An ice altar appeared in Ancient Lake Baikal's Sector Seven. The members of the Special Steel Guard were on a reconnaissance mission, as an advance party to investigate the link between the ice sculptures and the ice altar found all along the way. |
Tayshet |
"This altar looks strange. Which country exactly is it from?" |
Fayette |
"You mean this isn't Eisengradian?" |
Volgo |
"Quite intriguing. If I want to say it's an ancient Eisengradian altar, I can see some resemblance, but it appears that there's some other countries' aesthetics mixed in too." |
Volgo |
"You are unlikely to see something like this, at least in modern Eisengrad." |
Tayshet |
"...Hey, didn't you just hear something?" |
Fayette |
"No? I didn't hear anything." |
Volgo |
"I didn't hear anything either. Do you know what that sound is?" |
Tayshet |
"No, no clue. But it sounds bad..." |
Tayshet |
"Is this, a human voice...?" |
??? |
"The knights... Offer my knights to the altar..." |
Fayette |
"Did you hear that, Volgo?" |
Volgo |
"Yes, I heard it. It's a woman's voice. Said to offer the knights to the altar." |
??? |
"Ones who travel across ice, offer the knights to the altar. Release the souls of the wandering soldiers from the bottom of the lake." |
Fayette |
"By knights, does she mean these cool-looking ice sculptures?" |
Volgo |
"Probably so. But the question is, what happens when we offer those ice sculptures?" |
Fayette |
"Release the souls of wandering soldiers from the bottom of the lake? Is it a good or bad thing to release them though...?" |
Tayshet |
"Wonder if these wandering soldiers could be the suspicious people that have been in recent sightings?" |
Tayshet |
"If they are wandering, we should do something about it. The never-melting ice sculptures led us to this altar." |
Volgo |
"It's all connected. I think we found our answer." |
Fayette |
"Well, let's get on with it. The main team still hasn't arrived yet, so we'd better get this over with before night's over." |
Fayette |
"Let's put those ice sculptures on the altar. See that pedestal thing in the middle? That's where we're going to line up all the ice statues we've collected." |
Volgo |
"Wait. If we're going to do this, one person is enough. You two should stay further away in case something goes wrong." |
Fayette |
"Okay. Then let's decide who's going to be the main character of this role." |
Tayshet |
"Tayshet will do it." |
Tayshet |
"Tayshet heard the voice first, so Tayshet should do it. Can do?" |
Fayette |
"Sure, let's leave it to Tayshet then, Volgo, give all the ice sculptures you've collected to Tayshet." |
Volgo |
"Here, be careful not to drop them." |
Tayshet |
"Yes, thank you." |
Tayshet received the ice sculptures from Volgo and Fayette and carefully placed them one by one on the altar. |
Tayshet |
"That's all. They fit nicely and perfectly." |
Volgo |
"Maybe this pedestal was made for arranging the ice statues." |
Fayette |
"Now then, the voice that's been silent ever since, is it our friend, or foe?" |
Paddington |
"I really wonder what is going to happen...?" |
Fayette |
"Please don't tell me that nothing happens." |
Tayshet |
"The ice sculptures are melting..." |
Fayette |
"Tayshet, get away from the pedestal. Don't touch that light." |
As Tayshet arranged the ice sculptures on the pedestal, the ice altar is enveloped in a dazzling light. Tayshet said they're 'melting', but we could not see what had happened to the ice sculptures on the pedestal from a distance. |
But, when we attempted to look at the pedestal again, what emerged from the strong light was not palm-sized ice sculptures we had just collected, but a large ice sculpture the size of a human child. |
Fayette |
"It's so big. Gonna to be hard to carry it back." |
Volgo |
"So all those little ice sculptures became one?" |
Paddington |
"E-everyone look over there! Mist is coming out from the big ice sculpture... Phantom Mist!" |
??? |
"...I will not give my treasure to anyone." |
??? |
"Go forth, my knight. Freeze all who walk on ice." |
Fayette |
"Baaaah, we've been tricked. Ain't this thing's a Mist Monster then." |
Volgo |
"We knew this would happen. Stop blabbering and let's get on with it, Tayshet, how are you feeling?" |
Tayshet |
"Fine. Nothing wrong." |
Fayette |
"So this is the prowler then. It's a bit bigger than I imagined..." |
Fayette |
"Eh, not a threat to us though!" |