Nether Valley

As the demon lord heard of Agni's story, she felt empathy for him, until one day, Lithia appeared in front of them, and the two said to her "Who are you? What brings you here, ma'am?"

She told them "I'm Lithia Beryl! I'm here to help you all!" before swinging her pickaxe and shoving it to the ground.

Everyone but Shadow, who had left the scene, praised her for her brief introduction, in which after clapping for her, Elsword told her "Hey Lithia, are you going to join us on our journey to the Nether Valley?"

She replied "Of course, I would love to!"

Agni responded with "Welcome to our party! Let's go to the Nether Valley!"

Arriving in her hometown of the Nether Valley, the demon lord introduces herself to everyone as the Demon Princess Solveig, whose former house was set on fire a very long time ago, taking her parents in the process, and had nowhere else to go, except that she has a guardian beast who she called Lamed, and he was always by her side and will do anything to protect her in case if she's in danger.

While they were having an discussion with each other, an man appeared out of nowhere, proclaiming himself to be a hero, saying to Solveig "I'm going to save the world by defeating you!" before attempting to attack her with his sword, only for Lamed to attack him in return for trying to attack her and break his sword, in which he told him "Dude, leave my queen alone."

Horrified of what Lamed had done to him, the man ran away with a broken sword, crying and saying to himself "Solveig, you'll pay for what you had done to me!" and left the scene.

Meanwhile, Elsword, Aisha and Lithia saw a group of several people wandering around, along with a mysterious man, riding on camel caravans, along with the stolen gold bars and merchandise, before whispering to each other "Wait, is this a cult or something that we're seeing at the moment?"

As the trio sets out to investigate the cult, the mysterious man saw them and realizes that the two of them were Elsword and Aisha, who he betrayed over them buying an magic carpet from his stand at the bazaar at a cheap price in the Abyad Kingdom the other day when they were a part of the White Desert Hunters, and he was a seller who sold magic carpets at a cheap price.

But in the Nether Valley, he didn't know Lithia was with them.

However, the cult surrounded the trio, before its leader, a woman, saw them and herself being confronted by Solveig and Lamed, who summoned her southern counterpart, the female ruler of the Daystar Purgatory, Astros to help her deal with the cult, along with a legendary warrior, who was said to be one of the protectors of the Nether Valley and Daystar Purgatory along with Acacia, the guardian spirit of the Electric Tree in the Daystar Purgatory.

After a long confrontation, the cult leader told her cult members to retreat from the scene, and to avoid being confronted yet again, so the entire cult fled to their secret headquarters to avoid detection by the rulers of the two lands as well as its protectors. Solveig thanked the warrior, Astros and Acacia for helping her deal with the cult, before they all parted ways with each other.

As the heroes explore the entire Nether Valley, they saw an abandoned outpost, in which they saw Laban, injured on his right forearm, along with his girlfriend Seneca, who he was carrying with his bare hands due to her being unconscious after her right eye turned blue after Aranea's ex-boyfriend, who was a member of that cult, and was crying the entire time.

While crying, he told Elsword that his tears can revive her due to it containing the El energy, and the latter responded with "Can my tears revive your friend Seneca?"

Laban nodded to him, and said to him "Of course."

Behind Laban's back, he saw an empty bottle and filled it with his tears, before he gave it to him.

Upon receiving the bottle, Laban decided to pour a small ounce of Elsword's tears on Seneca and she eventually awakened, with her boyfriend thanking him for saving her in the process, and the couple left the scene, destined for the Daystar Purgatory in the southern half of the realm.

Solveig told her allies "Thank you for saving Laban and Seneca from the cult. Let's go to a nearby village."

By the time the heroes arrived to a nearby village, they saw an mysterious dark energy surrounding Elona, along with three different crystals surrounding him.

Upon seeing him, Elsword said to him "Elona, are you okay?!" and tried to approach him, but the latter's cousin Aranea pushed him out of the way, and said to him "Hey you, leave him alone! You do realize that he's having a hard time, right?!"

Just as he was about to cry, she later calmed him down by telling him "If you dare to try approaching him, you'll put not only yourself, but the others in danger, and the entire Nether Valley and Daystar Purgatory will be destroyed all because of you!"

Realizing upon what he had done, Elsword apologized to Aranea before things could get worse between the two of them over Elona's condition, and Solveig told him, Aisha and Lithia "Thank you for accompanying us throughout our journey, but we have a mission for you all. Your mission is to find the secrets of the Velder Kingdom, which the duke and its princess has been secretly hiding for a very long time." before summoning a portal back to Elrios, allowing the trio to leave the entire Nether Valley and Daystar Purgatory as a whole.

Now back in Elrios, the trio sets out for the Velder Central Square, where Dark Omega was waiting for them.

He tells them that he found an invitation for an raid party on the Spire of Alyssum, located in a small village, sandwiched between the Nether Valley and the Daystar Purgatory, where it is said that the tower is led by an battalion that was affiliated with the Arcane, Rune, Crystal and Ark Towers.

Rena ran out from nowhere, and asked if she could join them, in which Elsword agreed to let her join the group and to their surprise, Ain, an fellow male ally, came in to join the group as well.

Now as a group of five, the heroes accepted Dark Omega's offer to participate in the raid party in question, so they left Elrios once again, set for the small village where the Spire of Alyssum is located.

Arriving at the Spire of Alyssum, the heroes saw an ancient pedestal, and Lithia used her powers to summon the ancient drawings, which summoned an group of cactus dancing, and to her surprise, she saw her allies dancing with the cactus, and Ain secretly had fallen for her, in which she refused to dance with him and tried to erase that from her mind, but she fell unconscious shortly after before waking up.

A few hours later, they reached the summit of the Spire of Alyssum, where they met a mysterious entity, showing a giant human hand, appearing out of nowhere.

A mysterious voice can be heard, saying "Welcome to my spire. I heard that you are the chosen heroes, that must protect my land from outsiders.", and continuing with "If you want to go to my land, I'll take you all with my hands so you can meet the people."The mysterious entity turned out to be a goddess, who introduced herself as Theta and has heard of their stories before.

Aisha asked the goddess if she could use her staff as an transport for herself, Elsword and Rena, but Theta refused, stating to her "It's too dangerous for you to go with your friends alone."

Ain tried to intervene in the conversation, telling the goddess to leave her alone and that it was not her own business, but he ended up getting slapped in the face by her.

However, to his defense, the El Lady appeared out of nowhere, threatened to attack Theta for attacking him, but upon seeing Elsword telling her to stop, she hesitated at first.

The El Lady stares at him, and said to him "I see what you did there.", in which Solace appeared out of nowhere, and to no one's surprise, Dark Omega appeared out of nowhere, and in front of him, he saw Ain secretly telling Elsword, Aisha, Rena and Lithia "I have a bad feeling about Theta. Don't listen to her, as she's trying to trick us into becoming the members of her cult."

Unexpectedly, Crescentia came back once again, and said to everyone in the scene "Don't be tricked by her lies, everyone!", in which everybody, including her and except Theta, looked at her, and as the latter creates a mysterious void, the Spire of Alyssum started to destroy itself, as the ancient bricks made to build the spire was shattering one by one.

Right before the tower was about to be destroyed, the protector of the Nether Valley and the Daystar Purgatory told everyone to leave the land for the Valley on the north and the Purgatory on the south.

As a result, Elsword and his allies left for the valley whereas Crescentia and Dark Omega left for the purgatory, while Solace and the El Lady teleported themselves to an otherworldly land.

Later that night, in the Nether Valley, the heroes had found an inn to stay for the whole night, as tomorrow would be yet an another raid party, this time on the Nether Battleship, led by an tyrant named Dagon, who wants to conquer both the Nether Valley and the Daystar Purgatory and reunite them into one land himself, without consulting the female representatives of the respective lands, Solveig and Astros.