159 All Good Things Must Come To An End

Deep beneath the surface of the continent, two people silently inspected a colossal alien spire of metal. An ancient machine of unknown design built to regulate the flow of Anima in the continent, sustain the Heavenly Barrier, and serve as life support for the sleeping titan below the earth, among many other tasks...

It was the second reset node — one of the five enormous constructs that Lacrima had entrusted Reed and Lu'um to activate in order to stop the prophesized Eventide of Faith. 

Reed scratched his head and said, "So you're telling me you don't know anything else about them? You, of all people? Left in the dark? ...You're going to have to excuse the skepticism in my tone, Sweetcheeks."

Lu'um turned around and said, "What if I told you — hear me out on this for a hot second — that I genuinely don't know everything. That I, in truth, am not actually an omniscient being from the eighth dimension, dear.