We walk into the ruins of Cinder and see a cohort of people at the entrance. Fenia, Clarity guards, and Secretary Lana. Everyone knows Lana is Lava, the lost Cinderian princess. No one is really glad to see her, though. Lava overlooks the destruction of her home and has the audacity to blame us for it. Fenia tells her she's wrong and that it was the Empress and her underling's doing. Zas tries to keep Kari on the outside of this conversation, but Kari wants answers. We follow Lava to the palace, and Lava's sisters confirm we're the heroes. Not only that but all of them were betrayed by the Empress. Lava joins Volcano and Galley in turning against Krysta. I've forgotten how, but Kari is brought up again. Probably because she was also used. Our Kari demands to know what happened, and Cristopher ends up telling her. Rather than getting upset, she promises to never become what she was before being rewound. I think the impetus was learning Zero, Zas and Kari's dad, is the reason Lava has no horns. Lava was one of the first to catch Glass Lung and one of the first to receive treatment. The drug worked, but it cost her her horns. But now that Lava is on our side, she tells us the Forge was never shut down. Azufra lied, and she knows this because Lava had an affair with the great hero. Glass Lung is still infecting people, so it's an important thing to fix. While we're here, we ask about the ruins. The sisters tell us something is in the basement of the Forge, so it's off we go.
To reach the basement, we need to ask Nasar to open it. JKR is respectful to her, and she lets us in. I think she had the key, as well. The basement looks and functions like the rest of the tower. Lava will be down here, and she's getting accosted by a robot. It's the same one we battled in the mountains near Clarity. It's kinda boring now, and I feel like it takes forever. We'll open the path to the bomb controls, and Lava is now a friend. Before coming down here, everyone thought Crisbell was crazy for constantly aligning with our foes, but it keeps working. The path to the control terminal is open, but there's more to explore here once you begin the gimmick. I found a pair of Ancient Gauntlets at the end of the path. They massively increase all stats, but the effect diminishes with each crystal use. K unlocks the ruins to the south, we go there, turn it off, and head to Clarity.
We can't reach the walled city of Clarity. The Hand has forbidden entry to everyone, so we use our backway in. But it's blocked! We head to a friend of Cristopher's, and she suggests there's a secret path near where we saved Mario. That path is kinda dumb. You have to be pushed by one of the poop water flows. Topher will reminisce about the time Wilhelm told him off after he almost got us eaten by the sewer monster. Looking back, Topher knows that was just how Wil pushed people to be their best. The next room is where a lot of things start to reveal themselves. We see the rotting corpse of the Mother Superior down here. The access panel is also nearby. And beyond that is the true villain of Clarity. Father Miguel is feeding another sewer monster. He's disappointed about the other one, but we'll return to town in a moment. The path takes us to the sewer grate Adri pulled us from, and right near her shop. Topher asks her about his parents, and she says Miguel kidnapped them. Miggy is serving mass, so it's off we go. He's upset and sicks the guards on us. We're stronger, so we coerce him into telling us Sophia and Armando are in the sewers. We follow him down there and see they're alright. Then the second sewer monster attacks.
It's also the same fight.
Miguel taunts us because we have no proof he's evil and has the town eating out of his hands. His voice then echoes through the sewer because Adri made a recorder! Miguel is gone, and he had the ruins key on him. K activates it, and that's all the ruins. It's time to end this.
Paulina takes us back to Crystalis, and the Mother Superiors are excited. But it's time to save the world!
The opening dialogue is similar, but it is different, even if inconsequentially. The battle is also the exact same, but Krysta has fewer HP, and we're slightly stronger. The Empress goes to the same room, and we follow.
Marias tells JKR to attack Krysta, and he does in the same way as before. Krysta tries to turn Crisbell into the detonator again, but it doesn't work. Crisbell brags that we found out her plan and prevented it from happening. Krysta calls us stupid and tells us we don't know what we've done before finally dying. Now we can't stop "him."
Matias is downright giddy! He says some things we don't understand until he transforms into a man. Our yellow frog has been deceiving us the whole game. Matias' real name is Ardo, and he's the last of the Rena. He's been fighting Krysta to revive his people. And with her death, he can do that. He says some programming stuff, and JKR turns into a basic robot under Ardo's control. The two leave to fulfill their plans, and we examine the ruins we're in.
Krysta isn't quite dead yet. It is here where she reveals everything. Ardo is an immortal being who's doing all of this to time shift his people into the present, replacing the current batch of humans with the Rena. He would have done this before, but people like Krysta and Crisbell always stop him. Crisbell's grandma was also one. Even the Lady was one such woman. There's always a female time mage who prevents the resurrection, but he always figures something out to try again. Krysta's plan was to destroy the ruins, ending Ardo's thoughts once and for all. This would kill a lot of innocent people, but it was all for the sake of stopping Ardo. But now he's free. Krysta's arrogance got the best of her. So now it's up to us. These ruins hold the key. Krysta finally runs out of time and dies.
In order to properly explore these ruins, Zas tells us we're gonna need experts across several fields. In short, we need to bring June from Narim, Adri from Clarity, Oropen in Tulira's University, and Takna from Cinder. And we'll do that...
...tomorrow!
So this explains a lot about Matias' actions, which is rad. What I don't understand is why the Empress used evil people to do her bidding. Explain everything with Azufra and Kari. What about Lava secretly controlling Narim? Why revive Rhallus? Either way, the game is getting kinda long in the tooth...
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