Fragment / Bounty Hunter ' s Prize Look , I ' m gonna spell it out for you , nice and clear . The Bresha Ruins are suffering from a serious monster problem . There ' s a big reward for anyone who can shut down the infestation once and for all , but in the meantime , the government ' s handing out bounties for single monsters . Ruthenium Ring . We ' ve got no choice if we wanna keep Cocoon safe for humans . The government has assigned us agents the task of handing out the bounty to registered mercs . We used to demand the head of every monster as evidence , but some heads are pretty hard to collect - from bombs , say . So now it ' s all automated and recorded direct to the kill count . The mercs around here love their gold , yes they do . And silver , and gems , and whatever else they can turn into cash . Back in the old days , we used debit cards ; almost no one carried hard currency . Rhodium Ring . But when the paradox screwed up the entire system and no one could prove how much they owned , well . . . That was the nail in the coffin for virtual money ! We ' d always had a black market currency , under the authorities ' radar — you know how people don ' t like paying taxes . Anyway , it was simple enough to switch over to that . And now even the government uses it . So metals are king again , and everyone loves their gold . Monsters were too hot to handle today . Lots of casualties . Score one for the monster army , I guess . We gotta get more hunters on the job , or we ' re gonna be in a world of trouble . Palladium Ring . What ' s that ? Why don ' t we leave the monsters alone , you say ? Nah , wouldn ' t work . The government tried abandoning these ruins once , years ago . Oh , man , that was a disaster , let me tell you ! The monsters kept comin ' and comin ' . They poured out of the ruins , out of the Hanging Edge , and started appearing in our cities . If we ' d let things go on , Cocoon would have turned into one giant monster nest . So we introduced a bounty system and started to drive them back , bit by bit . Monster extermination operations in the Bresha Ruins are being assigned to mercs by government agents . The Academy has adopted a total hands - off policy . Hmph . I guess this is all the government is good for now . We sit around and hire other people to do the dirty work for us . Osmium Ring . The Academy scientists are sucking up all the resources for that big project of theirs , and the government gets the crumbs . Still , if the gate research is completed and the monster infestation problem isn ' t solved , the Academy ' ll find it harder to steal our funding . The government sent me to one of the branch offices , so I have no idea what happened in the ruins , which means no report today . Iridium Ring . . . . Although , I could tell you about my trip , I guess . I went to the old commercial city of Palumpolum , and I couldn ' t believe how many people are still living there . I guess it ' s not surprising . The city was barely touched in the catastrophe , and the provisional government was located there for a while . The residents have even kept the old name . Guess they like it . We had our first fatalities today . They were fools who ignored orders , but still — you don ' t like to see it happen on your watch . We ' ll raise a toast to them tonight . Platinum Ring . It ' s getting hard to keep up with the kill count . The mercs are expanding the area of operations throughout the ruins . The improvements in the AMP tech are amazing , but we ' re still trying to figure out how to deploy the weapons effectively in the field . Lots of confusion , lots of mistakes , which means more work for me . There doesn ' t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the kind of monsters that come out of the paradox . We get wild beasts , ancient Pulse weapons , everything . Even military security bots attacking civilians . I wish I knew how they get up here into Cocoon . Mythril Ring . A lot of stuff that comes out , we have no idea what era it comes from . We get advanced bioweapons from the future , extinct monsters , creatures from what must be some other dimension . According to the eggheads , it ' s the gate that does it , pulling in beasts from all over the timeline . We ' ve got some interesting news to report . It ' s about the mystery device that was unearthed in the Bresha Ruins in 5 AF . I ' m talking about the control device for Atlas . Turns out the technology in this thing is a lot more advanced than in the giant itself . Adamantite Ring . We could actually build Atlas today , with our current know - how . The problem is , the engineers haven ' t been able to figure out how the device works , and we ' d have no way to control the giant . The controller appears to read human thoughts and transform them into physical action by some kind of . . . telepathy . No one knows who built it , or how . It ' s like an object from another world . A real paradox .