The arc ends with a mock Eclipse—a heretical ceremony that births a new demon. But this time, Guts doesn't run. He stands over Casca’s prone body and refuses to die. The "Struggler" is born. Not the Revenant. The Struggler . The man who fights against the flow of causality not for revenge, but for preservation . This is the war arc. Griffith returns to the physical world in a reborn body. He is no longer a man; he is a messiah. He defeats the monstrous Emperor Ganishka, fuses the astral and physical planes, and creates Fantasia.
Here, Miura performs a miracle. He makes us forget the demons. He gives us camaraderie, politics, and the most complex relationship in manga history: Guts and Griffith. All Of Berserk Manga
The genius of this arc is the villain: Mozgus. He is not a demon. He is a holy man. He tortures "heretics" with genuine, psychotic belief that he is saving their souls. Miura’s point is devastating: The God Hand doesn’t need to destroy humanity. Humanity will build its own torture chambers and call them chapels. The arc ends with a mock Eclipse—a heretical
The goal for thirty real-world years was to heal Casca’s mind. To undo the damage of the Eclipse. The "Struggler" is born
Berserk argues that the universe is deterministic. The God Hand call it "Causality." Everything happens for a reason—usually a cruel one. The poor stay poor. The traumatized hurt others. The dreamer betrays the soldier.