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The party travels by air to this multi-level floating island cavern in order to retrieve the legendary ore needed to forge the Sword of Light. You must dispel the dark fog using the Guiding Light, descend through the cavern depths, and navigate back up through an alternate route to locate the ore vein. Along the way, you can establish a campsite, harvest rare crafting minerals, and defeat formidable mechanical and draconian foes.

Items

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Orichalcum: Embedded in the south wall inside the Overlooked Cavern on Level B5Sacred Styles for Saintly Ladies: Inside a treasure chest located in the eastern path of the central cavern on Level B9Brace Yourself: Inside a treasure chest on Level B6, reached by flying across a chasm on a Dragooner mount to a dead-end ledge

Secrets

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A Puff-Puff girl waiting near the southern edge of Level B9 offers a Puff-Puff experience, which triggers the Puff-Puff Buff trophy if all other encounters are completed.

Enemies

Vicious Liquid Metal Slime

Steal / drop Molten Globules (common) or Happy Hat (rare)

Occasionally joins encounters with standard monsters here and yields massive experience.

Dragooner

Steal / drop Dragon Horn (common) or Wyrmfang (rare)

Defeating this mounted enemy lets you commandeer its flying dragon to reach elevated ledges.

Killing Machine

Steal / drop Platinum Ore (common) or Spiked Armour (rare)

Can unleash multi-target laser barrages, double-slash attacks, and ice strikes.

Tips

Touch the campfire at the Level B4 campsite to unlock a fast-travel Zoom point inside the dungeon so you never have to trek down from the island entrance on return visits.

Not listed for this area: shops and people.

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The Zwaardrust Region

The Champs Sauvages (Act 2)

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