Back to the island in the middle. The party takes a detour to a shrine at the NE corner of the island, to retrieve the Baron's bugle. I doubt I'll use it though.
Back in Zenithia, the party jumps down a hole made by those dark energy beams from last update and end up in front of a cave. The cave has many tricks, with repeating rooms, poison everywhere, and sliding tiles. Alena picks up a mighty armlet to boost her strength over 200, Kiryl picks up a mirror shield to reflect magic and increase his defense, and the other party members picked up some other useless equips. There's also a bunch of stat seeds that are given to Sofia. Also, why the hell can Borya equip a flowing dress >_>
At the end of the cave, the party reaches another world map. They are tasked with destroying the four barriers protecting Psaro the Manslayer, and there's a temple in the south for free healing and to save the game.
In the SW temple there's a quick and easy puzzle that requires little effort. The boss (Pruslas) is a complete joke, all he does is attack and use Kasap, both of which are nulled by Kiryl's Kabuff spell. Alena puts him out of his misery by critting him twice. The party picks up a oaken club for beating him, known as the weakest weapon in the game.
The SE temple has no puzzles and the party can just run up to the boss. It is a battle against 3 Rashaveraks. They have a gimmick where they can call for more of themselves, but it's pretty useless when they die too quickly. They drop a dragon shield which has been useless for some time now.
The NE tower has one dead-end and not much else. The dead end has more cursed trash that goes into the bag with the rest of them. This boss is Aamon, and he was the kidnapper of Rose. He comes with 3 drooling ghouls. Being a mage, he proves to be more difficult then the other bosses, however Kiryl's Multiheal negates anything he does. Sofia was paralyzed for nearly the entire fight and it didn't even matter.
The NW temple has a single ladder to the boss. The boss is Barbatos. Alena greets him by critting him for 300 damage. He knows Kaboom, which is a powerful magic attack and can belch out flames, doing considerable damage, but he mostly attacks the party against the Kabuff wall, making him as pointless as Pruslas. One Multiheal negates the damage from Kaboom/the flames and he never follows up with two in a row. He drops a miracle sword, which Kiryl already has equipped.
Psaro gets his face pounded in next update, as the barriers have been removed.
Party Members
Sofia Lvl 32
Ragnar Lvl 33
Alena Lvl 34
Kiryl Lvl 32
Caravan
Borya Lvl 29
Torneko Lvl 32
Meena Lvl 30
Maya Lvl 30
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