At the top of the tower was a trapped and sleeping Reah. Beside her was the Darkling leader, Dalles, and a stolen Black Pearl.
[The player character sucks, they fail to break the barrier, and Dalles shoots them.]
Reah awakens at this point and points out something Toal forgot. Hugo gave him the Goddess' Ring before taking Epona to safety. Toal uses it and shoots a beam of divine every at Dalles, shattering the barrier. Undaunted, Dalles decides to absorb all the power the Black Pearl has and become the perfect demon.
[It's the same fight.]
Dalles can't believe he could lose, but it's about to get worse for him. As though from the heavens above, a deep and frightening voice booms through the area. It's a voice everyone knows well. One of the six priests and the father of two search party members has made his appearance. Cain Fact is here. He calls Dalles a puppet that needs to stop, but he is thankful the puppet followed orders well. Cain promises to revive Dalles as a slave, but he kills him now by pulling a staff out of his back. Dalles' last words are him begging for help...
As the twins expected, Cain Fact is the traitor they feared existed. Cain wants power, all of the power. Demon, divine, human; it doesn't matter because he wants it. This fact puts him at odds with his son, whom Cain himself spared from dying. Toal survived the demons as a test to see what would happen if a Fact absorbed demon essence. The same test was run on Hugo. Toal doesn't care for power and sees his father's quest as a stain upon their name. He lunges at him, but a shield stronger than Dalles' blocks it.
A woman's voice is heard saying that she got here just in time. Feena has been freed from her prison and has a gift for Toal. It's the sword the twins found at the base of Darm. It is the same sword he once used as a member of the holy knights. It was damaged in the war, but Feena had Rico fix it with all the love and admiration the search party had for him. Toal is able to power up and cast a holy beam filled with all of his power, his friends', and the family's he's regained during the night. It pierces the shield! Cain is equally unphased. He follows Dalles' plan but with an added twist. Rather than absorb the energy within, Cain fuses with the Black Pearl wholesale. This turns him into a beast of pure darkness.
Toal's attacks change for this fight. He wields his clera/silver sword that shoots projectiles at his target. To win, Toal needed to find the Black Pearl that Cain hid within him. He moved it as he changed forms, though. Darm, the fusion between Cain and the Pearl, shot many projectiles out. Most felt impossible to dodge. He could also summon aids to complicate the battlefield even more. Besides the flood of magic, Cain can also break the floor, sinking Toal and taking him to a new dimension.
But Toal won. He was exhausted and collapsed to the floor. Quickly acting before Toal could do anything, Reah takes back the harmonica Toal gave her way back when. Toal knew what was to come, and he pleaded with them to stop. His plan was to avoid this. But there is no other way... Feena and Reah have to sacrifice their wings and lives to seal away the Black Pearl. Reah played her harmonica while Feena prayed. They turned themselves into a statue before Toal's eyes while he could do nothing. Their last words were an apology and a blessing of hope for Ys. Toal's appearance returned to his pre-demonification look. The demon essence was sealed.
Yunica's voice was the first to break the silence. The entire search party had arrived, and it was Yunica who ran up to the statue. She begged Toal to tell her what happened, and she couldn't hold back her tears. But they did as instructed and sealed them far beneath the earth.
Before the Elder Roda, Yunica, Roy, Hugo, Miuscha, and Rico informed the group that they would be remaining on the planet to watch over the goddesses. So, as an odd twist of fate, Toal would have to become the new Priest of Ys. Hugo told him that Zava and Kishgal faded away just as Toal's appearance changed. Epona was fine, and she told everyone she had to report in with her home. But she might return one day, a possibility Miuscha dreaded. The group teased Hugo over his apparent womanizing... Cadena promised to inform everyone's families, and Toal stated his desire to write all of this into a book in hopes of preventing it from happening again. The twins implied it would, but there's no reason to try to stop it. And with that, the two groups separated one final time.
Scenes of Toal becoming a priest and the writing of six books play out. He drops them onto the surface, and the final thing that's seen is an ominous door. Toal's sword is placed before the Younger Roda...
700 years later, a storm rages around Esteria. A young man with burning red hair is washed ashore, but that, as they say, is future.
The credits roll, and we finally reach the true ending of Ys Origin. Fin...
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Despite my foreshadowing, I'm not playing Ys I or II. I'm all Ysed out! If I ever figure out how to fix my life, though, I'll restart a new season of Ys with I, II, and VIII through X. I'd say get excited, but you shouldn't get your hopes up. Ys Origin was great, and it's getting a better score than the 38 I first gave it.
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