Gaia Rock Interior

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How to get there

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Go north and enter the cave. You will see a table same as the one on the top. Use the Dancing Idol. The faces on both sides will reveal two doors. Head through the eastern door.

Gaia Rock Interior
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In this room, go south and follow the corridor until you get to a place with leaves on the ground. Use Cyclone (the Psynergy the man at Madra gave you) to create some floating platform made by leaves. Go back up stairs and all the way back to the door. Exit

 

Floor 2

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Back in the main hall, enter the door on the west side. Head through the corridor and up the staircase. In this room, head south and jump onto the moving platform you just made. On the first platform, go west when it stops in the south. The rest should be easy if you did the first step correctly. Go north all the way to the end and go through the door.

 

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In this room, follow the corridor. When the path ends, head to the right. Go down the stairs and walk on some leaves with a beam of light on it. Use Cyclone and you will see the horrible thing that is waiting for you down below.

 

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Go up to the table. Use your statue and the face on the left will move aside, revealing a window. A beam of light will shoot down a hole on the floor. Once again, you will see the dragon struggling because of the light. Now go back up the stairs. Follow the hallway to the west. Eventually you will reach a staircase.

 

Floor 3

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Go south. If you wish to fight a "Mad Plant", use Cyclone on the leaves. The battle shouldn't be that hard if you use level 4 summons on it. I suggest you fight it for experience/cash. Either way, head south to the next room. Go down the staircase and proceed east until you reach a door. Walk in. Here, go north-west and use the Dancing Idol. Another beam of light will shoot to the dragon.

 

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Exit this room by going back south. In the room full of rock climbing ladder, go west and go up the stair. Climb the wall to the east. Watch out for the popping up statue faces. Here is how I climbed through: in the first splitting path, take the middle; second split take the top one; third also take the top one.

Now go to the vine and use Whirlwind to swing across the gap. Go down the stairs and enter the door. Here, choose one of the grass patches and stand on it. Use Cyclone and the table in the middle of the spider web will fall. Go north and slide down.



 

Floor 1

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Use your statue on the table. Another beam will shoot down to the dragon. Now use Retreat. Back to the entrance hall, go north and follow the corridor to the next room. Go to the east and move the wooden block to the north twice, then east once. Go up to the second one. Now stand on the east and one step apart from the wood. Use Move to pull it towards you. Now go to the south of the wood, move it to the right. Stand south and one step apart from the wood, pull it. Repeat the pulling process one more time. Go to the right of the wood, push it. Now your way is clear. Follow the corridor to the next room.

 

Final Part

Starting from here, you need to use Growth on the plant in the middle of the room. It will point you to the correct position. If you go to the wrong way, the room will repeat. It seems that the direction differs on each game, so you will have to do it yourself.

 

You will eventually go into the dragon room. The young man from Izumo is there. He is trying to slay it, but is knocked down by a fireball. You should be prepared for a boss battle.

Battle:: This dragon loves to attack the person who has lowest HP. He also has a passion for poisoning, so make sure you have some antidotes handy. You should do level 4 summons at all costs. Don't standby Sheba's Djinn. You should give her Venus Djinns and exchange her Jupiter Djinn. Almost all rounds (except the first round) only one person should be available to attack because other members are busy curing for each other. Sheba and Jenna won't stand a chance here, so try to keep them alive for the first couple rounds. Felix and Picard should be kept alive with good health. There's no particular tactic for this battle due to the fact that different people have different defenses. One thing is important, though. This dragon has strong resistance for the Venus element, and a weakness for Jupiter.

 

After you defeat the dragon, the young man will come up and slay it. He will then leave and a stone will come up from the ground. Examine it and Felix will learn Sand, just like Sheba learned Reveal. But you're not done just quite yet. Use Sand on the sandy part. Go under the dragon (or serpent) and go to the right. Next, check out the pool of water. Inside is a Cloud Brand, a very, very powerful sword at this point in the game.

Exit this room and retreat from Gaia Rock.

Outside you will see the young man lying on the ground. Seems like he is injured. Leave him and go back to Izumo.