Astaroth stood within the ruined temple, quietly thinking to himself. He then proceeded to destroy the temple completely until it became unrecognizable debris, and nothing was left but chaos and rubble.įygul Cestemus had been wiped from history by the very being that they themselves had created. He had been made in the image of a man called only by the name " White Giant." Astaroth destroyed the facility in which Kunpaetku's ritual had been performed, and his curse faded such that he regained his true strength. Astaroth immediately stopped in his tracks, distracted with this new found horrible knowledge, and began to search the temple's archives for his roots. Only the words the priest left behind remained, telling him that he was nothing more than a failed doll modeled after a mere human. Astaroth pursued Kunpaetku into the deepest part of the temple, but the grand priest managed to escape at the last minute. The temple of the heretics had become a crucible of chaos. The curse had only fueled him with anger, and he was determined to destroy anything and everything he saw. Astaroth entered the temple to destroy the cult once and for all, and his whirlwind of destruction mowed down everything in his path. He would destroy anyone who stood in his way, and now the cult had become nothing more than an obstacle in his path. Astaroth fought back against the curse, for he had become an ideal host for the Keres, because of the fragments of Soul Edge he had taken in during his resurrection. In order to reclaim Astaroth as his servant, Kunpaetku performed a ritual on the lowest level of the cult's temple and unleashed a powerful curse on him. The grand priest Kunpaetku had realized his golem was not behaving as originally instructed – that another force now claimed ownership over Astaroth since his initial creation. This time, though, his body had been infused with the shards of the Soul Edge, making him more powerful than ever before.Īstaroth had set out on the trail for the evil blade, but a problem arose. Four years later, signs of Soul Edge began to re-emerge, and Ares resurrected Astaroth in an attempt to retrieve the evil blade once again. As Astaroth was finally ready to betray Nightmare and take the Soul Edge from him, Kilik, Xianghua, and Maxi stormed Ostrheinsburg Castle, and Astaroth was killed by Maxi. When Astaroth finally found Soul Edge, he had lost half of himself during the battle with Sophitia.ĭeciding that Ares would not be pleased with the sword in this condition, he agreed to help the Azure Knight, Nightmare, build his power by collecting souls by slaughtering countless victims.
Unknown to Kunpaetku, however, Ares had possessed Astaroth with his servants, the Keres, to ensure that Kunpaetku would not betray him. As he watched Astaroth depart from the shrine, the grand priest laughed to himself as he planned to keep the Soul Edge and become a god himself. Kunpaetku ordered his creation, Astaroth, to find the demonic blade. Astaroth, a golem, was created in hellish heat under the divine protection of Ares to head up the quest. Ares, the god of destruction, desired Soul Edge to dethrone his father, Zeus, so he ordered Kunpaetku, the grand priest of the cult order Fygul Cestemus, to seek it out.
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