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SOA: #27 Dangral Island. One of the few storyline locations in the world's lower sky. Anyways, this is a Valuan military type installation that has a pretty straightforward trek to reach ship docking bay and snag a deep sky engine schematic. One area of it is completely optional and has six rooms with enemies or chests if you desire to check it out too. No boss here, just the usual Valuan soldiers and machines as random encounters.

#28 Deep Sky. Once your ship is fitted with the new engine, it's time to travel through the vortex swirling near Dangral Island. This area has it's own unique map using a sonar mini game. The layout never changes on different playthroughs, so if you remember what squares on the map are what, you can save yourself time, and jump right to the correct points. Only 3 squares on it are points of interest. 2 of them have a piece of material called Velorium, used for creating Vyse's ultimate weapon, and the other is to retrieve Fina's ship to advance the story. Of course, in doing so, brings the return of a ship from earlier in the game, the Chameleon once more.

This ship battle is broken up in two halves, where the first is to damage the Chameleon to at least half health or less to get to the main phase of it. You get nothing for the first half unless you happen to knock the Chameleon's health completely to zero. I got lucky enough to do this, so you gain the same experience points, gold & items as the second half. It is kind of luck to do this though, I first took off about 12000, [boss HP is about 30000], and then fired three weapons at once, hoping everything would connect. The first opportunity actually failed, but since all three weapons missed [2 torpedoes and a main cannon], I had another chance, and on that second try, it worked perfectly. Nice.

The second half is to just straight wipe it out. This battle was actually a bit more difficult then the first. As the HP on the enemy ship dropped lower, the battle actually got a bit worse, where the Delphinus got hit with Drilnos one turn and Sylenus the next. Drilnos drops attack power and defense, while Sylenus stops magic usage. While the battle isn't too hard, the battle does take longer, since hit percentage is a lot lower than usual, and the boss kept using healing spells periodically to counteract the damage dealt. After this battle, the Chameleon is no more.

#29 Baltor's Blackbeard Pirate Ship, again. Yup, he tries to take you on again. But, despite having some decent firepower, his ship is lacking in one department: HP. It doesn't take much damage to put him down, and now dealing with the Delphinus, it is quite the mismatch of a battle for sure!

#30 Great Silver Shrine. You get here after fighting one battle you must win at your base, a set of Assassins that have a death strike ability. There isn't too much to say about this battle other than it's a mandatory one. As for the Silver Shrine itself, there's no enemies here, just a lengthy maze of pathways, with a couple of chests along the way. Reach the end for a storyline segment, and then you're on your way out, back to your base.

When back at the base, this is an opportunity to make use of that Velorium material, but even if you do, there won't be any way to get Vyse's ultimate weapon just yet.

#31 Dangral Island Part 2. Following the path down to an elevator puts you into a battle with Vigoro again. This time, he has a portable cannon weapon which has a few different attacks. He's not as easy as the first time, but manageable with the usual patience, healing and special attacks. His normal attack can hit a character with confusion, so that can be a minor annoyance. Once he's taken care of, all that's left to do, is to reach the end of the remaining path, and an upgraded version of the early on Sentinel boss follows. This battle is almost exactly the same except for the addition of a stone effect attack. Other than using Curia to remove the stone effect, the same tactics apply. Easy.

Also, once back at the base, Vyse's ultimate weapon, the Vorlik Blade, is available to pick up if all of the conditions for it's creation were met. The main thing about the weapon is it's ridiculously high hit stat of 200. A normal attack should almost never miss with a stat like that!

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