Along the way the group has to fight a bunch of the melted monsters in what appears to be an old tunnel. The fight is grueling but they manage to get through. Jin actually helped a lot during that fight and Rex makes sure to acknowledge it.

"Hey, that was some real talent you showed there."

"Well when you've been alive as long as I have you pick up a thing or two."

"How old are you Jin?"

"At least over 500 years old, at least as a flesh eater. As a blade I was alive even longer but I do not know for how long."

"I can't even imagine living for that long."

"It's a curse."

"What do you mean?"

"Being alive for so long is a curse."

"Why?"

"Everyone around you dies and you can't even be assured that you'll ever see them in the afterlife. Combined with a deteriorating body that can't go longer than a few hours without being capsulized means that living on at this rate is true hell."

"I never thought of it that way before."

"Of couse you haven't. You are just a mere human. Now come on, let's get out of this Architect forsaken land."

"Right."

As the group continues through the land they stumble across the corpse of a giant titan which Jin immediately recognizes.

"This is..."

"Jin? Are you ok?"

"Rex my boy, do you not know where we are right now?"

"No where are we gramps?"

"We're in the titan matrix of Torna."

"Torna? You mean that titan that sank during the Aegis war?"

"This... was my homeland."

Everyone turns there attention to Jin upon hearing this.

"Back then Torna was the strongest titan to ever exist, its people revered their blade counterparts and the two lived in harmony. This was the Torna's titan matrix, also known as the titan womb."

"The titan womb?"

"Look around you."

Rex is filled with shock as he looks around and sees the unborn fetuses of the titans that had perished with their mother.

"This place just got a whole lot more depressing."

"It was here where I found out how titans are born."

Everyone leans in to listen.

"When a blade has been awakened enough times their core crystal matures to a point where they are sent back to where they were first born to be reborn as a titan."

"Wait. Titans are blades?! Mythra is this true?"

"Yes it is. It's all true."

"It would seem that these infants died with their mother, how tragic. We must keep heading onwards."

As the group continues their long journey through the Tornan titan the group stumbles upon a large room with carvings all over the wall and ceiling.

"This used to be the center of the titan. You should've stayed and helped humanity Mythra. Maybe we could've avoided this travesty if only you were still around."

"What happened after I was sealed?"

"After you were sealed Amalthus became the Praetor of Indol and his first order was the capture, torture, and execution of any Tornan survivors."

"Wait. Amalthus ordered that?! Why would he do something so heinous?"

"Because he thought that us Tornans knew the location of the Aegis but none of us knew where you were sealed. The only one who knew your location was Addam. He slaugtered my people like animals and swept the massacre under the rug of history."

"How dreadful."

Mythra has an idea to what happened to Jin but still decides to ask anyway.

"What happened to Lora?"

Everyone looks at her in confusion while a look of disgust dawns Jins face. With some regret and self hatred Jin responds.

"I... ate her."

The room is filled with gasps from everyone. To Mythra she feels sick to her stomach after hearing that.

"M-maybe I should've never left..."

"It's too late for that now. Now my goal is to erase all of mankind and then kill the architect to establish blades as the corner stone of this dying world."

"But Jin, with goals like that then you're no better than Amalthus."

"What did you just say?"

"I said you're no better than Amalthus if your only goal is to destroy all humans. In my heart I feel as though there is a more peaceful solution to all this conflict."

"You don't know what your talking about."

Suddenly a giant melted monster that is about 30 feet tall barges into the room.

"What the-"

"No time to talk just fight!"

"Hmph."

With that Rex and co fight the giant melted monster but it looks like there work is really cut out for them. At first they're winning the fight but then the monster powers up, heals, and splits off into smaller versions of itself. The sheer numbers knock Jin out of combat and things begin to look bleak. Suddenly a familiar voice calls out to Rex.

"Looks like you could use some help."

"Nia! Boy am I glad to see you."

Mythra feels a tinge of bitterness upon hearing that name but keeps it to herself.

"We really need all of your help right now."

"Then let's help you."

With that the reunited group go on to take down the foul beast. The group takes it down with relative ease once they all fight as a team. After the fight the other half of the group questions why Jin is with Rex.

"Why would you let that monster into our group?"

"He's killed many of my Ardainian subordinates and should be trialed for death."

"Yes it is true that Jin has committed several atrocities throughout his life time but I just have a feeling that Jin is going to serve a much bigger purpose in all of our lives. Just trust me on this one ok?"

Everyone is uneasy and Morag especially doesn't trust Jin but eventually everyone agrees to Rex's agreement and they leave Jin be.

After that the group continued on there way towards the world tree which was within eyesight. It takes them about 20 minutes but the group eventually makes it to the roots of the world tree. Once they arrive there they see a giant ship floating there almost as if it were waiting for someone. Jin, Nia, and Dromarch knew exactly what that was. It was the main ship that Torna travelled around in. Suddenly a few shots are fired at the group and a speaker blares at them:

"Halt right there! Step away from Jin and back away slowly."

"Don't shoot at them!" Jin yells in fury at his team.

"Uuuhh sorry Jin!"

Suddenly a rope ladder falls and Jin climbs up. As the ship ascends the speaker blares with Malos' voice as he shouts:

"See you at the top!"

After that the group makes it to what appears to be an elevator and Mythra turns into Pnema to activate the elevator.

"How did you know how to do that?"

"I don't know... It just seems I just knew what to do with this machine."

"Interesting..."

After that the group begins the long journey up the world tree. It takes the group about an hour to get up to about the cloud sea level and the first thing they see is the Indol titan heading right towards them.

"You have been requested by the Praetor to not continue any further upwards."

"But why?"

"The Praetor has labeled you as a threat to Indol and you shall be disposed of unless you turn back now."

"That's not going to happen. We are so close to reaching Elysium and Indol wants to stop us all of a sudden. Sorry but we cannot turn back at this point."

"Then you leave us no choice."

The two sides clash between Rex and co versus the Indoline guards. Although the Indoline guards are rather tough for not possessing a blade; in the end Rex and co swiftly deal with them and continue up the world tree.

As the group continues to go up they are stopped by a projection of Amalthus.

"Halt right there Rex."

"Amalthus."

"I cannot let you go any further."

"Well we can't stop either."

"Then you leave me no choice."

Amalthus reveals a half cut core crystal in his forehead which Mythra immediately recognizes.

"Wait a second... that's Fan's core crystal!"

Without speaking a word Amalthus raises his hand and the Indol titan begins to charge an attack. Everyone trys to ready an attack but they are shutdown by Amalthus. Realizing the situation they are in Rex immediately trys to warn everyone.

"EVERYONE BRACE YOURSELVES AND START RUNNING!!!!"

With that everyone starts running and a few seconds later Amalthus lowers his hand and the Indol titan fires an immense beam of ether which shakes the world tree.

to be continued...