"No, that can't be. You must be just a shadow taking the form of Bultechu," says Vincent as Bultechu only smiles at him.
"Why should I be a shadow because I died many years ago," says Bultechu resting his sword on his shoulder.
"I am a Dark Knight. Once I died I entered the Abyss following the other Dark Knights. I might have been called the Warrior of Light before or even the Warrior of Darkness but in the end, I am only a man walking my own path while protecting everyone in need of my help," says Bultechu looking at Vincent.
"And you, my friend, needs my help to return to the right path," says Bultechu as he points his sword at Vincent before he attacks with Flood of Darkness which separates Vincent from his Darkness.
Vincent seemed to be more clear-headed as his Darkness retreated when Vigilance appears beside him and says, "It seems you are back from your trip for more power."
Vincent was holding his head as he wanted to stand up when Bultechu stretches his hand out towards him while saying, "This Darkness is quite corrupted not like the one from the Abyss. I could feel your presence slowly leave the Abyss so I thought of leaving it for a moment to look at what happened to you."
"I got dragged right into it," says Vincent as he takes Bultechu's hand and stands up.
"You need to condense the Darkness and turn it into the Darkness of the Abyss we draw our power from," says Bultechu as Vincent sat down as he normally would when he meditated.
He began to work on it when Taken appeared around the corner. They were Cabals Phalanxes and Centurions coming their way when Vigilance became nervous.
"Oh no," says Vigilance when Bultechu suddenly grabbed into his own chest and pulled some Darkness out of it.
"Don't worry, I and my friend should be able to deal with them until Vincent is done," says Bultechu as he plunged at the Taken with his Living Shadow using Abyssal Drain which flew towards them.
The Abyssal Drain hits first making the spiky sphere made out of Darkness explode in between the group of Taken before Bultechu's sword split one of the Taken into two.
The Living Shadow joined Bultechu when Vlad appears and kills some of the Taken himself making Bultechu smile while saying, "It has been long since I have seen a Ninja."
"I am my Emperor's shadow," says Vlad as he looked at Bultechu grateful that he brought Vincent back from the path he took.
"I still can't get used to Vincent being an Emperor even if he implemented some laws that would stand firm beside the Dark Knight Credo but still. He is my friend and student," says Bultechu as he killed a Centurion.
Vincent's Darkness turned from black to its original black with a tin of dark purple as his Darkness grew smaller but denser like it used to be.
He stood up and his Weathered Shadowbringer Greatsword turned into a Woeborn Recollection while his armor changed into the Idealized Bale Set. He stood there harnessing his old and new strength as Bultechu walked over since the fight was over.
"It seems you won't need me any longer since you are back on the right path," says Bultechu as his Living Shadow entered his body again.
"But don't make this a regular thing. One day I might not appear to help you control the Darkness. You need to harness it every day or one day it will just swallow you completely leaving nothing behind," says Bultechu as he was slowly turning into a shadow again.
"Remember that we cross the line nobody dares to cross but we never lose ourselves in it. I will await you until then," says Bultechu as he disappeared completely.
"We will meet again," says Vincent quietly as he looked at Vigilance and Vlad while saying, "It seems I lost myself because of the Darkness of the Taken. I am sorry about that but we still need a ship to get to Ilos."
Suddenly a message was sent to Vincent who reads it and he turned even more serious as he says, "We need to get to the Citadel right now!"
"What is happening?" asks Vlad as Vincent hands the note over to Vlad who reads it.
"What happened?" asks Vigilance still in the dark.
"Saren and the Sovereign attacked the Citadel. Titania and the other are fighting there," says Vincent when he stopped in his tracks and smiles evilly.
"Why are you smiling that way?" asks Vigilance not knowing what this smile meant when Vlad only sighs.
"He is thinking of winning a war without losing a man," says Vlad knowing that smile in Vincent.
"That is right. I should send a word to Naomasa so he sends the Fleets to take over the Citadel. Once we have the Citadel we win the war since we can complete the weapon," says Vincent as he looked at Crota's Greatsword before he destroys it using his new blade and takes Crota's head.
"We need to move right away," says Vincent as he sends a message to Naomasa to mobilize the troops to take the Citadel from those low lives calling themselves righteous.
The group on the Dreadnaught moved towards where they believed was the control to move the ship and Vincent begins to touch some buttons randomly before it begins to move when he looks at Vigilance.
"I need a map of the Universe from you, Vigilance. I can't read whatever is on that console," says Vincent as Vigilance project one for him.
Vincent soon found out where the button was to jump a long distance as he soon finds himself near the Citadel flying right into a ship that looked like a violet donut to him.
The ship didn't even know what happened when its left side hit the Dreadnaught's left side as a piece of the violet donut was bitten off by the Dreadnaught.
"I hope that ship wasn't important," says Vincent as he moved the Dreadnaught towards the Sovereign to crash it with the Dreadnaught hoping to take it down that way.
In the meantime on the Citadel, Titania was leading all crew members over the Citadel when she sees an unknown ship appear out of nowhere hitting the Destiny Ascension which seemed to lose the left side of it making it lose altitude while flying towards the Citadel.
The ship was flying towards the Sovereign and it didn't seem to decelerate rather it was accelerating towards the Sovereign who seemed confused about what was going on as well since the ship was an unknown to him as well.
Mina and her group stood still in shock when they saw the ship as Titania turns to them and asks, "By your reaction, I can conclude that this ship is not from the Empire, am I right?"
"That is the Dreadnaught. The ship that belongs to the Taken King. It will bring disaster if we have to fight both at the same time without reinforcement," says Karliah explaining it to the Normandy Crew.
Kirvena took Auri-El's Bow and pointed it at the Dreadnaught and Sovereign and two arrows made of Light appeared while she pulled the string back. She let go of the string and the two arrows made of light flew directly at the two ships.
The Dreadnaught wasn't hit by the arrow since its defensive barrier was up the same could be said of the Sovereign when suddenly the Dreadnaught crashed into the Sovereign while Ellana used a telekinesis spell to hold the Destiny Ascension in the air so it wouldn't crash into the Citadel.
"Is that common for the Taken King to crash his ship into another one?" asks Tristan seeing what was going on.
"We never face the Taken King before. We can only speculate that it might be since we are seeing it first hand," says Mina as suddenly three Imperial Fleets appeared over the Citadel surprising them.
"The Empire, what is it doing here?" asks Titania when she sees the confused look on the other group's faces.
"Can... hear...," says a voice over an intercom which they all recognize.
"Vincent!" shouts everyone into the sky.
In the meantime on the Dreadnaught, Vincent was about to ram the Sovereign when he shouts, "Everyone, hang on this will be violent!"
The Dreadnaught crashed into the Sovereign and both ships were shaking madly when the Imperial Fleet arrived and Vincent talks into the intercom, "Can you hear me!"
"Vincent, where are you?" asks Vyrve as his Fleet was one of the three that arrived to take the Citadel towards Imperial Space.
"I am on the Dreadnaught. I order you all to destroy the Dreadnaught and the Sovereign. Neither of them should survive this battle if we want to win this war," says Vincent as Vyrve and the other Fleet Admirals were nervous because he was on the Dreadnaught.
"But-" says one of the Fleet Admirals as Vincent interrupts him.
"It is an order!" shouts Vincent as communication stopped then.
"You heard him. Shoot at both ships," says Vyrve as he knew that Vincent had a way to escape if he wanted them to shoot at him.
"But sir-" says one of the Fleet Admirals when Vyrve interrupts him.
"Do you want to disobey a direct order from the First Emperor? You really must be brave," says Vyrve as they all then pointed their weapons at the two ships and began their bombardment.
Vincent was already on his way to leave the Dreadnaught when he feels the ship shake wilder than before because of the bombardment.
"We need to get out of here fast," says Vincent as he looked at Vlad who understood him.
Vlad entered his shadow and Vigilance entered his light as Vincent changed into his Dragoon Armor before Arc Energy surrounded him. He pointed his spear at a wall of the ship and he just rushed at said wall piercing through it while continuing running in that direction.
He broke through walls until coming out of the ship successfully while the people on the Citadel and on the Fleets could see a bundle of electricity leave the Dreadnaught.
"The First Emperor is out of the Dreadnaught! I repeat he escaped the Dreadnaught!" says Vyrve over the communication to the others.
Vincent was falling through the air towards the Citadel while the membrane was keeping him alive until he could breathe without it again.
The Arc Energy disappeared as he began to look like a small Meteor rushing at the Citadel when he crashes into the ground spear first leaving a crater around where he landed.