Epilogue VIII

"We're here!" Khalil stated. After the three day journey on the boat, he touched down on the dock and the American Explorers ran out onto the dock with smiles on their faces as they proceeded forth. Sky and Dani walked out last together, waiting for Khalil to tie the boat up so it wouldn't move.

"So, while we're here, we have a day or two before the meeting, so go take a look around, nothing here binds you," He said. Sky and Dani nodded, immediately going out to get food.

While they arrived, back at Alicas, Shike had taken the lead of things with Lia by his side, declaring that to keep Alicas safe, they needed to strengthen their defenses until Sky and the others got back. During the same day that Sky and the other American Explorers arrived at their destination, Shike had a messenger come to the front gates.

Gabrielle, who he saw every once in a while from Providia's city, was standing at the front gate, covered in blood from head to toe. Shike immediately healed her with all that he could and asked her what happened, when she alerted him of the dangers on the horizon.

"Providia... and the town... it has fallen. There's civil war, and it's spreading, fast. The Rubeki... they're back... and they're moving everywhere... except for here... the world..." Gabrielle rose her hands up into a ball and crushed the air in her hands.

"Is in serious danger," She said.

As Shike and the others were brought to the brutal reality of the Rubeki coming back Belle, Alatus, and Fudo all assembled as many soldiers as they could, moving toward the front gate to stop the Rubeki if they dared to get close.

Unfortunately, the people of Alicas were unaware that the tunnels dug all over the world by Finlis had a dual purpose, something that he didn't predict, but didn't necessarily care about.

The Rubeki were able to mobilize worldwide, and were attracted to the one thing all tunnels pointed to, where the largest mass of Strands were to fuel their livelihood.

The Americas.

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"Hey, who are you?" A strange man said. The unconscious man got up onto his feet, shaking his hair of all dust and dirt that fell onto him from his hard fall, and looked all around. With smoke billowing up around him, he was unsure of his surroundings, looking at the strange man in front of him.

"Eirikr Asterio. Where are we?" He demanded answers from the strange man, but held off on using the Fear Gaze.

"Well, we're on The Outer Rim! I didn't think you would be here, Sir Asterio. Would you like to take my spaceship to wherever you need to go?" The strange man asked him. Eirikr nodded, looking at the spaceship intently.

"It'll have to do. I'll use it. Do you have family?" Eirikr asked. The strange man shook his head, remaining happy either way.

"Unfortunately not. However, I'm not upset about it," He confessed. Eirikr offered to take the man with him on his journey, and the man agreed. As he introduced himself, Eirikr became confused at his identity.

"Arthur Vega," He claimed.

---TO BE CONTINUED---

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Welcome all to the 8th Epilogue of Survival Evolved: Incarnation! What a journey! This volume was scattered, I'm aware, and I've made the decision to alter the perspective a little bit! I figured Survival Evolved prospers on the first-person perspective basis, and we will be shifting back for Volume 9 (as of Chapter 635, sorry for the confusion!)

I've also introduced a villain I've been waiting on for a long time. Finlis Vega! I know, things about him are scattered, but as always, it'll make sense over time. The Vega bloodline is fairly 'new' to the Survival Evolved: Incarnation Universe, but it goes back as far as the mysterious Asterio bloodline as well. Don't be fooled!

Survival Evolved: Incarnation has been going steady since Volume 5, and we are now on Volume 8, going on 9. Now that I have a clear representation of everything left in the Incarnation Saga, I can confidently say that the final Volume is in sight. I won't say when, but sometime next year we will have finished the Incarnation Saga. Survival Evolved is still going strong, and there's a lot left to do! Hang in there.

Thank you for reading this far. Whether it's one chapter or all of them that you've read, it means the world to me that I've gathered even a second of your attention. Thank you all for sticking with me for all this time.

This next wait between volumes will end up being 3 weeks in waiting time due to some real-life conflictions. Thank you for understanding!

And I will see you again, during the next Volume of Survival Evolved: Incarnation.

---Survival Evolved Incarnation: Aurora---