I tell ya, thinking of a converter
for aer, you're quite the thinker!

That's our genius mage
Rita. Yep, yep!

...Well, I had a hint to go off of.

Come to think of it, you did say you'd
investigated Zaude, didn't you?

Despite its amazing size, it
wasn't running off of aer.

Even though it was a barrier blastia
to protect the entire world.

A barrier blastia?!
Oh yeah, they were protecting
the world from the Adephagos!

You mean it's been protecting us for
a thousand years? It's as tenacious
as a philosophizing sea anemone!

The Adephagos is pretty tenacious too.
It's clung to the barrier for a thousand
years, after all.

Alexei seemed to think of Zaude as
a weapon, but he was apparently
way off the mark.

But the runaway aer was the cause for
the Adephagos awakening, wasn't it?

Ah, so that's why they used a barrier
running on power other than aer.

But then, what sort of power was it using?

...The Children of the Full Moon, perhaps?

It was indeed energy taken straight from them.

Inside that giant core, it continued to power
Zaude as a virtually perpetual formula.

Most likely, the energy was taken
in exchange for their lives.

The light of life was extinguished
from the Children of the Full Moon...

So that's what Myorzo's
legend meant.

According to Duke, they did
it of their own free will.
They wanted to save the world.

So basically, the barrier was made
using the power of love the Children
of the Full Moon had for this world?

The power of love, huh?
Brings a tear ta yer eye!

They sacrificed themselves for the world...
The Children of the Full Moon were
protecting us this entire time.