So, basically, after absorbing Lambda into himself and accepting the burden of dealing with his random outbursts of rage, Asbel goes back to Lhant with the others and everything seems fine for six months. At that point, strange and very powerful monsters start appearing near the Valkines Cryas of the world and, after some time, the protags discover that what's mutating the monsters is massive amounts of Eleth that's coming out of Fodra, the dead planet. It's odd exactly because Fodra is supposed to be an inactive planet, partially ravaged by Lambda. We soon learn that somewhat deity-like beings, known as the 'Little Queen' is actually seeking to eradicate humans, as she has seen their work destroying life on Fodra for a few thousands years of existence. The Little Queens can multiply at will as long as they have Eleth from Fodra's core, which they have so, at a few points in the game, you'll have to face seemingly endless armies of Little Queens.

That's all well and good as part of Namco Bandai's general environnmental message that seems to snake its way into many of their games and at least, they don't hammer in their point like other medias (e.g Captain Planet) but the problem comes with the last dungeon, called Lastalia Shaft. To be blunt: It's essentially everything I hate in RPGs. It has a first layer of elevator puzzles. If there's one thing a dungeon should never have, much less begin with it's elevator puzzles. It wouldn't be that bad if you could just go back through the elevator you use but, if you use one to go down (And you have to go down) then it magically turns off. If you end up somewhere you've already been or take a wrong turn or something, you're doomed and you've gotta start again from the beginning. After that, there's the one thing I despise from RPGs above everything else: Status ailment. Those are cheap ways of making it more difficult for the player. Basically, there are like 5 floors, all of which have one ailment associated to them and that makes you always have that ailment on all oyur party members in every battle. For example, the first floor is the 'Burn' ailment, so you'll always have burn in every battle on that floor. Burn only makes you unable to use items, but when you're in the middle of a bad situation and can't use a Grape Gel to keep Asbel alive, then you sure come to deeply hate the Burn ailment. The worst part is that, on the third layer, which is Paralyzis, you have to fight one of the Little Queen army, but just try doing that when all your party members are Paralyzed. Good thing I had kept my Paralyzis Charms...

After all that and getting carp items that are nowhere near worth killing the very strong ennemies in the core, you get to the last boss of the Future Arc: Fodra Queen. All the Little Queens merge together to form a slightly taller version of a single Little Queen with one little difference: Her dress. The Little Queens actually look pretty cool and are almost entirely covered-up, but Fodra Queen is... well, she basically dresses up like an exhibitionist bride. No joke, I was kinda shocked. The Fodra Queen is also very cheap. She has two forms, a defensive and an offensive. In the defensive, she won't be much trouble, but, in the offensive, she's deeply, deeply annoying. She has a move which I think is called 'First Flame' that's not all that powerful much, every time she uses it, it surrounds her with some kind of fire-like fog that hurts anyone that comes near her AND affects you with the Burn ailment. I did beat her after only two tries, but she's still annoying as all hell and forced me to use five Elixirs.

So, after you've beaten Lambda (Or the Fodra Queen, which will just return you to the end of the normal game) you can view a skit in which Pascal gets a message from Fourier saying she wants Frederic, the Lhant family's butler, to hand back something called a 'Lapcomp' which he had borrowed from her. At first, I though "This can't possibly have anything to do with Zhonecage, it's just too random." but, when you go meet Frederic, he gets zapped away into space and the characters just assume that he was transported to that big metal ring that surrounds Ephinea. They go there and find Zhonecage and this is where it gets weird. There are 9 floors to the Zhonecage and you automatically enter Floor 1, which is filled with Kid Asbel, Kid Hubert and Kid Richard that want to kill you!!! That's right, every enemy group is just those three, on the first floor. At the end of the first floor, you'll find Frederic who'll explain that Zhonecage is ruled by the Terma Ten amd that he himself has been chosen as a Terma Ten by the leader of this place, Solomus. So you fight Frederic (By this point and if you've completed Lineage and Legacies, you shouldn't have any problem) and kill him, much to the shock of every party member. It's okay, though, because death means nothing in Zhonecage and he just comes back, but you have to beat Solomus to free him from this place. Floor 2 is inhabited by powered-up Windor Soldiers which are easily killed and you quickly meet with the boss of that floor, Cedric. He acts weird and we pretty much assume he's a robot.. which is odd...

Anyway, for each floor, an offering (Item) is needed. Say for floor 1, you just drop an Apple Gel, but for higher floors, say the fifth, you gotta drop something more valuable, like those pointless Eleth Bottles I never used throughout by game. Kinda tedious.