Afterimage - Playthrough Part 7

Using the wall climb ability I explored for a while, but I didn't find anything of note. At the Town of the Exiled Renee meets Rosalia again, who explains that the barrier surrounding the cursed town prevented her from leaving, but now that you defeated mastermage Auss she can escape at the price of her remaining life energy. Pretty poetic. Now that I had equipped the afterimage which removes the shitty purple mist I could more normally explore that part of the town, but there was nothing interesting there.

In The Columns area I found Patt - the former assistant of mastermage Auss. He says that Auss actually planned to take control of the people with the ritual she performed, so he tried to sabotage it. This is an interesting alternate perspective, but Patt a bit too shady to be trusted. Still, he gives you a new staff, which has 2 spells, one of which is a burst that drains all my mana. Ifree warns Renee against using this particular staff.

Then I wandered around various areas, but didn't encounter anything interesting.