Chapter 3.5-7

== Elenai ==
(This story covers the events immediately upon arriving at Marlow's tower to the finality of Jake's time with the group)
TL;DR: Alasie, Elenai, Jake, Terrace, Evander, Rilee, Amara, Adri, and Amara's crew go to kill Marlow at his tower. It turns out Marlow isn't there and where Terrace thought he'd be a cult is set up. The Cult of Sanguireus. It is run by Yodosha. They try to fight the mysterious enemies but they turn out to have blood magic and so they lose. Terrace is killed and corrupted and Yodosha makes him choose one of his friends to kill. He chooses Jake and reveals a lot of information that makes Rilee mad and hate him. Ultimately, Elenai saves the group and scares Yodosha off.
The group leaves together covered in disgusting blood. Evander brings them to a hotspring resort to clean off where Jake ends up cheating on Elenai. Evander finds out and tells the others. Jake is left abandoned by the group at the hotspring after a failed attempt to apologize to Elenai.
=== Characters ===
* Elenai Cherra
* Jake Flynn
* Rilee
* Terrace Fidel
* Alasie
* Evander Namely
* Yodosha
* Amara
* Adri
=== Times ===
* January 7th, 336
== Trivia ==
* Alasie calls Elenai "darkstar" due to her powers. Terrace "silver" due to his hair color. And Jake "carver" due to an analogy between him and her carving knife. Jake is broken and bent and needs to be straightened out.
* The chance of anybody surviving Yodosha's ritual is one in a hundred. Terrace surviving was very lucky.
* The "God" Yodosha and his cult worship is Sanguireus. They call themselves the Emancipators.
* Yodosha being present in Marlow's old chambers suggests Marlow fed Felix false information or had since moved to let the Cult operate within his own domain.
* Yodosha claims the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. He takes this to the extreme that the world needs to be strong, and the sacrifices that are made will strengthen humanity for the danger that is to come. He doesn't specify what this danger is.
* The Hotspring they visit is named Hanshou Springs. It is one of the oldest establishments in the entire city and is one of the reasons the original settlement of Kanissa was built.
* Despite the lack of nearly all sexism and orientation discrimination in the culture of Kaentos, co-ed nudity is still taboo as seen in the separation of genders in the Hotspring.