Dune: Awakening Guide | How To Complete The Fourth Trail of AQL

Here's a guide on completing the fourth AQL Trial in Dune: Awakening.

Game Guide by TauxicPandA on Jun 12, 2025

The fourth AQL Trial requires a lot of climbing. To minimize injury from accidental falls in Dune: Awakening, ensure you have sufficient water and, if possible, a Suspension Belt.

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Finding the Entrance

For the Fourth AQL Trial, you must go to a hammer-shaped rock in the second zone, Vermillius Gap. Travel in this direction until you are at the base of the hammer-shaped formation.

You have to climb this rocky mountain and reach the top. As you climb upwards, you'll notice some ropes indicating that you are going in the right direction.

There'll be two dead bodies with some Rare Loot, like the Holtzman Shield, while you're climbing. So, make sure to loot these dead bodies on your way up.

Once you've reached the top, you'll see a light above you. Climb above and go in. There will also be a recording tape here, which you may play.

Now, you must climb up the stairs, and at the highest level, you can see the Altar. Interact with the Altar to begin the Trial in Dune: Awakening.

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The Hallucination Arena

Once you start the Trial, you will be in a hallucination space, and you don't worry about losing your items if you die, because there will be Checkpoints.

For the first half of this trial, you just keep moving forward, listening to the conversation, and you'll notice a Dagger floating nearby.

When you pick up the Dagger, you'll be in a fighting Arena where NPCs will surround you, and some of the NPCS will fight you.

You have to kill the enemies with the Dagger. Parry their attacks and kill them when they are staggered.

As you kill them off, more will spawn until you get outnumbered and die, and there will be a cutscene. After the cutscene, you will be in Spice Mode and have your three Abilities unlocked.

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Your eyes will be glowing when you are in Spice Mode. Use your three abilities, and your Spice meter will decrease as the fight continues, so kill all the enemies before the meter is depleted entirely.

You can one-shot your enemies while in Spice mode. This fight is easy, regardless of whether you use your Abilities or just regular attacks.

Completing the Trial

Then, you must climb the stairs until you reach the Altar after finishing the fight in Dune: Awakening. There will be a brief cutscene with no option to select, since it is going to be a one-way dialogue. You have to go through it and successfully complete the Fourth Trial of AQL.

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