We explore new territory thanks to the armor and new abilities Apino has been obtaining, and we start taking down a few more of the side bosses for the musician side quests. This is crucial for us to get the final upgrade of the game but that’s a ways off, though progress is progress. We retrace our steps slightly as the ghost partially guides us to where we need to go, and with the armor allowing us to go up waterfalls we are able to reach one of the upper regions of the castle. And square off against a “aptly named masked” and obtain the Gaia armor, which grants us immunity to poison areas, but again like the Poseidon armor, it lacks it’s full functionality. In order to get this we need to obtain an ability from even further up in the castle.
Not quite the top floor but close to it. Where we encounter Draythus, Europa’s former mentor who is apparently a bit dubious, but we obtain the leaping strike ability which allows us to bounce attack off of objects and enemies to get to places even the double jump can’t reach.
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Europa could not care any less about Ulf's hype if her life depended on it.