Liberi Reader

Absolved Will Be the Seekers

• 14-1: Fallen From Memory (Interlude)
  The assembled Exemplars confirm their next objective: The Shard. Rhodes Island has formulated their strategy for an Londinium assault. The Lifebone takes flight only to crash land because of a strange environmental interference.
• 14-2: Operation Meeting (Before Operation)
  Things take an unexpected turn as sinister red clouds above the Shard cover the entire battlefield. Meanwhile, Manfred prepares to reclaim the Lifebone.
• 14-2: Operation Meeting (After Operation)
  Siege receives intelligence on the Duke of Caster from Trilby Asher, which helps the Rhodes Islanders understand the battlefield and devise their battle plans. The Exemplars and Rhodes Island join forces to stop the Military Commission from bringing the complete descent of Amnannam.
• 14-3: Hammer and Anvil, Vanquished (Before Operation)
  The Rhodes Islanders search for the Blood of Teekaz, a key influence on Amnannam, only to find themselves greeted by familiar faces and chased down by a Sudaram.
• 14-3: Hammer and Anvil, Vanquished (After Operation)
  Led by Siege, the Exemplars arrive in Gibsonham, where Horn and Bagpipe reunite. Their reunion is abruptly interrupted by an unexpected visitor: the Duke of Gododdin.
• 14-4: Breaking the Silence (Before Operation)
  The Duke of Gododdin invites Siege and the Exemplars to act on behalf of Parliament, but Siege remains distrustful. Meanwhile, Closure detects a legion of Nachzehrers.
• 14-4: Breaking the Silence (After Operation)
  Thanks to timely reinforcements from other Rhodes Islanders, Closure sets up signal towers, restoring communications. Meanwhile, the Exemplars and Gododdin's forces successfully defend the town of Gibsonham.
• 14-5: Cave Search (Before Operation)
  W, Hoederer, and the others defend the Lifebone crash site, but W's mercenaries vanish in the unfamiliar environment. While searching for them, W and her team are attacked by strange monsters.
• 14-5: Cave Search (After Operation)
  After defeating the strange monsters with her mercenaries, W enters the Confessarius ruins alone. Meanwhile, a captured Ulšulah finds an opportunity and escapes from Hoederer.
• 14-6: Field of Vision (Before Operation)
  Manfred's troops approach Lifebone with Ulšulah's help. W engages Qalid'čoa and unexpectedly learns the truth of Theresa's rebirth.
• 14-6: Field of Vision (After Operation)
  W hears Theresa's echo, and finally accepts that Theresa has joined the myriad souls. She lays down her burden and prepares to truly face Theresa.
• 14-7: Countermeasures (Before Operation)
  The Royal Court's troops attack Lifebone. W makes an explosive entry and meets up with Ines. Manfred sneaks into Lifebone and deals Hoederer a mortal blow.
• 14-7: Countermeasures (After Operation)
  In the ducal alliance camp, Siege finds the Victorian soldiers ill-prepared for the drastically different battlefield conditions. Meanwhile, the Nachzehrer King enters the warzone to personally lead his army.
• 14-8: Close Support (Before Operation)
  The Exemplars meet the enemy on the battlefield. The Duke of Caster receives news that Siege has brought the Realmblade to the front lines. Dublinn's forces, led by Eblana, join the battlefield, and the duel between the Duke of Wellington and the Nachzehrer King begins.
• 14-8: Close Support (After Operation)
  The Rhodes Island group follows the trail of the Blood of Teekaz and makes their way to a Confessarius altar set up on the battlefield. However, they find themselves intercepted by Salus, and a number of strange creatures.
• 14-9: Response to Saturation Attacks (Before Operation)
  Amiya and the Doctor confront and defeat Salus once more, and the company chases after Salus' route of escape in search of the Blood of Teekaz.
• 14-9: Response to Saturation Attacks (After Operation)
  The Nachzehrer King receives an aid request from the battlefield's rear, and decides to withdraw from the front lines to attend to the matter personally. The Duke of Wellington also carries out an action that runs contrary to his plan. The battle situation immediately shifts, and the Duke of Caster's warship, the Gloriana, is crushed in an instant.
• 14-10: From the Light (Before Operation)
  The warship carrying the Stone of the Sword – the Gloriana – is besieged by the Sarkaz. To preserve the glimmer of victory, Siege, assisted by her companions, charges towards the Gloriana with Realmblade in hand.
• 14-10: From the Light (After Operation)
  The Stone of the Sword and the Realmblade become one, temporarily dispelling the Originium storm scourging the battlefield. Morale uplifted, the Victorian alliance begins their counterattack. Logos stays behind to hold back the Sudaram, and prepares to face the Nachzehrer King alone.
• 14-11: Of Heroes (Before Operation)
  Logos fights the Nachzehrer King and rings his own death knell.
• 14-11: Of Heroes (After Operation)
  Logos recreates Theresis's swordsmanship with witchcraft, cutting off the Nachzehrer King's arm. He falls off the cliff in the process, but is saved by a combat platform imbued with the Banshee's will.
• 14-12: Followers (Before Operation)
  Shining honors her own promise before the Confessarii, and prepares to bring Nightingale back. The Followers' final member, Margaret, finally makes it to her friends.
• 14-12: Followers (After Operation)
  Shining and Margaret repel the Confessarius at the cost of shattering Nightingale's soul, and his servant Qalid'čoa carries him to safety. At the same time, Salus uses her own blood to boil the Blood of Teekaz.
• 14-13: Descent from the Origin (Interlude)
  Back in Londinium, the workers begin working with Reunion. Amnannam descends upon the pinnacle of the Shard. Lifebone takes flight, picking up Amiya and the others.
• 14-14: High-Altitude Interception (Before Operation)
  Under Theresa's control, the airship seems to be on a collision course with Amnannam. W and Doctor's team board the airship in a bid to stop Theresa and Amnannam's plan.
• 14-15: Linebreaker (After Operation)
  The boarding party's plans aboard the airship are disrupted by the revenant, with the team separated from one another. W saves the Doctor from falling, while Kal'tsit is trapped by herself.
• 14-16: Hull Breach (Before Operation)
  In a bizarre team-up, the Doctor and W continue looking for the airship's core, only to find an enemy who looks particularly similar to the assassin who murdered Theresa years ago. Now, they are on the Military Commission's side.
• 14-16: Hull Breach (After Operation)
  Taking the opportunity of the airship's crystallization, the Doctor works with W to break through the enemy blockade and find the core of the airship. But there is no Theresa here, only the revenant.
• 14-17: Battle for the Core (Before Operation)
  Amiya overcomes Babel's enemies from the past, and hurries over to the Doctor and W. Kal'tsit also successfully breaks free and reunites with the group. Amiya sees the revenant's entire life and prepares for a final showdown.
• 14-18: Roaring Inferno (Before Operation)
  W aids Amiya in confronting the revenant, and successfully dismantles its core. The airship begins to go out of control as it loses power, and the wrathful revenant has no further misgivings about attacking everyone in the team.
• 14-18: Roaring Inferno (After Operation)
  Theresa finally shows as the revenant dissipates, rescuing it and entering an unknown space.
• 14-19: Inside the Crystal (Before Operation)
  The Doctor awakens in an unknown space, accompanied by Priestess.
• 14-19: Inside the Crystal (After Operation)
  The Doctor leaves that mysterious place, only to appear in Rhodes Island, surrounded by unexpected companions.
• 14-20: Procession of Kings (Before Operation)
  Within the Assimilated Universe stands a great tower that touches the sky, and everyone believes that Theresa awaits them at the top. Rhodes Island carries everyone to the tower, and Logos stays behind to face the will of the myriad souls alone.
• 14-20: Procession of Kings (After Operation)
  Everyone walks along the path to the top of the tower that touches the sky. When they arrive at the peak, heaven and earth invert.
• 14-21: The Myriad Dreams (Before Operation)
  The team encounters the rescued revenant at the top of the tower. It tells them of Theresa's ambition, and Theresa appears with awe-inspiring presence.
• 14-21: The Myriad Dreams (After Operation)
  The inevitable battle begins. It's a battle between W and Her Highness, and also between Amiya and the Sarkaz King she once admired.
• 14-22: When Sorrow Blooms (Before Operation)
• 14-22: When Sorrow Blooms (After Operation)
  Theresa is defeated, but completes her final mission. For a moment, every Sarkaz senses the thorough dissipation of the myriad souls. The Doctor and Amiya bring everyone out of the Assimilated Universe.
• 14-23: Night Goes Gentle (Interlude)
  Amiya prevents the airship from crashing, and sees something unexpected. Theresis also obtains the Sarkaz's Originium that Theresa gave her life for.
• EG-6: Lingering Mercy (Interlude)
  The past and the future. Theresa catches a glimpse of the answer to life in the Originium's sea of information.