Future Legion: Future Selves
A Different Laken
Outside Shadowfall, the Hero and Dage discuss the Infernal Army moving away from Swordhaven. Dage wants to pursue it; the Hero says Victoria first wants to find Darkovia's people and enlist their help. A traveler interrupts through a portal, asking Dage to come to the year 3017 and stop Lore's destruction. When he removes his helmet, the Hero recognizes Laken and remembers his betrayal of the Legion. Dage explains the difference: this is another Laken, from a future in which he stayed instead of making the earlier journey into their past. The traveler confirms that explanation.
The Hero and present-day Dage accompany him into a wasteland. Their guide says this was Oaklore Forest, the living world's last holdout when he left. He describes serving as Dage's right-hand man, helping recover the lost half of his soul and enabling him to defeat Nulgath. That victory did not end the conquest. According to Laken, Dage continued through Yokai, Darkovia and Dwarfhold, killing the living and gathering their souls until nothing remained. Present-day Dage initially celebrates the news of his victory over Nulgath; the rest of the account shows the future attached to it.
There is still a reason to fight even if this Lore has been destroyed. Overhead hangs the Legion Dreadnaught, which Laken says can travel to other worlds and timelines. Future Dage could leave and repeat the destruction elsewhere. The Hero agrees to help stop him. Present-day Dage, meanwhile, confronts the prospect of what he might become after defeating Nulgath. He says he will need greater strength to oppose that future self and intends to take power from Future Legion souls while adding it to his own.
Four Souls to the Sky
Laken guides an investigation of the ruins, a bunker and the teleporter beneath the Dreadnaught. The ship's defenses require four Legion commanders to activate the teleporter together, but the intruders have another way to meet that condition. After obtaining the bunker key, the Hero defeats Commander Agravh and takes his soul, which present-day Dage can use to activate his part of the device. The same key opens an inner room leading to Commander Uslaw and the second soul.
The remaining commanders lie beyond the ruined city's defenses. The Hero breaks into a control room, then obtains the means to shut down its force field before confronting Commander Ozar. Commander Pavon waits on the roof. With all four souls collected, the group activates the teleporter's pillars in the required order and gains entry to the Legion Dreadnaught. This is the infiltration route recorded by Laken's quests, not a second trip into another future.
Once aboard, the Hero smashes fuel cells to delay the ship's departure and fights through its troops. Laken describes the Future Legion as undead soldiers whose cybernetic armor connects directly to their nervous systems, making them faster and stronger. Code fragments and keys taken from special-forces soldiers allow the intruders to decrypt the access code and work through the door puzzle into the Captain's Chamber. They have reached the ship's leadership, but have yet to face Future Dage.
The Shogun's Door
The SF3017 Shogun meets Laken, Dage and the Hero inside the Dreadnaught. He calls Laken a turncoat and says he should have stayed in the past he fled to. That accusation sits uneasily beside the opening's explanation that this Laken came from the timeline where he had stayed; the account does not reconcile the two statements. Laken answers the threat itself: he will not let the Future Legion devour another world. The Shogun dismisses the group as a weaker Dage, a weaker Legion and one adventurer, then orders the Legionator to destroy them.
The Hero defeats the Legionator. Present-day Dage takes the undead cyborg's soul and laughs at the suggestion that he is weak. The immediate victory has therefore also strengthened the ally who came to confront his future self. It has not defeated the Shogun or Future Dage. Laken's later explanation identifies the Shogun as Future Dage's current second in command, with a specially designed suit of armor and a true identity known only to his master.
The Hero asks where the Shogun went, worried that he might escape. Laken knows the route to the bridge and starts explaining that it lies through the next door. The hatch opens before he finishes. The Shogun is waiting behind it with an army of Future Legion soldiers. The infiltration has brought the group to another confrontation; the war's outcome remains ahead.