Two warp points in Aqua lead to other sea based subdomains. I took the left warp first and was taken to Ax. Don't do that. Head to Azul.
Azul is a strange maze with one way doors and locks. We'll need to warp to other areas to find three spheres. Nero is waiting for us, and he has one final test. It was a battle against one of those awful mobs that likes to shrink into its shadow and pop out to randomly attack. I'm glad I'm cheating because this sucked. Hella unfun. But we'll win, and Nero will return to Aqua.
The camera cuts to Rival at her castle of Grand Knott. She plots her next move: the destruction of Aba. Suddenly, she hopes we show up to stop her...
Axe is a two part dungeon. It's got another similar maze structure, but there are five "hidden" doors to five towers. Those towers are filled with moving pitfalls. Only one has chests inside, but all have "minibosses" at the top. They're just named field encounters, though. But they do have personality and let our characters show off some of their own. Precis has a fun argument with the King of the Sea's Surface about the stupidity of the title. I don't know if they're mandatory, but the fifth tower is located in what would be B2 on a grid. Climb up, and you'll come to a door puzzle. If you enter the wrong door, you fall. The GameFAQs map is wrong. The path is left, right, right, left. The Edifician there will congratulate us and say that her test was passing Nero's test. They'll also return to Aqua.
The camera cuts again to Rival as she shoots a laser out of Grand Knott. Aba, the man, tried to shoot her down, but I didn't even see them try. The cutscenes were pretty well done for a Gameboy game!
The party returns to Aqua, and the three, probably not actually mermaids, inform us of what happened. Rival totaled Aba, but she landed at the prison ruins to recharge Grand Knott's power. While she's grounded, we can reach her. But the three Edificeians will need to combine their powers to help us. They can manipulate spirit energy, which is the power that Rival uses. So we'll need to return to prison and explore the floors we couldn't before. And I'll do that...
...tomorrow!
I think this is the penultimate dungeon, so we're nearing the end!
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