If you tap out early at the festival instead of going to meet anyone for the fireworks, or if you just don’t search around at all, you should be able to! 
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Wow it took me quite a while to finish the new update…There is one thing for sure that my mc doesn’t like to be talhlia’s underdog…Cant the mc just takeover arcadia as the King???..Hmm I am sure flyss wouldn’t like that but seriously if I could overthrow tahlia it would be awesome
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There will be an endgame option without her. If you want to go down that route.
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Hi, everyone. I’m new here. I come to know about this series when CoG released its first book. After finishing book 1 and looking the author up, I was surprised to find that there’s a demo for book 2. And after playing it, I’m now a huge fan of this series.
Anyway, from what I can understand, even though the MC is brought back to life with a very powerful magical ritual, the MC isn’t a normal living human. The same can be said about Eli. They very much rely on Tahlia’s mana supply to keep their body alive. And if Tahlia decides to “release” the MC from her mana supply and let the MC’s body bear the Song of the Dead on its own, the MC’s body will slowly and painfully die because they simply don’t have enough mana to keep their resurrected body going.
So I can only speculate that Tahlia has a nearly infinite supply of mana for her to be able to keep both the MC and Eli alive indefinitely, not to mention she has been doing so for Eli for almost a decade. Perhaps this has something to do with her phantasma. So, as much as I hate being a prisoner in Arcadia, I think siding with Tahlia is the smartest thing to do for the time being.
As a side note, Oyuna from the Yotai arc has a phantasma that supplies nearly infinite mana, which the Nightsaber will acquire after “assassinating” her. I think this phantasma may be a key to grant both the MC and Eli freedom from Tahlia’s clutch. Of course, this is just my speculation.
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Who cares about what F thinks unless you’re going for them 
if you wanna go for it, do it.
That question already has been answered on Tumblr and it totally has something to do with her phantasma. If you’d like, I can provide you the link to the answer to that.
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This has me thinking, perhaps if we so choose, the MC can terminate the mana supply to their resurrected body and allow themselves to die peacefully as one of the endings. Just thinking about this possibility makes me tear up, especially since poor MC has been through so much. This series has been an emotional roller-coaster as it is.
PS: Please pardon any grammatical mistakes that I may have made. English is my fourth language, and not one I use on a daily basis.
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Yes, if you’d be so kind, and thanks for confirming my speculation.
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Had to dig a bit through this thread but here you go.
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Thanks for the link. From what the author said in regard to the MC’s case, the issue has more to do with the MC’s soul constantly facing rejection and hostile mana from the earthly plane for some reason.
This complicates things further. So, if we want to keep the MC alive without Tahlia’s help, we’ll have to find a way to overcome this problem as well.
Edit: Saw someone made a meme about their MC being forced to work with Arcadia on the author’s Tumblr page, so I’ve decided to plagiarise that meme. XD
But seriously, this is exactly how I feel about being a prisoner in Arcadia.
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It seems to me like Eli, who also went through this, isn’t suffering the consequences for it, so maybe it gets better overtime? Sorta like how a wound should be treated delicately while healing, and how even after “healing” the “scar” is weaker than the original thing, at least until it’s fully fixed, if ever.
Either way, I feel like it wouldn’t make sense for us to have to need Thalia to live. That might be what she wants, but, narratively speaking, that’s a horribly limiting thing to impose on our characters. It only makes sense, to me, that we’d find some alternative, perhaps having to do with our chosen phantasma, Earthshaker, and/or our magical talents.
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I’m not sure about this thing getting better with time. In the escape scene, Tahlia only made an example out of the MC to scare Eli into submission. Because Eli cares a lot about the MC, they volunteered to be the “prison guard” of the MC just to placate Tahlia and to prevent the MC from getting hurt like that again. I think that if Tahlia decided to make an example out of Eli as well, it is likely that Eli would have suffered in the same way.
And yes, the MC’s current situation is very limiting, and thus they are a prisoner of Arcadia in more ways than one, but we also have to remember that the MC owes their resurrection to Tahlia, whether we like it or not. But I do believe we’ll be able to find a way to keep the MC, and perhaps Eli as well, alive without Tahlia’s help eventually.
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Due to the most recent mission we had with our group, I think that the new Phantasma will likely play a large part for those who want to get out of Arcadia, or at least want to depose Thalia. The Mage is… technically a necromantic construct, it seems, and Oiral will likely be a help in managing both their nature as an undead, and using their illusions to hide the Mage’s escape. I also think that the fact that a Mage who wants to escape Arcadia likely has similar opinions as Kiara/the Kugen (that Arcadia is fighting a losing battle, and that they are immoral) is a fun bonus! It might make it easier to gain Oiral as an ally, since you likely have similar views as their original partner.
I kind of wonder if having the same goals as your Phantasma makes using them easier? 
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My theory is you try to run away I stayed in the prison because people need a martyr I’m just classy that way
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@Arella
Personally, I don’t hate Tahlia. If I can help it, I just want my MC to escape Arcadia and leave Tahlia and the rest of Arcadia in peace. However, if killing or deposing her is the only way to freedom, I’ll do it, reluctantly.
@Takashi_Shin
I think there’s some confusion here. We’re talking about being a prisoner in Arcadia in book 2. We’re not talking about being a prisoner in the Param dungeon in book 1.
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Yeah, I sympathize with her myself! 
While her actions are definitely morally dark gray, there’s understandable enough background around them that I myself can see why she does them. It’s hard to want to kill her when she’s pretty reasonable (as reasonable as one can be in the… fucked up situation everyone’s in), and we know that most of the people on her side are equally as reasonable. Like, to me, if people like Yu are willingly supporting her, she must not be anywhere near as bad to her people as she can be to the Mage. Can, because you have to try to escape to trigger the worst of it. But yeah, I can definitely see why people would want to get out of there, and one of my Mages certainly also just wants to leave and be left alone by everyone. 
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It’s been said a lot before but she is a platonic option and you can have a strong bond with her so there are def. more sides of her that we will see
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Maybe I’m just a stupid optimist, but I’m really hoping that we can find a way to leave Arcadia when the time comes without having to actually kill our (then former) Arcadian team mates, maybe by having a high friendship score with them? I seriously do not want to kill them, although I have no such qualms about killing Tahlia cos f being used like that.
My male MC was romancing Leon in book 1, and in book 2 he tried to escape Arcadia when he had the chance, and has never committed to joining Arcadia, though he’s went along with things for the time being and been amiable to his team-mates (he’s a stoic peacekeeper sort).
Also, will we actually get the chance to see our Book 1 team-mates in Book 2? Cos I really want to meet back up with Leon before I completely succumb to Eli’s charms. lol.
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You sorta have that with saine in book 2 while in that one scene will we have more? Remains to be seen.
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If I’m remembering the details that the author gave us correctly, we may end up seeing the rest of the old gang from book 1 in the next couple of updates but I could be wrong on this so take that with a grain of salt.
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are you sure since in the book it says setiel was in his past life a knight thus his phantasma is also a knight then he gets offered a deal and then his real self is that evolved form were he no longer satiel but something else with a different name.