With the first two routes down, we now go further back to rectify something that happened completely by accident. In order to bring this mission to an end before Lance can kill himself (again), I use my overleveled characters to just barrel through and get Ledin to the stairs before Lance even has the chance to attack anyone. As a result, he has joined us in order to try to talk some sense into his King... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY9SgPgVlyY

And here is what is essentially the grand finale. We hit the bottom of the Zeroth Stratum and get to find what was missing throughout our journey through Crossbell. It is a three stage boss where every stage has its own team. I wanted to try to do one of them without a dodge tank, but ultimately it is just more hassle than it is worth. With this out of the way, the only thing left is to do the Daydreams. I mentioned that I will not both with the challenge doors anymore as they get incredibly tedious and don't really offer anything of value. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with what the game has to offer, and after reading about the Calvard adventure coming up, it seems like the writing team has kind of lost the plot. I am happy that the Crossbell games got physical copies to go with their translations. Now, I just hope something can be arranged for Sky as well, then I can depart the series content. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj_tmH-nJHg

Diablos is much more threatening for less mobile weapons, and I do have the option of using the Wyvern Blast to punish her heavily telegraphed charges, which is probably something to do for a speed run if I had the desire to do one. Blos has to real rare drops for us to farm, and being able to continuously strike her head means easy horn farming. Her set may only be of interest to Lance and Gunlance users, but even then, I think I would rather take a specialized mixed set than use this. This would be the heavily defensive option while you may be able to find offensive options if you look elsewhere. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2ooT069tQ

My headache begins. Arycelle is traveling with the group as a guest, but make no mistake, she is a far cry from the ones we've seen before. She may be an archer, but I repeatedly saw her get in close range on this map, committing suicide in the process. To make things worse, she is not packing a Shiftstone or anything of the sort, so when she dies, it is automatically permanent and we are out the character. I would go as far as to say that her AI here is more of a challenge than the enemy itself. The only silver lining to this map, is that we get the marks for one of the jobs I am really interested in. The bad part is that we don't have the weapons to effectively use it, so its potential will fail to be achieved for some time now. Lastly, I am really getting annoyed here at us re-treading old maps, where the only difference is that we start on the opposite side than we did the previous time. I was hoping that if we were fighting here again that it would be a different part of the lake, or something would occur to change things up, but I get the impression that right here is when the map designers either started to run out of time or money and start recycling from the previous chapter. This is always a red flag to me, especially seeing as we are still less than halfway through the game. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_91SxvgbCg