As skilled as you doubtlessly are, assassinating Edelgard would still be futile.

[Lysithea shakes her head.]

I know the truth now - who she is, what she commands. It will not be Edelgard herself who razes the monastery on this day.

Look to the east. In the skies. Do you see?

[Something immense and appalling hangs in the air, its face covered with what appears to be a golden mask.]

The Demonic Beasts will be the ones who ruin us, in the end. And they have a seemingly unending supply. I know not how humans can come to control such creatures... but I know that this battle was lost from the start.

I would not see you harmed by facing such things. It is impossible to break through their defenses alone.