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This will set off the beginning of Sargon's destruction. Padishah Murad is not a scientist. He doesn't understand the devastation it can cause.

He doesn't need to understand, nor do we.

Is Sargon your homeland, Sarkaz?

I've lived in Sargon for as long as I can remember.

We snuck around in the back alleys and hid our horns, and we lived in the filthiest of places.

Picking up arms is the only way we get to eat. It's simple. All of us are practically natural-born Infected. It's do or die, and that's what drives us.

Tsk—So what are you saying?

Only Sarkaz with a firm will can escape the ancient language's influence. The language itself is a kind of Sarkaz witchery. What's the source of your conviction? Your mission, or your greed?

Well, I gotta admit... Your mind trick might actually have worked. I still haven't ordered anyone to open fire. I'm still chitchatting with you with all the patience in the world, even.

All I can see before me is a Sarkaz trying his best to survive using the simplest method he knows.

(Looks around on alert)

Enough of this crap. I thought you were a Columbian mercenary leader. Stop pussyfooting around!

Padishah Murad won't allow any Sarkaz to know his dirtiest secrets.

You fought off all the other squads vying for this trophy. Don't you suppose the lords ameer's men were not among them, masquerading as mercenaries?

And between the exorbitant amounts in taxes and the lives of a few Sarkaz assassins, what do you think Padishah Murad's choice will be?

Of course we're aware of that, but if we let you go now, does that mean we'll be raking in even more dough, or our Oripathy will be cured right away?

Don't get the wrong idea. We live at the padishah's mercy. We don't have a choice.

Perhaps I can give you a choice.

(Sarkaz Tribal Dialect)

Hmph—You want to turn us against him, and you want us to serve—

—Serve Kazdel... a place we haven't so much as seen...?

Don't make me laugh, Caster! The Sarkaz homeland? There's nothing there but a bunch of ruins! You bookworm types should know better than any of us just how much is left of Kazdel!

(Get the Casters ready. Focus your fire on that monster. You two, we'll take the bitch down the first opportunity we got.)

Too bad. Looks like negotiation's not on the table anymore.

This isn't even negotiation—Tsk, what is this even, mercy? You're the one who's surrounded right now!

Yeah, you're right... You know how to strike fear, but if we don't give the padishah an answer he's satisfied with by tomorrow, we aren't going to escape death either.

Just like I told you, we don't have a choice.

Open fire!

What's that behind the smoke...? Is that the monster?

Not even a scratch...?

You, 'Kazdel' Caster. What are you?

You didn't have to be someone else's tool.

I want to live.

Besides, this is how it's always been. A Sarkaz has no right to dream about the future.

Draw your blades! Attack!