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Walkthrough Part IV
**This part is full of SPOILERS.
You have been warned.**
Before heading for the Cathedral, stop at the Inn to save. Going to the General Store to look at the new items is also allowed. Some Cathedral Knights are cutting off people's heads on your way. You smartly decide to eliminate them. They are quite easy to beat since a single Sky Dragon Slash does the job. However, a simple attack from them cancels yours. At the Cathedral, Selene is standing on a large column and tells you crazy things. Guess what. She is possessed by... the Heart of Valmar! You must fight this other repugnant creature. Yay. I have no idea why it has eyes as sidekicks. Maybe veins or arteries, but eyes...? Anyway. This battle is very easy, like so many others. :P The Eyes cast status effects and elemental-based spells while the Heart generally performs normal hits. However, it might use Avici Slash, a powerful attack where countless arrows are thrown at everybody. It is painful. You should know by now that your moves are the best way to defeat the Heart. After the combat, Elena cries and runs inside the Cathedral. She is such a whining little brat. :P Follow her to the Audience Chamber (the Save Point in the Guestroom corridor is still there). Oro is lying on the ground and is mumbling about a Holy Room, located behind the audience altar. Enter it and hop on the high-tech elevator. The Pope invites all of you to his private dark room to show you stuff... He finally tells the truth about the Battle of Good and Evil as an entertaining cinematic sequence plays before your eyes. Oh, and he also says that he wants to resurrect Valmar. He abducts Elena and flees to the Moon. Your only mean of transportation to go there is the Granasaber, so return in the Pastures and get back on the flying sword.
Follow the path leading to Valmar's Moon 1 and jump down. As always, the road is pretty linear in there. To go to Valmar's Moon 2, you must "build" a bridge using weird bubbles generators (as seen on the picture). A few exploration, a FEW, is required to find those machines. In Valmar's Moon 2, the path is even more linear. Sometimes, "ligaments" are blocking the path, so cut them. There are red tiles on the floor in Valmar's Moon 3. Some of them obviously (very obviously) activate a mechanism that moves a pillar to get treasures or to cross a river. On the other side of the first river, go in the general left direction until you reach another river. Cross it and eventually, you will find a third Save Point. Close to it is the entrance to Valmar's Womb. Enter it. :P Elena and Zera are in the middle of the room, but a huge glass prevents you from going any further and from being heard. Zera wishes to call the Wings of Valmar and complete the resurrection of the Evil God. Meanwhile, fight the Egg Guardian that is trying to assassinate you. Pay no attention to the four Bits. Two Sky Dragon Slashes kill them and they can be revived by their master. If the Egg Guardian performs its Wailing Sickle attack, heal your party immediately (that is kinda obvious, I know :P). This battle is not particularly difficult, but it can be long. Millenia, summoned by Zera, helps you to escape with Elena after the conflict with the Egg Guardian. Monsters are everywhere on the Moon and a few pre-programmed battles ensue. The foes are Valmar Youngs and Valmar Flies. Revive Elena before fighting. :P Nightmare Ball is effective against those enemies most of the time. As I said, monsters are plentiful. Consequently, Mareg decides to stay there to fight them while you are escaping on the Granasaber.
The landing should have theoretically killed everybody, but it seems that Tio teleported you out of the Granasaber just in time. Tio can learn the move Whisper to Stars now. Look around for the Missanga, a very interesting valuable, then go to Cyrum. The city is infested by demons. Before heading for the Castle to help Roan, recover at the Inn and stock up on Baobab Fruits and Magical Medicines at the General Store. Roan invites you inside the Castle to talk about the most recent events. He wisely decides to join your quest to stop the complete rebirth of Valmar. On your way to the exit of the town, some Valmar Youngs need to be eradicated. You can return to Cyrum Kingdom South now or enter Raul Hills - Special Stage. I suggest going to the Secret Stage since you can find cool valuables there. Back in Cyrum Kingdom South, nobody really knows what to do, except fleeing to prevent the incomplete Valmar from obtaining the Horns inside of you. Roan has the sudden idea that you might get some tips on how to defeat Valmar by entering the Royal Mausoleum, the place where his ancestors, the People of Darkness, have been buried. Tio opens the door for you. A huge gate appears outside the Mausoleum. It leads to the Birthplace of the Gods.
The Birthplace of the Gods can be extremely confusing. I tried to keep my directions as simple as possible, using a minimum of vocabulary, but it will still look complicated to you. :P After some exploration, you will get used to this place, though. At the end of the first room, there is a stone on which a message is carved. It says that you must activate three colored orbs to find your way through that facility. All the doors in the Birthplace of the Gods are blue, yellow or red. They open or close when the matching colored orbs are turned on. From the Save Point, enter the left door and turn right to the room with a pink floor. Continue until you find the blue orb and activate it. This action lighted a blue light above a certain door that I will call the elevator from now on. Use the door behind the blue orb. You are back in the room with the Save Point. Turn left and continue straight to reach the elevator. Enter it. :P It brings you to Birthplace of the Gods 2. Go straight to find another pink room. There is a Save Point again. Climb down the stairs to Birthplace of the Gods 3. In the next room, go up the stairs, turn left and prepare yourself for a battle against two Dual Fists (easy easy). Then, continue and cross the bridge to turn the yellow orb on. Re-cross the same bridge and enter the yellow door. Go back to Birthplace of the Gods 2 and get ready for another easy fight against foes called Guardians. The red orb is a few steps away from there. Activate it and return to Birthplace of the Gods 3 by the stairs near the Save Point. Turn the yellow orb off, go back to Birthplace of the Gods 2 and enter the elevator. Go straight to finally reach the Control Room (and a last Save Point). If you desire to obtain the Book of Sages and the Dragon Egg, you must *takes a big breath*: go back to Birthplace of the Gods 2, use the stairs to go to Birthplace of the Gods 3, activate the yellow orb, return to Birthplace of the Gods 2, enter the elevator to go to Birthplace of the Gods 1 and turn the blue orb off. The large chest containing the coveted items is in the room left to the orb. ...In the Control Room, Elmo, the caretaker of this building, explains all there is to know about Valmar, Granas and the Seals of Lord Granas. Your plan to deafeat Valmar is to plunge into his world and try to corrupt him by refusing to become an Evil God while still having the Horns inside of you (or a similar concept hard to describe :P). Say "goodbye" to everybody and walk on the Seal to let yourself fall into "Valmar's universe". Skye is so sweet: he accompanies you even if he knows you might kill him if something goes wrong.
Once on the ground, follow the road and answer "no" at each question asked in front of the green flames. If you answer "yes", you are asked the same question again and forced to say "no". At the end of the road, despite your good will, failure seems to be the only option. You are slowly submerged into a red liquid to be transformed into a monster... In the meantime, Elena, Roan and Tio are helping the townspeople in Cyrum. Elena uses the power of her voice to fill everybody's hearts with hope. *Insert a scene where you are trying to get rid of Valmar's curse on your beautiful body and succeeds with the help of Love and Hope here* Back in the real world, you are now ready to fight the New Valmar with your designed-for-humans Granasaber. You can talk to the people around the Royal Mausoleum (a few known figures are there) and buy things from a local guy. The lighted crest on top of the Mausoleum sends you into New Valmar.
New Valmar 1: Who could have imagined that a five-headed monster's interior would be green and orange? :P Go left after the Save Point and trigger the grey orb at the end of the corridor. It activates some kind of valmarish elevator. You must use the same kind of technology a few other times in New Valmar 1. You will eventually reach a room with six green orbs on the floor. Those open and close one after another. Hitting an opened orb activates a mechanism that unlocks a door next to it. Starting to count from the orb in front of the entrance, the third on your left is the correct one. You are not even halfway Valmar and you must already fight a Valmar Magna and two Valmar Moths. The Moths move annoyingly fast, but one Sky Dragon Slash kills them. Then, enter New Valmar 2. New Valmar 2: After the Save Point in the large green and orange room, go right and enter the door. Starting to count from the orb in front of the entrance, the third on your left is the one you must switch on. Head for the newly opened passage and cross the room with the blue eggs. Hit on the grey orb on your right at the end of the road. It will lower or higher certain orange plates in the present room. Following the new path takes you to another orb-switch that opens the way to New Valmar 3 and makes it easier for you to save on the nearest Point. New Valmar 3: This part is fairly repetitive as you will easily notice by my choice of words. :P Cut the orange stuff to pass, try to avoid the flapping leaves and enter the tube in the pink room. Turn right at the first intersection, then right again as soon as humanly possible. Continue straight until you find a room with a purple tube. In the latter, turn right at the first intersection, then left at the end of the passage. Go into another pink tube and turn left. Next to the entrance of the last purple tube, there is a third Save Point. In the next room, two Valmar Magnas falsely believe they can stop you from saving the world. Beat them up and enter the Core. Valmar's Core: Walk on the other side of the hill of red spaghetti and watch everybody giving their speech of Love, Friendship and Hope to Zera. The first boss to fight is the Core. This thing is tough and the battle can be extremely LONG. My advice is: destroy the Right Head first (it casts Alhealer), then Valmar's Core. Whee. Told you I was a good strategist. :P Having three characters equipped with Alhealer would be a great idea because you will need that. A lot. The Middle Head has an attack called Destruction Light that hits some of your members whereas the Left Head only casts elemental offensive spells. If you have accessories that protect you against move blocks, use them. Valmar's Core's Dead Claw has this annoying blocking characteristic. The strongest attack of the Core is Day of Judgment, but you will not even get close to death if you regularly heal everyone. After this fight, Millenia comes back from the dead to take her revenge... but no! It is not her; it is a clone. As if we could not guess. She is easy to kill, because she is slow and does nothing special. The true Millenia finally returns as her own person, apart from Elena's body and soul. Woohoo. Zera is displeased by the situation and everything starts to crumble, throwing Roan and Tio far away. It is up to Elena, Millenia and yourself to save the world. Step on the blue circle on the ground to enter the Room of Chaos.
Well, there is nothing to say about the ending. A part of it takes place right after the death of Zera and another, one year later. You have the CHANCE to walk around the world as Roan. He wants to go on a hunt to find his old friends. Talk to everybody in the towns you visit to learn more about what Tio, Millenia, Elena and yourself, Ryudo, have become. That is all. The End.
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