Nasur's tragic secret:
Jorn Talban the rebel leader and Nasur Haraja, lord of the Arachi desert, continues their journey towards the Arena through the desert landscape, along with their combined horse-riding armies. When arriving, Nasur tells of his past with his brother, Kazar Haraja, who sadly became a servant of Zaarnoth, the God of Evil and Darkness, and that his brother's old blade, hidden somewhere in the Arena, might be the key to winning the war.
Talban orders their forces to help them look inside of the Arena ruins for the blade...
Lights in the Dark:
Kareena, a young magician in the rebel army and the wielder of Excalibur, and her two companions Kargath and Dillich searches together in the dark corridors of the Arena.
Kareena, and her personal invisible guardian Taera, feels a breeze of magic energies streaming out from behind a well, and Kareena asks Kargath to break through the wall, as she suspects the blade might be on the other side.
Kargath breaks through, and a dark underground labyrinth is revealed behind the collapsed wall. They enter the labyrinth, eventually reaching a scary room of dark sculptures. However, in the middle of the room they also find the abandoned powerful blade of Kazar, but when Dillich is about to pick it up, Lilith the demoness shows herself.
She is angered by the intruders entering the sacred room, and kills Dillich. But Kargath successfully makes the ceiling collapse, flooding her in sand from above the room, and leaving a hole up to the Arena grounds...
Darkness in the Light:
Rex is searching alone, thinking through this whole situation from his point of view, but when he goes out to the Arena's amphitheater to look down at the circular Arena ground, he spots his brother carrying Kareena away from a hole in the ground. Soon after Lilith, once his own partner in evil, emerges from the hole and threatens to kill the two, but is surprise-attacked by Rex. However, she turns the attack to her favor and defeats Rex and then creates a "Darkness Gate", a black rift sucking in all existence in the middle of the Arena...