a rematch, riding a Juggernaut and waking the Dark Master up with collateral damage. Everybody has to FIGHT AS A TEAM because **** JUST GOT REAL. We get some good hits in and maybe? kill Plantface, but Dark Master is still kickin, and he's able to drain everybody but Naja and Zeneth, taking them out of the fight. Zeneth is forced to unseal his cursed left arm because chuunibyou, but Naja has to keep him busy while it charges so he can (hopefully) keep control. Kigi sacrifices herself to Old Willow to do some entanglin'. Zeneth hits...Flame Master! That's it for Dark Master, and Plantface McBadguy beats a tactical retreat. RIP Kigi- the spirits of the Nymphs can be at peace now, and we get Wind of Hope and Kigi's cards.
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