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      <image:caption>A disguised Hilla arrives at the conference</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lotus’s soul appears before Phantom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Aria says farewell to Phantom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kain and Illin break into Dr. Y’s office</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Luska collapses from her injuries</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Luska passes away in Kain’s arms</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kain meets Cadena and a disguised Coney</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kain reunites with Amos and the Chameleon Siblings</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shade awakens to the sight of Moonbeam</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shade and Moonbeam pray to the Fox God</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Fox God uses her power to stabilize Shade’s existence</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Moonbeam and Shade mark their friendshipon the Fox Tree</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Black Mage’s secret laboratory</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Beldar invites Cadena to join the Alliance</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illium confers with his friends</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Darius and Sinaria attempt to take the Elder Crystal</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The possessed Nyalmo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Cocoon Monster siblings reunited</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adele refuses to follow the God-King into battle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Veronica visits Adele in prison</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adele chooses to defend the God-King</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Caster shows his button to the Adversary</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Adversary meets the townspeople of Yum Yum Island</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bappy, Caster, and Lyon created from the Erdas of Pierre, Von Bon, and Damien</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A party is held by all the people of Yum Yum Island</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kiku warns that Ereve is under attack</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Damien defeats Shinsoo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cygnus’s latent Transcendent powers awaken</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shinsoo at her hidden refuge in Leafre</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kinesis loses control of his powers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The White Mage uses Kinesis as his catalyst</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The White Mage uses Yuna as his new catalyst</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Aran tells a worried Lilin about her fight with Maha</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Francis’s photo of Orchid</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Arkarium’s minions attempt to flee with the book</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The demon officers in Ludibrium</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Demon’s past self</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Damien at the Temple of Time</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The abandoned Xenoroid laboratory</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Beryl defeated once again</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Beryl accepts her fate</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The spirit of the Former Kaiser</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Darius and Sinaria attempt to take the Elder Crystal</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gerand Darmoor in the Aboris Royal Palace</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The spirit of Hoyoung’s Master in the Hermitage</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The possessed Nyalmo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Cocoon Monster siblings reunited</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adele is surrounded by the enemy</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The broken banner of the God-King</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adele refuses to follow the God-King into battle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Havoc mocks Gilmore for his weakened state</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Azor does not react to Seren</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Aaron hesitates to use the fire extinguisher</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Verus Hilla reveals herself to the Adversary</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Eight spits into Keene’s cup of tea</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Reina shows Lystor the draining crystal she received from Darmoor</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Reina and Lystor prepare to invade Maple World</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Flora mercenaries attacking a squad of Cygnus Knights</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Glory Guard meets Neinheart and Cygnus at the Operations Center</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Arteria looms over Ereve</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Flora reinforcements march towards the Glory Guard</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lystor lands down and confronts Oz</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lystor orders his officer to keep the Adversary occupied</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Reina freezes the Adversary and their allies in ice</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Reina unleashes the divine power inside the draining crystal</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shinsoo’s power creates a shield around the Cygnus Knights</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The World Heart absorbs Shinsoo’s power</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Reina prepares to extract Cygnus’s Transcendent powers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lystor opens his wings to ambush the Cygnus Knights</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Claudine and Irena lead the Alliance reinforcements</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lystor orders his forces to plant the Vision Bomb and evacuate only High Flora personnel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Reina, weakened from using the crystal</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Volatile purple Erda creatures appear</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The frozen Goddess of Maple World disintegrating in the Erda torrent</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Goddess of Grandis frozen in the Erda torrent</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Goddess of Grandis awakens from the stone</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The frozen Goddess of Tynerum eroding away</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Adversary speaks with the voices of the purple Erdas</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Adversary’s Arcane Symbols scatter away</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Goddess of Tynerum is freed</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sol Erda monsters near the Erda Collector</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Normal blue Erdas being corrupted by the Sol Erdas</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Small Spirit transforms into the Arcane Symbol of Arcana</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Sol Erdas share their power with the Adversary</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Goddesses bid farewell to the Adversary</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jett’s final farewell to Maple World</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Darmoor’s crystal, capable of absorbing divine power</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The black tortoise Anima are wiped out</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Albaire, Limbo, Shensung, and Xula aboard the battleship</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>High Flora battleships landed near Carcion</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Glory Guard meets Duhan, Eto, and several incapacitated turtle Anima</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Night of Phantasms ends with a bang</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jupiter addresses the gathering of gods</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Ancient Gods pledge their support to Jupiter</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Melian and her robots surround Gob</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The elevator to Geardock opens in the desert</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The security robots in Geardock are activated</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jupiter interrogates a wounded Gob</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tiny traps the Adversary and the Primacy in bubbles</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tiny and Z are surrounded by Gob’s war machines</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gob, Luce, and Erion: weak gods who survived the Ancient War</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The First Adversary begins the war against the gods</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jupiter attempts to unite the gods</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gob and Melian hide from the war in Geardock</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jupiter sacrifices the Ancient Gods to Kronos</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lethe tells Hazel that she plans to place herself into slumber</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lethe’s summons escape from Hazel’s care</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The summoning circle corrupts the Orange Mushrooms</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The people of Henesys laud Lethe as their savior</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lethe dispels the unstable magic corrupting the Explorer</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jerome meets with the Adversary and Ailene</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ressa steals the key from Jerome</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A strange device below the withered tree</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Grendel analyzes the ore fragment</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Alliance’s Temporary Hideout in the mountains of Central Grandis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ultimapolis: the largest city in Central Grandis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The eight Apostles in Ultimapolis (from left to right, top to bottom): Bellona, Limbo, Havoc, Baldrix Ressa, Ymir, Ypsilon, Reina</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Khafdi presents Gob’s teleportation device</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Erion presents his resonance energy core</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ymir prepares to begin the great culling</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Adversary and Irena speak to the merchant, with the golden trees in the background</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Darmoor’s symbol towers over the temple</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The mysterious High Priest speaks with the soldiers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Adversary returns Ressa’s golden coin</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Flora army surrounds the city</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Apostles arrive to guard the Terrastones</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The great culling envelops Maple World and Grandis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Baldrix creates a dimensional barrier</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Darmoor’s mark briefly appears on Irena’s hand before disappearing</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Darmoor presents a golden draining crystal to Ymir</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Albaire, Avril, Veronica, and Lystor lead the Flora army into battle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The power of life rains down upon Ultimapolis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Trees of Life growing swollen with Erda</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gaon confronts Limbo inside the illusory space</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Terrastone’s portal is opened</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bellona overwhelms Edea</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Grendel and Edea bind Bellona</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ypsilon summons Special Forces to handle the Primacy</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Adversary faces off against Baldrix</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Darmoor presents the Light of Judgment to the Adversary</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Flora warrior standing over Thenea’s corpse</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The mysterious woman revels in bloodlust</image:caption>
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