BOSS: Sylvidius (HP: 104,000)
Sylvidius’ basic attack consists of swinging his body around and hitting the party with his massive tail for around 800 damage each. He can also use the incredibly powerful Imanami attack, sending huge waves at the party for around 4,000 or so damage a piece. There is a few seconds warning for this, so use that time to heal up and hunker down. The strategy for Sylvidius is simple. Use Thunder elemental attacks and physicals to deplete his HP, watching out for Imanami and healing every time his physicals and water-elemental attacks deplete the party’s resources. He can’t heal like Elisthra, so it’s a simple matter of outlasting him.
Sylvidius’ defeat shatters the third seal and opens up the fourth tower, a large ivory tower of pure light energy.
Celestial Palace, Southwest Tower-
It seems that Krynia is using the sheer force of her will to fuel this tower’s energy and power its seal. Within this tower swirl great torrents of energy that prevent access to certain areas, it’s only through careful jumps to switches on platforms that the torrents will subside. Once you reach the top, there is a young boy facing out on the balcony, looking out toward Earth.
Melana: ….who… who are you? *approaches the boy with caution*
Boy: Why are you… why are you here? Are you here to kill my sister?
Blitz: Your…sister?
Artemis: …Krynia’s mother died giving birth to a boy when Krynia was just eleven years old. The child died in infancy. It seems Krynia has used the Celestriad to undo this event and age the child several years.
Boy: Why would you hurt my sister? She brought back mommy and daddy! She brought me back…!!!
Ophi: We don’t want to hurt you… but your sister is trying to take over the world…
Boy: She…she said she’s the princess of the world! She said the world belongs to her!
Gulrock: She’s lied to you.
Blitz: We don’t want to hurt you, but we have to stop her…maybe…maybe you can help us-
Boy: NO! You won’t hurt my sister! You won’t take the Celestriad away from her! You won’t! I won’t let you!
*The boy glows brightly and transforms into a hideous monstrosity, a cosmic-horror like beast with tentacles and claws and eyes all over its body that attacks the party with lethal force.*
Blitz: What in the hell has Krynia done? She’d bring back her baby brother only to make him into THIS?
Melana: He…he’s suffering… *shaking*
Blitz: Then we have no choice…
BOSS: Cherubim (HP: 140,000), Tentacle x4 (HP: 15,000)
The Cherubim can strike with a variety of attacks, it can swing a massive tentacle, create negative energy gates to inflict a variety of things on the party (including status effects or damage), and it can cast high-level spells, including Scourge and Meteor. You’ll need to take out the Cherubim’s four tentacles, both to reduce the potency of its attacks and to prevent them from blocking physical attacks directed at the beast (and countering magical ones). Once the tentacles are gone, the fight begins in earnest. Hit the Cherubim with everything you have. Its most powerful attack is the Otherworldly Tempest, a rush of energy from the negative dimension that causes around 3,000 damage to the entire party AND inflicts Reverse so that healing is troublesome, target a mass-damage spell at the party to recover.
Once the Cherubim falls, the boy returns to normal, collapsing to the ground. The party rushes to his side. Ophi immediately performs a spell to calm his soul, knowing he’s too mortally wounded to heal.
Ophi: Please… forgive us… you’ll see your sister again very soon, I promise.
Boy: *holds Ophi’s hand* I…can see now…I know…she’s hurting everyone…please…don’t let her do it anymore…
*The boy dies, his soul floating into space as wisps of light.*
Blitz: Krynia… she’s too far gone to save.
Melana: Anyone who would do that to their own brother…
Blitz: The central tower should be open.
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Kid: She wrote a bad word!
Jade: I write what I feel.