Balbaroy got killed by something or other at battle 23. He was replaced by Torasu.
Diane died to a Chaos double laser attack, which she was in position to take because an Iceworm put her to sleep. Alef goes in for an uneventful battle 25, then rests again as Hanzou joins the force. No one died in the Pre-Ramladu battle. The Ramladu battle saw two people die; Gong, who was killed by robots before he could even move, and Tao, who was horrendously overkilled (four times her max HP damage? Something like that.) by Ramladu. I thought he didn't move from his starting position. I was wrong. Alef and Luke go in. Both were too weak to take a single hit from anything, but at least they had magic (Luke via the second Atlas axe I acquired)
Lost Hanzou in the Colossus battle. Made the mistake of putting him in a spot where both a Chimera and Blue dragon could hit him. I was left with an open spot, and a bunch of character who couldn't break defense and/or couldn't take a single hit. The best idea was to take someone with 7 move, who could hang at the back of the force, use healing seeds, then use heal rains against the dragon. I had two characters with 7 move on the bench. I could have used Mae, but why would I do that?
Jogurt time.
I made it past Darksol with little trouble. Onto the final boss. I'm not worried about casualties (besides Max, of course. He stayed the hell out of Dark Dragon's way, and just focused on killing skeletons) anymore, and it's a good thing, because there were a lot of them. No one died killing the first head (thanks to Jogurt keeping everyone at full health with his 3 healing rains), but the left head was a different story. First, Musashi (who I considered practically unkillable) died to a Desoul 2. Gort was next, killed in one hit by Bolt 4. I unintentionally knocked him down to 1 HP, at this point I knew what had to be done.
Second head down. Yogurt ring acquired.
Alef and Luke were killed by skeletons as I transitioned to the final head. It killed Pelle with a double physical attack, and Torasu with something after a skeleton wiped out most of his HP. Despite all the deaths, I managed to get him down to 11 HP. Guntz attacks, 2 HP, Domingo attacks, 1 HP, Jogurt attacks. Final head is murdered by hamster shaking. MVP Jogurt stands victorious.
Final Force and Levels
Max: 12/19
Vankar: 12/14
Guntz: 12/13
Domingo: 25
Zylo: 12/13
Jogurt: Dragon Slayer/God of War
Dark Dragon casualties
(Pelle: 12/12)
(Gort: 12/14)
(Luke: 12/3)
(Alef: 15/9
(Torasu: 16/12)(He died right after getting aura 4. So it goes.)
(Musashi: 15)
Living benchwarmers
Mae: 12/1
Kokichi: 12/1
Bleu: 9
Adam: 10
Deaths
Battle 5: Hans (4)
Battle 7: Arthur (4)
Battle 8: Anri (6)
Battle 15: Earnest (8)
Battle 16: Lowe (12/1)
Battle 19: Lyle (12/2), Ken (12/1)
Battle 21: Khris (12/4) Amon (12/6)
Battle 23: Balbaroy (12/6)
Battle 24: Diane (12/7)
Battle 27: Gong (12/9), Tao (12/9)
Battle 28: Hanzou (11)
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