Illuminate The Darkness: A Nation Torn Apart

Meeting with Vladislav Voynich and the Ivakalai Festival

I woke up, did my morning routine, and prepared myself for the day. I was planning to meet up with Vladislav Voynich to discuss my plans of taking down Nexus Corp. My plan was that I would wait for the conference day, break into Nexus Corp's headquarters, go inside the conference room, and kill all of Nexus Corp's bigwigs while they were all gathered in one room.

Although, this plan would have some difficulties. After all, many of them were probably possessed by evil beings similar to Azekalar. I would need special weaponry to kill those beings. I didn't have any weaponry suitable for this, except the Gladius Mahatra. After all, it is no ordinary sword. It is infused with the life force and power of countless Raktuselmalani, and is made for killing malevolent supernatural entities. However, it felt as if it was still not powerful enough to destroy beings with the same amount of power as Azekalar.

What if, maybe, I could borrow Theophania's turret? Or make Theophania go to Nexus's headquarters together with me to help me? And she would kill the evil beings? That sounded like a plan, so, I decided to meet up with Theophania as well.

Edelfried's Eternal Blade of Justice or Xiphos of Cleansing and Lianhua's Lotus Blade could work, perhaps. Although, just like with Theophania, inviting them to help would be a better idea.

I decided to think about the weaponry later and first go to the meeting location. I didn't know where the meeting location was, so, I decided to go meet up with Theophania to ask her about it. So, I went to her church.

When I got there, I greeted her and asked her where I would need to meet up with Vladislav. She said: "You'll meet up with him here. After all, this is one of the only places safe from Nexus Corp left in Faustland's capital. Sit down at the desk over there. He'll arrive soon." I sat down at the desk.

After a while, I heard the sound of footsteps outside the church. Theophania opened the door of the church. Someone who I presumed was Vladislav Voynich was there. He went inside the church and sat down at the chair across from me. He said to me: "Hello, sir. Are you Konrad Konstantinovich Ahmadeev?" I replied that I was, and asked what his name was. He introduced himself as Vladislav Voynich and said that he was there to discuss our planned attack on Nexus Corp. We discussed the plan of the attack.

It turns out that Nexus Corp's headquarters have a vulnerability: the electrical room was near the entrance. It was well-hidden, so, they didn't see it as a vulnerability. What we needed to do was enter the room, shut off the power in the entire building, get to the conference room, and kill all the Nexus higher-ups. This plan seemed easy, however, there were some difficulties. Shutting off the power in the entire building at once would be impossible. Such a feature was not installed on purpose: Nexus Corp knew that they could potentially have a power sabotage, so, they didn't install a feature to shut off the power in the entire building at once. Instead, we would need to shut off the power of each section of the building separately. However, there was another problem.

If all of the power in each section would be shut off in rapid succession, alarms would be set off, due to the fact that the power would only be shut off this way if there was either a power sabotage or an emergency of some kind, like a building-wide fire. The alarms were powered by a different electrical supply, and it could be shut off in a different room, which was on the other side of the massive building. If the alarms would be set off, all the employees would be evacuated, including the higher-ups, which would cause our plan to fail. The solution was to shut off the alarm power system.

The plan was:
1. Go to the building dressed as elite Nexus Corp agents.
2. Theophania would shut off the alarm power system.
3. Makar would shut off the power system for the rest of the building, excluding the conference room, not to alert the higher-ups.
4. I would go to the conference room with weapons.
5. I would kill all the higher-ups.
6. We would all leave the building.