Flooded Passage - Broken Stairs and Giant Ball

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light screenshot
After the cut scene, start up the stairs to the left (NW).

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light screenshot
Unless you're going for the Score Challenge and need every point, don't worry too much about picking up gems or fighting enemies—skeletons and bogmen mostly but also a few shamans and ogres. Just go as fast as you can to the top. Avoid or jump over the gaps in the stairs and watch out for poison pods and rolling balls.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light screenshot
At the top, step on the 2 pressure pads to release the giant ball balanced above. Then turn around and run back downstairs as fast as possible.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light screenshot
Avoid enemies, pods and holes in the floor just as you did on the way up.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light screenshot
At the bottom, veer onto the walkway to the SW to get out of the way as the giant ball crashes through the wall on the right.

If you've managed to break down the wall within 8 minutes, you'll beat the Reward Challenge and receive the Golden Eye of Cipactli Relic (Power Bomb and Power Speed).

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light screenshot
The boulder should have taken care of all but the skeletons, since they respawn even after squashing. You'll need to shoot them and then explode the remains with bombs.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light screenshot
Then climb back to the top of the stairs and climb up onto the giant hand that held the ball to find an AMMO UPGRADE. This screenshot is from the single-player game, but the upgrade is in the same spot in co-op. We just forgot to get it. ;)

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