In this episode, we venture into the Sealed Cave and secure the final Dark Crystal! We screwed up once so we can't screw up again, surely!

So we start all the more powerful from our adventures in the Sylph Cave and Feymarch. We journey to the Sealed Cave that - true to its name - is sealed on all sides by rock.


We use Luca's Necklace to open the seal and away we go! The dungeon's main gimmick is the use of ropes to climb down into the deeper regions of the cave.

Strangely, even though I'm using Kain on the field, only Cecil has the power to climb down ropes.



Kain complains it is too quiet.


Don't know about you Kain, but the cave seems busy enough.



Though it's true that Golbez and his forces are nowhere to be seen.

Instead the main thing in this cave is a crap-ton of trap doors. They would be very difficult: their Ninth Dimension attacks instantly KOs a character, but it can be reflected, and because Cecil has 'Draw Attacks' on, he's always targeted. Rosa, come on down. Rosa can just reflect Cecil and the trap door can defeat itself!

The other enemies aren't particularly difficult, with the exception of the Chimera Brain whose 'Blaze' attack basically halves Edge's health.

Not everyone is impressed with the trap doors.



Sure enough, we get down to the bottom of the cave and enter the Crystal Chamber. No trap floors here, thank goodness. We get the Dark Crystal!

As we leave though...



Demon Wall! The walls do have eyes.


The Demon Wall doesn't have any attacks, though if it managed to move towards us, I'm guessing I was screwed. Thankfully, my experience in the Feymarch proved useful, and I killed it with plenty of time to spare.


Trap doors, trap walls, I'm surprised there wasn't any trap floors.

So we just have to make it out of the cave. But something is amiss.


Kain is having a private freakout. And that's not all, his animations haven't been right ever since I gave him an axe and not a spear.



Watch him plant that axe into the... air?

As we reach the entrance, the Golbezy Purple Fog of Doom appears.



So Kain is being mind-controlled. He tries to resist...

Success!



Well that's a relief.



Kain shoves Cecil, which apparently is enough to wrest the Dark Crystal from us. Ugh. Golbez taunts us through a disembodied voice.



Well drat. At least Kain's happy.



Kain scarpers off, and leaves us to tell King Giott the bad news over at the Dwarven Castle. He must hate seeing us return.



The Lunar what?



Turns out we might be able to call The Lunar Whale in Mysidia. The Elder's been praying there since we left. He'll hold the answer to all our questions...

Tune in next time as we ignore the pressing issues concerning the Lunar Whale and do some optional sidequests!