Battle Theme.
There is no time to waste (the movement is automatic).
(Vwiiiin)
(Vwiiiin)
(I guess the area in the center is where the "Holy Casket" or Sergio's remains are (unaccessible).
"Huff, huff, Julia's tired from all the running!"
"Rance, someone's there!"
"Dio, huh...?"
Tch, we're in a hurry and here's a huge problem! We've got no time to fight this guy!
"Shit, we're in a hurry here.....!"
He is inmune to magic you
"I've got some business to settle with Dio, so I'll take care of him. Please go on ahead, Rance-dono..."
"I see, you're pretty thoughtful, mecha geezer. I'll leave the small fry to you then."
We left Freak behind and kept running.
"Heh heh, running away, eh? All they ever do is run. Do they really think they can escape me?"
"Wait, Dio Calmis. I will be your opponent."
"...A senile old fool, eh? You really want to die that bad?"
"I do not, but.. I must take revenge for Misly."
"Oh, that female Tousho? You knew her? Then I'll send you two down to the same hell together!"
(Misly was some princess of ages past, whose body was made into Tousho Replica. First mentioned in the update
Tousho Borg)
"Two? What...?"
"You didn't go with Rance-dono, son of Toma!? Why are you here..?"
"I don't want to be anywhere near that idiot."
"........."
"You can't win alone, Grandpa. I'll help you out."
"You fool, you'll die.. Get away!!"
"I'm telling you not to push yourself so hard, old man."
"You two done talking? I think it's about time you died."
"You're the one who's gonna die!"
Ok, this Dio faggot is inmune to magic, what makes Freak practically useless, and Hubert can't take him alone.
But this encounter can be solved with the classic tactic: survive a few turns and let the plot continue...
"Alright, just a bit more. Just wait, Upsilon!"
"Rance, enemies!"
(Rustle rustle rustle rustle)
Monsters shuffled out into the passageway loud enough that I could sense them without Kanami's help.
"Tch."
"There are a lot of them! How many are there!?"
"They're everywhere!! I'm in a fucking hurry here!"
"Hurry and go to Sill-san, Rance-dono... We'll hold back the small fry here."
"Alright, don't let 'em get near me until I beat the shit out of Upsilon."
"If Captain Leila's staying, then Julia's staying too! Bye-bye!"
"Then Rance... I'll stay here too. Go.. save Sill-chan."
"Hmph."
I left the small fry to Rick and them and hurried on.
This time I just need to kill all of them or let Rick survive a number of turns...
Instead of rushing in, I let them get close (but the Kamikaze will still hit hard, and Rick has the highest prioroty)
We kill a number of them and lose a couple of allies, but we prevail.
"Yeah."
"...I don't want to die."
"Oh, God...."
"Rance, let's do our best and save Sill-chan!"
"Of course! Don't you guys die now. I don't wanna deal with it."
............
I discovered Upsilon and Sill, who was trapped in thesame kind of sphere Cynthia was, behind him.
"Sill!!"
"He's recovering by using Sill-chan as his energy source!"
"You bastard, how dare you use one of my women!?"
"......."
"You listening? I'm gonna crush you into such fine powder that a scrap metal shop wouldn't even look at you."
"Shut up! I'm always composed! Now let's go!!"
"Heheheh, to think you'd challenge me with that level of skill.. You're just trash who doesn't know its limits."
"........"
"Pull yourself together, Hubert! Toma's laughing on the other side!"
"You're the one who's so beat up he can barely move, Grandpa!"
"Acting tough in the face of death, huh...? Heheheh, killing's the best. There's nothing better than this, heheheheh!"
"Shit, you monster...!"
"..Grrr...."
".................. Sorry.. Patton... I'm gonna have to go before you.. Dens is.. waiting for me, too...."
"Die!"
A white light stops the attack...
"Wh-what...?"
"H-Hunty...?"
"Why are you here...?"
"What do you mean 'why?' You were the one who left the letter to me on the desk in my room, weren't you, Freak!?"
"I guess I did do that. Gahahaha."
"You're pretty well prepared, Grandpa. I think a little better of you now."
"Now's not the time to take it easy like this! You guys woulda been toast if I hadn't shown up."
"Kuh, what is this ridiculous...?"
"! ...."
"Hunty, magic doesn't work on him. Just take Hubert and run."
(Hunty Kalar is a legendary Magic Skill Level 3 user, yet that's not enough to kill Dio or harm a Dark Lord like Noce....)
"I can't leave without you, dumbass!"
"Here we go, Kalar girl. Resist as best as you can, eh?"
"...................."
"Hu, I'm borrowing your Shiranui."
"Hunty, it's too reckless!"
"................. Watch closely.. Hu."
NNAAAAaaaah!!! ......"
(Not sure what this is supposed to be, maybe she temporarily trascended into a devil...? the Kalar can trascend into angels or devils...)
"Heheheh, hahahahah, amazing, you're great! What an unsightly power up, girl, hahahahah!"
"............"
"U...g...UG......."
"UUG..GUGOGOOOOOOOON"
"What is that? ..Whose voice is it?"
"Wha-! Shiranui... My Shiranui is howling? ... The Demon Katana is satisfied with Hunty's power, huh..?"
"................."
"Dio.. Taste the fear of death one more time..."
Kaio-ken!
**************************************** Underground Control Room ****************************************
This is it.
The last fight.
Rebirth of the Edge.
In my first time beating this game a few years ago, I was underleveled and this was one of my most intense and memorable fights.
Pitted against a strong and regenerating enemy, who beats your allies one by one, and reinforcements showing up in the nick of time (and of course what
happens during the fight...).
More emotionally engaging that all the Bioware and FF games put together.
Of course I'm a bit too overleveled...
I start with Brutal Attack fueled by blind fury, while the allies attack from a safe distance.
The wiki recommends getting out of melee range until the cooldown for the special attack refreshes (Upsilon's ranged attack is way weaker than his punch) but with the current level I won't need to (I made sure to have a toon of healing items).
Upsilon counters with his ranged attack (thankfully).
A couple of turns of Rance attacks and Fire blasts later...
We will need to keep hitting him...and recovering our health.
With his best attacks cooling down, Rance switches to the more mundane strikes...
Our mages too run out of usefull spells, this is starting to get nasty...but we get some help.
With our new strenght we resume the pain dealing...
Even Julia does her patriotic duty!
Those are the most humiliating 14 points of damage Upsilon ever took.
But Upsilon's fist punches rance under 1/3 of HP.
Ouch...
We have managed to get him close to 5000HP, but this is pointless. He will drain Sill energy again...
"Come on out, Feliss. I'm calling for you."
When I called for her, Feliss appeared out of thin air.
"Yes, Master. Do you need something?"
"Of coure I need you, that's why I called you."
".................."
"This is an order, Feliss. Save Sill and return to town or somewhere."
"Using the same method as before, I presume?"
"Yeah. Go!"
"This girl, right? It'd be nice if all of my orders were this simple..."
One of the floating orbs hits Feliss with terrible streght, if she weren't a devil she would have ended like Bitch...
"The same trick won't work twice."
"...Looks like it has SOME learning ability then."
"You don't know anything about Toushin."
"Pointless."
Damn!
There goes our plan...
We can only...
...continue doing our best...
...but that won't be enough.
He has healed to 100%.
At this rate this is gonna be an attrition fight. Our healing items vs his power source...and if any of those loses, we lose...
He keeps attacking with his dark, nazi themed magic.
And of course, Rance won't give up.
Rick and Leila finish their business at last...
With the new reinforcements the balance is slightly tilting on our side. But this is still an atrition war, since our best attacks together can't deal even 2000HP of damage...
We will keep this up and hope for an opening.
Merim to does her part (healing everyone by a marginal amount).
Turns go by...with no clear victor.
We manage to get him under 5000HP, but he starts to extract more power from Sill.
As I said earlier this fight is our healing items vs
his power source...
Sills's Theme.
Upsilon drained energy from Sill and recovered 2,000 HP.
"Shit...!"
"It's no use. Humans cannot defeat me."
"........"
"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!!"
"......"
"I can't lose!! Die!!"
"Rance-sama can't win while I'm being used as Upsilon's energy..."
"At this rate, Rance-sama will be killed..."
"......As long as I'm here....."
Sill appears to be trying to do something within the sphere.
"Hey, Sill! What are you doing!!?"
"Rance-samaaa......!!"
Blinding light shines from the sphere...
Sill's magic exploded inside the sphere, and Sill collapsed with the explosion.
"Sill!!"
"Guh... Impossible.. What did you.. No!"
"Guh.. my power.. you..!"
"Sill.... Shit, Upsilon, I'm gonna
kill you!"
HE IS DEAD.
In low battery mode he won't last long...but that won't be enough.
We fill our own energy...
And launch a deadly onslaught.
Upsilon was defeated.
The battlefield becomes quiet...
Rance stares at Sill's body...
"You idiot.. Without my permission..."
"Rance...."
"Sill-chan.. This can't be..."
(Sway sway sway)
The Toushin Toshi began to shake wildly.
"......."
"Rance-dono...."
"........"
"????"
(Sway sway sway)
The Toushin Toshi's shaking grew even stronger.
"Rance-san, we have to escape... Since Upsilon was defeated, the Toushin Toshi has begun to collapse."
"Is that true, Merim-san?"
"Then, we're.. gonna die here..."
"No, no, Julia doesn't wanna die!"
"No, we should be able to use the Landing Crafts in the Tousho Core. Since Upsilon isn't controlling them anymore, we should be able to manually control them."
"There were a lot of Landing Crafts, so I think we can save everyone in Cassado too. Anyway, let's hurry."
"Yeah, do whatever you want."
"Do what we want, Rance..? What are you going to do?"
"A little longer? There's no time! If we don't hurry, the Toushin Toshi's going to fall!"
"Whatever, just go! Go back to town and get everyone in those Landing Crafts or whatever! Go!"
"Rance...."
"Rance, the Landing Crafts are on the 5th floor of the Tousho Core. You'd better show up."
"Yeah..."
Leaving me behind, everyone headed off to prepare to escape.
(Sway sway sway)
With another big shake, some of the walls around me started crumbling.
"Sill... You fucking idiot..!"
I embraced Sill, who wasn't moving anymore.
"You stupid, stupid, stupid.....!"
"................."