Prog Ares (part 2)

The Prog Ares is a boss in Xenoblade Chronicles X. It is fought during . This is the continuation to the fight started in Prog Ares (part 1).

Lao states that humanity should have died along with planet Earth. When he joined Project Exodus, he initially believed that the people of Earth had come together despite the usual politics. But in the end, it was only the rich, connected, and the first world elite that got the chance to leave Earth. He states that the souls in the Lifehold Core were those that believed they were the humanity worth saving, and they only brought people like him and Lin along to exploit their talents.

Lao believes those who decided his wife and daughter weren't worth saving deserve to die, and places the fault onto everyone who was loaded into the Lifehold Core. Elma declares that regardless of the choices made in the past, she won't let him destroy humanity's future.

During this phase of the fight, the Prog Ares can go into Melee Mode when Lao says "Things are about to get rough.", making itself to ranged attacks and boosting its melee power. Conversely, it can also go into Ranged Mode when Lao says "Show me what you got, sharpshooter.", making itself to melee attacks and boosting its ranged power. When the Prog Ares reaches 33% health, Lao will say "Let's end this!" and go into Hyper Rage for the rest of the battle, boosting all of the Skell's stats and giving it health regeneration every 10 seconds.