TALES OF CRESTORIA (#5 - Divergent Paths) - Sloth Plays
0At last, tragically, we come to the end, Chapter 10 of Crestoria. The last content released for the game, and also some of its most interesting story updates.
Orwin's brother - the King - helps Kanata's group enter the Royal Library through a secret door, and there the truth of Kasque, and their entire world, is revealed to them.
800 years prior, the world had been under invasion by a hyper-aggressive breed of monsters, known as Dreadfangs. In order to curb this threat, humanity raised two artificial humans - Milla and Kasque - intending to create a vessel capable of holding a godlike amount of mana. Enough at least to let their chosen vessel wipe out the Dreadfang, purge the corruption that had spread, and perhaps watch over humans from above afterwards.
Although Milla intended to dutifully accept this role and become a god for humanity, Kasque feared the woman's strict ethics would condemn her to a rigidly attentive, duty-bound existence spanning endless millennia, and took Milla's place in the ritual instead. She had figured that once the Dreadfang were dealt with, she could half-ass her role anyway, and Milla could live a normal, fuller life as a human.
Unfortunately, in the end, Kasque was only able to wipe out the Dreadfang -- the issue of the corrupted lands beyond her new territory remained. As the corruption surrounded the remains of humanity, Kasque planted four Great Trees at the borders of the encroaching darkness, repelling their evil.
With this, a period of relative peace reigned in her lands for another 700 years after. But darkness had begun to grow even within the humans living safely in the borders of the Great Trees. To combat this, Kasque bestowed humanity with Vision Orbs, as a means of locating corruption, and sent down impartial entities of judgement - the Enforcers - to erase the sinners.
With this new historical knowledge, Kanata's group meet up with Milla, who is headed to one of the Great Trees, sensing someone is trying to hurt it. This turns out to be Assid and Forte, worshipers of Kasque, who explain that their goddess' new goal is to destroy the Trees.
[ Due to Crestoria's imminent shutdown, the story of the game ends here, with the group fending off Assid and Forte... and will apparently be concluded in manga format. ]
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