The water should be gone, so you can now walk to the pedestal up the stairs to the right to change the ring to yellow lightning. Now go back all the way to the bottom floor of the main room. Walk over to the structure to the left and examine it to raise the lightning rod. Head down to be back in the main room on a higher ledge. Go through the door on their right, which leads to another dark room. Defeat them, then go to the other side of the room where the Katz and merchant are standing. In the next room you’ll be attacked by the Vanguard. But first, check behind the stairs to find a hidden treasure chest with Striped Ribbon inside. To do so, you’ll need to head up the left stairway.
The first thing you’ll need to do in this room is get rid of the water on the bottom floor. You can now proceed to the central room of the temple, which I will refer to as «main room» for future reference. Go back down and in the middle of the room, use the ring on the blue light blocking the door at the back, beyond the save point. Your ring is set to blue lightning, so use it on the lights and the blue one will vanish. At the top, examine the structure with the three colored lights revolving around. Then head up either stairway on the side. Start by going left and get the chest in the corner for Shock Charm. That’s all for here, so head up the middle stairway to get to the next part, which starts with a short scene. Head over to the left for another chest containning Earth Cape, then head up the northern path and examine the pedestal to change the Sorcerer’s Ring to Blue Lightning element. Once the little scene is over, head up the rightmost stairway for a chest with Mirage Mittens, then walk south of where you found the notes for a chest with Quality Stone. Head left after that and the party will find research notes on the ground. *Note: Don’t get struck by the lightning more than 13 times or you won’t get the good ending.Īs you enter, walk up north for a chest containning 3,000 Gald. That’s all for the sidequest, so now proceed to the Temple of Lightning for once. Go to the inn to meet back up with your party. Richter will then take you back to Meltokio. Return to where you got the chest with the Philosopher’s Stone the first time and walk up to the small note left on the ground for a cutscene. Head down on the blue knight side (right) and follow the path to the end. Make your way through the fortress a second time (the colored tiles puzle is still yellow-blue-green) up to the room with the blue and red statues where you had to extinguish the flames in order to open a gate. Head inside after the scene and go downstairs to meet up with Richter and Aqua. If you missed the sidequest, just head for the Temple of Lightning right now (if you haven’t started the quest, it’s too late now, sorry). To continue this sidequest, you should now go back to Cape Fortress first, then do the Temple of Lightning. If you started the Richter sidequest (so if you went to the Balacruf Mausoleum in Chapter 4), you’ll see a scene with Richter here. Once the discussion is over, return to the city entrance. Afterwards, go back to the research academy and head upstairs to the director’s room to speak with him. Sleep there, then after waking up walk up left after leaving the inn to find the rest of the team discussing. After watching the scene in the basement lab, leave the research center and head for the inn near the city entrance. On your way, examine the book laying in the hallway to find the Wonder Chef for the Burito recipe. After speaking with the researcher at the entrance, go inside and head downstairs to the basement. Not much here, so head directly to the research academy west of the city.