Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 61: Ilias Temple Ruins II

Beginning

<- Previous: Ilias Temple Ruins I

Hang on to your hats.  Explanations are coming.  Plot twists.  Craziness.

There’s also going to be plenty of me mistranslating things and getting it wrong.  Thankfully, you all out there are great and quick to correct my blunders in the comments.  Please keep doing so.

Right.  We’re on the third floor (in game terms) of the Ilias Temple Ruins and chasing after the cryptic and annoying White Rabbit to try and get some explanation as to what the hell is happening.  Oh, and our world is dying.

We follow her up the steps.  Alice has already dropped strong hints that we’re likely to find a boss battle at the top of them.

We arrive at the top in time to see the White Rabbit get killed in surprisingly gruesome fashion by what appears to be a full-powered Ilias.  Uh oh.

Harsh...

Oh, it’s a chaotized Ilias.

You're not looking too well there, Ilias lass

This is the same Ilias that contacted us at the very beginning of the game.  She’s the one trying to contain the chaotization within the ruins (which also appears to have badly affected her).  She explains what broke the original world, and as White Rabbit hinted at earlier, it’s us.  Or rather, the original canon!Luka.  When he killed Ilias at the original series it destabilised everything, sending ripples back through time and budding off countless parallel universes.

(I think.  You’ll have to excuse my explanations for this last section.  Machine translation of the original Japanese only goes so far.  From what I can gather, the constant time rewinding to save Luka from sexy bad ends opened up various holes in time and space, and then killing Ilias removed the ability to fix things should something go horribly wrong, and something did indeed go horribly horribly wrong.)

This world was the first to spin off, but what was the calamity that caused all the craziness in this world—heaven to fall, the tartarus regions etc.?

It was Remina.  White Rabbit pops back into existence to tell us this.

Or rather show.  Ilias (or White Rabbit II) sends us back in time to see the exact cause.

Unsurprisingly, I’m rather confused at this point.

Remina in the past is quite advanced and we arrive in an experimental lab.  They’re in the middle of some kind of experiment.  It’s either some kind of fusion of magic and holy, or they’re trying to call up the spirit of Heinrich (or both—I’m clearly winging it on iffy translations and educated guesswork at this point).  This is the experiment that went horribly wrong—like skinned-alive people being stuck in walls wrong.

Remina used to be fairly hi-tech

The White Rabbit tells us she cannot intervene, and neither can we.  What we’re supposed to do is follow the corridor around to a room in the north.  There are a few NPCs.  One drops a keycard that is useful both here and later (or rather I think it’s an automatic trigger before entering the chamber at the end of the corridor).

And now the experiment, which appears to be using Heinrich’s sword as a catalyst to call up his spirit (or some energy his spirit contains, not entirely sure on this).  Seems harmless enough.

You probably don't want to do this... 

Except they get Black Alice instead.

Yup, did warn you.  Now you've gone and yanked Black Alice out of her time and space.

There are traces of Black Alice’s blood on the sword and it causes some kind of resonance that calls up her instead of Heinrich(‘s spirit?).  She looks the worst for wear, saying she’d just been defeated by a brave hero.  The experiment must have picked her up from the moment right after she was defeated by Heinr—

Oh wait.  This isn’t the Black Alice from the past.  This is the Black Alice from the future.

The Black Alice who was defeated by canon!Luka at the end of the original series.

The Black Alice who had just devoured Ilias.

The Black Alice who had devoured and taken on the powers of a god...

We are all fucked

In the original series Black Alice was unable to successfully balance the forces of dark and holy within her body before being defeated by Luka.  Here she has more time and...

Oh fuck

We are so fucked.

By successfully balancing the opposing forces within her body, Black Alice awakens to godhood.  This rips a hole in the space-time continuum and triggers the catastrophe of Remina.  I suspect this is what blasts a chunk of heaven out of the heavens and creates the various tartarus regions.

Beyond oh fuck

Rather interestingly, the game refers to Black Alice as the 3rd god to be created.  I thought Ilias was the only god.  My MGQ lore is rusty.  The only other god I can think of is the original monster lord and progenitor of Alice’s line.

God Alice ascends and looks around at her new playground.  Because of these events, all kinds of parallel worlds have bubbled off.  She (and we) see an alternate reality where the monster girls were not sealed and rule unopposed.  In another, the angels destroyed the monsters utterly and rule a world devoted solely to the worship of Ilias.

Our playmates for [part 3]

She also notices we’re here and observing her... which comes as a rather unpleasant shock to White Rabbit.  She nopes out of there and takes us with her back to Ilias...

...who promptly nukes her with lightning again, in case we’d forgotten she’s a complete psychopath.

Given that White Rabbit II is now a chunk of smouldering charcoal (alas poor Rabbit), it falls to Ilias to continue the explanations.  Out of all the parallel worlds she mentions there are two unique worlds where history diverged a lot and one side completely crushed the other.  It’s the representatives of these worlds that are running around trying to influence things on this world.

And speak of the devil, here are the shikibus sisters.

Speaking of the devil does indeed make them appear

Now what are they doing here?

-> Next: A final boss fight?

Here's what I hope is a more condensed explanation.  It's quite likely wrong, so please feel free to correct if you have better (i.e any) Japanese reading comprehension.

There is the canon!world of the original MGQ series.  In that canon!Luka did experience all the lovely sexy (and not so sexy) Bad Ends we chucked him into, but was saved by Ilias rewinding time.  This weakened the fabric of space/time, which was finally pushed over the edge by Luka and friends killing Ilias.  This opened up holes and created the potential for parallel universes to bud off.

(So Luka killing Ilias is the initial "catastrophe" event.)

Now to paradox!world.  Because of all the damage to the space/time continuum, an experiment caused the Black Alice fought at the end of MGQ to be pulled back in time to Remina.  There she was able to successfully absorb the powers of the Ilias she'd consumed to ascend to godhood, causing the catastrophe in paradox!world.

Other worlds were also budding off and multiplying all over the place.  In one, the monster girls beat Ilias and her angels.  In another, the angels eradicated the monster girls.  It's representatives of these worlds that have been running amok on paradox!world.

Right, so that's where we're at.  More to come (plus the inevitable final boss) next post.

Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 60: Ilias Temple Ruins I

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Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 59: Snowy Shrine

Beginning

<- Previous: Snow Heaven

We are exploring the mysterious Snow Continent.  As we learnt from Snow Heaven last time, the continent is a bit of heaven that fell out of the sky after some catastrophe befell Ilias some thirty years ago.  It’s inhabited by a bunch of angels ranging from the cute (which we’ve already seen) to the—shudder—Delphinus (which, spoiler, we are about to experience).

There are three locations of interest in the south.

To the west is the Ilias Temple Ruins.  You won’t be able to enter it at this point as it’s surrounded by some kind of magical barrier.

Ilias Temple Ruins

Straight south is the mysterious Creation House (Genesis Temple? Not sure of the exact translation here).

Creation House

And to the east is the Snowy Shrine

Snowy Shrine.  The right one this time!

The Snowy Shrine in the southeast is where we need to go, but before then let’s take a gander at the mysterious Creation House

I’m not sure what this location is.  It’s full of treasure chests, including another of the metallic ones I still can’t open as I haven’t yet found where the Lockpick III ability is hiding.  I think it’s in the advanced rogue/thief Trickster job, but I haven’t reached it yet as levelling up the advanced jobs takes a long long time (I’m assuming TTR only intended for players to be just dipping into these classes at the end of part 2 rather than maxing them out).

The place is infested with angels.  Cupid and Valkyrie return from the original series.

Nice, normal angels

They are joined by other... horrors.

Delphinus hath returned

There is some kind of pentagram on the top floor, but we don’t appear to be able to activate it.  Overall, this place seems a bit of a mystery.  Either it’s somewhere we’re supposed to come back to later, or has significance for players on the Ilias route.

The Snowy Shrine in the southeast is really a twisty path leading to a cave/ancient temple.  On the bottom floor there are a few statues and stone plaques with sparkles that turn out to be nothing when Luka investigates.  You need to travel all the way to the end where...

What?

I skipped Uranus and Eliciel?  You want to know the “sexy” details of their Bad Ends?

Are you sure?

Really sure?

Okay then.

Uranus will suck your cock into her giant pussy and hold you there with various tentacles.

Sea Anemone + Vagina.  A description to run away from.  Too late!

After her big soft pussy has milked a giant load from you, she slowly starts to suck the rest of you into her pussy, feet first.

Much too late...

Slowly.  So she can tell you about how she’s digesting your legs and lower body while you’re still alive.

Eliciel will turn you into a fruit.  Literally.

See that big dangly berry thing.  In you go.

Well, I suppose she's an improvement over the pomegranate angel in the original series

She then rubs and splodges her other soft dangling fruit against your flesh.

I don't know what's going on here.  I'm not sure I want to know...

They wrap around your body and feel great.  And then she turns you into a fruit.

Delphinus angels.  I did try to warn you.

Anyway, back to the main story.  It won’t come as much of a surprise that the angel chief waiting at the end of the snowy shrine is Eden.  A very naked Eden.

Back to conventionally sexy angels

She is busy doing magical barrier stuff and complains about the cold.  Sonya being Sonya, points out she can always put some clothes on.  Eden tells us that won’t help.  Her cold is more of a metaphorical kind.  She’s cold in her heart until Ilias returns.

(I imagine this scene plays out rather differently if you have Ilias in the party rather than Alice.)

Eden gets angry at any mention of lowering the barrier, thinking we’ve come to defile Ilias’s temple.  Which culminates rather predictably in a boss fight.

I was expecting her Bad End to be a repeat of her scene in the original series where she draws Luka into her garden of delights (she also has another scene that isn’t quite so delightful...).  However, falling from heaven appears to have cut her off from her full monster form and instead we get a nice bit of angel cowgirl.

A new scene for Eden?

I think this might be a new Bad End scene.  Unfortunately, angels use their divine vaginas to exploit the energy of mortals.  She doesn’t kill Luka, but his fate is to be used as a battery to power her up while she keeps the barrier running.

Only if you fail to beat her, which we don’t.  After we defeat her, Eden spots that Luka has some angel blood running through him.  Machine translation was a little rocky for me here.  Luka mentions that his mother was Lucifina and somehow we hoodwink Eden into agreeing to lower the barrier long enough for us to enter the Ilias Temple Ruins.

So, mission accomplished.  It’s time to head west to Ilias temple.  As we walk towards it, Sonya confesses to being worried.  She has a bad feeling about what awaits us in the Ilias temple.

Premonitions.  Can you say, premonitions.

I think we might be about to find out the truth behind MQ:P’s impossible girl, the girl Ilias told us should not exist (way way back near the start of part 1).

Also, that reminds me: Where is Ilias?  I haven’t seen her and her scrapgang party of Doggo and Slime Girl for a while now.  Did I forget to rescue them somewhere?  It seems weird they haven’t shown up on our path for a while, but I suppose it also makes some sense.  The NPCs in this region would be behaving a lot differently if pint-sized Ilias had already been through here.

Anyway, I suspect we’re now approaching the end (maybe).  Time to enter that mysterious temple...

-> Next: Ilias Temple Ruins

Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 58: Snow Heaven

Beginning

<- Previous: Snow Continent

We have successfully penetrated the interior of the snow continent.  There are angels.  Lots of angels.

There are five variations of the booby angel soldiers.

Luka's Angels?

They were present in the original series (although not until part 3), and their Bad End is appropriately boobilicious.

Boobilicious times 5

As you’d expect from an Arekishi creation, their Bad End involves paizuri… lots and lots of paizuri.  The whole squad takes it in turns to wank Luka off with their breasts.  Yup, definitely boobilicious.

The Trinity angels from the original series are also present.

More sexy angels...

I love their temptation scene.  Two of them hold our arms while the third opens up her top as if to say, “You’re about to get a good boobing.”

"I am now going to boob you."

And she does indeed give us a good boobing.

Maximum boobing

Up, down, squeeze... until our knees are trembling and we’ve emptied our balls all over her divine chest.

That’s just the temptation scene.  For the Bad End Trinity decides that three of them isn’t enough and they enlist the help of another squad for their cross of holy punishment.

Apparently, this is angelic punishment

Face pressed into boobs.  Boobs wrapped around back of head.  Hand pressed into boobs.  Double boobs pressed around cock.  Boobs, boobs, and more boobs.

And this is the punishment for sinning?

Don’t mind me, I’m just off to go and kick puppies and maybe burn down an orphanage or two.

I’m a sinner and I need boobs punishment.

The village we saw at the end of the last post is filled with angels.

Village of angels

One of them gives a proper explanation for how the snow continent came into being.  People had it wrong when they thought it was raised up out of the oceans.  It’s a chunk of heaven that fell out of the sky.  Many angels were killed in this disaster and then found themselves stranded without their divine powers (which explains how our parties of random monster girls can even fight them—in the original series the angels had some form of divine protection and only Luka could even touch them).  The angels built the town using what they’d learnt from humans and have been holding on in hope of Ilias’s return ever since.

Within the town you can find the usual assortment of blacksmith, item shop, weapon shop, inn, etc.  There’s a restaurant where the angels feel very guilty about how much they enjoy various cakes and sweets.  Surprisingly there is also a battlefucker in the town:

Lone survivor Shoki

She is Shoki and is the last remaining survivor of an expedition sent by Sabasa to investigate the snow continent.  Some of the angels even talk about Sabasa.  They refer to the ruler as a barbarian nympho.  If you have Sara in the party she will be upset about this in her swordswoman form.  Sonya tries to comfort her… until Sara flips to her succubus form and reveals she’s quite proud of her nympho reputation.

Alicetroemeria continues to be very unlike the Black Alice everyone remembers.  She likes the polar bears and even wonders if she can be friends with the angels.  Again, it makes you wonder what happened to change this incarnation into the total monster Black Alice everyone fears.

There is also talk of a chief angel, but she’s currently not here and instead pouring her energies into keeping a barrier up.

In her absence another angel has been nominated to run the town.  She can be found up in the top right corner of Snow Heaven.

You seem familiar...

She is Ranael and looks suspiciously like the angel that decimated Luka’s home village in another timeline.  If that’s the case then you probably really don’t want to see what’s under that dress.

Talking to Ranael confirms what the other NPCs have been saying.  The snow continent fell out of the heavens after a catastrophe some thirty years ago.  The source of the mana disruption is likely the Ilias temple—the real one, not the one in Iliasville.  But we won’t be able to enter at the moment as it’s protected by a barrier maintained by the chief angel (likely Eden).

This is another occasion where I wonder how much the Ilias path has diverged.  All the NPCs here would likely be reacting a lot differently if Luka rocked up with Ilias in tow.  Or maybe they wouldn’t recognise her in her loli, depowered form.

Anyway, we have our next target.  We need to go down to the shrine in the southeast and ask the angel chief to kindly drop the barrier long enough for us to enter the Ilias Temple Ruins.

-> Next: Snowy Shrine

Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 57: Snow Continent

Beginning

<- Previous: Side Quests and Pirate Battlefuckers

Okay, enough procrastination.  We have a world to save.  We go to the Bird God Shrine...

Wasn't something supposed to happen?

...and nothing happens.

The ritual does not happen.  The bird god stays as dead as your proverbial Northern Blue.  Even Alice is flummoxed by this.

Nero pops up, as he is wont to do, and explains that the flow of mana has been disrupted by the presence of the snow continent.  The shrine can no longer gather enough mana to power the resurrection of the bird god.  In order to carry out the ritual we first need to destroy the snow continent.

That’s a little, um, extreme.

As an alternative to not blowing a continent out of existence he suggests going over there to investigate what is disrupting the flow of mana.

Previous attempts to visit the snow continent have been thwarted by some kind of magic teleport barrier similar to what guards the elf village in Yamatai.  I’m guessing this is the plot trigger that undoes the barrier blocking entrance to the mysterious snow continent.

Sure enough, when we sail over to visit, this time the White Rabbit is waiting outside the cave entrance.

Of course she'd be here...

She is as cryptic as ever, suggesting we need to take out whoever is responsible for the snow continent being here in the first place.  Then she runs off into the cave, because that’s what she does—say something cryptic then hop off.

As soon as we enter the cave we’re ambushed by angel guards surprised we were able to penetrate the magic barrier.

Angels here?  Something suspicious is going on.

Angels, hmm.  The plot thickens.

It’s not just angels.  The other inhabitants of the icy caves are snow witches and polar bear girls.

Spiky and fluffy

The polar bear girl’s Bad End is to sit on you.

In Soviet Russia the bear… yeah, let’s not go there.

It’s cold.  She’s warm.  So it’s not all bad.  Obviously we end up in her pussy, but that’s warm as well.  After bouncing up and down on us until we’re fully depleted, she takes us off to her nest and everyone lives happily ever after (at least until chaos destroys the universe).

Ice Witch, who I guess would be a Yuki-Onna if the game didn’t already have a Yuki-Onna, has a killer bod.

Killer ass... literally

Unfortunately, in this case literally.  Her pussy is cold but not unpleasant and she soon has us coming, and coming, and coming... until she’s sucked all the heat out of our body and left us behind as a frozen corpse.

Hmm.  I can think of another name for her.  One that rhymes with witch...

Nice kisser though, although her lips are a little on the frosty side.

The snow caverns are another maze with various goodies hidden in chests along the way.  Halfway through we end up outside and at the peak where we come across a polar bear girl village.

Okay, they're actually kinda adorable... in a platonic way

The polar bear girls are rather cute in a platonically cute way.  They ask not to be bullied and seem to be having fun making snowmen.  There’s a hut here that functions as a free inn and a few items hiding in chests and pots.

Also, now that you’ve found the polar bear village, you can also rescue the stranded polar bear girl out in the ocean.  She’s on an island that is pretty much directly west of Magistea Village.  After you’ve escaped the snow caverns, go pick her up.  She’ll now temporarily join the party and you can bring her to the polar bear village.  Once safely returned home she’ll reward you with 3 small medals and some other minor bits and bobs.

Then it’s back down into the snow caverns on the other side to find a route down to the centre of the snow continent.  Eventually we emerge a little bit north of a brand new settlement, which we shall investigate in the next post.

Entering the mysterious snow continent

-> Next: Snow Heaven

Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 56: Side Quests and Pirate Battlefuckers

Beginning

<- Previous: Black Alice’s Monster Lord Castle

Before attempting the Bird God Shrine ritual I thought I’d knock off the last remaining side quests.  Some of them unlock useful items, one of which is another advanced job/race unlock.

As with part 1, the side quests can be found pinned on a board to the right of the doors at the end of the entrance hall in the pocket castle.  It might be because I haven’t really been paying attention, but part 2 seems to have a lot less of these, although the rewards from these later ones make completing them much more worthwhile than… say, teaching Ratty a poison breath attack, for example.

Unlocking Human -> Vampire Race Change

This is Promestein’s side quest.  Take her to the vampire pub in Sabasa and have her talk to the left-hand barmaid.

I vant your blood

She’ll give Promestein a sample of her blood.  Promestein does some on-the-spot experimentation, mixes it with something else, and then injects Luka with “garlic extract”.  This turns Luka into a vampire thirsting for blood.

Um, why?

It’s not bad and is actually rather useful.  Humans only have a beginning race and run out of further options (unless you unlock the Worm Summoner race with Lily).  This gives them an extended progression path as you can now switch their race to vampire.

After this Promestein will appear in the pocket castle lobby (between the maid and Teeny’s inn, you can’t miss her) and give you the option to make various race changes.

The first is to change a character’s race from human to vampire.

Providing you let her inject Bunni with “carrot extract” in part 1, she can also change a character’s race from slime to beast.

There is also a third option to change mermaids to fairies, but this requires completing Gigi’s side quest and recruiting Lucia rather than Lily.  What this means is that NG playthroughs have the option of either human -> worm summoner or mermaid -> fairy depending on which side you took during the Magistea Village war in part 1.

Pirate Gloria and the Lewd God’s Soul

The fishy pirates also have a side quest.  There is a rivalry between them and some human pirates led by a woman named Gloria.  Bonnie and the others want to settle who is the best once and for all.

Put Bonnie and Ashel in the party (or maybe just Bonnie) and sail directly east from the Naval Headquarters.  Travel in a straight line and you’ll come across another boat.

A pirate ship.  Easier to find than the vampire isle, thankfully.

This is Gloria’s ship.

Gloria the Pirate Queen

She has two henchwomen—Ariadne and Cresta

Ariadne and Cresta

All three are battlefuckers.  Rather than settle their disagreements through normal fighting, Gloria suggests they do it through battlefucking, and Luka is the one nominated to represent the fishy pirates.

(Sonya is as happy about this as you might expect.)

This segment is basically just three battlefucks to withstand, one by one.

Ariadne is a paizuri specialist.

Boobs!

Cresta likes a bit of buttock frottage.

Ass!

Gloria will just wank you off.

Wank!  (ow ow ow ow, too hard)

Depending on what current job/race combo you have for Luka, she probably will wank you off, as her total damage is somewhere in the region of 4.5k.

Ariadne gives a pirate scroll on defeat and Cresta a gun scroll.  Gloria is the more important as she gives you an accessory that halves MP usage, but more importantly the Lewd God’s Soul, an item required to unlock the advanced level prostitute jobs as well as some of the advanced succubus races (I think).  This might be dependent on how many battlefuckers you have found and defeated.  After beating Gloria I got an achievement for besting 35 battlefuckers.  (Which isn’t actually all of the them.  Spoiler: there’s at least one more to come.)

I’m not entirely sure when this quest unlocks as I wasn’t looking.  So I don’t know what happens if you complete it before running into Aurora in Remina, or any of the other later battlefuckers.  It could be that the achievement and Lewd God’s Soul reward are tied together and you get the soul off whichever battlefucker happens to be the 35th battlefucker you defeat.

If you come back to recruit Gloria afterwards she’ll also give you Proof of the Pirate King, another advanced job/race unlock item.

So, yep, you probably want to do this side mission.

King Grangold’s Insecurity

This is more optional as the rewards are boosts to King Grangold, but they’re pretty hefty boosts, so you’ll probably want to carry this quest out if you make a lot of use of King Grangold in your “A” party.

It’s another one that had me confused at first, mainly because I seem to have a blind spot for the quests where you have to talk to the character in the pocket castle first in order to initiate the quest.

Talk to King Grangold in the pocket castle.  Mephisto, who is in the same room, will tell you that she’s been unable to show Grangold how to shift back into human form.  The king is worried about how he’ll be received by his subjects in his new, monstrous form.  Mephisto suggests trying small scale to start with by seeing how people react to him in a smaller village like Goddard.

Put King Grangold in the party and take him to Goddard.  As you enter the village you’ll get some lines of dialogue that indicate the quest has started.  Sonya will helpfully draw a face on Grangold’s shiny egg head.

...........

No, it’s not helpful.

Talk to every NPC in Goddard.  They will all run away.  After you’ve scared away every NPC in Goddard a little girl will spawn in the centre of the village.

You need to terrorise this girl

She will also try to run away, but trips and hurts herself in the process.  The king will use magic to heal her, which reminds the girl of a previous time when she tripped and fell and the king used magic to heal her.  She then recognises him as the king despite his new monstrous appearance.  This completes the quest and gives King Grangold the hope he will be accepted again by his subjects.

The net gain is a whopping +40% to Magic ability and the ability to cast magic for half MP.  Very useful if you want to make King Grangold your main party nuke.

Medal Queen’s Search

This is another one where I don’t know when it unlocks.  I’d completely forgotten about the Medal Queen, to be honest, and only noticed this quest existed while looking up how to complete King Grangold’s quest.

Collect enough medals and select the reward that has the Queen of Grand Noah join the party.  (This is Queen of Grand Noah in her Medal Queen palace rather than her Grand Noah throne room.  Yes, I did not realise they were the same character for a long long while).

Her joining the party will unlock her side quest.  Talk to her in the pocket castle and she’ll reveal she wants to find the original Medal King, who is rumoured to have disappeared somewhere around Iliasville.

Remember this mysterious gravestone way back in the starting village.

Cripes.  They hid this in the very first village.

You probably thought Luka’s mum was buried there or something like that.  Nope.  It’s the Medal King.  Take Queen of Grand Noah here.  She’ll be able to translate the inscriptions on the gravestone and confirm it is the Medal King buried here.  At this point the spirit of the Medal King will appear.  Not only does this complete the Queen of Grand Noah’s side quest, it also unlocks the Medal King as an NPC you can trade small medals to for even more powerful items.

Whew.  That’s all the side quests done apart from Lazarus in the casino—which I think is just about winning (or buying) enough chips to unlock the soul item he’s holding.

-> Next: Still not the Bird God Shrine.