Forrest Winter - "Am I too young to be taken seriously? Why are my actions always considered wrong to adults? I wanna be a hero too!"
Characteristics - Forrest is the overly ecstatic archetype in the main group. If there is some innocence needed, Forrest is there to fill the void. Although he is twelve years old, he has the mindset of a ten-year-old due to the fact that he became an orphan seven years prior. No adult was able to take care of him besides his young peers. He loves guns and anything involving ammunition, but due to being underaged, he's only allowed a BB gun and a toy bazooka. His favorite activity is acting like a hero for unspoken reasons until later in the story.
Appearance - Forrest's main color scheme is blue. He likes to wear short, tattered attire because it is easier to run around with them. He has goggles dangling around his neck although he rarely uses them now that they're too small. Later, he gains a cubed bazooka that can inflate just as large as him. One highly notable garment that he has is his yellow cape that was given by Jess. It represents a future fortune that he must conquer to become a true hero.
Story plot (contains spoilers) -
Forrest appears after the first arc within the Village of Saradeli. He meets Felix and Rina in an alleyway in Kyrie, begging for food. However, his innocent face was completely fake as he only used it to get food easier. Felix learns about Forrest and his group's past and he offered to get leftover bread from the store nearby.
Waking up the next morning, Forrest forced himself to join Felix to find Jess. He considered this another heroic game, but Sydney mocked him. When finding Jess at the central tree, Forrest hears stories about how Felix is a fugitive. Forrest tells him that Felix is no hero after all, and so Forrest runs away in agony.
Later when Felix's group returns to Kyrie, Forrest attempts to turn him in to the Gammel soldiers. The strategy backfires when Floir decided to take Forrest captive as well. The group was set free (kind off) with the help of Jess and the large, angry bear. She tells him that Felix is no fugitive, and that he should be trusted.
Down at the waterfall of Silver Forest, Forrest opens up to Felix for the first time as they bond throughout their walk in the forest. He thoroughly tells Felix, Lydia, and Rina about his past, still unsure about what happened to his parents seven years ago. Besides Jess, Sydney, and Spencer, Forrest was the only other child to make it through their long walk past the Silver Forest and up the waterfall. Jess gives each person a cape, and states that Forrest's yellow cape indicated: "Yellow stabilizes between the heart of what is right and what is wrong. However, what seems wrong can be the right thing to do. When your most loved one may fall, like a crackle in the ground, you will learn to pick yourself up no matter what."
At the Isolated House, Forrest is the first to get frightened by Leo's armor.
On the train ride, Forrest rejoices with Felix and the two of them save Garnett from the train fire. They took her to her house at Ouli Brye, and then the boys left to regroup with Lydia, Rina, and Leo.
At the Ouli Brye market, Forrest begs for a toy bazooka but Rina said nobody has money. Leo sneaks money into the stall and buys the toy bazooka, requesting that Felix should give it to him later in the day.
When arriving at the capital of Ouli Brye, Rina commanded that Forrest and Lydia should hide somewhere hidden until they returned after asking the king important questions. However, Garnett kidnapped both him and Lydia and they were sent to the capital's basement.
In the basement, Lieutenant Floir appeared and offered to train Forrest and she would hand over two shards. This seems like a win-win situation for Forrest.
Forrest uses his newly infused toy bazooka and destroys several parts of the capital docks, causing a division between each of the main group, the Gammel army, and the Lennox army.
After the separation of the main group, Forrest becomes wary of the destruction that he's able to cause with a cubed bazooka. Leo quickly cheers him up.
At the Lake City Prima, character development ensues, revealing that Forrest would prefer poorer food than fancier food, and that he would prefer more dangerous roller coaster rides although he is underaged. He has no interest in auction houses, however.
After the auction house when the group tries to chase after Floir, Forrest accidentally crashes into Bailey, then persistently tries to invite the child to join his adventure. Bailey refuses, and Forrest is forced to keep moving forward to catch Floir.
Upon reaching Floir, she states that she has Forrest's friends captive, causing complete turmoil to Forrest.
In the Aria River, Forrest struggles to fight against one of the soldiers down a mud path while helping pass down the green shard of Instinct.
During the Troiya and Bafuul arcs, Forrest acts as a son towards Rina in order to enter Troiya. After the laboratory, his cubed bazooka was temporarily broken until it dried up in the Bafuulian jail cell. He helped knock out a guard from within the cell with the support of his cubed bazooka. Inflating itself out of the jail cell, the cubed bazooka was also used to destroy the nearby cameras. Stealing the keys from the guard, the group freed themselves.
Forrest is also responsible for saving Warren and his three friends, Jess, Sydney, and Spencer. Still, he persistently invites Bailey to join his group.
At the Grandine Hillage, Forrest takes an interest in Luna and Orlando's history because of their heroism.
When reaching the Hollow Cavern, Jess gives him the talk about saving Bailey. From here on, Forrest finally realizes that Bailey is the person from his yellow cape fortune. Now he must save Bailey or else it's too late!
In the Village of Saradeli, Forrest finds Jess and Bailey talking to each other. As Bailey escapes from surprise, Forrest becomes frustrated with Jess for not letting him know sooner that Bailey had arrived in the village.
Forrest gets left behind at the village, but he eavesdrops on the main group's next plan. At Vector, Forrest makes a surprise reappearance in an attempt to save Bailey.
Once Viola joined, Forrest became entirely afraid of Viola and agrees with Rina's distrust in Viola without any of his own valid reasons.
At the Li'Opa Jungles, Forrest makes new tapir friends named Billy and Booby.
In Lament, Forrest struggles to persuade Bailey to stray away from the Gammel government. In an attempt to do so, he almost gets injured in the process by Bailey, ironically.
In the City of Celestia, Forrest pairs up with Warren, learning that Warren had an even worse childhood than Forrest. In an attempt to make him feel better, Forrest decides to give Warren another chance to experience what it's like to be a kid again.
Forrest returns from the Celestia separation as a maid... wearing a maid outfit in Phardia. He gets set free after Viola gives a fake kiss to the mayor.
After seeing the Frolix Volcano, Forrest becomes upset that Warren wanted to sacrifice himself, especially thinking that his group of friends had died during the Celestia separation.
During the Wiserheim coliseum tournament, Forrest creates the name of "Unicorn Party" for the main group's team.
Futher into the story, Forrest discovers that Jess journeyed to Magnus' tower on her own. Forrest becomes antsy and vows to follow her to the top, only to find out that it was too late. He watches as Bailey uncontrollably stabs Jess by the stomach and she says her goodbyes to him, telling him that this was the foretelling of his cape.
From the aftermath, Forrest returns to the Village of Saradeli, devastated and upset, but in the end, he forces himself to smile and move on.
At the battle of Lament, Forrest continuously watches as mutants and human beings kill one another. This was the turning point for him in order to push forward, and to not look back to his fears. He also participates in fighting against the large octopus monster which had Igor's face.
As he returns to Saradeli again, he is prompt against a battle with the giant bear that went rampage in the beginning of the story.
In the end after Zozna, Forrest makes it out alive and decides to live in the Village of Saradeli with his friends, including Lydia and all of the adults in order to bring youth and life to the village.
Lieutenant Lionel - "Hahaha! You pipsqueaks can't stand a chance against the lieutenant chosen to fight for justice. Stand in my way and I will slice those legs into shreds! ...Perhaps."
Characteristics - Lionel is kind of... an oddball in the series. He is rather rude, but deep down he can show his soft side. At the same time, he's capable of creating descriptive imaginations that involve gore if he needed to threaten his enemies. For his exterior, he would show no mercy towards his opponents as he serves to annoy Felix and his group of friends along the journey. Funny enough, he managed to be the second most feared lieutenant in the Gammel army.
Appearance - Lionel has one of the more normal outfits that need no further description. He has a green collar above his orange overalls. Two notable parts of him come from the reddish eyes which is pretty self-explanatory as to how frightening that could be, and the spiked hair to show his crazy side. To top it off, he has a scythe which no normal person would use in battle unless you're out to murder someone!
Other information:
Episode Debut: 2
Episodes Shown: 14
Age: 17
Height: 5'8
Weapon: Scythe
Occupation: 2nd district lieutenant of Gammel
Story plot (contains spoilers) -
Lionel appears in the second episode to help Floir find Lydia and Rina. He clashes with Felix's group at the hideout, but loses to an apple and a childish strategy by Rina and Felix.
He reappears at Felix's house at the end of the short village arc. He threatens Felix to give Lydia back or else his mother will be killed, but Rina disrupts the battle, leaving behind Mrs. Wolfram and Lionel.
Lionel successfully escapes from the capital docks after the disruption that Forrest caused.
At the end of Yucan Tempa, Lionel makes his way down from the chairlift, but Felix and Garnett both try to persuade him to stop the attack. However, Felix was forced to cut down the chairlift due to Lionel's persistence. In the end, Lionel falls into the pit of trees of a growing forest, not to be seen again and is assumed dead.
Although Lionel does not appear on episode 30, he was described by Mrs. Wolfram as a kind man who actually does show mercy.
Lionel makes a surprise reappearance in Lament as an ally for Leo and Warren.
Lionel follows Floir and Talbot to find Magnus.
He also partakes in Gammel's team as the finalist in Wiserheim's coliseum tournament; however, they end up failing.
During Saradeli's visits in Volume 5, Lionel helps the village improve, without wanting to show that he cares for its growth. He also supports Floir in the search for Magnus' towers all around the world, including Shiu Jo.
During Zozna's events, Lionel stays behind to support the defective Garnett, upset that she sacrificed herself in order to support the main group for entering the final dungeon.
He continues to support the Gammel government in the conclusion of the series.
Lieutenant Floir - "Do you really believe that a lieutenant has the time and luxury to toy with teenagers? I will strike those who stand in my way!"
Characteristics - Strong and stern, Lieutenant Floir is one of the most feared in the Gammel army. She shows no hesitation when trying to catch or even kill her enemies. In the story, Floir's voice is described as deep and confident, showing that she has been a part of the military for years, possibly over a decade. Even if she has a strong desire to protect the lives of Gammel land, she also has a few quirks such as being confused whenever Lydia randomly cries. Later in the story, there will be other characters to explain more of her flaws.
Appearance - Floir has blondish-cream-colored hair that is French-braided down to her hips. Most of her body is covered in the loudest armor that clinks together whenever she walked. Even with heels, she's able to run with them. It is said that she enjoys stabbing into things with her heels, so maybe that's why. Of course, to top it off, she has a halberd weapon that already looks scary.
Other information:
Episode Debut: 1
Episodes Shown: 21
Age: 28
Height: 6'2
Weapon: Halberd
Occupation: 1st district lieutenant of Gammel
Story plot (contains spoilers) -
Lieutenant Floir makes her first appearance in the village moments after Lydia and Rina arrived. She tells Lionel to chase after him.
Further into the village arc, she captures Clyde.
Lieutenant Floir reappears in the second visit of Kyrie and attempts to capture Felix, Rina, Lydia, and Forrest. However, Jess appeared with a giant bear and distracted her as the main group rolled their way down to the Silver Forest.
Returning in Ouli Brye before the infiltration, she offers Forrest to be a part of the Gammel army to train him into a stronger person and at the same time, returning two of the seven shards to him.
Floir escapes after the big rupture that Forrest caused on the capital docks.
The lieutenant makes a reappearance at the Lake City Prima, taking the Violet Shard and threatening Forrest about his friends' being hostages. When Forrest slightly destroys the docks, Floir tips over the falling ground, but Lydia takes her hand. Floir manically asks why Lydia is being so nice after knowing that Floir was the one who killed her adoptive father, but Lydia has no explanation. In the end, Floir refuses Lydia's hand and jumps off the building and into the ocean.
Floir appears in a flashback, the same time when she unwillingly murdered Mahaj at the Meadow.
In Loomin, Floir takes Warren as prisoner towards Bafuul. However, she first decides to chase down Lydia, Forrest, and Leo in order to take back the green shard. Partially successful, Floir manages to take a hold of Lydia, but after Lydia instills the green shard.
Floir appears with the rest of the Gammel lieutenants (minus Lionel) to discuss their further plan about Bafuul's infiltrators. Later in Bafuul, she tries to stop Garnett from her tantrums but Garnett easily fought back with almost light speed and raging aura. With this, Floir is almost defenseless.
Floir reappears after the Lament arc. She states that the Gammel lieutenants and the main group are no longer enemies, but rivals who shall not interfere with each other. She leaves, saying that Magnus is her own business, not the main group's.
From here on, it seems Floir and her possey become villain-turned-good. She makes her next appearance during the coliseum tournament in Wiserheim, to have an honorable battle against the main group to prove which side is stronger. However, with Rina's surprise entrance, the Gammel team loses.
During the events of returning to Saradeli, Floir and her group help the main characters to find a way and stop Magnus and the towers. Thus, Floir also partakes in the events of Shiu Jo,
Before the battle of Zozna, Floir assists the plan to assault Zozna with her own battleships.
In the end, Floir continues to set a good example of Lieutenant for the Gammel army, to bring peace to the world of Rhadessia.
Professor Talbot - "The fact that a spec of the human population dislikes progression is the reason why we cannot suffice with educational research, such as Obsidian energy."
Characteristics - Talbot is seen as a creepy character, but is one of the best known scientists in the Gammel army, and possibly the entire world. He is even capable of crystallizing people's minds into an orb. Yes, he's only 19. The interesting thing about him is that he is able to keep his cool, until someone decides to insult him just once. He would get very insulted and it turns into some sort of comic relief in the series. His intentions are a bit unclear until later in the series.
Appearance - The bandanna-aviators says it all: he's a strange freak. His outfit contains a large lab coat in the color of gray and green. His facial hair is not necessarily fully shaved as he is too busy with his own research for that kind of priority. He has a running gag of wearing different aviators each time he appears in the story. Like Rina, he also uses knives engraved with magic but it is not as strong, and that happens for a reason untold until later.
Other information:
Episode Debut: 1
Episodes Shown: 23
Age: 19
Height: 6'0
Weapon: Knives
Occupation: high-class professor/scientist of Gammel
Story plot (contains spoilers) -
Professor Talbot first presents himself in front of Rina and Lydia atop a hill in the Village of Saradeli. He requests to Lydia that she hand over herself and that he's capable of turning her memory into a crystallized orb if she refused. Well, it happened. Thanks to Rina, the orb shattered into seven pieces and it flew all over the world. Because of this, Talbot suddenly panicked and ran off in search of them.
He shows up during the central tree scene with Jess in Kyrie. However, he failed to retrieve the first shard as Rina was the one who grabbed it first.
In the Town of Igor, Felix, Rina, and Lydia infiltrated Talbot's laboratory. In an attempt to be sneaky, Talbot offered a fake shard and stated it was the second shard for Lydia. With Rina knowing it was a lie, she retaliated and made her way to the real shard. After she placed it in her backpack, Talbot claimed he knew who Rina really was.
Talbot returns into the series yet again at the docks of Ouli Brye. As he escapes from the capital docks, he hands the Knowledge shard over to Rina and claims he will not be as generous again.
Professor Talbot finally appears in volume 2 at Troiya. Apparently, the visit to the Troiyan laboratory would be the first time he gets to see chemical Obsidian energy being fused into humans. However, when Rina and the main group infiltrates and accidentally destroys the chemical vials, the essence mutates the closest scientists, creating extra limbs and blood loss - but not even the blood loss made them weak. The chemical energy defied it. As a result, he was forced to escape the laboratory. One questionable act in the end of this scene showed Talbot splashing water all over the main group. It is assumed he had done it to dispel any chemicals on them, causing the group to question if he's a good guy after all.
Talbot appears at Vector but not as an enemy. He becomes depressed by the fact that all his scientific research went towards mutating human beings.
Returning in the Lament arc, Talbot saves Hazel and Forrest from getting killed by Bailey. He then explains his purpose for helping the group. He also knows the side-effects of the Stone of Concealment.
Talbot follows Lionel and Floir to find Magnus.
He also reappears to help Gammel's team at the coliseum tournament, but he, along with his group, end up losing.
The main group decides to look for all of Magnus' towers, but in order to do that, they needed Talbot's intelligent support to locate them faster. He also managed to locate the strongest monsters that Magnus created, with the help of Lament's castletop.
He stays in the Village of Saradeli, mainly to refunction Garnett's brain to be less destructive, thus giving her a heart.
In the end of the series, Talbot continues his research on Garnett in the Village of Saradeli.
The sunset made its way to the
horizon and the moon took its turn for duty. Luckily for the teenagers, the
soldiers infiltrating the docks could not see past the small forest patch that
they were in. The docks were a little smaller than the usual football field as
the village itself could barely maintain large acres of land. There were
several crates getting imported from the village to lesser towns that did not
care about safety sanitation, but at the moment, they were paused at the abrupt
entrance of these soldiers. Felix, Clyde, and Rina could see them walking into
the village.
“Battleships?!” the group of three
yelped together.
Right at that moment, Lydia punched
Felix out of the carriage.
“Ow! What the heck was that for?!”
Felix asked as Rina chuckled.
Clyde snuck out of the carriage to
help him rise, understanding that Lydia’s impulses were still uncontrollable at
this point. They could see soldiers looking into the forest-like patch in
between them.
“Sh!” Rina whispered to them even
though she was the only loud person with her obnoxious chuckling.
Some of the soldiers started walking
closer. Felix and Clyde abruptly stood up and they had to think of a plan
before they were found! Rina still sat in the carriage with Lydia.
Only a Few Seconds of Panic
Rina: Don't panic, don't panic. Felix: It's better to say it quietly. Rina: Who made you the boss here?! They're coming right this way! Clyde: They can't see us yet since we're in the shadows. Rina: That doesn't matter! I'm going to just blast them with a fireball. Felix: You shouldn't do that! They're people, AND you'll destroy the village. Rina: Does it look like I care? What else are we gonna do?! Clyde: By the way, has anybody seen Lydia? Rina: *grabs Lydia back into the carriage* Lydia, what are you doing?! Felix: Uh, I say we throw her out as bait! Rina: I'm going to throw YOU out as bait, Suspenders! ARGH! Clyde: This type of physical beating is the start of a new friendship.~ Felix: Stop attacking me with your shoe! Stop it! Rina: The next attack will be right up the unmentionables! Clyde: Oh my...
“Anyway, now that I got my answer on how
they got here, I’m leaving. You said there is another exit south of the
village, right?” She questioned them.
Clyde stumbled. “Wait, you’re
planning to leave already?”
Felix took sight of one of the
battleships. “I want to go inside the ships though. My dad has to be in one of
them.”
Rina began to point at him angrily.
“What are you, stupid? Look how big those ships are! There are too many. Having
to check each one would take hours, not to mention that we’re running away from them.”
“No. You two are running away from them. Look, I don’t think that crazy
scythe guy told his soldiers about us yet. For Clyde and I, it’s safe to walk
into the docks and ask around like innocent children.”
“Hah. They won’t even let a fly into
that ship. Well, I rest my case anyway since you’re basically a fly. But my
point is, you’re wasting your time.”
This made Felix a little surprised.
‘You’re just wasting your time’, he repeated in his head. These were similar words
he had said to his mother.
“Rina, if you think about it, the
soldiers will expect that your next escape plan is the only route south of the
village. If you sneak into the battleship and wait for them to leave, then
you’ll be somewhere far away and unexpected,” Clyde suggested.
“That sounds like a smart idea, but
I’ll end up being even closer to the enemy base.”
“So when the ship lands back to
their base, why don’t you just sneak out whenever no one is looking?” Felix
added.
“Like I can do that already by heading
south?! I mean, why should I put in the extra effort to sneak into the ship if
Lydia isn’t even thinking properly? I’d rather leave by foot. It’s practically
safer.”
Felix became frustrated with her.
“Fine, then go. I need to get onto that ship!”
Rina yelled, “Finally! I didn’t want
you around anyway! Clyde, let’s go. You’re coming with me. Since you’re both
responsible for causing a bigger mess for me earlier, I might as well take one
of you to repay me by helping me find those shards.”
Rina grabbed onto Clyde’s left
sleeve while Felix gripped onto the right sleeve.
“You can’t just take my friend away.
Clyde’s going to the ship with me.”
The two of them started pulling
Clyde towards themselves simultaneously. He was feeling quite uncomfortable
since he promised himself to help Rina, but at the same time he couldn’t leave
his close friend behind.
“H-Hey…” Clyde said slowly.
Lydia suddenly pulled a rope that
signaled the horse to ‘neigh’ out loud. Oddly enough, she did this without
showing emotion. The three students quickly turned around, hoping that the
soldiers didn’t hear the horse. Unfortunately, they heard. [Music 1.5]
Rina had to let go of Clyde in order
to stay on the carriage as it rolled off. Meanwhile, with Felix still holding
onto Clyde, they both fell over, giving time for the soldiers to come closer.
“U-Uh oh!” Felix panicked. “What are
we going to do now?!”
Clyde grabbed Felix and pushed him
into the bushes. He ran towards the nearby soldiers with his rapier.
“Clyde?!” Felix screeched. “What are
you doing?”
“Run off to the side. You’ll reach
the ship’s back entrance.”
“There is a back entrance to that
thing?!”
“Everything always has an emergency
exit.”
“But what about you?”
“Don’t worry about me. I’ll try to
find you along the way. I’ll distract them,” He said, readying his weapon. [End music]
Felix had no other choice but to run
ahead and hope that Clyde will make it out in one piece without getting caught.
With Rina and Lydia already gone with their horse carriage, he had to do this
alone…
~ Village of Saradeli – southeast district – nearest
battleship ~
Once Felix reached the battleship,
he took an immediate stop when he saw soldiers guarding the back door. There
were civilians standing around, watching the commotion. To Felix’s advantage,
he said out loud for the soldiers to listen, “Something is happening over there!”
He said, making up a random lie while pointing at the opposite end of the dock.
As they hurried to the front, Felix
grabbed onto the door’s handle but it didn’t budge.
“Why were they guarding a locked
door?!” Felix complained.
Next
to the rear door was a ladder attached to the ship which led to the upper deck
in case of emergencies. His plan to sneak in from the rear had been crushed,
but he could still climb onto the top of the deck.
Upon reaching the top, some of the
villagers began gossiping to each other about Felix illegally sneaking onto the
ship. He tried to silence them with ‘shhh’ a few times but nobody listened. One
villager down at the docks had the audacity to point at Felix and a few
soldiers became alert.
Felix suddenly came to a stop as he
reached the top deck. “Oh crap… Why didn’t I think of this before?!”
Felix reminded himself that
battleships obviously need cameras in every room, so there was no point in trying
to sneak around until he finds his father. At this point, Felix started running
mindlessly towards the door leading to the bottom deck. One soldier stood in
front of the door and he aimed a gun at Felix who was still stampeding closer. [Music 3.1]
The soldier hadn’t expect to shoot
under-aged children before, so he startled and panicked. In no time, Felix
pushed him but they both fell together, slamming apart the back door. A
staircase to the next bottom floor was revealed. Down the steps, Felix used the
soldier as a sled to slide down the staircase. A few more soldiers were in
separate rooms watching Felix as he continued running down the narrow hallway.
Most of them didn’t really care since they weren’t ordered to guard anything.
Instead, Felix created a festivity in the ship for the soldiers’ entertainment.
Great!
Out of nowhere, a soldier appeared
outside his bedroom and Felix had to make a quick stop before crashing into the
man. He made an immediate turn to the left which was another bedroom. In these
battleships, most of the soldiers had to live in separate bedrooms, or they at
least shared it with another roommate during their voyages at sea.
“What are you doing in here?!” a
soldier said, frightened instead of being brave.
Felix saw the nearest door in front
of him, so he opened it and barged in.
“Hey, I wouldn’t go in there if I were
you,” the same soldier said.
Felix shrugged as he turned around
after closing the door. There was a naked soldier behind him but he had a towel
over his unmentionables.
“Wh- A bathroom?!” Felix stuttered.
The soldier blushed. “G-Get out of
here!”
The previous soldier barged in to
help pull Felix out of the bathroom, but the door only pushed Felix forward,
who then crashed into the naked soldier. The soldier slipped, turning around
and accidentally dropping his own face into the toilet. Felix looked up and he
could see a vent right above the toilet seat. In a hurry, Felix pushed the
bathroom door shut so that one of the men was locked out. While the naked
soldier had his head in the toilet, Felix dropped the toilet cover and he
stepped onto it, accidentally banging it onto the naked soldier’s head.
At the very last moment after Felix
entered the vent and re-closed it, the naked soldier took his head out of the
toilet to look around.
“Huh? Where did he go?”
Felix snickered. “Hehe!” [End music]
Like usual, Felix became the
troublemaker of the village, only with the soldiers.
~ Village of Saradeli – southeast district – battleship
interior ~
It has been a quarter of a mile
since Felix entered the vents. He began feeling exhausted due to the minimal space
he had, and he had to push through while bending as small as he could. All he
had seen so far were bathrooms from each bedroom until he stumbled upon a
hallway. The conversations he had heard ranged from what was for dinner in a
few hours and what their plans were for the village. Most were unsure exactly
about what was going on, however. [Music 3.2]
As he was about to move along, he
heard a soldier calling out ‘Floir’ to a woman who casually walked down the
hall. Felix paused to take a look.
“Lieutenant! We have urgent news,” the
soldier said to the woman.
It turns out that this woman is the
same person who ordered Lionel to enter the village from before. The soldier
whispered into the woman’s ear.
“What? I will take care of it right
now. Tell the pilots that I, Floir, will be off the ship. They can start
channeling themselves back home. I will board the other ship in the back.”
“Yes, ma’am!” He saluted and ran
off.
“Floor?” Felix guessed her name
wrong. “Someone named her after a floor?”
At any rate, he knew there was
little time left now that the ship was going to steer off once the pilots hear
the news – whatever the news was. Felix continued onward.
Not too far ahead, he became too
annoyed of the narrow vents that he was in for several minutes. He looked for
an empty bathroom so he could jump off and continue sneaking around by foot.
Luckily, the next bathroom was in the clearing, hoping that he would not find
another naked man in the stall by surprise. As he jumped down as quietly as
possible, he headed for the door and placed his ear against the door. There was
no sound. He then crouched down to see any shadowy footsteps through the
opening under the crease. None.
“The coast is clear,” Felix
whispered to himself.
Slowly
opening the door, Felix took sight of a completely different room. There were
weapons of all kinds stacked against the wall: spears, hammers, swords, axes,
poles, and mostly strange hybrids. On the other side was a wall of firearms:
snipers, pistols, carbines, and even small bazookas.
“Do they really need all these kind
of weapons?” he questioned, noticing one of the hybrid close-ranged weapons.
He hunched over to view the name. “Crescent
Blade. Interesting,” he said as he grabbed it by the handle. “And it’s light!”
The
handle was a silver pole that was bound together by sockets attached by a long,
blue, crescent-shaped blade. Felix did not prefer much of a rapier weapon as
they were long and thin which felt flimsy to him as compared to how Clyde used
it. With a light blade such as the one he is holding now, he could easily
attack at a quick speed and use it as a defensive shield at the same time. [End music]
One of the soldiers walked in and
saw Felix with the crescent blade. “Whoa, put that down.”
Felix took a step back. The man
pointed his carbine weapon at Felix which basically checkmated the teenage boy
immediately. Instead, Felix did not drop his weapon and he retaliated with a
question.
“Do you know of a man named uh…” His
memory of his father’s first name must have run off. They were not very close,
so he only used his father’s last name. “Mr. Wolfram?”
“Who?” The soldier kindly placed his
weapon beside his hips.
“Um, well, he works for the
government. I was just wondering if-…”
“Oh, no. We soldiers work for our
lieutenants only. We may be ordered by the government, but we never get to see
them directly.”
Felix sighed. “So that means he
could be anywhere… Oh, hey! Do you happen to have an extra outfit?”
“You don’t belong here, do you?
Listen, I am in a hurry. I heard there has been an infiltrator coming from the
docks and he was trying to make his way into the battleship. The lieutenant
told me to pick up some more weapons for the other soldiers.”
Now, Felix realized the soldier came
in to get weapons and participate in stopping the ‘infiltrator’ which could be
no one else but Clyde!
Felix took a step aside. “Alright.
I’ll just leave you alone or something and find Mr. Wolfram myself.”
The soldier began walking to the
wall with ammunition and Felix elbowed the man’s head onto the machinery. The
impact made the guns fall along with the man.
“A-Alright, it’s time to bust on out
of here,” Felix said to himself, leaving the room with a crescent blade.
Another man in the hallway was
accidentally pushed aside. “What do you think you’re doing?!”
“I’m getting out of here!”
“But the exit is this way…” he said,
correcting Felix.
When Felix turned around and started
running again, the man paused. “Wait a minute. You must be the infiltrator!”
“Wait, what?! No I’m not!” Felix
said in a panic. “Well, I mean I guess I’m infiltrating right now but I’m not the infiltrator you’re looking for!”
The man stopped in confusion. “Huh??”
“See ya!” Felix continued running.
The only easy way to find any exit was to just head to the upper
floors until he accidentally finds the ship deck. With luck, he made his way
out, pushing a guarding soldier away from behind. The soldier stood up and
aimed his rifle at Felix.
“Stop right there!”
Felix turned around to see that he
was trapped. A few more began to circle him in an outer crescent. The only path
Felix had left was to walk backwards, but that was not going to last long. He
took one more step back and half of his foot landed against the edge of the
ship. Below him was not water that he could jump into; it was hard land!
“You are trapped. Drop your weapon!”
another man called out.
Felix looked at the ground and he
noticed that Clyde was still pushing his way through the men with his rapier.
It was amazing that Clyde could last this long while Felix was inside the ship.
Even for such a narrow weapon, Clyde managed to deflect any gunfire. ‘When did
he get so good?’ Felix asked himself. At that moment, the same woman named
Floir appeared without any weapon at all. Knowing she was one of the leaders,
Felix knew Clyde would not make it to the ship successfully.[Music 1.6]
“You guys may have trapped me,”
Felix said, “but you forgot one important thing!”
Some of the men looked confused.
Felix made a quick jump off the ship from almost three stories above. He aimed
for a hanging fishing net nearby a few crates and soldiers.
“Losers!! Hahaha!” Felix yelled.
The soldiers down below stopped
their quarrel with Clyde as they watched Felix flying from the deck of the
ship. Well, he stopped flying eventually. Natural turbulence made him feel a
little wobbly and he suddenly got out of control and landed on top of a soldier
sitting on top of a few crates.
A bunch of villagers screamed at the
crisis. Floir, on the other hand, had her palm over her forehead in
disappointment at yet another commotion being created.
With Felix being the main
distraction now, some of the soldiers were able to catch Clyde from behind!
Floir smiled as she said out loud
for everyone to listen, “You there, boy. We have your lovely friend in custody
now.”
Felix stood up and he jumped away
from the soldier that he landed on. Floir continued to bargain with him, “If
you run, we will hunt you down. But if you come with us, we will not hurt you.”
Both Felix and Clyde obviously knew
this would be a lie. Clyde gave Felix a nod – a signal to run despite how he
had no defensive shield, besides his crescent blade.
Felix took a few steps back until he
was leaning beside a few crates. With his swift movement, he pushed all the
crates down and some of the men began firing at him. Most gunshots took the
crates and any successful aim only landed against Felix’s crescent blade.
Clyde yelled out to him, “Run,
Felix! Run as far as you can!!!! We will meet again, I promise!!!”
Felix clenched his teeth in fear.
“Clyde, you better stay alive! I’ll come back for you!” He thought to himself.
“I’m not giving up on you!”
Several dozens of soldiers began to
follow him into the forest leading into the village itself. Floir glared at the
leftover crates, and then to Clyde.
“Tch,” she said. [End music]
Even in the battleship’s dark
surveillance room, security guards watched each screen that showcased every
camera both inside and outside. One man in a silhouette watched. The only
object shining on him was a wedding ring in his hands.
~ Village of Saradeli – north district ~
The villagers began to falter once
they saw a stampede of soldiers rushing in. Since Felix was running alone at
first, not many of them noticed he was the target. The only safe place he could
go to was his home now that Lionel knew of his secret hideout at the eastern
portion of the village.
Upon reaching his home, he rushed
into the building and called out to his mother. “Mom! Are you there?!”
There was no answer. Maybe she was
still in the gardens, doing late-night farming during dinner hours.
“I’m out here, Felix,” she said with
a trembling voice.
Felix could not see her in the dark
but as long as she was there, everything must have gone well for her. Felix
rushed into the garden to have a word with her about Clyde, but the only thing
he saw was… Lionel with the scythe on his right arm, gripping against Felix’s
mother from behind.
“Welcome home, kid,” Lionel said
sarcastically. [Music 3.3]
Felix’s heart sank. His eyes widened
and he could see his mother being kept as hostage. The blade was close to her
body.
“What do you think you’re doing? How
did you find us?!”
“You’d think we lose sight of you
that easily? I followed you in secret and found out where you lived. All I had
to do was wait for your sorry little butt to come here crying to your mommy,
and here you are. Ahhh hahahaha!”
“Let her go!”
Lionel took a few steps back,
stepping on the freshly planted seeds over the mulch that Mrs. Wolfram just
spent all day planting.
“Come with me, and when we reach the
docks, I will let your mother go. Then again, I’ve also been told that this
village is being taken over by the Gammel military.”
‘Gammel’ is the name of the military
that has been on the docks all this time.
“What did you say?!”
“Yeah, something about this village
being poor so it will need some proper regulations. I dunno, apparently some
weird guy must have been talking about it at the council in Vector.”
“The city of Vector?” Felix gasped.
“The Gammel government? That’s my dad you’re talking about!”
“What a coinkydink!~ The little
village boy crying to his mommy has a daddy in the Gammel government? Hahaha!
Now this is an interesting story to tell. Anyway, get your butt over here or
I’m going to have to make your legs bleed.”
Felix stopped for a moment. “(My
legs? Is this another way of saying he wants to torture me by crawling my way
towards him in order to get my mom back?)”
A large ball of flame flew past
Lionel and it hit the trees behind the garden.
“Oh,” A girl said apathetically from
the rooftop. “I missed.”
Lionel said angrily, “What the hell
was that just now?!”
Suddenly, the same horse from Clyde’s
horse carriage stampeded over Lionel.
Rina called to Mrs. Wolfram, “Have
you decided yet?!”
Mrs. Wolfram said kindly, “I want to
stay. If what this man said is true about new regulations, my husband will come
any minute.”
Felix stomped his foot. “Are you
still going with that?! He’s not-…”
Rina stopped him, “Suspenders, she
makes her own choices. The military is ordered to take over the village, not
kill the villagers. She will be safe even if she decides to stay! Now, you decide to stay or leave.”
Felix looked at his mother, “But
mom… the soldiers are after me now.”
“Get this stupid horse off of me!”
Lionel said without paying attention to the conversation.
Mrs. Wolfram only gave a smile. “It
is best for you to go, now that they are looking for you. I want you to find a better place to live in,
and this village may not be the best for that.”
Felix began to cry. “But mom… I’m
not going anywhere without you!”
“You can come back any time when
things calm down. For now, I want you to go out into the world and find a city
that seems right for you! Please, do this for me?”
Felix wiped his tears away. “I… I
will!”
Rina came back downstairs and said
to Felix, “Welp, I’m leaving. Come on, Lydia, let’s get out of here!”
Felix looked at Rina, and then back
to his mother.
“Go with her,” Mrs. Wolfram ordered.
“She will keep you and herself safe from danger.”
After a long bit of contemplation,
Felix finally made a decision. “F-Fine!” Felix said. “It’s time I… say goodbye
to this village…”
He ran out of the house, looking at
it one last time before moving on. The fiery bright blaze seared to the top of
the tree behind the house like a beautiful campfire soaring in the night sky in
smoke. Then, Felix began to run away, now completely out of sight of his
mother… [End music]
[Ending 1 music]
~~~
On the next episode, we're finally moving the setting away from the Village of Saradeli. This 'basic' arc is now going to open towards more paths. What do I mean? Well, the plot doesn't only focus on Lydia and the army! There seems to be more characters coming in who were affected by a genocide that occurred seven years ago. Maybe we'll get a clue as to why Lydia is being chased down. Tune in for episode 4!
Rina Nora - "I don't care who you are, nor if you were the damn president of the government. I will keep my vows even if it goes against your views!"
Characteristics - Rina is possibly the main comic relief in the story, but not because she is funny, but because she is plain rude to almost everybody but Lydia and Felix's mother. Not even a King or Gammel lieutenant would make her bow down respectfully. Because of her barbaric personality, she tends to be one of the strongest in the main group. She is the only character in the group to use magic for unknown reasons. Her biggest concern is whenever people touch her backpack.
Appearance - Although breaking the fourth wall, some characters in the story mention how odd it is that Rina has both reddish hair and a reddish color scheme throughout her outfit. She has a one-piece, large overall with teal designs signifying that she is the only magic user out of almost everybody in the world, besides Talbot and a few others such as Lady Pria. As mentioned above, she cherishes her backpack the most and claims it is because her backpack is the only belonging that she left with when leaving home.
Other information:
Episode Debut: 1
Episodes Shown: 58
Age: 17
Height: 5'7
Weapon: Throwing Knives
Occupation: magician and Lydia's best friend
Story plot (contains spoilers) -
Rina debuts with Lydia in the first episode while running away from a bunch of Gammel soldiers. After accidentally shattering Lydia's shards into seven pieces, she brings Lydia to a random building which happened to be Felix's hideout. She still dreads the time when she clashed with Professor Talbot.
When exiting the building, she gets trapped by a bunch of Gammel soldiers along with their lieutenant, Lionel. Upon successfully escaping, she and the group enters Felix's main household to meet his mother. She quickly gives passive-aggressive respect towards Felix's mother (Mrs. Wolfram), asking if she could join her quest to find the shards. Felix disapproves, and Rina requests to give Mrs. Wolfram more time to think about it.
When the group heads over to the docks and divides, Felix runs into Rina again back at the household. When Mrs. Wolfram decided to stay, Rina ditched her and left alone with Lydia. Felix was forced to follow her, but she didn't really want him to anyway.
Rina and Felix separate again at Kyrie after arguing for several minutes. When Felix headed towards the central tree to find Jess, Rina appears again to blast a fireball directly at Jess. Luckily, she missed. Jess drops the shard and Rina was able to snatch it before Professor Talbot could retrieve it.
In the Town of Igor, Rina, Lydia, and Felix snuck into the research laboratory and there, Rina read plenty of disastrous information at the library. Following this, she spoke with Professor Nell in order to synthesize magic with weapons. Thus, Rina then chose to use throwing knives for the rest of her journey.
When Rina snuck into the main laboratory where Talbot resided, she retrieved the second shard and placed it in her backpack. This made Talbot somehow claim that he knew who she was.
In the Silver Forest, she lashes out against Felix and Forrest, claiming they don't understand what she has been going through. Furthermore, Rina managed to find a mythical woman named Lady Pria who could use magic, and that she's not really alive. Pria refused to teach Rina more magic until they met again.
During the train ride towards Ouli Brye, Garnett picks a fight with Rina (or it could be the other way around depending on who you root for...).
Finally at Ouli Brye, Rina urges to leave anybody behind if they refuse to quickly head for the capital and ask questions about the shards. When Clyde told her about the surprise attack during nightfall, Rina decided to infiltrate the capital and hope that Professor Talbot arrives as well.
Rina loses the fight against Talbot and considers herself weak, but Talbot offers her the shard for free for unknown reasons.
After the scenes of North Ouli Brye, Rina thinks back to the idea that Lydia may not be alive. After fainting from the lack of eating, sleeping, and excess use of magic power, Rina faints.
When she wakes up in the orphanage, Remy explains to her that Lydia may be alive and there is proof from a spirit lady.
At the Terrain Valley, she continues to argue with Felix about the need for water, but the Terraineous beast appears to attack them.
Upon arriving at the Vaticul Canyon, Rina finally learns her next magic element: Earth (a quick gag follows when she questions what 'Earth' is since they are not in the same universe as ours), but it ultimately boils down to just 'ground magic'. Lady Pria tells her that there is still a lot more to learn.
At the Yucan Tempa, Rina pushes herself to use Earth magic on the mountain slide to easily pass through the soldiers. However, this causes her to use a lot of magic energy and she becomes exhausted for the rest of the battle.
In the Aria River, Rina learns water magic but she learns there is still much to learn. Upon attempting to enter Troiya, she is disguised as a mother for Forrest and the gullible soldiers let them enter. She beats up the trio merchants in order to steal their Gammel armors, and thus, helping Felix and Leo enter with Gammel armor as well.
In the science laboratory, she fights against Professor Talbot for the Courage (orange) shard. She manages to take it, but in sacrifice of inhaling a little bit of chemical Obsidian energy. For the rest of the arc, she is no longer able to fight.
Rina was immediately sent to the inn as soon as the main group arrived at the Grandine Hillage. However, she manages to escape through the window and head for the Hollow Cavern. Off-screen, she was able to learn Wind magic.
When arriving at the Village of Saradeli, she feels guilt for destroying Felix's home, but she doesn't directly admit it.
At the Mago'Ria Fey, Rina is the only person that could defeat the skeletons infused with chemical Obsidian energy. As long as she has fire powers, she should be in the front line.
Starting with the Vector scenes, Rina becomes raspy and angry at the main group for making pointless moves. For example, Clyde heading for a 'floating city of Lament' is just a myth and that they should not worry. She is also the most hesitant towards Viola.
Moments after she argued with Lydia, they were forced to work together to survive the Li'Opa Jungles, making up for their arguments.
At the Mirror Lands, Rina reveals to the group that she had been hiding small, white angel wings behind her backpack, which explains why she 'cherishes' her backpack so much - so she could hide her wings. Felix lashes out on her, but she yells back saying he doesn't understand her family situation. Afterwards, Rina runs up the angellic stairway towards Lament.
In Lament, Rina argues with her parents, whom she have not seen in seven years. Still in bad terms, Rina gets thrown into the 'guest' room. In the room, Faris sneaks her way in to tell Rina that she still has her trust. When Rina manages to escape the bedroom, she runs into her parents again, having another argument. She claims she can save the world without her parents' help as she storms off. After escaping the castle, Rina discovers that the Stone of Concealment's side-effect is a bomb detonator, one which Faris just used. In the end, Rina crouches in front of her dying sister, Faris.
After the events, Rina runs away from the funeral to learn Lightning magic from Lady Pria. Returning to the funeral, Rina is given a letter written by Faris beforehand about their past history and sisterly love for each other.
At the throne room, Mr. Nora tells Rina that she is now exiled from Lament. Rina agrees, but warns his father that she will save the world while he sits and does nothing. Throughout the entire trip to the City of Celestia, she becomes calmer than ever before, while keeping to her true self.
In Celestia, she secretly picks up the blue plushie that Lydia wanted to trash away. Later on, she pairs up with Hazel at the library to learn more about her Avian heritage.
After the group separates in Celestia, Rina returns at Wiserheim's coliseum and save the group from losing the competition with newly gained ice magic. She then heads over to the volcano to enhance her fire capabilities with the help of Lady Pria.
At the Tree of Revision, Rina reveals to Lydia and the main group that she had the blue plushie all along, and that it is the catalyst for Felix's revival.
Rina joins Forrest, Leo, and Viola at the Boris San Jovi - a rollercoaster-like cavern before entering Lumious. Their trap to bind Clyde fails as a result, and Rina saves Forrest from the fire.
During volume 5, Rina returns with the group to her homeland, Lament. Still rejected by her parents, she notices that they've been less strict on her. Deep down, she knows they still put all their trust in her to save the world.
In the battle of Lament, Rina enters a battle ship and clashes weapons with Clyde, who manages to stab her in the back. She spends some time trying to find a pen and paper, to write a goodbye letter to all of those she cared about. Lydia stops her and motivates her to keep strong.
Even after being almost fatally wounded by Clyde, Rina decides to help the group and stop the giant bear from destroying the Village of Saradeli.
After seeing Magnus' past in Zozna, Rina still hesitates agaisnst Magnus and kept her vow to kill him.
Once Magnus was defeated, Rina returned to her homeland to become the true Princess of Lament to pass down the legacy of the winged humans.
Lydia Yager - "You treat Obsidians like we are monsters. We are human, just like you. We grow feelings, and we show it
through emotion, just like humans do!”
Characteristics - Lydia is rather difficult to depict due to the fact that her personality changes gradually throughout the plot. Because her personality shards divided into seven pieces around the world, we are left with an emotionless teenager. From the first episode, however, we can assume that she is kind and seeks to be friendly with anybody she meets. She is seen as the complete opposite of Rina, but sometimes even Lydia has her moments of independence - or at least she tries to.
Appearance - Aside from Lydia's smile, her bright shirt makes her approachable. She has long, black hair that is tied together at the bottom of her strands. She usually has one strand sticking out from the rest of her haircut in order to differentiate her from the rest of the group. She has a short skirt along with a large, blue band on her right thigh, tied by Clyde to help heal her gunshot wound. Her preferred weapon is a flail, although her lack of personality was the one that chose it...
Other information:
Episode Debut: 1
Episodes Shown: 60
Age: 16
Height: 5'7
Weapon: Flail
Occupation: the last Obsidian
Story plot (contains spoilers) -
Lydia begins her journey with Rina as they both run away from Gammel soldiers within the Village of Saradeli. Off-screen, Lydia had already been shot on the leg, but slightly grazed. Upon resting atop a hill, they clash with a Gammel lieutenant, a lofty scientist who seeks Lydia's brain without having to fight. He extracts her memory and crystallizes it into an orb, but Rina accidentally shatters it into seven shards. With Lydia being heartless and mindless, Rina struggles to bring her along the journey to find the shards.
After a commotion began outside of Felix's hideout, the boys place Lydia into a closet, but she began to panic. Rina states that Lydia is claustrophobic for some odd reason.
On episode four, Lydia regains the first shard of Truth, but in return, she bluntly tells her mind to the rest of the group, including embarrassing facts such as needing to go to the restroom. Still, without the rest of her shards, she punches Felix for no reason without an Instinct shard.
When Lydia regains the Fear shard on episode six, she is the same as ever, only she begins to cry for reasons such as inevitably stepping on ants, or because she exaggeratedly claims she is useless to the group.
In the Silver Forest, she gets a nightmare involving a woman named 'Viola Santa Lucia'.
While heading to Ouli Brye, she chews on a sign with arrows pointing to either the west or east. Due to the fact that she broke the sign, the group had no knowledge on which way was Ouli Brye, so they headed west, hoping it was their next destination.
From the Isolated House to Ouli Brye, the group enters a train and there, they meet a young woman named Garnett who has a strange dislike towards Lydia without any legitimate reason. The train separates in half and Lydia is set free from Garnett's wrath.
In Ouli Brye, Rina admits that even if Lydia only has two shards, her intuitions are correct, such as knowing about the 'strong essence' back at the Silver Forest involving Lady Pria.
Furthermore, Lydia gets kidnapped along with Forrest by Garnett. They were sent to the capital where they met Lieutenant Floir.
After being set free from Floir's shackles, Lydia gains the third shard of Knowledge and remembers Rina.
Lydia begins to develop her own personality despite lacking a few shards while in the Lake City Prima events. In the auction, she finally yells at the audience on her own without any courage shard which is rather strange. Leo states that Lydia must have created more personality as the time went by after losing all the shards. Lydia then tells the entire audience about Gammel's conspiracy, possibly changing civilian views towards the Gammel army and the Obsidians.
Upon reaching the Prima docks, Forrest creates a small destruction and Lydia grabs Floir's hand before the lieutenant was about to fall into the ocean. This shows that Lydia has some courage, instinct, and sympathy of her own without needing such shards. Still, in the end, she regains the Violet shard of sympathy, causing her emotions to flow. From there on, she is able to smile (thus, fixing her blank face from episodes 2-16).
Starting on episode 20, Lydia's personality seems almost back to normal, except she cannot express her physical actions properly. She returns to her adoptive mother, Ekaja at the Meadow and offers her to live in the Village of Saradeli with newly acquaintances.
As she arrived at Loomin, she meets a man named Warren whom she trusted immediately mostly because he defied against the idea of using the Obsidian as an energy resource. When she reaches the end of the Air River, she receives the fifth shard - the Instinct shard; however, Floir captures her and takes her to Bafuul.
At the Bafuulian bridge, she discovers Mr. Wolfram as Felix's father and a renowned familiar face: Viola Santa Lucia. At the Bafuul basement bedroom, she argues with Viola about good will and Obsidian truths that the Gammel government is conspiring against. However, Viola leaves to protect the rest of Bafuul, leaving Lydia stuck in a flooding bedroom. She attempts to cut her hand off to free herself from handcuffs, but a mysterious figure appears and breaks the handcuffs with a silver arrow.
Upon escaping, Lydia clashes with Garnett and Floir. As the two women fight, Lydia took the opportunity to escape as she finds the main group and rejoices with Rina. Volume 2 closes with Lydia installing the 6th of the 7 shards, the Courage shard.
At the Grandine Hillage, Lydia lashes out at the indecency with the Obsidian genocide during the discussion with the main group. Afterwards, Lydia and Felix bond for the first time. Lydia also took care of Rina the most, but she worries that Rina is getting too out of hand on her duties. She forces Rina to stay in bed until she is healed.
When reaching the Hollow Cavern, she sets out to find Rina at the other side of the cape. When Rina is hurt again (from training and learning Wind magic), Lydia breaks down and tells Rina that she should not overdo herself.
Lydia rejoices with her adoptive mother, Ekaja, at the Village of Saradeli, but she begs to journey for the last missing shard.
At the left end of Vector, Viola appears, and Lydia is the only person to accept her without hesitation. She has the intuition that Viola is trustable. They also bond together overnight at the Li'Opa Jungles, discussing the importance of trust.
In Taujiko, Lydia remembers the similarities that haven't changed, but is disappointed by the fact that the chief is still unaccepting towards humans.
Lydia decides to admit to the entire city of Lament that she is the Obsidian. Because of this, she gets thrown into the castle bedrooms to wait until the situation is handled. In the end, she manages to escape once mutated beasts started rummaging through the city.
In the shoreline before Mishu, Lydia discovers the proof that Viola only joined because the group made her happy.
When reaching the City of Celestia, Lydia takes sight of her hometown after seven years. At her house, she finds her blue teddy bear intact but she planned to abandon it so she could forget about the genocide. She later pairs up with Felix to bond and almost admit their feelings to each other. By the time the group rejoiced, she tells Magnus that she knows the true meaning of love, without needing her red shard back.
Magnus gets infuriated, and he attempts to kill Lydia with a beam of light. Instead, Felix rushes in front of her and he sacrifices himself.
The beginning of Volume 4 switches to Lydia as the main character who has been in a coma for about a month. Viola has been around to protect her since then. When Lydia wakes up, she hears Forrest has been held captive in Phardia while Leo was out on a mission to defeat a plant monster nearby. When both Lydia and Viola decide to help Leo, they set Forrest free with the help of Viola's kissing scam with the chief of Phardia.
Heading north into the Zweiland Mountains, the group of five become excessively sick from the cold. With surprise, Hazel takes them into a cavern and sets a fireplace for them all. She agrees to head further west into the city of Wiserheim, however they find Warren being taken into the Frolix Volcano as sacrifice to the religious views of the Winstel army.
The group of five go through several main challenges in the tournament, catered by Wiserheim to prove that their strength and willpower will surpass their expectations. The final battle of the tournament resulted in the main group vs. the Gammel army (and Garnett). Rina appears to make a surprise victory for the main group, causing Warren to be saved by the sacrificial altar.
Lydia and the group of 7 head south to Amitt, a peaceful land known for famous shipwrights. She senses strange malevolence, but ignores this until arriving at the Tree of Revision. Successfully reviving Felix, Lydia fails to keep her bond with Felix as Magnus steals the opportunity to revive Felix himself.
During the battle of the central world, Lydia finds Rina on the ground in a battleship, almost close to death. Lydia helps her out of the battleship while the war was coming to a close.
Before entering Zozna, she admits her interest in Felix.
When entering Zozna, Lydia was then forced to pass a trial in which she sees her parents in a vision, alive and well. They persuade her to stay with him, to be safe forever. During the last episode, Lydia is seen absent from the rest of the group - which means she possibly failed the trial and stayed with her family in the vision.
On the last episode, Lydia makes an appearance to the rest of the group to prove that she could pass the test and refuse temptation of false peace. She confesses her love to Felix before he sacrificed himself. With that, she was forced to leave the world of Zozna and fear for Felix's safety.
For the resolution, Lydia is seen using a 'camera' to explain the situation with everybody else and to conclude the story. However, she was told to head for Felix's old abandoned hideout to find an important artifact.
As Lydia entered the building, she saw the old apple from the first few episodes, then she begins to cry and think about her entire journey. After hearing a knock on the front door behind her, she turns around with surprise.
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