East Auditorium

Head into the hallway and take a left (the passage to the right is a dead end). You’ll come out to a large open area featuring two locked doors, a switch, a pressure plate, a ladder, a large horn, and a jump that’s currently blocked by fire. It looks pretty complicated!

First things first. Climb the ladder here and press R1 to insert the crank handle into the post there. Turning the lever will shut off the flames below, so quickly activate your amulet of the fates, jump down, then jump across past the flame jets. In the small alcove, you’ll find a Phoenix Feather, then you can follow the hallway to reach a save point. Start jumping up onto the ledges, and eventually you’ll find a switch at the end of the corridor. Flipping it will lower one of the grates here. You have to quickly run back to the vent in the hallway, double-jump and spread your wings, then glide above the grate before it closes. It’s a quick timer, so be sure to just double jump and start heading towards the vent as soon as your wings open; waiting until you’re wafted higher will cause you to miss the opening.

Some easy dogs and soldiers will await you beyond the grate, so off them before opening the large door and moving on.

The Auditorium of Lahkesis

Go ahead and smash the scaffolding here; it’ll drop a rock. Push it along the path outside towards the man praying in the small temple here; he’s the translator, and you’ll need him to read the large book near the door leading on. Place the rock on the pressure plate he’s sitting on, then pick up the translator and move out towards the book.

Unfortunately, the underworld has different plans for you. Soldiers and dogs will attack you as soon as you drag the translator out of the door, so plop him on the ground and kill them off. You can’t let them damage him too badly, so try to just keep them away from him entirely by placing him back inside his small temple and using Cyclone of Chaos to keep them away.

The first wave will die quickly, but the second will have demonoids in it, appearing one at a time. This wave appears when you attempt to pass over the middle circle here, so be ready for them; as soon as they pop up, backtrack a bit and plant the translator down to give you some separation. Keep in mind that you yourself can’t hurt the translator, either with your weapons or your magic, so feel free to bust out an Atlas Quake now and again to keep enemies away from the translator. Use your throw button on the demonoids to keep them off balance; when the soldiers get the O-prompt on them, you can throw them into the demonoids to further knock them aside.

Concentrate on the summoners here and use Atlas Quake to move the other enemies away from the translator.

Lastly, when you reach the book, large groups of enemies will start appearing. Stick near the translator and use Cyclone of Chaos or Atlas Quake to whip your foes away from him. The main enemies here are three summoners, who will continually summon lesser soldiers to harry you. Luckily, the soldiers seem to grant the translator an exemption from attacking while you’re locked into a throw animation, so seek out the summoners, perform your lengthy throw animation on them, clear out the soldiers near the translator when that’s over with a spell or Cyclone of Chaos, then repeat the process. The summoners are the key, so focus on them before dealing with the rest of the soldiers.

When three summoners have been killed, take out the rest of the enemies and get to work interrogating the translator. You’ll need to mash his head into the book a few times with the O button to complete the scene, but eventually the door nearby will unlock. Approaching it will net you the Key Of The Ram.

Ram Door

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This spike trap will only recede if you manage to kill everything that pops in.
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Return to the exterior balcony and open the door with the ram insignia on it. There’ll be a combo chest inside; if you’re running low on mana, that’ll be what you want to pick up here.

As you walk along the corridor, two spiked doors will appear and slowly begin the process of crushing you. In order to escape your fate, you have to kill all of the enemies that appear before the doors can close. Whether or not you can do so depends on the upgrades you’ve obtained; we managed to complete the trap by immediately tapping our Rage of the Titans, using the Athena’s Blades square attack, and then, when the Rage ended, using Cyclone of Chaos and level two Cronos’ Rage on the remaining crowd. Obviously enough, you don’t want to bother with normal combos, since they won’t really do much good against the large crowds that you’ll be facing here.

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