We reunite with our dog, but not in the best of circumstances. If we want to get back home, we'll have to fight as a gladiator first!
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Once you're done in the marketplace, go to the right to enter the town square. Not only will you be reunited with The Dog, you'll also be sent to the gladiator arena because the Sacred Dog (read: your dog) chose you to fight the champion. Fun.
Coliseum
After Tiny escorts you to the coliseum, you'll be in the locker room. Pompolonius will introduce himself to you, then he leaves and the door closes behind him.
The really crappy part about this section of the video is that they don't even show you the hidden wall. It should be on the right side of the room. Walk through it, and you'll find even more armor and useful items.
Remember when I said to get the Stone Vest, Bronze Gauntlet and Obsidian Helm before you came in here? Well, guess what? If you did, there won't be a Stone Vest in the pot to the left as well as the Bronze Gauntlet and Obsidian Helm in the secret room. Instead, they'll be replaced with the better armor - the Centurion Cape, Gauntlets of Ra and Centurion Helmet respectively - without having to go through the market again to upgrade your armor once more! Score!
If you've gotten all the armor including the Centurion Cape up to this point, the jar to the left that usually contains the body armor contains the Thug's Cloak instead. The Thug's Cloak is a charm that increases your evade percentage.
Boss: Vigor
Gotta love the Final Fantasy VI characters making a cameo in the audience.
Anyway, you and Vigor (some big Roman guy in a spiked war chariot) will be introduced, then the fight begins.
Besides keeping yourself healed, your main order of business against this guy is to have the Horn Spear equipped and attack him in the back with a Level 3 attack charge.
His javelin and boomerang attacks can cause quite a bit of damage if you're in the vicinity of the weapons when he throws them, especially the javelin. When Vigor flexes, that's your cue to start running in order to avoid the rotten vegetables that the crowd throws at you. His ram attack also does some dangerous amounts of damage as well.
When you finally beat him down, you'll get 1000 Jewels for your efforts. Pompolonius will finally acknowledge that this is your dog, and he'll give you information about the Diamond Eyes. He'll also give you the Gladiator Sword, which will prove to be your best weapon so far.
The scene will then shift to the mystery man Pompolonius was talking to talking to a face that protrudes out of a brick wall. Could this be a trap...?
Also, in the Desert of Doom, you can warp back to the desert entrance near the coast. From the entrace, go straight south past the rock formation and the skull-rock cluster. Pass by the pebbles, then go to the large rock next to the small one that you used to warp to Nobilia. Walk into the top of the smaller rock, then move a little bit to the left and then run down and to the right between the two rocks. If you can somehow do it right, you can warp all the way to the southern desert entrance.
Now that you're done at the coliseum (and you have your dog again, yay), use the sniff feature around this area which is north of the market. You'll be able to find some alchemy ingredients, especially near the fountain and near some stuff positioned against the coliseum wall.
When you're done, head back to Crustacia.
Desert of Doom
If you hunt down the alchemist who gave you Sting and talk to him with The Dog, you'll get a free Spike Collar that has more defense than the Leather Collar.
Left Bank
The rock that Tiny threw will land near Blimp's Cave. Here, you can finally get the stuff in the jars as well as a few hidden ingredients.
Crustacea
If you want to take the dog to the inn, you'll have to leave him behind when you go up the steps, then take the lift to the ground and ride it back up with the dog to the inn.
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