www.gamesover.com Breath of Fire IV: The Unchanged (Japan Release) Walkthough v1.0 By: The Viewer (liewjy@yahoo.com) -------------------------------------------- History -------------------------------------------- v1.0- Walkthough firstly posted -------------------------------------------- Note 1. Some of the items and weapons names I haven't fully translated yet and they will remain the same as the japanese names until the next update. 2. Due to the formatting, I left out the list in item shop, weapon shop and Manilo Shop Chapter 1: The Awaken Person The story begins with Nina, princess of Wyndia, together with Cray, in search of Nina's sister, who was lost during the battle between the East and West Continent. They travel in a desert 'ship' across the desert at night. During the next day, something happens. There is a dragon appears in front of them and starts 'playing' with/attacking them. Eventually, they are crashed to the desert. The boat needs to be repaired and the duo has to get spare part to repair it but they cannot leave the boat along. So Nina decides she will travel to the south where there is a town and Cray stays to keep on eye of the ship. Now Nina appears on the map. Follow the path to an area where Nina will discover something and enter. There is a large hole where a merchant's cart is fallen down into it and he manages to get out by his ostrich-like animal. Nina observes further more but she also slide into the hole. When Nina approaches to the cart, something appears. A dragon in invisible form watches Nina. After that, it starts to roar and shows up its true form. It flies up to the air but disappears. What the dragon left is a young man lying with naked body and his name is Ryu. He regains consciousness and Nina approaches to him but she asks Ryu why he is naked with her face away. After noticing he is naked, Ryu gets some clothes that are left by the merchant to cover his body. They introduce themselves in brief then try to leave this hole. On the map, the two people will travel south along the path given to a cliff area. Follow the path that leads down to a bridge. In the midway to the bridge, there is a sachet that can be seen across the canyon. To get it, go across the bridge and there is a small path on the east. Follow it to a sachet and get the item. Return to the bridge and follow the other path. The party will meet a drop off between the path and Nina suggests Ryu to jump over it . Proceed to another drop off but this one the opposite ledge is higher. After Ryu jumps over, Nina will try to jump but she drops downRyu tries to save, however, crashes to the ground below while Nina is hovering with her wings flipping. Enter the nearby and they will spend a night there, talking about Ryu's history. Meanwhile, on the West continent, there is a royal tomb stood there for a long time. A burst of light appears from the tomb and blows up the trapdoor. A royal member comes with his guardian. He is Fou-Lu. After several hundred years beneath the tomb, he is back. Before gaining control on him, he asks his guardian to guard the entrance to the tomb. Go down the stairs behind the guardian guards to a treasure chest with GOODIES. Leave the tomb to the main route but ruins of block block the way. Step up to those blocks and jump over to the opposite side. Continue along the greenery path until there are two guards guarding the tomb. Fou-Lu summons dragon to get rid of the guards who are trying to get rid of him. Follow the path to the next area until there is old man who knows very much about Fou-Lu. The old man is called Yom. After a brief talking, Yom summons a monster to battle with Fou-Lu. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Kam Since Fou-Lu has high level of attacking power and defense, it should be easy to defeat it by transforming into a dragon and use water based magic attacks. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After Kam is defeated, Yom calls his knights to get Fou-Lu but Fou-Lu escapes from them by jumping to the top of the slope and walks away. However, Yom orders his troops to burn the forest area. Fou-Lu goes along the path to the right but the burning tree branches fall down and blocks the path. Run along the path to the left to a bridge. This time Fou-Lu is being surrounded by Yom and his troops. He asks Yom's name but Yom breaks the bridge and Fou-Lu falls into the deep canyon. Return to Ryu and Nina. Ryu suddenly wakes up as he feels something happen but he ignores that. The next day they manage to reach the exit of the area. At the map area, proceed to an area with '?'. Enter this area and the couple is in a T- intersection with a sachet nearby. Proceed forward to Sarai Town and the right side of the intersection leads to a fishing spot. Sarai Town Once inside the town, Nina asks about Ryu. Choose 'I am fine, thank you' and Nina suggest they split out to ask the spare parts of the desert ship (it does not matter which options is chosen, if players choose the second or third option, Nina and Ryu will look for the spare parts together). Now players have control on Ryu so go around the town (level training or fishing if players wish to, just go out the town). Get some goods from the stalls and go to the bar for asking. Approach the old guy that is eating and talk to him. He will ask Ryu to spend him on eating until he is satisfied. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game The objective of the game is simple, make the old man satisfies with food and wine and he will tell Ryu about where to get the spare parts. When the game starts a display showing three meters of two blue words and a red word. The first row, which is blue, indicates when his stomach is full. The second row marked with red word is the level of satisfaction of the old man and the third one is the drunken level of the old man. To get the old man something to eat and drink, simply press the corresponding button to serve him. There are two costs of the food served, 1 zenny and 5 zenny for the food. The 1 zenny-food has lower increment on all meters whereas the 5 zenny one has more increment on the meters. However, players must feed him until he satisfies, that is the red bar is full. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When the old man has satisfied, he will tell Ryu that there is information teller opposite to the inn. Leave the bar and approach Nina. Now the two people are in a party again. Go to the information teller he will tell party to guess how much the information is worth of. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game In this guessing the value the information, players are given four chances to guess. Each guess will result word expression of the guy. Players must give a suitable range of money in order to get the information. If it is too high or too low, he will express something to notice players. If players fail to guess the value of information all the money bet will be returned and players have to try again. To get the information successfully, the betting should be around 100 to 200 zenny. Please bear in mind that if players guess the right value, all the money bet will be taken by him. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* The teller tells that to get the spare parts, there is a merchant that is outside of the wall of the town may have the parts they want. However, players must get the secret code from a person in the desert. After hearing from the information teller, leave the town and go north. There is a question mark appears between on the north of the town. Enter to reach a merchant on a small oasis. After exchanging words, the merchant will give the desired code to the party. Now leave the oasis and return to the town. Sarai Town When the party is at the entrance of the town, go around the wall to the left to a merchant. Talk to him and he will show the way to enter his shop if players have the コトバ in the inventory. Return to the entrance and go to the bar. Walk to the side of the kitchen and into it. The chef will halt the party members but allows them to enter the passage at the corner. Once in the spare part shop, Nina asks the merchant for the broken ship. However, the merchant does not any of the spare parts Nina wants but he suggests her to go to the Desert Ship's Valley. Leave the town and return to the map, a road to the valley is shown. Desert Ship's Enter the valley and there is large desert ship crashed into several pieces. There is a chest on southeast containing an item in quantities of eight. Approach the handle (steering) and turn right twice. Go inside the blocked area with chest containing 200 zenny. Return to the handle and turn left three times. Go to the middle body of the ship and go inside. Operate the switch to lower the anchor down and climb up the ladder up for a treasure chest. Climb down and go to the anchor for a lift up one level from the ground. Proceed to another hole and there is old man with a dog inside. Talk to him and he will get Ryu a shovel for 25 zenny or 50 zenny plus his dog searching for the items. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game The sandy area on the right hand of the old man contains the parts Nina wanted. It is recommended that a dog in help a lot of locating the area that has spare parts. The dog will sniff around and bark when it finds something beneath the sand. Use the shovel to dig them up. Please bear in mind that the shovel will be broken after several times of usage. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After obtaining all the items, leave this valley and go back to Sarai Town. Sarai Town Enter the bar and something happens. A group of military troops under Captain Rasso is questioning people inside the bar and execute some of the people. Nina comes in to interfere and asking why doing such cruel thing. Rasso knows about Nina and underestimates her ability. When Nina gets very serious, Rasso sends a knight to come out and stop Nina. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Emecafu This is a battle between Nina and the Iron Demon. Basically she will not have any problem dealing with the opponent if her level status is high. Watch out for the opponent's magical attack. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When Nina defeats it, Rasso calls his backup to catch Nina but Ryu runs in and use the Royal Sword to stop him to protect Nina. The duo leaves the town. At the map screen, go to the north and there is a special event happens on the midway. Enter the area with T-intersection and the party discovers that the troops are guarding the path and hides from them. After that, players will be on the map screen and after this event; Ryu cannot go to the fishing spot to fish again. Follow the path along the west of the Sarai Town to the next town, Chamber Town. Chamber Town Go into the doorway facing the entrance of the town and there is a treasure chest. Leave the machine hut and approach the mechanic on the east corner. Nina will ask him something and after that, a group of workers with protectors worn leave the area on the west for a rest. After finishing the talk, go to the dining hut next to the closed gate and there are people who are having their meal (it will be empty and something is cooking if the party does not approach the mechanic). Talk to the cook there to get information of the curse-polluted area. He says no one is allowed to enter the area without a guide. Go to the workers' hostel and kitchen side has a person who has items and weapons for sale whereas the right side is the bedroom of the workers. Get some equipment and stay a night inside the town (so that the story can proceed). The next day when the party has waken up, leave the hostel and go to the cook who is now guarding the dining hut. Talk to him and something approaches towards the closed gate slowly. This appears three to four times and then a man in robot-like armor knocks down the gate and he is called Master. The cook asks him why he comes out from the working area. Then Nina wants to enter the area. Master then argues with the cook of offering himself as the guide. After the conversation, Master joins the party and leading Ryu and Nina entering the polluted area. Follow the passage to the west to enter the polluted area. There are three treasure chests inside this area: two of them can be reached by finding the path leads towards them whereas the other one requires the party to enter the main area and exit through the other exit that is a steep slope. The two chests that are reachable easily contain dynamite jade and some money. Enter the main room and the party will step on a tied crate that will go down. Master tells Ryu and Nina to go back to the crate and stand on it, revealing a path for him to get through. At the same time, the party will be split into two, one is only Master and the other one consists of Ryu and Nina. However, only Master can climb down the ladder. To switch controlling the characters, press SELECT. Have control on Ryu and Nina first. Follow the path to the crate and stand there to lift the opposite crate. Switch to Master and let him go through. Before stepping on the crate, open the treasure chest for an item and step on the crate. Now Master ask Ryu and Nina to reach the valve switch on the top so take them to the switch and switch to Master to reach the lower valve switch. Master tells Nina that the switches must be turned on simultaneously in order to open the door. After that, bring the party to the next room and there is a funny sound appears. Master will notify that situation of the area and continue the journey. The camera angle shows a zombie-like fish swimming beneath the polluted water. When the party approaches a small hut, the sound becomes spookier and nearer to the party. Master suggests that the party should run quickly but it is too late. The monster jumps out from the water and the party starts running except Ryu. The monster starts breaking the wooden bridge and causing Ryu to fall down whereas the others run to a safety platform. However Ryu manages to escape in time and the whole party members are engaged to a battle with the monster. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Skull Fish Like the Dragon Zombie in BOF3, this monster has poisonous breath that causes the members to be poisoned so make sure there are sufficient antidotes to cure the poison, as the AP is required for magical attacks. However, this is a slim down version of Dragon Zombie and keep attacking (transform Ryu into dragon will be an advantage) it will eventually kill it. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When the monster is defeated, it dies and drops into the water. Now it is safe from any threats, proceed to the wall with an orange polygon to exit this polluted area. The party is outside of the polluted building and Chamber Town. Walk forward to leave this area and return to the map area. Now there is an alternate route back to the crashed ship so go to the ship. Nina introduces Ryu and Master to Cray that helped her in finding the spare parts. They stay there for a night and during that night a dream appears where Ryu, Nina and Cray are in an underground room whereby they enter through swimming. Follow the path to a staircase and go up. There is a door so enter to the next room with a staircase going down and a door covered with red curtain. Go through the curtain and there are two people coming into the next room. Cray suggests that they should go across behind the curtain so follow his suggestion. After that, everything is vanished and Nina and Cray are wakened. They tell each other that they have the same dream. While they go out from the camp, Ryu suddenly awakes and it seems like Ryu also has the same dream. The party decides to abandon the broken ship and explore the desert. Croco's Valley Go to the west of the Chamber Town to a valley called Croc's Valley. There is a master called Ralf with his ostrich-like bird. To become his apprentice, there are no requirements, but to learn skills from him, players must perform magical combo of exactly or more than the hit numbers he required. Align any suitable candidates and leave this valley. Dam The party arrives at the top of the dam and Nina says the two flows of muddy water blocks the way of getting across it. There is a worker comes and Nina asks him how to get across. The worker tells her to get across the dam, the two flows of water must be closed and to close it, she must have the keys that lock the two engine controlling the gates of the dam. Go to the nearby chest to get the Shot Sword for Ryu and go into the door. Follow the tunnel to the lower part of the dam where there are some miners mining gold. Approach the guy beneath the resting hut and Nina asks him where to get the keys to unlock the gates. That guy tells her the keys are on the woman who is with the miners. Approach the woman and she is shocked when Nina wants to close the dam. However, she prepares for the worst and gives the keys to Nina. Return to the tunnel and use the keys to open the gate. Enter and operate the engine to close the left gate. Now the gate is closed, go across the gate and climb the ladder to a treasure chest for Vitamin（､ｸ?･ﾉ）. Climb down the ladder and enter the door with a ladder beneath the door to the second engine room. Unlock the gate and operate the switch. But this time the engine does not close the gate. A girl comes in to explain the mechanism of the engine operating. Now it is time for mini game. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game To get the engine working, one person must rotate the tape band and the other one flips the switch. This is done automatically where Ryu rotates the band and Cray flips the switch. To rotate the switch, circle the directional-pad several times until the motor spins faster enough and flip the switch to enable the gate to be closed. Players can retry again if you fail. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Leave the engine room and go through the closed gate. There is a treasure chest at the end of the dam and get the items. Enter the door and follow the tunnel to the other side of the mining area with a dam watcher in a tall hut. Climb down the ladder on the elevator and lower the wooden board to go across the mud. Go to the hut where the guy is and he will give a handle to operate the elevator. Go back to the base of the elevator and use the handle to operate it. The elevator starts going down but jam in the middle shaft. Meanwhile the water on the upper of the dam is too flooded and the dam cannot hold much longer. The warning bell is being rung by the dam watcher and all the miners are running for life except the woman who is slow. The party also facing difficulty to lower the elevator down and Ryu keeps trying to flip the switch but the elevator moves down bit by bit. When the water comes like a tsunami, the whole dam is destroyed but the party manages to reach the top of the shaft for safety. They searching for the woman that is trapped in the water but she is safe with the safety ring wore and the party leaves the dam. The four people continue to an area marked '?'. Enter the area and they are on a cliff of the shore. Suddenly a dragon appears from the mud and it is called Nosto. That dragon keeps looking at Ryu, as seems they have something in their mind. There is frog-like person with a pi-pa like (chinese musical) instrument, sitting on top one of the structures. He tells the members he can calm Nosto by singing a song. However money must be given, the more players give, he will song the more until the whole song is sung. After Nosto leaves, the party will leave this area also. Kiria Village Walk along the new road to this village. Proceed carefully, as there is a land mine near the stone bridge. If the party leader accidentally steps on it the other party members will go away and the land mine explodes, but not reduction on HP. Go to the back of the house and there is a child sitting on the ground. He will tell that there are three chests behind the rest house: one of them contains an item whereas the others have nothing. I am not sure whether the item inside differs or not. Go to the stone bridge and watch out for animal traps. If bad luck comes across, press directional pad quickly to loose it and there is no reduction on HP. Beyond the bridge is the village elder's house and notice that there is path going up to a cave that is guarded by a guard. To enter the cave, the party must obtain permission from the elder. Talk to the people around the house and players will know that the elder is not in the house. Go around the house and there are some booby traps set by the elder. For more experience gained, head towards the small doghouse on the left of the elder's house and engage battle with an insect. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note This monster is quite difficult to be harmed, as it has a shield protecting it (the damage value with a star represents the damage absorbed by the shield). However, keep pounding it with physical attacks and its shield will break then it is easy to be defeated. Watch out its magical attack. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* There are two covered holes on the east of the elder's house. Drop into them to get 400 zenny and a medicine. Climb the ladder to emerge in a room with some barrels. Use Cray's action or Master's action to clear the barriers and leave the storeroom. Return to the elder's house and fall into another covered hole. The party will drop down to the same underground area but there a ladder to climb up and emerge inside the elder's house. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note This is the only way to enter elder's house. If players enter via the door, a cage trap will fall down and players cannot go in, plus being humiliated by elder's parrot. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Talk to the parrot, ask it whether its master is gone out or not, or else players will get nothing from the parrot. After that, the party must gain trust from the parrot or else no information. When parrot trusts the party members, it will tell them its elder is gone for hunting in the Western Forest. Leave the village and return to the map area. Western Forest Go to the forest spot and enter. There is a person that forbids anyone to enter the forest if players do not get the necessary information from the parrot. After the explaining that the party wants to see the elder, he will let the party goes in. Turn left to enter the hunting area. As the members enter, there is a dry well on the north and there are some traps and covered holes, which is similar around the elder's house. The covered holes leads to an underground area with two treasure chests but only two of the covered holes are above the chests. One of the chests has four medicine herbs and the other is an armor called Aura Ring. Drop into the holes and get the items. Return above the ground via the ladder and the party will emerge from the dry well. Notice there are two tree trunks and head to the one on the northeast. Place the fruit on top and wait for the warthog-headed animal to come out. It will go and eat the fruit but it spots the party and runs away. Now there are tracks left by the animal so run quickly to follow the path before it disappears. These tracks lead to a hidden entrance and inside has a treasure chest containing "yのおまもり. The other tree trunk used to lure that animal to come out but when it runs, it leaves the tracks leading to the next area. Go to the slope on northeast and follow the path carefully to the exit at the end. Now the party is in a small stream. Jump over the gaps until the members reach the higher ledge opposite to the entrance. Proceed forward and around the corner is a sachet containing Wisdom Seed (ｪｾ､Oのｺﾘ). Go back to the intersection and there is sloped path leading up so follow it to the next area. When they arrive, the elder is waiting for an animal to appear. A warthog-headed animal comes out but gets scared away from something. The elder feels a pity that he only sees a glance of the animal and finds out Nina and her party has arrived. Nina asks the elder whether if there is way to Senester City. However, there is a rumble noise and a gigantic version of the warthog-headed animal appears. This has surprised the elder and the party is engaged in a battle. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Maman Its dangerous attack is the Body Press. Players can pound it with physical attack and use healing medicine or healing magic to cure, or use combined magic to obtain greater damage (save AP for the magic and healing with items). Since it is an animal, it will not hold too long before being defeated. To make it stop for a while use its favorite fruit (thanks to GameStation for posting this tip) and attack as heavily as possible. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Once it is dead, the party members and the elder return to Kiria Village. Kiria Village At the elder's house, the elder tells Nina about the war between east and west continents. During the war, people who wish to travel to Senester City will have to use the cave above the waterfall of the village, as the main road is blocked by the troops. After the history, the elder gives permission to Nina and her friends to use the cave to travel to Senester City. Before going to the cave, Ryu accidentally steps over the covered hole and whole party members has to exit through the storeroom. Meanwhile, Fou-Lu is saved by a person and he wakes up with the person that saves him. However, since Fou-Lu is too weak, he wants to leave the house but collapses (players might have guessed this is Cedar Wood of BOF3 and the person who saves Fou-Lu is Babaderu of US version of the game). When regaining control of the Cray and friends, enter the cave and go across the stream to the opposite side that has an item inside a chest（みず･ﾉ）. After getting the item, follow the path where the water comes from to another cave. Now inside of the next cave has a fork path. Go to the left path leads to a chest containing 気つけ薬 and follow the path on the right to another cave. Beyond the cave is the source area of the waterfall. There are two doorways in this area but a small stone blocks the doorway on the east. Make your way to the first gap and head northwest to a chest containing 500 zenny and return to the gap. Follow the path on northeast to exit. The party members are in a deep well with a ladder so climb up. Sinester Town The party climbs up from a well inside Senester City. A short cut scene shows the prosperity of the town and a sister chasing a boy but she trip and feels dizzy. Before reaching them, explore thoroughly to recognize the whole town. Return to the sister and talk to the child. His name is Chino and he wants the party to play catch. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game Just like the old times, dash to chase Chino but time carefully when Chino comes, as either both sides face each other or tailing Chino will only let him changes his running direction. Use ambush tactic to catch Chino. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After getting Chino, Nina and her friends are inside the monastery. Nina asks the mother whether she had seen a royal girl and the children there knew the monastery was visited by a group of winged royal members like Nina. The mother says Elina loved children very well and kind. At the same time, those children start to play hide and seek but the sister is unable to stop them. It is time for Nina and her friends to search them out. Mini Game Like the hide and seek in BOF3, players have to find the children that hide in each corner of the town. Once one of them is found, he or she will give hint of other child's hiding place. The following are the children's hiding place: ｷ Upstairs of the inn ｷ Main gate of the town ｷ Doorway near the monastery ｷ Behind the building with a guard stands in front of the door ｷ First level of the front gate of the town However, players will find that Chino cannot be found so return to the monastery. Talk to the children to find out Chino is hiding inside the dungeon. Go to the entrance where there is a man guarding and he will not allow the party to enter. But notice there is woman carrying a water pot on her head. Talk to her and she will distract the guard away from the entrance. Enter the dungeon and follow the stairs down to a room. Follow the raised woods into the kitchen and leave this room. Go upstairs and follow the path to the next room. There is a long staircase going beyond the next room. Players can see Chino locks himself in the jail room next to the entrance but players cannot reach him from outside. Enter the door on the north and follow the stairs up to the second floor of the jail rooms. Enter the one on the left and fall into the room below. Get the item inside the sachet and go upstairs again. This time fall through the hole above the jail room above where Chino is hiding and the party finally finds Chino. After finding Chino, he says when Elina left the city, he saw a merchant at the main gate of the town. The sister tells Nina the merchant Chino saw named Malock. The mother tells Nina that Malock had brought Elina to the West Continent by his desert ship. Leave the monastery and go to the building with a guard. Talk to the guard but he does not allow the members to enter the building and teaches them a lesson by engaging a battle against him. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Kahn, Battle 1 This guard reminds me of Dan Hibiki and he has some skills to be learned. However his magical attacks does not cause much damage if the characters have high HP and other basic abilities. Watch out for his magical attacks that reduce 20% of the character's defense and the one raise his attack power by 20%. Use him as a practice for big combo attack. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After he is defeated, Malock appears and says what a useless guard. He invites Nina and her friends to his house. Nina asks him whether her sister has ridden his ship. Malock admits and Nina wants him to bring the party to the transprt station that goes to the West Continent. However, Malock requires all her friends to find thief who are stealing his cargo. The three persons are then outside of Malock's resident and discussing above robberies of merchants' cargo. Leave the house and approach the person who is standing next to the main gate of the city. Talk to him and he will tell the guys there is a thief with a large sachet outside the desert. Return to the map and there is a new path to a new area called Ajito. Follow the path and there is a question mark appears so enter. Cray and his friends find a guy with a large sack is stopping at a small oasis. Cray goes forward and asks him. However, that guy runs away and the party feels something fishy then start chasing him. Meanwhile, back to Malock's resident, he walks back and forth while Nina stands and waits. She wonders what he is up to and asks him. Malock's reply makes her a bit nervous. Ajito Return to Cray, he and others chase into a cave where the thief is resting. Approach him and he starts running again. This time the party has to chase him in order to question him. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game The objective of this game is to chase and catch the thief. Like Chino in Senester City, try not to get to close on him or else he will change running direction. The only difference is there are three barrels inside the cave. Use the three barrels to block the path leading smaller part of the cave. After the trap is set, chase the thief into the trap and he will run back and forth between the cave walls. Walk slowly so that the thief still does the silly act or else he will escape from the trap. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When he is caught, he denies that he is the one doing the dirty work. After questioning him, he can serve the characters as a master (Stole) by giving him all the money in the inventory (rats!). Become his apprentice will have greater increment in speed only and he teaches a skill when the number of different items inside the inventory meets his requirement. Meanwhile at Malock's resident, he walks back and forth then suddenly approaches Nina and shocks her. Back to Cray, they are now outside the cave and decide to return Senester City. Sinester Town Enter the twon and go into Malock's resident. However, Cray dislikes Malock request of helping him do some jobs and wants to pound him. After that, the three guys are outside of Malock's resident again, figuring where to get the job Malock meant. Finally Cray suggests the party should go to north side of the city to look for. On the map area, follow the new opened path and there is a question mark so enter. Unlike other question mark area, there are no goodies but a signboard showing the location of a fishing spot. Leave this small area and another path is shown on the map that leads to a fishing spot. Get some fishes for later use. Sanbashi This is the place where Cray suggested. It is similar to a harbor. Approach the muscular guy between the crates and storage room and talk to him about the job. He will order the party to arrange the cargo inside the storage room. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game The objective is to arrange the cargo to their respective places. There are two places to place the cargo: the north side for the vase like light green cargo and south side for the light brown barrel like cargo. There are some green colored barrels that need to be removed. To arrange the cargo, use Cray's action to push them to proper place and use Master to remove old barrels. Notice that some of the old barrels have monsters inside. For the cargo, each correct placing will award 200 points and 50 points for removing the old barrels. An additional bonus points will be given if the cargo are placed correctly. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After finishing the job, that guy has another job for Cray and his friends and Cray is very unhappy about it. Meanwhile, at Malock's resident, Nina has something to talk. When Malock asks her whether she is tired or not but she is not sure. Then something goes wrong... The scene is back to the harbor, the muscular guy tells Ryu to use the crane to load the cargo into the ship. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game The objective of this task is to pick up the cargo in the loading bay and put in a blue square. Up to ten units of cargo need to be loaded to the ship. To control the crane, the Up-pad shortens the crane, Down-pad for extending it, left/right-pad for turning the crane and Circle button to pick up or release the cargo. However, there is time limit to do this job. To pick up the cargo, turn the crane and make sure the hook's shadow is above the cargo before picking up. For releasing the cargo into the ship, make sure that the cargo's shadow is on the blue square. After each success loading, Master will put another cargo to be loaded. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When time is up, the person in charge will give comment to Ryu and his friends and Nina arrives at the same time, together with Malock. Being appreciated with Ryu's work, he gives reward to Ryu. Malock says they can follow the ship with a VIP room for them then the ship travels across the desert. Honestly speaking, the VIP room that Malock means is a big crate with four people inside. Cray mumbles about what kind of VIP room is this and starts to shake the crate. Nina calms him so that he stops shaking the crate. The ship continues traveling across the desert. Small House on A mountain The scene changes to a small house where Fou-Lu is. Now he is fully recovered and leaves the house. Once outside, Babaderu knows he has to go so he just tells him the current events of the empire. After that, go to the back of the wooden house and get two proteins inside a chest. Follow the path downhill to the second area. When Fou-Lu goes forward, Yom and his troops are waiting him. To finish Fou-Lu for good, Yom calls his gigantic bird, Cafu. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Cafu This bird is tough and has powerful magical attack. Transform Fou-Lu into Spiritual Dragon and use his strongest magical attack to kill the bird. When the bird's is very low, it heals itself and further attacks brings victory to Fou- Lu. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After defeating Cafu, Fou-Lu tells Yom that he has fully recovered. But Yom says he has the one and only bird and it is not what Fou-Lu said that easy. The bird flies up to the top of the cliff above them and once again Yom sends his troops to get Fou-Lu. This time Fou-Lu transform into a dragon and flies away and Cafu start chasing him. On the way, Cafu keeps releasing energy shots and hits Fou- Lu. Fou-Lu tries to fly up but still been knocked down by the bird. Hasibito Town Back to the desert, Malock's ship is departing from the transport station and the two officers talk about the merchandized goods. They leave the docking area and Cray opens up the crate and whole party come out. Leave the docking area and the party members are in a small town. This is a bridge tower where the merchandized goods are transported to the West Continent. Basically this bridge tower consists of three lifts: two outside of the tower and one inside the tower. The lift outside the first floor only transports to the second floor. To explore the whole tower, use the main lift inside the tower that has a shaft of four floors tall. The first two floors have nothing so ignore them. Take lift to the third floor and there is a cabinet room with some goodies plus a treasure chest containing Galas's Domino on the lift room. Get them and go to the fourth floor. Follow the path to a lift outside and let it takes the party to the top of the bridge tower. When they arrive the top, Nina suspects the lift automatically goes down but something happens on the top. There is a portal opening to let them go into. However, Captain Rasso comes up and surprises the party. The party asks whether he has brought his men surrounding the tower. He says he is alone and takes out something that transforms into knight, which is similat to the one in the bar in Sarai Town. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Emecafu Basically this is the second battle of the same opponent. The only differences are the party is not Nina alone and the opponent is much stronger. It has a move that he will defense up a little bit before attacking the party. Use him as combined magic practice. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When he is defeated, Rasso cannot believe what has happened to his knight and the party quickly jumps into the portal. The portal closes, leaving Rasso behind. Rasso finds out Ryu is the dragon he is looking for. Now the party is at the transport station in the West Continent. Same as the one in the east land, except there is no chest in the lift room on the third floor. Go to the cabinet room for some goodies. Use the lift and go down to the first floor and leave the station. At the map area, there is a new path leading to a place called Astaner. Astaner When the party enters the building, it is blocked and cannot go through. Talk to the people there and they say something of a construction carried out nearby. Leave this building and go back to the map area. Bridge The party arrives at a bridge structure that is under construction. Approach the wooden platform connected with wooden path. Climb up the ladder to the second level and there is a treasure chest with a special drug. Go to the ladder on the other side and climb up to the top level. There is a worker so approach him and have him begin the work. Use the small lift to go down to the ground area and follow the wooden path to a ladder. Climb up the ladder to the second level and go to the far end for a chest containing 500 zenny. On the midway between the ladder and the chest is another ladder leading to top level. Follow the path to a watery area and jump in. The party emerges to an underground room that is same as the one inside Nina, Ryu and Cray's dream in the beginning of the game. Explore as usual until the red curtain. After passing the red curtain to the other side, the two people notice somebody behind the curtain and one of them flies through the ceiling to chase them. When Cray and his party enter the room behind the curtain, he thinks no one has noticed the party but the guy who flies through the ceiling appears in front of them and asks what they are doing there. Nina quickly replies that they are searching a queen and asks back whether he has seen her. He has doubt on the question and asks back what are their purposes of searching this person. Cray questions him whether he understands the question or not. However, a troop of guards enters through the red curtain and the party has nothing to do. The screen blackens and words of Nina's journey are displayed. The scene goes to a castle tower where Cray is alone inside. The door is opened and an old man enters and speaks to him about Cray's tribe. Chapter 2: The Unchanged Person Rudia Town Now Ryu and Nina are in a room upstairs of an inn. Get the sachet on the corner of the bed with the diary that contains a metal. Then go downstairs and there is man guarding the door. His name is Scias and he is responsible of watching Ryu, Nina and Master. Since Nina wants to go out, go to Scias' side and he will ask if Nina really wants to go. After Nina says yes, Scias will follow the party and he will automatically join the party. Before going to the castle of Rudia, leave this town to the map. There is an area marked as Shed, which is on the north of Rudia Town. Head towards the question mark area and go north. Ryu will meet something in the middle between the question mark area and Shed. Enter the area and the party will find there is a signboard showing an area. Leave this area and return to the map. A new path showing area on the shore is displayed on the map, which is a fishing spot. Head to Shed first. Shed Actually this is a resting area for the people who want to use the bridge to go across to the north, which is a desert area. Get any necessary equipment and explore the whole area. Return to the map and go back to Rudia Town. Rudia Town Go straight east and to the castle. Once inside the castle, Nina asks the guards to permit her and the party to enter but her request is rejected. There is an old man comes out and knows Nina's purpose. He says about Cray and his tribe issue and then goes back inside. Leave the castle and Nina says Cray's tribe is located on the south, passing a forest called Pause Forest. Then Ryu leads the party and leave the town. Pause Forest On the map area there is a new path appears from the east of the question mark area (east of Rudia Town) and bends to the west then south to a forest. Follow the new path to the forest. Enter the forest and explore the whole area. There is a treasure chest on the west after the lower ground area containing three healing herbs. Leave the chest and follow south then to the west, where there is a small passage leading to the next area. On the next area of the forest, Nina hears some child's voice but she is not sure about it and continues walking. When the voice appears again, Nina is getting smaller and smaller, finally she has been shrunken to about an ant's size! Ryu and Master, who are in front of Nina, discover that Nina has disappeared. At the same time, Scias enters the area and his walking causes a quake that faints Nina. Thing gets worst when a bird flies between them and snatches Nina away. The party decides to search Nina so follow the path to the south cliff and something is there. Three faeries are invisible and tell the party if they can find one of them while they are going around. Master and Scias look around but did not find anything. Ryu notices Master there is a faerie besides him and Master uses his head to bump. The bump really takes down one of the faerie and the game is over. The faerie (in blue) hates of Ryu cheating by using his 'Dragon Eye' to find them. Master asks the faerie that Nina has disappeared and begs him to help. The blue faerie gives him the clue that the party will find Nina on a tree with bird's voice and the other faeries second him. The three faeries then vanish. Go to the end of the risen ground and jump to the ground with two trees. From there, players can see a sachet on the northwest cliff. Jump to the ground and get the sachet containing Magic Shard. Return to where the faeries were and go down to the lower ground and go southwest to a raised ground. On the highest point of that ground, jump to the tree with the bird's voice. Approach the tree and use Master's head to bump the tree and a bird flies away. Now the scene goes to Nina, where she is inside the bird's nest. When she regains consciousness, she discovers that she is the bird's nest and realizes she has shrunken. Nina asks why this happens to her but later she decides to leave this scary area. Go to the tree trunk and the bird comes back. Nina quickly turns back and run back but a worm falls from above that scares her. The bird flies over to the other side and Nina begs it not feed her with the worm but the bird does not know anything. A battle between human and bird is begun. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Battle Description This is the simplest battle in the game. Just use a couple of physical attacks or more and the bird will go down. If players prefer to play defense, defense every round and the bird will fed up (thanks again to GameStation 2000 for this tip) ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Go to the tree trunk and beyond it is a stem to climb down. Back to Master and his party. After the first knock, there is no response and Master decides to knock again. This time his knock causes vibration and shakes Nina to fall down. While falling down, Nina is restoring to her actual size and lands on Ryu. Poor Ryu, he did it again and he is lying on the ground and Nina is on top of his body. After Master's explanation of the whole thing, Nina knows she was tricked by the faeries and Master says his words again. The rest of the members have no choice but to leave this forest. Fleen Village At the map area, a new path leading to the new village is displayed so follow the path. This is Fleen Village, where Cray's tribe lives. It seems like they do not like intruders disturbing the village, as there is a person stand in front of the entrance of the village. Go to the inn (the house beside the guy who is swinging his bat) and there is a merchant inside, besides the inn owner. Get some goodies from him and leave the inn. Note Before going upstairs to the elders' house, notice that there is a familiar person on the top floor of the house. Players will know he is the useless watchdog of Malock's house in Senester City, Kahn. Proceed to the tribe elder's house and Nina will get some information about the history of the tribe during the war, Cray's history and so on. When Cray is mentioned, the three elders inside are very angry and they tell Nina about the Temple of Tabo. To reach this place, Nina must approach the temple responsible person, Tabo, that is Cray's mother. However, one of the elders says she has left the village and lives in the Golden Prairie (ﾀｪ･ｭｳ･). After that, go to the next room and there is a staircase leading down to an underground storage room with a sachet containing an armor. Return to the main room with the elders and climb the ladder. On top of the ladder is a bedroom with a lady going around. Talk to her and players will find out she is finding her apprentice who is disappeared (players will know who he is). Leave the bedroom and the house. When the party approaches the stone fence, that stupid guy, Kahn, jumps down from the house and blocks the party. He is not satisfied of the last defeat in Sinester Town and wants a rematch inside this strong tribe so that he can win with honor. Then the rematch begins. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Kahn, Battle 2 Like the last battle, he will start his attack with his strongest magical attack and then runs out of AP to perform the second time. Use him again as practice target because he does not cause much damage on physical attack. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After Kahn is defeated, his master saw everything and very upset of him. She says Kahn is not ready for any fight and amazed with the party's ability. Back to the bedroom, the lady gives advice to Kahn that he is still weak to face any stronger competitors and she does not this to be happened again. However, Kahn seems not listening to her advice. Return to the party, the members can leave the village now but back to the elders' house and to the bedroom. Talk to the lady and express the party's apology to what the members did to her apprentice. The lady will leave Kahn's matter away and the party members have potentials for her (When the party has reached combo damage of 1000 or more). She introduces herself as Wona and willing to serve as the party's master. Align suitable candidates and leave this village. Golden Prairie A new path is showing on the map, leading to Golden Prairie. Enter this area and players will find there is a signboard says to travel across the prairie, horses are needed. Moreover, there is a person under a tree and he will say players cannot go across the prairie without a horse. Leave this area and return to Fleen Village. Fleen Village Approach the child beside the shack (with a dog inside) and talk to him. Nina will ask him whether he can get a horse to travel in the prairie. The boy will tell her once the party has the horse, start a camp on the edge of the prairie and one of the members will ride on the horse to travel. After that, the boy gets a horse and Nina asks who will ride it. But no one wants to ride except Ryu who is uncertain. Nina asks again and Ryu still does the old action but that Om seems has some interest on Ryu. The screen fades. On the map, go back to the prairie and enter. Now the party has made a camp and Ryu is learning to ride a special breed of animal (squid-like animal without feet). It seems like Ryu is not confident riding a real horse and the boy gave this animal, which is smaller and easier to ride. However, when Ryu rides a bit forward, he falls down from it and the rest of the members think Ryu is not the suitable jockey. But when Master says let Ryu going to the prairie and uses his Dragon Eye to search Cray's mother, together with his usual saying. Everyone has no choice but letting Ryu go. However, again, when Ryu starts traveling through the prairie, he falls down. Similar to the desert in BOF3, except this traveling is done on daytime and there is a compass to help in navigation, Ryu must reach to the camp where Tabo lives. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note If players get lost, face west and go towards to leave the prairie. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Begin the journey by going east until there is a boulder in front and then northeast. Go until there is a camp with smoke. In case players forget how to reach this camp, go back to the village and talk to the boy. He will give the direction to reach the camp. When Ryu arrives, the woman there feels surprised that a visitor comes by. Ryu then asks her about her past and Cray. However, she notices that Ryu is a bit tired and stops the conversation. She wants him to go into the camp, as she knows Ryu has traveled this far to find her and he is very tired. After Ryu enters the camp, Tabo enters and Ryu is already in a deep sleep. Meanwhile, back to Rudia Town, a trial is being held. The attorney (I suppose) questions him why he sneaked into West Continent and lost the Royal Sword. Cray tries to explain but ignored by the judges. Cray is then being escorted back to the room up in the tower of the castle. The next day, Ryu wakes up and feels energetic. Get out from the camp and Tabo asks how he is. To continue with one question that is not answered, approach her and select the third choice (other choices get nothing from her), which is the broken royal sword. She will explain the meaning of the sword of her tribe and when Ryu takes out the broken sword, she is shocked but Ryu explains the whole thing to her. Ryu asks whether this sword can be made again and Tabo tells him the sword is made with special materials and special environment. The only place where the sword can be made is the blacksmith inside the Goo's Volcano, which is on the south of the prairie. Return to the map and go back to the camp (players cannot go at this point), where is there is an important event at there. When Ryu arrives at the party's camp, he explains the reason they should go to the volcano. After that, they pack up the camp and return to the map area. Enter the Golden Prairie and again go straight to easy as usual until there is a boulder. This time turn south and go forward. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note In case players do not know how to reach the volcano, go to village and ask the elder in a round carpet. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Goo's Volcano Enter the cave and watch out for the lava on the ground. It will reduce the party leader's HP but not fatal. There are two caves on the northeast corners. Go to the cave with a treasure chest and take the item inside before entering the cave to the next area (the other cave also leads to the same area but players have to leave via the cave on the northwest to get the armor). Once inside the next cave, leave through the cave on the north. In this area, there are several earth plates above lava flow and two of them have a treasure chest, containing 500 zenny (the western chest) and Vitamin (southeast) of two. The plates will move when the party encounters any battle so make sure the party stands on proper plate before entering any battle. Notice that there is a hidden cave on northwest corner. Wait for the plate to move towards the cave. Inside the cave has a chest with Drill Punch for Master's new weapon. Go to the cave on the east and there are small bridges connecting drop offs to the blacksmith's house (notice the chest on the lower part). Enter the house and the blacksmith is surprised of the party's arrival. Nina asks him whether he can make the Royal Sword to replace the broken one. The blacksmith replies that he can make the sword but he is lack of the material that is required, Faerie Drop (Eye Drops?!). Furthermore, this material can be obtained from a forest nearby where there are monsters inside. Master suddenly remembers the forest where Nina got shrunken and shouts out. The blacksmith stops telling the name and location of the forest, as Master has known where the forest is. Before going down the ladder, get an item on the desk. Climb down the ladder to an underground storage room with two caves. Go through the cave on the west to emerge on the lower area of the blacksmith's house. Go to the northwest to the treasure chest for a Dynamite Jade. Return to the storage room and enter the cave on the east. Follow the path to exit the blacksmith's house. Pause Forest On the map, go to the Pause Forest and enter. The party will hear a child's voice and Nina recognizes the voice that shrunk her. Proceed to where the party first encountered the faerie and there are some sprinkles of spots near the bushes. Approach the area and stand properly before starting the conversation. An orange-colored faerie appears and asks how the party finds him. After that, two more faeries appear and join the conversation. Ryu asks them how to get the Faerie Drop and they feel a bit ashamed at first but one of them confirms if Ryu really wants that item. After the confirmation, that faerie wants the party to face on the back and the red faerie tells them they will follow later on, with a vase on its hand. Then the blue faerie assures them everything is fine, with a pair of heavy weights. Finally the orange faerie says this might hurt a little bit and a stone is carried. The trio throws the items onto the party's head and makes them fainted. The party is now in an odd forest area. The red faerie tells party this is the place where the faerie lives, called Dream World. When the blue faerie speaks about Aitsu, it cries and at the same time, a strange sound appears from the bushes. The orange faerie tells the party that Aitsu and Dream Demon have intruded their home and drive them away. The blue faerie says the item that Ryu wants is being guarded by the demon's henchmen. Now proceed to the henchmen, although they are invisible, they can be discovered through their sleeping callouts. Kill all of them and they will leave some life shards and magic shards. When they are out, there is a gigantic rubber-like monster coming from the air. Approach it and it dislikes what the Ryu has done to its henchmen. It also threats Ryu and his party that they do not belong in this world. The battle for faeries peace begins. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Dream Demon Do not use non-physical magic attacks on it. This will only heal it. For quicker death, use Super Combo or Double Hit that is physical attacks. Each hit will cause the demon's size changes (either becomes too big or too small). ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After the demon is defeated, it likes a fish without that is struggling and then disappears. The faeries come out to thank Ryu for helping them get rid of the demon. The orange faerie suddenly remember what Ryu wants and asks him to wait for while. That faerie goes into bushes and does the nature process. After that it takes the Faerie Drop and gives to Ryu. Ryu and the party are back to Pause Forest and the faeries hope the party will visit them but Nina cannot wait to return to Goo's Volcano. Goo's Volcano The blacksmith is impressed with the party of getting the material and start to make the sword. After a while, the sword is done and Nina is very happy because she can save Cray. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note Players can return to the blacksmith with some raw materials for the blacksmith to make new armors. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Rudia Leave the blacksmith's house and go back to Rudia. Enter the castle and Nina tries to persuade the guard to let her enter but still being rejected. When she speaks the sword, the attorney comes out and Nina has brought the Royal Sword but the attorney says the sword Nina brought is a fake one and the real sword is already returned to Rudia. Nina has no choice but to leave the castle. After Nina has left the castle, the old man approaches Scias and asks him why he did not stop them from making the fake switch. Scias replies him that his job is to watch and leaves. When Nina and Ryu are outside of the castle, Nina suggests that they should rescue Cray out from Rudia and Ryu agrees the suggestion. After the dicussion, Nina notices that Scias has not come out yet and turn back but Scias is at her back. Go to the inn and go upstairs to rest. Meanwhile, a woman rescues Fou-Lu and he is lying on a bed while the woman applies ointment to his wound. Fou-Lu feels pain and starts to move but the woman calms him not to move. Rudia Back to Nina and her party, now it is nighttime and she urges everyone to start the operation. When the party enters the castle, Nina tells Scias they must defeat any guards without mercy that guarding the door and Scias has nothing to say. At the main hall of the castle, there is only a doorway to go that is the one on the north whereas the doorway on the south is blocked by a sleeping guard. Defeat the guard on the north doorway and enter. In the next room, there is guard guarding the doorway on the east and a staircase leading up. Get rid of the guard and enter the court. Inside the court there is a treasure chest containing a ジゲ"Hat. Leave the court and go upstairs. Follow the staircase to the top of the tower and there is another guard guarding the room where Cray is. Defeat him and enter to find that Cray is outside of the room. Nina approaches to him and he surprises of Nina's visit. Nina tells him that she and the party are coming to help him to escape away from Rudia. Cray at first does not want to go, as Nina tells him if he stays, he will sentence to death and his tribe will cause internal riot due to lack of the leadership of the chief. For the sake of the tribe, Cray follows the party to escape from Rudia. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note After leaving Rudia, the party cannot return to Rudia. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Go to Tabo tent on the prairie. They discuss about the things happened to them. Tabo wonders why Cray is acting childish. Nina explains what he did is for finding her sister. However, Tabo suggests the party should have some rest and tomorrow they will continue the conversation. The next day when Ryu wakes up, go out from the tent and approach Tabo. They discuss about the prohibition of people of East Continent from traveling to the West Continent and then Nina talks about Ryu, he seems like very sad about his problem but Nina tries to make him happy. Later, she thinks of a dragon of wind, Larwi in Wyndia territory and suggests that Ryu should meet it. Tabo knows that they are fugitives of Rudia, she gives Cray a Green Jade that opens an underground tunnel inside the Tabo Temple. Tabo Temple To get to the temple, go back to the prairie and go straight to east (In case players forget, return to the village and ask the elder). Enter the temple and place the jade on the ceremonial table. The statue behind the table will go down, revealing a cave to be entered. Inside the cave is a maze-like passage with death ends. Take the only left turn to north and go to the second left turn on the west. There is a death end with a treasure chest containing 500 zenny. Head the passage on the opposite side (east) and take the second right turn to the south. Follow the passage to the next room. The party is inside a room with three beam barriers, which are consisted of three colored light beams that are reflected by the crystals. A slight touch of the beam will cause HP damage to the party leader. Observe the room to find there is a treasure chest on the south wall of the first level corridor. To reach the treasure, make sure Cray is leading the party. Push the green light beam handle and walk cautiously to the staircase on southeast. Open the chest for Silver Spinner of four units. To enter the doorway on the east, walk downstairs and push the red light beam handle. Go to the green light beam handle and reverse the light beam position. Return to the red light beam handle and reverse the light beam position to clear the light barrier in front of the doorway. Beyond the doorway is a treasure chest containing Light Wrist. Leave the small room and enter the doorway on the north (there is no barrier blocking anymore). Follow the stairs to emerge in a small hut and there is a man sitting on southwest corner. Exchange the stone with his stone and leave the hut. Behind the hut is another treasure chest and leave this entire area. Arm's Swamp There is a new and quite long road leading to this swamp area. Follow the small bridge to a small ground area and there is a signboard saying the some parts of the bridges in the swamp area are broken. Follow the next bridge to the south then to the west (follow straight south leads to a broken bridge). From the second ground area, follow the bridge to the third one on the east. Notice the treasure chest below it. Jump over the small gap to the fourth ground area and to the bridge with various small gaps. Jump past these gaps and follow the broken board down to the wet grass floor. Now head northwest back to the third ground area where the chest is. Open the chest for a tadpole lure. Now go back to the board. Go a bit east to another broken board and go up to the bridge that leads to the second area of the swamp. Follow the bridge to another broken parts of the bridge. Use Nina's action to find there are two anacondas on the swamp. These snakes are harmless and they serve as bridges for the party to across. To make them move, simply step on the crossed boards on the bridge and they are on. There are two treasure chests in this area, the chest on the southwest has a scale mail armor whereas the chest in the middle of the area has three life shards. Coordinate the snakes' position to get across the swamp to the bridge that leads to the next area. There is not much in this area and the signboard there is just the remark made by the patrol guards. Follow the bridge on the north to leave the swamp area. There is a house displayed on the map at a little bit to the northeast. Enter the area and the house. Go upstairs to find out a faerie is going for stroll after the dream demon is dead. Talk to it again and say I will it will accept anyone in the party as its apprentice (after players have help the faeries build their first house in the village). However, there is not much to explore so leave this area. While walking to the north, stop at the question mark spot on the northwest from the previous one and head west. Now Ryu is on the Shed. Enter the area and the party will enter through the doorway where the two men were talking. Trade with Manilo if necessary then leave this area. Note Players can now go to the west beach for fishing without going for a long road. Head north to Wyndia, in the middle of the road there is a special event so enter. The party has made a camp and Nina tells Ryu about she and her sister's background but stops. Cray continues Nina's story and Nina feels frustrated of all the things had gone through but still cannot find her sister. Return to Wyndia makes her feel ashamed of not finding her sister and Cray agrees. However, Ryu senses there is someone approaching and it is an invisible faerie. That faerie hopes Ryu can help the faeries in their world to build a village (the overall is the same as the game's predecessor except some minor changes and improvements). After allocating tasks, return to the camp and continue. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note From now onwards, players can access faerie's village by camping. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Wyndia Notice the windmill next to the inn. Enter the windmill and climb up the ladder. Look who is there? It is Momo from BOF3. Talk to her and choose the first answer. She will accept anyone to become her apprentice. Select the suitable candidate and leave the windmill. Head east to the staircase to a lift and go up to the upper part of the city. Once the party is on the top, go straight to the windmill opposite (the right one) and follow the stairs up. The party will emerge at the top of the palace. Go to the other windmill (the left one) and enter. There is a treasure chest so get the item inside. Leave the room and come down to the door below the windmill on the right. Now change the leader to Nina and enter the palace. Talk to one of the guard and they will allow the party to enter. But first go to the jail room at the lower part of the palace. There is a prisoner for exchanging the stone. Return to the main hall at the upper level and approach to the door with a servant (again, make sure that Nina leads the party). The servant is surprised of Nina returning home and lets her enter the king's bedroom. Inside the bedroom, the king is worrying about her eldest daughter, Elina and Nina enters. The king feels surprised and happy that Nina is home, and so as Nina. After that, they gather in the resting room and discuss what had happened to Cray and Nina. Cray reports to the king that Elina might in the West Continent but when they try to explore at there, they were caught and sent back to Rudia. Cray was being charged of traveling across to the West Continent, violating the law. The king feels this is too much for alliance. Later, Nina mentions the dragon of wind and she has to bring Ryu to meet it. The king gives a brief background of the dragon and Cray says the empire is hunting these dragons down by tracking down anyone who has relationship between them. Finally the king suggests the party should go to the forest to the east of Wyndia, where there is a witch who lives there. But first, the king suggests them to rest and depart on the next day. After the stay, Nina and her father talk for while before leaving Wyndia. Casuc Forest As the party enters the forest, there is a man on the opposite side of the stream so go west and turn left to the other side of the stream. Talk to him and he will give the location of a fishing spot. Go to northwest to the second area of the forest. Go forward and walk across the log on the stream, to the treasure chest behind the trees for 500 zenny. Return to the other side of the stream and follow the path to the wooden bridge to a signboard. It gives directions of moving the logs floating on the water to other side of the stream. Move the logs to reach the northwest bank (facing north) and follow the path to a broken bridge. There is a treasure chest containing Long Shoes. Return to the log and move between the logs to reach the small island in the middle of the stream. Go over to the other side of the island and use the log to reach the sachet. Now move the logs to reach the bank on the northeast and follow the path to the next area. The road in this area is split into two, the left leads to a treasure chest and the right leads to the next area. But go left first, when turning to the right, watch out for spikes near the trees. The chest contains one Magic Shard. Go back to the starting point and go right (east) to another split road. Go left (the right side leads to a dead end) and enter the next area. The road here also splits into two. Take the left one (the right one also leads to death end) and there is a house next to the riverbank. As the party enters, Ryu asks old lady inside of how to meet the dragon of wind. At first she says it is difficult to find but she discovers Ryu is one of the few people who possesses the 'Dragon Eye'. Nina does not understand what she is talking and the old lady explains that Ryu is one of the dragons in the past called Alcay Dragon. After that, she tells the party in order to meet Larwi, they must have the Feather of Wing before going to the Tower of Wind. Leave the house and its area, the party now starts a camp at night and Cray tells Ryu about the underground dungeon of Wyndia palace that is guarded to prevent any strangers from entering. However, Nina discovers Scias is gone and she suspects he returns to Rudia to report everything. Cray urges the party to get the item quickly. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note When players going back and forth between visited places, there is a question mark callout appears on Ryu's head while in the middle of between two places. Inside this area, players can obtain an item and fight any monsters that appear. However, since the faerie appears during the campfire, players can find instead of the usual small battlefield, a faerie is crying for help. Take the party approach to the faerie and it has problem of hunting down all the animals there. Let Ryu leads the party and drive the animals into a deep hole. To kill them, use Ryu's sword swipe and take the meat to the faerie. Although there is not battle in this field, players can leave this area. But the next question mark callout may be a hunting ground. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Wyndia Go back to Wyndia, in order to gain access to the underground dungeon, the party must meet the king first. Enter the palace and go to the throne room (the one with red carpet leading into it). Nina will talk to her father of going to the underground dungeon beneath the palace. The king knows that to go to the tower, that item must be brought along so he approves. Leave the palace and go the windmill on the left. Enter the door and follow the staircase to an underground door. The guard is now letting the party to go in. Go past the corridor to the first cave area and go to northeast to a dead end with a treasure chest containing a せいれい石. Leave the chest and follow the path along the south. Turn left (east) to enter the second area. After the small corridor, the party is behind a small fan with a fork path. The path on the north (straight line) leads to the next area whereas the right one leads to another treasure chest containing three Bird's Nest. However, to get the treasure chest, players must time correctly, as there is a strong wind blowing from the chest, trying to prevent anyone from reaching the chest. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Tip To reach the chest without being blown away quickly, look the position of the fan. If it is facing north, go up slowly and dash forward to the chest to grab the item. If players start to run when the fan is facing north, the wind will also start to blow away the party. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After getting the item, head north to the next room. In this room, there are three mechanisms with a board on each of them. To board on, stand on the edge where the board of the first mechanism will stop for a while and walk forward. Now wait the mechanism to turn the board and stop at the ledge on the north. Once the party is there, follow the path to a board that is jutting out from the ledge. Stand on the edge and wait for the second mechanism to stop the board next to the one the party is standing. After that, wait it to turn and stop at the small ledge on the south wall. There is a treasure chest so get the item inside. Return to the second mechanism and wait until its board joints with the board on the third mechanism on the east. Wait for the third mechanism to stop at the ledge on the east and leave to enter the next area. Go past the small walkway and there is a long corridor leading to the north. However, to make things complicated, there is a strong blowing out from the door of the end of the corridor on a few seconds interval. Stand near the corridor and want for the wind to become weak. Aim for the safe spot with a sachet on the right wall and run. Get the sachet of four medicine herbs and aim the safe spot with another sachet on the left wall. Run when the wind is weak and get the sachet . Aim for the safe spot on the right wall near the door and run when the wind is weak. After that, enter the door to the next area. The party is now in the room with the feather. Take it and leave the underground dungeon via the way the party entered. When the party leaves the dungeon, the scene goes to Scias. While the party is on the way getting the item, Scias goes back to Rudia and give all the information he got to Icory (the old man in Rudia Castle). After knowing the dragon and the Tower of Wind, he gives Scias a bag of coins as a reward and Scias leaves. One of the henchmen asks Icory when they start to action but he suggests they wait and see first. Tower of Wind There is a new path leading to the tower appears to the north of the place between Wyndia and the forest. Enter the tower and a lift automatically goes down for the party to board. Follow the path to enter the tower and go down, passing a narrow walkway to a room with two doorways. Head the door on the south and follow the passage to a storage room. Inside of this room has a treasure chest containing Homing Bomb, Master's new weapon. Return to the room with two doorways and go north. Follow the path to a staircase leading up to the next area. Once the party enters, a help file appears, showing how to jump over the jutting ledges and recognizes the wind's speed. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note Watch out when making the jump, make sure the party stands at proper ledge. If not, the party may hit the ledge above and it will drop down to a lower ledge below. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* This is the center of the tower and it is a hollow structure with strong wind blowing upwards periodically. Notice that there is a treasure chest on the ledge above the ledge where the party entered. To reach the chest, jump to the opposite ledge when the wind is weak. After that, wait for the strong wind to jump up to the opposite ledge with the chest. Open the chest for 600 zenny and jump back to the ledge where the party entered. Wait for the strong wind and jump up to the ledge on the opposite side (south) to enter the door there. Follow the staircase up to another door to emerge on the ledge on the highest point (north). Jump when the strong wind blows to be sent onto another similar area of tens of floors above the previous one. Enter the door there and follow the long staircase to emerge on the ledge above (north) the ledge opposite to the ledge the party just came up. Drop down to the ledge and wait for the strong wind to carry the party up to the opposite ledge (south) with another door. Enter and follow the staircase to emerge on the ledge on the highest point (east). Drop down to the ledge below when the wind is weak to a treasure chest containing two power foods. Drop down to the similar area below this one and climb back again to this area. Repeat the staircase climbing to emerge on the ledge opposite to the starting point. Drop down and use the strong to lift the party to the ledge above the starting point. Wait for the strong wind again to lift the party to the opposite ledge and jump quickly while the wind is strong. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Tip There is an alternate (shorter) route. Wait for the strong wind to carry the party the ledge above and enter the door to go down stairs. The party will emerge back to the ledge above the one where the party first came up from below. Again, wait for the strong wind to carry them to the opposite ledge and quickly jump up while the wind is strong. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* The party now reaches a small ledge with a treasure chest and get the item inside. While the wind is still strong, jump up to reach the top. Once up there leave the room to outside area of the tower. Nina tells Ryu they are riding the gliding aircraft on the south. The aircraft will be launched when the wing that holds it spin towards the highest point. Walk towards the aircraft, suddenly Icory arrives at the top and impressed with Ryu's escaping method. He also finds that Cray and Nina are with Ryu. Then he calls his henchmen to get the trio. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Battle Description (Part I) This battle is three on three. Do not judge them as tough enemies. Use a couple of rounds of physical attack will bring them down. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Icory impresses with the trio's ability but he threatens them he has a lot of henchmen coming up to the top and keeps battling until the trio is exhausted. However, someone yells stop and the person who yells is Scias. He stands on the roof of the tower and jumps down to the left wing of the windmill. Scias returns the filthy money to Icory and he cannot believe that Scias betrays him. To get rid of all threats, he orders his henchmen to get all of them. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Battle Description (part II) With Scias is on Ryu's side, it is much easier to win this battle, as Scias attacks enemies and heals the party. So conserve AP in the battle. Note After winning the battle, the experience points will not be added to Scias. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After two battles of failure, Icory leaves the tower. Scias apologizes to the party and Nina forgives him. Cray tells the party to continue. After all the members are boarded on the aircraft, the windmill beam loses its balance and starts to turn. When the beam with the aircraft reaches the highest peak, the whole aircraft is launched to the air and supported by a cable. While the aircraft is hovering on the sky, a gigantic dragon appears on the party's sight. Nina is not whether it is Larwi, the dragon of wind. The dragon communicates with the people through its mind but it discovers Ryu keeps quiet. It transfers its mind to an image of human-like form and asks Ryu whether he is too amazed with his gigantic size. He tells Ryu that he is the unchanged one and Nina does not understand what he means. The unchanged one means the person has the ability of summoning all the nature forces around the world and this person is being worshiped as god. Nina asks Larwi if Ryu is really a god but he says Ryu is unable to use this ability and he tells Ryu to go to a village where the unchanged ones live. After that, he returns himself as the dragon and rush upwards, causing a strong force to push the aircraft aside. The aircraft is then falls down. The aircraft crashes into a peak of a mountain with terrible snowstorm but everyone is fine. Larwi also with the party and he tells the party that the village is beneath the mountain but he has to leave the party and transform into the dragon. The party decides to go downhill to the village mentioned. Snow Mountain Follow the path to a slope leading up. Notice there is a sachet containing a Vitamin that is hidden nearby. Get it and follow the slope up to a junction where there are two paths. Take the upper one to a cave and enter. This is the upper area of the cave area with a treasure chest containing a fruit piece. Get the item and go outside. Now take the lower path to reenter the cave but the party will in the lower part of the area. Follow the path that goes southwest, leading to other side of the mountain. Go forward and enter the next area. The party is on the foothill of the mountain but first make sure Cray is leading the party. Move the snowball so that the party can proceed forward. Turn left (south) and at the end of the path is another snowball. Move the snowball along the slope to a small gap and it serves as a stepping-stone for the party. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note Watch out where the snowball is pushed, if it hits the rock in front, it is gone. To get back the snowball, leave this area via the northwest entrance and enter back. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Take the second right turn and go forward to the upper area of the treasure chest. Move the snowball down the slope the area with the chest and follow the slope down. Get the Ramerer Armor and use the snowball to make a stepping-stone to leave. In the midway move the snowball along to the junction and move down the slope to make another stepping-stone. There is a snowball in the junction but in front of it is a rock. When they reach on the bottom, there is another treasure chest and a snowball nearby. Use the snowball as the stepping-stone to reach the chest with 500 zenny. After that, leave this mountain area. Chec Village（チェク'ｺ） Follow the path to this village. Enter the village and go to the resting house (the building with two ladders on each sides). There is a sachet containing a Metal. Leave this house and go to the elder's house. Once inside the house, the elder recognizes Ryu as Alcay the Dragon and tells him it was the dragon of wind that told them to come here. The elder immediately knows Larwi from Wyndia Territory. He then explains the energy flow in each person's body (represented in various color) and Ryu's energy flow is much stronger than ordinary people. Such person has the ability to summon all gods around the world and the elder advises the party to get some rest. After that, Ryu wakes up and finds out he is alone. Leave the house and the elder is waiting outside. He tells Ryu that other people are sleeping and he is in Ryu's dream. He tells Ryu that people like them can summon gods but Ryu says he cannot do so. However, Master points out Ryu's matter and jumps down from the roof. The elder feels strange of his occurrence in Ryu's dream and asks him whether he is also the unchanged one or not. Master then introduces himself to the elder and the elder suspects there is a seal inside Master's mind. Master laughs and dream is over. The next day, Ryu wakes up and finds out he is alone so get out from the house. Outside the house, Nina and Cray are talking about Ryu's ability to summon gods and not noticing that Ryu comes out from the house. When they see Ryu comes outside, Cray tells him they should go and see the elder. Go up the stairs on the left side of the stall and Scias is standing still. Go to the northeast where the elder and Master are and the elder tells them that Master is same as Ryu, he is the unchanged one also. Cray and Nina cannot believe Master is also like Ryu. The elder says by breaking the seal inside Master's mind will know the truth and asks Ryu to help him. When the portal is opened, the party enters Master's mind and the elder tells the party the objective is to seek out the seal and destroy it. Follow the path to the middle where there are some small gaps between paths. Past these gaps to reach the upper path near the beginning of Master's mind. Go to southeast and jump towards the treasure chest. Jump back to the path and follow it around to the northeast to the next area. On the next area, jump over the floating paths to the one nearest to the large rotating island. Hit the white light to stop the island from rotating (be sure to let it stop where the party can get to the top of the island). Once on the top, there is a rhombus shaped seal that is sealed by four elemental structures. Talk to the person inside the seal and players will now find out Master is actually a woman. She wants Ryu to destroy the four structures to release her. Approach one of the structures and the party will engage in a battle. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Battle Description The four structures that seal Master are consisted of Fire, Wind, Water and Earth. They will recover a certain amount of HP after a round. To chain magic combo, make sure not to chain Combined Magic, as the second magic that chains the previous one becomes all target magical attack. To conserve AP, use physical attack for a couple of rounds or more they will vanish. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After the destruction, the seal in the middle breaks and Master is free. She thanks the party and she requires a body of a witch in order to communicate with the people in real world. Leave Master's mind and return to real world. Ryu tells everything to the elder and there is a witch comes by. She introduces herself to the party and she tells the elder that he is ready to accept Master. The robot opens up its head and a spirit comes out and then enters the body of the witch. Finally she is not a witch anymore but she is Master. After the transfer, the elder wants to know more about Ryu and her but she says after being sealed for so long, she needs some rest and food to eat. She will discuss that after the enjoyment. At the West Continent, Fou-Lu is getting better under the woman's care but he keeps quiet. Back to Chec Village, Nina is worrying of the robot cannot wake up after Master's soul is gone to the witch's body. She decides to go to the elder house to find out how Master is. Once the party enters the house, Master has just finished her meal and the elder asks her about Ryu and her. She tells everyone that Ryu and her are the unchanged people and asks Nina what she knows about this. Nina tells everything she knows to Master but Master says what Nina answered is not the meaning of the unchanged people. She says the unchanged people are the one who can summon the spirits from another world. The elder then asks her what kind of spirits Ryu can summon and Master says the god of the Fou Empire. She also explains further that Ryu's body is incomplete where the other half is elsewhere. At the West Continent, Fou-Lu is completely recovered. Leave the house to outside and follow the path to exit the village houses. However, when Fou-Lu approaches the exit, a man stops him and suspects there is a man in that woman's house. He then starts to question Fou-Lu but that woman comes back in time and tells him not to be rude on Fou-Lu. She advises Fou-Lu to take his health before doing other things. Note After the conversation players will know the woman's name is called Mamy (not mother). Back to Chec Village, after hearing Ryu is incomplete, Nina asks who is the other half and Master says he is Fou-Lu, the early emperor of the Fou Empire. At the West Continent (again), Fou-Lu is sitting on a mattress and thinking. He compares the world in the past and the present one. The purpose of establishing the empire is for the peace of this world but after his 'hibernation' for a long time, everything has changed. While he feels pity of his effort, Mamy approaches him. The next day, leave the house as usual and the village to the field area. Follow the path along the west, past the T-intersection. Mamy notices Fou-Lu comes out again and stops him. She asks him where he is going and Fou-Lu replies he wants to return to the empire. Meanwhile, a beast is roaring so go past the bridge on the south to three farmers. Talk to them to find out there is beast near the forest and destroying the crops. Follow the path to the east to the nearby forest. Follow along the east (there is a treasure chest on southwest corner but it is blocked by a tree trunk) to a small open area. Fou-Lu notices there are many animals running away from the forest and suddenly goes quietly. Then a beast falls down and attacks Fou-Lu. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Papan Same looking as Maman in the Western Forest in the desert, except its color is much darker and stronger (more HP). Transform Fou-Lu into Spiritual Dragon and uses his strongest attack to knock down it. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When it is defeated, it returns to its original size and runs away. Fou-Lu knows there is a demon on that animal. Return to the field area, the farmers are impressed of what Fou-Lu has done to save their crops and at the time, Mamy comes to see whether Fou-Lu is all right or not. Back to the village (again), Nina thinks about Ryu's other half body is an emperor and what empire it is. The elder tells it is useless to find the other half because the time gap is too large and the other half body may be died for a long time but Nina does not bother and decides to ask Master. Enter the house and Nina tries to wake up Master but she is like in coma state and cannot be waken. The elder tells Nina in order to wake Master, she must enter Master's mind to call her. Say yes and the elder will send the party into Master's mind. Once inside Master's mind, things are changed. It becomes the world of Master wanted. Follow the path and stop at the small floating island with a treasure chest besides the main path. Jump over the gap and open the chest for Sleeping Jades of two. Return to the main path and follow it around to the southeast (from the starting position). Take the first left turn to another treasure chest for an armor. Go back to the main path and follow it through the second left turn, to a temple-like building. Once the party has entered the temple, Master is sleeping with several servants by her side. Master notices the party's visit and she is unhappy of the party's disturbance. Nina quickly apologizes of the party's visit and asks Master about Ryu. Master tells all to Nina about Ryu. For the sake of Ryu, Master has no choice but to wake up and wants the party to leave and wait her. Leave Master's mind and return to real world. Master finally wakes up and she decides to bring Ryu to Alcay's Temple and she wants everyone call her Deis, as this is her real name. Nina and Cray do not know what Deis is trying to do. However, the elder knows the purpose of going to the ruined temple. Leave this village to the map area. Follow the new road to the west. When Ryu reaches the question mark spot in the middle between the village and the temple, a special event occurs so enter. The party is traveling to the temple and Master's robot body arrives. It asks the party why leaving the village without bringing it. Master's mind then tells it not to follow and return to the village. She is then go first to the temple, leaving the party. The party talks to Master and then continues the temple to meet the witch. Alcay's Temple Enter the temple and past the corridor (first room) to first hall (second room). Go to the right corridor to enter the door. The party is behind the first hall so go to the door on the west to enter the first hall again. Go to the beginning of the hall to a treasure chest. Get the item and go back to the room behind the hall and enter the door in the middle of the north wall. Follow the corridor with a turn to northeast to a stairs going down to the second hall (fifth room). Go along the right wall and follow the staircase up to a door. The party will enter the upper part of the third hall with many vertical structures and there is a treasure chest. Go to the small block that juts out on the left and jump between the gaps to a upside down 'U' structure. Jump across to the same vertical structure on the opposite side (east). Open the chest to get Dragon's scale of three and return to the previous hall. Enter the lower door to emerge on the lower part of the hall with many vertical structures. Head to the end of the hall to a carving on the wall and hit the carving to raise the two vertical structures on both side but there is time limit so rush back to the previous hall. Go to the upper door to emerge back to the upper part of the vertical structures and jump over the gaps according to the pattern: north, east and north, to the top of the carving. But first, stand on the vertical structure on the left and wait the sand in the hourglass to go down. When the structure sinks, enter the door to go in to the next hall (seventh room). There are two treasure chests below both sides of the walkway above. The left side contains two magic shards and the right side contains a Soul Ring. Get the items and return to the hall with vertical structures via the door on the southeast. Go to the carving again and hit it to raise the two vertical structures on both sides. Repeat the same maneuver as before to the top of the carving. This time enter the door in the middle and go through the walkway in the next hall. Enter the door at the end and follow the corridor in the next room (eighth room) to emerge to an open area. Master is already waiting the party to arrival and tells the party this is the place where the unchanged ones summon the gods. After that, she tells everyone that she is called Deis and then wants all the people to close their eyes. Meanwhile, at the West Continent, Fou-Lu senses something (dragon's energy) but suddenly there is a small quake shaking the ground. Go to the field area and the ground shakes again. Approach the T-intersection and turn right. Talk to Mamy to know that there is a god in a nearby volcano. Leave the village. Yogi Volcano When Fou-Lu is on the map, the village that he is staying is called Son Village. Head north to the volcano and enter. There is a large boulder blocking the way but Fou-Lu uses his strength to crush the boulder away. Continue the way and follow the outer path of the mountain to find there is a sachet in a dead end for a Wisdom Fruit. Return to a junction with a slope going up. Follow the slope to the top of the mountain and follow the path that leads down to a small volcano inside the crater. Enter the volcano and go past the corridor (first room) to an area like hot spring (second room). Head left first to a treasure chest for one Multivitamin and return to the starting point of the area. Go right and leap over several gaps, passing the small ground to a ground with stairs going up. Follow the path to the next area (third room). Actually this area is much similar to the previous one so follow the path to the next room (fourth room). At the end of this room, there is a monster and Fou-Lu asks whether he is the god of the mountain. Fou-Lu is then claiming he is the god. However the monster does not want to tolerate and attacks him. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Iwaocain It is an earth element based monster. However, in the middle of the battle, he sends out two little monsters to join the battle. For easier and quicker kill, transform Fou-Lu into Spiritual Dragon and use his strongest attack. After he is defeated, he leaves several items: Life Shard Vitamins Magic Shard Wisdom Fruit Wisdom Seed ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Fou-Lu discovers another unchanged people summon the gods and causes the dragon's breath very strong. Leave this volcano via the way Fou-Lu entered. When he leaves the mountain area, Mamy and a farmer come and ask him what has happened. Return to the temple, all the dragons are gathered there. One of them says Alcay Dragon is absent. Deis tells them that Alcay Dragon is split into two bodies and Ryu is one of the two bodies. Now at the Son Village, after bringing some relief to the villagers by defeating the monsters, Mamy advises Fou-Lu to go back to the house for some rest. When Fou-Lu enters the house, he is thinking about something and Mamy comes in to tell about the village. After the rest, leave the house and go forward. Fou-Lu finds the empire troops are here at the village so go back to the house. He closes the door and thinks how to escape from the troops. Shortly after that, the troops have reached to the house and the leader talks to the landlord. Suddenly Mamy brings a large wood and runs into the house then seals the door. The troops feel Mamy's move is very suspicious and knocks the door to let them go in. Actually Mamy did not realize saving Fou-Lu could cause such a big problem. Without any escaping method to think, head to the stove and Fou-Lu just thinks of a way to escape. After no response from knocking the door, the troops decide to break in to starting searching. When the door is opened, Mamy falls out from the door. Yom goes forward to question her if Fou-Lu is inside or not. Alcay Temple and Chec Village Meanwhile at the temple, after the discussion, most of them try to look for the other half of the Alcay's body and leaves Larwi behind. Before he leaves, he gives some of his power to Ryu so that Ryu can summon him for help. Leave the temple via the way the party entered to map area. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note Since Deis is using the witch's body to communicate, when encountering any small battles, he will not join the battle and no experience points are given to him. Note The dragon summon can be used for only once. After that players must bring the party to inn or resting house for a rest to recover. Camping will not restore the summon abilities. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* However, the empire troops have arrived at Chec Village. The elder and Master are inside of the resting house and they know the village is surrounded. For the sake of Ryu, the elder wants Master to escape in order to warn Ryu and he goes out to see the situation. Leave the resting house and Master sees two soldiers standing in front and they also see Master. After a short confrontation, the soldiers decide to arrest him. Beat the soldiers down and the elder comes out. Master asks him to get into his body to escape without wasting any time. After that, he runs toward the main door and at the same time Rasso orders his men to get the village's elder. However, Master's escape attempt failed. After beating the soldiers that are after Master, Rasso approaches him and asks where is Ryu. Master intentionally talks nonsense to Rasso and Rasso heads closer to Master to ask him again but Master still talks nonsense. Rasso suddenly gives a punch to him and Master is having short circuit. After returning from the temple, the party enters the village and Cray feels odd that the village is very quiet. Master is then walking towards the party with all his strength but falls down. The elder comes out and Cray asks where are the villagers. The elder tells him all of them are escaped to a safer place and only Master and him guard the village. The witch cannot believe there are such people who did this work. Nina hopes Master's body can be fixed or not but no one can do it. The witch tells Nina that after Master's mind has left the body, he cannot hold any longer. The elder however says he may have the change to get fixed if they go to a place (I think it is a illusion). Master knows he cannot hold any longer and laughs that his time is come. After that, he is gone. Cray tells the elder that since the troops have come to this village, he and the party will leave this village by tomorrow. The next day, when they come out from the house, the elder is waiting outside and tells them there is a village on the north called Deserted Village. He also hopes them be careful on the road after that leave the village. Head north to an unknown spot (question mark spot) and enter. Follow the path to a fork junction and head right to T-intersection. Go right to a treasure chest and get the item. Go along the path towards north to another fork junction. Go left first to a dead end with a sachet. Get the Wisdom Seed inside and return to the fork junction. Now head right and go up the stairs. The party is now making a camp whereby Cray asks everyone rest first and tomorrow continue the journey. He finds that Nina is miserable and approaches to her. He tells her do not think too much about Master and she understand that the Chec Villagers' safety is important. Enter the camp to rest. The next day, Ryu is aware by Nina's scream so go out from the camp. Outside the camp, a troop of soldiers comes by. When Ryu comes out, a lady confirms him whether he is Ryu and then she introduces herself as Ursula. Ursula says she comes here because of Alcay Dragon and Cray asks why she says such word. While he is thinking about the villagers' safety, Cray scolds Ursula of treating the villagers cruelly. However, she does not know what he is talking and to make sure she is not lying, Cray asks her about Master. She replies of do not know and Nina tells her they want to go to the Deserted Village to make sure the villagers are safe. Ursula then brings the party, together with the troop, entering the village. However, the village is already been bombarded and what are left are the ruins. At the same time, Rasso comes out from the ruins and cannot believe Ursula brings Ryu here. He is amazed and praises Ursula of arresting Ryu. Ursula does not understand what he is talking about and Rasso tells her they duty is to get the man with the dragon transformation ability but she says they come here to the village not bringing Ryu back. Rasso warns Ursula this is an order to given by the superior and she must obey it. While they are arguing, a heavily wounded villager walks toward behind Rasso but collapses. Cray is very angry of what Rasso has done and Ursula approaches the villager to check his condition. When she finds the villager is dead, she is very angry with Rasso but Rasso defends himself and teases the party they will not get away from him then walk towards Ryu. Ursula scolds Rasso of saying such words. To get rid of the party, Rasso calls his strongest unit, Aito to attack the party. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Aito This is the strongest Rasso's man. He is invulnerable to any attacks except gods' attack. However, Ryu can only summon Larwi once. The objective is to reduce Ryu's HP into none to awake his mind of another dragon. Once his HP is zero, he will automatically transform into a dragon called Kaiser Dragon and players can sit back and watch the awesome showdown. Tip If players want Ryu's experience gain the most, have all other members die and left Ryu alone. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When Aito is defeated, Rasso cannot believe Ryu has such great hidden power that defeats his man easily. However, with Kaiser Dragon awaken, Ryu cannot control himself. The dragon on the air then eliminates Rasso and the rest of the empire soldiers. Ursula is shocked with Ryu's power and draws out a gun, pointing at the dragon but she is too scared to fire. Ryu screams loudly and Nina comes to pacify him. After that, a subtitle appears to conclude this chapter. Chapter 3: The Flow Son Village Now the scene goes to Fou-Lu. He is hiding inside the trees from the empire troops and seeks an escape. His hiding gains suspect from a farmer. Fou-Lu approaches him and asks where Mamy is. The farmer tells him that Mamy does not want to be arrested and runs away. Before Fou-Lu leaves, the farmer gives him a Life Bangle and tells him to take the path to the forest to leave this village. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note Now Fou-Lu cannot enter this village. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Shrine Walk towards the tombstone and Fou-Lu will read the letters carved on it. He has nowhere to go and suddenly an animal appears. It is the one that Fou-Lu defeated and he asks it what it is doing there. It ignores him and starts to dash forward to knock the tombstone. Fou-Lu thinks its move is very silly but it keeps trying and finally it opens the tombstone. Now Fou-Lu is impressed with its move and he starts to think whether his fate is to become god's gift. Enter the cave and follow the passage to the second area. There is a fork path in front and head right first. At the end of the passage is a treasure chest and get the item. Return to the fork road and go left. There is a crystal in front of the cave containing a dragon gene inside and Fou-Lu has another form of dragon to transform (so as Ryu). Enter the cave to the third area and follow the passage to the next area. Go to the end of the area and Fou-Lu is now outside of the cave with small path on the cliffs. Follow the path down to leave this whole area. Soma Forest Follow the path along the west to a tree on a multiple forks junction. Head the path on the northwest to a treasure chest with Vitamins and get it. Return to the junction and take path on southwest to the next area. On this area, go to the end of the path and Fou-Lu discovers this place is too quiet. Suddenly, he feels discomfort. Astaner Inside a cannon room, Yunner enters and there is a woman tied up. She is Mamy and surrounded with guards around them. After exchanging words, Yunner wants the guards to take care of the woman and leaves. Yunner goes into a control room with General Yom and several operators and tells Yom that he can start the launching. Yom orders the operators to aim target and the target is Soma Forest! It seems like Yom is already found where Fou-Lu is and Yom tells the operators to insert spell bullets into the cannon. Now the cannon on the entrance of the temple is raised and open fire towards the forest. Soma Forest At the same time, Fou-Lu feels terribly discomfort without noticing something on the air. By then it was too late, Fou-Lu gets and this time he suffers deeper wound than before. He cannot stand anymore and falls down. Meanwhile, a small metal falls down from the sky and Fou-Lu looks at it. He discovers that small piece of metal belongs to Mamy, he cannot tolerate what Yom has done and shout loudly before he loses his consciousness. Back to the ruined Deserted Village, Ryu is sleeping with Nina besides him whereas Ursula is tied up. She cannot believe have such power and thinks about the war of the empire. Cray is thinking about the battle and Ryu's hidden power that is unleashed. Nina then comes towards and tells Cray that after Ryu has become Kaiser Dragon, he is unstable. She also thinks Ryu may have gone to the West Continent. Cray ignores her but Nina suggests they should go to the West Continent. Everyone shock of her suggestion and Nina reminds the people about the link between Ryu and Fou-Lu. She then tests Ursula's loyalty and Ursula is not sure. Cray suggests they first return to Chec Village then decides. After that, Scias draws his sword and does two swings. The rope on Ursula is broken and Cray asks Nina to see how Ryu is before going to the village. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note When Ryu transforms into Aura Dragon, there is a new magical attack appear on the top list of the dragon's magic attacks, which is same as Fou-Lu. Note If the party returns to Deserted Village, there is a group of monster in six that repleshish HP of either 30000 or 15000 (depends on the encounter). ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Chec Village Enter the elder's house and Nina tells him about the village. Nina also tells him how Ryu defeated Rasso and his empire troops but he is unstable after that. The elder replies that Ryu's body is incomplete and tells Nina Ryu is the emperor of the empire. Ursula shocks and asks why it is not Fou-Lu. Nina explains to her about Ryu. The party tells the elder they want to travel to the West Continent with the help of Ursula. The elder says they can get an extra party member. Leave the house and approach the witch and Master. Firstly Deis wakes up and she finds the party needs her on the traveling, she tells them to wait. After that, Master is revived and acting like usual (with the support of Deis. She tells the party to go first without worrying the witch, as he wants some rest and he will follow the party. When the party leaves the village, Master starts to control the body but she negotiates with him where he can act like the usual Master without sealing her again and he obeys her. Master is then going out from the village. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note Enter the menu window and select the special ability section. Under the ability usage, select Master's ability and players can find that Deis has taught him some extra magical attacks. Note The elder of the village is also one of the masters the characters can learn from. To becomes his apprentice, players must gather any three of all ancient dragons' summons via Ryu that is Nosto (the Dragon of Mud), Junar (the Dragon of Sand), Ta-Pu (the Dragon of Grass), Larwi (the Dragon of Wind), the Dragon of Tree, the Dragon of Water and so on. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Raft Mountain Enter the cave and leap over the opposite side of the stream. Head right to another stream (the left passage leads to a dead end) and leap over several rocks on the water to a treasure chest with Rocket Punch. Get the weapon and leap back to the opposite side. Follow the side of the stream on the right to a fork path and head the left path to leave the cave (the right path leads to another dead end). There is a raft outside of the cave. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game This is a raft riding on a rapid stream and its objective is to get all the sachets on the stream before the raft falls over the waterfall. However, do not bump the raft on either side of the stream, as this will cause the logs on raft to be loosened. Repeat this and the players will have to start it again. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Before going down the waterfall, break the raft so that the party is on the side of the stream and head west to a treasure chest at the end. Get the three fish heads and this time starts the mini game seriously. When the party has reached the foothill of the mountain, Cray says they should return to the boat they have ridden but Nina reminds him that the boat is crashed and broken. Cray then says they should go to Shed to ask for a boat. Shed Go to the top level of the stone fence structure and head north to the gate bridge. Cross the gate and enter the nearby office. Approach the officer there and the party asks for a boat. However, the officer asks the party back what purpose the boat is for. The party is unable to give a reason and he suggests the party to ride the merchant's ship. At the same time, he has to open the gate to allow the ship to leave. Go outside the office and the gate is opened while the ship is passing through. Suddenly Ursula thinks of she can stop the ship from leaving this place and runs toward the ship while Scias sees her and follows. They jump to the ship and scare the ship crew with someone yelling robber plus weaponries sound. Then the crew runs away. Cray has no eyes to see but Master laughs with his mouth covered. As a matter of fact, this ship belongs to Malock. Malock cannot believe that after returning from the empire, the party has become crooks and asks the party what the party wants. Cray apologizes and asks Malock whether Malock can lend to him and Nina also joins the conversation, saying they want the ship to travel to the empire. Malock then tells them if they want a boat, go to the Shed office and ask. The two people feel ashamed and guilty (that is they shrunk). Cray explains that buying a boat requires a lot of money but Malock scolds him this is not the reason to become bad people to get the boat. The two people feel ashamed again. Now Cray begs him to use コキ so that they can have a boat but Malock tells them based on their behavior, he suggests them to ride on his ship. The two people are too ashamed (that is they are too small). However, with their sincerity, Malock reconsiders their request and decides to help them. He gives a check and Nina discovers that Malock is one of the committees/members of the Shed. Now Malock returns to Senester and he asks his crew about the money. Back to Shed, Cray doubts Malock's generosity but Nina advises him that after getting the item, he should not doubt anymore. Go back to the office and talk to the officer. He knows the party wants a boat and Nina gives him the check. He is shocked of the check given and speechless, maybe the amount written on it or it is Malock who writes. After a while, he gets a boat and the party can use it as many as it wants. Next is the help of how to drive the boat. But first go to Hasibito Town. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note Players must travel to Hasibito Town in order to go back to the western part of the East Continent. Mini Game This is race with time mini game. Players must drive the boat from the Shed to Hasibito with the shortest traveling time as possible. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Once there, leave the town first for re-exploration of the western part. Head south to the Harbor. Actually, this place has nothing to explore but players can gain more game points through the crane loading mini game. Walk south to Senester City. Sinester Town It has been a long time since the last visit. There are two masters to be aligned with (Wow! Two masters live in the same city). The first master can be aligned is Malock the merchant. He requires a specific stone before becoming his apprentice. Before visiting him, head to the monastery and enter. Talk to the child beside the sister and he will exchange the stone (the one Malock wants) with players' current stone in possession. The mother beside the child is also one of the master but the characters cannot become her apprentices for this moment so leave the monastery and go to Malock's house. After aligning candidates of choice, leave this city. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note To learn new skills from Malock, players must exchange the stone with those people have stones to be exchanged. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Ajito Players can head to this cave for learning the remaining skills from the master inside. Head to the question mark spot on the north of the Dam. Make sure Ryu is leading the party when entering this area. Talk to the dragon and reply yes to get the dragon summon from Dragon of Mud. Croc Valley Like the one in アジト, enter this valley if there are remaining skills have not been learned from Ralf. North of Chamber Enter and go forward. There is a guy sitting on the side telling the party that inside of the spelled area has some remains of the monster. Go into the area and climb down the ladder to the roof of the house nearest to the wall. Head to the jutting ledge on the east and there is a monster comes to attack the party. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Hetero Angler It has the same physical shape as the one in BOF3. Have Ryu to transform into a dragon and use his new awaken power (not the Kaiser Dragon), together with Combined Magic to drain the angler's HP quickly. Watch out for its poison attack. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After killing it, go out to the spelled area and the guy tells them this place is now a fishing spot, provided the monster is gone forever. Broken Boat Go to the broken boat and there is a person beside the boat. Approach him and exchange stone with his stone. Sarai Town Not much has changed here except no more people want stop by for a rest after the incident of Rasso and his troops. But there is a Manilo Shop for fish trading. After exploring the whole western region, drive the boat to Shed and go to Golden Prairie. Enter this prairie and head east as usual, to the big boulder for the mark. Turn around, facing southwest, to find a bird that is shining and follow it. It takes the party to Tai-Pu, the Dragon of Grass. (Make sure Ryu is leading the party) Talk to her and Ryu has the dragon summon of Dragon of Grass (healing in assist). Return to Shed and drive the boat to Hasibito Town. Hasibito Town Leave the docking area and enter the town. Now there is nobody in this town like before. Go upstairs to the door where the guard is and he tells the party that due to riot problems, the bridge tower is banned to transporting goods to the West Continent. Leave this town and return to docking area, Ursula is unhappy with reason of banning the bridge. When the party approaches the boat, there is a man with a large sack (same as Stole). As a matter of fact, he wants to travel to Shook and tells the party about Shook. Let him board the boat and head to Shook, as he wanted. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game Like the previous traveling from Shed to Hasibito, players have to set the fastest record to travel from place to another. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* The boat will stop at a place and the party starts a campfire. The man thanks everyone for bringing him and tells him or her they have to walk in order to reach Shook. When the man thanks the party again, he gives Nina a silver spinner and tells her that Stole (the guy in Ajito) on the western region is his elder brother. After he is gone, Cray tells Ryu and Nina they have to search an alternate route to reach West Continent and they agree. At the same time, Ursula asks them they already have a boat. The trio has nothing to say. Leave the camp and return to the map. Giga Mountain Enter this area and there are road sign (it says this road leads to Shook) and cable car. Ride the cable car to the south side of the mountain. Leave the car and follow the path down to the first left turn. Enter to get a sachet with 800 zenny. Return to the main path and jump over some small gaps to a rather wide path. Head up the slope and go to southwest. Jump down to get the crystal for the Ignis dragon gene. Return back to the slope and go up another slope to the second cable car. Ride the cable car to the east side of the mountain. When leaving the cable car, head to the path on the left to a flat stone with a sachet and get the Multivitamin. Go back to the cable car and go down the path to the bottom of the flat stone. Follow the path around to the south and jump over two gaps to a treasure chest. Get the new wain for Nina (players can save about 5000 zenny when buying items and weapons in the grocery shop later) and return to the bottom of the flat stone. Go through the slope on the south and emerge on the path on the east. Follow the path to a road sign with the word 'this path leads to the Great Desert' and leave this mountain. Checking Station Enter this place and talk to the guy with green suit. He tells the party that the alliance nation has blocked the main road to Shook and everyone is stumble here. Ursula draws out her gun and suggests they have an ambush at night to pass this station. However, the party is shocked and Nina advises her not to act recklessly. But Ursula has her reasonable explanation and Cray wants Ryu to watch her carefully. Ryu then raises his hand to block Ursula from doing something silly but he realizes that his hand has touched Ursula's breasts and withdraws his hand quickly. Cray thinks he can negotiate with the guards to let the party pass and approaches them. The guards recognize Cray, chief of the Fleen Village and the other one humiliates him as the fugitive of Rudia plus tells him to surrender. Now Cray is very angry at the humiliation and beats the guards heavily but there are backups appear behind the station and Cray runs away. He feels he has done a silly thing and asks forgiveness from Nina. Nina then walks to the carts and looks around. She suggests utilizing the carts may do the trick. Make sure Cray leads the party and move the cart in front of the houses to the middle between the houses and the wooden crate. Go to the carts behind the houses and move the cart in front of the guards to the next of them. Go and move the cart next to the one with a child jumping on it to fix the space left by the previous cart. Head to the ladder on the side of the house and climb up to the roof. Go to the south (in front of the house) and jump to the cart to bounce to the wooden crate. Get the medicine for three inside the treasure chest and jump to climb back to the roof. This time head to north (back of the house) and jump to the cart and bounce to the two carts in front to jump up to the top of the station. Jump down to the other side of the station and leave this area. Head north to a question mark spot and enter. Walk to the T-intersection and turn right. Follow the path to leave the area. There is a new road to another question mark spot so follow the road and enter. (Make sure Ryu leads the party) Talk to the Dragon of Tree and Ryu will get the Greatest Defense summon. Leave the area and continue to Shook. Shook Head to the right side (near the south entrance) of the harbor and enter the door there. Go downstairs to an underground storeroom and exchange stone with the guy. Go to the other side and enter the grocery store to buy something. After that, go downstairs to the bar and talk to the sailor next to the staircase. He is called Jig and he knows the party wants to go out to the sea. He tells them this is not a suitable for going out except the party has asked permission from the God of Water. Leave this seashore town. Water God's Shrine Head towards the guard on the wooden bridge and notice the treasure chest below. Talk to him and he will allow the party to enter. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Note If players did not talk to Jig, the guard will not allow the party to enter. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Follow the wooden bridge connecting each stone the one with two directions to go. Head the left one with a path going down to watery stone and follow the path to the treasure chest at the beginning of this area. Take the five suspends inside and return to the stone with two directions. Before going to the wooden bridge on the right, notice that there is a sachet on southwest corner above the watery path. Get the medicine of two and continue to the wooden bridge on the right. After passing another bridge there is junction leading to two caves, one above and the other one below. Follow the watery path (below) to enter the cave below (there is a cave above this watery path) and there is a square carved tile on the floor beside a hole of water. Head left first and follow the passage to another cave. Go along the passage beyond the cave and there are two caves at the end of the passage. Enter the cave on the right first and there is a treasure chest containing God's Cloth. Leave the cave and enter the cave on the left. Follow the passage to a square carved tile with a stone on it and take the stone there. Return to the square carved tile at the near the entrance and step on it. The party leader will throw the stone into the water and there is a burst of light going up. Leave this cave and return to the fork junction. Enter the cave above and the God of Water welcomes the party's arrival with self- introduction. His name is called Abito and he is also a form of dragon. He then tells a brief history of dragon and Nina asks permission from him to her and friends to go out to the sea. Abito grants her request and transforms into Wave Jade. Leave this temple when the jade is obtained. Shook Return to the underground bar and talk to Jig. He seems to know the party has been to the temple and the party gives him the jade. He knows it is the real jade and tells them they can go out to the sea. At the harbor, Jig acts strangely and says there is somebody missing. Cray wants to know but Jig is unwilling to tell him and he apologizes to the party. Nina feels that something is against her, which is in Jig's mind and she assures him she is fine. However, Jig shouts no (finally his conservative mind is uncovered) because no women even go out to the sea before and it belongs to men's specialty. Meanwhile, someone is shouting at the party and guess again, it is Kahn and he stands on top of the ship's mast. He tells the party that he is training as the man of sea and sailing is especially for the man of men or true man. He also warns the party who ever wants to go out to the sea must defeat him first. Jig asks whether the party knows Kahn or not and the party say yes. Ursula wants to make sure they can board the ship by defeating Kahn but Jig keeps quiet. She draws out gun and shoots at Kahn. Well, Kahn is not ready for gun attacks and falls down to the sea while everyone is shocked. After that, Ursula asks again whether the party can board the ship or not but Jig is unhappy with this and wants a match. Nina then volunteers to fight in the match. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Mini Game When Nina and Jig's brother, Tunekeach arrive at the highest beam on the mast, he makes sure Nina is not afraid of heights. After Nina's assurance, a help menu appears. In short, the objective is to knock Tunekeach down from the beam. Players can gain some points by stomping Tunekeach's head before knocking him down. To knock him down, use the Dash button when Nina is behind Tunekeach. Please take note that, falling down from the beam or being knocked by Tunekeach will reduce points obtained. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* After winning the match, Jig is impressed with Nina's ability but he still thinks women are not suitable to go sailing. With Nina's strong will to sail, he gives her another test and Nina invites Ursula to take the test. Jig brings them into the ship and to a ladder going down. He wants to test the girls' bravery by sending them down to the ship's storage area, which is dark and spooky and stay one night there. Jig also tells them Kahn was stayed there too to prove his bravery. In order to sail to the West Continent, Nina and Ursula climb down to the storage area. At there, Nina feels dark and spooky and she sees Ursula draws out her gun and wipes it. Nina asks why and Ursula explains it is for precautious. Suddenly a spooky sound is heard and a ghost appears besides Nina. After beating the ghost down, Nina is in a scare to death condition. At the top of the storage area, Tunekeach asks his brother, Jig whether the girls will escape from the storage area or not but Jig keeps quiet. Back to the storage area, Nina is very miserable of cannot escape away from this dark and spooky area. Ursula calms her by telling her this is not considered as scary and the scariest thing is killing people in a war. But suddenly something is beneath the board they are sitting and Nina feels it. Nina stands up to call Ursula and Ursula stands up. What is beneath the board is a rat. After beating the rat and the whole gang of rats run for life. Nina is impressed with Ursula's bravery and thinks she almost has nothing to scare of. However, a shake of the boat drops an insect onto the board and Ursula starts to tremble. Nina stands up and see it is a wood bug but does not scare Nina. Then several shakes of the boat drops lots of wood bugs and they starts to scare. The screen fades and one of them is too scared then screams very loud. The next day, Cray is concerned with Nina and Ursula. Head towards Jig and he assures them Nina and Ursula are fine. Inside the boat, Nina climbs up from the storage area, followed by Ursula. Nina then asks Tunekeach whether they can sail or not but he replies that his brother decides everything. When the duo comes out from the ship, Nina describes the storage area but Cray notices Ursula's face is very bad. When Ursula is asked she replies no to keep her self-respect. Nina repeats the same question to Jig but he still unwilling to do so and takes out a hammer. He wants someone's buttocks been beated before bringing the party out. Cray and Ryu know what Jig is up to and the rest do not understand clearly. Jig asks the party whether the members want to sail or not and his two brother cannot believe what their brother is up to. When Jig knows Cray and Ryu will not do this kind of thing, he asks permission from Nina and this scares Nina. Tunekeach approaches Nina and says everyone has buttocks. Jig knows Nina will not give her to buttocks to be beated and teases women should stay at home. Suddenly, Ursula drops her pants without a word and shocks everyone! She then asks whether Jig can beat her buttocks or not. Jig quickly asks her to wear the pants and says he is understood. Cray and Ryu cannot believe Ursula could do such a daring thing. After that, Jig promises to bring them across the sea and he is ready to sail when the party asks so. Ask Jig to start sailing. On the midway, Jig tells the party it has been a long time the three brothers have not go out to the sea and asks where the party goes. Cray tells Jig they want to travel to Fou Empire and someone is following the ship. When everything seems quiet and calm, Nina asks Ryu to go down to the storage area beneath the sleeping quarter. Head to the storage area and Nina explain this is the creepy place where Ursula and her stayed for a night, plus some wood bugs. All of a sudden, the whole ship is being hit and Nina suggests reporting this matter to the captain (Jig). Climb up to the sleeping quarter level and Ursula is very scared, thinking the bugs is coming by firing several shots. Nina comes and calm her it is not the bug but the ship is being hit by something in the sea. The ship then is hit again and Ursula believes. Head up to the deck and Cray tell Ryu they are being tailed. Jig wonders whether what animals is attacking the ship (whale or dolphin) and suddenly someone jumps up from the sea. Well, well, if it is not Kahn who followed the ship. He boards the ship and seeks for revenge of his previous defeats. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Kahn, Battle 3 This time Kahn has learned some new tricks. One of his magical attacks can poison the attacking party (the first three people) and his HP is much greater. The rest is still remains the same. It takes two Kaiser Dragon Press to defeat him and several rounds of other magical attacks and physical attacks. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When he is defeated for the third time, he falls into the sea and Nina wonders Jig do not want to save him. Jig explains Kahn is training to be the man of the sea and advises Nina not to worry about him. He also adds the dolphin will take Kahn back to Shook. After some rest, go out to the deck and Jig says everyone is calm as usual. Meanwhile Nina stands at top of the mast and sees an island nearby. When Jig hears it, he advises the party not to go there, as it is ocean cemetery for the ships and the island is called the Fire of Mountain Island whereas the surrounding islands are belongs to a god. Nina flies down from the mast and Jig tell them the ship cannot go nearer to the island. Nina persuade Ryu that the god inside the mountain might be a form of dragon so they should explore the area. Seeing the anxiousness of the party, Jig orders Tunekeach to row the small boat to transport the party to the island. Fire of Mountain Island Enter the crashed ship through the hole and the party is inside the dark and spooky body of the ship. Now Ryu's head has a fire (his dragon eye?) that serves to help the party to navigate the plywoods on the floor. If the party accidentally steps on the weak plywood, it falls into the storage area of the ship with some skeletons vibrating when the party starts to go forward. Climb up the ladder to return to the beginning of the plywood floor near the hole. There are two treasure chests on left and right side. The left side has a Fire Ring whereas the opposite side has three fishing lures. After getting these items, climb the ladder on the other side of the ship (i.e. north side) to emerge on the ship's deck. Go outside the cave to get the 1500 zenny inside a treasure chest and go back to the cave. There is a path connected to the ship so head toward. Go along to the left path to a treasure chest containing a drug and follow the path to a cave on the northwest. Inside the cave is a monster calls itself as the god and asks the party whether the members have something to give. Nina does not know it is the Dragon of Sea but Deis immediately uncovers the true identity of the monster. The monster then asks the party whether there is any presentation to it and the party ignores it. The monster is very angry and attacks the party. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* Cento Same as Iwaocain in Yogi Volcano, except it is water-based element. With two additional characters in the battle, Cento is not very difficult to defeat. When it spits out some backups, use multi target magical attacks to get rid of the extra backups. Have Ryu to transform into dragon will help a lot in the battle. ******************************************************************************** ******************************* When it is dead, Deis tells everyone that the dragon's breath has risen and the evil creatures pretend themselves as god. She also adds that Ryu's other half body will also feel the same thing. Leave this island and return to Jig's ship. At there, Nina feels everything is in good shape and Deis warns the party that the world is full of dragon's breath that causes so many evil creatures. After resting, the ship is near the shores of the continent. Jig will tell Ryu they will arrive at Reap Village. (to be continued) ------------------ Credits ------------------ I here thank the following sources for making this walkthrough: Most of the characters' name are based on the Breath of Fire IV's official website at http://www.capcom.co.jp GameStation 2000 and XGamely (Hong Kong) for some translations of characters' conversation