-[birds chirping] -[bell tolls]
[boy 1] Hey, Grandpa.
Tell me a story.
[grandfather] Hmm?
Well, all right.
Go get one of your storybooks and I'll read you something.
No, that's not what I mean.
Not out of some old book.
I mean a true story.
Hmm…
you want a true story, huh?
Yes.
A story your father told you,
that his father told him, and maybe even his father before that.
A real story from my great-great-great-grandfather.
Very well, then.
Yay!
This is a story that people will pass down for all of eternity
because it's part of our history.
It's a tale about the deeds of men and the destruction they bring forth.
["NEW DAWN" by coldrain playing]
♪ We've gone too far ♪
♪ Too far ♪
♪ Are we too far? ♪
♪ Too far ♪
♪ Are we too far? ♪
♪ Gone… ♪
BASTARD‼ -HEAVY METAL, DARK FANTASY-
HELL'S REQUIEM
♪ Out for blood ♪
♪ Everyday we go digging our own grave ♪
♪ No more acting all innocent ♪
♪ Playing with fire ♪
♪ In the mud ♪
♪ Long lost in the power that we crave ♪
♪ No more thinking ♪
♪ We're heaven sent ♪
♪ Preach to the choir ♪
♪ Like flowers in the desert ♪
♪ Blossoming in vain ♪
♪ Angels with no feathers ♪
♪ Fallen far from grace ♪
♪ Turning into empty vessels ♪
♪ With no better use ♪
♪ Just look inside the mirror ♪
♪ Who should we accuse? ♪
♪ Tear it all down ♪
♪ Just to say we can ♪
♪ Build it all up ♪
♪ Just to say we did ♪
♪ To live forever ♪
♪ Playing god again ♪
♪ To live forever ♪
♪ Acting like we saved the day ♪
♪ Uh-whoa-oh ♪
♪ We've gone too far ♪
♪ Uh-whoa-oh ♪
♪ Are we too far gone? ♪
♪ Uh-whoa-oh ♪
♪ We've gone too far ♪
♪ Uh-whoa-oh ♪
♪ Are we too far gone? ♪
[grandfather] This took place a long time ago.
LEGEND
In a time when there were no orcs, trolls, or goblins on Earth.
Human civilization was much more prosperous than it is today.
The people built cities with huge towers
and using an ancient magic power
that has since been lost,
they turned night into day.
Carriages made of steel spent through the city's smooth streets.
And they made birds of steel too
that could fly through the sky taking the people anywhere on earth.
Eventually, their civilization became so advance,
they could even visit the stars in the sky far, far, away.
[excited exhale]
However, the same way that an overripe apple
rots on the tree and falls to the ground,
at the heights of its glory, humankind began to regress.
The hearts of men grew cold.
Deceits, jealousy, and doubts spread like a plague.
Human beings grew selfish and greedy,
they began to care about nothing else besides their own well-being.
And then, the darkness was born.
It divided the world in two,
and it tricked the two sides into waging war against each other.
The darkness took advantage of that same powerful magic
that it brought such great prosperity to the humans
and used it instead to create horrific demons on the earth.
It created a band of grotesque demon gods
with the God of Destruction, Anthrasax as their leader.
[system trilling]
The sorcerers and the alchemists
all cried out with cheers of joy.
They cheered because they believed that these were the gods
that would finally eliminate war from the face of the earth.
[both grunt worriedly]
The power of the God of Destruction
was beyond belief.
[loud blast]
Anthrasax sets entire mountain ranges flying into the sky,
and transformed oceans into seas of boiling blood.
Bolts of lightning burned entire cities to ash
with fire so hot that water could not extinguish them.
The demon gods' tremendous destructive power
left many cities destroyed.
But at least the war was over, or so they thought.
However,
just as the people were celebrating victory,
the entire human race was plunged into an abyss of terror,
once again facing extinction.
Suddenly, Anthrasax began to ignore
the orders of the humans who had created it
and to act of its own free will.
Possibly because they had included live humans
among the animals they had used
to magically synthesize the God of Destruction.
Now that Anthrasax had free will, it took command of the demon gods.
It used its power to speak to the hearts of every human on Earth.
[Anthrasax] I am the will of destruction.
I am the new king,
and I have descended upon you!
I shall now pass judgment on all of you,
foolish humans.
[impressed gasp]
That threat amounted to a declaration of war
against the entire human race.
The people were overcome with fear and cried out in their desperation.
[grandfather] Armies from nations all around the world united
using all their weapons in an effort to kill off the demon gods.
A fearsome battle began.
But the power of the demon gods was simply overwhelming.
When it was over,
the ground had swallowed the blood of countless human beings.
Hundreds of millions of corpses lay across the earth.
In the face of Anthrasax's wrath,
the human race was on the brink of extinction.
Because the demon gods had been created for that very purpose.
With the demon gods having completely destroyed the world,
all that the few humans who survived could do
was to wait for death.
In the depths of despair, the sinful and the foolish were the same.
All that was left was to pray, but it was already too late for that.
At that moment of hopelessness…
a deafening sound echoed through the air.
The humans watched spellbound as a giant golden pillar of light
reaching all the way to heaven
split apart the earth and towered over the lands in the east.
From out of the blinding light,
a giant shadow appeared
and strode forth to stand boldly before the face of evil.
[loud crash]
It's said that the shadow resembled an immense dragon
with its wings spread wide,
while at the same time, it took the form of a giant human
wielding a huge sword.
Who are you?
[grandfather] In reply, the giant Dragon Warrior let out a fierce battle cry
and flew upward high into the sky.
With that, the two giant lifeforms began to battle.
[loud explosion]
It was as if the two of them knew instinctively
that it was their destiny to fight each other.
[scared grunts]
The battle between the demon gods and the Dragon Warrior was fierce.
So fierce, in fact, that it shifted the very Earth on its axis,
a cataclysmic tilt
that caused several entire continents to sink into the sea.
After many days, the battle reached its climax.
The Dragon Warrior's final raging attack
struck down the God of Destruction,
hurling Anthrasax into darkness.
[loud explosion]
When the smoke finally cleared,
the humans who had survived watched as the Dragon Warrior
placed four seals on the demon god
to seal Anthrasax away deep underground.
And then, the Dragon Warrior spoke, saying,
"These seals will be broken after 400 years."
"However, a descendant who carries my blood
will transform into the Dragon Warrior
and once again defeat it."
The humans passed down the Dragon Warrior's words
in their written prophecies.
Those prophecies are still kept carefully stored underground
beneath the four castles on this continent.
That's a great story.
But then what happened to the Dragon Warrior
after he defeated the God of Destruction?
"Great god of war," the people said.
"You have lifted the darkness."
People all around the world cheered with joy and praised his name.
But the Dragon Warrior,
cared not for their celebrations and just disappeared.
And that's the end of the story.
All right, time for you to go to bed.
Mm. [laughs]
Okay. Good night, Grandpa.
[door creaks]
[exhales]
You left some things out.
What happened to the world after that?
This is what I heard from your great-grandfather.
[grandfather] As a result of the battle between the God of Destruction
and the Dragon Warrior,
huge floods wiped out
many of the advances civilizations had made.
The human race very nearly became extinct.
However, humans created a new type of magic
that was different from that of the ancient world.
Their civilization of magic spread rapidly.
And it's believed that the elves who lived on the frontier
were even more advanced
in their knowledge of magic than the humans.
Humankind was able to use their new type of magic
they created to survive and flourish.
[exhales]
Well, if we're so advanced,
how come humans still keep on fighting wars?
Conflicts over territory and religion,
and battles between tribes will always happen in any age.
Those things will always be with us as long as we're human.
That's why I avoid conflict
and why I've chosen to live in a remote region like this.
To live here in peace is all I want now.
That story you told the boy, is it true?
Hmm. I'm not sure.
Who knows what happened 400 years ago?
However, there's one thing I do know.
The Dragon Warrior really does exist.
That's right. I've heard that part of the story myself.
[man 1] Prince Lars of Meta-llicana summoned the legendary Dragon Warrior,
and together, they battled an evil wizard named Dark Schneider,
isn't that how it goes?
[grandfather] Mm-hmm.
Back when I was younger and still working as an official in Meta-llicana,
one of the knights returned from the mission,
and said that he had seen the Dragon Warrior with his own eyes.
He said it looked just like the legends described.
[grandfather] A towering giant wrapped in impenetrable armor
with enormous wings
and carrying a huge sword and shield.
I have no way of knowing if these legends are accurate or not.
But I do know, without a doubt, it was the Dragon Warrior
who was in that fight.
But they say the Dragon Warrior didn't actually defeat
the dark wizard in the end.
Not true. The evil wizard did lose.
But there was something else no one knew.
[grandfather] What no one realized at the time was that the evil wizard had,
at the last moment, cast a spell of reincarnation on himself.
One of the Five Knights, Geo, the Great Priest of Meta-llicana,
found the evil wizard who had reincarnated himself
in a form of a baby boy.
Knowing the danger,
Geo cast a spell on the child to seal away his magic.
They should have guaranteed
that the evil wizard would never be reincarnated again.
But something happened one day
that made it necessary for them to break the seal.
The evil wizard's followers united,
and together, they formed the Dark Rebel Army.
They used orcs and goblins as their foot soldiers,
and they invaded the four kingdoms of this continent.
In order to fight back against the Dark Rebel Army,
Meta-llicana had no choice but to break the seal on the evil wizard.
Why would the wizard want to fight against the same people
who used to be his loyal followers?
[grandfather] Some say the wizard had become good-hearted
because the humans had sealed his dark magic away.
They had treated him with kindness and raised him as a normal human boy.
Just the same.
[man 1] In the end, Meta-llicana fell anyway, didn't it?
And today, the Dark Rebel Army continues to destroy kingdoms and lives.
Yes, things are grim.
However, the flames of war won't reach us in a remote place like this
on the border between Meta-llicana and Judas.
[knocks on door]
[grandfather] A visitor? At this hour?
[man 1] Long time no see, Gizun.
What brings you here so late at night?
We've just received word.
It's the rebels led by the samurai of the Kingdom of A-Ian-Maide.
[Gizun] They're planning to launch an attack on Tiptoa,
the capital of the former Kingdom of Judas
in order to defeat Kall-Su, the head of the Dark Rebel Army.
You've confirmed that?
Yeah, it's definite.
And lots of fighters are joining the rebels
with more coming every day, including me.
I thought you might want to join up.
You were once a knight of A-Ian-Maide yourself after all.
Mm. [exhales]
But I retired and put down my sword ten years ago.
I'd be useless.
That's not true.
This is a battle we're gonna win for sure.
Because we've got a trump card.
Two of the Five Knights are coming in
-to fight alongside us. -Mm?
[Gizun] We've got Nills Schon Mifune,
the samurai master of A-Ian-Maide,
and Geo Noto Soto,
the Great Priest of the former Kingdom of Meta-llicana.
What?
[grandfather] Are you saying Lord Geo is alive?
Alive and well is what I heard.
[grandfather] Lord Geo, that's a surprise.
Come and join us.
We'll take A-Ian-Maide together.
[exhales]
Father, take care of my family.
You're doing this?
I am indebted to A-Ian-Maide.
I have to.
[insects chirping]
Be well, my son.
[grandfather] At this point in my life,
what matters is not which side wins,
I just hope that this war will be the last war.
[Vai] There you are!
Hey, Dark Schneider, you bastard, I've been looking for you.
How dare you walk away?
You stomped on my face and act like it's nothing.
Hey, listen up, you're gonna pay for what you did.
Oh, and another thing,
how come you never told us that this place is actually floating in the sky, huh?
[angry grunt]
[angry scream]
Oh, I'm so pissed off at you right now!
You bloody fool, don't you understand what's going on?
The whole world's in serious danger right now. Huh?
[shrieks]
[Dark Schneider] Oh, shut up, you loudmouth little monkey!
Why do I care what happens to the world, huh?
Let go of me!
Bastard! [angry grunt]
-Vai, lay off him. -Agya!
You! Keep your paws off her body!
[grunts] Those aren't your breasts to grab, they're Yoko's!
-Uh, that's your issue? -[angry grunt]
Thought it was the fate of the world.
Where do you get off?
Grabbing her like some animal!
You stay away from Yoko!
Oh, yeah?
You're the animal!
Even I speak to Yoko with more respect than that.
How dare you talk about my woman's body that way?
I think I might just kill you, right here where you stand.
[grunts] Yeah?
Well, now you're talking trash!
'Cause I know she's not yours in any way!
Just for your information,
me and Yoko almost made it to first base the other day
in the dressing room.
Huh! You what?
[Yoko grunts awkwardly]
Didn't know that, huh?
Looks like she's my girl!
This must have happened when I was away on break.
-What a horrible disaster! -[laughing]
Wait a minute, did you say almost? That's nothing.
Yoko and I almost made it to home base in the bath the other day!
My thing almost did the thing. [Dark Schneider laughs]
[awkward grunt]
[shocked grunt]
[Vai] No way…
And we've made it to first base lots of times,
you pathetic loser! [laughing]
How do you like that, huh?
My relationship with Yoko
is way more intense than your relationship!
-[Joshua] Dark Schneider! Vai! -Mm?
You're in danger! Run!
Huh? Speak up, I can't hear you.
There's some crazy machine going…
[mimics machine engine rumbling]
[loud explosion]
[both screaming]
-[terrified grunting] -[worried grunting]
Here you go!
[fierce grunt]
[all gasp]
[screaming]
[grunts]
-[loud explosion] -[grunting]
[breathes worriedly]
Lucien, no!
[Joshua] Look! There's more of them coming down.
[Jorg] What are they?
[Kai] It's the Sorcerer Shogun, those are their airships.
But now they're all crashing.
Something shot them out of the sky!
[Schen] But what could do that?
-[loud explosion] -[both gasp]
[Joshua] There's your answer.
A dragon!
[roars]
[screeches]
[Lars] It's the guardian of King Crimson Glory.
Defense system.
-The dragon destroys airborne threats. -[wobbly groaning]
[Lars] Now that the dragon has done its job and brought down the airships,
it's flying away!
Whoa! And look!
The clouds that were hiding King Crimson Glory
are all clearing away!
Huh? What…
Whoa! What is that up in the sky?
[Yoko] Lucien!
[panting] Lucien?
Where are you?
[worried gasping]
The airship crashed right on top of him.
He must have…
have been…
[Dark Schneider 1 groans]
[Dark Schneider 2 squeaks]
[pained grunting]
[Dark Schneider 3] Can't you even walk without falling on your ass?
[Dark Schneider 4] Dork, you are one clumsy Schneider.
[Dark Schneider 5] I'm starting to doubt you're even related to us.
[Dark Schneider 6 grunts]
[stunned gasp]
[Yoko] What are you guys…
[Dark Schneider 7] Hey, how did you get in here?
-There's a Lucien mixed in with us. -[groaning]
[pained grunt, whimpers]
[both grunting]
MERGE
Now, time for us all to merge together!
[all] Yeah!
[whooshes]
Build up!
[Dark Schneider grunting]
Look who's back, guys.
The impossibly handsome hero,
Dark Schneider!
Huh? Um…
[surprised grunting]
His body is made out of little people. [groans]
-[groans] -[speechless grunt]
[Vai grunting angrily]
Dark Schneider, you double bastard jerk!
First, you stomped on my head and then you throw me around?
Where the hell do you get off? Ugh!
I think you're all forgetting why we're here.
Take a look and you'll see most of the Shogun airships
landed a lot closer than we are to where Princess Sheila is being held.
Huh? Mm.
[Joshua] He's right.
Although, I wouldn't exactly say they landed
or that they survived.
[Jorg] That's what happens when airships crash violently into the ground.
[laughs]
Those tough guy Shogun got taken out by a lizard and now they're dead.
[laughing] That'll teach you.
[Schen] I wonder, was he among them?
Even if any of the Shogun survived the crash,
they won't be in any shape to fight us.
Let's get moving and find that temple.
[Dark Schneider] Are you idiots all blind or something?
[all gasp]
Am I the only one that sees this?
Hey, you there!
I see you hiding over there, dammit!
I'll light you up!
[loud explosion]
[laughter]
[man 2] You missed me.
-[Vai] What the… -[Schen] Wait…
[Vai] Where's that voice coming from?
[man 2] Quite impressive, Dark Schneider?
Oh, great wizard.
You alone were able to see my shadow.
Huh? Who is that?
[Kai] Don't tell me…
Could it be…
[chuckles]
Perhaps you've heard of me.
I'm the Sorcerer Shogun, Bol Gil Bol, the shadow wielder.
But no matter,
now that we've met,
you shall never make it to that temple.
[angry grunt]
[Vai] A shadow wielder, so what?
[Bol] You will see soon enough.
As a shadow wielder,
I can control any shadow and bend it to my purpose.
-[Vai] Fine. Whip it out-- -[Kai] Back off, Vai!
He's a Sorcerer Shogun.
You don't know what he's capable of.
Oh, if it isn't Kai Harn here in the flesh.
Isn't Sean Ari with you as well?
Lord Ran was quite worried about you…
You sure do talk a lot for a shadow.
Don't do this, Kai Harn.
You don't have the power to take me on here.
Not even these samurai do.
Is that right?
[grunts]
[Dark Schneider] Lars, can you hear me talking to you right now?
[Lars] Huh? His voice?
Is he communicating by telepathy?
Yes, I hear you, Dark Schneider. What's wrong?
[Dark Schneider] Actually, Lars,
the fact is something is wrong.
-Something bad. -[Lars gasps]
I can't see.
I can't see anything.
My beautiful blue eyes can't see anything at all!
[scoffs] It must be the shock of having an airship crash into me.
[Lars gasps]
Wha… What?
What?
[Kall-Su chuckling]
So there's the abandoned elven city of King Crimson Glory.
My search is finally over.
I have found the last seal.
[chuckling]
[laughing]
["La Muse perdue" by Tielle playing]