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Walkthrough
9F: Death Labyrinth
- This floor is fairly straightforward; there aren't any real puzzles or gimmicks or inter-floor relations going on here. It's just a small, compact, and potentially crosseye-inducing maze. Don't worry about accidentally running into the floor's bosses; the only two you can reach on your first visit are either almost right next to the start, or have a second relay point right beforehand.
- It's normal for there to be a small section of the floor that you can't access. Come back in the postgame, and when certain conditions are fulfilled, the route to this boss will be available.
Notable Enemies
Map
Bosses
Reisen
| HP | Level Recommendation | EXP | Skill Points | Drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 144,000 | ? | 6,000 | 5,200 | Getitup V, Machoke's Bracelet, Ball of Lightning |
| On her first turn, Reisen will summon Inaba Vanguards and Inaba Mages, which are rather dangerous if you let them live. Fortunately, both Reisen and her underlings are reduced to no gauge after summoning, the health of her minions is quite low (18,000 for the Vanguards, 12,000 for the Mages) and they're fully vulnerable to debuffs. Komachi's Narrow Confines of Avici and several high power multi-target spells like Asteroid Belt and Fantasy Seal should be able to disable and destroy the lesser enemies before they even get a chance to act. The other benefit of this is that Reisen will usually spend another turn summoning them again, whilst taking notable damage from any multi-target spells used. If you can keep up the pattern of killing her minions before they get a chance to act, the only major danger comes from Reisen's Mind Starmine, which can be strong enough to OHKO your party after she boosts herself with Grand Patriot's Elixir and the stat debuffs her other spells inflict. Keep a character or two with high MND and MYS resistance out while she's boosted and you should be able to survive long enough to finish her.
There is an alternate way to challenge this battle however. Normally, completing this battle will earn you Machoke's Bracelets (dropped by the Vanguards) and Balls of Lightning (dropped by the Mages). However, killing Reisen before killing more than two of her supporters will allow you to get Reisen's drop, a Getitup V, which provides +30% to all stats and is much more useful than the other drops. Doing so results in a far harder battle, however, as due to the way the drops system works, if you kill too many of Reisen's subordinates before her, their drops will be the ones recieved. It's up to you if you want to grind some more and go for this, as it's certainly not necessary. | ||||
Nitori Kawashiro
| HP | Level Recommendation | EXP | Skill Points | Drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176,000 | ? | 4,800 | 4,000 | LOVE Machine 3322 |
| If you randomly battled then found and spoke with Nitori on 7F and 8F, she will be in a dead-end very close to where you enter 9F. She's lamenting over your breaking the camouflage feature of her optical camo suit, and when she sees you, she realizes she's cornered and can't escape again, so she takes you seriously this time, deciding to test her newest invention on you.
As, unlike your previous random run-ins with her, this is officially a boss-calibur battle, it is very important that this time, you take Nitori as seriously as she is taking you. She opens the battle by buffing herself with Optical Camouflage, which increases all her defenses and her speed by a considerable amount, and will remember to re-buff herself anytime it runs out. Kappa's Illusion Waterfall is back, but don't be fooled: It actually causes respectable damage now, so having people weak against Cold on your battle party, like Chen or Minoriko, isn't exactly as okay anymore as it was in the previous battles. Air Torpedo has returned as well, and causes respectable damage now, too. Your most major concerns, though, will be her two new attacks. The first attack new to this battle is that she starts using Extending Arm (Nature-elemental), which causes damage and debuffs to your entire party (having healers capable of removing debuffs, such as Meiling or Rumia, is a good thing here). However, the most obvious and major threat is her brand-new weapon, the Megawatt Linear Gun. It can only target one party member each time she uses it, but it is by far her most damaging attack: anyone she targets with this, in all likelihood, is going to die, as it causes several thousand points of damage to anyone who is not abnormally high in Fire affinity at this point in the game (that's the element of the Gun attack). Thus, it's a good idea to bring as many people as you can who have a strong Fire affinity, not only for defending against the Gun, but for attacking Nitori as well: Since she's Cold-elemental, she's weak against Fire! If you recruited Yuugi on 5F, Knockout in Three Steps can easily cause ridiculous amounts of damage to Nitori, as well as having Patchy use Royal Flare or having Alice blast her repeatedly with Return Inanimateness. The biggest problem in this battle is defeating Nitori quickly, before she can pick your party apart individually, member-by-member, with her Gun, so the more people you have who can survive a shot from the Gun, the better your chances of defeating Nitori. | ||||
Hibachi
| HP | Level Recommendation | EXP | Skill Points | Drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,200,000 | 160+ | 188,800 | 148,200 | ? |
| The third Bloodstained Seal boss, Hibachi is very fast and very strong. It leads with Needle Parade, and physically vulnerable characters are at high risk from further Needle Parades during this fight; it also has Ultimate Light Cannon, which is the same thing for low MND characters. Other than that, its attacks aren't that dangerous, until it gets reduced below 200,000 HP or so, when it adds Dual Funeral Washing Machine to its attacks. This is a devastating (Not mystic element) attack almost guaranteed to kill anyone without extremely high defenses. Hibachi can be poisoned and debuffed; with the right equipment Komachi is very effective for both debuffs and for soaking its magic. Try to save your best attackers for after the first Washing Machine and bring down the rest of its HP quickly. | ||||
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