...Or so I thought, but Noelle's crappy piloting skills prevent us from breaking through the Planet Storm surrounding it.
In Grand Chokmah we learn that the Eldrant is slowly expanding through replication, while the original land is getting annihilated through hyperresonance. Assumedly, the intent is to reform the entire world at the altitude of the Outer Lands, replicating even the Sephiroth trees. And indeed, the map is changing to reflect the effects, with islands being destroyed and huge dark spots appearing on the ocean - whether these are shadows from emerging floating islands or deep water as the sea bed is annihilated is ambiguous.
Mohs is losing his sanity now. I love his voiceover, it captures his zealous jerkitude perfectly. I hope I get to fight him while he's still accountable for his actions, it would feel a bit cheap to defeat him as a mindless monster.
But before anything can be done to stop him, Anise has to finish her feud with Arietta. We return to the cheagle woods for a redux of our first battle, but unfortunately for Arietta, my party has grown disproportionally compared to her. I play as Anise for this battle to honour the duel, and in the end, she really does kill her.
Frankly, it seems to me Anise is the one who deserved to die here. And as usual, she doesn't show any sort of honest remorse, the little psychopath.
Largo is also confronted about his true identity, but Natalia doesn't get to know yet. He'll be the next to fall for sure, and then the drama will be on again when she finds out.