Part 43: Encyclopaedia Expositia

Chapter 40: Encyclopaedia Expositia
Today's gimmick: Plot-relevant terms are underlined!



Oho, scholars from Surgate.
We've been able to find the missing half of the Sealed Tome!
Perfect!


Ghido activates some machinery or something and makes the staircase recede and get replaced by a table.

As you have probably noticed, the two worlds have recombined into one. And the Void is trying to break free from where it has been sealed within the Rift!
Then we'd better hurry there and stop it!
Burtz, Burtz, Burtz... so enthusiastic and yet so stupid. Along with the Void, many fearsome monsters were sealed in the Rift a millennium ago. They are all incredibly evil, and incredibly strong. I feel safe in saying that as you are now, you kids wouldn't stand a chance.
Then, what do we do?
Elementary, my dear Burtz: the legendary weapons used to defeat the warlock Enuo a thousand years ago!
Legendary weapons?
Sometimes I wonder if you say things like this to spite me...




Now that we have both halves of the Sealed Tomes, if all goes according to legend-and I'm certain it will- the book will show us the way.


The Sealed Tome acts all mysterious and amazing, even getting it's own music, but really it's just a fucking book.

It is written:
'When Nothing's power again does peak,
To Light Warriors this book shall speak,'


It keeps the iambic quadrameter for all of one couplet, before delivering the usual ancient metaphor with no interesting meter.

After Enuo's defeat, the weapons of legend were sealed within the Castle of Kuza.
To break the seals, the four tablets must be assembled.
One rests
alongside the spirits of the past
blessed by the soil
One rests
within an island shrine
kissed by wind
One rests
beneath the ocean's floor
engulfed by flames...
One rests
beyond the river's torrents,
protected by water...
Along with the keys to open the seals- the four tablets-are sealed our servants.
If the tablets moved, our servants will awaken...
The ultimate spells of white and black...
The magic of time and space, Meteor...
The sea king, Leviathan...
And the dragon king, Bahamut...
Present this book unto the gate and the way to the seals will be opened...


Here's the plot of world 3.

Go and find the first tablet... Blessed by the soil and the spirits of the past... Eureka! it must be the pyramid in the Desert of Shifting Sands! Faris, Krile... and even you, Burtz. You must go at once! The future of the world depends on it!


Foreshadowing!






Mana's Paeaeaeaeaeaeaean isn't anything special, just ABSURDLY HARD TO MISS.


That length of time would be exactly as long as it takes for you to confront him.


This overlap becomes much more than just a way of navigating, you'll see.


Poppycock! I've done it with Air Knives and Aeroga just fine.


Of course, we'll visit it.


Gargoyles are punks, nothing worse than what we've dealt with.


Elm Gigi have a bunch of HP and absorb wind and cast Aeroga for 1500 damage. Not worth it.



The Guardian Tree...
The forest is beginning to come back to life...
Grandpa... Why can't Grandpa come back to life?
Lenna...Papa...
So many lives have been lost...
we must stop Exdeath. The people around the world need us... No, not only the people, but all life...
Aye...so many sacrifices have been made already... I won't stand by while more lives are lost!
Let's go...so there won't be any more sacrifices.


The Shifting Sands... have stopped shifting. I guess it's just the Sands now?


The Desert of Sands acts no different than any other desert now, so it's a short hike to the Pyramid of Moore.

NEXT TIME:
Grave robbing! Robots! The penultimate plot-mandatory dungeon!