End of the road

After all the fighting and leveling I've been doing I figured I should try my had at that giant cactaur again.

It still kills in 1 shot....

So with that out of the way I continue on past Vanille and Fang's home, and in the middle of a broken high way Serah shows up talking about how it would be best if the party did just destroy the world. It dosen't take long for even Snow to figure out that it's not the real Serah and she's revealed to be the creepy guy who runs the government. He then explains that he put a zombie Cid in charge of the government and that soon things will fall apart into civil war, unless the party wants to transform into giant monsters and destroy the world quickly to end suffering.

After another easy boss battle against him he disappears and leaves his air ship as an open invitation. The party then comes across a message that basically says "Vanille and Fang tried to destory the world but they screwed up and now were all dead", so Hope decides when life gives you lemons, burn life's house down with lemons! So the party decides that even if they can't save themselves, they will take down the being that are manipulating humans and start a revolution.

But first more side quests.

Since it's clear that as soon as I get on the airship I'll lose access to the side mission, I'll have to get them all done before advancing the plot along any more. So I started hoping around all over the world maps finding missions and going to the monster needed to be killed, and of course they are never both in the same place. While returning back to the large open area there was a new feature on the horizon, a gigantic humanoid that's bigger than the mountains and eats the 100 foot tall quadrupeds whole. I sure hope I don't have to fight that thing...