One Way

> *"I think this is the best animation I've ever created. I would call it the benchmark to which I should aspire.."*
>
> *― **GenVera** in conversation with **Alex\_Clark**.*

## One Way

### Writer

GenVera, Alex\_Clark &  GenVera Prod.Team

## Episode guide

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Defeat the Night (Canon)
Where We Started (Not canon)

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Believe

**One Way** is the fourth episode of the 1st Season of the *GenVera's Universe* series. It uses the Blacklite District's song of the same name.

One Way tells a story that takes us to a new location, the city of Argar. This city has been cursed since the First Nether War, and is therefore abandoned and uninhabited. However, it sits at the intersection of the three territories of the Leaders of 4 Unions, which is considered a rather important strategic point in the war that has long been occupied by Nether's forces.

After winning the battle for the local city of Dolonwan, which turned out to be a defeat on a large-scale front, the Leaserd of 4 Unions plan to retaliate by gathering their troops to strike at this strategic point.

## Synopsis

After another defeat, the Heads of the four races will have to work hard to reclaim one of the main territories under the control of Nether's army, which could help them withstand the onslaught of the enemy.

## Plot

The video begins with a demonstration of the location of Limbo, where the Leaders of the 4 Unions hold a Council, a week after the evening's Battle of Dolonwan.

The Leaders discuss a future plan of action to help them win the war, but face a number of problems: the ancestral magic is slowly weakening, and to fight the Nether Pyromancers they need those with aquatic powers, which are rarely studied in the current generation of mages. Gen offers to use one of the strongest Dragons of the End world in combat, to which Enderina replies that the dragon's flame cannot harm a fiery creature.

Enderina nominates a candidate, Alex Clark, who could help with this problem, since he possesses The magic of Cold Fire, an ability that combines Pyromancy, Aquamancy, and Cryomancy, which could deal with enemy pyromancers. He was last seen in Kemsat-City, and by some fluke, after a massacre there, arrived in Dolonwan, in a place with the surviving townsfolk, soon after which he participated in a battle for that city as well, where he was badly wounded and went to the medical wards.

However, although he has magical powers, he has never been a member of a coven of mages, much less trained in magic, so Lordes decides to travel to the capital of his faction to procure a magical catalyst in order to awaken his powers, which were thus acquired under mysterious circumstances.

The Council decides to launch an attack on one of the abandoned cities, which has been overrun by Nether's army, and begins military preparations. The Leaders of the 4 Unions go to their cities, and bring out a weighty number of their soldiers to carry out the attack, bringing them to Dolonwan, Hunter's cities.

The Leaders of the 4 Unions gather at the Dolonwan medical wards where Alex Clark was being treated for his wounds. The Leaders talked to him, explaining the situation and convincing him to participate in the planned attack, and gave him a magical catalyst. After drinking the drink,  Clark went with Lordes to the training room, where he received a specialized suit of the mage faction and trained for some time to summon the hand-flame.

Some time later, the armies of the Leaders of the 4 Unions advance on Argar. On their approach to the cursed city, Slime and Human infantry are grouped into a single formation and sneak up to the city gates. Gen makes a diversionary move, drawing the attention of the skeleton-archers guarding the entrance to the city, while the mages sneak along the city wall and sneak up to the gate. The skeletons fire arrows at Gen, but that Enderina teleports with him to the wall, where they deal with the archers who did not have time to replace the arrows. At this time, Lordes teleports to the gate and uses the Luxomantic-spell to split the gate into nothingness.

This allows the infantry to enter the city, and attack the unexpecting pigmans. Riders: Riks, Amber and Hunter enter the city and clear a path for the foot troops.The Endermans join the battle, led by General Randor, who opens a portal to the End and calling a dragon. The dragon flies out of the portal, throwing some of Nether's cowardly warriors to flight, and then begins to exterminate them with its flames. At the expense of this, the troops of the Leaders of the 4 Unions advance farther and farther deep into the city, pushing back the enemy infantry. The Sky Squad joins the battle and shields the infantry from the attack from the sky, but is distracted by the flying Wither. Squad's leader Donekar receives a desiccation curse from the skull that hit him and loses consciousness.

Soon, Alidum, supreme general of the Nether's forces, arrives in city. Seeing the pitifulness of the situation, he attacks the dragon with a magical strike of infected lightning, while he himself contacts the other commanders of the Nether troops and requests reinforcements. The dragon loses consciousness and falls to the ground, crushing some of the Upper World troops. Enderina and Gen notice the dragon's fall and run up to help him, but all was In vain. Enderina's pet died, causing her to shed a tear. However, the lightning virus spread through the dragon's body and reincarnated her into a killing tool loyal to Nether's forces. The dragon woke up and attacked its former allies. Gen managed to push Enderina away and summon an energy shield, but his strength was not enough to contain the dragon's flames. Gen flew several meters, crashed into a building and lost consciousness. The dragon, on Alidum's orders, flew away from the battlefield.

Meanwhile,  Clark, under the guidance and cover of Lordes, was fighting with the pigmans and practicing how to summon magical powers. Suddenly, from the roof of one of the houses, Alidum jumped out at them, with whom the fighters began to fight.

Alidum's calling was not long in coming, and soon Nether portals open in the city and in the sky. Also, a Great Nether Portal opens outside the city, causing the sky to turn scarlet, and Nether reinforcements arrive in the city. Cavalrymen: Chronsus, Dreadlord, and Chronsus led the pigmans infantry, while Kamefaros coordinated the Ghosts, who began firing on the troops of the Upper World.

Enderina runs up to the disabled Gen and tries to bring him to his senses, while she is attacked by the advancing Kamefaros. Gen's sidekick, Lazur saves the defenseless pair from a knife flying at them and engages in a fight with the wither-skeleton, but quickly loses and is seriously wounded. Gen borrows Enderina's Greatsword and pushes Kamefaros away from Lazur before teleporting him and Enderina to safety.

Lordes' sidekick, Mertern fights Dreadlord and plunges his enemy to the ground, but is killed at the hands of Chronsus, who stabs him in the back with her blade in an attempt to finish off his opponent.

Alidum, in a battle with his enemies, wounds and disables  Clark, and begins a 1-on-1 fight with Lordes.

Chronsus enters the battle with Hunter, but falls to the ground. Hunter goes to fight the other enemies, but is distracted by Alidum flying by, and is attacked from behind by Chronsus. His helmet shatters, and in a daze he is mortally wounded in the neck. Lordes notices this and stops fighting Alidum runs to his friend's aid. He knocks out Chronsus and stops Hunter from bleeding and also teleports him to safety.

A general evacuation of the Army of the Upper World is announced and the Endermen take all surviving warriors to Dolonwan, while Nether's troops and their Generals rejoice, enjoying the taste of victory.

The video ends with a blackout.

## Cast

* Hunter
* Gen
* Lordes
* Enderina
* Randor
* Quertos (debut)
* Mertern † (debut)
* Diana (debut)
* Alex Clark
* Frieze (cameo)
* Ricks
* Amber
* Topal (cameo)
* Altress (cameo)
* Donekar
* Alidum (debut)
* Chronsus
* Dreadlord
* Gwen
* Kamefaros †
* Lazur

## Trivia

* This is GenVera's sixth overall and fourth canonical animated video.
* This is the second canonical video to use the originally approved song.
* It is the first video in which the voices of some of the characters have been changed.
* According to some information, the wounding of Hunter's character was done to justify the replacement of the voice-actor in the story.
* This is the first episode to be produced since the founding of the GenVera Production Team, but without the active participation of members of that team.
* The plot and major scenes were invented by Alex\_Clark.
	+ Later on, he will have the honor of writing the plot for the whole series, under the direction of GenVera.
* This video is the first time the music by Blacklite District was used.
* One Way is the most popular video from GenVera.
	+ However, despite the popularity of the video, its author did not get a cent for it after it was published.
* This is the first video to use music that has not appeared in the animations of other animators.

## Gallery

Image of the One Way music video.Another meeting of the Leaders of the 4 Unions in Limbo.Gen promotes his ideas in the promotional rendering.Gen gives his closing speech at the Council of Leaders of the 4 Unions.Hunter takes troops to the assembly point in the promotional rendering.Enderina takes troops to the assembly point in the promotional rendering.Gen takes troops to the assembly point in the promotional rendering.Lordes takes troops to the assembly point in the promotional rendering.The mage who picked up the necromancer's staff in the promotional rendering.Medic Diana delivers medicine to the wounded.Leaders bring Clark up to speed in the promotional rendering.Lordes gives Clark the magical catalyst.Hunter waits for the signal to attack.Gen is conducting a distraction.Lordes, destroying the gate to Argar.Army the Leaders of 4 Unions invades the city.Run-cycle 1 in the promotional GIF.Run-cycle 2 in the promotional rendering.Randor prepares to calling a the dragon in the promotion GIF.Dragon slaying her enemiesin the promotional rendering.Amber breaks through the enemy defense line.Dragon, a moment before her gonna fall.The dragon falls on the allied forces.Donekar, in the battle with Wither.Gen, sympathetic to Enderina in the promotional rendering.Gen, noticing changes in the fallen dragon in the promotional rendering.Alex Clark, fighting a pigmans in the promotional rendering.Gen comforts Enderina, who has lost her pet in the promotional rendering.Gen against the defecting's Dragon flame in the promotional rendering.Clark, who uses the magic of two fires.Hunter is in a battle with Chronsus in the promotional GIF.Kamefaros attacks Lazur in the promotional rendering.Mertern prepares to slay Dreadlord in the promotional rendering.Mertern for a moment before he dies in the promo-rendering.Chronsus beats Hunter in the promotional rendering.Nether's generals exult over the defeat of the enemy.