Underground Summary
| Previous Quest | Next Quest |
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| Founding of the Order | Black Iron Palace |
Underground Walkthrough
[1] Meet your party members downstairs.
The girl's voice talks about the fall of Aincrad once again...
You wake up at your room in the inn. Go downstairs to meet your teammates.
It seems that there's been some things happening lately. All of the brooch holders had the dream of the girl once again and the basement of the Black Iron Palace has opened.
The prerequisites for the Black Iron Palace's basement were never discovered in the beta, but now it has opened for some reason. People have gone in to inspect it and the ones who reported its opening have disappeared.
Iori thinks there might be a link with the timing of the basement opening and their dreams. It might be worth it to check it out. Prepare yourself before going to the Black Iron Palace.
[2] Investigate the Black Iron Palace basement.
Go inside the Black Iron Palace and head downstairs.
The rest have tried to open the door but have failed so they wanted you to give it a try. You approach the door and it opens.
Enter the area and head left. Follow the path downwards.
All of you feel like the vibes of this place is off. Iori suggests that we gather more information before we go in as a team.
Then, Iori says that both you and her will give the place an initial exploration to check things out first.
[3] Investigate the basement dungeon with Iori.
Leave the Black Iron Palace and head to the Warp Terminal. When you're ready, access the quest through here.
Head to the Restricted area and open up the large boss door.
The Death God from your dreams? There's no way you can defeat the Tezca Death Wielder! Try to avoid its attacks as it can cast Instant Death on you. After a while, you and Iori will escape from the battle.
[4] Investigate the new functions of your brooch.
You and Iori head back to the inn and talk with your party about what happened.
Stina suggests that the place you guys found might actually not be the basement, but a sanctuary in a far away place that is connected to the basement. Maybe this was triggered by obtaining the legendary weapons. Still, what a terrifying opponent...
Maybe all is not lost though. Stina tells you all that the shape of the brooch has changed and Zash suggests that maybe this means it has been buffed somehow.
Musoh will asks you to go to your chest and check if your brooch has somehow opened up new functions.
Go to your Equipment/Costumes. You will notice that you can now place up to three key stones inside them.
| Tutorial |
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| By completing warped dungeons, you can obtain keystones! These keystones will grant you various bonuses and they can be equipped in the Chest menu. |
You tell the others of your findings and they come to the conclusion that this is the only way to defeat the Death God.
After Lara's passing comment about going to random dungeons to get keystones, Stina gets an epiphany that since the basement is connected to a far-off place, maybe all the other dungeons have also been warped now.
| Warped Dungeon Tutorial | ||
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| ・Dying 4 times in a the dungeon will fail the quest ・You cannot rest in Safe Areas ・Completing the dungeon will reward you with upgrades or keystones ・They contain Gift Pillars that can exchange buffs for spheres in that specific dungeon floor ・Spheres are dropped by enemies but cannot be hoarded outside of the dungeon ・The difficulties of the dungeons get harder and harder, but the rewards also get better | ||
| WARNING: DEATH GAME MODE HAS BEEN UNLOCKED. |
| Related Article: Death Game Mode Guide |
If you go to the Warp Terminal, you will see that 6 new side quests involving the keystones have now opened up. Each refers to a different colored stone. They all represent a different buff for the player.
