The knights are blindly following the corrupted Empress... That sounds plausible. They won't engage in conversation, and will even cut down those who surrender. Maybe they really have lost their free will...

We need to confirm this. Could you defeat 100 Advanced Knight As and observe their behavior?

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I'll leave it to you.

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Time is of the essence! It's not as if we can go into the past if we screw up now!

Turning in the quest

Have you done it? How were the knights?

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I see... It's as we suspected. If they have truly lost their reason, maybe there is some way for us to make use of this fact...

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Defeat 100 of the Advanced Knight As and check their status.