Those thieves at the Fanatics' Tower told you about this place, but you don't need to pay the hundred thousand gil required to obtain the information. Just move the castle until it hits a bump, then go to the dungeon where they tunneled out. All the enemies in the cave have high magic defense.

Goblin is some kind of gryphon thing rather than the weakass enemies who use Goblin Punch to knee male characters in the testicles. They zap, which is non-elemental, strangely enough. When alone, they use L.3 Muddle, L.4 Flare, and L.5 Doom, along with blaze.

Figaliz, the blobby lizard thing, has not played Sonic the Hedgehog. Gunk poisons you. Raid and dischord do what you think they do.

Enuo is yet another mass of writhing viscera. This one uses Clean Sweep, which is a lot like Aqua Rake, if Aqua Rake was strictly water instead of water/wind, hits both sides, and doesn't split damage. Strago can learn it. Only when it's alone, though. Otherwise, it uses slime to slow you down and fight.

Master Pug is a blue tonberry. It starts by fighting, takes seven steps forward, uses the wall change while doing so, casts spells with the opposite as their weakness (note: pearl and poison are opposed, lightning and wind are opposed, earth and water are opposed... um, what?) and cleavers your ass and retreats when he gets close. He'll counter with step mine. Winning nets you a pearl-elemental Graedus. Nothing special, but very useful.

Moving on, we find the sunken castle, a flashback, and grass growing underground.

Maybe it's moss? Oh, nice grammar, Locke. Tsk tsk.

You remember Odin, don't you, Final Fantasy IV players?

He still cuts the enemies in half like they were the yarn people of Nylar 4. He's probably crushed by rocks as well.

Too bad ghosts can't be cut.

Katana Soul has a Murasame or a Strato to steal and an Offering to win. You can run from him, but you miss out on the offering. Offerings aren't that great in most cases, they make you attack four times, but cut your attack power by half and don't allow you to target a specific enemy. However, combined with the Fixed Dice, they can break the game. Other oddities with the offering is that everything else that's physical is cut in half as well, despite only hitting once. Offerings remove random spells and criticals as well. Thief Knives still work, but the game removes all items from the monsters and allows you to keep only the last thing you stole. Bah.

Katana Soul counters with fight, uses Slayer Edge, an insta kill attack that misses a lot, when hit with an attack 6 times, Imperial or Ashura throw (ashura means death usually) followed by GP rain, elemental skeans whenever he feels like it, and things like blow fish, shock wave, and gale cut whenever he feels like it. Confuse him. Sketch him. Anything to make him use Slayer Edge on himself. Or just kill him normally.

There's a blizzard orb for Umaro downstairs.

This is Boxed Set. It reflects and uses battle and mirror orb when not alone and cold dust and meteo when alone. Let's get something straight. Meteo is not meteor. You can use Meteo only through Gau and Gogo.

Lethal Weapon has 9200 HP and is immune to most status effects. It will use fight and metal arm when paired with a monster, which never happens but has a script nonetheless, and randomly tosses around missile, launcher, and diffuser when alone. He reflects as well.

I'm demoing Odin. There's a reason for this. Odin becomes Raiden if you do some stuff downstairs. There are reasons to keep Odin, such as the fact that Odin is the only esper that increases speed, but they're not good reasons. Speed, as I've said, takes a large number before you start to see the results, and Raiden is just better. Raiden teaches you quick. Quick basically pauses spacetime.

Odin uses Atom Edge to kill monsters. Raiden does pretty much the same thing.

There's a Punisher around here... hey, where have we heard that before?

Blue Dragon uses water attacks like CleanSweep (every 40 seconds), Aqua Rake, Acid Rain, and Flash Rain. Imp equipment may not be ideal if you're not an imp, but it works here. Don't wear a flame shield or an ice shield. Thunder shields are OK. Blue Dragon will also use the dreaded Rippler if you're hasted and he's not, or if he doesn't have Safe. As a warning, he'll slow himself. He's too frigging lazy to haste himself and slow you, so he'll punish you by trying to steal your doggy instead? If Shadow was around, anyway. Fortunately, you killed a dragon and get a scimitar. This makes five dragons. Scimitar has the chance of a one hit kill.

Hmm, she looks like Celes. Anyway, the tear transforms Odin into Raiden, so try to get Meteor for Celes, Terra, or Relm before doing this. It's a long time before you get access to Meteor again. When you do, it's much quicker. Speaking of quick, you get quick from Raiden. Make sure Cyan gets that, as pausing spacetime is the only way the upper SwdTechs can be useful.