In this entry, we head to the first tower in our efforts to unfreeze our friends...but we find out there are more consequences to our actions with every trial that we overcome...
Crysta map by Captain Drake. Tower 1 map by xyzbilliu.
Tower 1
To beat the big slow guys with the spears, get them up against a wall and keep tapping the A button repeatedly. You'll do a rapid stab attack. The hits don't do a lot of damage, but they do add up and they won't be able to counter-attack as long as you're able to perform it.
Enemies will drop gold bars sometimes. These are Gems, the currency of the game. You'll need these to purchase items, weapons and armor, so get that money whenever you can! Sometimes you'll see a single gem; other times, you'll see a stack of gems. The stacks will give you quite a bit of Gems, depending on the enemy you've destroyed.
The blue sphere-shaped enemies can be defeated easily with a downward slide attack.
The broken window in the lower-left corner of the third floor leads to a path on the outside of the tower that you can climb to ascend to the fourth floor.
When you make it to the top of the tower, you'll meet a dark cloaked figure in a mask. He'll tell you that the monsters you destroyed are people's souls transformed, and by overcoming the challenge behind the door that he guards, their souls will be restored. You'll then face four red versions of the sphere enemies from this tower. Use your rapid stab and/or your dashing attack to defeat them easily. You'll then learn that the Earth is trying to revive itself, and that the nearby door leads to the space for land's control. By going inside, you'll see a special cutscene of the world trying to wake up. Here, snow falls on the mountains. Eurasia has been resurrected. The weavers and Elle will be unfrozen. You'll be back on the underworld map.
Whenever you level up, you'll do a special animation as well as get a special confirmation noise, and see how you stats have increased.
Crysta
Now that you have some Magirocks, you can go to the Magishop in the lower-right corner of the town. Unlike the rest of the residents, the shopkeeps are not affected by what you did when you open the boxes and are never frozen.
The Magishop works a little different than you would expect: instead of using solely Magirocks for your currency, you also have to pay with some Gems as well. The FireRing, for example, costs 5 Gems and 1 Magirock. Whenever you use something that you bought with a Magirock, you'll get that Magirock back so you can buy something with it again. HCBailly indeed said it best: The Magirock are the MP of the game, except you buy your spells ahead of time and you can buy it again when you use your items.
If you head back to the Weavers', you'll find out that everyone felt strange but is now back to normal. Talk to Elle, and she'll help you by weaving something for you. You'll have to come back later when it's finished to pick it up.
If you need to heal, head back to the Elder's house and go back to the bed. You won't be able to do this with every bed in the game, though.
Go north from Tower 1, then head west on the land bridge in the lava river to reach Tower 2 (which is west of Crysta). We'll be heading there next time...
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