Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!The assaulting monkey brute strikes again! And there's a lot more of them around here too.
Having gathered their strength in Giveaway, our heroes are now ready to climb the mountain on the top of which the Field of Power is located. This isn't a simple climb, however, as Claude doesn't have any suitable equipment, and the forking paths go through many caves hosting treasure, dead ends, and evil monsters. I mentioned treasure (not an unusual thing in this game) first because some treasure chests hold invaluable equipment for our friends, like the Atlas Ring (raises one's attack power exponentially, at the expense of magical resistance); there's also an elusive Marvel Sword, hidden far away from the main path, but if you already have the Eternal Sphere like me, you can ignore it.
There's something particular about this Field, other than strong monsters: in some caves you can find mysterious levers on walls and, more importantly, dangerous-looking gorillas guarding them. You have to walk by some them in order to go forward, and these gorillas aren't kind enough to ignore you passing by; once they notice Claude (or Rena, depending on who you're playing with), they'll run onto him (or her), doing... what you see in the screenshot above, and then a battle will start. There's four of those monkeys in the battle, and there's also a new rule: if any one of them gets to the right side of the field (the player's, which is where the aforementioned mysterious lever is located - weird, I thought it was behind THEM), the lever will be pulled, causing a gigantic explosion and a cave-in (and, incidentally, the end of the battle, with no experience points for us). The final result is often that either the path forward or the path back will be blocked. There's a lot of paths to get through the mountain, but all of them can be blocked this way, effectively trapping the party on the mountain. There is, however, a way out, which we will discuss in the next posts.
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