Chapter I: Legion

Legion
Chapter I of Shadow Fight 3 focuses on the Legion.

Storyline
You are a new Legion recruit. You are part of the Shadow Squad, a part of the Legion who use Shadow Energy in their missions.

Otto Hyme, the Sergeant (a.k.a Sarge) appears and teaches the basics of the game. The player tests the basic moves on Gizmo. After trying out the moves, Gizmo abandons his Ornate Two-Hander and the player fights with him barehanded.After defeating him, you equip the Training Uniform armor and Plain Swords as your weapon. The player fight with Gizmo again. This time Gizmo uses his Ornate Two-Hander but the player still wins.

Then the player deals with the first Dynasty soldier in the Bamboo Forest. After defeating him, Sarge informs you that the Dynasty's main force is near the Falcon's Gorge. He then tells you that the Dynasty attacked and you fight one of their frontline attackers, a Sun Charger. After he is beaten, Deng Rao appears. Deng Rao is the Dynasty warlord who started the attack against the Legion. A cutscene of Deng Rao beating you is shown. June, the Dynasty emperor's daughter, comes and saves you from Deng Rao.

Another cut scene is shown. A person (probably Titan) tries to break the Sphere. Kibo stops him and counterattacks. Titan gets angry, disarms Kibo and hits her. June comes in the middle of the fight and tries to stop them. In the chaos, the Sphere gets broken and Shadow Energy engulfs the world.

The player fights Deng Rao against and defeats him. June goes to the camp with the player to help him find the Sphere. But Sarge first makes you punish an offender to prove your strength. After defeating him, Sarge informs you that he has already sent Gizmo after the Sphere. June exclaims that if someone common touched the Sphere, it would enslave them and turn them into a monster. All their darkest wishes would come true.

The player defeats the patrol and flees the camp in the night with June. They reach the Dynasty. June asks her emissary for intel on Gizmo. He replies that he will not help Legionaries like you. He gives information only after the player defeats him. June says that Gizmo is well-equipped and you need more training first. After you complete your training by beating June, you finally confront Gizmo. Even though Gizmo has some special moves unavailable to the player, you still defeat him.

Gizmo says that he doesn't know anything and that he only came to the Dynasty for fun. It was Sarge who wanted to go after the Sphere. He had put them on a false track, while he tried to get the Sphere. Meanwhile, an invisible Herald comes and challenges you to prove that you are worthy for June. The player beats him and reaches the Legion.

Sarge has hired a cuirassier to stop you, but the player defeats the cuirassier. Sarge makes one of the Shadow Squad recruits fight you, whom you defeat. Since you betrayed the Legion, the executioner tries to punish you, but gets defeated. Sarge is finally compelled to fight you. In the first round, nobody uses shadow techniques and the player wins easily. Reluctant to lose, Sarge goes into permanent shadow mode in the second and third round. He also gets a new move (Hell Walk) where he walks towards the player, smashes him in his stomach and head before going back. He becomes immune to knockback during the Hell Walk. Sarge also keeps using his shadow strikes throughout the second and third round. Despite all this, the player still defeats him.

The player and June escape to the Dynasty. This marks the beginning of Chapter II.

Trivia

 * The released version of Act I is quite different from the beta version of Act I.
 * The most notable changes are that you don't have to fight the tournament at the beginning of the game to uphold Shadow Squad's honor and that Greta does not appear in Act I (she makes an appearance as a minor character in Act II).
 * The cutscene after the Deng Rao cutscene shows Titan. This could mean the reappearance of Titan in SF3.
 * Sarge's Hell Walk can be easily avoided. The trick is to get close to him and then quickly dash to the other side.
 * There is a very clear difference between the Legion and the Dynasty's equipment. Legion weapons are slow and have high knockback while Dynasty weapons are fast but with lesser knockback. Legion armor is heavy and you can't perform the double sweep and other moves with it. This could make defeating June quite hard since she uses moves the player can't perform.