Level 9

The Great Hypostyle Hall (second time)

Ninjas: If the Ninjas start deflecting bullets by twirling their swords, simply holster your guns, the draw your guns and shoot them.

How you came here:

You should have completed the second part of the Temple of Karnak where you placed the second Canopic Jar in the Temple of Karnak and retrieved the Sun Goddess and Hypostyle Key from the lake with the crocodiles and the obelisk. To get back to the Great Hypostyle Hall from Temple of Karnak, crawl through the high crawlspace near the bowl with water, then go out the main courtyard with the obelisk in Temple of Karnak and enter the building with the pool and find the door to the Great Hypostyle Hall.

You are making your way back to the clearing with a crawlspace in the corner after the deep pit.

Courtyard:

Go out to the courtyard and meet up with a Ninja dressed in red and black. These Ninjas are talented and can fend off bullets with their blades. You need to get up close and personal to take them out. Grab the shotgun or the Uzis and shoot them when you are near them. You can also get some band aids and have a medi-pack or two.  Find the small opening and enter the room with the many pillars.

Another Ninja, both shotgun and medi-packs will be needed. Find your way to the long hall that leads to the deep pit. Two Ninjas attack at the same Time trying to keep you away from the pit. Use a long running jump with Grab across the pit.

Continue until you reach a clearing with a crawlspace in the wall.  (If you get to the room with the sandstone walls and dark green floor, you have gone too far.) Crawl through the crawlspace and follow the tunnel until it ends. Use the Hypostyle Key to open the door.

North chamber after opening the door:

Two Ninjas and one with a sub-machine gun. Kill them as best you can and pick up the Uzi and a small medi-pack on a block for your troubles.  Notice the blocks near the door and the monkey bars above the blocks. But for now explore the bottom floor.

Middle room with multicoloured pillars:

Bottom floor: A Ninja has carelessly left some red shotgun shells on the floor in the middle of the room. When you go to pick them up, the Ninja shows up and wants them back. For Ninjas that keep bouncing bullets off with their swords, try  approaching the Ninja until it stops twirling its sword, back up and shoot a bit until the sword starts twirling and repeat getting up close to get the Ninja to stop twirling its sword.  There is a door behind a raised block, enter a small room and pick up a large medi-pack.

South Chamber farthest from the door with the key):

Another Ninja has left some flares out for Lara, and approaching the flares triggers the Ninja. Kill the Ninja and return to the north chamber by the door.

North chamber after opening the door (monkey bars):

Climb up on the high blocks near the door. Jump and grab to the monkey bars, letting go of the Jump key. Hold down Grab and navigate with the arrow keys. Continue straight and then take a right. Drop down in the high room and walk over to the next door to the middle chamber.

Middle Chamber (monkey bars):

Do simple jump to the ledge in the middle room. Then take a long running jump to the ledge by the pillar. Jump grab to the monkey bars and navigate to the south side of the room and drop off in one of the small rooms high up. Cross the small room to the south chamber.

South Chamber (monkey bars):

Take a right to the ledge at the west end of the room. Jump and grab to the black switch to pull it down. The switch swings up a door in the middle room. Watch out, a Ninja is behind you on the monkey bars. Shoot him. Jump back up to the monkey bars and go back to the middle chamber.

Middle Chamber (monkey bars):

The black door on the monkey bar path to the west is now raised, so jump to the monkey bars, navigate to the centre of the room and then take a left to cross the black monkey bar door. Drop down on the ledge and shoot the Ninja that is on the monkey bars. Pick up some Uzi Clips on the ledge. Go to the wall and find a way up to the higher ledge.

Middle Chamber (monkey bars):

Walk on the ledges to the centre of the room. The goofy camera stays fixed on the brown ball on top of the pillar. So try shooting the ball off of the pillar.  Make your way down to the ground floor and drop down into the hole that the ball created.

Hole in the floor:

Drop down into the hole in the floor with the ball. Look for a small crawl space and pick up some Uzi clips. Now head down the hall which has two branches. Take the first branch and come to a Light Crystal.

Light Crystal room:

Explore all of the rooms that branch from the Light Crystal room. In one room with an obelisk, you will find red shot gun shells and some flares.

In each room notice a grey hammer on one end and the obelisk (tall pillars). Go back to the hall that goes between the Light crystal room and the fallen down ball. Take the north branch and find an overhead climbing ladder. Walk beneath the climbing ladder and do a jump grab to the climbing ladder.

Light Crystal top floor:

Climb up and find three rooms with turning contraptions for turning the obelisks in the room below. Go to one end of the room and try to see the light from the light crystal in the room below. With your back against the wall and centred between the torch and the wall, look for the light crystal. The tip of the obelisk has a red mark.

You need to turn the obelisk tip to line up with the light crystal.  First room: Light crystal is by the South wall. Line up the red tip to point at the south wall and a torch. Go up the stairs to the next room.

Second room: Light crystal is by the East wall. Line up the red tip to point at the east wall and a torch. Take the south exit from the room. Last Room: Light crystal is by the north wall. Line up the red tip to point at the north wall and a torch.

Position to look for the crystal. The blue light is the crystal. Once the obelisks are lined up, go back downstairs and pull the chain to smack the pillars with the hammer and create the Sun Disk. Pick up the Sun Disk and then drop through the new hole in the floor in the Light Crystal Room and follow the tunnel.

Continue on to Sacred Lake 2.

End of Level

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