# ...Inside that armor?

**Quest Group**: 1831997
**Steps**: 8

## Summary

That's right... a tomb forged from the ashes of my own flesh.
Even so, I could not hold even half of those lost souls...
...At the time, I told myself it was the best I could do.
I kept their resentment from poisoning the land...

## Quest Text Steps


### Step 2

- **Reward**: ...I am Cron's fallen crown prince.
A man too late to rebel, too weak to change anything...


### Step 3

- **Reward**: ...All while claiming it was for the living...
I merely imprisoned my own people as they cried out...


### Step 4

- **Objective**: ...Inside that armor?

- **Summary**: That's right... a tomb forged from the ashes of my own flesh.
Even so, I could not hold even half of those lost souls...
...At the time, I told myself it was the best I could do.
I kept their resentment from poisoning the land...


### Step 5

- **Reward**: But... it was a hollow victory. A temporary fix.
For the root of the curse... still remained...


### Step 6

- **Objective**: The relic has been destroyed. It's over.

- **Summary**: ...Yes. These poor souls, left to suffer by my own weakness,
have finally found peace through your hand after ages of agony...
...The screams and sobs that haunted Cron Castle have fallen silent...
and the Immortal Alchemist's gilded leaf has withered away...
We stood at the very end of the chains you shattered.
How could I not recognize you, our liberator?
...As Bartali the sinner, speaking for the Cron royal family,
I offer you my belated thanks.


### Step 7

- **Reward**: Breaker of Chains, you who turned the gilded leaf to dust...
I need your help. My people need your help.


### Step 8

- **Reward**: ...Yes. I shall place my trust in you.
Come with me...