- Biggs steels himself for what may well be your final confrontation with the Illuminati.
- Biggs briefs you on the task at hand. In order to disable the core and end the primal threat, you will first need to cut off its supply of aether─this much you gleaned from your last trip into the heart of the colossus. While the precise means by which this may be done is mere speculation at this point, Cid has determined that your best chance is to return to Central Control. Complicating matters is the fact that the only way in is through the main generators─the chamber that Quickthinx portentously warned would be the site of your demise. Though it is clear that he possesses no special insight into the future, it would stand to reason that the master of the Illuminati is prepared to meet you with the full force of his mechanical army. Ready yourself for battle, then venture back into the belly of the beast!
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- ※To enter the Main Generators, speak with Snapclix in the Makers' Quarter.
- No sooner do you enter the main generators than you are greeted by the ominous voice of Quickthinx, who calls upon Alexander to deliver the judgment of time upon the unworthy─meaning you. Seemingly from nowhere, a smaller─though still passably enormous─embodiment of the colossus appears before you, summoning forth a massive energy field, and for an instant, time stops. The field soon dissipates, however, prompting an obviously perturbed Quickthinx to order Alexander to simply annihilate you. The colossus-within-a-colossus duly endeavors to oblige, firing a massive beam of destructive light that you are only barely able to evade, before disappearing into what appears to be a self-contained pocket of time. With even Cid unable to provide any real insight into what has just occurred, you have no recourse but to enter the time distortion and eliminate the mechanical menace.
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- ※The Soul of the Creator can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
- Its true nature still shrouded in the mysteries of time and space, the entity known as Alexander Prime has nonetheless fallen to your hand. Return to reality as you know it and rendezvous with your companions.
- You storm into Central Control, where Y'shtola calls upon Roundrox to access the Enigma Codex and disable the flow of aether to the core. The plan goes awry, however, when Quickthinx reveals that he too can read the codex, an ability he concealed hoping to sacrifice the goblin girl's life instead of his own in the event that the fully awakened Alexander's power was too great to control. Just when it appears certain that he will succeed in traveling to the past and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, Mide emerges from the shadows and shoots him in the head, ending his schemes once and for all. Now, there is nothing preventing Roundrox from turning off the flow of aether to the core, which she duly does─at long last quelling the primal threat. It would seem your mission has ended in triumph.
- As you prepare to leave, Quickthinx's corpse stirs to life with a series of whirrs and clicks, and he reassumes control of the colossus. Boasting that he has mechanically enhanced his body to the point that physical wounds are of no consequence to him, he reissues the command to return to the past. But at the moment of the Illuminati Grand Master's triumph, Alexander itself defies his order, sending a surge of energy back through the Enigma Codex that shatters it into innumerable pieces, overloading the mechanized goblin's circuits with fatal consequences.
- Though your foe lies dead, there is no time to rejoice, as the core─without the codex to keep its power in check─begins to run out of control. In that instant, Mide discovers that her long-cherished belief is true: her beloved's soul lives on inside the machine, and it is calling out to her. With a smile of acceptance, she says her farewells and casts herself into the core. As the colossus begins to lose power, you could swear you hear her voice calling out to you, assuring you that Alexander is in safe hands...
- Safely outside, you share a moment of relief with Biggs. The colossus has gone still, and a closer look reveals that the flow of time inside the barrier has stopped entirely. Though the precise details remain unclear─known only to a man and woman who have left this world for a place beyond space and time─it would appear the primal threat has finally passed.
All right, Forename, this is it. We still don't know exactly how we're going to disable the core, but we do know that our only chance is to get back to that central control room. We also know that there's only one way in, and that Quickthinx isn't going to let us through without a fight.
Now, we can be pretty sure he can't see the future─not anymore, at least─and without Roundrox to read the codex for him, he won't be turning back time on us, either. But he's still a power-mad maniac with some of the deadliest machina in the realm at his disposal. And after losing that book of his, I'd wager his trigger finger's feeling pretty bleedin' itchy.
Aye, we'd best be ready for a battle and a half. Muscle against metal, man against machine─gods, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or soil meself! Mayhap all three! Ah, here comes the chief now. It's time to move out.
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So the only reason Quickthinx was able to predict the future was because he stumbled onto Backrix's watcherbook three years ago? That's not nearly as impressive as being some kind of “chosen one,” to say the least.
All of those uncanny predictions and impeccably timed actions─it was all just a sham! But without his precious book to guide him, it looks like the game is finally up!
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System
You now have access to the Soul of the Creator. Alexander can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
Alexander can also be can be accessed via the entrances in the Main Generators and the Makers' Quarter.
You now have access to the Soul of the Creator. Alexander can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
Alexander can also be can be accessed via the entrances in the Main Generators and the Makers' Quarter. |
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A gobbie lookout by the name of Snapclix has been given the job of guarding the hatch to the main generators. When you're ready to head back in, you'll find him in the Makers' Quarter.
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So the only reason Quickthinx was able to predict the future was because he stumbled onto Backrix's watcherbook three years ago? That's not nearly as impressive as being some kind of “chosen one,” to say the least.
All of those uncanny predictions and impeccably timed actions─it was all just a sham! But without his precious book to guide him, it looks like the game is finally up!
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So that swirling void is some sort of ripple in time? I can't say I like the sound of that─you take care in there, Forename.
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Talk about a narrow escape! If I'd been standing so much as a yalm to the left, I'd be a pair of smoking boots by now!
A-Anyway, we had better get on with securing the area, so that Y'shtola can bring up the rear with Roundrox. We didn't want to drag the poor child back here, but she's the only one who can access the controls.
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I'm quite certain we just witnessed another manipulation of time, but by whom? With Roundrox gone and the Enigma Codex rendered useless, it can't very well be the Illuminati. Could Alexander have a will of its own?
At any rate, we stand ilms from the core─the very heart of a primal. Whatever the true nature of the entity that awaits you in there, you can be sure it'll be like no foe you've faced before. Godsspeed, Forename.
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Roundrox is back in Idyllshire with the chief. Everyone's safe and sound─'cept for Mide, that is. The poor lass always had a flair for the dramatic, but to think she'd throw herself into the core...
It's odd, though. I could have sworn I heard her voice in there─saying the colossus would trouble us no more, or something of the sort. And for what it's worth, it has been sleeping like a baby ever since we got out.
And that's not the half of it! Take a closer look inside the barrier, Forename. It's like time is standing still.
Buggered if I know what it all means, but I'd like to believe Mide and her love somehow sealed away the core for us. Softens the blow a bit, you know?
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Look at this, Forename! It's as if everything inside the barrier is frozen in time. I'll have to ask the chief what he makes of this.
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Closest Aetheryte: Idyllshire Aetheryte Plaza
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