Oh my, there's a casino in town. I'll save that for later at the moment.
The armor shop carries new armor for only one person: Kiryl, who doesn't need it at the moment, but I buy it anyway to take his defense through the roof. There's also an iron apron for sale, which no one in the party can use. The weapon shop also has an Astraea's Abacus, which, again, no one can use. Hmmm...
In one of the houses, there are some treasure chests out of reach past a locked door. The thief's key is again useless as it does nothing here.
The party has 5000 gold, so I decide to check out the casino. I buy 100 tokens and then promptly lose all of them using the various games. Oh well.
Alena heads to the castle. The people in the castle talk about how the princess of Endor must marry the winner of the tournament. The princess asks Alena to win the tournament so it can be called off, as her father won't led her be married to another woman. The king welcomes Alena in, and then also asks Alena tow in the tournament as he now regards his decision as "rather foolish". Going upstairs leads the party to the usual locked doors with chests behind them. /sigh
Time to rock this tournament. Alena heads in to the colosseum to start the fights. Inside, the item shop has a nice weapon upgrade for Alena, an iron claw. After buying this, the party heads outside to save, and then returns to the tournament and goes up and into the ring.
Borya and Kiryl leave the party, and the king explains that Alena must defeat five opponents to make the finals.
Alena faces the following warriors en route to Psaro the Manslayer:
Atilla the Hunk (lol)
Quick Draw McGore (has a sprite holding a sword but uses a bow.)
Prima Donna (mage that runs out of MP after three spells.)
Samson Knight (uses a generic knight sprite, unlike the others who have unique ones.)
Abominable Snowman (casts illusions of himself. lasted only three turns as I only hit his illusion once)
Finally, the final with Psaro... or not? For some reason he does not respond to the summons, and is nowhere to be found! In place of him, Alena wins the tournament! The king instructs Alena to head back to her kingdom to inform her father of her victory. We exit the castle, and when entering town a guard says the party must return immediately. As he is talking he suddenly dies. Borya then warps the party back to the kingdom.
At the kingdom the castle is strangely empty. No one is around. (Of course the chests behind the locked door are still here.) Alena searches the entire palace, but no one is found. Alena then decides to set out on her journey again to find out what has happened, and the chapter ends. (A cliffhanger ending? Strange, but it makes me want to continue playing.)
Party Members
Bold members are currently active.
Sofia Lvl 1 (Prologue)
Ragnar Lvl 15 (Chapter 1)
Healie Lvl ? (Chapter 1)
Alena Lvl 13 (Chapter 2)
Kiryl Lvl 13 (Chapter 2)
Borya Lvl 12 (Chapter 2)
Chapter 3, Torneko's chapter, will be next.
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