Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26512661-20200125162058/@comment-32346149-20200126225248

Kaitryona Acheron wrote: Spending two volumes in Atlas just doesn't make any sense anymore. If Salem arrives in Atlas, it'll be instant calamity and they'll be forced to flee. If Salem arrives in Vacuo (as many are predicting), then the heroes will have to go there to save their friends and secure the relic of destruction. Atlas ain't going 2 volumes. It would make no sense to bring everything to the brink of disaster, only to reign it in and do it all over again next volume. It'd be a back-to-back rehash.

Also, this whole thing has got V3 written all over it. As much as I hate to admit it, this is not going to be resolved in any way other than the heroes being beaten badly, and sent running for the hills.

Cinder is going to kill Winter and Penny and get the Maiden powers, Neo is probably going to kill a member of JNPR, and there'll probably be additional loses.

Next volume is Vacuo, and I believe V9 will be the final volume, played out in the ruins of Beacon.