HCBailly plays Terranigma - Part 11 of 75

We make some headway in the Ra Tree and make our first bit of progress in bringing the surface world back to life in this entry.

Ra Tree map by xyzbilliu.

Ra Tree

Map

It's time to make our way to the upper-right hand corner of the fourth basement floor. Kill the flower near the pit, and a soul will pop and tell you to follow it. Dash jump over the pit and then drop into the pit it takes you to.

You'll then be in a place where the water is blue instead of purple. Go south and you'll find a lily named Lily. Talk to Lily and you'll learn about a nearby plant that acts wonderfully as swim flippers. The plant is just to the left of Lily. Walk up to them and you'll get the Giant Leaves. You can now swim in water.

Yomi will pop up and have a brief conversation with Ark, then disappear.

To swim, all you need to do is jump in water and use the Control Pad to look around and the B button to move, much like in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Go south of where you got the Giant Leaves to find Magirock #13. When you're done here, just go back to the ladder on the wall and climb back up.

If the number for your current level is replaced with a flashing blue Japanese symbol, that means you've been poisoned. Use a P.Cure to cure it.

Head back through the fourth basement floor. After getting past the raised area with the stairs, you want to go right to where the purple water is. There's a door there, and if you enter it, your path will be blocked by blue water. Now that you have the Giant Leaves, you can safely swim across it. Follow the path to the lowest level of the Ra Tree. Talk to the lilly and you'll learn that the surface is so devastated that nothing can survive. You'll also ge given the Ra Dewdrop. Remember the room where you were knocked unconscious and tossed out of the room when you entered? Well, this item will put a stop to that. Just equip it and use it to get into the room.

If you continue to the right of where you got the Ra Dewdrop, you can get the Leaf Suit, which protects you from poison and has slightly better defense than what you have equipped right now. Go ahead and put it on. Also, according to the lily near the Leaf Suit, the gray things (as well as the red things that spit projectiles at you) are called Abbees.

All the way to the right is an orange plant. The orange plant will tell you about Evegreen, where plants once thrived. Also, check behind the nearby waterfall for Magirock #14.

Instead of going back from where you entered, there is a ladder near the Magirock. Use it to make it further up the Ra Tree and close to where you need to be. From there, go north and then east. Go up the stairs, and go west, north and then east to the room that knocked you out. If you used the Ra Dewdrop, the gas here will have no effect. You'll then take on the boss of this dungeon: The Parasite.

Take out the spiky things popping out of the holes at the sides. Avoid or block the projectiles that they shoot at you. When you kill them all, you'll want to kill the eye that pops out of the center. Take out all the spiky things that it spawns, but make the eye your number one priority and attack it when it's open with your multi-stab attack. Be sure to avoid the worm, and when it spits out more of those spiky things, take them all out with your dash attack. Being Level 9 at this point really helps.

After doing enough damage to the eye, you'll destroy the Parasite. You'll learn from the Ra Tree that even plants were changed into monsters due to whatever has happened on the surface world, and now that the Parasite has been destroyed, they will all be able to return to their normal forms. The world will soon be green again, but the world isn't fully resurrected yet, as you must lead the growth of living things.