Markus

Conquer and power are Gyees' only future

*Markus - Leader of Oathblades.*

*Loves drinking with friends with a barrel of wine. Hates the Sword of Light to the guts.*

*Hear him ROAR!*

## Intro

In Never Isle's tavern, there is often a hunky man hauling a barrel of wine and chatting with warriors. They would fight over some trivial matter. They might seem pretty serious about their fights, but they know the boundaries. In the end, those men with bruised faces would laugh it off as if nothing has ever happened. When they leave, the hunky guy would pay for the wine and the damaged furniture, with a hearty laughter. That hunky guy is Markus and his drinking buddies are warriors of Oathblades.

Markus is a simple, straightforward and sincere man. He has friends all over Luxium. He might seem to be a carefree and reckless fellow, but he is an excellent strategist who's great at arranging arrays. He led his army and made great contributions to the founding of Never Isle.

When Never Isle was first established, Markus led the group of Gyees willing to follow him and swore an oath with their blades on the Ruins of Azria: 'Kill all White Capes and eliminate all beings that threaten Gyees' existence!' Thus was how Oathblades was created. He and his Oathblades are independent, and daring to love and hate. They conquered the White Capes with iron fists, establishing a great reputation for Gyees. Named 'hero of oathblades', Markus enjoys an extremely high reputation among young Gyees.

In the battlefield, Markus would turn into a killing machine that always dashes forward and mercilessly kills enemies with a giant golden blade. He never recoils from any danger. His deafening battle cry would diminish enemies' morales and send them fleeing. That's why enemies call him 'Golden Lion'.

### Forming a Pact

**Markus's rarity:** SSR

**Max Epiphany without Illumination:** Level 6

The player can form a pact with Markus by the following methods:

* Starter Summon
	+ Use 28 Heart Stones to add this Gyee to the Starter Summon pool.
* Limited Summon
	+ You can form a pact with Markus by summoning him on his limited-time banner.

## Skills

### Basic

**Skill Level**
1. 230%
2. 255%
3. 280%
4. 305%
	+ Increases Sweeping Blade's damage by 15%; increases damage by up to 35% based on the target's lost HP.

*Unlock with Rainbow Skin*
* **The Chief**
	+ In PVE battles, self gets 3 stacks of [Fury Blade] when battle begins; After casting Defense and Offense, self gets [Dominant Force]. In the first 3 rounds of each battle, increases self's Hatred caused by DMG and healing effects by 100%. Removes the effect when defeated.
		- [Fury Blade]: When cast Sweeping Blade, consume 1 stack and deal 50% splash damage to the enemies of two sides, stacking up to 3 times until the battle ends. Cannot be dispelled.
		- [Dominant Force]: While the effect is active, self's DMG taken reduces by 40%, lasts 2 rounds, cannot be dispelled.

### Advanced

* [Disarm]: While the effect is active, each stack reduces the character's P.DMG dealt by 45%. After the character takes action, 1 stack will be reduced. Stackable for up to 2 times. Lasts 2 rounds. This effect can be purified.

**Skill Level**
1. 105%
2. 116%
3. 127%
4. 138%
	+ Each stack of [Disarm] can reduce the character's M.DMG by 20%.
* **Hamstring**
	+ [Disarm] cannot be purified.

### Ultimate

* [Battle Ready]: While the effect is active, each stack reduces the character's all damage (including true damage) dealt by [Skill Level]. Removes 1 stack after receiving single attack. Stackable for up to 2 times. Lasts 2 rounds. This effect can be dispelled.

**Skill Level**
1. 19%
2. 20%
3. 21%
4. 22%
	+ Increases [Battle Ready]'s Damage Reduction by 12% (Once skill reaches max level, boost is increased from 21% to 25.76%).
* **Impasse Array**
	+ When self HP is lower or equal to 90%, casts Defense and Offense and gains an extra 1 stack of [Battle Ready]. The max stacks of [Battle Ready] is changed into 3 stacks.
* **War God Array**
	+ When casting Defense and Offense with 5 Concentration, consumes all Concentration and gains [God] effect.
		- [God]: While the effect is active, becomes immune to all debuffs, including those that can make the character go out of control, lasting 1 round.

### Mastery

* [Stun]: While the effect is active, the character goes out of control. Lasts 2 rounds.
* [Victory Pursuit]: Increases the character's next active skill's damage by 20%, lasting till the end of the battle. Can be dispelled.

## Imprint

### Basic Engraving

* Persistence Engraving (Reduce critical P.DMG by 1.38% per Engraving level)
	+ Each engraving level requires I.N. Flux - Fire x120 and Gold x25,000

### Imprint Skill

The following Imprint Skill can be equipped on other Gyees and Avatars once unlocked.

* [Horn], lasts 21 rounds, cannot be dispelled, will be removed upon defeat, and cannot be stacked.
	+ When attacked by a single target attack, the effect inflicter gets 1 stack of [Oathblade]
	+ After receiving a Critical Hit and suffering HP Loss, the effect inflicter will get 2 stacks of [Oathblade].
* [Oathblade], lasts until the end of the battle, cannot be dispelled, will be removed upon defeat, and can stack up to 6 times.
	+ Each stack increases self's DMG Dealt by 4%;

## Intimacy

### Date Choices

Dates will give either 500, 700, or 900 intimacy points depending on the choice selected.

* **War Machine - Oathblades want to build a batch of weapons. What kind of weapons are the strongest?**
	+ **Cue:** Something that can be made in Luxium?
		- Siege cannons
		*700 Intimacy*
		- Super heavy tanks
		*900 Intimacy*
		- Gigantic robots
		*500 Intimacy*

* **Obsession with holidays - Oathblades warriors went on holiday behind Markus' back? What's going on here?**
	+ **Cue:** Should I punish them?
		- Give them one more chance
		*500 Intimacy*
		- Heavy penalty for those defying the order!
		*700 Intimacy*
		- Train harder in the future!
		*900 Intimacy*

* **Tavern Brawl - Never provoke a tiger...**
	+ **Cue:** Player, you were here, what happened?
		- The Oathblades beat up the Light of Purity
		*500 Intimacy*
		- The Light of Purity insulted the Oathblades in the bar
		*900 Intimacy*
		- The Oathblades and the Light of Purity had a fight in the bar
		*700 Intimacy*

### Intimacy Blocks

To reach Intimacy levels 7 and 11, Markus needs mementos (found in Darkflux Raid), reiki (found in Extreme Fight or Arcana Tracker), and the following block item:

* **Intimacy Level 7**
	+ S - Desert Pure Wine
		- Desert wine that originated from Red Desert, with a seductive aroma, tangy taste and refreshing aftertaste. The majority of Desert Wine on the market is either blended or mixed. The real Desert Pure Wine is extremely rare and strong. Few men can handle it.
		Used to break through Markus' Intimacy. Obtained in Darkflux Raid.
* **Intimacy Level 11**
	+ Ancient book
		- A military book with yellow pages, detailing classic battles and strategies in the history of Luxium. The cover is torn severely and the title is almost illegible. One can only strain their eyes to see the logo of Azria.
		Used specifically to break through Markus' Intimacy. Can be obtained by defeating enemies in Extreme Fight.

### Basic Drink Preferences

 25% bonus

 25% bonus

 50% bonus

 50% bonus

*Note: All blended drinks have a base preference bonus of 25% that can be modified by the drink's attributes.*

### Gift Preferences

**50% bonus**

**25% bonus**

**No bonus**

### Views

Unlock views by leveling the intimacy of other gyees.

* **Gaar**: Do tell me if Markus leads his army to Crossport! I'll run for my life! Staying alive is more important than making money!
*Gaar's Intimacy reaches Lv.2 to unlock*
* **Miles**: That old fellow is the boss of Oathblades! He is not only the boss of fighting, but also the boss of drinking! Hey! Be careful with your words! Only I can call him 'old fellow'! You must call him the honorary 'Commander'!
*Miles's Intimacy reaches Lv.4 to unlock*
* **Jonas**: How admirable of him to follow his heart and pursue his dream! But life is unpredictable as ever. I hope he achieves his dream someday.
*Jonas's Intimacy reaches Lv.6 to unlock*
* **Nemesio**: When Never Isle was first created, he often walked around with a barrel of wine to drink and chat with youngsters. Just like that, those youngsters joined the Oathblades. Come to think of it... I became who I am today because of his wine too... A half-Gyee half-Shadow monster. However, if there were a do-over, I would still... drink his wine.
*Nemesio's Intimacy reaches Lv.8 to unlock*
* **Oathblades Warrior**: Every morning, Commander would do a series of trainings: fitness, stamina, strength and combat. He's been doing this for more than ten years now, without a single day's break.
* **A White Cape leader**: A decade ago, my army fought against him once. This guy fought as if he were crazy. Our army had the absolute majority, yet we were defeated like a herd of sheep against a lion. I was the only one who survived.
* **Crossport Aunty**: Isn't he the one-eyed monster? According to Sword of Light, this monster has killed millions of lives and he even eats children! Whenever kids misbehave, just scare them with the story of one-eyed monster!
* **Red Harbor Worker**: I thought Markus would look down upon us commoners. But he turns out to be extremely nice. He raised our salary, bought Red Harbor insurance for us and even offered us overtime premium! This truly motivated us to work hard!
* **BlackFlame Underground Guild**: The White Capes left and now the Oathblades are here. But I don't mind, so long as they don't bother with my business! The center of Red Harbor is always BlackFlame City!
* **Never Isle Young Man**: I want to be a brave and strong hero like Markus someday!

## Scripts

### Consolation Letter

Hey! Traveler from the Earth!

Miles told me that you've been traveling across Luxium. That's great! Young men should travel and see the world!

However, Luxium is not peaceful right now. Be careful out there! It's hard to do things alone, no matter how strong you are. If you meet anyone you like and feel like talking to, don't be shy! Just ask him out! Meet up for a drink or a talk. Make some friends! Friends? The more, the merrier! One more friend means one more layer of protection in the world.

I hope you are not bothered by my nagging!

I'll buy you a drink next time you visit Oathblades!

### Bath Drama

* Drink, fight, bathe. That's life!
* The water is just right. I'll bring the kid over next time!
* I feel hot. Got to grab a few shots.

### Fave Hottie Slogan

Fights have to be fun, and contests must be won. Boy! I've always thought highly of you. Cast a vote for the Oathblades!

### Intimacy Breakthrough

**This section contains spoilers for Intimacy Breakthrough scenes.**

**-Intimacy Level 4**

**Markus**: Oh, is this for me?
**Markus**: Haha, thanks!

**-Intimacy Level 5**

**Markus**: I have been receiving a lot of gifts from you lately.
**Markus**: I am truly grateful.
**Markus**: But it's unnecessary to send me all these gifts, I don't need anything.
**Markus**: If you really like me, please exercise and train your mind.
**Markus**: Join the Oathblades and create a future for the Gyees with me!

**-Intimacy Level 6**

**Markus**: You are always giving me presents, so today let me give you something.
**Markus**: I specially picked these books, some are inspirational...
**Markus**: Some are biography, some are about military strategies.
**Markus**: Have a read if you are interested...
**Markus**: If you are not interested...
**Markus**: Also have a read when you have time!
**Markus**: You kids should really read more!

**-Intimacy Level 7**

**Billy**: Captain, this barrel of wine is a gift sent here by the shadow hunters.
**Billy**: Should we leave this in the cellar? Or at the Hottie Bar?
**Player**: Wine sent by the shadow hunters?
**Billy**: Yes, they said it's the spirit of Lonely Desert.
**Billy**: But isn't Lonely Desert the cocktail from Hottie Bar?
**Billy**: How come there is a spirit with the same name?
**Player**: Well, you see.
**Player**: The Lonely Desert on the market is either blended with water or mixed into cocktails.
**Player**: The one at Hottie Bar belongs to the latter.
**Player**: However, the Lonely Desert spirit is from the indigenous people of the north. It is rich and fragrant but very strong.
**Player**: The spirit must be so strong that most people can't handle it.
**Billy**: It would be such a waste if we sell this spirit blended with water.
**Player**: Don't worry, I know someone who can handle this.
*Some time later...*
*Never Isle, Oathblades training camp...*
**Oathblades soldier**: Yeah yeah yeah yeah....
**Oathblades soldier**: Ah Ah Ah Ah!
**Markus**: Good! Not bad!
**Markus**: Today's training performance has improved compared to last month's!
**Markus**: Those who can still run, follow me, 10 laps around the training ground!
**Oathblades soldier**: I... I still have strength!
**Oathblades soldier**: Huh? More running?
**Oathblades soldier**: I will join the general!
**Markus**: Good! You guys have good spirits!
**Markus**: The remaining take a rest here!
**Oathblades soldier**: Yes, sir!
**Markus**: Oh? Isn't it Player?
**Markus**: Come come come! Run 2 laps with me!
*Some time later...*
*Scene transition*
*The Oathblades soldiers training together have collapsed to the ground.*
**Player**: Huh... phew...
**Markus**: Hahaha, we have some excellent soldiers this year. I can't wait to see how you guys turn out.
**Player**: I saw you training with them...
**Player**: You carried heavier weight, and you ran longer than them.
**Player**: But you don't seem tired at all!
**Markus**: I've been on the battlefield for almost 30 years!
**Markus**: Of course these boys can't compare with me!
**Markus**: But, given time, they will become soldiers even stronger than me!
**Markus**: Anyway, Player, you must've come here for important matters.
**Player**: I brought you some spirits!
**Markus**: Oh?
**Markus**: Try it!
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: This... this is the spirit of Lonely Desert!
**Player**: General Markus is indeed an expert.
**Player**: I know you like Lonely Desert, and so I brought you some!
**Markus**: Hahaha! I am glad!
**Markus**: Brothers, Player brought us some good stuff!
**Markus**: Those who can still drink, come drink with me!
**Oathblades soldier**: Wow spirits!
**Oathblades soldier**: Fantastic!
**Oathblades soldier**: General, can we get drunk?
**Markus**: You little runts, only drinking gets you excited!
**Markus**: We had some good training today, so I'll allow you to indulge once!
**Oathblades soldier**: Yeah!
*Most of the soldiers are already drunk after a couple of drinks.*
*The few that can drink also pass out in the end...*
**Markus**: The spirit of Lonely Desert, fragrant, rich and easy to drink. It is indeed a good spirit.
**Markus**: It is just too strong, all brothers are already drunk.
**Player**: Eh?
**Player**: If I pass out here, would you carry me back, general?
**Markus**: What's so hard about that? A light weight like you, I can carry 3!
**Markus**: Player, how do you want me to carry you home?
**Player**: Haha, how about I finish this keg then, general, you can carry me home in your arms?
**Markus**: You are not so naive after all.
**Markus**: I haven't felt so tipsy for a long time.
**Markus**: The taste of Lonely Desert spirit hasn't changed a bit.
*Markus looks gloomy.*
**Player**: General, is there a story behind this spirit?
**Markus**: Are you interested?
**Player**: Yeah! Yeah!
**Markus**: The last time I drank this Lonely Desert spirit was more than 10 years ago.
**Markus**: Back then, we received intelligence that there was a new Shadow stronghold in the northern desert.
**Markus**: You know, the northern desert is far away.
**Markus**: But there could be big trouble if we ignored it.
**Markus**: So together with some of my best soldiers from the Oathblades, I rode to the northern desert.
**Markus**: It took us 6 days to arrive on horse back. In the end, not only did we not find any Shadow...
**Markus**: But we also lost our food and water because of a sand storm.
**Markus**: Luckily we were found by some local tribes who brought us back to their village.
**Markus**: Otherwise we wouldn't have left the northern desert alive.
**Markus**: The locals received us warmly and treated us with a feast.
**Markus**: That was the first time I ever tried the Lonely Desert spirit.
**Markus**: Ever since then, I could never forget the taste and sensation of the Lonely Desert.
**Markus**: Oh right, and that was also the first time I tried the northern desert roast beef.
**Markus**: Big chunk of ribs roasted crispy outside and tender inside, the perfect meat together with special seasonings.
**Markus**: Ah... that taste...
**Markus**: Nothing in all of Luxium can compare with it!
**Player**: Stop it, I am going to drown in my own drool...
**Player**: Speaking of which...
**Player**: Weren't you there to fight the Shadows?
**Player**: Could it be that your intelligence was wrong?
**Markus**: I wish we had received the wrong intelligence.
**Markus**: The next day when we were about to leave...
**Markus**: The Shadows attacked us. There were so many of them that we didn't stand a chance.
**Markus**: Of course we wanted to stay and help, but they refused.
**Markus**: Lonely Desert is what the outsiders call this spirit.
**Markus**: But in the northern desert, it is called 'the Blood of Tatoka'.
**Markus**: Tatoka means the warrior who guards the homeland.
**Markus**: We insisted to stay, but then a senior tribesman stepped up.
**Markus**: He said, 'this is not your home, but your home needs you.'
**Player**: !!
**Markus**: You can probably guess what happened next.
**Player**: So you ordered everyone to withdraw and went back to Never Isle?
**Markus**: Disregarding of my brothers' objection, I ordered everyone to return to Never Isle.
**Markus**: Fled like a coward.
**Markus**: Ever since then, I will always carry with me 2 bottles of Lonely Desert.
**Markus**: To remind myself that I must protect Never Isle.
**Markus**: ...
**Player**: I didn't know Lonely Desert means so much to you.
**Markus**: Don't feel any burden because of that!
**Markus**: Spirit is brewed to be drunk!
**Markus**: Cheers! To Never Isle!
**Player**: To Never Isle!

**-Intimacy Level 8**

*Markus carries a big keg of wine into Hottie Bar.*
**Markus**: Come on, put them here!
**Oathblades soldier**: Yes, general!
*The Oathblades soldiers carry a few gigantic kegs into the Hottie Bar*
**Player**: General? These are...
*Markus puts the keg down from his shoulder...*
**Markus**: A little small gift from us Oathblades!
**Markus**: This is nothing compared to the Lonely Desert you gave me!
**Player**: General, you shouldn't have! I'm your brother.
**Markus**: Haha, because you are my brother, I think of you when I have good stuff.
**Markus**: This is Rock Spirit from Red Harbor!
**Markus**: And it's made by the Oathblades' factory, it must be top-notch!
**Markus**: I think it would be useful in your bar.
**Player**: Thank you so much, general!
**Markus**: Hahaha, just let me know if you need anything else!

**-Intimacy Level 9**

**Markus**: Yeah... I remember I've told you long time ago...
**Markus**: How come your airship hasn't installed 100 cannons?
**Markus**: This is not powerful enough!
**Player**: My airship is for civilian use only.
**Player**: It's not a fleet...
**Markus**: Player, you'd better be ready for war.
**Markus**: The enemies might attack Luxium anytime now.
**Markus**: We need to be well prepared for war at all times!
**Player**: But if you want to install cannons on a small airship like mine, you'd need to remove a lot of parts.
**Player**: Make the bridge smaller, knock down some private rooms...
**Player**: You can't get up to the deck, and the Hottie Bar has to be torn down too...
**Markus**: !!
**Markus**: You can't tear down the Hottie Bar!
**Player**: Huh?
**Player**: Then the preparation for war...
**Markus**: The cannons are important but soldiers also need a place to relax!
**Markus**: So do you!
**Markus**: If cannons are not suitable for small airships...
**Markus**: Then I'll make an airship that's big enough for 200 cannons!
**Player**: Fearless fleet?
**Markus**: Fearless?
**Markus**: Hahaha! That's a good name! I shall call it 'Fearless' when I make one!

**-Intimacy Level 10**

**Markus**: Haha, I drink at your place too frequently these days.
**Markus**: The boss of the Never Isle bar started to miss me!
**Player**: Haha, you mean they miss how you smash their stuff?
**Markus**: Hey, listen to yourself...
**Markus**: I always pay for things that I smash!
**Markus**: And...
**Markus**: It's just not like a bar if there's no fighting!
**Player**: Eh?
**Markus**: Ever since we Oathblades started going to the Never Isle bar...
**Markus**: Business has gotten so much better!
**Markus**: Now, they'd even built a combat ring inside the bar.
**Markus**: Anyone who feels like a fight can go in there.
**Markus**: Now people are lining up in front of their bar!
**Markus**: Don't worry though, I've told my brothers, no fights in Hottie Bar!
**Markus**: It's no good if we damage the airships!
**Player**: Actually, you are right!
**Markus**: Yeah?
**Player**: There's not much fun in the bar if there's no fighting.
**Player**: You can fight in the swimming pool when in Hottie Bar!
**Player**: How fun!
**Markus**: Oh?
**Markus**: Hahahahaha!
**Markus**: That's a brilliant idea!
**Markus**: I'll bring my brothers to have a fight here next time!

**-Intimacy Level 11**

**Kitty**: Player! What have we got this time?
**Player**: It's all over there, see if there's anything you like.
**Kitty**: Heh heh, I will help myself then
**Kitty**: Player! What is this book?
**Kitty**: It feels older than some books in Arcana Academy.
**Kitty**: And it has the Azria symbol printed on it.
**Player**: Azria symbol?
**Player**: Then it should be valuable, let's keep it for now.
**Player**: See if we can ask some expert about it later.
*Some time later...*
**Markus**: Hottie! Give me a glass of Lonely Desert!
**Hottie**: Order received, please wait a moment!
**Markus**: Hey! Player! Come have a drink!
**Player**: Sure, aren't you busy today, general?
**Markus**: I just finished, wanted to grab a few drinks here.
**Markus**: Also take a bath and relax!
**Player**: When the war of Azria happened, you were there, weren't you?
**Markus**: I was helping the residents evacuate.
**Markus**: Why brought it up all of a sudden?
**Player**: I found a book with the Azria symbol.
**Player**: I am guessing you might know what it is?
**Markus**: Oh? Let me have a look!
*Scene transition*
**Player**: This is it!
*Holding the book, Markus takes a glance at the beaten up cover.*
**Markus**: ...
**Player**: General, do you know the story of this book?
**Markus**: I will never forget it.
**Player**: Is it an important book?
**Markus**: It is...
**Markus**: Drinking here always reminds me of the glorious times of Azria.
**Markus**: And this book directly brings back old memories...
*Markus gently cleaned the dust on the book...*
**Markus**: It is called Military Tactics.
**Markus**: It's written by my mentor Master Raymond.
**Markus**: It describes in detail the famous battles in the history of Luxium.
**Markus**: It explains the military tactics used in warfare.
**Markus**: This is the first book I have ever carefully studied in detail.
**Markus**: I still remember when Master Raymond personally handed me this book.
**Markus**: Those were my darkest days.
**Player**: Awesome! I love stories!
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: I was 28, and we were ambushed by the Shadows on a mission.
**Markus**: More than half of my brothers were killed, and my partner also died in the battle.
**Markus**: I was afraid of death, afraid of the battlefield, didn't even want to touch the sword.
**Markus**: I became a piece of trash, did nothing but drink everyday.
**Markus**: There was a bartender like Hottie at the bar I used to visit.
**Player**: Were there bartender robots already back then?
**Markus**: Of course not! That bartender wore an iron helmet and you could only see his eyes!
**Markus**: Just like Hottie!
**Player**: Iron helmet?
**Markus**: One time his head got hit by a wine bottle during a bar fight.
**Markus**: Ever since then he always wore a helmet.
**Markus**: No one could convince him to take it off, not even his boss.
**Player**: ...
**Markus**: I drank at that bar everyday, sometimes I even ate and slept there.
**Markus**: As long as you paid the bartender, he would bring you drinks.
**Markus**: I have lost count of how much I drank.
**Markus**: That was the only time I ever got drunk.
**Markus**: Soon Master Raymond found me.
**Markus**: Gave me a good beating.
**Player**: Beat... you up...
**Player**: Usually, don't people cheer you up and say things like 'hang in there'?
**Markus**: Do you think I am the kind of person who can be cheered up by a few words?
**Player**: Hmm... nope...
**Markus**: Master Raymond beat me real hard.
**Markus**: I passed out at the priest's for 7 days...
**Player**: 7 days... that's crazy...
**Markus**: There was nothing I could do, Master Raymond threw a keg at my head.
**Markus**: I couldn't dodge...
**Player**: Huh? Markus, lucky you didn't die!
**Markus**: Heh heh, maybe I have a tough head.
**Markus**: But, Master Raymond was a sensible person.
**Markus**: If he was serious, I would have died for sure.
**Markus**: But being hit in the head really woke me up.
**Markus**: The Shadows took away my brothers and partner.
**Markus**: Gyees and human beings should work together against the Shadows!
**Player**: Huh? That doesn't sound like you.
**Markus**: That was what I thought at the time.
**Markus**: You can say I lost my mind from being hit by the keg.
**Markus**: Once I woke up, I climbed out of bed.
**Markus**: With bandages still wrapped around my head, I went to look for Master Raymond.
**Player**: You thought it through? Return to the battlefield? Fight side by side with human beings?
**Markus**: I was going to ask for resignation with Master Raymond.
**Player**: Huh?
**Markus**: I would only be a burden to the army if I stayed.
**Markus**: I wanted to find a job, save some money, and one day I could open a bar that treats Gyees and the mundane equally.
**Markus**: Improve the relationship between Gyees and the mundane.
**Player**: Wow, when General Raymond heard that...
**Markus**: He was so angry that he picked up another keg.
**Markus**: I didn't dodge, I thought it wasn't too bad to die in the hands of Master Raymond like that.
**Player**: Huh? So you just passed out for another few days?
**Markus**: Master Raymond stopped before the keg hit me.
**Markus**: He said, furiously,
**Markus**: Throwing this keg at you would just be a waste of good wine! Come, drink with me!'
**Player**: I really don't understand how you guys think...
**Player**: So, you just drank together like nothing happened?
**Markus**: Yeah, and the keg quickly went empty.
**Markus**: After we finished the wine, Master Raymond took out this book from under his desk, saying...
**Markus**: Little rascal, you are more stubborn than a cow, not even I can stop you if you want to leave!'
**Markus**: If you want to make friends with the mundane, I can introduce you to Hammond!'
**Markus**: I would be less worried if you are going to Hammond's! But you just have to go open a bar.'
**Markus**: We've been through so much together for more than 10 years, I am going to miss you!'
**Markus**: Go back and have a good look at this book, if you are not interested, then go!'
**Player**: So General Raymond wasn't angry because of your attitude towards the mundane...
**Markus**: He might have been a little bit drunk, that's why he said those things.
**Player**: But I think that was what General Raymond really thought.
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: He told me later that soldiers don't always have to use a sword in a battle...
**Markus**: Winning battles with strategies can also make a good soldier!
**Player**: So, you were interested in the book?
**Markus**: Hahaha, on the contrary, I fell asleep every time I tried to read it!
**Markus**: Although I tried my best to finish it.
**Player**: So did you leave General Raymond?
**Markus**: No...
**Markus**: Master Raymond gave me his heart, I could never leave his side.
**Markus**: I swore that I would be loyal to Master Raymond until death.
**Markus**: I stayed and became a bodyguard for Master Raymond.
**Player**: So since when did you become interested in military tactics?
**Markus**: One time when Master Raymond was planning an attack, I was there...
**Markus**: What I read from the book just naturally came to me.
**Markus**: I gave my opinions, which he adopted, and he fought a glorious battle.
**Markus**: From then on, I really became interested in military tactics and started to read the book.
**Markus**: Since then I often proposed my ideas to Master Raymond.
**Player**: So you believe that Gyees and the mundane should fight the common enemy side by side?
**Markus**: Hmm... for 3 years since then, I had believed that.
**Markus**: Until the Battle of Azria, where the White Capes attacked us with the Shadows...
**Markus**: Seeing that hellish reality, hearing people screaming, crying in despair...
**Markus**: Choking smoke filled the air, mixed with the smell of burned flesh...
**Markus**: Azria was falling, and military tactics was of no use at all.
**Markus**: So I picked up my sword again...
**Markus**: Once again, for the last time I fought side by side with Master Raymond.
**Markus**: Master Raymond made me cover the evacuation of the residents, but I didn't want to leave his side.
**Markus**: He made me obey his order, told me he would come for me once all the Shadows were killed.
**Markus**: I trusted him, led the residents to evacuate...
**Markus**: That was the last time I saw him...
**Player**: ...
*Markus hands you the book*
**Player**: Eh? This is?
**Markus**: Didn't you find this book?
**Player**: Keep it, Markus...
**Markus**: Hahaha, I already know this book by heart.
**Markus**: But for you, Player, this is a classic book of military tactics.
**Markus**: Although some of its contents may be a little outdated.
**Markus**: But most of the military tactical theories still apply to the battles nowadays.
**Markus**: Read it well!
**Player**: Eh? But I don't lead an army.
**Markus**: Haha, I didn't think I would lead the Oathblades either!
**Markus**: Who knows what the future holds?

**-Intimacy Level 12**

**Markus**: ...
**Player**: General, here for drinks again today?
**Markus**: ...
**Player**: Eh... Markus?
**Markus**: Huh?
*Markus touches his back with his left hand subconsciously.*
**Markus**: Ah, Player!
**Player**: Markus, how come you are acting weird today?
**Player**: What happened?
**Markus**: Nothing... nothing happened...
**Markus**: I was just a bit absentminded.
**Markus**: Hahaha!
**Player**: ...
**Player**: You tell me everyday that we are brothers.
**Player**: If we are brothers, what is it that you can't tell me?
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: I hurt my back this morning when training with the guys...
**Player**: What? Is it serious?
**Player**: Take off your clothes and let me have a look!
**Markus**: Ah, nothing serious!
**Player**: Come on! Let me have a look!
**Markus**: See...
**Player**: It's just a little bit swollen in the injured area.
**Markus**: Told you it's nothing serious!
**Markus**: This kind of injury, it'll heal by the afternoon.
**Player**: Oh! Then you should drink less.
**Markus**: Huh?
**Player**: You are injured, you shouldn't drink.
**Markus**: It's nothing serious!
**Player**: Drinking would just slow your recovery!
**Markus**: When I was young,
**Markus**: Even if there's a hole in my chest, it wouldn't stop me from drinking.
**Player**: You are not young anymore!
**Markus**: (Yelling) I am not old yet!
**Player**: !!
**Markus**: !!
**Markus**: Sorry! I lost my manners...
**Markus**: Let's call it a day.
*Markus turns to leave*
**Player**: Wait!
**Markus**: ...
**Player**: What happened exactly?
**Markus**: This is the first time I got injured during training in 30 years.
**Player**: Isn't it super normal to get injured in training?
**Markus**: It means my coordination isn't what it used to be!
**Markus**: Not just that...
**Markus**: Now I get tired from running just 10 laps around Never Isle...
**Markus**: I can only do 100 single-handed push-ups in one go...
**Markus**: Now I can only do weighted squats with at most 280kg...
**Player**: Eh... are you showing off?
*Markus shakes his head*
**Markus**: My body is deteriorating...
**Markus**: I am really...
**Markus**: getting old...
**Player**: Of course you can't compare yourself to when you were young.
**Markus**: But I've never reduced my training intensity...
**Markus**: I thought...
**Markus**: At least I can keep up for a few more years.
**Player**: Getting old and getting sick is as natural as being born and dying.
**Player**: Plus...
**Player**: No young man can follow your training schedule yet, right?
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Player, thank you!
**Markus**: It's indeed natural to get old.
**Markus**: Time passes so quickly...
**Markus**: It still feels like just yesterday when Nemesio came to see me with 40 heads.
**Markus**: Next year... I will be 50 years old...
**Markus**: Keep this wine for me!
**Markus**: I'll drink it when I am recovered!

**-Intimacy Level 13**

**Miles**: Player, is the general not here?
**Player**: No, why?
**Miles**: Lately he's been forcing me to read books.
**Miles**: Who wants to read that kind of stuff?
**Player**: Read?
**Miles**: Yes, they are mostly about military tactics...
**Miles**: I don't mind reading about military tactics a bit...
**Miles**: But those history books, novels, biographies...
**Miles**: Those are just too boring!
**Markus**: I knew you'd come here, kid!
**Miles**: Eh?
**Miles**: Why don't you just let me train instead of reading random stuff?
**Markus**: Accumulating knowledge is part of training!
**Markus**: Fighting and killing are all you know about, you have no knowledge at all...
**Markus**: How can you lead an army in the future if you don't know military tactics?
**Miles**: Isn't military tactics your specialty?
**Markus**: !!
**Markus**: How much longer do you expect me to lead you guys in this war?
**Miles**: ...
**Miles**: Humph! Fine, I'll go back and read!
**Markus**: Sigh...
**Markus**: Player, I brought good wine!
**Markus**: Let's drink, my brother!
**Player**: Oh, oh!
*Moments later...*
*Markus finishes his wine*
**Markus**: Hottie! Give me another one!
**Markus**: Hmm...
**Markus**: I...
**Markus**: Shouldn't have... yelled at Miles just now...
**Player**: Are you very stressed lately?
**Markus**: No, just usual training, drinking, fighting the White Capes, killing Shadows.
**Player**: Have you told the Oathblades soldiers about your health issues?
**Markus**: No, why would I tell the soldiers?
**Player**: You've got enough on your plate already,
**Player**: The soldiers should share some of your burdens.
**Markus**: Would telling them help my body recover?
**Player**: At least it can inspire them to make progress!
**Markus**: Maybe...
**Markus**: If only the Oathblades were a small family, then yes.
**Markus**: But the Oathblades are going to become the strongest army in Luxium.
**Markus**: What the soldiers need is a hero!
**Player**: Heroes are people too!
**Markus**: Am I not showing you my 'people' side?
**Player**: !
**Markus**: When I am tired, I can come here to have a drink, take a bath.
**Markus**: When I'm upset, I can come here to whine to you...
**Markus**: Don't worry! 'Markus the Hero' won't collapse!
**Markus**: I have always been the one laughing most happily...
**Markus**: The one who drinks the most...
**Markus**: The Markus who can lead them to victory!
**Markus**: I cannot shed a tear no matter how sad I am!
**Markus**: I cannot fall no matter how much pain I am in!
**Markus**: This is something I have to bear!
**Markus**: Also for every generation of Oathblades leaders to bear.
**Player**: Every generation?
**Markus**: I am going to make Miles my successor.
**Player**: Succ... successor?
**Markus**: You know, my body condition is not like before anymore,
**Markus**: And this war is not going to end anytime soon.
**Markus**: My time for leading my brothers to fight the White Capes and the Shadows is just getting shorter and shorter.
**Player**: Even if you are not as fit as before...
**Player**: Your physical capability is still second to none among soldiers!
**Player**: So, Markus, you are just over thinking this.
**Markus**: Hahaha, when it comes to fighting, I am never afraid of anyone!
**Markus**: Even a few years from now, I'm not going to lose a fight to anyone!
**Markus**: But, there's a difference between a fight and a battle!
**Markus**: One day, I am going to have my last battle.
**Markus**: Sleep forever in this glorious land.
**Player**: What are you talking about?
**Markus**: Dying is just part of the natural process, that's what you told me.
**Player**: But...
**Markus**: Relax, I'm not going to die tomorrow.
**Markus**: No matter what, I won't be able to lead the Oathblades all my life.
**Markus**: I'll be almost 70 in 20 years...
**Markus**: Can you imagine an old man with a grey beard leading the Oathblades?
**Player**: ...
**Player**: You are their leader, you are the soul of the Oathblades.
**Player**: It is really hard to imagine the Oathblades without you...
**Markus**: Exactly! Even without me, the Oathblades will need to keep going.
**Markus**: And I believe, without me, the Oathblades would be even better.
**Markus**: Maybe I won't be able to witness for myself the day when the Gyees finally have their freedom.
**Markus**: But at least, I want to know that I have paved the way for that day.
**Markus**: And then I will have no guilt when I meet Master Raymond.
**Player**: Stop it!
**Markus**: Fine, I'll stop it!
**Player**: If you are going to make Miles your successor, then you need to have a talk with him.
**Player**: Tell him what you have in your mind.
**Markus**: I'll talk to him when the time comes.
**Markus**: Miles is a good kid.
**Markus**: Though he's a bit reckless, proud and stubborn.
**Markus**: But having spent all these years together, he knows all my difficulties.
**Markus**: He understands many things, but he never talks about them.
**Markus**: Give that kid some time, he'll become an excellent leader.
**Markus**: Oh! One last thing!
**Markus**: As Markus the 'person'...
**Markus**: As a friend, as a brother, as...
**Markus**: a family...
**Markus**: I hope you can promise me one thing.
**Player**: It is a bit... scary... that you are so formal...
**Markus**: When Miles takes over the Oathblades, if you are still in Luxium.
**Markus**: Just like how you help me now...
**Markus**: I hope you can help him!
**Player**: That goes without saying!
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Thank you!
**Markus**: I'll go back to watch Miles read!
**Markus**: I'll drink with you later!

### Dates

**This section contains spoilers for Date scenes.**

**War Machine**

**-Intro**

**Markus**: Hey! Player!
**Markus**: The new factory of the Oathblades has opened.
**Markus**: Come have a look!
**Player**: Wow, fantastic! I'll go right now!
*Scene transition*
**Markus**: Hehe! How is it, isn't it huge!
**Player**: Wow, that is something!
**Player**: I feel like I have been to this factory before...
**Markus**: The last owner of this factory is called Dick...
**Markus**: I heard you are an acquaintance of his?
**Player**: Oh this is Dick's factory!
**Markus**: He's a typical mundane, I heard that he had a grudge against you?
**Player**: Yeah... and also against Eddie, Miles, Master Turing, Master Ranmaru...
**Player**: What made him agree to sell the factory?
**Player**: You didn't have the Oathblades surround his factory, did you?
**Markus**: It is not my style to bully the weak.
**Markus**: I made him an offer he couldn't resist.
**Markus**: So he accepted 'happily'.
**Markus**: Okay, that's enough about him.
**Markus**: I had the brothers do some expansion on the original structure.
**Markus**: Now, this is one of the top factories in Red Harbor!
**Markus**: If we can build a few more factories of this scale...
**Markus**: Building a golden fleet and bombarding Crossport wouldn't be a problem!
**Player**: The White Capes are going to suffer.
**Markus**: I was thinking... airships and gunboats are already quite common in Luxium...
**Markus**: I want to make some other powerful war machines.
**Markus**: Machines that can represent us Oathblades.
**Markus**: They should be able to charge ahead and are resistant to attacks.
**Markus**: You are from Earth. Is there anything powerful like that in your world?
**Player**: Weapons from earth... hmm...
**Player**: They could be a little bit too powerful. There are weapons that are even capable of destroying entire worlds...
**Markus**: Eh...
**Markus**: So, is there anything that we Oathblades can learn from...
**Markus**: Something that can be made in Luxium?

**-Siege cannons - 700 Intimacy**

**Player**: I think the key to tactical weapons is not charging ahead.
**Player**: Instead, it's about providing strong firepower support.
**Markus**: Oh?
**Markus**: Interesting, keep going!
**Player**: For example, we can make a device that can launch explosives from very far away.
**Player**: Bombard enemies from the afar!
**Player**: Then we can hit the enemies hard even before we clash with them head on.
**Markus**: Destroying the enemies from a long distance is a great idea.
**Markus**: But, precision could be an issue.
**Markus**: And the explosion needs to be delayed...
**Markus**: At least not to hurt ourselves...
**Markus**: If we can make the bomb explode only when it collides...
**Markus**: Hmm....
**Markus**: Very good idea!
**Markus**: Just that it still seems difficult to make...
**Markus**: Although, conception is the first step.
**Markus**: In the future, the Oathblades will have weapons like that!

**-Super heavy tanks - 900 Intimacy**

**Player**: Capable of charging ahead and still resistant to attacks...
**Player**: Then, heavy armor tanks seem suitable!
**Markus**: Tanks?
**Player**: It is like a chariot with heavy armor...
**Player**: There's a cannon mounted at the top that can shoot at enemies in close proximity!
**Markus**: You mean like a gunboat on the ground?
**Player**: You can say that.
**Markus**: Hahaha! Good thinking!
**Markus**: It costs a lot less to build a chariot than an airship.
**Markus**: Training a chariot driver is also easier than a pilot.
**Markus**: At critical moment, the driver can also fight.
**Player**: Not only so, the mobility of tanks is greater than airships.
**Player**: It is also more agile in narrow areas.
**Markus**: We can manufacture chariots, as well as cannons.
**Markus**: Hahaha, that's great!
**Markus**: I'll have those kids make some drawings now!

**-Gigantic robots - 500 Intimacy**

**Player**: The robot technology is so advanced in Luxium.
**Player**: Why don't you build some giant robots?
**Markus**: Robots?
**Markus**: It's very hard to turn those metallic beings into military force.
**Player**: Why?
**Markus**: We usually use robots as security guards now.
**Markus**: Their advantage is that they can work non-stop as long as enough energy is provided.
**Markus**: But in terms of robots' battle capacity, it's not easy to apply to the battlefield.
**Markus**: The Oathblades usually use the robots for basic combat training, for...
**Markus**: Training new recruits...
**Player**: What if powerful weapons are installed on the robots?
**Markus**: If we have powerful weapons, why don't we arm our soldiers instead?
**Player**: Well, if the weapons are too heavy for people to carry...
**Player**: Then robots would be the right choice!
**Markus**: Yeah... indeed.
**Markus**: Although such heavy weapons must also be very big.
**Markus**: It would become a living target on the battlefield.
**Markus**: And attract attention from enemies...
**Markus**: So it seems soldiers are still the main force on the battlefield.

**Obsession with holidays**

**-Intro**

**Markus**: Player, do you have a moment?
**Markus**: I want to quench my thirst with a few drinks and have a chat with you along the way!
**Player**: Sure! Come!
*Scene transition*
**Player**: How come general have time for a drink today?
**Markus**: Today I don't need to supervise those kids' trainings.
**Markus**: Thought I'll come over for a drink.
**Player**: No training for the Oathblades today?
**Markus**: Not for unit 3 that I am in charge of.
**Markus**: All soldiers from unit 3 are the Oathblades' new recruits from 1 year ago.
**Markus**: They are young and skillful fighters.
**Markus**: It's supposed to be training today.
**Markus**: But yesterday we just fought a good battle.
**Markus**: Last night they all came to tell me that they needed a rest today.
**Player**: Did you approve?
**Markus**: Of course not!
**Markus**: Early this morning, only the most obedient ones showed up for training.
**Markus**: Everyone else sneaked out of Never Isle to have fun.
**Markus**: It's getting harder and harder to manage those little rascals!
**Markus**: We just started to make a little progress in our war with the White Capes, and they are already out of control!
**Player**: You know, young people.
**Player**: General, don't be upset. Drink, it's on me!
**Markus**: I'm not mad.
**Markus**: Actually seeing them full of energy everyday makes me happy.
*Markus finished his wine.*
**Markus**: Hottie, give me one more Lonely Desert!
**Hottie**: Order received, please wait a moment...
**Markus**: Player, what should I do with the kids taking leave without permission?
**Markus**: Should I punish them?

**-Give them one more chance - 500 Intimacy**

**Player**: Since they won the battle yesterday...
**Player**: General, you should turn a blind eye to what happened today!
**Markus**: You young people all think like that!
**Markus**: I asked the soldiers who had attended the training, they all asked me to give the absent ones a chance.
**Markus**: The ones who sneaked out even left a letter under my bed.
**Markus**: Asking me to spare them this time, and they will train extra hard next time.
**Markus**: It's like you are all in it together.
**Player**: Then general, you should also make decisions like a young man!
**Markus**: You little rascal!
**Markus**: Are you trying to say I am old?
**Player**: No... I wouldn't dare...
**Markus**: Yeah...
**Markus**: I've decided!
**Markus**: I am going to expel all of them when they come back!
**Player**: Eh?
**Player**: This... seems a bit too serious?
**Markus**: Maybe.
**Markus**: Disobeying my order, skipping training for leisure...
**Markus**: That is not what soldiers do!
**Markus**: It's a pity that they are quite talented.
**Markus**: But our war with the White Capes isn't over yet!
**Markus**: They must understand that war is not a game!

**-Heavy penalty for those defying the order! - 700 Intimacy**

**Player**: Even though they fought a good battle yesterday.
**Player**: It is still no excuse for skipping training for leisure.
**Player**: No matter how much you like them, general, you should still not make this an exception.
**Markus**: That's exactly what I am thinking!
**Markus**: Those kids deserve some serious punishment!
**Markus**: Although we Oathblades don't like to be bound by dogmas and rules.
**Markus**: The Oathblades is still an army, not a shelter!
**Markus**: Yeah...
**Markus**: Let them start as new recruits again, train another year before coming back.

**-Train harder in the future! - 900 Intimacy**

**Markus**: Haha! That's what they said.
**Player**: They?
**Markus**: Those kids left a letter underneath my bed before they sneaked out.
**Markus**: The letter says there's an event in Eversun and they really wanted to go.
**Markus**: Told me not to get angry and that they will train extra hard when they come back.
**Player**: They sneaked into your room?
**Markus**: We stayed in the same room.
**Player**: Eh?
**Markus**: What, you thought I lived in a palace?
**Player**: But, you are the general.
**Markus**: Outsiders always think I live in my own mansion, but living with the soldiers are actually more comfortable.
**Markus**: They went out quietly in the middle of the night and thought I didn't notice.
**Markus**: I saw them so I stayed still to see what they were up to.
**Markus**: They threw a letter under my bed and then went off quietly.
**Player**: So, you knew from the very beginning that they were taking holidays without permission?
**Markus**: Yeah!
**Player**: But you didn't stop them?
**Markus**: If soldiers are not willing to fight with me and even need me to restrain their behaviors...
**Markus**: Then the Oathblades would have been gone a long time ago.
**Markus**: I left letters under their beds too.
**Markus**: It says, do what you like. There will not be a next time.
**Player**: Wow, Markus, you are really kind to them.
**Player**: It's so lucky for them to have a general like you.
**Markus**: Hahaha, you can say that if they can get out of bed tomorrow!
**Markus**: They haven't escaped today's training yet!

**Tavern Brawl**

**-Intro**

**Markus**: Hahaha, I didn't know Miles sold socks when I was away.
**Player**: He made some good money too!
**Markus**: I didn't think that little bastard has so much business sense.
**Oathblades soldier**: General, something happened!
**Oathblades soldier**: Our people started a fight at the bar on Never Isle!
**Oathblades soldier**: Please go and have a look!
**Markus**: What?
**Player**: Isn't it normal that you guys pick fights in the bar?
**Markus**: If it's a normal situation they wouldn't have come for me...
**Markus**: Player, come check it out with me!
**Player**: (Go with Markus)
*Scene transition*
*Outside of the bar*
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: What did you say? Say it again!
**Light of Purity soldier who was picking a fight**: You... just... look so weak and...
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: I'm gonna kill you today!
**Markus**: You two, wait for me outside.
**Markus**: Everyone stop!
**Markus**: You! Come with me!
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: General! This scumbag...
**Markus**: Are you disobeying my order now?
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: ...
**Markus**: Bring a few brothers back here and take those injured ones back to the Oathblades for treatment.
**Markus**: Send someone to the Order of Equality and tell them to find me if they want their people back.
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: Yes, general!
**Player**: (Could it be the Oathblades soldiers beat up the Order of Equality soldiers?)
**Markus**: What happened exactly?
**Markus**: Why did you beat up those guys from the Light of Purity?
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: Those rats insulted the Oathblades!
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: They said we are not as rich as the Light of Purity, we don't have as many soldiers as Will...
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: We don't even have the latest airships or gunboats.
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: Said we might as well disband since we don't have anything to fight with...
**Markus**: And then you beat them up?
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: He also said bad things about you, general...
**Markus**: What about me?
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: ...
**Markus**: Say it!
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: They said general you are... trash...
**Player**: !!
**Markus**: And?
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: The Oathblades is the trash bin...
**Markus**: ...
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: A big piece of trash leading a bunch of other trash...
**Markus**: And?
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: That's it...
**Markus**: Did you already forget what I always tell you?
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: No we didn't! We need to unite with our people!
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: We should treat the Order of Equality like our own brothers.
**Markus**: And that's how you treat your brothers?
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: But general also taught us to dare to love and hate.
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: Use courage and our lives to protect our people.
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: I don't care what they say about me, but Oathblades and the general...
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: I can't let them!
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: It's not right for me to use violence. I'm willing to take the punishment.
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: But I did nothing wrong! I'll beat up the scumbag if I ever see him again!
**Markus**: You!
**Markus**: You'd better go treat yourself first, are you going to meet people with a swollen and bruised face?
**Markus**: I'll go check out the kids you beat up...
**Oathblades soldier who started a fight**: Yes, sir!
**Player**: (What actually happened)
**Passerby A**: Sigh, how come kids these days can say such nasty things.
**Passerby B**: Exactly! I think they seriously need some beating!
**Eddie**: Player, you were here, what happened?
**Player**: Sigh... actually...

**-The Oathblades beat up the Light of Purity - 500 Intimacy**

**Eddie**: What did you say?
**Eddie**: Was it Miles?
**Player**: Huh? No, that's not true.
**Markus**: Oh, so finally someone from the Order of Equality showed up.
**Eddie**: I learned from Player that...
**Eddie**: Soldiers from the Oathblades beat up soldiers from the Light of Purity.
**Eddie**: General Markus, can you tell me what happened?
**Markus**: Player is right...
**Markus**: Our people from the Oathblades did beat up your people from the Light of Purity.
**Markus**: I was going to take them to the Oathblades for treatment.
**Markus**: You can come to the Oathblades to fetch them.
**Eddie**: May I ask what the cause of the fight was?
**Markus**: According to my soldiers, someone from the Light of Purity said the Oathblades are all trash.
**Markus**: Said I'm a piece of trash so they couldn't help but started the fight.
**Eddie**: !!
**Eddie**: People from the Light of Purity would do that?
**Markus**: Of course, that was our side of the story, you don't have to believe it.
**Eddie**: Where are they?
 *Markus points at the bar*
**Markus**: Ah, Player, looks like we are not getting any drinks today.
**Player**: It's okay, there are serious matters to be handled.
**Markus**: Right, my treat next time!
**Player**: So... what happened today looks quite serious?
**Markus**: It was just some kids' fight, normally it would be fine...
**Markus**: But since it's related to the Oathblades and the Order of Equality, things wouldn't just end so easily.
**Markus**: But, that's not the problem.
**Player**: No?
**Markus**: People in the bar all saw what the Light of Purity did.
**Markus**: The problem is, what they said about me was partially true...
**Markus**: We are indeed not rich, and we don't have any advanced weaponry...
**Markus**: Not the latest airships and gunboats...

**-The Light of Purity insulted the Oathblades in the bar - 900 Intimacy**

**Eddie**: What?
**Eddie**: There must be some misunderstanding!
**Player**: There is no misunderstanding, they said some really nasty things.
**Markus**: Finally someone from the Order of Equality showed up.
**Eddie**: General, I'm sorry if we have caused you any troubles because our soldiers didn't choose their words carefully...
**Eddie**: Please accept my apologies.
**Markus**: Ah, no, the Oathblades people beat up your people...
**Markus**: We should apologize.
**Eddie**: A fight? Is anyone injured badly?
**Markus**: 2 passed out, and 3 could barely get up, all of them had some degree of fractures...
**Markus**: But no one is in danger.
**Eddie**: What? Where are they?
*Markus points at the bar*
**Markus**: Was it you who told Eddie that kids from the Light of Purity had insulted us?
**Player**: Yeah! That is the truth.
**Markus**: Haha.
**Markus**: I didn't think that kid could be so heavy handed.
**Player**: If someone humiliated my family like that...
**Player**: I would have taught them a lesson as well!
**Markus**: ...
**Player**: But having said that, people were injured badly from this fight.
**Player**: It might be hard to settle this peacefully.
**Markus**: Right.
**Markus**: But, the Oathblades are not afraid of making a fuss.
**Markus**: One person from the Oathblades beat the lights out of 5 people from the Light of Purity...
**Markus**: If the words spread, everyone will know who the real trash is.
**Markus**: I'd like to see Will's face when he finds out what happened here.
**Markus**: But, if this got too big...
**Markus**: The relationship between the Oathblades and the Order of Equality could go sour.
**Markus**: I don't want this to ruin our relationship.
**Markus**: But it doesn't mean we will just let people humiliate us without fighting back.
**Eddie**: I think I understand the situation.
**Eddie**: Our people didn't choose their words carefully. I'm sorry about that.
**Eddie**: I'm going to bring those involved back for treatment and discipline them strictly.
**Markus**: No no no, it was my dereliction of duty.
**Markus**: We started it.
**Markus**: We Oathblades are going be responsible for the treatment of the injured Light of Purity members.
**Eddie**: People from the Light of Purity is better taken care of by the Order of Equality.
**Eddie**: I hope general can understand.

**-The Oathblades and the Light of Purity had a fight in the bar - 700 Intimacy**

**Eddie**: Huh? Why?
**Player**: I think a few soldiers from the Light of Purity got drunk and started to pick a fight with the Oathblades.
**Eddie**: What?
**Markus**: Finally someone from the Order of Equality showed up.
**Eddie**: I learned from Player that...
**Eddie**: The soldiers from the Oathblades and the Light of Purity had a fight in the bar.
**Eddie**: General Markus, can you tell me what happened?
**Markus**: Your people got drunk and provoked us.
**Markus**: We Oathblades started the fight and beat up your guys.
**Eddie**: How are they? Are they in any danger?
**Markus**: I already took our responsible soldier back to the Oathblades for treatment.
**Markus**: The injured soldiers from the Light of Purity are still lying in the bar, I guess it'll take a while before they can get up.
**Eddie**: What?
**Markus**: Don't worry, the medical team from Oathblades are already taking care of them.
**Markus**: They are not in any danger.
**Eddie**: Where are they?
*Markus points at the bar*
**Player**: 5 people couldn't get up?
**Markus**: These soldiers, I have high expectation of them.
**Player**: I am not commending him, I mean did he not go too far?
**Markus**: It's too late, it doesn't matter anymore.
**Markus**: Plus, when things like this happen, I can't just tell our soldiers to swallow it and hold back.
**Markus**: To be honest if it were 30 years earlier, and I heard someone insult Master Raymond like that...
**Markus**: I would have gone even further.
**Markus**: Luckily I didn't meet someone like this.
**Markus**: They were just brave enough to stand up for their own beliefs.
**Markus**: But then it caused so much unnecessary troubles...
**Markus**: The world of adults...
**Markus**: Although, it's my responsibility to fix the problem.
**Eddie**: I think I understand the situation.
**Eddie**: I'm sorry that our people from the Light of Purity didn't choose their words carefully.

### Trifle

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**The Other Side of Glory**

For warriors, glory is more important than life or death. Each warrior is on their way to pursue the final glory that belongs to them.

**-Part 1**

*Scene - Forest, during the night*
**Player**: Okay... we should... should be almost there.
**Player**: Just one more look at the map...
**Player**: Yeah... this should be the way...
*Player continues walking*
*Two soliders come from the direction Player left*
**Drake**: This is the place the general talked about.
**Drake**: Come on, have a drink with me brother!
**Modercai**: You... you are really drinking!
**Drake**: Isn't it the general's order to drink at this specific location?
**Modercai**: Are you going to meet the general as a drunk?
**Drake**: Hahaha, we will be fine as long as we don't get drunk!
**Modercai**: Drink if you want. Our general is the hero amongst heroes.
**Modercai**: I am going to meet him at my best!
**Drake**: Of course I know all that!
**Drake**: But isn't today what we trained so hard everyday for?
**Drake**: As a soldier, there's nothing more honorable than fighting side by side with the general!
**Modercai**: Hahaha, I can brag about this with the brothers in the new recruit camp all day long!
**Drake**: If you get nervous in front of the general.
**Drake**: It will be our joke for one whole year!
*Scene - Markus's camp*
*Markus stands in front of some barrels with Miles and Grey*
**Markus**: Yo! Player you are late!
**Player**: This place is so remote that I almost got lost in the forest.
**Markus**: Haha, drinking at the bar is not as free as in the wild.
*Markus takes the lid off the keg, the wine's rich fragrance fills the air.*
**Player**: Bold red color, mellow fragrance, this is top-notch Red Harbor Rock wine!
**Markus**: Oh? Player, you are an expert!
**Player**: I have a bar and know a thing or two about wine.
**Markus**: Great! When I get a chance, I'll definitely visit your bar for a drink!
**Player**: You are most welcomed! Drinks are on the house if General Markus visits us!
**Miles**: You need to be careful if you are buying drinks for this guy.
**Miles**: He's also the boss of the Oathblades in terms of drinking.
**Miles**: I've never seen him drunk once!
**Player**: That... badass?
**Markus**: He's just exaggerating, I just like drinking.
*Markus hands you the glass.*
**Markus**: First, 3 drinks for being late!
*Choice 1.1 - (Drink)*
**Player**: Let me finish these 3 to show my respect!
**Markus**: Good kid, has guts!
**Markus**: Miles, you friend is decent! I like him!
**Miles**: When did I ever pick a bad person?
**Markus**: So which one do you prefer, him or Eddie?
**Miles**: What are you talking about?
**Miles**: Eddie, he's not even close...
*Choice 1.2 - (Refuse)*
**Player**: Huh? 3 drinks to start with...
**Miles**: Come on, not everyone can drink like you.
**Miles**: It's all because you picked such a remote place
**Markus**: Oh? Since when did you learn to speak up for other people.
**Markus**: Hahahaha, not bad! Not bad at all! You've improved!
**Miles**: Humph!
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Markus**: Player, thank you for your hard work when I was not on the island.
**Markus**: We Oathblades have troubled you too much. Not to mention our wolfie boy here.
**Markus**: Let me finish these 3 drinks to show my gratitude!
**Player**: My lord, you shouldn't have! I am Miles' friend, it's my duty to help.
**Markus**: Lord?
**Markus**: Haha, Player, don't be so formal!
**Markus**: We call each other brothers in the Oathblades, you are also my brother from now on!
**Markus**: Just call me Markus!
**Player**: But, my lord you are...
**Markus**: What's with this 'my lord' business?
**Markus**: Call me lord again, you are just saying I am old!
**Player**: I'd better call you general!
**Miles**: Humph! You are not young anyway!
**Miles**: Player, just call him old man, like me!
**Markus**: Hmm?
**Miles**: ...
**Player**: The usually loud Miles...
**Player**: Seems to be a bit...
**Player**: Timid in front of Markus!
**Miles**: What did you say?
**Miles**: I'm just saving some face for this old bastard!
**Markus**: Got caught but never admits it.
**Markus**: Hahahaha! Very good! Just like me!
**Markus**: Real men should be fierce when facing enemies and caring to the brothers!
**Grey**: Owww...
**Markus**: We have been too busy drinking ourselves.
**Markus**: We completely forgot Grey!
*Markus puts a large bowl of wine in front of Grey.*
**Grey**: Owww...
*Grey happily licks the wine.*
**Player**: Can a wolf drink alcohol?
**Miles**: Grey is the wolf of the Oathblades!
**Miles**: It loves drinking and couldn't stop itself!
*After rounds of drinking*
*The gigantic keg is half empty...*
**Oathblades scout**: General, we received intelligence about the White Capes!
*Oathblades scout hands a letter to Markus*
**Markus**: Well done, come have a drink and relax a bit.
**Oathblades scout**: Thank you general!
**Player**: The White Capes?
*Markus quickly browses through the letter*
**Markus**: Hahaha, I'm sorry Player, but we have to end our drinking today!
**Markus**: You must have not had enough, save your appetite!
**Markus**: Next comes the main course!
**Miles**: Boss and I have been following a White Capes head called Hiss.
**Miles**: Almost a thousand innocent Gyees died because of him.
**Miles**: Today, I'll make him pay!
**Markus**: Not only that!
**Markus**: The White Capes' target is a Shadow stronghold.
**Markus**: We also found out the location of this Shadow stronghold!
**Markus**: Looks like today we get to catch 2 big fish!
**Markus**: Miles! Where are the soldiers that you brought?
**Miles**: They are all ready!
*Later...*
*Markus, Player and Miles stand in front of Markus's soldiers, Mordecai and Drake*
**Drake**: General! First soldier from the new recruit camp Drake reporting for duty!
**Markus**: Oh? The first soldier, cool name!
**Miles**: Drake is a very good fighter, he's been giving me trouble in the new recruit camp.
**Modercai**: Cap... General Markus!
**Miles**: This is Mordecai, he's also a talented soldier.
**Markus**: Hahaha, don't be nervous, in the Oathblades, we are all brothers!
**Markus**: Remember, just like in training.
**Markus**: First, kill the enemies; second, don't cut off your feet!
**Modercai**: Yes... yes!
**Drake**: Yes, sir!
**Markus**: Are there any other questions?
*Choices start*

**-Choice 2.1 - Is this intelligence reliable?**

**Markus**: Don't worry, our scout is very experienced!
**Markus**: We've been through a lot together.
*Go back to Choices start*

**-Choice 2.2 - How many people from the White Capes and the Shadows?**

**Markus**: The Shadows are mostly made up of Shadowbeasts, 1 Shadowcult altar, and fewer than 10 apprentices. There shouldn't be much to worry about.
**Markus**: The White Capes have around 40 fighters, but they are mostly morons who are only good at drinking and eating. There shouldn't be a problem.
**Markus**: And we have Player, Miles and our brothers.
**Markus**: We will surely win.
*Go back to Choices start*

**-Choice 2.3 - Anything we should know about this Hiss?**

**Markus**: Hmm... this Hiss, although he's a White Cape, he's quite a skilled fighter.
**Markus**: Just let me handle him.
**Markus**: One important thing.
**Markus**: Hiss spends most of his time in Crossport, he rarely leads any army.
**Markus**: If we miss this chance, it won't be easy to kill him next time!
*Go back to Choices start*

**-Choice 2.4 - What's the action plan?**

**Markus**: In terms of an action plan, Mordecai and Drake, any suggestion?
**Modercai**: (Takes a deep breath...)
**Modercai**: General, as a subordinate, if I may suggest.
**Markus**: Modercai, you are not my subordinate, and I am not your boss either.
**Markus**: Since you joined the Oathblades, we are all brothers!
**Markus**: Just speak your thoughts!
**Modercai**: General, the White Capes are large in numbers, they must need breaks during the march.
**Modercai**: We can ambush them where they rest and kill them all in one go!
**Drake**: I believe if the White Capes are to attack the Shadows, we should destroy the Shadows first.
**Drake**: And then we wait for the White Capes around the Shadow stronghold.
**Markus**: Player, what do you think?
*Choice 2.4.1 - Attack the White Capes first and then deal with the Shadows*
**Player**: We came for Hiss.
**Player**: If we let Hiss get away when we fight the Shadows
**Player**: It will be difficult to kill him later.
**Drake**: But, the Shadows do more harm to the locals, we should handle the Shadows first.
**Markus**: Player, good point.
**Markus**: We can't risk losing Hiss by attacking the Shadows.
**Markus**: If Hiss gets away, god knows how many more Gyees are going to suffer.
**Markus**: And since the Shadow stronghold is there already,
**Markus**: They are not going to move anytime soon.
**Markus**: We have sufficient time to take care of them.
**Markus**: Brothers!
**Markus**: Let the White Capes pay for their sins!
*Go to Part 3*
*Choice 2.4.2 - Attack the Shadows first, then deal with the White Capes*
**Markus**: I agree with you and Drake's point of view!
**Markus**: We will destroy the Shadows first and then wait for the White Capes!
**Markus**: Speed is the key to success in war! Follow me!
*Go to Part 2*
*Choice 2.4.3 - Wait till the White Capes and the Shadows have weakened each other.*
**Markus**: Yeah... take advantage of both sides?
**Markus**: Maybe this can minimize our losses, but it is not an honorable thing to do!
**Markus**: Brothers! Kill the Shadows first, then let's leave a surprise for the White Capes!
**Markus**: Speed is the key to success in war! Follow me!
*Go to Part 2*

**-Part 2**

*Markus, Player and Miles run off*
**Modercai**: General Markus is so cool!
**Drake**: Look at you, can't even talk properly in front of the general.
**Modercai**: Me? You thought I didn't see the slip in your pocket.
**Modercai**: Back then when we were drinking, that murmuring was probably you memorizing scripts.
**Drake**: Eh? I... I was just doing my preparation work!
**Drake**: The general is the hero of Never Isle, the one who can bring true freedom to the Gyees!
**Drake**: I will have no regret if I can fight honorably on the battlefield with the general!
**Drake**: Later in the battle, please don't act like just now!
**Modercai**: Don't worry, don't forget you've never won a fight against me!
**Drake**: Humph! I was just going easy...
**Miles**: What are you both still mumbling about? Can't you catch up?
*Drake and Modercai follow the rest of the group*
*Scene - Shadow stronghold*
*Shadowcult disciples are casting a spell*
*...*
*Outskirt of the Shadow stronghold.*
**Oathblades captain**: They set up arcana traps around the area...
**Oathblades captain**: They are easy to disarm, they won't be a threat...
**Markus**: There are not many Shadows, there's no need to make a big fuss.
**Markus**: Player, Miles, let's go and kill them all.
**Miles**: Finally I've got something to do, my gun's getting rusted!
**Markus**: You take the brothers to surround this place, don't let any Shadow escape!
**Oathblades captain**: Got it!
**Markus**: Miles!
**Miles**: What?
**Markus**: Do not underestimate your enemies!
**Miles**: Understood!
*Markus enters the Shadow stronghold*
**Shadowcult disciple**: You, how did you come in?
**Markus**: ...
*Markus cuts down the Shadowcult disciple*
**Shadowcult disciple**: Argh!
**Shadowcult priest**: Yo! Isn't this Markus? We should have had a nicer reception for you, sorry about that.
**Markus**: You know me?
**Shadowcult priest**: We Gyees from the Shadowcult have all heard about you.
**Shadowcult priest**: The great leader who fights for the survival and freedom of the Gyees.
**Shadowcult priest**: Who will liberate Gyees with an iron wrist and war...
*Markus attacks the Shadowcult priest with his Oathblade Combo*
**Markus**: You don't get to call me hero.
**Shadowcult priest**: You... the Shadowlord...
**Markus**: Go to hell!
*Later, after the Shadow have been defeated...*
**Markus**: This Shadow stronghold is easier than I thought.
**Markus**: Miles, bring some brothers to check this area with the flux detector.
**Markus**: They might try something funny.
**Markus**: Tell the surrounding brothers, go set up an ambush.
**Markus**: The White Capes are almost here!
*Farther away, a White Capes scout returns to his general*
**White Capes scout**: General, all the Shadows are dead here.
**Hiss**: What? How's that possible?
**Hiss**: I'll go have a look myself!
*The White Capes enter the Shadow stronghold*
**Hiss**: This!
**White Capes soldier**: Maybe our brothers killed them?
**Hiss**: Yes... not very likely.
*Markus surprises the White Capes*
**Markus**: Hey!
**Hiss**: !!!
**Hiss**: Blond hair and beard, patch over the left eye.
**Hiss**: You are Markus!
**Markus**: Sharp eyes.
**White Capes soldier**: Markus? The legendary Golden Lion?
**Markus**: Same old rules, soldiers of Hiss, if you drop your weapons and surrender, I will spare your lives.
**Hiss**: How dare you say such nonsense, you are all by yourself!
**Markus**: I can take on a lot more than you lot.
**Markus**: You still have my word. Drop your weapons, and I'll spare your lives.
**Hiss**: Warriors of the Sword of Light, whoever can bring me Markus' head.
**Hiss**: Gets one million gold coins as reward!
**White Capes soldier**: One million! Let's go! That's enough for our whole lifetime!
**White Capes soldier**: Get him!
*Two White Capes soldiers rush Markus*
**Markus**: It seems money is even more important than your lives.
*Markus cuts both of them down in one swipe*
**White Capes soldier**: Ugh!
**Markus**: The training standards of you White Capes are getting worse every year. I am not even sweating.
**White Capes soldier**: Ahhh... what a monster, let's run!
*A White Capes soldier begins to retreat but gets shot down*
*Miles, Player, and the rest of the Oathblades reveal themselves behind the White Cape troop*
**Markus**: I will never be alone.
**Hiss**: You monsters!
**Miles**: You are the damn monsters!
**Hiss**: Soldiers, this could be our last battle.
**Hiss**: In the name of the Holy Light, we will not surrender!
**Hiss**: For the Sword of Light!
*A battle ensues*
*Markus's troop manage to capture Hiss and two other White Capes soldiers*
**Markus**: This is your last chance, surrender!
**White Capes soldier**: Never! Yellow Eye.
**Markus**: ...
*Markus kills one of the White Capes soldiers*
**White Capes soldier**: Hmm...
**Markus**: What about you?
**White Capes soldier**: Ahh, boss, don't kill me! I surrender!
**Markus**: Good! Smart move.
**Markus**: Hand over your White Capes badge, then you can go.
**Markus**: If I see you with the White Capes again, I'll kill you.
**White Capes soldier**: Thank you, Yellow... Gyee general, thank you Gyee general!
*The White Capes soldier runs away*
**Hiss**: Humph! Coward!
**Markus**: And you, Hiss, you've done too many evil deeds, I shall take your life now!
**Hiss**: My evil deeds? Compared to you Markus, those were nothing!
**Hiss**: I bet your brothers don't even know what kind of person you really are.
**Markus**: Oh? So you know who I am?
**Hiss**: Do you dare let me tell your secrets here?
**Markus**: I can spare you a few more minutes, go on!
**Hiss**: Remember Moon Watch Hill?
**Markus**: !!
**Miles**: ?
**Hiss**: That day when you were chasing the escaping Sword of Light, they retreated to a village at Moon Watch Hill.
**Hiss**: Everyone in that village were faithful followers of the Holy Light.
**Miles**: Enough!

**-Choice 1.1 - (Let Hiss finish)**

**Markus**: Miles!
**Markus**: Let him finish!
**Hiss**: You surrounded the whole village, just like now!
**Hiss**: Make the villagers surrender and hand over the soldiers of Sword of Light.
**Hiss**: But the villagers refused to surrender so you ordered to have the entire village blown up.
**Hiss**: Everyone, men, women, children and the elderly, all died together with a dozen of Sword of Light.
**Drake**: !!
**Modercai**: !!
**Markus**: Have you finished?
**Hiss**: See for yourself what your hero really is! He is just a butcher!
**Hiss**: Kill all of us Sword of Light, and then what? Then he becomes a tyrant and rules over all of you. Is that what you want?
*Miles shoots down Hiss*
**Miles**: You've kept this scum alive for too long!
**Miles**: I disobeyed the general's order, I am willing to accept any punishment!
**Markus**: ...
**Miles**: Why did you let that White Cape talk so much?
**Markus**: Since he mentioned it, what he said was true.
**Markus**: So our brothers have the right to know the truth.
**Drake**: General! What that White Cape said was true?
**Markus**: It is true. Hiss didn't lie.
**Markus**: I ordered to have the entire village bombed.
**Markus**: No one survived in the village.

**-Choice 1.2 - (Stop Hiss from talking)**

**Player**: He might be trying to buy more time for their reinforcements to arrive...
*Miles shoots down Hiss*
**Miles**: I disobeyed the general's order, I am willing to accept any punishment!
**Markus**: ...
**Drake**: What actually happened in Moon Watch Hill?
**Miles**: Drake!
**Markus**: I had the village surrounded and asked the villagers to hand over the White Capes.
**Markus**: But they refused to surrender and would rather die with the White Capes.
**Markus**: So I ordered to have the entire village bombed.
**Markus**: No one survived in the village...
**Drake**: How come...
**Modercai**: !!
**Miles**: General, why would you say that?
**Markus**: Since Hiss mentioned it, what he said was true.
**Markus**: So our brothers have the right to know the truth.

*Conversation continues after choices*
**Drake**: Why, general?
**Modercai**: Calm down, Drake. I believe the general was forced to make that order.
**Drake**: But...
**Miles**: Drake, do you not trust our general?
**Miles**: Moon Watch Hill is a mountainous region with very difficult terrain.
**Miles**: The general did give them a chance to surrender back then!
**Miles**: But the mundane tried to fight against us with the White Capes using their farming tools!
**Miles**: If we had fought them head on, god knows how many of our brothers would have died!
**Miles**: That's why the general ordered to bomb the mundane!
**Drake**: But, the villagers were innocent.
**Drake**: There must have been another way!
**Drake**: There were elderly and children among them...
**Modercai**: Drake, calm down! When the White Capes killed our people...
**Modercai**: Did they spare our elderly and children?
**Modercai**: The Gyees in Crossport, men and women, children and the elderly, all were burnt to the stake once they were caught!
**Modercai**: And not just Crossport, Gyees in Red Harbor, River Bend Town, everywhere in Luxium.
**Modercai**: If so, then why should we have mercy on the mundane?
**Drake**: No one should have to suffer the pain of losing their families.
**Markus**: Enough, stop it!
**Markus**: Player, do you also think I am a butcher?

**-Choice 2.1 - (Condemn Markus' past actions)**

**Player**: I believe General Markus was considering battle damages at that time.
**Player**: In the end he chose to protect his own soldiers.
**Player**: But it's also true that a whole village of innocent people died because of this!
**Player**: It is indeed cruel to have the entire village bombed.
**Miles**: Player, don't you get involved!
**Markus**: Miles!
**Markus**: Truth is sometimes hard to take.
**Markus**: But the value of truth is far greater than a thousand good lies!
**Markus**: You're right! Bombing the whole village was not an honorable thing to do.
**Markus**: But, I don't regret it.
**Markus**: In my opinion, my soldiers' lives are the most important thing!
**Markus**: If I was given another chance, I would have made the same choice.
**Markus**: As long as I can bring freedom to my people, you can call me a butcher or a tyrant, I don't care!
**Markus**: Now, those who are still willing to follow me, let's celebrate today's victory!
**Markus**: Oathblades! We are undefeatable!
**Oathblades soldier**: Hoo-ha!
**Markus**: You take our brothers back to Never Isle first.
**Markus**: It's getting late today, make sure you have a victory celebration tomorrow!
**Markus**: Give our brothers a good feast!
**Oathblades captain**: Yes, sir!
**Markus**: Drake and Mordecai, please stay.
**Markus**: One who can only fight but cannot think is just a thug.
**Markus**: Only those who are strong and has principles are worthy to be a soldier!
**Markus**: Dare to speak your mind, stick to your beliefs.
**Markus**: You are both great soldiers!
**Markus**: It is my honor to have soldiers like you by my side.
**Drake**: ...
**Markus**: I am different from what you expected, am I not?
**Drake**: No, no, general...
**Markus**: Your expressions have already betrayed you!
**Drake**: Killing innocent people is really not a heroic behavior...
**Modercai**: What are you talking about?
**Markus**: Can we talk about this later, you guys follow me!
*Go to Part 6*

**-Choice 2.2 - (War comes with civilian casualties)**

**Player**: This is war...
**Player**: War is the same no matter which world you are in.
**Player**: It brings suffering to people, whether you are human or Gyee.
**Player**: This is the cost of war, so long as this cost can bring us victory.
**Player**: Then it is worth it!
**Drake**: So ordinary Gyees like us and ordinary human beings are just pawns?
**Modercai**: If I can contribute to the freedom of Gyees, I am willing to be a pawn!
**Markus**: You are not pawns! None of the Gyees will be pawns!!
**Markus**: Soldiers of Oathblades!
**Markus**: I am going to use the iron fist of war to create a future for Gyees!
**Markus**: As long as I can bring freedom to my people, you can call me a butcher or a tyrant, I don't care!
**Markus**: Those who don't agree with me, you are free to leave, but please forever remember the honor of being a Gyee!
**Markus**: Those who are willing to follow me, see me, Markus, as a brother...
**Markus**: Let's celebrate today's victory!
**Markus**: Oathblades! We are invincible!
**Oathblades soldier**: Hoo-ha!
**Markus**: All troops return to Never Isle!
**Oathblades captain**: Yes, sir!
**Markus**: Drake and Mordecai, please stay.
**Markus**: You are both great soldiers!
**Markus**: A real soldier doesn't just need to be strong and agile.
**Markus**: What's more important is that he has his own views and the courage to stick to his beliefs!
**Markus**: Miles, these soldiers have a very bright future!
**Drake**: General, if war brings suffering...
**Drake**: Does it mean that as long as we can end the war, we can end people's suffering?
**Markus**: Correct.
**Drake**: But, how can we end this war?
**Modercai**: Kill all the White Capes!
**Markus**: You guys, follow me!
*Go to Part 7*

**-Choice 2.3 - (There's no need to care about the lives of the mundane)**

**Player**: I don't think the general had done anything wrong.
**Player**: The mundane deserved to die!
**Markus**: So all the mundane should die?
**Markus**: Each life has its own value.
**Markus**: It is only because we chose different paths.
**Markus**: That one life has to take another life.
**Markus**: But there's not a single life that was born deserving to die!
**Markus**: Brothers who don't trust me, you are free to leave anytime.
**Markus**: The way ahead for the Oathblades will not always be so honorable.
**Markus**: Those who are still willing to see me as a brother.
**Markus**: Then follow me, let's create a future for the Gyees!
**Oathblades soldiers**: Follow the general until death!
**Markus**: Miles, today Oathblades had a total victory.
**Markus**: Let's have a celebration tomorrow! Treat our brothers to a feast!
**Miles**: Yes!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 2.4 - (Cannot answer, dodge question)**

**Player**: This...
**Player**: I think...
**Markus**: Haven't decided yet?
**Markus**: Or, you just don't want to offend me?
**Markus**: Oftentimes, the neutral party tends to offend everyone.
**Markus**: Player, have a good think about what brings you to the battlefield.
**Markus**: If you go to the battlefield without knowing, you could lose your life for nothing.
**Player**: ...
**Markus**: Anyway, the victory belongs to the Oathblades!
**Oathblades soldier**: Hoo-ha!
**Markus**: Return to Never Isle!
**Markus**: Drake, the same for you.
**Markus**: You have to be very clear why you are on the battlefield!
*Scene ends*

**-Part 3**

*Markus, Player and Miles run off*
**Modercai**: General Markus is so cool!
**Drake**: Look at you, can't even talk properly in front of the general.
**Modercai**: Me? You thought I didn't see the slip in your pocket.
**Modercai**: Back then when we were drinking, that murmuring was probably you memorizing scripts.
**Drake**: Eh? I... I was just doing my preparation work!
**Drake**: The general is the hero of Never Isle, the one who can bring true freedom to the Gyees!
**Drake**: I will have no regret if I can fight honorably on the battlefield with the general!
**Drake**: Later in the battle, please don't act like just now!
**Modercai**: Don't worry, don't forget you've never won a fight against me!
**Drake**: Humph! I was just going easy...
**Miles**: What are you both still mumbling about? Can't you catch up?
*Drake and Modercai follow the rest of the group*
*Scene - Deeper in the forest*
*Markus leads a group of six soldiers along with Miles and Player*
**Markus**: This place is perfect for a break, tell the guys to spread out.
**Markus**: We will lay an ambush here, beware of leaving traces, no big movements!
**Oathblades captain**: Got it!
*Later...*
*Hiss leads a troop of White Capes soldiers in the area Markus was at*
**Hiss**: All troops stop marching, let's take a short break here!
**White Capes soldier**: Yes! Great!
**White Capes soldier**: My legs are about to break!
**Hiss**: Stop whining!
**Hiss**: Team one patrol the surrounding area, team two go on guard!
**White Capes soldier**: Yes, sir!
*Behind a nearby tree...*
**Markus**: Our prey is here.
**Markus**: Take care not to be seen by the patrol.
**Markus**: Miles, you and I sneak up and take care those patrols.
**Miles**: Yeah!
**Markus**: Drake, Mordecai, Player, you guys stay here and watch them.
**Markus**: In a moment, wait for my signal!
*Drake nods.*
*The White Capes solders rest along with Hiss*
**Bodyguard A**: I heard the Shadowcult post we are attacking today is very close to your home?
**Bodyguard B**: Yeah, I've been worried these past few days...
**Bodyguard B**: My wife, kids and parents are all there.
**Bodyguard A**: Well, after today you'll be able to get a good night sleep.
**Bodyguard A**: We have General Hiss here, so we are winning for sure!
**Bodyguard B**: That's right, heard your wife's about to have a baby.
**Bodyguard A**: Heh heh, yeah it's happening soon.
**Bodyguard B**: Never thought someone as young as you could become a dad!
**Bodyguard A**: When that comes, you better teach me how to bring up kids.
**Bodyguard A**: I am just a big brute, I don't know anything.
**Bodyguard B**: I am useless too, my wife has always looked after everything, I can't even change a nappy.
**Bodyguard B**: You should ask General Hiss, his son can even buy him cigarettes now!
**Bodyguard A**: Oh yeah!
**Bodyguard A**: General, is there anything you can teach us brutes about bringing up kids?
**Hiss**: Hmm? No chit-chat when you are on duty!
**Bodyguard B**: Aren't we on a break?
**Bodyguard A**: Come on general, tell us.
**Hiss**: Being a father is all about integrity. Set an example for the kids.
**Hiss**: And work hard to make money, give your family a comfortable life.
**Hiss**: That's the responsibility of being a man!
**Bodyguard B**: Yeah! Wait till I get this month's pay check.
**Bodyguard B**: Then I can take my family to Crossport.
**Bodyguard A**: Yes, but that's not bringing up kids...
**Bodyguard A**: Unless general you didn't look after your kids either!
**Hiss**: Enough, do not lower your guard!
**Hiss**: If you are still intact after fighting those Shadows.
**Hiss**: Then we'll talk!
**Hiss**: The patrol team has been gone a while, why are they not back yet?
*Markus walks up to the White Capes*
**Markus**: Sorry, they are not coming back!
**Hiss**: !!!
*Markus raises his sword*
**Player**: That's the general's signal!
**Oathblades soldiers**: Get him!
**Hiss**: Enemy attack! Enemy attack!
*Markus's group defeats the White Capes and takes Hiss and two of his bodyguards captive*
**Markus**: You soldiers next to Hiss, surrender now, and I'll spare your lives!
**Hiss**: You damn Yellow Eyes!
**Hiss**: So you really are working with those Shadows!
**Hiss**: You will not get away with this!
**Drake**: What Shadow? We are not Shadows!
**Hiss**: Humph! Ambushing us on the way to attacking the Shadows.
**Hiss**: If you are not Shadows then what the hell is this?
**Drake**: That's because...
**Markus**: Drake! Don't let the enemies' words affect you!
**Markus**: Hiss, today you are going to pay for your sins!
**Hiss**: Markus! Do you dare fight in a duel with me?
**Markus**: Didn't think you would have the guts.
*Markus defeats Hiss with a deadly Bloodoath Combo*
**Bodyguard B**: General!
**Markus**: Any last words?
**Bodyguard B**: Yellow Eye... no, I mean Gyee general, please spare my life!
**Bodyguard B**: I have an 80 year old mother and a baby about to be born.
**Bodyguard B**: I can't die!
**Markus**: There is no room for cowards on the battlefield! You best remember that!
*Markus charges at the White Capes with sword raised.*

**-Choice 1.1 - (Stop Markus from killing the White Cape.)**

**Player**: Wait!
*Markus waved his sword.*
*The tip of his sword slashed the White Cape's belt, and the gear on his waist drops to the ground.*
**Markus**: Take off your gear, hand over your Holy Light badge, and go home!
**Markus**: If I see you with the White Capes again, I will kill you!
**Bodyguard B**: Thank you general! Thank you Gyee general!
*Bodyguard B runs away*
**Bodyguard A**: Humph, give it to me, Yellow Eye!
**Markus**: Hiss's warrior.
**Markus**: You have skills and have not lost your courage from start to finish.
**Markus**: I am impressed. If you can put aside our differences, then join me.
**Markus**: The Oathblades welcome you.
**Bodyguard A**: In your dreams, Yellow Eye!
**Bodyguard A**: I would rather die than join filth like you!
**Bodyguard A**: I would rather die than become the Shadows' dog!
**Bodyguard A**: Even if I die, I will be a soldier again in the next life!
**Markus**: Well... it is a pity you chose the White Capes...
**Markus**: If that is so... then I shall grant you your wish.
**Bodyguard A**: Sarah, Kelly... sorry...
*Markus kills Bodyguard A*
**Markus**: I will take care of those Shadows, rest in peace, soldier!
**Markus**: ...
**Drake**: Why did you kill him, he was not a threat to us anymore!
**Markus**: I gave him a chance, he made his own choice.
**Markus**: All units clean up the battlefield, the battle is not over yet!
*Go to Part 4*

**-Choice 1.2 - (Don't stop Markus killing the White Cape.)**

**Player**: ...
**Drake**: Wait a moment general!
**Drake**: This man is not a threat to us anymore!
**Drake**: Let him go please!
**Drake**: He has a family.
**Miles**: You little...
*Markus waved his hand signaling Miles to stop.*
*Markus waved his sword.*
*The tip of his sword slashed the White Cape's belt, and the gear on his waist drops to the ground.*
**Markus**: Take off your gear, hand over your Holy Light badge, and go home!
**Markus**: If I see you with the White Capes again, I will kill you!
**Bodyguard B**: Thank you general! Thank you Gyee general!
*Bodyguard B runs away*
**Markus**: Since he chose to surrender, I will not kill him.
**Markus**: But Drake, you must remember
**Markus**: On the battlefield, do not sympathize with your enemy!
**Drake**: ...
**Bodyguard A**: Humph, give it to me, Yellow Eye!
**Markus**: Yes! This is a warrior!
**Markus**: I am impressed. If you can put aside our differences, then join me.
**Markus**: I will treat you like a brother.
**Bodyguard A**: Shut up, just do it!
**Bodyguard A**: Even if I die, I will be a soldier again in the next life!
**Markus**: Well... such a shame.
**Markus**: But I respect your decision.
**Markus**: Any last words?
**Bodyguard A**: There is a Shadow post in the northeast direction. It was our original target.
**Bodyguard A**: If there is still any trace of a soldier's honor left in you.
**Bodyguard A**: Humph... what am I saying this for?
**Markus**: I promise you!
**Markus**: Don't worry, I will destroy those Shadows.
*Markus kills Bodyguard A*
**Drake**: ...
**Miles**: Drake! Concentrate!
**Miles**: The battle is not over yet.
**Markus**: Full speed ahead, all units to the Shadow base, kill them all!
**Markus**: Drake, your condition is no longer suitable for the battle ahead.
**Markus**: You will be responsible for surrounding the enemy, do not let them get away.
**Drake**: !!
**Drake**: Yes, sir!
**Markus**: Mordecai! You too go with him!
**Markus**: Look after your partner!
**Modercai**: Yes, sir!
*Go to Part 5*

**-Part 4**

*Scene - Shadow stronghold*
*Markus, Miles and Player stand victorious with an Oathblade captain, Modercai and Drake*
**Markus**: How many casualties?
**Oathblades captain**: 16 light wounds, 7 serious injuries, none of them are life-threatening.
**Markus**: Hurry and take them back to Never Isle for treatment!
**Oathblades captain**: Yes, sir!
*The Oathblades captain leaves*
**Miles**: You are injured too, kid. Aren't you usually quite strong?
**Modercai**: Heh heh, I was careless, got burnt by a little Shadowcult soldier.
**Modercai**: Don't worry, general! I am fine!
**Drake**: Mordecai was trying to protect me...
**Drake**: Back there... I... lost focus...
**Miles**: What happened?
**Markus**: What's on your mind?
**Drake**: I... the White Cape before...
**Drake**: The White Capes, they are just like us...
**Drake**: They just think we are the Shadows, so they fight against us.
**Modercai**: Huh? What are you saying?
**Drake**: They have families, and kids, and partners.
**Drake**: If we kill them, their kids will lose fathers, their women will lose husbands.
**Drake**: Just now, on the battlefield, I was thinking, what if I got killed.
**Drake**: My family, my friends, my partner, how would they feel...
**Modercai**: !!
**Drake**: No one should have to suffer the pain of losing their families.
**Drake**: And heroes should be trying to stop these things from happening.
**Modercai**: Drake, today we killed Hiss and destroyed a Shadowcult base.
**Modercai**: A lot of people are going to be saved because of this! Think about all those people we saved.
**Modercai**: Think about those of our comrades who will not have to suffer.
**Drake**: I know... but even then... I still...
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Player, what do you think?

**-Choice 1.1 - For sure, it was a little brutal.**

**Player**: Drake has a point.
**Player**: Even those despicable White Capes have families.
**Player**: And their families are innocent.
**Modercai**: But, that's just the way it is...
**Drake**: There has to be a way!
**Markus**: Hahaha!
**Markus**: Drake, seeing you reminds me of myself when I was young.
**Markus**: You guys come with me!
*Go to Part 6*

**-Choice 1.2 - Who cares about the mundane!**

**Miles**: Player, that's what I thought!
**Miles**: Why should we care so much?
**Miles**: The mundane brought it onto themselves!
**Markus**: Hmm...
**Markus**: But the mundane have feelings like us too.
**Markus**: What Drake said was right. No one should have to suffer the pain of losing a family.
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Miles, tell the brothers to prepare for the return!
**Markus**: Good job today!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.3 - This is the reality of war.**

**Player**: Making orphans and widows, splitting families. This is war.
**Player**: If you want to put an end to these kinds of tragedy, then end the war quickly.
**Drake**: End... the war?
**Markus**: Yes!
**Markus**: The day we win the war is the day the tragedies end.
**Markus**: For us, and also for the mundane.
**Markus**: Before this happens, we have no choice.
**Markus**: You guys, follow me!
*Go to Part 7*

**-Part 5**

*Scene - Shadow stronghold*
*Markus, Miles and Player stand victorious with an Oathblade captain and Modercai*
**Markus**: How many casualties?
**Oathblades captain**: 15 light wounds, 7 serious injuries, none of them are life-threatening.
**Markus**: Haha! Good! Good job brothers!
**Markus**: First lets take our injured brothers back to Never Isle for treatment.
**Oathblades captain**: Yes, sir!
*The Oathblades captain leaves*
**Markus**: Feel any difference between battle and training?
**Modercai**: Heh heh, general, it wasn't so hard.
**Modercai**: Some of the enemy were easier than fighting training robots.
**Markus**: Haha, you have a big mouth kid!
**Markus**: But remember! On the battlefield, do not underestimate your foe.
**Markus**: And Drake?
**Drake**: General, it was completely different from training...
**Drake**: In training we fight against dummies or robots.
**Drake**: On the battlefield we are fighting real living people.
**Drake**: Seeing lives being extinguished... their expressions, screams...
**Drake**: The White Capes... they are the same as us.
**Miles**: Huh? What are you saying?
**Markus**: ...
**Drake**: If we don't control flux and don't morph.
**Drake**: On the outside there is no difference between a mundane and a Gyee.
**Drake**: And just like us, they have families and friends, and partners.
**Drake**: If we kill them, their kids will lose fathers, their women will lose husbands.
**Drake**: No one should have to suffer the pain of losing their families.
**Modercai**: But they are White Capes, they are our enemy!
**Drake**: Even if they are our enemy... I am still...
**Markus**: Player, you're an experienced hero.
**Markus**: Give our recruits some advice.

**-Choice 1.1 - As a soldier, following orders is top priority**

**Player**: As a soldier, you must have faith in your general.
**Player**: If every soldier has an opinion.
**Player**: And hesitates to follow orders, then the army is just like a loose pile of sand.
**Player**: Let alone fight battles.
**Markus**: Player is right, but not completely.
**Markus**: Following orders is crucial of course.
**Markus**: But if you only follow orders, then you are nothing but a puppet.
**Markus**: Soldiers' thoughts are often the key to turning defeat into victory.
**Markus**: Drake, it is normal for you to be upset to see lives ending for the first time.
**Markus**: To be honest, I would feel bad too. Mordecai, you must have been uncomfortable as well.
**Modercai**: Yes! But then I thought, with every White Cape gone, more Gyees can be saved.
**Modercai**: Then I don't feel so bad.
**Markus**: We are all living, breathing human beings with feelings.
**Markus**: But we cannot stop moving forward because of this.
**Markus**: We have more important things to achieve.
**Drake**: I understand...
**Markus**: You and Mordecai both performed well in battle today.
**Markus**: In time you will become outstanding soldiers!
**Markus**: Prepare for the return! Remember to join our victory celebration tomorrow!
**Drake**: Yes, sir!
*Go to Part 8*

**-Choice 1.2 - The mundane deserve to die**

**Markus**: Yeah...
**Markus**: Every life is valuable.
**Markus**: For Gyees and also for the mundane.
**Markus**: We may be going up against the mundane.
**Markus**: But that doesn't mean they deserve to die!
**Markus**: Drake, it feels horrible to take a life for the first time.
**Markus**: Believe me, my first time was much worse than yours.
**Markus**: But, the freedom of our fellow Gyees must be built on the corpses of the White Capes.
**Markus**: This is the road we must take, we have no other option.
**Markus**: Take your time, you will understand.
**Markus**: You and Mordecai performed very well today. Get ready for the return.
**Markus**: Remember to come to the victory celebration tomorrow!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.3 - War is cruel, as a soldier this is something one has to understand.**

**Player**: There are two outcomes on the battlefield.
**Player**: You kill your enemy or your enemy kills you.
**Player**: If you want to live then you have to accept this fact.
**Player**: Because if your enemy is not dead then you are. Choose one.
**Player**: I am sure you have plenty of reasons to stay alive, and so does your enemy.
**Player**: So if you have any hesitation, the enemy will take that opportunity to kill you!
**Drake**: ...
**Markus**: Wow wow, Player, that was a little serious for new recruits.
**Markus**: But unfortunately, what he said was all true.
**Markus**: As a soldier, you have to know why you fight.
**Drake**: Then, as soon as the war ends, there won't be unnecessary killings.
**Modercai**: And not just end the war, we must win the war.
**Modercai**: Otherwise the White Capes will kill every single Gyee!
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: You guys come with me!
*Go to Part 7*

**-Part 6**

*Scene - Farther away from the Shadow stronghold*
*Markus stands with Player, Modercai and Drake*
**Markus**: You look over there.
*In the direction of Markus' finger you can see a brightly lit city.*
**Modercai**: Isn't that Crossport?
**Markus**: Correct!
**Markus**: Crossport, the main base of the White Capes.
**Markus**: If we want to win the war against the White Capes...
**Markus**: Then we must take down Crossport.
**Markus**: How should we capture Crossport strategically? What do you guys think?
**Modercai**: With the current conditions, capturing Crossport by force would lead to massive amount of casualties.
**Modercai**: We now have the factories in Red Harbor...
**Modercai**: So using the manufacturing power of the factories, we can build a fleet of airships.
**Modercai**: Then bombard Crossport with the airship fleet.
**Modercai**: That would be the most effective plan with the least battle damages.
**Markus**: But then, Crossport will be ruined.
**Drake**: There must be a way to capture Crossport without spilling blood!
**Markus**: Oh? So you have a plan?
**Drake**: That... well... I don't know...
**Drake**: But there must be a way!
**Markus**: Player, if it was you, how would you attack?

**-Choice 1.1 - (Infiltrate the city, be smart and attack both from the inside and outside.)**

**Player**: Although a peaceful capture of Crossport is not very likely.
**Player**: But there is still a way to minimize casualties.
**Markus**: Oh?
**Player**: Crossport has remained under White Capes' control for so many years, mainly because of the support of several powerful families.
**Player**: In return the White Capes would protect the assets of these big families.
**Player**: So the ordinary citizens of Crossport have suffered oppression for a long time...
**Player**: Convincing them to rebel would not be too hard.
**Player**: Also there must be a lot of Gyees in hiding in the city.
**Player**: So we just have to send someone to contact them and coordinate an attack...
**Player**: This can reduce our own casualties and also avoid clashing with civilians.
**Markus**: Player, you and I think alike.
**Drake**: This is a great idea!
**Drake**: Join forces with innocent civilians, unite local Gyees, that's the way of a hero!

**-Choice 1.2 - (Land and air combined force attack.)**

**Player**: We can use airships to raze the city walls...
**Player**: Then send in ground troops to eliminate the White Capes.
**Player**: This way we can preserve Crossport's infrastructures after the war.
**Markus**: Combined attack... this is a novel idea...
**Drake**: Then, what happens to Crossport's civilians?
**Modercai**: Yeah, the White Capes might disguise themselves as civilians.
**Modercai**: All they have to do is take off their capes, and we won't recognize them.
**Drake**: That's not what I meant!
**Markus**: That's not a big problem.
**Markus**: We can set up check points outside the city.
**Markus**: Search all the escaping mundane if we find anyone with weapons.
**Markus**: Then take them out!
**Drake**: How could we do something like that?
**Drake**: Heroes should be defending the innocent.

**-Choice 1.3 - (Point out the Order of Equality's view.)**

**Player**: There is a way to avoid spilling blood like Drake mentioned.
**Player**: But...
**Player**: Even if we take down Crossport, the barrier between human and Gyees won't disappear.
**Player**: Why don't we try to change the way humans see us.
**Player**: Help them accept Gyees.
**Markus**: Is this the Order of Equality's ideal?
**Drake**: That's right! That way we can avoid an unnecessary war!
**Modercai**: Those White Capes will never accept us!
**Modercai**: The mundane also will not accept us!
**Modercai**: Those cowards in the Order of Equality do nothing but sit and watch and indulge the White Capes.
**Markus**: Mordecai! Calm down!
**Modercai**: My family used to own a factory in Red Harbor. Mom and dad were average humans.
**Modercai**: They were a kind couple, and they employed Gyee workers.
**Modercai**: Give them jobs.
**Modercai**: They had Red Harbor's officials paid off to turn a blind eye.
**Modercai**: But it was found out by the competitors, who told the White Capes.
**Modercai**: The White Capes massacred everyone in the factory.
**Drake**: !!!
**Modercai**: Luckily the general and the Oathblades arrived on time.
**Modercai**: Rescued me and a few workers, but mom and dad were...
**Modercai**: Back then we were cooperating with the Order of Equality, but they did nothing.
**Modercai**: Those cowards in the Order didn't even lift a finger! They just sat and watched!
**Drake**: They must have their...
**Modercai**: Humph! I suspect that it was the Order of Equality who reported...
**Markus**: Do you have proof?
**Modercai**: Well... but I...
**Markus**: If you do not have proof, don't make assumptions!
**Markus**: Especially not accusations against fellow Gyees!
**Modercai**: Fellow Gyees? General, you see them as comrades?
**Modercai**: But have they ever seen us as comrades?
**Modercai**: They just know how to make more and more money.
**Modercai**: Who knows what they plan to do with all that money?
**Markus**: You should save this rage for the enemies!
**Markus**: And not here attacking your fellow Gyees!
**Markus**: Remember! It was the White Capes who killed your parents!
**Modercai**: ...
**Markus**: Not all comrades agree with our views...
**Markus**: But that doesn't make them our enemies!
**Markus**: No matter what, you need to separate comrades from enemies!
**Markus**: Remember our oath, eliminate all threats to the Gyees!
**Modercai**: Sorry, general, I... was wrong...
**Markus**: Kid! You were over the line.
**Markus**: You have been on Never Isle for a while now.
**Markus**: You must have heard something about the Battle of Azria.
**Markus**: Azria was the symbol of coexistence between humans and Gyees.
**Markus**: I won't go into details about how it all ended.
**Drake**: But no one wants to see unnecessary bloodshed.
**Markus**: The Order of Equality's methods may seem like they can avoid bloodshed.
**Markus**: But the lives that they saved are those of the mundane, and the lives that are sacrificed are our fellow Gyees!
**Markus**: Assimilation is too far away, there is no end in sight.
**Markus**: The destruction of Azria is already proof that humans will not tolerate us.
**Markus**: I cannot tell those guys in the Order of Equality what to think.
**Markus**: But I will not allow Never Isle to become the second Azria!
**Markus**: The sins of the mundane will be paid with their blood!
**Markus**: Otherwise, I cannot face my comrades who died in Azria, my brothers of Oathblades who sacrificed their lives.
**Markus**: Most of all I cannot face my living brothers who are following me and entrusted me with their lives!
**Player**: ...
**Player**: (The hatred between the ordinary humans and the Gyees is really not something that can be easily resolved.)
**Drake**: ...
**Drake**: General, I understand now!
**Drake**: I am a Gyee! That is my identity!
**Drake**: No matter how much I empathize with those innocent victims, I will always be loyal to my comrades!
**Drake**: I want to contribute to the future of the Gyees! I will always follow the general!
**Markus**: It is my honor, soldier!
**Markus**: It is getting late, we should head back!
**Markus**: Drake, Mordecai! From tomorrow on you don't need to go to recruit camp anymore!
**Drake & Modercai**: Yes, general!
*Scene ends*

*Conversation continues after choices*
**Markus**: Drake, seems like you really cared about the title of 'hero'.
**Drake**: Well... I... have always wanted to become a soldier, be a hero...
**Markus**: In your eyes, what kind of person is a hero?
**Drake**: Protect the innocent and fight evil, defend your comrades, courageous just like...
**Drake**: Like the general.
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Have you heard of 'The Crossport Massacre'.
**Modercai**: I know this!
**Modercai**: The story of Vice General Nemesio infiltrating Crossport and slaughtering White Capes with a team of several dozen brothers nine years ago!
**Markus**: Yes, but do you know why it is called a massacre?
**Markus**: That day, Nemesio and his team slaughtered 40 White Capes officers.
**Markus**: However, it led to widespread chaos with many innocent civilians dead.
**Modercai**: But general, you didn't know about this, it wasn't your order.
**Markus**: Still, every casualty that day was on me.
**Markus**: In other words, all those innocent people died because of me.
**Markus**: The important thing is, no matter how we take down Crossport.
**Markus**: The city will go into chaos, inevitably leading to many civilian casualties.
**Markus**: Countless people will die, families will be destroyed.
**Markus**: But, we will have our victory, and Gyees will be able to live freely in Luxium.
**Markus**: Our comrades will call us heroes, but ordinary humans will call us butchers.
**Drake**: ...
**Markus**: Can you still admire a hero like that?
**Drake**: I... I...
**Markus**: Don't you think I am just as bad as the Shadows?
**Markus**: Sure! Killing innocent people is just as evil as being a Shadow!
**Markus**: But if we, for the sake of defending the innocent...
**Markus**: Give up on taking Crossport...
**Markus**: Allow the mundane to keep discriminating and hurting our fellows.
**Markus**: Do you think this kind of justice makes one a hero?
**Drake**: ...
**Markus**: A hero doesn't only lead people to chase dreams and step into the future.
**Markus**: One must also bear the burdens of evil!
**Markus**: Soldiers, are you willing to follow and fight shoulder to shoulder with me, Markus?
**Drake**: I...
**Modercai**: Drake, why are you hesitating?
**Modercai**: Didn't we follow the general because we saw his deeds against the White Capes?
**Modercai**: The hero you have always admired is right here in front of you...
**Modercai**: The honor you are searching for is within your grasp.
**Drake**: But, I cannot forget the faces of those dying White Capes.
**Drake**: Those twisted expressions full of despair, helplessness, regret...
**Modercai**: Drake...
**Modercai**: General, I am willing to follow you until death!
**Markus**: Thank you, Mordecai. But not everyone has to walk the path of a soldier.
**Markus**: You are a good kid, Drake.
**Markus**: But on the battlefield, you either kill your enemy or they will kill you.
**Markus**: Drake, you need to think about what you are fighting for.
**Markus**: Going to the battlefield without this realization is not only going to cost you your life...
**Markus**: It may put your friends in danger!
**Markus**: Player, you pointed out before that my methods are brutal.
**Markus**: Then in this war, what is the meaning of good and evil to you?

**-Choice 2.1 - (Say I don't care about good or evil, right or wrong.)**

**Player**: In order to achieve my goal, I don't care about good or evil!
**Markus**: Oh? So you are someone who would achieve your own goal at any cost.
**Markus**: Well... then would you mind telling me what your goal is?
*All Choices - "That's my secret" OR "Complete charging the dice, and return to my original world" OR "Find my purpose in Luxium"*
*No additional dialog*
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Markus**: If that's the case, then let me give you some advice.
**Markus**: Even being unscrupulous has its limit.
**Markus**: Never betray your brothers.
**Markus**: Let's hope you will never have to stand against me on your way to achieving your goal...
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 2.2 - (History books are written by the victors.)**

**Player**: There may be good and evil in war.
**Player**: But history is dictated by the victors.
**Player**: The winning side will always go down in history as the righteous side.
**Player**: So talking about right or wrong in a war is meaningless.
**Player**: The victors will be the good, and the defeated will be forgotten in time.
**Modercai**: In other words, if the Shadows destroy us all, then they are the good side?
**Drake**: How... how could that be? They are the Shadows!
**Markus**: Therefore, the key to righteousness is victory!
**Player**: Correct!
**Player**: There will always be victims in war.
**Player**: Behind the rule of a mighty king there are countless vengeful spirits.
**Player**: But for the future of Gyees, they are all worth it!
**Player**: Our descendants will sing songs about our great achievements.
**Player**: No one will care about the thoughts of the slain.
**Markus**: Yeah...
**Markus**: Haha.
**Markus**: Hahahahahaha!
**Markus**: Well said!
**Markus**: Although it sounds a little extreme, even cruel.
**Markus**: But, I must say, brother you spoke the truth!
**Markus**: Player, who would've thought a young man like you...
**Markus**: Could speak such wise words. I am honored to have you as a friend!
**Drake**: Innocent people are just slain victims to you?
**Markus**: Drake, I know these facts must be hard for you to accept.
**Markus**: But maybe you don't need to accept everything!
**Markus**: Although I don't care much for becoming a king....
**Markus**: But the way forward for the Oathblades will be paved out of corpses.
**Markus**: If you cannot accept the Oathblades' ideology, then there are other offers more suitable for you.
**Markus**: Becoming a soldier is not the only option.
**Markus**: There is no pressure. I, Markus, will always be your brother!
**Drake**: General...
**Drake**: ...
**Drake**: I... am willing to follow the general! Until my last dying breath...
**Markus**: Then, I officially welcome you to the Oathblades!
**Markus**: It is getting late, we should head back!
**Markus**: Drake, Mordecai! From tomorrow on you don't need to go to recruit camp anymore!
**Drake & Modercai**: Yes, general!
*Go to Part 9*

**-Choice 2.3 - (Good and evil are just two sides of the same coin.)**

**Player**: There is no difference between good and evil. They have always been inseparable.
**Player**: Say we rescued a bunch of Gyees from execution by the White Capes.
**Player**: We killed all the White Capes and rescued all the Gyees.
**Player**: To the Gyees we just rescued, we are their saviors.
**Player**: But to the families of the White Capes we had just murdered, we are evil Yellow Eyes.
**Markus**: Haha, that's true.
**Markus**: I am guessing those White Capes soldiers we released.
**Markus**: Are still cursing at us right now.
**Drake**: In order words...
**Drake**: Are we all evil Yellow Eyes?
**Markus**: To the White Capes, we are.
**Markus**: Player is right, there is no absolute good or evil.
**Markus**: Just do what you believe is right in your heart.
**Drake**: ...
**Drake**: I understand, general!
**Drake**: I am willing to always follow you, my lord!
**Markus**: Gees! What's with this 'my lord' business.
**Markus**: Do not be so formal in front of me!
**Markus**: Haha, it is getting late, we should get back to the island!
*Go to Part 8*

**-Choice 2.4 - (One must have faith in the good even in a chaotic world.)**

**Player**: Although on the battlefield, you either kill or be killed.
**Player**: But I still have my own principles and limits!
**Player**: I will not break my own principles not matter what!
**Markus**: Yeah! You have integrity.
**Markus**: I like it!
**Markus**: Since you have your own set of values and principles, then you should persevere and follow them.
**Markus**: May your principles guide you through the challenges of life and lead you to your future!
**Player**: Thank you!
**Markus**: Drake, perhaps you admire me very much.
**Markus**: But I hope you can remain true to yourself!
**Markus**: And don't let your admiration affect your better judgement!
**Markus**: You are still young, and you still have a long path ahead.
**Markus**: You should choose a path you are willing to follow, one that is worth following your whole life.
**Drake**: General, I...
**Markus**: No need to reply right away.
**Markus**: It is getting late, we should head back.
*Go to Part 8*

**-Choice 2.5 - (Not interested in the Gyees' war.)**

**Markus**: Oh?
**Player**: I just want to complete charging my dice as quickly as possible, and get out of here.
**Markus**: Then, if the Shadows can help you go home, would you side with them?
**Player**: That's... I...
**Markus**: No need to answer, but you must know, kid!
**Markus**: As long as you are on Never Isle, there is no getting away from the Gyee's business!
*Scene ends*

**-Part 7**

*Scene - Farther away from the Shadow stronghold*
*Markus stands with Player, Modercai and Drake*
**Markus**: Look over here!
**Markus**: That is Crossport, the White Capes' main base.
**Markus**: If we take down Crossport, this war will be as good as over.
**Markus**: Now we have already captured Red Harbor.
**Markus**: With the factories of Red Harbor, the Oathblades can make a golden fleet.
**Markus**: Flatten Crossport!
**Modercai**: Great! We Gyees can finally live freely in Luxium!
**Drake**: But, that would... god knows how many people are going to die.
**Drake**: What if, what if we don't fight?
**Drake**: Just like the Order of Equality...
**Drake**: Earn acceptance through doing business with ordinary people!
**Modercai**: Drake, what are you saying?
**Modercai**: Those White Capes will never accept us!
**Modercai**: The mundane also will not accept us!
**Modercai**: Those cowards in the Order of Equality do nothing but sit and watch and indulge the White Capes.
**Markus**: Mordecai! Calm down!
**Modercai**: My family used to own a factory in Red Harbor. Mom and dad were ordinary humans.
**Modercai**: They were a kind couple, and they employed Gyee workers.
**Modercai**: Give them jobs.
**Modercai**: They had Red Harbor's officials paid off to turn a blind eye.
**Modercai**: But it was found out by the competitors, who told the White Capes.
**Modercai**: The White Capes massacred everyone in the factory.
**Modercai**: Luckily the general and the Oathblades arrived on time.
**Modercai**: Rescued me and a few workers, but mom and dad were...
**Modercai**: Back then we were cooperating with the Order of Equality, but they did nothing.
**Modercai**: Those cowards in the Order didn't even lift a finger! They just sat and watched!
**Modercai**: Humph! I suspect that it was the Order of Equality who reported...
**Markus**: Do you have proof?
**Modercai**: Well... but I...
**Markus**: If you do not have proof, don't make assumptions!
**Markus**: Especially not accusations against fellow Gyees!
**Modercai**: Fellow Gyees? General, you see them as comrades?
**Modercai**: But have they ever seen us as comrades?
**Modercai**: They just know how to make more and more money.
**Modercai**: Who knows what they plan to do with all that money?
**Markus**: You should save this rage for the enemies!
**Markus**: And not here attacking your fellow Gyees!
**Markus**: Remember! It was the White Capes who killed your parents!
**Modercai**: ...
**Markus**: Not all comrades agree with our views...
**Markus**: But that doesn't make them our enemies!
**Markus**: No matter what, you need to separate comrades from enemies!
**Markus**: Remember our oath, eliminate all threats to the Gyees!
**Drake**: General, then you also agree...
**Markus**: Kid, the Order's methods will not work!
**Markus**: You guys may not know much about Azria, so let me tell you.
**Markus**: Azria was founded along the middle reaches of the Elysian River. It was built around the light flux nexus.
**Markus**: Azria City welcomed people from all over Luxium to come and settle there.
**Markus**: And Azria had lower taxes than other cities.
**Markus**: That's why many ordinary humans came to Azria to live, work and do business.
**Markus**: In the beginning, the White Capes founder Loche would often bring his troops to attack Azria.
**Markus**: They got defeated by a united Gyee army.
**Markus**: After that, Azria enjoyed several decades of peace and prosperity.
**Markus**: Back then I really believed that humans and Gyees could coexist peacefully.
**Markus**: But one day Loche's grandson, Loche Junior, sneaked into Azria with the White Capes dressed as civilians.
**Markus**: They released the Shadows, and together with forces outside the city they attacked and captured Azria.
**Markus**: But the Shadows decided to corrupt the light flux nexus and then spread its corruption to the whole of Luxium.
**Markus**: My mentor Master Raymond and many Gyees chose to sacrifice themselves by blowing up flux towers to kill the enemies.
**Markus**: Azria became a ruin, countless Gyees who could not evacuate in time lost their lives.
**Drake**: But why did the White Capes decide to attack Azria again after decades?
**Markus**: Good question.
**Markus**: It was because we are Gyees, they hate us!
**Drake**: !!!
**Markus**: The mundane will always be jealous of our abilities.
**Markus**: Discrimination is ingrained in their bones!
**Markus**: If you had dreamed that we could coexist with the mundane then it is time to wake up!
**Markus**: Otherwise, the mundane will wake you up!
**Markus**: I don't care what those guys in the Order of Equality think.
**Markus**: But I will not allow history to repeat itself on Never Isle!
**Markus**: After hearing this, do you still want to coexist with the mundane?

**-Choice 1.1 - (Agree with Markus)**

**Player**: (The hatred between the ordinary humans and Gyees is really not something that can be easily resolved.)
**Player**: General Markus is right.
**Player**: History has given us a warning.
**Player**: If we don't learn from this lesson, history will simply repeat itself.
**Player**: And the Gyees cannot take another attack like that anymore.
**Drake**: But, there are so many humans and so few of us.
**Drake**: Even if we destroy the White Capes.
**Drake**: What if they form another organization?
**Modercai**: Then... we wipe out the mundane!
**Drake**: What?
**Markus**: Wiping out the mundane would be impossible!
**Markus**: But even so, we cannot do nothing!
**Markus**: The humans have discrimination ingrained in their bones.
**Markus**: That's why as a minority we must become a military threat to the mundane.
**Markus**: So they wouldn't dare make a move against us.
**Modercai**: Military threat?
**Markus**: Yes!
**Markus**: We first wipe out the White Capes, let the mundane see the result of opposing us...
**Markus**: At the same time we build a golden fleet of airships and gunboats.
**Markus**: Make the Oathblades the most powerful force in Luxium.
**Markus**: So the mundane wouldn't dare make a move against us.
**Markus**: Then we can consider doing business with them as equals.
**Markus**: And gradually change their opinions of us with time
**Markus**: Well, that's a long way down the line.
**Drake**: What if they form a Green Capes army?
**Markus**: Then we wipe them off the map!
**Drake**: Wipe...
**Markus**: Drake, you have a kind heart, just like me when I was young.
**Drake**: Gen... General!
**Markus**: But, take a look at me now.
**Markus**: Experience can change a person completely.
**Markus**: The White Capes, they have pushed my tolerance again and again.
**Drake**: But general, you still gave them a chance to surrender.
**Drake**: General, you are not a cold blooded person.
**Markus**: !!
**Markus**: In the future, you will understand!
**Markus**: Okay! It is getting late! Let's get back to Never Isle.
**Markus**: Drake, Modercai, from tomorrow on, you two don't have to go to recruit camp anymore.
**Markus**: Report to me directly, I will assign you to the main unit!
**Drake & Modercai**: Yes, general!
*Go to Part 9*

**-Choice 1.2 - (Violence alone is not the solution)**

**Player**: Yes, the White Capes are inexcusable, they must be destroyed!
**Player**: But after all, we Gyees are the minority, we will never kill off all the ordinary humans.
**Player**: And destroying the White Capes is not going to make humans hate us less.
**Player**: Once the White Capes are gone, what do we do if they form a Yellow Capes or Green Capes?
**Markus**: You're right! We can't kill all the ordinary humans.
**Markus**: I have never intended to wipe out all the ordinary humans.
**Markus**: But we can't just sit here and wait to be killed either.
**Markus**: You're right, the Gyees are a minority race.
**Markus**: There will always be mundane who discriminate against us and ostracize us.
**Markus**: The mundane, as the majority, can attack us whenever they want.
**Markus**: Which is why we Gyees must build our reputation in Luxium with force and influence.
**Markus**: So the mundane wouldn't dare make a move against us.
**Modercai**: So, without wiping them out and still stopping them from making moves against us?
**Modercai**: How can we do that?
**Markus**: Build the strongest army in Luxium!
**Markus**: Yellow Capes, Green Capes, whatever they are, as long as they show up.
**Markus**: We'll eliminate them!
**Markus**: When that day comes, then we can do business with the mundane as equals.
**Markus**: Then we will have plenty of time to change their opinions about us!
**Markus**: And the army that can intimate any opposition in Luxium...
**Markus**: Will be the Oathblades!
**Modercai**: So, I am joining the most powerful army in Luxium!
**Modercai**: That's awesome!
**Drake**: General, I think I understand now! I am a Gyee.
**Drake**: No matter how much I empathize with those innocent victims, I will always be loyal to my comrades!
**Drake**: I want to contribute to the future of the Gyees! I will always follow the general!
**Markus**: Haha, the Oathblades always welcomes soldiers like you!
**Markus**: It's getting late, let's head back to the island!
**Markus**: Take a rest, tomorrow make sure you come to the victory celebration!
*Go to Part 8*

**-Choice 1.3 - (Shadows are our common enemy)**

**Player**: The battle of Azria only showed us that the Shadows are our common enemy.
**Player**: We should put aside our differences and unite ourselves to destroy the Shadows!
**Markus**: Put aside our differences and destroy the Shadows?
**Markus**: Which part was I not clear about?
**Markus**: If we work together with the mundane, they are just going to stab us in the back!
**Markus**: Creatures like the mundane have no boundaries!
**Markus**: They worked with the Shadows for their own selfish goals and benefits!
**Markus**: That was what led to the destruction of Azria!
**Markus**: In other words, it was our trust in the mundane that led to Azria being destroyed!
**Markus**: In my opinion, there's no difference between the mundane and the Shadows.
**Markus**: The Shadows are indeed a big problem.
**Markus**: But this problem needs to be solved by the Gyees.
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: It's getting late, we should head back!
*Scene ends*

**-Part 8**

*Scene - Never Isle, during the night*
**Markus**: Player, I was supposed to buy you drinks.
**Markus**: I didn't expect it would be this late, I'm very sorry!
**Player**: General, you don't have to be so formal with me!
**Markus**: Ever since the battle of Azria, except for the brothers from the Oathblades...
**Markus**: You are the first friend that Miles made.
**Markus**: I can see why people from Never Isle speak so highly of you...
**Markus**: And why Miles admires you so much.
**Markus**: You are decisive when killing enemies, courageous, and you have your own principles and beliefs.
**Markus**: I think you know what kind of person I am already.
**Markus**: Player, do you want to join the Oathblades?
**Player**: Eh?
**Markus**: I know you came from a different world.
**Markus**: But, Miles, us Gyees and the Oathblades need your help!
**Player**: But...
**Markus**: Of course, I know that was an abrupt proposal.
**Markus**: But Player, I sincerely hope that you can consider it.
**Markus**: No matter what decision you make, I will support your decision.
**Player**: Thank you general for thinking highly of me, please give me some time to consider.
**Markus**: Hahaha, that's for sure!
**Markus**: The Oathblades will always leave the gate open for you!
**Markus**: I, Markus, will always be your brother!
*Scene ends*

**-Part 9**

*Scene - Never Isle, during the night*
**Markus**: Player, I was supposed to buy you drinks.
**Markus**: Without asking for your approval, I got you involved in the Oathblades' chores.
**Markus**: I am really sorry!
**Player**: General, you shouldn't say that. If I can ever help the Oathblades and help Never Isle,
**Player**: I would be happy to.
**Markus**: Before you rest, take a walk with me around the island.
**Player**: Of course!
*Scene - Fountain in front of the Never Isle garden*
**Markus**: I was thinking, after you finish charging the Az Artifact.
**Markus**: Will you go back to your original world?
**Player**: Why bring this up all of a sudden?
**Markus**: Haha, no reason! Just that I think you get along well with us Gyees.
**Markus**: It'll be great if you can stay.
**Markus**: But, don't let me affect your judgement.
**Markus**: Player, someone like you...
**Markus**: I'm sure you have a lot of friends and achievements in your original world.
**Markus**: What I want to say is, although you come from another world.
**Markus**: Never Isle is your home too!
**Markus**: If you don't feel like going back to your original world, then we'll welcome you home here!
**Player**: Haha, that's for later.
**Markus**: The Order of Equality, the territory of that old man Jonas.
**Markus**: Speaking of him, I haven't seen the old bastard for a while already.

**-Choice 1.1 - So, you are close with Jonas**

**Markus**: This...
**Markus**: Jonas, he handles matters in a sneaky and dishonest way and will betray his friends without a moment's hesitation.
**Markus**: That is something I really dislike!
**Markus**: But like me, this guy is also working very hard for the future of the Gyees.
**Markus**: You know me, I like to make friends.
**Markus**: Unfortunately there are too many differences in our beliefs, our meetings generally don't end well.
**Markus**: No matter what, we are all Gyees, so I thought we could still be friends.
**Markus**: So I would go over with kegs of wine inviting him to drink, but he'd never accepted once!
**Player**: Maybe, President Jonas just doesn't drink much alcohol?
**Markus**: Huh? Is... that so?
**Player**: I am just guessing...
**Markus**: But, Jonas is very smart...
**Markus**: No one could tell what that mastermind is thinking.
**Markus**: But even if we do, we probably won't understand.
**Player**: The Oathblades and the Order of Equality...

**-Choice 1.1.1 - If the Order of Equality becomes your enemy, what would you do?**

**Markus**: Enemy?
**Markus**: Yeah...
**Markus**: Do you think so too?
**Player**: Too?
**Markus**: Many brothers in the Oathblades believe there would be a war between us.
**Markus**: But...
**Markus**: The Oathblades and the Order of Equality are both Gyee organizations.
**Markus**: If we fight each other on the battlefield,
**Markus**: It means that Never Isle, or even the Gyees as a whole, has fallen apart.
**Player**: I... I was just saying what-if.
**Markus**: Don't stress! I understand what you meant.
**Markus**: The Oathblades and the Order of Equality would never fight each other!
**Markus**: Even if we hold different beliefs, we are still the same people, we are brothers!
**Markus**: Although... if the Order of Equality really wants to start a fight with us.
**Markus**: Then I'll go and rip off Jonas' gown, then pull out all his hair!
**Markus**: See if he dares to pick a fight with us!
**Player**: Eh?
**Player**: Hahaha!
**Player**: Then you should be careful of your cape.
**Player**: Jonas is not going to stand there and let you do whatever you want!
**Markus**: Haha, I knew it!
**Markus**: I'm going to rip off his gown naked, see what he can come up with!
**Markus**: Hahahahaha!
**Markus**: Player, you should take a rest!
**Markus**: Staying up isn't good for your health!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.1.2 - After you win the war, what would you do?**

**Markus**: After winning the war?
**Player**: Yes, the Oathblades have now taken control of Red Harbor.
**Player**: The Light of Purity has always used Elysiann as their stronghold.
**Player**: Gyees own Never Isle.
**Player**: Gyees have basically taken control of half of Luxium.
**Player**: It's just a matter of time before you destroy the Shadows and the White Capes.
**Markus**: ...
**Player**: And Markus, you are going to be in the history books as a Gyee Hero!
**Player**: So, after the Gyees win the war, what would the general do?
*All Choices - "Rule the world as king?" OR "Keep leading the Oathblades to protect the Gyees?" OR "Become a hermit and enjoy life?"*
*No additional dialog*
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Markus**: Actually I have never thought about this.
**Player**: Eh?
**Markus**: A warrior spends his entire life looking for the battle that will bring an end to his own life.
**Markus**: Dying in the battlefield is a soldier's final glory.
**Markus**: The same goes for me.
**Player**: Eh?
**Markus**: You're right, maybe we have taken control of half of Luxium.
**Markus**: But this war is not going to end so easily.
**Player**: Why?
**Markus**: I just have a feeling.
**Markus**: And being part of the history books, that's the last thing in my mind!
**Player**: So, general, the reason you fight is simply...
**Markus**: For Gyees to live freely in Luxium, without being discriminated.
**Markus**: Even if I can't witness that day with my own eyes...
**Markus**: I must pave the way for that day to happen.
**Markus**: Only by doing that, I can face Master Raymond in the afterlife...
**Player**: But ... but Markus you are the hero to the Gyees, have you never thought of...
**Markus**: I have never been interested in being a hero.
**Markus**: I act like a hero in front of my people just because I want them to worship me.
**Markus**: To take me as an example, become someone that dares to love and hate, become a brave and free hero!
**Markus**: Only by doing that can the prosperity that our generation created last forever.
**Player**: !!!
**Markus**: Hahaha, look at you, is it really so surprising to you?
**Player**: I... I mean, Markus don't you have any personal desire?
**Markus**: Of course I do, I like boasting, drinking, fighting with my brothers!
**Markus**: Reading military tactics! Getting sweaty on the battlefield! Looking for strong opponents to battle!
**Markus**: Of course, eating authentic northern desert roast beef!
**Markus**: Training everyday in the morning! Relaxing in a hot spring when I'm tired!
**Markus**: There are so many things that I like! I can't even tell you all of them in one sitting!
**Markus**: Haha, it's getting late, staying up is not good for your health!
*Markus and Player walk to Markus's home entrance*
**Markus**: Well, this is my home! I need a comfortable bath after an exhausting day.
**Markus**: How about it? Wanna join me?
**Player**: Eh? Eh?
**Markus**: Hahahaha! I'm just joking!
**Markus**: I'm sure you already have someone that you can take a bath with.
**Markus**: Player, let's drink together next time!
*Go to Part 10*

**-Choice 1.1.3 - You are like the 2 sides of a coin**

**Player**: The Oathblades and the Order of Equality are like 2 sides of a coin.
**Player**: And Never Isle is this coin.
**Player**: It needs both sides!
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Vice general Nemesio said something like that before he left.
**Markus**: The Oathblades' soldiers, the Order of Equality's money, the arcana from Arcana Academy.
**Markus**: In order to revive the Gyees, we need all of these three things...
**Player**: To be honest, the relationship between the Oathblades and the Order of Equality is a little bit like Eddie and Miles!
**Markus**: Hahaha! That's one accurate analogy!
**Markus**: You fight every time you meet, you like to make fun of each other's shortcomings.
**Player**: But in reality, they are inseparable like brothers!
**Markus**: Eddie and Miles are the symbol of the younger generation on Never Isle.
**Markus**: Player, in your opinion, can I trust Miles with the Oathblades?
**Player**: This...
**Markus**: You can be honest with me!
*Choice 1.1.3.1 - Yes, you can trust Miles with the Oathblades!*
**Player**: Miles has a very good reputation among the Oathblades.
**Player**: If you let Miles lead the Oathblades in the future, the soldiers would trust him.
**Player**: And, Miles is brave and determined, a talented fighter...
**Player**: Just like you, Markus!
**Markus**: Hahaha, yes! He's like me!
**Markus**: If I let him lead the Oathblades, I'm sure he'll beat the hell out of the mundane!
**Markus**: Hahaha! It's getting late!
**Markus**: Staying up does no good to your health, take a rest!
*Scene ends*
*Choice 1.1.3.2 - No, you can't trust Miles with the Oathblades!*
**Markus**: Oh?
**Player**: Although Miles has a very good reputation in the army...
**Player**: And he's also brave and decisive just like you...
**Player**: But he's too impulsive and holds too much hatred against the mundane.
**Player**: It doesn't seem right to let him lead the Oathblades.
**Markus**: You and I have the same concerns.
**Markus**: Miles is an excellent fighter, but not a good leader.
**Markus**: I don't blame him though, he's young and reckless!
**Markus**: I'm going to make him read more, nurture his maturity when I return.
**Player**: Miles? Reading?
**Player**: Hahaha, I can already see his face, hahaha...
**Markus**: He has to, whether he wants to or not!
**Markus**: For a soldier to move to the next level,
**Markus**: It's not enough to just know how to shoot at the enemies, he must have tactics!
**Player**: Then I'll wish him good luck!
**Markus**: Hahaha! It's getting late!
**Markus**: Staying up does no good to your health, take a rest!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.2 - Old bastard? Sounds like you two aren't on very good terms...**

**Markus**: I can't say our relationship is bad...
**Markus**: We are both dedicated to fighting for the future of the Gyees.
**Markus**: That's something we have in common, but other than that...
**Markus**: I don't share anything in common with Jonas...
**Markus**: No matter what, I thought we were both Gyees and we should be able to be friends.
**Markus**: So I would go over with kegs of wine inviting him to drink, but he'd never accepted once!
**Markus**: Maybe our relationship is really not so good...
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Could there be a war between the Order of Equality and the Oathblades?
**Markus**: ... that day, would never come!
*Scene ends*

**-Part 10**

*Scene - Never Isle dock*
*One month later...*
*Player walks by the Oathblades Headquarters*
**Modercai**: Hey! Player!
**Player**: Mordecai! What are you up to? Is Drake not with you?
*There's a gloominess in Mordecai's eyes*
**Modercai**: Ah... we joined the official army of the Oathblades, training everyday!
**Modercai**: There's a letter here, the general asked me to hand it to you.
**Player**: General Markus?
**Modercai**: Yes!
**Modercai**: Letter delivered, I will leave you to it.
*Modercai walks away*
**Player**: A letter from General Markus? Let me open it.
**Markus**: 'Player, it's been a while, I miss you.'
**Markus**: 'Tonight, I'll buy you drinks, this is the location.'
**Player**: This location...
**Player**: In the forest again.
*Scene - A graveyard at night*
*Markus stands in front of a tombstone, an Oathblade sword driven into a neatly carved stone and decorated with a wreath of flowers*
*More tombstones just like it surrounds Markus*
**Player**: Ah, sorry I'm late again...
**Player**: This place is even more difficult to find than the last one.
**Player**: 3 drinks! As punishment!
**Markus**: Player? How did you find this place?
**Player**: Eh? Didn't you send me a letter asking me to come here? Said you wanted to buy me drinks...
**Markus**: Letter? Drinks?
**Markus**: (In low voice) That Mordecai, doing stupid things...
**Markus**: Argh! Player, look at my wrecked brain, I completely forgot.
**Player**: !!
**Player**: This is?
**Markus**: ...
*Markus takes a big sip of wine from the flask.*
**Markus**: Sorry, I didn't bring any good wine today. I've got a flask of my usual drink.
**Markus**: If you don't mind...

**-Choice 1.1 - Take Markus' flask**

**Player**: Oh, thanks.
*You open the flask, unleashing the fragrance of the wine.*
**Player**: This is Lonely Desert! General is from the north?
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: I'm Elysiann, but I like the taste of Lonely Desert.
**Markus**: ...
*Markus faces a tomb, looks gloomy.*
*Markus lifts his head and takes another big sip of wine.*
*You saw the inscription on the tomb stone from the side.*
**Player**: !!
**Player**: Drake!! Him!
**Markus**: Yeah...
**Markus**: Last night, we assaulted a stronghold of the White Capes.
**Markus**: He died...
**Player**: How... how come?
**Markus**: Player, I'm sorry, but can you give me some alone time?

**-Choice 1.1.1 - (Markus looks sad, I'll keep him company)**

**Player**: Sure... sure!
*Player steps back*
*Markus looks at Drake's tombstone, doesn't say a word...*
*After a long while...*
*Markus raises his face and takes a sip of wine*

**-Choice 1.1.1.1 - Comfort Markus**

*Player walks up to Markus*
**Player**: General Markus, my condolences, please stay strong.
**Markus**: ...
**Player**: The dead cannot be revived, general, please take care of yourself.
**Markus**: ...
**Player**: I'm sure Drake wouldn't want to see general like this...
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Player, you are right.
**Markus**: Let's head back.
*Markus puts the flask on the tomb stone...*
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.1.1.2 - Don't bother him for now**

*Some time later...*
*Markus lifts his face to take another sip but paused.*
*Judging from his face, he's running out of wine...*

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.1 - You hand your own wine pot to Markus**

*Player walks up to Markus*
*You hand your flask to Markus.*
**Markus**: !
**Markus**: Thank you!
*Markus lowers his head and looks at the flask.*
*And hands it back to you*
**Markus**: This is the wine I promised to give you, keep it!
**Player**: I think you need it more than I do!
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: I owe you this wine.
*Markus lifts his face and takes a big mouthful...*
**Markus**: I didn't think you could find this place.
**Player**: So, this is...
**Markus**: This is 'the glorious land of eternal slumber', the cemetery for us Oathblades.
**Markus**: Everyone who lies here were brave soldiers. They are all my brothers.
**Markus**: Come! Let me introduce you!

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.1.1 - Eh? Eh? That sounds creepy...**

**Player**: I know...
**Player**: Eh, it's late at night, it's kinda scary...
**Markus**: Is it?
*Markus turns back to the tombstone*
**Markus**: Okay, I won't force you.
**Markus**: I just never thought the soldiers who are lying here, who sacrificed themselves...
**Markus**: Couldn't even get some respect from people...
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.1.2 - Sure! It's my honor!**

**Markus**: ...
*Markus shows Player more tombstones*
**Markus**: Sator who is lying here is a passionate young man from Elysiann.
**Markus**: He was killed by the Shadows in his last battle at Red Harbor forest.
**Markus**: This is Molly, one of the few girls in the Oathblades.
**Markus**: Who loved to do arm wrestling with the boys...
**Markus**: In a mission to rescue Gyees, she died from protecting our own people.
**Markus**: This...
**Markus**: There are just too many soldiers lying here. Even two days won't be enough for me to talk about them.
**Player**: Markus, you remember the names of every one!
**Markus**: These soldiers lost their lives for the Oathblades...
**Markus**: What I do is just remembering their names...
**Markus**: They joined the Oathblades because they trusted me, followed me.
**Markus**: But I didn't protect them well enough.
**Markus**: If I could...
**Markus**: I am willing to give my everything, my life in exchange for the lives of these soldiers who died in a foreign land!

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.1.2.1 - The Markus that Drake admires doesn't blame and pity himself in front of a tomb!**

**Player**: Not just Drake...
**Player**: None of the soldiers here would want to see their General Markus like this!
**Player**: The one whom they worshiped, they gave their vows to at the Ruins of Azria...
**Player**: The one who inspired hope when they were in despair...
**Player**: The Oathblades general who can lead the Gyees towards victory!!
**Markus**: Worship?
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: The kid lost his life because he worshiped me.
**Markus**: He couldn't accept the path of the Oathblades.
**Markus**: If I had had another chance, I would have asked him to leave the Oathblades.
**Markus**: If I had let him go that day, or if I had just expelled him...
**Markus**: Today...
**Markus**: Today... he wouldn't have been lying here!
**Markus**: But that day, I kept him in the Oathblades...
**Markus**: One who does not have a clear mind will lose his life on the battlefield!
**Markus**: I knew it so clearly but I didn't stop him!
**Player**: But, why would you say that?
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: I saw my younger self in this kid.
**Player**: !!!
**Markus**: When I was young, in one battle, my partner died...
**Markus**: Since then I had been afraid of blood, afraid of death
**Markus**: Back then Master Raymond didn't want to see me drown in sorrow like that.
**Markus**: He kept me in the army and guided me the whole time.
**Markus**: If it weren't because of Master Raymond, I could not have possibly lived until today.
**Markus**: So when I saw Drake, his outstanding physique, his kind heart.
**Markus**: It was like looking into a mirror, it was me in the past in that mirror.
**Markus**: A strange sense of responsibility grew on me at that very moment....
**Markus**: I wanted to be his Master Raymond, guide him until he finds his own way!
**Markus**: But in the end, not only did I not guide him correctly...
**Markus**: I sent him on a path with no combing back...

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.1.2.1.1 - I don't think Drake would have regretted it!**

**Player**: I overheard the conversation between Drake and Modercai the other day when we were having a drink.
**Player**: Drake said...
**Player**: If he could receive glory with General Markus on the battlefield...
**Player**: Then he would die without any regrets!
**Markus**: Sigh...
**Markus**: Silly boy!
**Markus**: No regrets for them just to fight together with me?
**Player**: Being able to spend day and night with someone that you worship, fight together.
**Player**: Even for just one day it is a wonderful thing.
**Player**: I think that's how you feel about Raymond.
**Markus**: !!
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Back then, when I was young and arrogant, I felt working for Raymond was...
**Player**: ...no regrets?
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: You got me.
*Markus takes out the flask and finishes the wine in one go*
**Markus**: Drake! You silly boy!
**Markus**: I promise you! I'll end this war with my own hands!
**Markus**: Player, remember what Drake once said.
**Markus**: No one should have to suffer the pain of losing their families.
**Player**: Yeah, and?
**Markus**: I said the exact same thing before...
**Markus**: Even today, I still believe that.
**Player**: !!
**Markus**: I have never liked killing...
**Markus**: But the only way to end killing...
**Markus**: Is killing...
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.1.2.1.2 - I believe Drake already understood what it means to be a soldier!**

**Player**: I don't think you misled Drake.
**Player**: He'd already found his way.
**Player**: He'd found the meaning of being a soldier.
**Player**: He was willing to fight for the Gyees' freedom and future!
**Markus**: Is that so?
**Markus**: Yesterday, a defeated White Cape begged for mercy in front of Drake.
**Markus**: He had gone soft...
**Markus**: He didn't notice the enemies behind his back and as a result, he lost his life...
**Markus**: For soldiers, it's an honor to die on the battlefield!
**Markus**: But Drake, he wasn't fully aware of what being a soldier means,
**Markus**: But he already received this inappropriate honor too early too soon!
**Player**: ...
**Markus**: You were not here yesterday, of course you wouldn't know.
**Markus**: Hmm... looks like there's no drinks for today.
**Markus**: Let's go back! Tomorrow is another day!
**Markus**: There's a new battle waiting for us!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.1.2.2 - Get yourself together, this is not the time to be miserable**

**Player**: Markus, you need to pull yourself together.
**Player**: Not just the Oathblades, Never Isle and all the Gyees need you!
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: You are worried that I would just go down like this?
**Markus**: Don't you worry!
**Markus**: I'm not that fragile.
**Markus**: When the sun comes up tomorrow morning, I will still be the same old Markus!
**Markus**: Every time when a soldier dies, I would come here by myself.
**Markus**: Drink the last time with them.
**Markus**: Just that tonight, I am not the only one to drink with Drake.
**Markus**: There's still a long way ahead for the Oathblades!
**Markus**: I cannot fall down just like this!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.1.2.3 - These soldiers made their own choices, they are all heroes**

**Player**: They had made up their mind before they went on the battlefield.
**Player**: They are all heroes.
**Markus**: Indeed. They are all heroes...
**Markus**: For soldiers, it's an honor to die on the battlefield!
**Markus**: That's why this place is called 'the glorious land of eternal slumber'.
**Markus**: One day, I will join them.
**Markus**: Join them in their eternal slumber.
**Markus**: When that time comes, will you come and have one last drink with me?
**Player**: Huh? Markus, what are you talking about...
**Markus**: ...
**Markus**: Argh! I just realized, I owe you 2 rounds of drinks now!
**Markus**: That's not good!
**Markus**: Go! Let's go back to Never Isle! I know a place!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.1.1.2.2 - Don't bother Markus**

*Markus takes the flask*
**Markus**: I'm sorry to keep you waiting...
**Markus**: Since I promised to buy you drinks, I can't break my promise!
**Markus**: When we are back on Never Isle, let me show you my collection!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.1.2 - (Markus needs some time alone, I'll leave)**

**Player**: Then, general, I'd better head back.
**Player**: If you need anything, let me know! We are brothers!
**Markus**: Yeah! I'll buy you drinks another day!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice 1.2 - Take out your own drinks**

**Player**: Oh thanks, but I brought my own drinks.
**Markus**: Oh...
**Player**: ...
**Player**: (Did something happen?)
*After a long time*
**Markus**: Player, I'm sorry, I'm not at my best today.
**Markus**: I'll buy you drinks some other day, please go back first.
*Scene ends*

## Audio

*Note: Skins will use the audio from the basic skin unless indicated otherwise.*

### Markus's Default Skin

* **Butler Interactions**
	+ Before Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *It's been years, yet this wound still hurts...*
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		- **Torso**: *Hmm, not a bad ship. How about a hundred more cannons?*
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		- **Waist**: *I know what you're doing. Keep it to yourself boy !*
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	+ After reaching Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *How much longer until the Gyees can live freely?*
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		- **Torso**: *I don't know why, but drinking here always reminds me of Azria's glorious.*
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		- **Waist**: *Don't rush, boy ! I'm afraid you won't be able to finish.*
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* **Skills**
	+ **Basic**: *Weakling!*
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	+ **Advanced**: *\*shouts\**
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	+ **Ultimate**: *Bastards! Bring it on!*
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* **Arrival**: *Conquest and power. For the future of the GYEES!*
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* **Display Voice 1**: *I can see better with one eye than those with two eyes.*
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* **Display Voice 2**: *I rather go into the battle shirtless, but my brothers disagree.*
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* **Display Voice 3**: *Drink like you've never been drunk. Fight like you've never lost!*
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* **Hit**: *Duagh!*
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* **Dying**: *The rest... is yours.*
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### Markus's Rainbow Skin

* **Butler Interactions**
	+ Before Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *En? Anything to report?*
		    ENG File:ENG 301 audio emo cp markus 1 head 1 spring.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 audio emo cp markus 1 head 1 spring.ogg
		- **Torso**: *Hey lad, heard you're a good drinker!*
		    ENG File:ENG 301 audio emo cp markus 1 chest 1 spring.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 audio emo cp markus 1 chest 1 spring.ogg
		- **Waist**: *Clothers? Cast them away!*
		    ENG File:ENG 301 audio emo cp markus 1 belly 1 spring.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 audio emo cp markus 1 belly 1 spring.ogg
	+ After reaching Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *Last time was not enough! Have another round tonigh!*
		    ENG File:ENG 301 audio emo cp markus 2 head 1 spring.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 audio emo cp markus 2 head 1 spring.ogg
		- **Torso**: *Me, you can depend on!*
		    ENG File:ENG 301 audio emo cp markus 2 chest 1 spring.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 audio emo cp markus 2 chest 1 spring.ogg
		- **Waist**: *Hum? Wanna taste tribe's... man power?*
		    ENG File:ENG 301 audio emo cp markus 2 belly 1 spring.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 audio emo cp markus 2 belly 1 spring.ogg
* **Skills**
	+ **Advanced**:
	    ENG File:ENG 301 cp markus skill 2 spring audio RS.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 cp markus skill 2 spring audio RS.ogg
	+ **Ultimate**:
	    ENG File:ENG 301 cp markus skill 3 spring audio RS.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 cp markus skill 3 spring audio RS.ogg

* **Arrival**:
    ENG File:ENG 301 cp markus appear spring audio RS.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 cp markus appear spring audio RS.ogg
* **Display Voice 1**:
    ENG File:ENG 301 cp markus interact 1 spring audio RS.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 cp markus interact 1 spring audio RS.ogg
* **Display Voice 2**:
    ENG File:ENG 301 cp markus interact 2 spring audio RS.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 cp markus interact 2 spring audio RS.ogg
* **Display Voice 3**:
    ENG File:ENG 301 cp markus interact 3 spring audio RS.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 cp markus interact 3 spring audio RS.ogg
* **Dying**:
    ENG File:ENG 301 cp markus die spring audio RS.ogg    CN     JP File:JP 301 cp markus die spring audio RS.ogg