Hotaru

In the Phoenix that's full of calculation and manipulation, Hotaru is of a different kind. As the proudest person of the Consortium, oh no, the Deputy of Phoebe, the Executive Director of Asia, she has a completely opposite style of doing things.

Hotaru understands all the weaknesses, conspiracy and control that Phoebe talks about, but she can't be bothered to do anything.

If you have ever faced a Bone Dragon as big as the consortium's banquet hall and smashed it with your sword, you will know that so-called strategy and tactics are so vulnerable to overwhelming forces.

Well, why did she join the Phoenix then? That's a long story--

Hotaru lived in a small village with her father. Since childhood, she had got used to her father's short or long term intermittent disappearances. When Hotaru began using a wooden knife, her father started to teach her how to use knives; when she started going to school, her father began to teach her magic. Hotaru overheard her father and mother quarreling over what she had learned. Her father said to her with a heavy heart that she must get ready. When she eventually became a Radiant, Hotaru finally understood her father's words.

The Dragonslayer returned from her dream for the first time, but her father was still missing. The Phoenix got in touch with Hotaru because of the investigation into the Bone Dragon that she had killed. That's when Hotaru knew that her father had been fighting to eradicate Nightmares. "Let me join you" said Hotaru, "what I have learned will surely come into use."

In the Asian headquarters of the Phoenix, within the work scope of the alternate president Phoebe, making one mistake may be your downfall. It's said that a strange circle has been set up here, which is the work of the alternate president's newly promoted deputy.

With the emergence of this deputy, Oriental magic has returned to the world. Its power is amazing. However, this powerful necromancer doesn't like to rely on the power of circles, but instead uses a huge sword called "Dragonhowl" to solve problems. "Conspiracy and strategy are not as useful as violent force..." Hotaru complains as she sits on a sofa in her boss' office. An "ominous" omen appears in the divination in her hand, and Hotaru frowns: "That's unlucky. It would be better to directly solve this issue, Phoebe."

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the war subsided, and the resentment of the war's dead aroused several natural disasters. The Emperor declared to the world that if anyone could put an end to the disaster, the person would be given the title of Royal Advisor. At that time, no one could find the entity of resentment, so it was impossible to quell the disaster. Only one Taoist from the mountains, who called himself "Wei Xuancheng", took the announcement and had a nap in the Emperor's audience hall in front of the Emperor and all the civil and military officials. After he woke up, he said that it had been solved in a dream, and then left to the consternation of every one.

It's said that Wei Xuancheng is an immortal who can enter dreams. The world's resentment was a huge nightmare dragon that condensed in the dream and was killed by him. Since then, people would occasionally hear about the legend of the dream immortal, but no one knows his origin and where he went.

When Hotaru was young, she fought against her father's enemy. The enemy cast magic on a mountain that sealed away a fierce beast, and awakened a huge Bone Dragon which was formed by people's resentment and had been slumbering for a very long time. The Bone Dragon sucked the power of human souls inside dreams. The mysterious person who wanted to control the Bone Dragon was also sucked up by it.

The stone that once sealed the Bone Dragon broke, and a giant white sword burst out. The instant that Hotaru held the giant sword, the memories of a necromancer flashed into her mind. These were the memories of the immortal who killed the dragon and who her father told her about when she was young.

As a Radiant, Hotaru raised up the huge sword, imitated the method from her vague memory, and jumped inside the dream and fought with the Bone Dragon.