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Oh nevermind, I see now. There's a hidden quest outside where Anton has fallen in love with Sharon, and wants our help to win her affections. The annual Anton love quests never fail to make me smile. I believe in you, buddy. I can see why Sharon needed to be out of the party now, lol. I kind of wish I had her in so I could've seen his reaction to her being there, but whatever. At least this means I can switch her in after I do this quest. I'll try Elise out for one battle to see what she's like at least.

That quest was fun but not very involved, just found some items for him to give to Sharon and she turns him down in the most Sharon way possible. I get to exploring after that and holy shit okay you go up on the roof and Thomas is there, standing with Rosine. He asks what we thought of the black records, and Rean doesn't respond right away but Thomas starts smirking and then snaps his fingers. Him, Rosine, and Rean are all teleported into some weird glowing black void thing. Thomas says that while they're here, everyone else in our party that was standing around is oblivious to what was going on, they just see everyone standing there normally while those 3 are inside here. They can have a conversation in complete secrecy. Thomas is a secret beast, what the fuck? Rean's just naturally like...what the fuck is this who the fuck even are you? And Thomas is like I'm a member of the Gralsritter bro, church official. Lmao okay I didn't see it coming with Wazy because I'm an idiot but I feel like this one was super left field.

He says he's second in command of the Gralsritter and is known as the Partitioner. I wonder if that name has come up in the franchise before this? Also, his stupid sing song voice he normally has on is gone while he's talking now, he just sounds like a normal guy. Important note. Also, this kind of clues in the secrecy of him watching us before in Act 1, but it's still a little weird.

Rosine chimes in and says that she is also with the church and is his squire here to assist him at Thors. At least she's been faithful to her church duties this whole time lol, Thomas has been off fucking around and drinking with Sara. Not a very holy man. Man, Thors really has a colorful cast of people here though, huh.

He basically asks Rean to forward any more artifacts he finds his way, and he'll help decipher anything he can and let us know. He also wants to make sure that we'll be useful to the church, as someone who holds a fragment of the great power. I guess that would be Valimar. So the knights = parts of the great power, got it. Are there more to it then just the knights or is it just them? Man I hope they get more into this church shit and Ouroboros in CS3 and 4 because it's so much more exciting.

Lol when the cutscene ends he snaps his fingers gain and the whole gang is all like ?? Huh? Did something happen I can't tell. And then Thomas instantly puts sing song voice back on and says "I'll be praying for you." Lmao. Okay I love this guy now he shot way up the list. And I always liked Rosine but she's still up there.

As you leave the rooftop you're privy to an additional conversation between Rosine and Thomas, where she asks him if he really thought it was a good idea to reveal himself like that, since Rean will be much more wary of them now. Thomas responds by saying that was the point, because Rean lacks critical awareness of what is going on around him in the world and he needs to start waking up that bigger things are happening then what he sees on the surface. I respect it. He also says they'll need Rean's help to uncover the mysterious of those two gods (he calls them Sept-terrions) that Black Record 1 talked about, as well as the 7 divine knights that the witches and gnomes made.

Okay so the great power was left over from the sept-terrion battle, and the witches and gnomes used the great power to make the knights. Presumably this means there could be other portions of the great power out there that weren't used to make the knights, but there's no confirmation of that. We also know now that there are exactly 7 knights which is more then we know about now. We've got Testa Rossa, Azure, Ashen, and the weird one from the Black Record, so there has to be 3 more hidden out there somewhere.

Okay well that's done...I reported all the quests so I finished at 329 AP. From what google tells me that is the most you can get in this game, so I did manage to get a perfect AP run! That's exciting, it might be a first for me in trails games but not 100% sure. But I tried extra hard to do more this game then usual. I tried to do everything in the Crossbell games too but iirc I had always missed something.

Time to get started with this dungeon...Elise is very boring, only two moves and she's very weak. Claire is also very weak unfortunately, she has almost no str compared to Laura/Rean/Sara even though her level is the same. I suppose time has passed her by...we can revisit you in CS3 Claire, don't worry. The great rebalancing is upon us.

I go back to the main area so I can switch in Sharon for Elise and I see the orbment station has a thing called purchase Phantasmal Mirror. They cost 200k each and there's 5 of them, holy shit lol. It says they will let you borrow power in battle. Sounds interesting, but a million mira...ok, let's see. I sold every sepith I had which brought me to 850k, sold every unused equipment which got me to 900k, and sold every normal (not rare or super rare) orbment which got me to 997k. Then sold some random food items for 1 mil. Let's see what we get! I even got an achievement for hitting 1 million mira so that's nice, lol. Didn't expect that. These mirrors are accessories you can equip, what do they do exactly? Lets see...

Holy shit I put the witch one on Claire and when the battle starts you just have Vita on your team instead lmao. Okay that is so fucking cool wow. Hopefully Vita is more useful than Claire, let's see....holy shit she's fucking BROKEN. What is this? She has so much mana and lost artes and good stats and just Jesus Christ. When I'm walking around though Claire's still the one on screen, so it's just an overwrite for when you're in battle. But interestingly, if you get near a treasure chest it's Vita's voice that says "That's quite a fine chest." Huh. She has her own stats and moves, and her EP seems to recharge between battles. CP doesn't, I used her S craft and her CP was empty next round. I'm not really 100% sure how it works but its cool as fuck, that's all I can tell you. The other mirrors are for Crow, Lloyd, Rixia, and Altina. I'm 100% down to replace Rean with Lloyd, Claire with Vita and Sharon with Rixia. Altina and Crow I don't give a shit about, so I'll just leave Alisa in the main party because she's probably my most broken unit. At least for mobs, maybe I'll switch Laura in for her for the final boss if I need it. Oh man this dungeon is so cool I love it!

It's a little weird seeing Alisa as the only normal teammate with Lloyd, Rixia, and Vita, but fuck it I'm cool with it lol. This is the way the game was meant to be played. I wish I could use Claire but she's just...so bad. Oh well. Vita is a good replacement.

They all seem to automatically have that +10 cp per turn accessory you got from beating that Ymir super boss, so they must have their own equipment. They're completely independent stock characters that overwrite the ones you have in your party, so if you wanted to you could bring your Elise and Alfin to grind them up while using better characters? Or are the stats tied to the level of who they're equipped on, I wonder. My Rixia is strong AF and she's on Sharon who isn't so I don't quite think that's the case. I don't know, fuck it, I'm just gonna use them and vibe.