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Are you sure we can find something edible here?

If we don't, then we can just kick down some house door after.

Won't they put up a fight?

We already took them all away.

(yawn) Man, I'm beat.

Life was so much simpler before.

Swing our sword, cut someone down, swing again, cut down another, and then boom. Money.

But now? We can't even find a single stem to eat.

Is Londinium still considered Victoria's now?

I mean, we occupied it, so does it count as a new city of ours now? Or is it still Victoria's?

I don't know.

All I know is the clouds have been gathering lately. The top of that building... is extremely unusual.

What's there to worry? That's where the regent is.

Do you hear a... strange noise?

Huh? Nah.

That's so strange...

A huge figure emerges from the shadows, and a ray of light blazes through the deathly still streets.

It raises it's heavy right arm, and then harshly drops it.

The armor falls into silence, like it was just an illusion. A faint fire seeping from its helmet is the only sign that it still lives.

She stretches out her hand to touch the knight, but is forced to refrain from the residual heat on the armor.

The armor remains silent.

Your Highness, what are you looking at?

Dark clouds.

The Shard's energy is gathered. According to the Confessarii research, a device like this able to manipulate Originium's reactions will also be able to control that piece of 'Originium'.

The dukes have begun mobilizing their forces, and in a few days...

No, I don't mean the clouds here.

What's about to happen in Londinium is set in stone.

Manfred, you were born in Kazdel. What does it look like in your memories?

It was already the hub unit of your nomadic city while I was growing up.

My memories of the place... the sky was always overcast. Even worse than Victoria's skies, to be honest. There was always a pungent stench of industrial waste in the air.

Would you call that place... 'home'?

I would.

Really.

I was thinking how we Sarkaz always travel within a haze.

We are determined to tear the clouds apart...

But, when everything is finally revealed—

The true calamity will follow.

Will we make it in time?

I hope the light I've been looking at can still shine then.

Even if I'm already in the depths of the darkness.