The First Berserker: Khazan Gameplay Walkthrough Part 5 - No Commentary
0General Khazan, a former hero of Pell Los Empire, was branded a traitor to the Empire along with his best friend Ozma, a powerful mage. His sentence was the severing of his tendons and his exile. As Pell Los soldiers escort him through Mount Heinmach, a ghost seeking a host to exist in the mortal world, chooses Khazan as a candidate. The ghost creates an avalanche, freeing Khazan from his chains and possesses him. While his wounds were healed, Khazan struggles for control of his own body as he tries to traverse the mountain range, fighting wildlife and Pell Los soldiers. He eventually passes out from exhaustion, and is found by Quimuk, an elderly shaman of the Bantu Tribe. Quimuk takes him to an ancient warrior's trial to face the ghost that possesses him. Khazan eventually meets the ghost face-to-face, revealing itself to be The Blade Phantom, a culmination of warriors who died in combat. Khazan defeats the Blade Phantom, but instead of expelling them, Khazan offers a truce in exchange for the Phantom's powers. The Phantom tells Khazan their goal in the mortal world: there has been an imbalance of souls entering the Netherworld, and their master Charon has sent them to find and stop the cause. Khazan must help the Blade Phantom restore balance to the mortal world and in return, they will help him with his revenge against the Emperor and all who betrayed him.
Khazan travels across the Pell Los Empire, searching for those who betrayed him, while fighting supernatural creatures that do not belong in the mortal world. He is joined by several allies such as his former soldier Tristan, shield maiden Elamein, blacksmith Qazumaka, and Netherworld messenger Daphrona. Khazan eventually finds out that Ozma was executed, and that a forbidden type of magic called Chaos, which is powerful and corruptive enough to destroy otherwise immortal souls, is the source of the imbalance of souls entering the Netherworld. While Khazan investigates a Chaos laboratory, Elemain is abducted. While Khazan tries to shut down the machine imprisoning her, it was deactivated too late and Elemain was possessed by Chaos. With no other choice, Khazan was forced to kill her. While rescuing his former soldiers from a work camp in Linon Mine, one of them, Yulian, reveales that Ozma faked his execution and was in fact working with the Emperor. Enraged, Khazan turns focus to seeking Ozma instead of the Emperor. Meanwhile, Ozma betrays the Emperor, kills him, and destroys the Capital.
While en route to the Capital, Khazan encounters a dark elf necromancer named Bellerian, who used to work with Ozma on the research of Necromancy and Chaos magic. When Ozma went mad with power and resorted to kidnapping innocent people for test subjects, she fled into hiding. She also confirmed it was Ozma that orchestrated the trap that lead to Khazan's arrest and betrayal. Now knowing Ozma is the mage causing chaos magic across the mortal realm, The Blade Phantom exclaimed their goal and Khazan's are now one and the same. Near the capital, Khazan faces off against a chaos-corrupted Reese, a priestess who was a childhood friend of Khazan and Ozma's, as well as Ozma's lover. After he defeats her, Reese pleads to Khazan with her final words to save Ozma.