Explore an Unknown Ruins

*Explore an Unknown Ruins* is the sixth campaign mission of Spriggan: Lunar Verse. The ARCAM investigation team recently discovered the ruins that turns out to be filled with numerous traps. As a result, it is considered too dangerous for the team to explore the ruins. Tatsuki's mission is to release the traps to pave the way for them.

## Briefing

Graham informs Tatsuki of his upcoming mission, which is to explore the ruins that is discovered by the ARCAM research team. Their report indicates the ruins contains many traps. Tatsuki will serve his purpose of archaeological exploration by setting off the traps and allowing the team to safely explore the ruins.

## Mission Overview

The mission begins with Tatsuki walking down the stairs presumably from the ruins entrance. Graham contacts him, reminding about the innumerable traps placed within the ruins. Tatsuki comes across a locked gate of what appears to be a stone face containing two red flames on its eyes. The flames serve as a clue for unlocking the gate. He explores the room until he encounters a torch on the small alley that contains the flame similar from the ones on the gate. Out of curiosity, he destroys it and witnesses one of the flames from the gate quickly extinguished. Afterwards, he falls down to the room's bottom section after breaking the fallen pillars and runs into two deadly scorpions. He ends them and shatters the breakable rock blocking the access to another torch. Like before, he smashes it to pieces for the gate to finally be opened.

Tatsuki bypasses the opened gate, only to be unexpectedly trapped by a wall that closes in front of him, and the unlocked gate closing itself from behind. Poisonous gas also begins to spread in a very small room, but Tatsuki discovers a way out by punching the breakable wall until it shatters and escaping from the gas. He enters into another room and finds that there is another breakable wall that leads to two small spiders guarding the hallway. The spiders are dealt with and Tatsuki heads to another room where it contains a platform that appears to be some sort of an elevator. Upon arrival, however, two of the room's exit paths are blocked by the walls closing down, and giant spiders appearing out of nowhere. He prevails against the large spiders in the room with the exit paths being opened again, afterwards.

Tatsuki runs to the new exit path and continues on the pathway where he eventually finds himself surrounded by two rolling rocks about to crush him. He destroys the rock rolling in front of him and heads up to the new room. Below him is the pit filled with an unknown liquid substance that would kill him instantly if he were to fall down towards it. He carefully jumps to the platform on the left and performs the same across to bring himself to the new area. There, he again encounters the same gate similar to the one from the first room, but this time with two torches and a display stand within close proximity. He breaks the two torches to open the gate, and interacts with the display stand that activates the elevator-type platform from the room containing the large spiders. Tatsuki heads back to that specific room to reach the platform that would bring him down to an another area upon standing on it.

The platform continues to escort him to the new room until it reaches the ground. By then, Tatsuki faces against the large spiders surrounding the room. Eventually, the door leading out from the room opens up, and he dashes out of it. There are two paths where he is able to take: in front of him is the long hallway that serves as a shortcut to a new area, but upon entering it, the walls above will begin to rapidly descend to the ground, crushing any living organisms attempting to escape the hallway. In addition, the entrance was closed from behind to prevent the living organism from easily undoing its decision. Tatsuki will need a Level 3 AM Speed Suit if he desires to overcome this challenge. On his left, however, there is another path where he interacts with the display stand in one of the rooms, and enter into another room to commence the three trials: the first trial has him eliminate the giant spider containing a distinguishable color from the rest, the second trial involves him having to eliminate the small spider, and the third and final trial contains the objective of defeating the spiders ranging from different sizes until one of them is defeated randomly, and the trial ends. Each trials leads to three different rooms one after another where it becomes significantly dark upon entering them.

Once the trials are successfully finished, Tatsuki finds himself in the area filled with rats crawling around the floor, and torches lighting the room. He heads towards a very large gate that contains a large, open room behind the entrance. The room contains three inactive stone statues. As Tatsuki approaches them, however, one of the statues suddenly speaks to him about him coming by without foreseeing the consequences. It activates the two Ashura-like statues that comes to life, and begin to battle against Tatsuki with their melee weapons. Bullets have no effect against those statues, so he must fight back with his fists. The two-on-one battle is eventually finished, with Tatsuki held as a victor. The talking statue delivers his final words before perishing, and the Ashura-like statues crumbling to pieces shortly after. The door leading to a new passageway opens up, and Tatsuki proceeds to it.

Tatsuki comes across bats attempting to slow his progress to the new area. Once he arrives there, he sees it is swarming with lava with rock platforms slowing rising and descending from the lava itself. He bypasses the high-threat level of the lava by taking advantage of jumping on them one at a time. Eventually, he has himself at the back of the area where it has a small room containing a philosopher's stone. Tatsuki obtains it and escapes from the ruins.

## Debriefing

Graham is surprised by the fact that Tatsuki discovers a philosopher's stone within the ruins. He suggests its usage to make up for the shortage of Orichalcum metals from the development of the new AM suits.