The Forsaken Sea of Wisdom
Last updated 2026-05-15
The Forsaken Sea of Wisdom is part of the World Quest Series Chronicler of the Crumbling City.
Steps
- Try to activate the Astral Assemblage(s)
- Charge the Astral Assemblage(s)
- Defeat enemies to unlock the Spiritway:
Pyro Slime ×1
Large Pyro Slime ×1
- Defeat enemies to unlock the Spiritway:
- Stop the Abyssal monster from corrupting the pool:
- Defeat enemies to unlock the Spiritway:
- Let the liquid Phlogiston flood the dry pond
- Smash the Pulverite nearby
- Take a dip in the pond
- Try to activate the Astral Assemblage(s)
- Use the Iridescent Beam to clear out the Abyss
- Re-activate the Astral Assemblage(s)
Gameplay Notes
- During step 4, the quest will only progress if the player indwells the Koholasaur Spiritsconce right next to the pond before immersing themselves.[verification needed]
- During step 6, the player's Phlogiston meter will not decrease.
- This quest rewards a total of
Luxurious Chest ×2, 
Precious Chest ×1, and 
Exquisite Chest ×1. - After completing this quest, the player can ride the Spiritway and complete the subsequent puzzles to progress to the next island easily.
Dialogue
Quest DescriptionFind and stabilize the Astral Assemblage(s) to activate the Celestial Axis at the center of the Sacred City...
- (Approach the Astral Assemblage)
- ("Little One"): Rawr!
- Paimon: Uh, this whole area is covered in liquid Phlogiston... Look at that giant fireball. Is that the "Astral Assemblage" we're supposed to be looking for?
- Paimon: But that fireball doesn't look like it's been sealed... Let's go take a look!
- (Activate the Astral Assemblage)
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- (The fireball rises into the air)
- Convoluted operation corrupted. Insufficient energy to support data...
- Energy medium(s) near the activation site marked...
- ("Little One"): Rrrah... Rawrgh!
- Paimon: You're patting your tummy... Are you hungry? Oh! You mean the fireball's hungry, is that it?
- ("Little One"): Rawr!
- Paimon: Then let's fill its tummy up! But, uhh... what do fireballs even eat?
- (After defeating the enemies)
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- (The two Secret Source Servants activate the Spiritway)
- Paimon: Ah, Paimon didn't realize they even had that ability...
- Paimon: We've heard that Spiritways were created by the ancient dragons, but still...
- (Approach the pool at the top of the Spiritway)
- Oh, Chosen of Dragons... Submerge yourself in the pool of flowing flames, perceive... and then release its power.
- With this, the "Astral Assemblage" can be released once more.
- (If the player is not indwelling a Koholasaurus)
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- Indwell a Koholasaurus, and dive into the flaming pool
- (Enter the pool of liquid Phlogiston while indwelling a Koholasaurus)
- As you immerse yourself in the liquid Phlogiston, images flash through your mind like warm memories.
- It is a memory from long ago. The great sovereign who once illuminated the world with his long horns changes the landscape within this mountain with but a flap of his wings.
Light and heat serve as messengers and heralds, conveying orders to flames in many-formed flow.
Then, the great king establishes here a repository for all memories and wisdom. - Thus is the Sacred City of Tollan created. Thus did it don its original form.
This is the first memory preserved in the lake of blazing fire.- (A ray of light emerges from one side of the fireball)
- Paimon: Paimon never know the dragons used to have it so easy!
- Paimon: Just jump in some liquid Phlogiston and let all that knowledge go glub-glub-glub into your mind...
- ("Little One"): Rawr!
- Paimon: Oh! Did you see that too?
- Paimon: Also, it looks like the power in the pool has returned to that big fireball...
- (Approach the Mimifloras on the way to the next pool)
- Paimon: Ah! Watch out for the monsters!
- (After defeating the Mimifloras)
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- (A Secret Source Servant emerges and creates a new Spiritway)
- Paimon: It doesn't matter how many times Paimon sees it, it still seems super strange...
- Paimon: How on earth did they build the Spiritways...
- (Approach the next pool)
- ("Little One"): Rawr!
- Paimon: Hey! Are the Abyssal monsters trying to convert that thing? We can't let them have their way!
- (After defeating the Mimiflora)
- Paimon: Phew... Whatever that fireball's trying to swallow is really far away this time...
- (If the player is not indwelling a Koholasaurus)
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- Indwell a Koholasaurus, and dive into the flaming pool
- (Interact with the pool while indwelling a Koholasaurus)
Immerse- As you immerse yourself in the liquid Phlogiston, images flash through your mind like warm memories.
- Many dragons once immersed themselves in the lake of flame, and thus did the information and wisdom carried within the liquid Phlogiston flow into their minds.
But that was in ages past. None now come to this place to seek wisdom.
Instead, these crystallizations of sagacity came to be used as proofs of strength... To think that such objects that might push an entire species into the next generation would be used as naught but weapons! - When the flame-lord of the many dragons feigned death on account of the pitch-black shadow that plagued him, when the human populace outside the volcano raised their banners of resistance...
Perhaps only violence could have suppressed the unease that people felt in their hearts.- (A second ray of light emerges from the fireball)
- Energy medium retrieved.
- (The nearby Secret Source Servant awakens and creates a Spiritway)
- (While riding the Spiritway)
- Paimon: Judging by the light next to the fireball, it looks like we need one more power source...
- ("Little One"): Rawr!
- Paimon: Alright, let's keep moving forward!
- (Approach the empty pool, optional)
- Paimon: Huh, you mean here? But there's no lava here...
- (Destroy the Pulverite near the pool)
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- (A large pillar is dislodged, crashing into a rock next to the pool and causing it to fill with lava)
- ("Little One"): Rawr!
- Paimon: Okay, now we can activate the... power? Whatever it is that's inside...
- (Interact with the pool while indwelling a Koholasaurus)
- Immerse
- As you immerse yourself in the liquid Phlogiston, images flash through your mind like warm memories.
- It has been many years since the Pyro Dragon Sovereign and the first human god tumbled together into the volcano's depths.
The Sacred City is pitch-dark, having been sealed. Whether through the loss of the primal flame or to adapt to realms now ruled by humanity, the ancient dragons have forsaken both wisdom and form. Others were reduced to ash when the furnace blazing in their breasts burned out.
The silver-white shadow steps alone into the turbulent blazing pool that lies within the ever-more-solitary city. - He knows he can no longer obtain new wisdom from it.
But why, he asks himself.
"Perhaps it is because memory, too, is a hard-to-come-by experience."
So he replies in self-mockery, for there are many figures he can now only meet here.- (A third ray of light emerges from the fireball)
- Energy medium retrieved. Re-establishing corrupted signal flow.
- Astral Assemblage resuming normal operations.
- Paimon: Okay, that hungry fireball should be full now!
- (Approach the Astral Assemblage)
- Paimon: Wahh! Why are all those monsters here again...
- ("Little One"): Rawr!
- (Abyssal energy surrounds the Astral Assemblage, encasing it in a hard shell)
- (The lava in the area rises, and fiery boulders begin to shoot up from beneath the surface)
- (Nearby, a large stone block with an Iridescent Beam emerges from the lava)
- (After the cutscene)
- Paimon: The fireball... it's been sealed off...
- Oh, Chosen of Dragons... You have been baptized by the authority of flowing flame.
- Oh, Chosen of Dragons... Activate the Iridescent Beam and vanquish the great foe of the Abyss...
- Paimon: Oh! The power of Phlogiston's flowing through it... But, uh, what should we do?
- ("Little One"): Rawr!
- Paimon: Hmm, what's that? The Phlogiston mechanism? You wanna use that to fight back?
- (Activate the Iridescent Beam)
- Paimon: Seems like that worked... Let's keep searching for more mechanisms!
- (After activating three Iridescent Beams)
- Paimon: Yay, we got one of 'em!
- (After activating three more Iridescent Beams)
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- (The abyssal corrosion is cleared)
- Abyssal reactions, none... Recalculating.
- If necessary, please restart the "Astral Assemblage" to restore stability.
- (Approach the Astral Assemblage)
- ("Little One"): Rroo...
- Paimon: Phew... Looks like it's finally over. Paimon's exhausted!
- Paimon: So, do we need to, what was it... re-activate that giant fireball?
- (Activate the Astral Assemblage)
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- (The Assemblage rises higher into the air, surrounded by swirls of energy)
- (It shoots a beam of light towards the Celestial Axis, activating one of the pillars)
- Beside the flaming pool, the silver-white and ash-covered shadows converse as such...
- "...Phase Two experimental verification is complete. I name the thing that shall purify all and evolve all 'Huitzilopochtli,' or the 'Sweeping Skyfire'..."
- "Not that this matters. Names shall lose meaning in this place very soon, after all."
- Cold Voice: "The Astral Assemblages must be activated and actively attached to serve as countermeasures against corruption. Before they are completely warped by the Abyss, they will self-destruct and eliminate its influence..."
- Cold Voice: But how will you accurately identify targets as having been corrupted? A controllable specimen...
- Cold Voice: Self-experimentation? Has sanity deserted you?
- "Hah. This too, is well. If nothing else, this decrepit body may still serve in this manner."
- Cold Voice: So, you shall be the least likely to survive once this system is activated, then?
- Cold Voice: Has the Abyss at last rotted your mind? Or... do you simply wish for all your kin to be martyred upon your funeral pyre?
- "Such little faith you have in your people! All the lords have consented to this, save you."
- Cold Voice: They merely follow your plan as though blind, never once considering the true meaning behind the scheme... This action does not have my consent.
- "...That matters little. Destruction... shall also be rebirth. I have made my mind up as such."
- "Hah... I fear this is as much time as I can spend awake each day. In any case, I shall activate it once all is prepared."
- Cold Voice: Is there no room for a different course? I am still searching for another way... Are you certain that you are not bathing the world in flame over some personal grudge?
- "Perhaps! I will do anything it takes to keep our shadow-foe beyond the circles of this world."
- "Hah. Besides, 'another way,' you say... Will you really find what you seek from those 'humans' of yours? You are in too deep already. I see it..."
- "I once tried to make you understand... But just as it was with those of our line who sought wisdom through the pools of flame, knowledge and acceptance are two different things."
- Cold Voice: ...
- "If you believe that I simply wish for 'destruction,' whereas you have a world you wish to construct... Then stop me. Slay me. Prove yourself to me!"
- "But know this, Kukulkan, though it be not prophecy- simply advice from one who once walked this path. A day shall come..."
- "...When you shall tread the same road as I."
- (After the cutscene)
- Paimon: Whoa... Another weird conversation...
- Paimon: Who did those voices belong to...?
- (Nearby, two Secret Source Servants create a new Spiritway)
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Forsaken Sea of Wisdom | — |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 荒弃的智海 | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 荒棄的智海 | |
| Japanese | 捨てられし智慧の海 Suterareshi Chie no Umi | The Abandoned Sea of Wisdom |
| Korean | 버려진 지식의 바다 Beoryeojin Jisigui Bada | |
| Spanish | El mar del conocimiento abandonado | The Abandoned Sea of Knowledge |
| French | L'abandonnée mer de la sagesse | The Forsaken Sea of Wisdom |
| Russian | Покинутое море мудрости Pokinutoye more mudrosti | |
| Thai | ทะเลแห่งปัญญาที่ถูกทิ้งร้าง | |
| Vietnamese | Biển Trí Tuệ Hoang Phế | |
| German | Das verlassene Meer der Weisheit | The Forsaken Sea of Wisdom |
| Indonesian | Lautan Pengetahuan yang Ditelantarkan | The Abandoned Sea of Knowledge |
| Portuguese | O Mar de Sabedoria Abandonado | |
| Turkish | Terk Edilmiş Bilgelik Denizi | |
| Italian | Il mare abbandonato della saggezza |
Change History
Released in Version 5.5