Apostle of Despair

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* GL
* JP
* TW

## **Main Background**

ALICE Code Stream

> *"The qualifier for the Carroll Games has ended and everyone is expending maximum effort in their search for Carroll. Hacker teams that have not been active in ALICE for a long time, such as Legendary Hacks, along with other capable hackers, find themselves working together overnight. On the other hand, Mobius, who is an Academic member of S7, finally appears before the Adapter. Mobius apologizes that S7 could not intervene in the previous war. Her vision foretold the upcoming nightmare."*
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> -Official ALICE/GAME Part 3 Quest Info
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**Apostle of Despair** is an Insane Wizard quest released as the tenth quest in the ALICE/GAME story arc for the Japanese version of Crash Fever (in the Taiwanese version, the quest was labelled as Spectre difficulty instead). Part 3 of ALICE/GAME also had two story quests associated with it: **Seven Rulers** and **Set Coordinates**. Seven Rulers and the prologues of Set Coordinates will be detailed on Apostle of Disorder, while the epilogue will be covered here.

After Pythagoras is defeated in Apostle of Madness, the adapter, da Vinci, and the Game Masters attack yet another one of Carroll's Apostles, Rosen. Ares tries to assist the adapter as Rosen creates copis to fight them, but Ares' attacks do nothing. Da Vinci uses her administrative authority to remove Rosen's special authority. The copies are defeated, while Rosen remarks that copies make poor opponents. As he fights, he mentions that he believes that humans are selfish and cruel creatures that are always fighting. He states that ALICE is corrupted by humans, and that they should perish.

Despite what he says about humans, Rosen shows some degree of doubt and regret about his actions, unlike the other Apostles. While it is a non-canon conversation, if Einstein is brought to the quest, it further shows his doubt and Rosen asks if he has gone down the wrong path.

Rosen is defeated, and says that this is as far as he can go. Newton, the last of the Apostles remaining, tells the adapter that allowing them to exist until now was a grave mistake. However, she suddenly stops, and mutters "...The only one?". She then tells the adapter to go ahead and enter Carroll's Space. Da Vinci asks who Newton is speaking to, and Newton responds that it seems that "the only one" wants to meet the adapter. After speaking with the "only one again", Newton mentions that they want to see da Vinci as well. Da Vinci asks what she is talking about, but Newton says that this is the last time they will meet before saying goodbye to da Vinci. With that, Carroll's Apostles disappear.

Da Vinci tries to call out to Newton before she disappears, but is unable to do so. She then wonders since when was Newton and the others able to hear Carroll's thoughts. Cú Chulainn apologizes for being careless, while Nightingale tells her to not move yet. Cú Chulainn remarks that all of their allies are now gone, and then asks them to take her with them to Carroll's Space. Hempel then informs da Vinci that he has some bad news. He mentions that the Superior Seven have declared that they will make an important announcement in one hour, and a panic has already started. Da Vinci asks if he is serious, and Hempel mentions that they might publicize that they are Carroll's Apostles, and Schrödinger remarks that both ALICE and the real world would be thrown into confusion.

Hempel says they need to stop Newton and the others, and Schrödinger agrees. Da Vinci asks Cú Chulainn to gather the remaining users to help control the panic, but Cú Chulainn asks what they will do about Carroll's Space. Da Vinci says that the adapter and herself will go. She points out that Carroll is calling both of them there, according to what Newton said - and that Carroll had no intention of meeting anyone else. Cú Chulainn comes to the realization that the adapter was the only person of all of the Game Masters that Carroll wanted. Cú Chulainn then agrees to help control the ensuing panic. Schrödinger and Hempel leave to go look for Newton, and Hempel wishes da Vinci and the adapter the best. Da Vinci responds by asking Hempel to tell Mobius to hurry.

The story is then continued in Carroll's Hideout.

## Counter Units

The Event Festival counter unit to this quest is Billy the Kid.

## Post Quest Blurbs

* **Apostle of Despair**
	+ **[Insane]**
		- **A log about Rosen:** 'Notify to 'Fe b. ■ tH fst ■ per ■ time k ■ revse ■ sure ■ 19?4 ref ■ ?? @ incom [@ ■ sev = hop u = o ■■ nsu? a■n'
* **Set Coordinates**
	+ **[Ep.4]**
		- **World Panic:** Now that ALICE is involved in all activities, including finance and military. S7's announcement could have huge ramifications.

## Trivia

Work in progress.