Summary Story 201901

Vlad and Rain/Lasswell tried to attack each other but their attacks could not reach each other. Vlad showed them a gate that leaded to a place called Grandoor. Grandoor was a sky fortress that oversees Paladia. Originally he wanted to use the power of Weapon to rule Paladia. However it was rendered impossible. He resorted to just fire magitek cannons continously to lay waste on Paladia. Rain and Lasswell tried to stop him but they got deflected away. The group followed as Vlad used a teleporter to leave the room, and used another teleporter on the tower rooftop to flee to Grandoor.

Erumauru analyzed it and it said someone needed to return to Ardore Tower to activate an energy source for the teleporter to work again. Defense alarm got activated and they were surrounded by enemy machines. Erumauru said he would return to the tower. Kunshira and Juraga offered to use the speed of beastmen to carry Erumauru. Then they left as the rest of the group stayed to fend off the machines. Eventually Erumauru managed to send the energy for the main group to proceed. However they asked them to ahead since they were trapped in Ardore Tower, surrounded by defense machines.

They entered a space within transportation. In there they had a conversation with Vlad (voice projection?). Vlad explained that he did not manipulate the emperors from the shadow as Alpha Star. He used the technique of soul replication and insertion to insert his soul into the past Alpha Stars which would become the Emperor. Eventually his souls would merge with those Emperors souls. Ultimately the past emperors were all him.

As the main group advanced, they were attacked by Imperial Stars. The attacks made the transportation space unstable. They got separated into two groups. Apparently one of them had Kagane's soul while the other two did not. Ignacio vowed to save the one with Kagane's soul but Kagane said it's her turn to save them. She dispatched the Imperial Stars including herself. Lasswell's group ended up in the rift in transportation space.

There were several crystals in the space. Different memories popped up when Lasswell touched the crystals. They concluded since those crystals contained the thoughts of people, they could bring them to the exit if they kept searching for other crystals.

They saw one memory of them facing Imperial Stars before entering the Tower. However in the memory they had difficulty and were left in a pitiful state. It was completely foreign to their memories. And Majin Fina and Axter were not with them in the memory, leaving Lasswell's group in a confused state.

Then they found another crystal with memory containing the moment where Vlad showed up being Levnard. Vlad tossed a huge magic ball into them. They did not have the power to negate the magic and they were already in a pitiful state from the battle with Imperial Stars. They took the magic head on instead. Rain, Lasswell and Fina could somewhat move but the rest collapsed and were probably knocked out. Then, Vlad continued to fire magic on them as they ended up in a state of despair.

They commented that they knew they were different from what they experienced but they did not feel that the memories were false. In the next episode, Vlad fired the magic, Rain collapsed and Lasswell could still move. It was found out that Rain lost his left arm and leg. Fina wanted to heal Rain but did not have the strength to do so. Then as Vlad wanted to fire another magic, but Lasswell stood before Rain and pointed his sword at Vlad. Vlad said he admired him and wanted to let him to take his comrades to heal. Vlad said it would be a pity to kill Lasswell. Rain told him not to listen to Vlad's tricks since Vlad also consumed a large amount of magic. Lasswell may stood a chance if they went one on one. But Lasswell considered his comrades' lives and gave up his weapon instead. Vlad destroyed his weapon and told Lasswell he was a fool. He fired his magic at them again.

Rain woke up to see everyone around him dead. Then Zeno suddenly showed up. He commented that with Rain's wounds he would not last for long. Zeno said that his goal was to kill Emperor when he entered the Orders. However, his body was being devoured by an illness and he resorted to give up. He said he would let Rain escape but Rain did not believe in him. Zeno removed his armours and became Axter, but with his eyes, arms and legs intact. Axter healed Rain, saying that without his armours he was no longer Orders.

On the other hand, Rain's group reached Grandoor. In there Axter said he had another gift for Rain: a nickname. Rain was happy that he got a nickname like Pyro Glacial Knight, but it ended up being Taste Buds Crusher Soup Man. As they progressed, Majin Fina said she was about to disappear. Fina asked if she would go back into crystal. Majin Fina said she used up a large portion of her powers. She would finish using her powers soon and her existence itself would disappear. But she told Rain that she would go back to the crystal and told Fina to keep it a secret from him. She said that although she was sad, she was satisfied with her life. Fina told her not to hold it in and it was okay to cry because she understood very well the feeling to disappear. Since she was close to disappearing back in Lapis. The Finas hugged and Majin Fina found comfort in Fina's arms.

Rain said that he had no idea how he lived on losing his left eye, arm and leg. He said that in order to challenge Vlad again, he gathered comrades and learnt all three types of Tranquilities. But it was all for naught since all he did was to escape. He could barely live on. As he collapsed, he was found by Ardore soldiers. But Majin Fina arrived and fended off the soldiers. Apparently, Rain tried different methods in decades but he could not do anything to the emperor. Majin Fina said that she had been saving strength for these decades, to cross time. She wanted to go back in time with Rain, to protect everyone from Vlad's magic.

Lasswell's group found the last crystal near the exit of the rift in transportation space. Majin Fina and Rain found Axter of the past. Rain told him about what he knew about Axter's identity as Zeno and his illness. Majin Fina gave a crystal to Axter to show their memories of the future. Rain told Axter about two reasons of their failures. One was how they faced difficulty against Imperial Stars because they did not know about the three Tranquilities. Another was Lasswell's action being driven by emotion. Rain wanted to pass the three Tranquilities to Lasswell and to steel Lasswell's heart so that he would not be defeated by his own emotion again. Accordingly, Rain learnt the Tranquilities by having the original Tranquility as base and by having Imperial Stars using the three Tranquilities on his body. Then, Rain would appear as Zeno to betray Lasswell to steel his heart.

Axter said that Rain could do by himself if he wanted to do that. However Rain said that Hyou being younger version of him and he must not let Emperor know about him coming from the future to change history. Rain said the he wanted to change his appearance to Axter to get close to Lasswell. They would seal the real Axter into a crystal and Rain would use a transformation magic he learnt from a young girl (Crystalis?). However he could not mask his lost eye, arm and leg. Rain said he would report to the Emperor that he lost them due to an illness. Axter commended on his resolve that knowing he would disappear if the history were changed. The scene ended as the real Axter agreed and Rain disguised himself as Axter. Back to reality, Lasswell cried about how Rain did all those for him - wandering around for decades and came back from the future to watch him grow, only to disappear from the world.
(that explained why Axter said Sakura was 750 years old when he first saw her, maybe, to Sakura's displease at how he added 50 years of his own accord)

Rain's group reached Vlad. Vlad fired magic at Rain's barrier continuously. Axter and Majin Fina found an opening to sneak to Vlad's sides to cast a magic on him. As Vlad said it's pointless, Lasswell jumped down to strike on Vlad, and his group arriving from the rear. As Reagan confronted Vlad, Vlad said that he killed Reagan's parents because he hated the royal blood. He found it absurd that people were allowed to rule as long as they were born in the royal family. He wanted to prove that he was superior, and could rule with his own strengths without royal blood. Reagan said he could not agree. Blood and strength were not qualities of a king. A king's quality was to give his all for the sake of his people.

They talked about Vlad being alone couldn't beat them and Vlad said him alone was more than enough. Vlad got to his knees and questioned whether this was the power of royal blood. Rain replied how only three of them were royalties. It was their will to battle together that won (cliche nakama power). Then Vlad got another transformation and got beaten up again.

They were rejoicing that they won. But Axter left the group in silence as Lasswell chased after him. Rain wanted to chase after too but Faisalith stopped him, saying to let them be alone. Axter's body started to disappear. Lasswell confessed that he knew the truth. Axter told him to be happy instead since it proved that the bad history was now gone. Lasswell said he was still sad that Rain would disappear (At this point, they reverted their speech style to the usual style between Rain and Lasswell, instead of Lasswell's polite style and Axter's aloof style). Axter said that he had Rain of the current age, he was nothing but his master.

As Axter was disappearing, Lasswell went back to polite style "Thank you very much, master!" and Axter bid Lasswell farewell. As Rain, Faisalith and Fina arrived at the scene, Fina commented that Majin Fina was gone too, without saying anything. Rain as confused that Axter vanished, but Faisalith told him that Lasswell would tell him some day.

Axter reverted to Future Rain as he was in the void space. Then he met Majin Fina saying good job to him. Majin Fina was happy that she could disappear together with Rain, and Rain was happy with the ending too.

As they were talking about what to do since the battle was over. Faisalith had a bad feeling. Then suddenly they heard Vlad's voice. Apparently the Vlad they defeated was but a replication of his soul. The scene ended as the shadow of his huge true form loomed over them.