At the gate of Riovanes Castle
Barinten invited Vormav and Wiegraf to his castle and tries to negotiate with them, then blackmail them. lol Barinten. Malak had captured Izlude and obtained the holy stones from him. Vormav won't take any of that, so he transforms and kills everyone.
Outside, Bartz and co. are met by Malak who still is loyal to Barinten. Another somewhat tough battle here, but I managed after a few tries. It splits up your party, but the key seemed to just get them all together again and avoid the moat. The first couple times I went down into the water and got massacred by archers. Rafa was good to get hurt and leave, so I took off her clothes and injured her to get rid of Malak. Belmont focused on his summon magic for the archers, and Reeve, now a knight, went to battle with the knights. Eventually I took everyone up top and took the knights out one by one.
At the end, a knight crawls out through the front gate and dies. Apparently dying knights are good for opening doors, because Alma's cell door is opened as well. Alma hears screaming and the knight warns her of a monster, so of course her first instinct is to leave the cell all alone and unprotected. No wonder she was captured.
Inside of Riovanes Castle
Ah, yes, the battle with Wiegraf. I recall in the past I used Ninja or something to take him out, but I'm not so lucky this time. I think this battle took me 4 or 5 tries. At first I tried to fight him head on, but would be killed, even with auto-potion. 140 damage from each attack won't last me long. There's not much room for an archer or mage to run here, either. The idea I finally got was to have Bartz be a thief with sprint shoes and guts, auto-potion, concentrate, and move+2 as his abilities. He got to move first, so I took him away from Wiegraf and had him spam Yell. It was risky at first and I took some damage trying to escape, but eventually Bartz was quick enough to get 2 moves for every 1 of Wiegraf's, and could outrun his attack range. I got Bartz to about 35 speed, then had him start accumulating and throwing stones, then backing off when Wiegraf got a move. Eventually, He got around 17 or 18 attack, and I had him attack Wiegraf for around 200 damage each time. Took that bastard down.
But the fight continues! Wiegraf transforms into Velius and the rest of the party arrives to help out. Velius summons some beasts and the fight starts again. Lucky for me, Bartz retains all his stat buffs and is able to slay all 3 of the monsters before Velius could even make a move. It decided to go attack the other party members, who all only got one turn before Bartz cut the monster down with his knife. What a badass. Alma is heard screaming, and Bartz shouts her name.
Turns out that Alma found Izlude alive and he manages to give her a holy stone. He realized his dad is a monster but too late. Vormav appears and is about to kill Alma when his stone shines and he says something about how he's been looking 100 years for "the one." He kidnaps Alma but she drops the stone.
Next fight is the roof fight. Stupid Rafa keeps dying before I can act. I'll try this one later.
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My Japanese alter-ego.
Hey all this is Bartz btw.