Minerva, ULT 9 in full

Select, deck, opening

1. 1

   The card with no record

   The video opens on Minerva's song card: DIFFICULTY ULTIMATE, level 9, jacket illustration by Ao — and a HIGH SCORE field that reads a dash. No record on file. The right panel already shows the dive setup: CONNECT, the STORY/IRIS encounter tabs, DIFFICULTY RATING 170.

   

2. 2

   CONNECT, from zero

   The CONNECT screen wipes the board to 000'000'000. Five cards make the loadout — Orchestra of Anarchy, An Aberrant Freedom, 4AM, At The End, Austere Advisor — with IRIS picked as the encounter partner, and the song card pins SPEED 7.00 beside the ULT 9 badge.

   

3. 3

   First blood at chain 5

   A long violet slab rides the right lanes and takes the run's first EXACT at 000'324'793 points, chain 5. The deck meters in the corners still read above 99% — ULT 9 opens readable, and the trick is keeping that focus across 1,474 notes.

   

The early climb

1. 4

   One slab, four lanes

   At 004'327'470 points a violet slab spans four of the lanes at once and lands EXACT at chain 64. This is the chart's core idea — wide slices that ask for a flat hand — introduced barely twenty seconds in.

   

2. 5

   The right rail answers

   PHASE 2 brings the counterweight: a pink slab sweeps the right side lanes while four EXACT judgments ring the line at 022'881'240 points. The chain reads 30 — it has been reset since the last frame, a first taste of the 56 BREAKs this run will eat.

   

3. 6

   PHASE 3, head-on

   The mid-song climax stacks a violet slab into twin white beams crossing the center lanes, four EXACTs deep, at 055'846'099 points. Nothing here is exotic — it is simply everything ULT 9 has shown so far, overlapping.

   

The late gauntlet

1. 7

   Streaming through the resets

   Past 085'368'745 points the chart settles into streams: three EXACT labels share the line while a teal beam rides the right lane. The chain reads 25 — by the late game, rebuilds like this are routine, and MISS GAUGE 15 on the result card will show what they cost.

   

2. 8

   The last thousand

   At 089'744'785 points a gold burst fires under twin violet streams — the closing run is pure stamina, EXACT chains with barely a gap to breathe. The chart gives about five more seconds of this before it lets go.

   

3. 9

   DIVE CLEARED

   The full-screen banner lands: DIVE CLEARED. Not the PERFECT DIVE of the full-link charts — this was always a run about survival, with 56 BREAKs spent on the way — but the dive is over and the field is empty.

   

The settle and the unlock

1. 10

   CONNECTED

   The CONNECTED banner crosses the emptied field with the score settled at 094'607'822. In the top-left HUD the encounter score sits at 12'738 with its star lit — IRIS connected, the reward half of a well-played dive.

   

2. 11

   The card that sums

   The DIVE RESULT card settles the account: 094'607'822, rank A, MAX LINK 212, EXACT 1,309 + 62, NEAR 47, BREAK 56 — 1,474 notes, the first published count for this ULT chart. The first-clear proof is printed twice on the same card: an empty HIGH SCORE box beside DIFFERENCE +094'607'822, and a First Clear tag under the IOTA slots.

   

3. 12

   The unlock itself

   The game closes the loop: a Song Unlocked reveal plays for Minerva — Hylen, the same jacket from the first frame. This run was the story-progress clear that awards the song, and the next screen adds a Sea of Disorder card recipe on top.