- [Velder Outskirts]
 Raven: (I didn't think I would return so soon...) Aisha: Are we at the right place? Even if this is just a temporary base, it seems too unorganized... Rena: I sense a sharp gaze... They seem stressed. Eve: It seems they all got out in a hurry. Most of them look like refugees. Where are the Velder Guards...? Vanessa: Hello, I am Vanessa, Squad Captain of the Velder Guards. Thank you for coming to our aid, but... Noel: You don't look like soldiers from Feita. Who are you? Elsword: I'm a member of the El Search Party. These are my friends. We helped reclaim Feita's Shrine and heard you guys needed help.- Noel: Is that so? You just remind me a lot of someone I know. My name is Noel. I'm a civilian.
- Raven: What's the current situation? We heard an unidentified army appeared within the palace. Did the nobles and the palace guards manage to escape?
- Vanessa: ... Velder Palace housed the largest El shard of Elrios, the Earth El.
- Vanessa: The report states that demons suddenly spilled out from the room that housed the Earth El. Right now, we have no way to know what's happening at the capital or the palace.
- Vanessa: About his majesty and others... I'm sorry. Only a few guards managed to escape the palace.
- Raven: ...
- Aisha: Were you not at the palace at the time?
- Vanessa: ... I'm shameful to admit, but I wasn't in Velder at the time because I was in a mission elsewhere.
- Elsword: An invasion form within... it's similar to the situation that happened in Feita. I wonder if they are the same ones from Feita?
- Rena: What happened to the Priestess? I heard there's a Priestess that protects the El in Velder.
- Vanessa: The Earth Priestess was not here at the time of the invasion. That's all I can say on the matter.
- Rena: You mean they might have used the El while the Priestess was gone...
- Aisha: As Vanessa mentioned, the Earth El is the biggest, most powerful El among the El shards that scattered across Elrios during the El Explosion.
- Aisha: If this El turns into a Dark El... I bet demonic energy of unimaginable power will exude from it.
- Noel: A Dark El? There's fire and smoke everywhere but no demonic energy, so I guess we're fine for now. Not that the situation is all fine and dandy.
- Vanessa: We must enter the palace.
- Eve: ... Isn't that too reckless? There should be enough demon troops to occupy the capital.
- Vanessa: Indeed, you are correct, but this is not a matter of choice. Just last night, Velder Guards fired a flare signal from the palace.
- Elsword: A flare signal? That means there are still people alive at the palace!
- Aisha: We have to rescue them at once!
- Elsword: Alright. So our mission is to find out what's happening with the Earth El, the capital, and the palace, and rescue any survivors, right? How do we approach the capital?
- Vanessa: Hope Bridge should be the closest way in. Currently, we placed the combined forces of the Velder Guards and reinforcements from all over Velder at the outskirts.
- Vanessa: Once the advance squad manage to open up a path against the demons, the troops I command should be able to reach the palace.
- Raven: We will act as the advance squad. We need enough troops to protect the outskirts and the civilians.
- Vanessa: Noel will be in charge of the outskirts.
- Noel: Who, me? I'm just a lowly bard who plays the strings all day.
- Raven: Heh, a lowly bard?
- Vanessa: Noel, anyone who saw you during your mercenary days butchering your enemies with your sword would say otherwise.
- Noel: Alright, alright. Sigh, you guys just won't let a man retire from the field.
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[Village] Fall of Velder
