ffbe_script | FFBE Script part 107: Defeating the Darklord

Previously...

MAGI NATION MYSIDA -- DEFEATING THE DARKLORD -- FINA'S PSYCHE BADLANDS 1

Lid(?): Rain? Lasswell? What is it? What's going on?

(The party has come to a halt, Rain and Lasswell staring ahead in attention.)

Rain: Lasswell... do you feel that?

Lasswell: I do. I wasn't sure you felt it as well.

Rain: He's here...

Lid: What? Who's here?

(The scene pans left as a Veritas walks up to the party.)

Lid(!): My d... The Veritas of the Dark.

Veritas of the Dark: What are you doing here?

Lid: O-oh... well... You see... We lost our way and wandered in here by mistake?

(Nichol and Jake both get (...) over their heads at this.)

Nichol: If you're going to lie, put some effort into it, would you?

Jake: Seriously. Give us something to work with.

(Lid sweats.)

Lid: Argh! I know! B-but no one else was saying anything!

Veritas of the Dark: I do not know your faces.... though you don't seem to be warriors of Hess...

(Rain walks forward.)

Rain: It is true that we're pretty lost. None of us has ever been here before, after all.

(Veritas of the Dark gets a (...) as he ponders this.)

Veritas of the Dark: Your eyes look honest. Fine then. If you are lost, follow me. I will take you to our base.

(He leaves.)

Lid: W-wait, is this a good idea? He said their base, right? Does that mean it's the headquarters of the Veritas or something?

Rain: What choice do we have? And anyway, don't you want to find out more about the Veritas?

(The others walk off, leaving Lid behind.)

Lid: I-I sure hope you're right about this, Rain...

MAGI NATION MYSIDIA -- DEFEATING THE DARKLORD -- FINA'S PSYCHE BADLANDS 2

Veritas of the Dark: We are still some distance from the base. I'm afraid we have a long road ahead of us yet.

(Rain steps forward.)

Rain: Can I ask something? Why are Aldore and Hess fighting anyway? Both Aldore and Hess were originally part of the same country, right? They were both part of Paladia, weren't they?

Veritas of the Dark: Borders and nations mean little when people do not hold the same beliefs. Our different beliefs have paved different roads ahead of us.

Nichol: It is a familiar tale in our own world, too...

Veritas of the Dark: Aldore worships at the altar of science. Hess cleaves to its visionary magicks. And the result is this war that you see all around us.

Nichol: Visionary... magicks?

Veritas of the Dark: The visionary magicks are different from the magic that we use. They are a strange power born of scientific progress. Hess declared independence from Paladia, attempting to create a new place for itself as a nation of visionary magicks. But their magicks are too dangerous. That was why Aldore could not simply stand by and watch it happen.

Rain: And that was how the war began...?

Veritas of the Dark(...): But if this war continues to drag on as it has, many lives will be lost on both sides. I want to bring this foolish conflict to an end. That's why I have to...

Rain: Isn't there any way to settle things peaceably?

Veritas of the Dark: There is. My power does not exist for the sake of cutting down my fellow men. It exists only to end this fruitless, interminable war. I will be the blade that cuts through the darkness that surrounds us. The darkness is my jurisdiction. That is why I take the name of Dark.

(Veritas of the Dark leaves.)

Rain: Dark...

Lid: That's... I mean, I know I shouldn't be thinking it, but... He was... kind of a great person, wasn't he? The Veritas of the Dark.

Rain: Mmm. It seems like he was.

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