Gardens of Athena o out across the iron bridge and press the button at its end to swivel it. Exit through the archway to the small courtyard with 3 exits and a small building straight ahead. Go to the left of this building to enter (Image 1). Steps lead left down to an area with two small cells. Don't break any barrels down here yet! In one cell is a cracked wall which you should break (Secret #1/Image 2), and in the small area outside the cells is another crack in the wall at eye level.     Break this crack and push a barrel underneath it to gain access to the Staff of Ovinomancer (Secret #2/Image 3) and a spider trap. Exit the trap using the provided staircase and crouching, then leave the cells and go upstairs out of this small building to the courtyard. Go to the exit around the other side of the building that leads to the hedge maze.     At the maze, go right, through the illusionary hedge, then left to a passage leading to a wooden door (Image 4). This is the entrance to Gardens of Athena, enter. Go forward to the room with stairs, explosive barrels, and a small pool on the left. Try not to detonate the barrels. Jump in the water and break the cracked wall (Image 5), following the tunnel to a button. Press the button to lower a pillar in a fountain in an awaiting area. Leave the pool and go upstairs (use a barrel to get up if you blew up the lower staircase), coming to a catwalk overlooking a large courtyard. Drop into the fountain pool on the left (Image 6) where the pillar lowered, grab glyphs and hit the button for Mars Prize #5 (Secret #3).     Climb from the pool and take the Ring of Flight (Image 7) under the ledge where you entered above. Fly to get the Krater of Might over the roof of the house. Let the ring drain, then go to the button by the fountain pool where the pillar lowered and press it to lower the adjacent lift. Take the lift to the catwalk, then go through the doorway on the left to a room with a button. Press it to open the house in the courtyard.     Return to the courtyard, drop down and enter the house, go up the stairs and around to a second courtyard with an urn. Go straight, grab the Staff of Ovinomancer on the right, then follow the hall left until you come to a large red-framed mural on the left (Image 8). Continue past the mural upstairs to a room with a Tome of Power and a button. Press the button to lower a lift outside, then return to the red-framed mural and take the doorway across from it, following the hall outside to a large temple. Look up at the front of the temple to see "unreachable mana" (Image 9). Remember! Now go into the temple and shoot the switch on the ceiling to drop a Stone of Summoning at the altar (Secret #4/Image 10).     Read the signs, then exit the temple and turn left at the top of the steps, hop on the left ledge and follow it around the side of the temple to a button (Image 11). Press the button, then hop down and take the nearby lift to the upper ledge. Jump across to the half-circle roof of the temple and use the small steps to get the Invisibility Sphere (Secret #5/Image 12), then jump back to the upper ledge.     Follow it around to the other side of the temple. Jump to the half-circle roof for bracers, then jump back to the ledge and press the button at its end (Image 13) to summon wizards and open a door on the ledge behind you. Go through this new door to yet another courtyard ledge. Go left through the door between the pillars to a room with Imps and the Gold Bar on the Altar of Athena.     BEFORE ENTERING, shoot at the right edge of the top step to break it (Image 14). Now don't fire any weapons and walk up into the throne room, walking over the floorplate where you broke the top step. Grab the gold bar, then press the button behind Athena for Mars Prize #6 (Secret #6/Image 15).     Exit and drop down into the courtyard outside, going through the narrow hallway straight ahead to the first large courtyard with the house. Pick up the Ring of Flight (which has now respawned/Image 16) and fly back to the second courtyard to get the "unreachable mana" (Secret #7). Return to the main courtyard again, then either fly up or take the lift to the upper catwalk and return to the door leading to Hall of Heroes, enter. 7 Secrets; Objective Order: Get the Gold Bar from the Altar of Athena.

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