Empyrean Ascent

The Empyrean Ascent is a bonus dungeon exclusive to Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux. It can only be accessed by agreeing to work with Alex to avert the future that she came from, which requires the protagonist to complete the Womb of Grief before fully exploring the final floor of Sector Horologium.

Plot
Before confronting Maria in the Sixth Sphere of the Womb of Grief, the protagonist first encounters Alex, who tells him that they need to talk later, and leaves them to beat Maria. If Maria is defeated, Alex's next meeting with the protagonist is in the depths of Sector Horologium, after obtaining the Exotic Matter from Mem Aleph. She tells the protagonist of the future that he creates, based on the route's original ending, details what goes wrong with it, and pleads with him to help her change the future.

By agreeing to change the future, Alex proposes that the protagonist use the Cosmic Egg to gain the power to let this new future come to pass, and hands the Third Fruit that she stole to the protagonist. However, after she fades away, Demeter appears and snatches the Third Fruit, and leaves to hand the missing Fruit to The Three Wise Men. Louisa Ferre appears, commands the protagonist to give chase, and unlocks the door behind Maria's chamber in the Womb of Grief. Through there, the protagonist stumbles into the Three Wise Men's room, and finds a portal that leads to the Empyrean Ascent.

Enemies
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