Life, Death
The Guardians fought a fulad-zereh demon that was protecting the portal to the Armageddon Echo. During that battle, Buck was slain and both Reh and Jobu were petrified. Kaerishiel and Shaleu were seen within the portal as it closed. Fjord was retrieved at the cost of his leg. Arcaan, a former acquaintance of slain Guardian Winnifred, was sent out of the portal and revealed that he had been enslaved. With the portal closed, the Guardians trapped the demon's corpse and fled the Academy.