Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Part 60: Annihilator Wager Against Moebius DJ!
After a long trek through Keves Castle, Ouroboros finally reached the Annihilator! They had to destroy its auto-balancer, so that the whole weapon will fall down.
But this turned out to be much easier said than done. They were approached by a Moebius, the very same Moebius that they first met. They were able to track Ouroboros even through the Black Fog.
Eunie looked into this Moebius' eyes... and once again had a memory that she was somehow KILLED by this exact Moebius before...
This Moebius then decided to let Ouroboros get a closer look at him. Specifically, he showed them his real face. He is Consul D.
It also turned out before this that his Moebius form was one that was made from Interlinking with Consul J, a.k.a. Joran.
Both D & J could only mock O & P for going over their time limit for Interlinking. They plan to take down Ouroboros with an Interlink of their own.
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Compared to the first battle against this Moebius, they have new tricks and Arts up their sleeves. Stay aware of what they do and try to build your own Interlinks and Chain Attacks on them!
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"This is bad, Noah!" Urged Riku as both him and Manana noticed that the Annihilator was about to fire again, most likely at the late Ethel's Colony 4!
Ouroboros tried to jump in to stop the firing, but their were overwhelmed by Moebius DJ's might.
When the Moebius set their sites on Eunie, she was hesitant to attack even in her Interlinked form, allowing the Moebius to get some clear and heavy hits on her.
D DOES remember Eunie... He remembered when he killed her. He knew she was terrified...
So then Taion had to take over in their Interlink and use his Mondo to fight Moebius DJ, but even that wasn't enough, thanks to Joran's contribution to his own Interlink.
The other Ouroboros Interlinks tried to help out, but Moebius DJ has horns that can track even the slightest movements in the air, allowing them to "see" Ouroboros without using their own eyes.
The Annihilator's charge was almost complete. It seemed Ouroboros were going to be too late to prevent its blast...
Then... Eunie told some kind of plan to Taion...
She then charged in against DJ. DJ was able to grab her Interlink's gun, but then she blasted it right through the Moebius and counterattack!
She then attacked with her feathers, several of them hitting the auto-balancer and one of them to the Moebius. That's when they pinned her down.
But this was a part of her plan to Taion. Everything the Moebius just faced was a illusion set up by Taion! All of Eunie's feathers? Those were actually Taion's Mondo!
Eunie managed to take D's exploit of her fear to catch him offguard with her trap! And because of this, she & Taion were able to destroy the the auto-balancer and take down the Annihilator once and for all.
D & J were forced to end their Interlink and then fled. Taion knew this before he pinned a Mondo on the Moebius to track them.
Eunie admitted to her team that, somehow or another, she both did and didn't remember that Moebius. Noah had to wonder if this was also a part of being Moebius, and just as well, Eunie wanted to figure this out for herself so she can free herself from this deep feeling she had against that monster...
The Annihilator was finally destroy, but Ouroboros had to travel further through the castle to liberate it and hopefully prevent anymore of these destructive acts from happening.
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You go through a water channel, seemingly to escape into a lake outside of the castle. But...
That didn't quite happen yet. They were just further through the Middle Drainage. You climb upward and reach the Upper Water Supply. There is a convenient artificial camp you can rest at that there.
You're gonna need that, because you're about to go through just one more battle before the end of Chapter 4...