Long dungeon is long.

Also, I finished the Elwyn/Nancy side quest. Papa E hates Nancy, but Elwyn brings up how disappointed his dead mon would be at his workaholic tendencies. Papa E okays the marriage, and everyone lives happily ever after in Venezia. Nancy gave Mint her wedding gloves as a gift, which I hear may be her best gear!

So let's do the Fire Cavern! The trick here is to go down as fast as possible. There's a mob here that's really annoying to fight, so let's keep that to a minimum. At the bottom is the Sorcerer's Ring, which shoots a magic beam. You can use that to hit targets throughout the area and unlock doors. Unlock the first door on the right and loop around. There's a Lava Key down there, which opens the second door. Use the ring to knock down the pillars and make a path across the lava. On the otherside is Ifrit (spelled stupidly in this translation). Ifrit isn't too hard since he's all alone, but he is hard to tack down. He likes to push you away when you get too close for too long. The warrior djinn accepts us as his better, and Arche learns Eruption.

From here, I kept looking around the desert until I found its north exit. That takes us to the castle of Midgard. There's not much here, but I had enough money for a Mech Halberd, which doubles Cless' attack power! This was as far as I got a few years ago.

So let's make new memories! The Moria Mines is a ten floor war of attrition. The knight in charge lets us through with the King's permission. From here, we have to find floor switches to open a door elsewhere around the floor.
Floor one's switch is in the northwest, and the door is in the northeast.
Floor two has us dragging a statue on the left side, which opens a door to a switch, which opens the exit on the right side.
Floor three asks us to find a floating panel to float over anti door switches.
We need to find a lever on the fourth floor. It's the unlit torch. There's also a puzzle where we need to stand on a switch and hope the NPC stands on the other one. I like it!
The fifth floor has us inputting the KONAMI Code. The statue is tertiary. This floor is also a checkpoint, and you can return to the world map from the save point. I looked ahead and learned I'm halfway through this, but I'm out of time. We'll get the Luna Ring...

... tomorrow!

Exploring future lands takes time, but it was worth it. For some reason, the game doesn't have new mobs around the castle, so exp and gald rewards suck. Oh well, look at my spear!