Proper Update:

I finished the Holy Grail quest, and damn Yami is a an asshole. I should have known from the name since he's a mythological bigwig. I had to read up on why he was regenerating 999hp per round was because he had one of the Celestial environment magics going, but while I was able to change it a little with some of my Solar/Lunar magic I have simply not leveled up my magic to make this a worthwhile endeavor.

The real killer for me was just not having a good set up. Two of my characters were sporting good armor that unfortunately gave them a Lightning weakness while the few who compensated for that had Blunt damage weakness which made his headbutt move almost a TPK. Between his annoying regeneration and spamming the Group Suction spell my next biggest problem was that he kept killing Boston who had all my Water healing magic and his melee did great damage to him, whereas Robin tended to be one of the last men standing but he has no good techs for damage. In fact this fight has made me start to consider dropping him because the man will just not spark new Rapier techs, loves to spark defensive ones, but they are never skills I would love to have a defense against like Charm, Life Stealer, or Blood Suck which were all too common in this dungeon. Thankfully my other three characters had great damage techs that could compensate for Yami's healing every round but it still turned into a "finger cross" as Ellen was the last one standing. I was a little annoyed I had to stick to techs cause boss fights are great places to spark new techs. The other issue was just finding a decent formation to use. Yami's lightning skill attacked a line, but outside of Free for All, most of my formations had some part of the team lined up. I ended up sticking to Genbu Stance for the regen effect since this boss could hit really hard, despite this stances terrible penalty to speed. I did pick up a few good items in the last part of the dungeon including a nice piece of armor I wish I had for that fight.

With that done, I got the Grail, but decided I wasn't going to give it to the king of Zweig cause smurf him and his tournament. I was debating about dropping Robin by this point for Leonid, but kept him on cause I really would like some new Rapier skills that aren't the usual "inflict status/skip turn" variety. Went back to Pidona to pick up my new gear and set my blacksmith shop to make new stuff. I took Rez09's advice and opened up the ruins by the warring towns. I really wish I had fought more battles here, I kept dodging a few cause I was bee lining for treasure but ended up finding the boss first. After Yami, this thing was a joke. I just made sure it didn't turn the field to Earth magic and largely smacked it around. Killing it ended up making all of the enemies disappear but at least I acquired a Deathstone for crafting. I did thankfully fight enough battles to get my next set so I'm getting a Dread Ring for my trouble.

I did forget the other place Rez09 told me, so I instead wandered back to Archstone and Vanguard. The Pub owner does mention Red Coral in the Tepid Sea, nut it doesn't seem to activate any kind of quest, so I opted to head back to the desert and quicksand area. I took out the plant guardians by just treating them like the boss they really are and now I have been swept away to the Great Plains, which seems to be a popular locale in these games as all three Romancing SaGa titles have some Great Plains area and a character/class associated with a nomadic tribe that lives on there. Boston has now been kidnapped by some elder lady who wants to study him, and I have her granddaughter leading me on a trip to visit a not-so-friendly tribe to the south to figure out better relations before the Elder Lady will give me Boston back and send me to the one nation in the east that can possibly get me a boat trip back to the main area of the game.

Since I have a source of free healing and a new Archer character, I'm thinking I may grind some levels in magic for Khalid and Ellen while giving Robin and the new girl a chance to spark some much needed techs for their weapon types. I am happy to finally have some money after the tournament, but I'm hesitant to spend much of it since money seems to be a lot harder to come by in this entry compared to the first two entries. I figure I may try to craft some better gear before I invest too heavily since I've sort of hit a plateau on available gear in regular shops.