Vagrant Heart's Walkthrough 04_The Monastery

Back to Beatrice. Her group has arrived in Imperial City. Elijah tells them that he'll speak to the Queen first, so they should head to the inn. He tells Beatrice that the queen is a gentle woman and that she shouldn't be worried.

Explore the city to get some items. Don't forget to buy and equip weapons and armors. You can either take off the armors later for Scarllet's group to make it cheaper or just buy some for them. Head to the inn.

Screen time for the meeting between Elijah and Queen Lavigne. Turns out that the queen is not-so-gentle, but scheming. And there seems to be a hidden dept to Elijah aside from an old man who wants power and willing to use people like tools to achieve his ambition.

This is why I want you to equip the weapons and armors before heading to the inn, because you automatically fighting a wyvern. The dragon roars and causing the party to come outside the inn, finding it attacking the city. It's blue in colour and has Ice Beam spell, affecting all party members.

Tips:
poison the wyvern, it will make the fight goes much easier. So far when I tried to mute her it always misses.

You got AGI seed for defeating wyvern. Unfortunately the wyvern escapes. The queen comes out and talks to Beatrice.

You can later investigate the Palace to get some items. Elijah tells them to go to Brotherhood's Headquarters, located south of Imperial City.

In the HQ the group disperses. Remember Aurora? Turns out that Lady Aurora used to be under Razima's protection, but since she becomes Brotherhood's Guide and seldom goes outside she no longer needs it.

Check the HQ for items while Elijah is talking to Aurora. And make sure you speak to all three members of your party, because you can't go on without doing that.

Jansen complained about the difficulties being known as Valmor's son. About how people are suspicious of him because of his lineage even though he was still a kid when the war happened.

Sylph was once a member of Radicals, along with Zemaris, the one who attacked Gilliate. How Elijah saved her life and for that she was grateful and fully devoted to him.

Go to bed and after that you can talk to Elijah and meets Aurora. Elijah tells her that she must've noticed how White Corps (I found out the name of that group at last) and Radicals seem to dislike Brotherhood. He tells her that many people are suspicious of Brotherhood after the war and slow to trust it again. He tells Beatrice that she will be able to recover the declining trust of the people to the Brotherhood.

And then he tells her that a Necromancer named Vasla, Brotherhood's old enemy in the Divine War, is running experiment not too far from HQ. He asks Beatrice to head to Mazlu's Abandoned Monastery, southeast of HQ and finds out what truly happens there.

Fiends:
1. Skeleton Warrior, stronger than Phantom, but has no spell. Poisonable. Got Elfin Bread
2. Phantom, has Intimidating Eyes spell causing mute status. Got Ancient Fruit

It's really hard to avoid fighting the fiends, even if they're halfway across the room they can easily find you. It sucks, not having the option to avoid them.

There's a Rajak's Fragment in the room north of the foyer. You can find Pastor Sigil (INT 4, DEX 2) in the next room and last room to the right of the foyer.

In the last room in the right, there is a boss called Over Ruler. His spell is Crushing Blow. I forgot if it affected one enemy or all. Anyway I fought him when my level is 12 (Sheesh Vagrant Hearts is really stingy when it comes to exp and money... and items). Equip Royal Crest to Beatrice and Jansen, not only their attack is weaker, they have the highest MP). I got 270 exp and 50 tez, plus Heaven Axe (ATK 56 and strong against undead). Equip the axe, now Razima can kill skeleton warrior (and Phantom) in one hit.

You can find a statue in northeast of the dining room. When you touch it, you get the clue about how creepy the statue is.

Actually I've only noticed about the statue after I arrived to the last room with double door in north of foyer. I was stuck, fighting the fiends all over again, and there's still no Vasla anywhere.  Frustrated, I checked the internet. It said thing about empty crate and that you've got to pick the statue in the dining room.

...What empty crate? I've gone back and forth, back and forth, fighting those friggin' skeletons and phantoms, and I still don't understand. It's really frustrating. I understand why some people got fed up with it and uninstalled the game.

Eventually I understand. In the last room in the north there is also a crate with a statue on top of it. Even if you click on the statue, you've got nothing. But there is an empty crate near it, on the left of the crate+statue, that has got no statue on top of it. If you touch it you'll get the clue that there's a statue missing.

Go back to the dining room, touch the statue there, and now you can pick it up. Go back to the last room in the north... fighting every single fiend out there. Put the statue on the empty crate and... VOILA! Nothing happened!

Whuh?

Oh. Go back to the previous room, go to the left. Inside that room, the hidden stairs are now revealed. Go down the stairs, find Vasla and fight her. Right now my party level is around 16.

Tips:
Use poison and mute status spell. She can use Shockwave (paralyze/one enemy) and Acid Rain Spell (all enemy). If you're lucky you'll be able to not miss muting her.

Defeating her will get you 300 EXP, 60 tez, and lightning crest (Shockwave). Vasla says that she's already gotten what she wants from Mazlu (or from Mazlu's hidden library, I guess) and then she disappears using flash trick, causing Razima to comment how he hates flash tricks like that (remember how Telma used it twice before to run away?). They need to go back to Elijah to report what they found.

Go back to the foyer room while fighting against the horde of fiends... again. Before you go outside, make sure to unequip equipments and crests that will be needed by Scarllet's Party.

Now the scene will change back to Scarllet in Ful'qa Tribe after you exit the monastery.