Examine the frescoes here, if you wish, then climb the handholds to the ceiling. You can only drop down on the balcony here; if you want the red orb chests, you’ll have to double-jump and glide to them. Move up towards the broken wall and smash it to reach a lengthy gauntlet.
As you proceed down the path here, you will periodically be blocked from moving onward as enemies spawn in around you. The further down you go, the tougher the enemies get. It’s going to be tough to regenerate health for the most part, so try to conserve as much of it as possible until you reach the green orb chest along the path.
Try to block enemies on the other sides of the shield, then attack them with the Spear of Destiny.
The first tough challenge here is the siren/gorgon teamup near the chests. Since these guys drop so much magic when they die, though, feel free to use your magic to keep them off guard and away from you. There are more tough fights in the future, but you’ll be all right as long as you don’t get knocked around too much. We found it helpful to use a fully upgraded Spear of Destiny in a lot of these fights. You can use the Altering Slash to lay a timebomb inside any enemy you hit, even the cyclopes near the end, which will explode after around ten seconds, doing good damage to the creature and anything nearby. Combine that with the Unfortunate Remains ability, and you’ll be knocking around the smaller foes just like you were using Atlas Quake. (Which of course you should be doing, especially when the cyclops attack you at the end of the path.)
Anyway, don’t go too quickly down the pathway. In fact, it’s a good idea to retreat anytime you spot a new barrier popping up in front of you. Most of the fights here are spread across two or three segments of the walkway, and barriers will rise up and fall down as you fight. Try to split up your foes by moving across these barriers; that’ll reduce the number of foes you have to fight against at one time.
When you reach the end of the road and kill everything, you’ll be able to unlock the door by slashing at the claws on it. First open up the lock on the left, then move the bolt on the right, then push the door open.