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Stina

It's a dark elf...

Check out the cursor—it's being flagged as an enemy.

Zash

Gah!

Stina

Wait!

Zash

What the—?!

Stina

This might be a key character for the quest...

Elven Guard

What brings you to this place?

Elven Guard

Why do humans dare to enter Neveca's Sanctuary?

!

Elven Guard

Hm?!

Elven Guard

That brooch...

You know about it?

Elven Guard

I have much the same question. How would a human get their hands on such a thing?

Zash

Getting a bad feeling about this...

What is this thing?

Elven Guard

Hmm...

Elven Guard

The goddesses would surely never entrust such a valuable object to humans...

What do you mean? What was entrusted?

Elven Guard

The duty to save this world...

From the God of Death? Is Aincrad really going to be destroyed?

Elven Guard

The earth has grown restless. Have you not noticed how it has trembled of late? It is an omen; the God of Death wakes from its slumber.

Zash

So those weren't just normal earthquakes...

Well, what should we do?

Elven Guard

The bearer of the Sacred Tree Brooch has the right to challenge the guardian who waits within.

Stina

What happens if we defeat the guardian?

Elven Guard

You will obtain a legendary weapon of the high elves—a creation of the swordmaster Neveca.

Stina

A legendary weapon... Could that be what the nightmare was about?

Elven Guard

Eons ago, the high elf swordmasters ripped out the God of Death's life core.

Elven Guard

The twin goddesses, Tornellia and Sevatia, sealed away the core, and in doing so saved this world.

Elven Guard

The God of Death exists still, but he is without form, drifting in a sea of black.

Stina

But he can be resurrected?

Elven Guard

In a twist of irony, the God of Death is himself undying. Should his life corefind its way into the miasma of darkness where he now dwells, he will be restored.

Elven Guard

Do you understand? Time runs short. The goddesses' seal weakens with every passing second, and the army of death stirs in the deep...

Elven Guard

The only hope of preventing this calamity lies in the legendary weapons...

Zash

So there was no single Swordsman of Salvation... It was us all along.

Elven Guard

Chosen ones, you have permission to enter this place.

Hey, hold up a second...

He's the only one of us without a brooch...

Zash

Yeah... Haha...

Zash

Hey, gatekeeper, buddy... You're not gonna let me in without a brooch, are you?

Elven Guard

Hm...

Elven Guard

...It's fine.

Zash

Wait, really?!

Elven Guard

Comrades of the brooch-bearers are granted passage.

Zash

Well, alright then! Thanks, man—in I go!