Stuck in Melm

[Shimaaji]

So I found the apparently last expedition member corpse and got the message to report to Dronya.
However Witch Report is greyed out. I checked all available floors of the zone and there are no more exclamation marks. I also made sure to do all drops to lower floors and overall triple-checked to make sure I've mapped every reachable field on all floors.

Did I run into a bug and need to load an old save game or am I missing something?

[SleepingSeaweed]

Sounds like you're at the part where you should proceed to the next area. The gate is in a darkened area behind a breakable wall. It's not a bug, this part of the game is just handled a bit awkwardly.

[Shimaaji]

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately I already checked every wall in the entire available part of the dungeon.
I ultimately went to YouTube and watched
https://youtu.be/yO6HdwMACeI
The dialogue between 5:15 and 7:30 that grants the Avianite Gate Key never triggered for me.
Since I've found all the corpses and the game literally told me to report to Dronya I googled some more and apparently I'm not the first one for whom the game glitched out on this part.

Unfortunately now I don't feel like going back. I've laterally spent HOURS looking for the way onward and undoing all that leveling progress... I don't see that happening considering I can only spend so little time on games. This killed Labyrinth of Refrain for me on an emotional level. And I was having so much fun with this game... ;(
So unless there is since way around this bug that does not involve going back to a save game from a week ago... That's it for me. ;(

[SleepingSeaweed]

Oh, you're not as far as I thought. What does the game show as your current objective? Not impossible that it's a bug of course, but the game is also very bad at giving directions in general, so it seems equally likely there's some arbitrary thing you have to do first.

[Shimaaji]

Thanks!
Apparently I was stupid (and a bit overworked from real life) and entirely overlooked one thing that I still needed to gather from the gnome dungeon. :/