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Zodiac Knight Saint Seiya STORY GUIDE, Part 4
Arc 4 “The Gauntlet”: The team leaves for Sanctuary’s main headquarters in the outskirts of Athena, sans Ikki who missed the deadline that they needed to abide by to uphold the ceasefire agreement the Pope placed upon them. As they do so, they are met with zero resistance until they arrive as the House of Aries: the first of 12 Houses that they would need to clear in order to reach the Pope’s inner sanctum. Within the House of Aries, they are ambushed by no less than 500 Sanctuary foot soldiers. The Zodiac Knights don their newly-upgraded Cloths, which have been fine-tuned with the divine fragment Marin gave Mu that allowed him to apply the most cutting-edge metal to the Bronze Cloths so that they could utilize the full extent of their Cosmo: something that had been holding them back during Japan’s campaign despite their rapid progress. The team easily dispatches the ambush but during the melee, Saori was shot in the chest with a poison dart. The voice of the Pope echoes through
