It’s been about six hours since Nest retrieved the fifth portal battery and one hour since Nest landed at the portal site, where everyone including Gladian and The Septarian Guard is

  Gladian: So Septarians, how soon should the portal be open?

  The Septarian Guard steps forward, made of familiar faces

  Indica: It should be open in around 10 minutes

  Atoll: So what happens after it is open

  Gladian: Not sure

  Atlantic: Well let’s be ready for anything

  The rest of the Century Corps in the area steps forward to hear what the grandmaster is saying

  Thechr: So…who’s going into the portal?

  Zkn: That’s what we’re trying to figure out

  Cosma: I’m thinking us Septarians should maybe move forward but maybe you should get to enter the garden?

  Centus: I was going to enter no matter what

  Elghene: I should go as well

  Necra: Well you do what you must

  Vendil: So I think everyone is in agreement

  Spade: Alright, so what-

  Spade is cut off by the whirring of planes and an army of Centennials flooding the sky

  Neve: Damn it…

  Gladian: Looks like our friends in the Sinners Sextant

  A group of them get closer to the Century Corps

  Ghice: Looks like even the grandmaster is here

  Gladian: So you’re this “Ghice” I hear so much about

  Ayev: You bet they are

  Thechr: If it isn’t my favorite traitor

  Ayev: Hello Captain

  Spade: Ghice, why appear now?

  Ghice: I think it’s obvious, I’m going to take the site from the Century Corps and kill everyone here to do it

  Neve fires a spore directly at a Sinners Sextant agent

  Kiqi: Well looks like we’re getting right into the thick of it

  Hadane: Fine by me

  The Sinners Sextant begins to charge forth

  Indica: I was worried there wasn’t gonna be a fight

  Indica leaps forward and cuts two of the Sinners Sextant to ribbons

  Gladian: Septarians, you and me will fight the bulk of their forces near the portal, the rest of you, focus on Ghice and take them out

  Thechr: Yes sir

  Sahu: Glory to the Century Corps

  Spade: There’s no glory in fighting…

  The Septarians take off into the fight

  Ghice: So, let’s dance

  Spade: I’ll smear your corpse on the cold ground

  Fight against Ghice and Ayev

  When they are at 90%

  Larkin: Do you people have any idea of the damage you will cause if you let The Adamite Key out?

  Ghice: I do…but business is business, and if the people of this world want to build a new future then I will be their sword and open the way for their hopes and dreams to become reality

  Spade: What you’re doing is going to turn the world into a living nightmare

  Ghice: You should know I have no moral scruples about what happens to everyone else

  Resume

  When they are at 80%

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  Ayev: Neve, is that your name?

  Neve: Yes

  Ayev: I’m going to kill you for what you’ve done to my good friend

  Neve: You’d continue that petty cycle of violence, fine, I won’t hesitate to end your life as well

  Ayev: We both share the same fate then

  Resume

  When they are at 70%

  Centus: Ghice, consider the fact that you’ve fought alongside humans and centennials alike for hundreds of years, why would you condemn to a life they will live to regret, why would you open Pandora’s box so to speak, no amount of money in the entire world is worth it

  Ghice: You’re right…it’s not about the money. It’s about my pride. I will prove myself better than the great Centus, I will put that insubordinate Spade in the dirt where they belong, I will defeat The Century Corps, I will be known as the one who changed the entire world.

  Spade: All that useless pride, I’ll be sure to bury you for it

  Resume

  When they are at 60%

  Thechr: Ayev, why do you who despises Humanity want to help them reach immortality

  Ayev: Who needs a reason?

  Thechr: Come again

  Ayev: A reason for fighting, I don’t need a reason, you’re search for morality has corrupted you with false convictions, I fight because I want too, I fight because I want to destroy everything

  Resume

  When they are at 50%

  Darsah: Some things are best left to rot, even you know this

  Ghice: I suggest you stop trying to reason with us, we’re resolute in our stubborn ways

  Darsah: Fine then, I’ll stop trying to reason with you, for you appear to be nothing more than a callous animal

  Ghice: That’s right, I’m the beast that howls in the night, consuming all who dare to get in my path, my pride will devour anyone who tries to defile it

  Resume

  When they are at 40%

  Ghice: Ayev, I think you should leave?

  Ayev: Why?

  Ghice: You don’t have my pride to cloud your judgment, what you have is a mission, and you need to fufill it, so leave this place behind

  Ayev: I understand…

  Ayev leaves the battlefield and flies away

  Thechr: I have no doubts that we’ll see them again some day

  Demeui: They have the desire of any warrior

  Resume

  When they are at 30%

  Elghene: Ghice, what exactly do you see in the result of your actions

  Ghice: The end result doesn’t matter aside from completion of the mission

  Spade: This is why you’re rotten, why The Sextatnt is rotten, you have no morals, no goals

  Ghice: I;ve made that quite clear

  Resume

  When they are at 20%

  Larkin: Everyone seeking this key is doing it for nefarious purposes

  Neve: What do you mean?

  Larkin: We want to destroy, Lark2n wanted to rule, Ghice wants to bask in their own pride

  Woelyn: The Cult of Sheyane wanted to elevate their god

  Larkin: We’re the better of all the evils, but our hands will still be dirtied with the blood of dealing with such a bad object

  Resume

  When they are at 10%

  Ghice: This is looking like the end of the road

  Spade: The road that leads to pain and suffering will forever be closed, you will not be allowed to cause any more harm to those around you

  Ghice: Well, then see this goal to the end

  Resume

  When Ghice is defeated, they fall to the ground, but begin to rev up their jet pack

  Ghice: I won’t let this be how it ends

  Ghcie charges for one final strike against Spade and Spade runs at Ghice, with Spade and Ghice imapling each other being the end result of their final clash

  Ghice: Damn it…you got me

  Spade: Let us both go to hell, don’t keep the devil waiting

  Spade and Ghice both breathe their last and fall to the ground, The Sinners Sextant begins to retreat

  Elghene: We still have to get to the portal

  Centus: Shall we go then

  Sahu: Let’s clear this final hurdle together

  Hyuken: This will be fun

  Begin Portal Site

  When you’re 50% through it

  Eoontaq: I wonder if it will be just as the ancient scriptures said it would be

  Demeui: You sure do wonder a lot Eoontaq

  Eoontaq: I sure do

  Hadane: I can’t imagine what woner is elicited by a sterile womb

  Nest: It’s all about the sentiment of it all

  Hadane: Something I cannot feel

  Iehn: Well whatever we come across next, we have to cross that gap

  Resume

  When you get to the portal, The Septarian Guard and Gladian are waiting there

  Gladian: So, looks like you fended off the attackers well enough

  Darsah: Spade is unfortunately no longer with us, but they did kill Ghice

  Indica: So, who’s going to step into Eden?

  Elghene: I will

  Neve: I will as well

  Centus: Well, me too

  Woelyn: Well, you go ahead then and step into the unknown

  Gladian: If anyone else wants to go, step through the portal after they go

  Kiqi: Yes sir

  Neve: Well let’s go…

  Centus: We have a key to destroy

  Centus, Neve and Elghene enter The Garden of Eden from the portal site, they see a world lost in time

  Centus: The fertile womb that birthed the human race, it’s much more primordial in nature than I had remembered

  Neve: The origin of man…

  Elghene: We should find that key now

  The garden’s primal aura calls out to them

  Elghene: Well it looks like it’s beckoning us to come closer

  Neve: We should answer it’s call then

  Centus: One way or another, this misadventure ends here and today

  Neve: I agree…

  Begin Garden of Eden

  When you’re 25% of the way through

  Elghene: I feel a radiant glow, faint but bright all the same

  Centus: The Adamite Key is near

  Neve: The end is soon

  Resume

  When you’re 75% of the way there, the party sees a destroyed metallic snake

  Centus: That right there is the serpent that spoke to the first humans and convinced them to sin

  Elghene: How did it convince the first humans to sin so easily if they were made in the image of a god?

  Centus: It hid in the grass and only struck at the most opportune times

  Elghene: So it lied in wait and struck whenever it had the opportunity?

  Centus: It’s the art of the ambush

  Neve: The art of the ambush huh

  Centus: It’s history’s most effective tactic

  Resume

  When you’re complete with the course, the party comes across a spot on the ground, where the glowing Adamite Key is

  Centus: The key that brings me my endless pain…is right in front of us

  Centus readies their sword and aims it towards the key

  Centus: Be gone object of my hatred

  As Centus readies his sword, Neve picks up a rock and aims it Centus’s head

  Neve: I won’t let you…not when I’ve come so far

  Elghene: NEVE

  As Neve throws the rock at Centus, Elghene jumps in front of it, taking the blow for Centus. Centus turns around to face Neve and a bleeding Elghene

  Centus: So…you’ve sought the key for yourself the entire time..

  Neve: I have…now move out of my way

  Centus: No…

  Neve: Fine, I’ll take what I want either way

  Centus moves to block Neve but she dodges out of their way and towards the key

  Neve: Unlock me a new form

  Neve grabs the Adamite Key and points at her body, before turning it

  Centus: Well played…

  Centus staggers a bit, dropping the seed Darsah gave them

  Neve: And now…I will kill you and make my dreams a reality