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Head down the hall and save your game along the way.  The next room offers you 
the perfect chance to try out your new weapon by throwing a ton of the easiest 
enemies in the game at you,this doesn't last long however as you are also 
attacked by a number of more difficult Gorgons.  Following the battle jump up 
and grab onto the bottom of the stairs at the upper right corner of the room 
and head around the path.  Use Zeus' Fury to take out the archers in the 
background and then balance across to that side.  In the corner there you'll 
find a chest containing a Gorgon Eye.  Drop down and head through the hall at 
the lower right corner of this room.  Follow the path and make sure all the 
enemies in the next area are taken care of, then go back to the fork in the 
hall and grab that box of rocks or whatever it is.  Notice that when you step 
on the button in the main room the thing at the top spins around, then spins 
back when you step off.  Well drag the box of rocks up near the spinning thing 
along with your and then charge up a kick to kick it toward the button.  While 
it's sliding jump up toward the spinning thing and it will flip you around.

On this side there are a number of enemies you need to defeat, as well as two 
chests above you, one multicoloured and the other full of red orbs.  The third 
is a blue or chest on the left side.  When you're done climb the ladder and 
jump across to the left side where you can pick up the Shield of Zeus.  Drop 
down to the room below and examine the door on the lower left side to place 
the shield into the carving.  Leave this area and return to the previous one, 
jump up and grab onto the stairs at the upper right corner.  If you already 
cleared this place out then you're set, if not then you'll have to do some 
fighting.  Get to the other side and pull the lever with the R2 button (the 
icon will not appear on the screen.)  When the weight comes down grab hold of 
the rope and slide down with it.  Get on the horizontal rope and start making 
your way across.  On the other side are full health and magic healing chests.

Now nearby is also the Shield of Hades.  When you grab it be prepared for an 
absolute ambush, this is far more enemies at once than you've ever seen 
anywhere else in the entire game.  Not only that the wall on the left side is 
closing in on you so it's just going to get tighter and tighter as you go 
along.  Some effective attacks for this battle are obviously Poseidon's Rage, 
along with the L1 + Square Blade of Artemis attack and also doing a double 
jump and pressing triangle in the air with the Blade of Artemis works well.  
Defeat all the enemies and a path opens up to a couple of healing chests.  
Jump across to reach the rope you came down from and climb back up again.  
Return to the door where you put in the Shield of Zeus and now put in the 
Shield of Hades as well.  This unlocks the door and allows you to pass.  

Descend the stairs and save your game in the hall at the bottom.  Climb up the 
ladder and head through the door, prepare for some rather dangerous 
circumstances.  It's hard not to notice that there are crazy death saws making 
their way back and forth, and while it seems like a crazy random assortment 
note that each path only has one saw on it so it's easy to get through without 
being hit as long as you wait for the saw to pass before moving forward.  
Ignore the levers in this area and head through the door on the right side.  
Defeat the enemies here and get onto the conveyer belt.  There's some nasty 
chompers in here but nothing the evade roll can't get past.  Follow the path 
up the stairs and across the bridge.  On your left in this area is a 
multicoloured chest, and on the right is a wall that you can climb up.  It's 
quite the trek to make it to the other end of this wall, you'll be moving in 
all directions.  Your best bet is to move quickly using the X button to help 
you with that get to the other end and heal yourself, then pull the lever to 
drop the chain down which acts as a quick way to get back where you started.

This next room is extremely difficult, what you need to do is destroy all the 
enemies before time runs out and the ground gives way beneath you.  Most of 
the enemies carry those shields so you'll need to use triangle attacks with 
the Blades of Chaos to destroy them.  Perhaps if I had gone into this with any 
magic power I could have done it normally but regardless I had to use Rage of 
the Gods after being unable to do it after a few tires, basically the enemies 
at the start are easy to take out but those stupid sirens just become 
extremely difficult to hit without magic.  When every last enemy has been 
dispatched run to the top and grab the Handle of Atlas.  Now you can exit the 
room and drop down the chain, a new save point has appeared there.  Return to 
the room with all the moving saws and pull both the levers quickly then run 
through the door at the top, you have to be fast for this.  Slowly make your 
way along the wall here and lift the door up.  After defeating all the enemies 
in this room examine the object at the top and place the handle on it.  Now 
turn the lever around so that the large ball is on Atlas back.  Head through 
the opening on the right side and start ascending the stairs.

Fight your way past all the enemies here and check left when you reach the top 
to find a chest containing Phoenix Feather.  Run around to the right and open 
the chest on the left side of the lever to get a Gorgon Eye.  Now pull the 
lever and watch the scene that follows.  Jump down and head out the newly 
created entrance.  Grab the handle on the coffin here with the R2 button and 
pull it down.  When it's off completely jump on the coffin and tap R2 as fast 
as you can to acquire The Architect's Son's Head.  The coffin moves and a hole 
appears underneath, drop down this hole and open the multicoloured chest at 
the bottom.  Make your way along the decrepit hallway and watch the scene.  
Through the door at the end of the hall is a room you've seen before.  Save 
your game here and head down the hall.  Defeat the enemies along the way and 
examine the door with the large skull in it, you can use the Architect's Son's 
Skull to unlock it.  In this room there is a huge cylinder rolling around in 
the hall bent on crushing you.  Along the path are numerous places where you 
can press up and hide from it, but really the thing is actually moving slower 
than you are so a little caution is all that's necessary.  Either wait for it 
to pass and go up (which is faster) or run down and all the way around to find 
a staircase.  Go up the stairs and wait for it to come around again then jump 
on top of it.  Walk in the opposite direction that it's rolling so you don't 
fall off and when it gets around to the ladder jump up and grab hold.  Climb 
up to the top where you will find numerous chests including full magic and 
health, red orbs and a Gorgon Eye.  Even a save point to boot.  Run down the 
hall past the save point until you find yourself at the Challenge of Poseidon.