MK1 - Invasions S3: "The Cryomancer" Fire Temple Mesa Guide

Mortal Kombat 1 Invasion mode looks to provide players with season content in an interesting new format for the franchise. Unlike the franchise's previous entry called Krypt, Mortal Kombat 1’s single-player focused content presents a table-top-like game for players to explore, find secrets, and eventually unlock more cosmetics through its Seasonal Koins system and chests.

Throughout these guides, we will be exploring the details of Invasions, how to complete them, tips and tricks, and what rewards you can expect in the season of the Cryomancer.

Season 3 Mesas

• Tarkatan Colony
• Fengjian Village
• Fire Temple
• Living Forest
• Shang Tsung's Laboratory
• Rampart

The Story

Seeking to turn all timelines into a freezing hell, this titan Sub-Zero's plan is nothing short of demented. Bi-Han's drive to conquer the world for the Lin Kuei has driven him mad, as he jumps from timeline to timeline, freezing entire realms over. Leaving with no prisoners, he ought to be stopped before there is no one left to attempt it.

Fire Temple

Once again, we enter the Fire Temple through the small village at the bottom of it. But before you can do so, remember to complete the Fengjian Village mesa first.

Coming back for a third time, this Fire Temple mesa run starts you off at the bottom of the temple, making your way through its small villa. The middle section of this area can send you for a short loop left and right with several chests to open. Whichever path you take, you will need to conquer the "Everybody's Here" tower node, which holds the Mad Monk key, unlocking the final boss of this area.

The area holds two klue nodes. The first can be found at the other side of the bottom of the temple on the "Pros & Kahns" node reading BOLTS & JOLTS. To complete it, you have to use any brutality with Raiden. The other klue node accessible is found later on under the "Tell us Again" node with the Klue Up ....., to solve it, you just need to use Smoke's "Up in Smokes" fatality. If you want to see all the klues for all mesas in one place, we have a guide just for that here.

Once you are at the highest point of the mesa, going right instead of left will read you to the Cryomancer area of this mesa. To unlock it, you will need to get the Cryomancer Heart from defeating the final boss of this invasion season, so you can return here later.

There is one final Klue node in the Cryomancer area, and that is on the left side of the gate under the node "Whispering," hinting at LTAHEL SPIL (LETHAL LIPS), which, put simply, is to use Kitana's last kiss fatality, which is DDB3 from up close.

You can check if you are missing on nodes by looking at the path's color. Uncleared paths are marked in green, cleared ones are in light blue, and paths you can’t move into are in red. You can also follow the green arrow for directions as to the quickest route to the end of the mesa.

After The Fire Temple

Once you've completed the Fire Temple, you can play through the next mesa, the largest one, the Living Forest. Make sure to check your talismans and relics as you push forward. Although you might be leveling up higher than the mesas you are playing in, fights will get harder as you enter the latter half of the season.