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Okay, finally sitting down to play. Been in a funk on top of being busy.

After I blah blah blah weapons management, I blah blah blah take the hoverboard into a room at only has Katz Souls and a freakin' Grape Gel (was expecting this to potentially have something to help beat Melchior) and blah blah blah fight the Fire Doe. I blah blah blah make it back to the end despite there being no warp pad there, but it's kind of a slog despite me avoiding encounters until, well, I have a close call and realize I might wanna fight a couple more things. I do a couple chain encounters - one has like eight Lizardfolk Paladins, and the other is endless bats - but win those just fine, unlike the start of this place. The real issue is the Lava Atlas golems. Those things are scary.

Here, look at how crowded it's getting:
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All in a little corner!

I make sure I didn't miss anything - wouldn't be ideal to come back here after this place blows, now would it? There's no way there'd be all these Katz souls and a crap ton of valuable items (Rough gemstones, Fine Tempering Powders, Topaz Fragments, Gold Scraps, etc.) if it stayed intact, even among the excessive amounts of Ore Fragments and Flamestones.

I approach Melchior and it starts some diatribe about why we haven't stopped to think about what waking the Empyreans would do. Says the monster who doesn't want people to think about anything. Like... what the fuck is this logic? The one who upset the balance of nature is YOU, Melchior. When Velvet says she doesn't care, Melchior levies its insults thinking we're the villains. It also says that the Empyreans sleep because people stopped praying to them, and that corrupted their souls. This confuses me further. If you wanted to stop corruption, why didn't you explain that to the masses so they could start praying to the Empyreans again? WHY did you have to resort to murdering thousands and ruining the entire point of life? And then it says why: It wants to rid the world of malevolence to revive the Empyreans, and it's using Innominat to eat vile souls or whatever. Is it including itself? Because it's by far the most monstrous of all the souls in this world, and it confirms this by saying civilization will crumble, and it doesn't much care. This thing is a hypocrite. It wants to be at the top so the Abbey can rule in a "better" era. Well, tell that to Vlad "The Impaler II" Putin. Melchior is no different than a very current real-world villain, and its plan will not end up working out the way it thinks it will.

It shows its true form and we start fighting it. It has a strong Mystic Arte, but it's not really much of a problem and it seems to think it's because of its age. Magilou says it's used some kind of oath to add centuries to its life... ergo, cheating death. Further confirmation that it isn't human. Wretched monsters throughout history have faces like Melchior. The ones who have wronged the most people. Melchior talks about its idealism nonsense, not realizing how it prioritizes its distorted goals at the cost of trouncing upon everyone else's. Truly a vile creature.
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Further obsessing over winning, it conjures duplicates of all of us as a diversion so it can use some arte upon the volcano. The party just stands there instead of knocking the monster in... but as it says it "follows reason" (LMAO, no you don't, you follow your FUCKING EGO), Magilou conjures the flowers from earlier as a distraction and Velvet lurches forward to consume the daemon's soul, just as many times before. In its last breaths, Melchior spurts more "HOW DARE YOU" nonsense... and, well, it got off easily. I wish I could have done MANY more things to it. It deserved MUCH worse than it got, because its "ideals" were at the cost of so much to so many. And its hero complex worsened it all. Truly a thing I cannot say a nice thing about. The whole REASON we had to awaken the Empyreans was because of Melchior. IT is the one who will go down as having caused this imbalance in nature solely for the sake of its "ideals." Seriously, fuck you, scumbag.

AMV time! Velvet flings the souls into the volcano, waking the four Empyreans and summoning some kind of space station. In Loegres, the zombies start waking the fuck up. Some malakhim tell the exorcists to go fuck themselves for using them as tools and buzz off. Good for them! The Abbey is now in a state of panic. This is bad for us, because their panic centers around us, so they're going to use every resource they can.

The next morning, Velvet thanks Magilou for growing flowers to distract the old bag, thus saving everybody. Maybe Melchior shouldn't have fired her. She knew its weakness was flowers, and that it loved flowers more than humanity. Which probably explains why it did what it did, not caring about people. Heartless bastard still had SOMETHING. The skit diverts to Eizen and Laphicet confirming that the Four have awoken and Innominat has been pushed out from the earthpulses. Magilou adds that greater resonance will diminish so people won't be able to see malakhim or daemons like they could, and the former will gain their free will. The Abbey's forces will drop significantly, making them a much weaker foe. Eleanor cracks a joke in regards to being able to see everyone, including Magilou LOL. Laphicet says that Innominat and Artorius are somewhere above the Empyrean's Throne - that space station. We have to kill them.

A brief skit explains changes in the land that would previously have taken eons will now take a few hundred years. This is to reference how different everything is in Zestiria, I'd imagine. Magilou doesn't care what happens when we kill Innominat, but Eleanor and Velvet sure do. Eizen also wants to kill Innominat and Artorius and everyone supporting the Abbey and its ideals, because he wants to eradicate Melchior's philosophy of destroying free will, in order to avenge Aifread. Works for me. The fewer dirtbags this world has to deal with, the better. Artorius and Innominat/Laphi are both the dirtiest of the bags who are left. There's a fun hungriness skit from after the event (Magilou's stomach rumbling hahahaha). Last skit is about Bienfu being helpful with the hoverboard, building muscles and exhausting him. He continues his shameless shtick:
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She takes the bait and uses it against him, and it's hilarious how she puts him in so much pain for hitting on her like that. AGAIN. I do take it that it still counts as "Physically Escalating with Cuties."

I get back to town and the crew's still here, as are the Bloodwings. The agent in charge says that the people of Meirchio tried to petition the Abbey to exterminate Velvet, but that didn't quite work out so well because the Abbey didn't have enough forces - so few, in fact, that the area north of Hellawes is now a Class 4. Hahahaha, suckers. If only the sheeple knew the truth! The Bloodwing knows about the Suppression and isn't sure how far it progressed. Dyle says that this town will be our new hideout, for the time being, and we'll leave the therions here. Benwick and company are making preparations in Hellawes. Dyle also asks Rokurou about the Shigure fight. Rokurou claims the kill and thinks he's too inexperienced to have broken Stormhowl. Or maybe it's just that the blade is unbreakable. It's probably made from an alloy that includes orchialcum, so it's unbreakable and can break anything. Kurogane's blade is equally strong, and the two blades didn't force each other to break because of their wielders.

I'm doing some equipment management right now but may do a few odds and ends after. I'll post those separately since it's a "probably not" but we'll see.