Ashes is the name of the second chapter in Metro: Last Light and it features another hidden Diary page to collect.
After he gets his mission in Sparta chapter, Artyom follows Anna to the surface. Here he must search for a creature named the Dark One and kill it, but things don’t turn out as expected.
There’s only one Diary page collectable in the Ashes chapter, and its exact location is uncovered in the next Metro Last Light collectibles guide.
The video above is useful for those who can’t pinpoint the precise spot.
Chapter 2 Description
A TRAIN TO THE PAST
“Just a year ago I stood on top of the TV tower and saw missiles rain on the Botanical Gardens, turning the flesh into ashes, smelting metal and glass. Nobody and nothing could survive that inferno. Yet Khan did find a Dark One there.
Now my mission is to find and eliminate it. To finish what I started.”
Diary Page
After you leave the train, you need to open a gate to a corridor. At the end of the corridor, you press the action button to open the door that leads to the tunnels and Anna tells you that you need to go right, because there’s a dead end on the left. So follow her until you reach the ladder.
There she tells you to put the mask on, but instead of doing that just go further into the tunnels, around the corner. Use the lighter to burn the spider webs and then you should find the Metro Last Light Ashes Diary Page next to a dead body in the corner.
This note is the second Artyom’s hidden Diary page.
“But maybe, the Dark Ones aren’t the reason for this… It’s troubled times we live in. The whole Order is humming like a beehive. Once created to safeguard the Metro against any dangers, it inadvertently introduced a new danger on its own…
When we entered the tunnels of the D6 military installation and found the vast sealed storage facilities we thought we’d saved humanity! With the stockpiles of food and medical supplies stored here, with the functional reactor, we all could survive indefinitely.
And live to see the day when the radiation on the surface goes down and we are able to go back there and make Earth our home once more.”
Next, you need to reach the surface and clear the area of enemies. You can trigger the next chapter, Pavel, when you finally catch up with the Dark One.
