Daystar Purgatory

S2 EP3: Merlot Nexus

Previously on Daystar Purgatory Season 2, after Fabian and Frostine rescued Elsword, Aisha and Rena from the Phoru Cult, and helped them find their weapons, in which the trio went to the Phosphor Temple in the Daystar Purgatory, accompanied by Shadow, to rescue Saros and Rosana, whom the former of the two friends gave her necklace to the former of the trio in order to give to his cousin himself whom he saved along with Frostine and Froid, and the pets before proceeding to explode the cult's secret hideout with dynamites, in the same manner that he did to Crescentia's hidden spot in Achilles' Heel with substances, which led to Shadow and his cult invading the Daystar Palace, which led to Astros fighting against him with her new allies.

As the fight begins, Astaroth made a plan in which she tells that she and Crescentia will be dealing with Shadow while telling Elsword, Aisha and Rena to deal with his Phorus. The plan went as expected, except that the trio have been captured by his cult members and were nowhere to be found, as they took them away to the cult's new secret hideout, which was an abandoned shelter, to Saros, Rosana and Crescentia's horror that they shifted their focus on saving them, in which they shared with Astaroth herself and the Nyberg siblings as well as Fabian.

By the time they arrived to the abandoned shelter, the trio were nowhere to be found except that Fawn told them that Shadow took them with him to a secret location called the Aegean Nexus, to Saros' horror, in which she told her that she went to this place before and found her necklace, whom Elsword gave to Fabian earlier during the events of Sword and Sorcery, but suddenly, she notices the latter's necklace glowing, and her star hairpin glowing as well.

Unfortunately, Crescentia saw Laban with his right ankle hanging next to a tree, asking for help, in which she ran to save him by cutting the rope that restrained his ankle and he thanked her for saving him. However, things take a turn for the worse at the Merlot Nexus, as it turns out, Elsword and Aisha were accompanying Shadow against their wishes along with their ally Eve and Laby, to the location where Sayori was hibernating and the El Shard was located, only for them to get confused about who she is, except for the fact that she was actually gone from the Nexus and had vanished from their eyes.

At the entrance of the Merlot Nexus, Elona and Seneca notices Sayori eating potato chips, and the former asked her if she's doing well, in which she completely ignored him and pretended that nothing happened while still eating it, when suddenly, Rena woke up in front of the three of them, and had no idea what happened to her allies, in which she managed to knock some sense into Sayori's head, telling her that Elsword and Aisha are being held hostage by Shadow, who wanted to use the El for his selfish gains.

Upon realizing this, Sayori threw her potato chips to the ground, but however, the people around her were gone, to search for the missing duo, along with Saros, Astaroth, Rosana and Crescentia.

By the time the five arrived to the resting place of the El Shard, Rena rushed to fight the manipulated Elsword and Aisha as well as Eve and Laby over the shard and they fought back against each other until they forgiven each other and eventually sided with her to get the El, when suddenly, Shadow pushed them out of the way, and manage to get the shard with his hands, uncontrollably laughing and exploding the entire place, submerging it underwater, causing the three of them to drown, except that Aisha saved Elsword from drowning while Rena saved Eve and Laby from drowning as well, and Shadow gaining his new form and disappearing. 

Back to the shore, everyone finally made it safe, and back at the Phosphor Temple, Shadow met Shen Tianci (沈天赐), who agreed to cooperate with him in creating a large mecha, named Code: Abaddon, that'll utilize the power of the El and is 20 meters tall, made from scrap metal, to destroy the entire universe and Elrios as a whole, and now reunited with each other, in order to stop Abaddon from destroying the universe on its own, Elsword, Aisha and Rena made plans with each other to destroy it as soon as possible.