The Last Crystal

Dear, Diary,

"We took the Invincible to the statues north of Amur. We had been here before and knocked down two of them without even knowing what they were. If you remember, something stopped us from breaking the third seal. Now, though, with the elemental Fangs, we can march right on by. I say march because we have to leave the airship and do it on foot...

We take the Invincible past another set of small mountains and see a towering crystalline structure in the distance. It seems to climb forever. There's a large building that surrounds it, but we can't fly over it. I have no idea why! But inside is our target! Walking straight up to the room on the otherside of the grand gate is the Earth Crystal room. Goldor didn't have the real one, so I wonder what that was? Regardless, like every other Crystal we've seen, a minion of Xande threatens us.

Titan appears before us. I try to Protect everyone as best as the Defender allows, while Triton does the same with his body. It works pretty well, but we have no way to counter his Quake spell. Drew is finally learning to make full use of his monk abilities and begs to be hit. Whenever Titan, who does physical damage more often than not, hits him, Drew counters with an undefendable attack. It's really strong! Despite what you'd think, Titan doesn't have much HP. We now have the power of all four crystals! The Earth asks us to stop Xande from using their powers, and the power of the Crystal Tower, to destroy the world.

We now have to get through the Ancient's Maze. For being a maze, it sure is straightforward! There's a lot of great treasure here, and you don't even need to go far off the beaten path. I get the feeling, though, it's going to be really annoying! We make our way to the open field between the Maze and dizzying tall Tower and heard right on it. No one is here to greet us, so I'm a little bummed. Before us lies a shining floor, walls, and ceiling of reflective material. There are also two paths. Off to the left is a locked door that leads upwards. Unei's key opened it up, but I get the feeling we don't want to head there just yet. Instead, return to the center of the room. There's a smaller closet there that takes us to Eureka. Doga died for this key, so we're going to use it! We break the seal, enter the teleportation circle, and cross to this legendary locale.
 
Down here are some of the strongest enemies, weapons, and spells known to man. Rather than take it on as we go, we decided to go to the bottom to make camp. We weren't exactly combat ready for a lot of this stuff. The Maze and some of the Tower took it out of us, and we knew getting to the bottom would be hard enough. We got there and saw two beings. They sold us spells. We have no use for the Summon magic, but I took a few level eight White and Black magics. I can't use them, but ya never know... There is also a healing spring down here, which was the best water I've ever had. And I know water. Hydro Homies for life! From here, we went back up the cave defeating the monsters that defended the legendary weapons. I feel like we did battle with these guys are a lot, but I only remember one fight?

First up was Ragnarok. Let me just start by saying Quake isn't fun. Drew made more use of his countering. I like that he's become so defensive minded. I wonder if that's because Xander is consistently doing more damage than he is now?
Next was Scylla, the dog hydra. I wish we had a good way to not die to magic. Oh man, we had a Shining Curtain! AAAAHHHHHHH!! Anyway, the Elder Staff is something we might somehow use one day, maybe.
The third fight was against the General. The Excalibur isn't as good as the Ragnarok, but I'm looking forward to using it one day. The Aegis Shield prevents Death, so I'm glad we have two.
Next was Amon. He looks like Hine, but I couldn't figure out his Barrier Shift move. We didn't try to use any magic, did we? I'm glad Triton was here to guard all of us fragile party members. I'm only here to use Protect, so maybe I won't be able to wield Excalibur? He dropped a sword we can't use! But I think it's actually good if you get another thrown weapon.
Next was Kunoichi. She was there, and she dropped a dark knight sword...
I feel like we forgot something down here...

But we exited the forbidden land and returns to the airship. We wanted to see some of the Earth Crystal powers, so we did some chores while helping Sara. We still had her pendant from a few days ago. I think I mentioned it, but if not, Sara sent us Mognet Mail, telling us she broke her pendent. Triton picked it up to see if my dad could fix it. He couldn't, but he told us about the Legendary Smith. He also sent us a letter talking about orichalcum, so rad? We're legendary warriors, so we should be able to find some legendary blacksmith, right? Yep. She was in Sarona, just hanging out. We asked her to fix the pendant, which she did because she liked the look in Triton's eyes. I guess the sad puppy dog eyes work. Legendary Smith asked for no money, but she did request us to bring her orichalcum if we found it. She promised to give us whatever she made out of it, so I feel like we win twice with this deal! Is there a catch? We hurried back to Sasune, and Sara was thrilled. The pendant is a memento from her long lost mother, so she's excited to have it back. I'd say it's time to get on to saving the world, but Cid seems to be having problems in his basement..."