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Your warriors, are excellent. But only excellent, they still die.

Where is it? Show me, your worth.

You want to stop, the core city. But you can't, defeat me?

Don't touch Amiya!

One, two, three... four!

Shield, shattered.

Spear, snapped.

The huge monster doesn't even flinch. He keeps hulking forward.

Heh.

You can, pierce my armor. This suit, is finally, at its limit.

...You won't get away...!

Feline, you are strong. A threat, to me.

Wait, Mr. Patriot.

Only ten, more steps. No need to wait.

You're at your limit, I know.

Because you're not a caster like Miss FrostNova...

This is enough already.

I've seen everything... in these Arts. Everything of you.

...It's enough, Mr. Patriot.

It's enough.

What... is... this?

This strike, it's precise.

I can't, move, anymore.

...His wounds are finally catching up to him.

Buldrokkas'tee...

(I planned, to destroy you, then the guerrillas, in your name, kill Talulah.

(No need, now. You won, the right, to kill, Talulah.)

(Mr... Patriot?)

(How could I, let the Infected, be enslaved, exploited?)

(My life, take it. Use it. It's your prize, as the victors.)

You, won.

Dame. Please. Take this.

—What is it?

The key, to stop, Chernobog.

If you go, to the bridge... you need it.

Mr. Patriot, you... just to...

Oh...

No.

I did, intend, to kill you.

But now, you defeated me. You earned it.

Why did you take it this far?

Because I don't trust you.

I only trust, war.

My daughter, was naive. She was soft, she assumed, an outcome.

I don't. I wait for results.

And this... is the best... result.

My men, surprised, did not use, their strength. They live.

Only I, alone... will die. A worthy death.

...What happened?!

Closure, I need the schematics to Bioprocessing Unit Thirteen!

Cabin temperature is increasing rapidly! It's an energy leak!

Wait, it's changing shape! Why is it progressing like this after fourteen hours?

PRTS, who was in this cabin last?

Dr. {@nickname}? Did we lose someone in the battle for Lungmen? Who's being processed?

What?

Wait, slow down. Who did you say Dr. {@nickname} put in there?

Dame!

I'm listening, Buldrokkas'tee.

The Wendigos, exiled ourselves, lost everything.

But we carry, Sarkaz traditions.

Ancestors, molded me, nurtured me, watched over me. Now, bear witness.

Buldrokkas'tee...

...I don't know if I'm qualified.

I think you, are the best, choice.

'...I hereby witness a Sarkaz. Buldrokkas'tee, Wendigo of Kazdel, betrayed neither flesh nor blood, disgraced not his tribe.'

'He leaves his body, with his life, under the light...'

'...And his soul returns to the warm blood of the Wendigos.'

This is a curse.

It is not, to me.

Oh... I feel... I feel... My vision, begins to blur.

Thank you, Dame.

I thought you hated this stuff.

But I, am old.

No...

Where are we?

Ha. So that's how it is. Ha.

Talulah really did betray us.

You think we're just going to stand here and let you kill us?!

You can't fight.

If there's an afterlife, take your revenge there.

We're supposed to give up, just because we know we're going to die?

We're going to be killed for no reason and—

Don't kill them.

Let them go.

Mephisto...?

Devils, I'll give you bodies that know no pain. Let them go.

We're a lot tougher than your herd.

I'll share my life with you. And you'll really fight forever, a tireless fight.

...Fine.

But if we let them go, my people have to watch them. We're not about to disobey Talulah now.

You, crossbowmen. Go.

Mephisto?!

(Why would he save us...? Is this part of Talulah's plot?)

But why come here?

...Because I want to go in there. I want to know what secrets there are. I want to know why Rhodes Island would bring someone out of here.

Because I saw someone coming out of here on the logs.

Mephisto...? Why?

Would you like to hear a song?

But, Captain Faust said... He said...

Yes, yes. I can't sing anymore.