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After that and going to the end of the path there's nothing else to do after recruiting those kids, so I head back to the ship to turn in some quests. When doing that, what do I see but a section on the orbal computer that shows all of the students that I can currently recruit as well as where they are. First off, how the hell do they have this information? But more importantly, I wish that I knew this menu was here before goose chasing children all over Erebonia. Live and learn, stingers. Apparently I have two students left for my main quest, Mint who's at the watch tower, and Clara at the Ancient Quarry. I was already in the highlands from my poor pathing earlier but I didn't explore enough to find them. Time to go scoop these two up.

Before I go though I gotta explore the ship first to see what my new kids are up to. The ranged training room is now open with one of the girls I found, which apparently lets me do some optional fights with only ranged attackers to unlock some prizes. The first one is pretty easy, but you're not allowed to use arts during it. You get 3 u-materials for beating that. I go to start the second one where you also can't use arts as well as not allowing any deaths. I lost here but it was with 0 cp on all my guys. I'll come back and try this again later. There's also Nicholas in the kitchen, who has some rare dishes to sell us. I don't see much else new here so I head out to Zander gate.

I fast travel to the watchtower to recruit Mint, who wants us to find her lost watch. Didn't we do this quest last game? Anyway instead of being under a tank in the plains, she somehow got her watch on top of a 30 ft antenna at the top of the tower. Oops, I tripped and threw my watch 150 feet in the air, teehee. After that I head to the ancient quarry to recruit the other student, who wants us to go inside and get some rare rocks for her. I do notice that she is sitting by that black tent I noticed in Act 1, so I guess it was her who was camping out here this whole time! I thought it was Altina originally because of the color. Funny that Altina did end up being in the highlands so I assumed I was right then. Right for all the wrong reasons.

There's another trial chest in here, which also has a chest quote. Wait, do the trial chests only give you chest quotes if you don't have the required teammates for them? Does that mean that I've been missing out on messages this whole time by doing trial chests when I did have the right people in my party? I hope not because that would be terrible game design. Anyway, this trial chest is unique because it requires 4 people - Emma, Jusis, Fie, and Gaius. The actual fight is easy, but what's really hard is having to backtrack out of the dungeon to change my team, beat it, backtrack back to change back, then get back to where I was. That was pretty annoying. At least I got a chest message out of it. At the end of the dungeon there's a boss fight with a giant spider which is also pretty easy, but this time I spy a glowing thing on the ground during the cutscene, so I'm guessing this is another black record I'll have to backtrack to get. After the fight it kicks me out of the dungeon...yep. They want you to work for it. Guess I'll walk through this place for the 4th time today @.@ this game is evil lol.

With that out of the way I can head out tot he lake to finish the last story quest. They have me beat up a monster which is just another cryptid reskin of the tutorial monster we fought at the very beginning of the game, though this time we do it Valimar-free. Time to see how much stronger we've gotten! The answer is a lot, he is stupidly easy possibly the easiest fight I've had in this game so far. He has a heal that heals him for like 20k AND buffs his stats but even with that he's not a threat. I guess they know that after people spent hours fighting that optional cryptid earlier they had to make this one a little easier lol. Still a little disappointing.

After we finish that last quest we get a call from Towa asking us to return to the bridge because they found info on one of our relatives. Turns out that Elliot's sister was taken hostage by Jusis' dad's army, and we're gonna be the ones to save her. She was pretty cute so I'm game, even if it is for Elliot *sigh*. After the cutscene I get a call from Clara, the artist student that I did a dungeon 4x for, telling me to go down to the ships hold. I do so and she lets us know a little secret - not only is she an artist, she's also an engineer! She can make us orbs to equip onto Valimar to raise his stats. Cool? Hopefully they use this as an excuse to make the Valimar fights a little more interesting. But they probably won't. I purchase a few of them just in case, they build out of spare orbments and a few U-materials so it's not so bad.

I also apparently have unlocked the ability to call Valimar in a foot battle, for the low low price of 500 EP. Will I ever do so?! Time will tell, but I suspect I will use it as often as Overdrive, ie. never. Man I completely forgot about Overdrive again, it would've probably been useful in the fight with that cryptid earlier so Emma could get more turns in. God dammit why do I always forget it exists -,-

When I go to start the main quest the game lets me know that Elliot is a required teammate, so my wish for Gaius-Elliot-Millium in a row is coming true. Don't fail me game! I guess I should buy him some new equipment now since he's still holding onto his starter stuff. I wouldn't want Elliot to think he's not included after all. But really, getting Gaius and then Elliot out of the way is great, it's like they really know me.

After doing all my shopping, I go to start the operation, but the game immediately skips to 2 days ahead...

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