Salvation by Starlance

Salvation by Starlance is a sub-mission of Under the Spell during the Trailblaze Continuance chapter Finest Duel Under the Pristine Blue (II).
==Steps==
# Witness Hoolay's devious plans
# Stall the Merlin's Claw who has sunk into madness
# Even now, Feixiao is still struggling on the border between madness and sanity...
# Chase after the apparition Hoolay left behind
# Destroy the wraith of suspicion
# Chase after the apparition Hoolay left behind
# Destroy the wraith of fear
# Chase after the apparition Hoolay left behind
# Destroy the wraith of desire
# Defeat... "Feixiao"
# Break free of the Crimson Moon's influence and wake from Moon Rage
==Gameplay Notes==
* This sub-mission is considered a challenge, and pressing Esc offers the option to "Pause and Save" or "Quit Completely" to exit.
** If "Quit Completely" is selected, the sub-mission may be restarted after talking to Yanqing.
* The game provides Feixiao and Yanqing for use as Story characters.
** will have the first phase completely skipped.
** If Feixiao is knocked down during the challenge, the battle will immediately end.
==Dialogue==
===Witness Hoolay's devious plans===
: Hoolay: I have looked forward to this for so long. Our little hunting game has finally reached its climax... I told you before that I had a path prepared for you...
;(Cutscene plays)
::Hoolay: You've doomed yourselves...
::Hoolay: As I meet my demise, so shall the entire Xianzhou Luofu!
::Hoolay: The "crimson moon" in my chest will make this place shine with blood!
::Hoolay: I will drive all foxians to madness in their fear... craving slaughter... without end!
::Hoolay: What now, Feixiao...?
::Yunli: ...What is this!?
::Feixiao: This is the "heart" of the Borisin Warhead, a product of the plaguemark.
::Feixiao: I'll leave the next part to you.
::Yanqing: General, I don't understand...
::Feixiao: We cannot allow this thing to spread. I will do all within my power to consume this "crimson moon."
::Feixiao: Once the situation changes... Lieutenant Yanqing, you are to enforce the Cloud Knight's military rules. Understood?
::Yanqing: General?
;(Cutscene ends)
===Stall the Merlin's Claw who has sunk into madness===
;(Begin battle against )
: Feixiao: Die, borisin!
: Yunli: Wh—What!? We clearly don't have wolf ears!
;(During Feixiao's first action)
: Feixiao: I will not allow any of you... to leave the Skysplitter!
: Yunli: Does she think we are her enemies?
: Yanqing: Hoolay just wanted to take down the general, even at the cost of his own life!
: Yanqing: Snap out of it, General!
;(Feixiao uses Passing Tempest)
:March 7th: Ugh! Just when I thought we'd get a minute to catch our breath!
: March 7th: What do we do? Do we fight, or run?
: Yanqing: After all this, do you still think running is an option?
;(When Feixiao is reduced to 1% HP and takes action)
: Feixiao: Stop trying to resist me!
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;(Cutscene plays)
::Yunli: We can't let her get away!
::March 7th: ...But do we stand any chance at all?
::Yanqing: She said "I'll leave the next part to you."
::Yanqing: She put her faith in us!
;(Cutscene ends)
===Even now, Feixiao is still struggling on the border between madness and sanity...===
:
: Jiaoqiu: I promise I will cure you... Feixiao.
: Feixiao: No one can live forever, Jiaoqiu... This time, I must break my promise.
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: Feixiao: Is this... the Skysplitter? Or somewhere else?
: Unclear Voice: Lieutenant Yanqing, you are to enforce the Cloud Knights' military rules. Understood?
: Unclear Voice: We can't let her get away!
: Unclear Voice: Snap out of it, General!
: ???: You always leave the hardest battles for yourself.
: ???: Even now, you would never run away.
: Hoolay: Isn't it strange? That as your enemy, I understand you even better than your own allies?
: Feixiao: Hoolay...?
: Hoolay: This rage... I remember the taste. I know that it was never victory that it thirsted for, but the hunt itself.
: Hoolay: Isn't that right, Feixiao?
: Feixiao: You shouldn't be here. I saw you die with my own eyes...
: Hoolay: Just consider me a figment of your imagination.
: Hoolay: Before every hunt, I make preparations for defeat and retreat. But not this time. This time... defeat was exactly the ending I was racing towards.
: Hoolay: When I learned your story from Jiaoqiu, I realized... that he had always been hiding a secret... and that not even the healer himself understood the meaning of this secret.
: Hoolay: What an ironic fate, don't you think? All this time, waiting for this day to come, I never imagined that this was how it would turn out.
: Hoolay: ...But, I accept it.
: Hoolay: Now, let us break through the iron-clad defenses of the Arbiter-General's heart and see what secrets she has hidden in those deepest, darkest corners.
===Chase after the apparition Hoolay left behind===
;(Floating words)
:The weak
:Sympathy
:Justice
:Xianzhou's cover-up
:Doubt
:The universe in its original form
;(Moving past the holograms)
: Hoolay: The familiar smell of death, like a vulture...
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;(Approach marked location)
: Hoolay: I'm sure that the people of the Xianzhou have shown you these familiar scenes countless times. But they only showed you what they wanted you to see.
: Hoolay: They have you fight to save the weak. But, what they never told you is that when all the pretenses of kindness and compassion are stripped away, this is how the universe is meant to be.
: Hoolay: When the Xianzhou is weak, they play the victim so they can win your sympathy. When they are strong, they make you their avenger and have you fight in the name of justice.
: Hoolay: I've found it... This is your shadow of "doubt."
===Destroy the wraith of suspicion===
;(Attack the hologram)
: Feixiao: Your so-called survival of the fittest is nothing but an excuse.
: Feixiao: You cannot weaken my resolve, Hoolay.
===Chase after the apparition Hoolay left behind===
:Voice of Huaiyan: Blinded by the fury of your Moon Rage, you slaughtered your allies... Merlin's Claw, you have betrayed the Alliance!
;(Floating words)
:Moon Rage
:Death
:Betrayal
:Enemy of Xianzhou
:Fear
:Betrayal of trust
:You're also an abomination
:Monster
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;(Approach marked location)
: Voice of Huaiyan: Your actions are no different from those of the abominations we stand against!
: Voice of Jing Yuan: At the end of the day, it is the blood of the abominations that runs through your veins... One day, you will inevitably become an enemy of the Alliance. Cloud Knights, formation!
: Hoolay: You ran into the arms of your new masters' army without hesitation. You thought that you had found freedom, respect, and recognition.
: Hoolay: But you were wrong. They know all too well that a wolf will always be a wolf.
: Hoolay: Now, your greatest fear is about to come true: You have become an enemy of the Xianzhou.
: Hoolay: This... This is your "fear."
===Destroy the wraith of fear===
;(Attack the hologram)
: Feixiao: You aim to instill terror within me...
: Feixiao: Yet, all of this is nothing but a... phantom.
===Chase after the apparition Hoolay left behind===
:Borisin: You have returned... Lord Feixiao! The Warhead has returned!
: Borisin: Long live the Warhead! Lord Feixiao will grant us our future!
;(Floating words)
:Borisin Warhead
:Your future
:Return to the pack
:A new path
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;(Approach marked location)
: Hoolay: It's time to return to the pack, Feixiao.
: Hoolay: No matter how deep the hatred you bear for the borisin... No matter how much we may consider each other enemies... I will still show you this path that you never imagined was available to you, because you made a choice...
: Hoolay: You devoured the Crimson Moon. You are worthy to become the borisin's Warhead.
: Feixiao: What... did you say?
: Hoolay: The descendants of Duran who came to rescue me hoped with all their hearts that once I regained my freedom, I would be able to turn the tide of battle and change the fate of our people, allowing the borisin to return to their former glory! But this was just a dream used by someone with ulterior motives to manipulate the borisin.
: Hoolay: They would rather place their hopes of survival on an imaginary savior than gain the courage and strength to fight to the death. Borisin like that deserve no more than to be sent to their deaths!
: Hoolay: And I, a prisoner who was held captive for over seven hundred years, a criminal of war who was deprived even an honorable death in battle, would become a puppet upon my return, at the mercy of others. This is a fate that I will never accept!
: Hoolay: For those who are truly strong, "foxian" and "borisin" are no more than labels. Someone who is truly strong chooses their own path.
: Hoolay: I will create that new path for myself. I will pass the right to decide the destiny of the borisin on to you... former borisin war slave and future foxian ruler.
===Destroy the wraith of desire===
;(Attack the hologram)
: Hoolay: Your healer, Jiaoqiu, served you with such loyalty. He was even willing to die in order to cure your Moon Rage. I told him before that the only way to save you lay in my hands.
: "Hoolay": If you just nod your head, you will awaken from this nightmare that the Crimson Moon has inflicted on you, and your body will be born anew. From that moment, you will no longer be trapped by your rage, your doubt will be swept from your mind like dust, and your fear will naturally disappear.
: Feixiao: So, this was the "path" that you prepared for me... To become a new you?
: Hoolay: That's right, we are so similar after all. We are both monsters that were born for war and will die for war.
: Feixiao: ...I'm sure my answer doesn't need much explanation.
: Feixiao: I refuse.
: Hoolay: I told you before, "foxian" and "borisin" are no more than labels! You can be whoever you want to be. You can do whatever you want to do!
: Hoolay: Accept these truths and the borisin will bow to you. Destroy them, reduce them to dust, or teach them to become servants of the Xianzhou... You are free to do as you please.
: Hoolay: Carve your name into the Xianzhou's history books, or into the List of Archenemies. You have the final say.
: Feixiao: You do not understand, Hoolay. You have no idea what it is that I truly desire.
: Feixiao: When I was just a child, I stained my hands with blood for the first time, in order to escape the whips and shackles of the wolf masters.
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:
: Saran: Neergul, don't stop, keep running...!
: Neergul: I can't run anymore... Saran, are they catching up?
: Saran: They're still behind us, don't stop! Neergul, look up! Look at that light in the sky!
: Saran: That's a "shooting star"! It's shining down on us! If we just tell it our wish, we can have our freedom!
: Saran: We will all be able to escape! We'll win our freedom and then share it with our koolur brothers and sisters!
: Saran: So, you have to run, quickly! We can do it, we can escape!
:From the dense darkness behind, comes the fierce howls of wolves and the cries of wild beasts.
: Saran: Neergul! Run with me!
:...
: Feixiao: We ran and ran with all the strength we had, but we ended up losing each other.
: Feixiao: I escaped the hunting pack and encountered a woman that could fly... a Cloud Knight.
: Hoolay: I imagine you kept your promise.
: Feixiao: Unfortunately, when I led her back in order to free my koolur companions, there was nothing left there but a bottomless pit.
: Hoolay: The light of the Devilish Archer... A star of calamity that strikes the ground and leaves only devastation in its wake.
: Feixiao: In the years that followed, I followed the trail of that light alongside my Cloud Knight allies, and saw it fall countless more times.
: Feixiao: Gradually I came to understand. That light was not some shooting star that carried wishes and aspirations. Each Lux Arrow meant that countless lives in a helpless world were about to be obliterated.
: Feixiao: I prayed to the God of the Skybow that I would never have to witness one of these "shooting stars" fall again.
: Feixiao: But... THEY ignored my prayers.
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: Hoolay: That's right, THEY never answer us. THEY just let us loose in this world to massacre each other. That is why the fierce battle between us has raged to this day.
: Hoolay: If the gods, who never bleed nor cry, who watch silently from above, refuse to listen to the prayers of mortals, then we have no choice but to fight for our own desires!
: Hoolay: Do you understand now, Saran... You and I are similar in more ways than you think.
: Feixiao: ...
: Hoolay: You are a beast that was born for war and will die for war!
: Feixiao: ...Perhaps.
: Feixiao: So, what is it that you yearn for, Hoolay? Why is it that you fight?
: Hoolay: I fight so that I can turn the stars above into a great wilderness for the borisin to roam.
: Hoolay: What about you, Saran?
: Feixiao: I fight so that one day, I will never have to witness another "shooting star" falling to the ground... So that just one more person can live and return to the Yaoqing alongside me.
: Hoolay: You would resist becoming the person you were supposed to be, lower yourself from a free wolf to a domesticated fox just for... the sake of one person?
: Hoolay: Then have it your way! I will use your fear and doubt as my nourishment. I will seize you and devour you! I will replace you and... become "Feixiao"!
: Feixiao: We are so similar, both monsters that were born for war and will die for war... You were right when you said that, Hoolay.
: Feixiao: So, I shall pray to the heavens... even if THEY do not respond to me. I pray that the arrows of The Hunt will pierce the heart of every monster!
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;(Cutscene plays)
::Feixiao: Do you see me... "shooting star"?
::Feixiao: "The Knights are sworn to protect the Xianzhou."
::Feixiao: I will uphold this vow... until my very last day.
;(Cutscene ends)
===Defeat... "Feixiao"===
;(Begin battle against )
: Shadow of "Feixiao": Since the day I was born, the skies have cried tears of blood, and all living creatures have howled and lamented.
: Shadow of "Feixiao": I once commanded the strong and hunted the weak.
: Shadow of "Feixiao": Now, I will use your inner beast as my weapon and your name as my prey... Feixiao!
;(Shadow of "Feixiao" uses Realm Exterminator)
: Feixiao: I will tear back your disguises and show you how cowardly and powerless you truly are, Hoolay!
: Shadow of "Feixiao": A wolf lurks in the heart of every borisin and foxian...
: Shadow of "Feixiao": The moment you grow weak, it will devour you!
;(During Shadow of "Feixiao"'s second action)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": Grow complacent and your life will be stolen!
: Shadow of "Feixiao": Fight to the death and you shall live forever!
;(Feixiao takes the next turn)
: Feixiao: If it wants to devour me, it will first have to beg for my mercy!
;(During Shadow of "Feixiao"'s third action)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": Prey, taste my blade as it pierces your skin!
: Shadow of "Feixiao": This is the only sensation I have experienced for seven hundred years... Pain!
;(Feixiao takes the next turn)
: Feixiao: Your fangs and claws have grown dull!
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;(Shadow of "Feixiao" enters the third phase)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": Be gone! Your blood will give me victory!
;(Shadow of "Feixiao" uses Worldpurge)
:Shadow of "Feixiao": Inner beast, heed my command!
;(Shadow of "Feixiao" uses Wreathed in Storm)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": Prey, kneel and accept your fate!
;(Shadow of "Feixiao" uses Sweep the Heavens, Swallow the Earth)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": Die! Die! Die!
;(Shadow of "Feixiao" uses Worldpurge the next time)
:Shadow of "Feixiao": Devour the heavens and envelop the earth!
;(Shadow of "Feixiao" uses Firmament Divider)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": I will tear you apart with your own claws!
;(Shadow of "Feixiao" uses Realm Exterminator)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": I will crush you with your own strength!
;(Shadow of "Feixiao" uses Breathing Ether)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": I will devour you with your own storm!
;(When Shadow of "Feixiao" is reduced to 30% HP)
: Shadow of "Feixiao": ...Why? Why won't you disappear!?
;(When Shadow of "Feixiao" is reduced to 5% HP)
: Feixiao: Our little hunting game ends here!
:;(Feixiao immediately take action and gain 12 Flying Aureus)
;(After using Feixiao's Ultimate)
: Feixiao: Mighty light of the heavens, wolf in my heart, come to me... We shall conquer as one!
===Break free of the Crimson Moon's influence and wake from Moon Rage===
;(Cutscene plays)
::Feixiao: My only enemy... has always been myself!
::Yanqing: General?
::Yanqing: General, you're awake!
;(Cutscene ends)
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;(Unlock Achievement Where The Hunter Belongs)
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:Switching to Lingsha's POV...
:In Scalegorge Waterscape, Dan Heng and Lingsha are scheduled to meet with the Vidyadhara Preceptors...
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