Bladed Legacy/R (guide)

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The secret action in Bladed Legacy/R is fairly involved, requiring you to not only seek out and deactivate 22 terminals scattered throughout the Illuminus lab, but also to stay alive. While incapacitation won't fail the mission, if you and your comrades can survive the entire trial without suffering a single death, a little extra bonus will be thrown in for your hard work. But it's not so simple, because the longer you stay alive, the more that is thrown your way. Just by deactivating the 22 terminals, you will unlock a battle against Magas Maggahna. Defeating the mechanical behemoth will add two more boxes to the rewards at the end of the mission, but if no casualties are suffered during that battle, you'll get to take on SEED-Magashi for one final match. Defeat the SEED-infected CAST without dying, and the mission will end in success with two more boxes added to the reward pile.

Terminal locations

Block 1

As you begin this block and come to the T-intersection of the bridge (marked on the map by ★), look down into the path below. Notice a trap floating over a small computer terminal. Shoot the trap to destroy it. This will allow you to destroy the terminal in a later step.

1. After clearing the room with four switches on the ground, continue through the hallway, but don't go too far. Turn around and look over the door you just came through. Destroy this terminal and continue down the hall.
2. Continue on until the hallway ends with a downward slope and splits off to the left and right. Turn right and you'll come to an open area. The terminal here is attached to the underside of an eave, so again it must be shot down. In this same area, enemies will spawn, but you can defeat them first if you like. However, if you do this, do not collect the key that appears until the terminal is destroyed, otherwise the terminal will disappear.
3. After the enemies in the large room have been destroyed, a warp will appear at the T-intersection you came from. Do not take this warp. Instead, continue south and follow the hallway to its end. If you destroyed the trap floating over a terminal as mentioned at the beginning of this guide, you will now be able to destroy the third terminal.
4. Head back to and take the warp that appeared earlier. It will transport you to the west end of the bridge at the entrance. From here, turn right and check the northeast corner of the large room for the fourth terminal.
5. After clearing all of the enemies from the large room, a laser fence will deactivate, giving you access to a ramp. Do not ascend this ramp yet! If you do, a trap will activate, destroying the next terminal. Instead, you first must destroy the trap from the ground level, then ascend the ramp to destroy the terminal yourself.
6. Continue on to the next large room where you must defeat multiple waves of enemies to collect four keys. On the west side of this room is a small nook with the sixth terminal to be destroyed.
7. After collecting the four keys and unlocking the gate, head down the hallway. Upon taking the first left, stop and check the wall to your left. The seventh terminal is located here.
8. The eighth terminal is located in the final room of block 1. Turn left after entering the room and check the northwest corner for it.

Block 2

1. When you enter block 2, take the hallway to your left. Follow it around to the second bend where you will see the first terminal of this block attached to the wall. Make sure that you destroy it before you destroy the enemies that appear in the hallway. If you defeat the enemies first, this terminal will disappear.
2. Continue through the hall into the next large room. Defeat the Grinna Bete S that appears, and then climb the slope at the east side of the room. At the top you'll see a terminal with a trap floating before it. Do not destroy the trap. Instead, walk past it and press the terminal.
3. Go back down the slope to the large room and take the southern door. After crossing the threshold, turn around and look above the door. Shoot the terminal affixed to the wall.
4. Continue down the hallway and head for the center of the block. As you exit the hall, you'll come to a room with a decline that leads to a smaller room where four Special Ops will spawn. Defeat them and head up the north ramp to the central room. In the southeast corner, walk through the barrier and destroy the terminal.
   Afterward, destroy the enemies that appeared in this room (or it can be done beforehand). Once cleared, a key will appear, but do not pick it up. Instead, head to the north side of the room and look across the gap to the bridge. Using a rifle or longbow, destroy the trap floating at the left side of the bridge, then a second trap will appear on the right side. Once destroyed, a third trap will appear in the center. Shoot it down, and then head south, without collecting the key (just yet).
5. When you approach the decline heading to the room south of your current location, you'll see a terminal with a trap floating above it. Shoot down the trap, then approach and press the terminal. (Now you may go back and pick up the key mentioned in the previous step.)
6. Head to the south-most room and take the west door. When you enter the hallway, turn around and look up. Shoot down the terminal attached to the wall above the door.
7. Continue north through the hallway and take the first right. This will lead you to a landing with two boxes just outside the door. Be careful not to destroy these boxes. Turn back toward the door and check the soffit on either side of the door. Shoot down one of the two terminals.
8. Shoot the other terminal.
9. Next, break the boxes, and turn to face the edge of the landing. Approach one of the two small pillars, and you'll see a target icon appear. This is linked to a terminal which appeared when the boxes were destroyed. Press the terminal attached to the pillar.
10. Approach the adjacent pillar and repeat the process, activating another terminal.
11. Return to the hallway and continue north for a few steps until you see a left-hand turn that is blocked off by a fence. Walk through the fence and you will be in a hallway which does not appear on your in-game map. As you round the first corner, you'll see two boxes in front of a barricade. Break only the second box (the one closest to the barricade), then walk through the barricade and just around the corner. Here, you'll see a terminal attached to the way. Destroy it.
12. Return through the barricade and check the east wall of the hallway. You'll see another terminal to be destroyed.
13. Return to the main hallway, and continue north to the final room of block 2. At the north end is the door leading to the next block. Check the back side of the switch to the left of the door. You'll find the second to last terminal here. Be sure to destroy this before defeating the enemies that spawn in this room.
14. Once all of the enemies have been cleared from this final room, the laser fence blocking the bridge leading back to the first room of the block will open. Cross the bridge to destroy the final terminal.