Shatterpoint
Following the battle at Hillock,
both Rhodes Island and Dublinn approach Londinium.
Siege returns to her homeland for the first time in many years,
only to find it engulfed in war.
Two Sarkaz look down on all this from The Shard.
The dead do not return to life.
But if so, who is she?
- 10-1: The Pursued (Interlude)Within Londinium's The Shard, the approaching Rhodes Island comes to Theresis's attention. At the same time, Amiya, Siege and the Doctor are bringing their squad in close to Londinium itself.
- 10-2: Raid Target (Before Operation)Outside the city of Londinium, Indra and Dagda launch a surprise attack on Dublinn.
- 10-2: Raid Target (After Operation)After successfully rescuing the guide from Dublinn, Amiya and the Doctor assemble a squad and set off for a port in the Sudean Borough.
- 10-3: Heads Down (Before Operation)Amiya's team arrives at the port, but they encounter a Sarkaz patrol searching people trying to leave the city. The guide flees in a panic, and runs straight into Dublinn soldiers led by Mandragora.
- 10-3: Heads Down (After Operation)The Dublinn soldiers are at tense standstill with the Sarkaz troops. At the same time, Horn remains blended in with the crowd. Incited by her and the mysterious figures in the shadows, Dublinn and the Sarkaz clash.
- 10-4: Warning Shot (Before Operation)Atop Londinium's city walls, General Manfred and his confidant Hoederer watch the chaotic scene unfolding below. He sees an opportunity and activates the city's defense artillery.
- 10-4: Warning Shot (After Operation)Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the city's defense artillery, Dublinn suffers heavy losses and is forced to retreat. Amiya and the Doctor's group are 'kidnapped' by mysterious figures and taken underground.
- 10-5: Breath of the City (Before Operation)After the two sides test each other multiple times, the mysterious man introduces himself. They are apparently the Londinium Citizens' Self-Salvation Corps. In the underground passage, Corps Captain Feist explains to Amiya and the Rhodes Islanders the current situation in Londinium.
- 10-5: Breath of the City (After Operation)Some five hundred kilometers away from Londinium, the Nachzehrer King pays the Rhodes Island landship a surprise visit and shares a conversation with Kal'tsit. In the Londinium palace, a Confessarius discovers an infiltrator, Ascalon.
- 10-6: Kin or Otherwise (Before Operation)Feist takes Amiya and the Rhodes Islanders to the Self-Salvation Corps's underground hideout. The gang is introduced to the Corps's commander, Clovisia. Mandragora apologizes to the Sarkaz and forms a renewed partnership with Manfred.
- 10-6: Kin or Otherwise (After Operation)Amiya learns of a white-haired Sarkaz who looks similar to Theresa from Self-Salvation Corps member Rockrock. Aboveground, Horn notices an unusual change in the Dublinn soldiers' routine.
- 10-7: Bound by Pain (Before Operation)In the underground hideout, Siege's team has an argument over their future direction. Amiya and the Doctor manage to persuade Clovisia, forging a partnership between Rhodes Island and the Self-Salvation Corps.
- 10-8: No Time to Mourn (After Operation)Horn loses another comrade and decides to rescue all the remaining soldiers who have been taken prisoners by the Sarkaz. At the same time, Rhodes Island and the Self-Salvation Corps also plan their own operation to rescue Messenger Heidi Thomson, who has been captured by the Sarkaz.
- 10-9: Friends in Far Places (Before Operation)In the abandoned factory-turned-temporary detention center, Heidi notices the Sarkaz mercenaries are acting strangely. Under the Doctor's command, Amiya's team and the Self-Salvation Corps have successfully infiltrated the abandoned factory.
- 10-9: Friends in Far Places (After Operation)Horn encounters Mandragora again outside the abandoned factory, but owing to their respective goals, neither of them attack the other. Inside the factory, having successfully rescued Heidi, Amiya and the gang try to come up with an evacuation plan before encountering W.
- 10-10: Shadows of Days Past (Before Operation)Feist's group encounters Hoederer as they try to rescue their comrades inside the factory. W takes the rear guard to cover Amiya and the Self-Salvation Corps' retreat.
- 10-10: Shadows of Days Past (After Operation)Horn saves the prisoners, and Mandragora extracts the Taran spy. W is seriously injured by Hoederer before being rescued by Ascalon.
- 10-11: Battered and Bruised (Before Operation)While retreating from the factory, Horn runs into Manfred.
- 10-12: At Vendetta's Close (After Operation)After a skirmish, Horn and company are rescued by Misery. Manfred turns his offensive on Mandragora.
- 10-13: Crossroads (Interlude)Manfred kills the Taran secret agent, and gravely wounds Mandragora. En route to retreating underground, Dagda departs from Siege for the time being.
- 10-14: Aim (Before Operation)Amiya's squad, which had retreated to the underground base, prepares to leave the Sudean Borough with the Self-Salvation Corps. Suddenly, the Sarkaz start to exterminate the Corps soldiers left on the surface.
- 10-14: Aim (After Operation)Amiya and the Doctor discover that the 'Self-Salvation Corps' soldier rescued in the previous night's operation is actually a Sarkaz in disguise. Just as Feist and Rockrock struggle with their sorrow, the city defense artillery activates again and starts to bombard their location.
- 10-15: Fleeing Through Fire (Before Operation)In order to cover the Self-Salvation Corps' retreat, Amiya proposes to shut off the city defense artillery. On the way to the wall, Amiya and co once again run into Hoederer, and Feist brings out a little trick to allow Amiya and the Doctor to board the lift.
- 10-16: Bloodblade on High (After Operation)Siege, who stayed behind to help the Self-Salvation Corps' retreat, along with Clovisia's forces, are pursued by the Sarkaz Sanguinarch.
- 10-17: A Citadel and Its Walls (Before Operation)Atop the wall, Amiya and Manfred do battle, and Horn leads a group of Victorian soldiers to assist Amiya by stalling Manfred in his tracks.
- 10-17: A Citadel and Its Walls (After Operation)Amiya and the Doctor blow up the defense artillery control room atop the wall. Siege starts up a Royal Family escape route below, leading the Self-Salvation Corps free of the Sanguinarch's grasp. En route on their evacuation, Amiya sees Theresa in the ruins.
- 10-18: Reflection of an Ideal (Interlude)LeaderEntering Central Londinium, Siege meets the leader of the Self-Salvation Corps noble faction, Allerdale Cumberland. And with the Doctor's support, Amiya resolves to seek the truth of Theresa's resurrection.
- 10-19: Sparks Afar (Interlude)In a university campus lying in a town in Ursus' north, Talulah finds the 'person' she's been looking for.