[You enter the staging area with Aerith, you can already feel the stronger pull of the rifts here. You notice Aerith appears to be flustered and...more exposed than previously.]

[You decide to keep an eye on her, during your previous mission, several of the Overwatch girls fell to the rift's corruption the further in you travelled. If the same happens to Aerith, your guiding light on this mission, you will be in trouble.]

Aerith: "Well, here we are. The staging area for the nexus assault. It's a small step but a step all the same. The rifts here are slightly stronger and require more energy to seal. You will need to clear all 3 missions here to access the next tier."

Enter Sector 5 Rift: https://imgchest.com/p/a846w2vvyxj

Featured Heroine: Nayo

Appeared In: FF7R

Mission Objective: "Complete your first modified rift."

Rift Length: Medium

Rift Difficulty: Medium

Rift Modifiers: 1

Enter Lestallum Rift: https://imgchest.com/p/9249w6w2ynk

Featured Heroine: Iris Amicitia

Appeared In: FFXV

Mission Objective: "Attempt to free Iris from the rift influence."

Rift Length: Long

Rift Difficulty: Hard

Modifiers Active: 1

Enter Oerba Rift: https://imgchest.com/p/bp45pg52y5l

Featured Heroine: Oerba die Vanille

Appeared in: FF13

Mission Objective: "Help Vanille seal the rift."

Rift Length: Short

Rift Difficulty: Hard

Modifiers Active: 0

Aerith: "You've done it! I can push back the evil here so that we can proceed further into the rift territory. We're ascending the Rift Nexus tower now. At the top, only untold evil awaits but we have a way to go yet. Our next stop are the Inner Riftways."

[You must clear all THREE tier 2 rifts to proceed.]

Warp to Tier 3 - Inner Riftways: https://imgchest.com/p/m9yxr683yqn