Xenoblade Chronicles DE: Part 58: Mechonis' Awakening, New Weapon for Fiora
6With Egil, through his Yaldaboath Mechon, as the new soul of the Mechonis, a massive beam was fired from the machine titan.
By this point, Alvis had already left Kallian's side as an alert of Shulk's danger from this even. Kallian remembered what Alvis told him about the Mechonis' reawakening, and ordered his troops to call off the fight and retreat back to the Bionis. The Mechonis was about to move... and this battle took place on its sword!
Meanwhile, back at Shulk's team, they were protected by Meyneth's shield suspending them all in midair. She saved their lives after they fell from Agniratha.
But she wouldn't have been able to pull this off if it weren't for Gadolt's sacrifice of protecting them all, himself...
They stared above them as Egil made his monumental announcement to their world: the Mechonis has finally rewakened, and he will usher it as its new god and soul to eliminate all life on Bionis!
Sword Valley is literally the Sword of the Mechonis, itself. So when the Mechonis moved its arm to reclaim its sword that it had once stabbed the Bionis with, death and destruction on Sword Valley followed.
Fiora's power from Meyneth had faded away, forcing everyone to fall, again, but thankfully Linada and Miqol's Junks were able to save them, courtesy of Alvis.
Dickson also dropped in on Junks (and Reyn), thankful that Shulk was still alive.
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They all returned to the Hidden Machina Village, where Shulk's team reported to Linada and Miqol about their fight against Egil. Now, he was more than ready to destroy the Bionis, itself.
According to Meyneth and Vanea, Ether from the Bionis is what has allowed Egil to control the Bionis with his Yaldaboath. To stop the Mechonis from fully adapting to this, they need to reach its core, and they can go through a path to it through its ducts.
During this planning, both Alvis and Dickson had realized for the first time that Meyneth lived on through Fiora. While Alvis was slightly surprised at this, Dickson's inner response had a... much more unsettling tone to it, and it even felt like Alvis knew this, too...
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Even as the Mechonis is threating to destroy the Bionis, take as much time as you want before planning to head to its Mechonis Core.
All of the Bionis' allied forces were returning to their titan... mostly safe and sound. Meanwhile, the Junks team quickly stormed back toward the Bionis. Both Dickson and Alvis wanted to help Shulk's team through this next fight.
Vanea wanted to talk to Fiora about Meyneth. She felt sorry she had to put her soul into her body, but Fiora was actually fine with this. It not only allowed Fiora to live on, but Meyneth's as well, and they could now communicate with each other on their own feelings and desires for their shared world.
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The whole team eventually reach the Ventilation Conduit, but Shulk still questioned the matter of Egil's Apocrypha.
But Vanea explained that they can first find the Apocrypha Generator to eliminate its affects on the Monado. Even then, Shulk had to also question about Zanza and his past attack on Mechonis, as well as his lack of Visions, but how he could sense things without them.
And then later, when Shulk started his trek, the Monado started damaging him! This was the same kind of pain Dunban suffered when he used the Monado at Sword Valley. Melia thought that this was from all of the strain of resisting the Apocrypha, which made Reyn remind Shulk that he needed to speak his mind if something felt wrong.
Shulk, however, though this wasn't because of the Aprocrypha, but from something else entirely...
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Before I head through to the Generator, I first take on a Side Quest that you can get if you turn right back around into Junks. This Quest is not permanent, and you can't use Skip Travel, either.
If you can spend a lot of time off of the plot to do this, you can head back through the Central Factory through a teleporter go reach a new strong weapon for Fiora.
You just need to make the long way back to the Weapon Creation Panel in the Central Factory, and you will automatically pick up Fiora's War Blades and complete the Quest.
Then... you got make your way back towards the path to the Apocrypha Generator. This burns a lot of time if you really wanted those War Blades, but this is one of Fiora's strongest weapons.