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+The sanctuary began to rumble, and Keith forced Moira to lead them out. The earthquakes buried the Demon of Bahamut and, when they emerged in Poteyenheim to stop Rex Anfang from reaching the Ark, another tremor knocked it off its plinth, proving the time trap around it had ended. Rioux naturally scooped it up, and the party elected to return to Taronsawk, lacking anywhere else to go. Rioux locked the Ark in the Storeroom on the way: but when the party arrived they arrived to an aftermath, with all of the townsfolk either dead or escaped in a petty battle that they had missed. An Akselian Feldjaeger sat by a banner, confused that there was no one to surrender to: the Fourth Lehtion was badly running out of supplies, and needed to ally itself with powers beyond the wall to survive. Otto sent him on his way and then translated the encounter: the realisation that Akselmarch was never going to attack broke Moira, and Rioux had to lead her away, sobbing to her house, before glumly returning.
+The only matter left was that of the Ark. Rioux and Cairo both wanted to physically take it away, while Keith had been taken advantage of to release the Akselian Rex. Otto and Keith did, however, think it was best for them to open it, secluded, instead of allow it to be opened by anyone else: a plan that Rioux assented to after a prayer to Ahm. Cairo resisted, but the monk snapped the box open in the church before anyone could react, revealing it to be absolutely plain, bare, and empty. As Aristotle helpfully informed Keith, whatever treasures and curses it contained within had already been taken by Andren Bazat decades ago — and nothing could have ever come of their quest.
+Cairo wrote of these events to their Light clade, while Rioux through mad laughs remained in the church, praying. Keith, Otto, and Callie left, to continue burying the dead, utterly unsure of where to go next.