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1,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_01","It seems that Lahabrea has conjured a plan to free Claudien, though he is less than forthcoming with the details. For the time being, he tasks you with standing against his former lover, that she may be weak enough for his scheme to succeed. And so you steel your spirits for one final excursion into Athena's gate.
※Anabaseios: The Twelfth Circle can be accessed via the Duty Finder."
2,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_02","As befits one who has laid many a god low and lived to tell of it, you remain unshaken by Athena's attempts to plunge you into the abyss. Despite her power to warp nature itself, you emerge triumphant and ready to see her evil experiments ended for good."
3,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_03","Although defeated, Athena yet lives. She is more than happy to reveal that her grand design was to replace life upon Etheirys with superior beings of her creation, and confirms that Erichthonios was never more than a tool for this end. Her ambitions now denied, she attempts to purge the aetherial sea with a burst of powerful magicks, but is stymied by the sudden awakening of Claudien's will, roused from its slumber by Erichthonios's memories. Her control over the body lost, Athena's memories are expelled, leaving her a powerless phantom. As the space that was once Pandæmonium begins to collapse as the forces holding it together vanish, Themis teleports you and Lahabrea to safety, leaving no witness to Athena's final moments."
4,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_04","While the loss of Erichthonios lies heavy in the hearts of all present, you rest assured that his sacrifice was not in vain. Peace is restored to the aetherial sea, but Claudien remains insensate. Themis says that he will stand vigil over the professor, and instructs you to rest until such time as you are needed."
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24,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_TODO_00","Enter Anabaseios: The Twelfth Circle."
25,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_TODO_01","Enter Anabaseios: The Twelfth Circle."
26,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_TODO_02","Speak with Themis."
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48,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_000","Why would Athena use my name? More questions, and few answers to go around."
49,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_005","Our course of action is clear: we must lay Athena low and rescue Claudien. A difficult task, to be sure, but one which the present company is more than capable of achieving."
50,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_020","Themis, you may have just handed us the key to rescuing Claudien."
51,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_021","What must we do?"
52,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_022","First and foremost, we must confront Athena. She must be made vulnerable, as Elidibus was."
53,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_100_022","Yet our opponent stands on the verge of godhood. As we are now, she would unmake us in an instant."
54,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_023","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, we have no choice but to place the burden of our fate─and the fate of many more besides─squarely upon your shoulders. I trust you have no objections."
55,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_Q1_000_000","What will you say?"
56,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_A1_000_000","God or no, I shall cast her down."
57,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_A2_000_000","It's a burden I'm used to carrying."
58,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_A3_000_000","Objections, no. Concerns, yes..."
59,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_025","If you have faith in your victory, then so do I."
60,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_030","I imagine so. Ever have we relied upon your skill at arms."
61,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_035","Though we know not what form Athena will take, I have faith that your skill will see us through this trial, as it has many times before."
62,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_040","And we all appreciate <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>'s willingness to fling <If(PlayerParameter(4))>herself<Else/>himself</If> at the unknown. However, we have yet to hear how this will liberate Claudien..."
63,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_041","...I have a plan. Do not trouble yourself over the details."
64,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_042","The same goes for you, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. You must focus the entirety of your attention on Athena. She will not be easily bested, even by one of your prowess."
65,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_043","Then let us trust in Lahabrea, and prepare for the battle to come."
66,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_044","Before we face Athena, I must know..."
67,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_045","If she had never discovered the auracite─had never fallen under its influence─would she have lived a normal life? Would she have been a mother to me?"
68,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_046","I have asked myself the same questions. Questions with no answer, I fear."
69,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_047","But let us put them out of our mind. There is something we must discuss, and I would do so not as Lahabrea, but as a father to his son."
70,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_050","For now we place our trust in you. The rest must wait until we have Athena before us."
71,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_055","Right now, Athena must be the sole focus of your attention. She shall not hesitate to exploit any weakness she can sense."
72,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_060","Athena maintains absolute control over this space. Beyond the gate, she has doubtless built herself an abode worthy of a god, and now awaits the arrival of her supplicants..."
73,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_400","Countless years I waited within that stifling crystal. And now, when my dream is finally within reach, you stand in my way."
74,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_401","Your “dream” is naught but selfish ambition. Its fulfillment would benefit only you."
75,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_402","And why, Athena? At the end of this road to godhood, what did you hope to find?"
76,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_403","It matters not. The fact remains that she worked against the interests of the star."
77,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_404","Even so, I would hear her answer. I would know why my mother cast us aside."
78,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_405","How unlike you, Erichthonios. You were never so inquisitive before."
79,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_406","Having struck upon a hypothesis, there is but one thing the wise woman desires."
80,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_100_406","Irrefutable proof."
81,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_407","<Emphasis>My</Emphasis> theory was that any true god would see us as we are─imperfect. She would hammer out our flaws, and build something...greater."
82,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_408","To prove this could not but benefit the star! I would give it the perfect stewards, that it might shine brighter than any other."
83,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_409","And you would destroy the lives already upon it!"
84,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_410","In that, I am no different from our peers. Over the course of eons, how many creations have we wrought? Such creatures cannot but usher their inferior predecessors into oblivion."
85,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_411","Even without our meddling, nature would take the selfsame course."
86,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_412","If the destination is the same, is it somehow worse to arrive there by the guidance of a god? I think not."
87,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_413","The auracite made such thoughts irresistible, perhaps. But it cannot have created them from whole cloth. This is Athena's truth."
88,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_414","What right have you to pass judgment? You were but a vessel for my masterwork─your purpose ends there. My only mistake was leaving you possessed of a soul."
89,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_415","...What are you saying?"
90,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_416","Poor Erichthonios. Always the last to arrive at the obvious conclusion..."
91,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_100_416","I gave birth to you for a single reason: that you might serve as my tool. And like any tool, I crafted you to suit my needs, that you might accept my essence when the time came."
92,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_417","Of course, I also made you more amenable to my demands, and ensured that you would feel a cloying affection for your dear mother. However, it seems that my tinkering was insufficient..."
93,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_418","My very feelings were of your design?"
94,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_419","You created a boy unable to grasp even the simplest magic. Ever hopelessly clinging to his mother's robes, unable to do otherwise. I was doomed from the start..."
95,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_420","Yet here you are, standing in defiance of her design. You are more than what she made you!"
96,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_421","I still feel the sting of it. But with pain comes clarity..."
97,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_422","You ill deserve to wear the mantle of a god!"
98,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_423","As stubborn as you are witless. If this star will not be mine, then it serves no purpose!"
99,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_424","She aims to obliterate the aetherial sea and stem the flow of life!"
100,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_425","...She will do no such thing."
101,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_426","Before the battle, Lahabrea told me I was the key to finishing this."
102,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_427","Although I am but an illusion, my soul has crossed eons to find its home in another. One whose body Athena has seen fit to purloin as her own."
103,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_428","Much of what I once was now resides in him. Should my memories seize this chance to follow suit, they may resound enough to wake his mind."
104,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_429","But Athena inhabits him still! What will become of you!?"
105,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_430","I don't know, but if I can rouse his soul, perhaps it will disrupt Athena's hold. It's the best chance we have."
106,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_431","My whole life others have looked down upon me, but I've never given up searching for my purpose. Now I've found it."
107,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_432","This decision is yours to make, and yours alone."
108,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_433","Do as you will, my son. I know you shall make me proud."
109,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_100_433","Erichthonios...do not dare."
110,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_434","No! Stop this!"
111,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_435","Your words hold sway over me no longer. My life is my own..."
112,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_436","And I have found my true family!"
113,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_437","Ungh..."
114,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_100_437","My power...wanes... The vessel...rejects me!?"
115,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_438","What is happening? Athena's magicks should be impotent with no body to fuel them..."
116,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_439","Precisely. Athena was the sole force holding the space around Pandæmonium together, and now it crumbles..."
117,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_440","Although little would change if we were buried here, we cannot let this be <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>'s final resting place."
118,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_441","Of all my miscalculations...to think that <Emphasis>you</Emphasis> would be my undoing. That you would even be capable of defying me..."
119,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_442","Ah, is there more you would say to me?"
120,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_443","Or have you decided to return to your dear mother's bosom? Have you brought Claudien back to me?"
121,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_444","Apologies, but I am only the dregs of your own memory. I can do naught but watch as the evil you've wrought collapses, burying you under its weight."
122,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_445","How disappointing... Truly, useless to the last."
123,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_446","And who made me that way?"
124,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_NEMJIJI_000_505","At least on the surface, Professor Claudien appears unharmed. We must wait for him to regain consciousness to judge anything beyond that, I fear..."
125,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_RUISSENAUD_000_510","Questions, questions, and more questions! Why did Claudien set out by himself? What did he see? Oh, I do hope he wakes up soon!"
126,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_515","..."
127,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_550","Although Erichthonios was naught but a collection of memories, I know his absence pains you."
128,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_551","But he acted with resolve, full aware of the potential consequences. Let us look back on this moment not with sorrow, but with pride."
129,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_552","You both are the heroes of the day. Athena's ambitions would have swallowed the world had you not stemmed their advance."
130,"TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_553","We shall stay here, both to look over Professor Claudien and ensure that there are no further disturbances in the aetherial sea. You should rest─and I will not take no for an answer."
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4 0 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_00 Lahabrea would discuss the plan to bring about Athena's end.
5 1 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_01 It seems that Lahabrea has conjured a plan to free Claudien, though he is less than forthcoming with the details. For the time being, he tasks you with standing against his former lover, that she may be weak enough for his scheme to succeed. And so you steel your spirits for one final excursion into Athena's gate. ※Anabaseios: The Twelfth Circle can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
6 2 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_02 As befits one who has laid many a god low and lived to tell of it, you remain unshaken by Athena's attempts to plunge you into the abyss. Despite her power to warp nature itself, you emerge triumphant and ready to see her evil experiments ended for good.
7 3 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_03 Although defeated, Athena yet lives. She is more than happy to reveal that her grand design was to replace life upon Etheirys with superior beings of her creation, and confirms that Erichthonios was never more than a tool for this end. Her ambitions now denied, she attempts to purge the aetherial sea with a burst of powerful magicks, but is stymied by the sudden awakening of Claudien's will, roused from its slumber by Erichthonios's memories. Her control over the body lost, Athena's memories are expelled, leaving her a powerless phantom. As the space that was once Pandæmonium begins to collapse as the forces holding it together vanish, Themis teleports you and Lahabrea to safety, leaving no witness to Athena's final moments.
8 4 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_SEQ_04 While the loss of Erichthonios lies heavy in the hearts of all present, you rest assured that his sacrifice was not in vain. Peace is restored to the aetherial sea, but Claudien remains insensate. Themis says that he will stand vigil over the professor, and instructs you to rest until such time as you are needed.
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52 48 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_000 Why would Athena use my name? More questions, and few answers to go around.
53 49 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_005 Our course of action is clear: we must lay Athena low and rescue Claudien. A difficult task, to be sure, but one which the present company is more than capable of achieving.
54 50 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_020 Themis, you may have just handed us the key to rescuing Claudien.
55 51 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_021 What must we do?
56 52 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_022 First and foremost, we must confront Athena. She must be made vulnerable, as Elidibus was.
57 53 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_100_022 Yet our opponent stands on the verge of godhood. As we are now, she would unmake us in an instant.
58 54 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_023 <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, we have no choice but to place the burden of our fate─and the fate of many more besides─squarely upon your shoulders. I trust you have no objections.
59 55 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_Q1_000_000 What will you say?
60 56 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_A1_000_000 God or no, I shall cast her down.
61 57 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_A2_000_000 It's a burden I'm used to carrying.
62 58 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_A3_000_000 Objections, no. Concerns, yes...
63 59 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_025 If you have faith in your victory, then so do I.
64 60 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_030 I imagine so. Ever have we relied upon your skill at arms.
65 61 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_035 Though we know not what form Athena will take, I have faith that your skill will see us through this trial, as it has many times before.
66 62 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_040 And we all appreciate <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>'s willingness to fling <If(PlayerParameter(4))>herself<Else/>himself</If> at the unknown. However, we have yet to hear how this will liberate Claudien...
67 63 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_041 ...I have a plan. Do not trouble yourself over the details.
68 64 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_042 The same goes for you, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. You must focus the entirety of your attention on Athena. She will not be easily bested, even by one of your prowess.
69 65 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_043 Then let us trust in Lahabrea, and prepare for the battle to come.
70 66 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_044 Before we face Athena, I must know...
71 67 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_045 If she had never discovered the auracite─had never fallen under its influence─would she have lived a normal life? Would she have been a mother to me?
72 68 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_046 I have asked myself the same questions. Questions with no answer, I fear.
73 69 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_047 But let us put them out of our mind. There is something we must discuss, and I would do so not as Lahabrea, but as a father to his son.
74 70 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_050 For now we place our trust in you. The rest must wait until we have Athena before us.
75 71 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_055 Right now, Athena must be the sole focus of your attention. She shall not hesitate to exploit any weakness she can sense.
76 72 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_060 Athena maintains absolute control over this space. Beyond the gate, she has doubtless built herself an abode worthy of a god, and now awaits the arrival of her supplicants...
77 73 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_400 Countless years I waited within that stifling crystal. And now, when my dream is finally within reach, you stand in my way.
78 74 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_401 Your “dream” is naught but selfish ambition. Its fulfillment would benefit only you.
79 75 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_402 And why, Athena? At the end of this road to godhood, what did you hope to find?
80 76 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_403 It matters not. The fact remains that she worked against the interests of the star.
81 77 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_404 Even so, I would hear her answer. I would know why my mother cast us aside.
82 78 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_405 How unlike you, Erichthonios. You were never so inquisitive before.
83 79 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_406 Having struck upon a hypothesis, there is but one thing the wise woman desires.
84 80 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_100_406 Irrefutable proof.
85 81 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_407 <Emphasis>My</Emphasis> theory was that any true god would see us as we are─imperfect. She would hammer out our flaws, and build something...greater.
86 82 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_408 To prove this could not but benefit the star! I would give it the perfect stewards, that it might shine brighter than any other.
87 83 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_409 And you would destroy the lives already upon it!
88 84 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_410 In that, I am no different from our peers. Over the course of eons, how many creations have we wrought? Such creatures cannot but usher their inferior predecessors into oblivion.
89 85 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_411 Even without our meddling, nature would take the selfsame course.
90 86 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_412 If the destination is the same, is it somehow worse to arrive there by the guidance of a god? I think not.
91 87 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_413 The auracite made such thoughts irresistible, perhaps. But it cannot have created them from whole cloth. This is Athena's truth.
92 88 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_414 What right have you to pass judgment? You were but a vessel for my masterwork─your purpose ends there. My only mistake was leaving you possessed of a soul.
93 89 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_415 ...What are you saying?
94 90 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_416 Poor Erichthonios. Always the last to arrive at the obvious conclusion...
95 91 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_100_416 I gave birth to you for a single reason: that you might serve as my tool. And like any tool, I crafted you to suit my needs, that you might accept my essence when the time came.
96 92 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_417 Of course, I also made you more amenable to my demands, and ensured that you would feel a cloying affection for your dear mother. However, it seems that my tinkering was insufficient...
97 93 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_418 My very feelings were of your design?
98 94 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_419 You created a boy unable to grasp even the simplest magic. Ever hopelessly clinging to his mother's robes, unable to do otherwise. I was doomed from the start...
99 95 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_420 Yet here you are, standing in defiance of her design. You are more than what she made you!
100 96 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_421 I still feel the sting of it. But with pain comes clarity...
101 97 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_422 You ill deserve to wear the mantle of a god!
102 98 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_423 As stubborn as you are witless. If this star will not be mine, then it serves no purpose!
103 99 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_424 She aims to obliterate the aetherial sea and stem the flow of life!
104 100 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_425 ...She will do no such thing.
105 101 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_426 Before the battle, Lahabrea told me I was the key to finishing this.
106 102 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_427 Although I am but an illusion, my soul has crossed eons to find its home in another. One whose body Athena has seen fit to purloin as her own.
107 103 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_428 Much of what I once was now resides in him. Should my memories seize this chance to follow suit, they may resound enough to wake his mind.
108 104 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_429 But Athena inhabits him still! What will become of you!?
109 105 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_430 I don't know, but if I can rouse his soul, perhaps it will disrupt Athena's hold. It's the best chance we have.
110 106 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_431 My whole life others have looked down upon me, but I've never given up searching for my purpose. Now I've found it.
111 107 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_432 This decision is yours to make, and yours alone.
112 108 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_433 Do as you will, my son. I know you shall make me proud.
113 109 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_100_433 Erichthonios...do not dare.
114 110 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_434 No! Stop this!
115 111 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_435 Your words hold sway over me no longer. My life is my own...
116 112 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_436 And I have found my true family!
117 113 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_437 Ungh...
118 114 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_100_437 My power...wanes... The vessel...rejects me!?
119 115 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_438 What is happening? Athena's magicks should be impotent with no body to fuel them...
120 116 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_439 Precisely. Athena was the sole force holding the space around Pandæmonium together, and now it crumbles...
121 117 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_440 Although little would change if we were buried here, we cannot let this be <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>'s final resting place.
122 118 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_441 Of all my miscalculations...to think that <Emphasis>you</Emphasis> would be my undoing. That you would even be capable of defying me...
123 119 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_442 Ah, is there more you would say to me?
124 120 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_443 Or have you decided to return to your dear mother's bosom? Have you brought Claudien back to me?
125 121 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_444 Apologies, but I am only the dregs of your own memory. I can do naught but watch as the evil you've wrought collapses, burying you under its weight.
126 122 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ATHENA_000_445 How disappointing... Truly, useless to the last.
127 123 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_ERICHTHONIOS_000_446 And who made me that way?
128 124 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_NEMJIJI_000_505 At least on the surface, Professor Claudien appears unharmed. We must wait for him to regain consciousness to judge anything beyond that, I fear...
129 125 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_RUISSENAUD_000_510 Questions, questions, and more questions! Why did Claudien set out by himself? What did he see? Oh, I do hope he wakes up soon!
130 126 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_515 ...
131 127 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_550 Although Erichthonios was naught but a collection of memories, I know his absence pains you.
132 128 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_551 But he acted with resolve, full aware of the potential consequences. Let us look back on this moment not with sorrow, but with pride.
133 129 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_552 You both are the heroes of the day. Athena's ambitions would have swallowed the world had you not stemmed their advance.
134 130 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_THEMIS_000_553 We shall stay here, both to look over Professor Claudien and ensure that there are no further disturbances in the aetherial sea. You should rest─and I will not take no for an answer.
135 131 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_LAHABREA_000_040
136 132 TEXT_AKTKRA304_04759_NEMJIJI_000_500