Finding a city in a place like
this is quite the surprise.

There are so many types of blastia
I've never seen before...

Looks like the Krityans really were the ones
who created blastia in the first place.

...Yes. Seeing all these
blastia makes it very
easy to believe that.

It sure would be nice if we happened
upon a way to do something about
your power, Miss Estelle.

Really...that would
be nice, but...

...It's not working.

It doesn't have a core.
It's just the body.

This city has stopped using blastia.
What you see here is what everyone
threw out long ago.

Why would they do that?

Because that was the
path we chose.

It's been a long time, Elder.

So you were the cause of all
of this commotion outside!
You've returned to us.

These children are humans
who are traveling with me.

Hmph.

This is...a blastia,
is it not?

Yes. It's my bodhi blastia that I use.

Hmmm. I thought that earth-dwellers
had stopped using blastia like us...

Do you not use the blastia
here because they use a
special formula, too?

There are no normal or special types of blastia.

Blastia are made by crushing apatheia, and processing
those pieces with technology to produce cores,
and through the absorption of aer...

Hold it! Cores are made
from crushed apatheia?!

Indeed, that is what the stories
say. It appears apatheia were too
powerful in their original form.

Even without that power, they are stones
more valuable than any precious gem.

This is why their power was restrained by breaking
them into pieces and carving formulas into them,
and thus their numbers were also increased.

Our legends tell us that cores were
always produced in this way.

...A bit ironic, huh?

Yeah...

The apatheia that come
from the Entelexeia

are necessary to make the
very blastia that they hate...

Maybe Phaeroh didn't tell us about
apatheia 'cause he felt uncomfortable
talkin' about it...y'think?

Elder. There are many things
I'd like to ask you about.

We're trying to find out
what sort of role blastia
played in ancient times.

And if blastia ever brought disasters to this world,
we'd like to know how they might have been stopped.

Myorzo must still have some folklore, right?

Perhaps you could tell us what you know.

Hmph. Very well.

My home would be a better place
to speak of such things. Please
go inside and wait for me there.

Hey there. Where are you goin'?

I was in the middle of my daily walk.
I'll return to my house before too long.

...

Apatheia, blastia, aer disturbances,
Entelexeia... It looks like everything's
connected.

We might see even more connections once
he's told us the Krityan folklore.

The Elder's house is the large
building with a different colored
roof than the others.

Gotcha.

Let's go, Patty.

Yeah. I'm coming.