Secret of Mana - Part 70: Mana Fortress Rising
Written on Thursday, April 12th, 2018
Posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2018
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Holy heckleberry!
A sunset sky's showing itself!
The flight music's changed as well!
The world's beginning to flash lightning and roll thunder...
With nowhere to turn to, we land at the peak of a bare mountain...
A voice calls out to us...
But there's Needlions around!
The music's very ethereal and mysterious. I like it.
Newer monsters like the Griffin Hand's here as well...
The Griffin Hands do serious damage to us! Knowing we could be gone at any moment, I call Flammie immediately!
The sunset of doom looms upon the world...
We try to chase after the Mana Fortress...it seems to have fled somewhere...
I check the map. The one with the tiny red crosshairs is where the Mana Fortress is, I'm guessing.
The Fortress is a pretty slippery thing to catch...
We finally manage to swoop into the fortress...
Unfortunately, the flashing cannons and other barriers bar us from getting any closer...
Feeling a bit underprepared, I drop down to Gold City. Everything's still fine here...
Maybe the mountain peak was the right place to land, though I think we need more protection...
I land at Tasnica to get the Battle Suit for Pidge, and try my luck at heading to the Mana Fortress...no good. It's too quick.
Out of options, we land back at the Sunken Continent.
Krissie heals our wounds...
A Resistance member knows that Thanatos deceived his own side.
Neko's also here too!
His new wares are the Gauntlet, the Vestguard, and a Needle Helm!
I buy one of each.
The Needle Helm's got nearly double the protective power of a Duck Helm! Looks like this game really means business at this point...
Sergo's also here too!
I buy another Vestguard for Pidge and sell off some old equipment before talking to him.
He gives us updates on the Republic troops.
It seems like Adm. Meria's now taking charge!
I now speak to Jema.
Jema: "The Mana Beast will appear and crash against the fortress any minute! It'll cause the destruction of this world. But we mustn't give up yet."
He brings more prophecies from Sage Joch.
Jema: "Usually [the Pure Land]'s hidden under a dense cloud barrier. But the Fortress is consuming the last of the World's Mana...and the barrier has surely weakened. You just might be able to land there."
That mountain peak where we landed earlier is the Pure Land?!
He gives us more info about the Mana Seeds.
Hero: "We have no choice, we must find that place."
Everyone agrees.
Jema gives us one last warning before we head out.
That’s true. We almost got destroyed by Griffin Hands there...
We make an upgrade at Mandala, and at a price of 12,500, the Gigas Lance becomes...
...the Dragon Lance!
As its namesake says, this spear's the bane of dragons! Meaning this game is really getting serious!