"Everything Unification Field calibration is about to begin!
All individuals who hear this warning, please leave Argus's surface and all underground areas as soon as possible. All aircraft units receiving this warning must not cross the planet's geostationary orbit, and are forbidden from firing any energy weapons at the ground during equipment calibration.
This is a repeat warning!
Everything Unification Field calibration is about to begin!"
Mimiron's broken-gong voice broadcast this "warning," which echoed across Argus's surface with a rather darkly humorous air. But there was no one left who could respond to it.
The Restoration Army and their allies had all withdrawn. Even the remains of the dead had been taken away whenever possible.
Yet some ancient Eredar had instructed their comrades and kin before dying to leave their remains behind in this homeland. They all understood that the Everything Unification Field would format the entire world. That meant that, buried here, they would eventually be reborn alongside their fallen homeland in the next age.
Those who chose such an ending were often warriors burdened by guilt.
For example, the ancient Eredar who had failed to bring their loved ones with them when fleeing Argus, or who had abandoned their comrades. Although it had indeed been impossible to account for everything under those circumstances, everyone carried a few obstacles in their hearts that they could never overcome in their lifetime.
Over the long years, eternal life had become torment to them. Maintaining their World Vow with their homeland had become the final obsession of those burdened by guilt.
Only at the end of the Restoration War, after personally offering themselves up and returning even their final lives to their homeland, could those ancient Eredar finally let go of everything and embrace the peace brought by death.
They would remain