Hack G.u. Vol.3

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.hack// g.u. vol. 3// redemption

"that's why i'm here."

---in-depth step-by-step walk through / faq ---(!!!!!)---this guide has been written by azurekay and only by azurekay. (unless other wise stated)

you may not copy or reproduce it under any circumstances except for personal, private use. it may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. use of the guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. this guide was written for esnips.com only and is not for use on other web sites. any requests to use this guide for anyhting other then personal use will likely be denied. thank you. -----(warning)----this guide may contain mild language but no worse then what you'll hear in the game. -------(!!!) ------------------*note*-for personal use on a computer i suggest using the 'select all' option and then copy and paste this on a blank word pad document. this program is the most basic word processor document and comes standard on all windows computers. ------(!!!)--------------------

-----table of contents---i) intro. to guide ii) g.u. series ((area words marked with (q) are quest shop related areas)) c) vol. 3- redemption -- spreading shadows -1)universal, ocean's, glide 2)unseen, alien, elf animal(q) 3)hidden,forbidden, hades 4)hidden,forbidden, hades 5)calm, betrayal's, longing 6)gathering, familiar, mascot(q) -- no choice -7)tournament:round one 8)wise, calamity's, water mill 9)tournament:round two 10) glowing, passive, fairy(q) 11)tournament: semi finals 12)undercover, lakeside's, metal beast(q) 13)tournament:final round 14)looming, muddled, seer(q) 15)running, speed's, rider(q) 16)tourtament: title match

-- key of the twilight -17)ethical, prodigy's, prophecy 18)fading, moonflower, glory 19)vulnerable, barren, safe house(q) 20)undetered, legerity's, goblin(q) 21)immersed, crime's, paraphrase -- preludes of battle -22)hidden, forbidden, bulwark 23)incensed, world's, build-up 24) fleeing, dismayed, emotion 25) hidden, forbidden, holyground -- war of the epitaphs -26)hidden, forbidden, dragonbein 27)hidden, forbidden, battlefield 28)hidden, forbidden, bulwark 29)hidden, forbidden, radiation 30)excited, conflict's, fate 31)hidden, forbidden, holyground -- end of vol. 3 / post game --

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1)doppleganger 2)lost weapons 3)hidden quest: forest of pain 4)quest champaigns a)highway master b)stray mecha grunty c)lucky data collection d)chim's kicker e)bikman model f)chase the bounty 5)bike missions 6)normal quests 7)books of 1000 a)lucky animals b)items c)accessory d)weapon e)armor f)monsters 8)crimsonvs a)basics b)getting cards c)suggest decks

-- iii)characters and story line -- 1)characters a)epitaph users b)'background' characters c)other important characters - 2)story line a)pre-morganna incident b).hack//sign c)time of pluto again d)//infection e)//mutation

f)//outbreak g)//quaratine h)//legend of the twilight i)g.u time period j).hack//roots -- frequently - 1)questions - 2)questions - 3)questions - 4)questions

asked questions -for all 3 games for vol 1 for vol 2 for vol 3

iv) credits

*note- if you're looking for a specific place in the guide follow these instructions to find it quickly: 1) select the item you're looking for from the above table of contents,and copy it. 2) press and hold ctrl (then) f to open a small search window. paste the title of what you're looking for in the shearch box. 3) click on 'find next' until you see what you're looking for. -----------------------------------------(!!!!)------------------------------------------------------------i) introduction to guide----------------------------------------welcome back everyone. it's time to get started the the 3rd and final game of the gu series. i wanted to thank you all for sending me e-mails saying you liked the guides for rebirth and reminisce. i only hope to be able to deliver a guide just as good if not better. so anyway, after playing vol 3 in the gu series i'm still not sure what to make of it. some parts of it were enjoyable and yet others were on the verge of being rather annoying. it is by far the most.......how do i say this...... .......different......ahhh: it had so many good things in it that made it a fun game. it's just that i honestly wish things would have turned out a little differnt in the end. it has a different feel to it then any of the other .hack games. it was good, its just that it was so different: it made

it feel like the odd ball of the series. i don't know. you'll just have to see for yourselves. well anyway, enough of me going on like this. lets get to the guide. ---------i'd like to re-cap quickly with what was said in the last guide and also to add some new information to this guide so please read: these are the major forms of media in the .hack// series: going in chronological order.hack//sign (tv series), .hack//infection, mutation, outbreak, and quarantine (games) .hack//legend of the twilight (tv) .hack//roots (tv) .hack// g.u. vol: 1 (rebirth),2 (reminisce),and 3 (redemption) (.hack// g.u. trilogy is a full length cg movie that's due for release in japan on january 25,2008. add another 6 months and you get a rough estiment on when it will reach the us. also, it seems the movie will take an alternate approch in telling the story. aka: "this is how it could have happend") also note that there are bonus disks that come with each of the four original games and one bonus disk (the terminal disk) that comes with the special edition of .hack//g.u.- vol. 1-rebirth. also on the normal game disk of vol. 2-reminisce there is included the first episode of .hack//roots, and also on the normal game disk of vol. 3 is the 6th episode of roots, both of which can be watched through the game's desktop under the movie player. ---------moving along: this guide will take you step-by-step through vol. 3 redemption. i will include the story events, optional quests, hidden quest, books of 1000, leveling up, boss fights, back ground information, and of course other little odds and ends. just like in the last guide this walkthrough does contain spoilers, but again like in the last 2 guides i will mark them before hand and have you play ahead. you will notice that my standard line is: "watch the scenes, and then come back and read more." this allows you to play through the game and still enjoy all the surprises the story has to offer without spoiling it for

yourself. so don't read ahead!!!! for now lets get started with this game. ------------------------------------------------- ii) g.u. series -------------------------------------------.hack// g.u.

--------------------c) vol. 3- redemption ---------------------------- game info. game length: moderate average game time: 25 hours (20-30 hours) difficulty: medium-hardish ----over view----gameplay: 9/10- nothing's perfect but i really enjoyed the combat in this volume. it felt like you were almost playing a different game instead of the same game with a continued story line. --music: 10/10- it fits perfectly, and i mean perfectly. --graphics: 9/10 - granted it can't compare to some final fantasy cg movies, but it's the next best thing. --voice acting: 9/10 - only on rare occasions did i think it might have been better, but even then not by much. --replay value: 8/10- replay value ok. i mean it's a fine enough series that you'll probably want to play through the games more then once. --story line: 10/10- really this one is an odd ball of the whole series even more so the reminisce. but then they were trying to make the games feel differnt from each other. overall rating: 8/10 - i personally think it was just slightly under par with the other two games. in the overall ranking i think it was pretty good, but not truly great. still don't be dissapointed, that's just what i think. i still say that as a series it's one of the best i've ever played: good game play, amazing music, great graphics, and a story worthy to be called .hack// . --- getting startedi'm going to mention here that you guys using my guide will probably enjoy the game more than i did. the reason is that i'll be explaining things as you go along and helping you out. where as the first time i played the game

i was on the verge of going nuts from not being sure what to do and when to do it. i mean there isn't a huge amount of stuff such as a game like final fantasy 12, but there's enough that you'll probably be glad to have advice if you're like me. ok then, first things first. -------people converting from vol. 2 reminisce.-------------those of us who went and bought the first and second game, you will be glad to know that you will indeed keep the following things from the last game: items, exp, party list, equipment, money, guild rank, affection rating, and lots of other stuff. as long as you have the cleared data from the second game you can keep all that stuff mentioned above. for now read on and i'll walk you through getting your data converted.

-------people starting a new game from scratch.------------well, for you who are starting new; this is going kind of suck. when you start a new game you will be given a certain amount of stuff to help you out, but honestly you got your work cut out for you. see, people converting had the chance to earn extra money, level up, and do extra stuff before they started into the this game. you on the other hand won't have that opportunity. here's a list of stats for when you start a new game: haseo: -level 93 -skill level: twinsword-20, broadsword-20, scythe-20 -twin swords: level 91 wind haven -broad sword: level 92 wrath fenlong -scythe: level 75 ticking death -armor: level 90 vigil dragon -accessory: level 90 simple handbag -items: healing potion x15, fairy drop x10,revival medicine x10, life scrolx2. -money: 15,000 gp honestly i don't know what to tell you other then good luck. you're going to need it. -----------------------------------------------------------as you put in the disk take time to watch the opening movie play before you get to the main menu. don't skip it. it's pretty good, not my favorite.

but good as the main menu comes up notice that you no longer have the convert option from vol 1. basicly you'll find it the same system as vol 2. go ahead and start a new game. if you beat vol. 2 and have the data on the same memory card you will get a message that reads as follows: -"if you have clear data from .hack//gu vol 2: reminisce, you can use it to begin .hack//gu vol 3: redemption. begin game by converting?" obviously you want to select "yes" because otherwise you'll waste all the work you did in the last game. you will be asked to chose the save file to start a new game with. -once you do that you will get another message: "you will recive a bonus for converting clear data from vol. 2 reminisce. if your inventory is full, items will be stored in you guild storage." sweet! not only do you get to keep your stuff from the last game but they give you a double reward for just beating the last game. here is the list of what you get: holy arrow x10,hell raiser x10,the wheel x10, warrior soul x15, wizard soul x15 and 10,000 gp. and last but not least: a movie added to your desktop movie player.

so anywho. watch and enjoy the opening scenes, and there is a large amount of them. so kick back and relax. feel free to read ahead after you finish all those scenes. i mean like all of them. come back when you arrive at your desktop and we'll take it from there. --------------------------------------

-------------------------------movie- ovan and the girl short version/main points: this game opens with a movie that sheds some light on ovan's past, which until this game has been pretty clouded. the the vets of the series will probably flip a lid, like i did, when they see the cover of the book ovan was holding. ---------------------------------in the cut sceens following the opening movie you are given yet more information. ovan states the fact that once, seven years ago, there was a godess that existed in the game. and of course those who havnt played the original games are probably getting pretty pi$$ed i keep bringing it up and they still have no idea what the f*** is going on. well good news for you my firends. by the end of this guide i promise you will know everything important that happened in the old games and everything else that goes with it. back to the movies: 1- aina was attacked by aida and could not be cured by ovan's avatar. well that sucks. 2-you realize that ovan's incased arm is losing some of it's effectiveness to restrain the powerful aida that infected ovan. also, ovan is depending on haseo to come through for him..... wait a second, wtf!? what is aida going to do? why is time running out? what is it haseo has to do? "tune in next time to find the answers......"

next is the recaping on the first two games. yay! memory flash backs!

after the recap of past events you'll see haseo talking to himself outloud. ahh, dont worry he's not crazy, i talk to myself all the time......... ....................what?!, don't give me that look. it's not funny!

sometimes it's good just to talk out loud and blow off some steam.......yeah whatever. anyway, haseo points out that he saw azure kite when shino got pked by ovan and sent into a coma. so naturally he thought azure kite had done the crime. lol, poor azure kite had been framed all along. leave it to haseo to go after the wrong guy. haseo goes on to say that it's very likly that ovan's been pulling the strings since they first met.....well, yeah. who did you think it was haseo? instead of brewing over the fact you should be thinking about why ovan whould do that to you. last time i checked ovan wasn't insane, a little odd at times, but not insane. and only insane people (or some one who has no heart what so ever) would put you through hell like that. no....ovan has a reason. ----next sceen. you see yata brooding over the situation at the serpent of lore. then as he's starting to draw some good conclusions when he suddenly hears a voice from above sayin: denied fool! yeah, it sucks, but finially the big wigs at cc corp. have had enough of yata's bs and are getting ready to boot him out the door. --------------------------

---------------------------------------------spreading shadows -------------------------------------------

well then, it seems as though things are not looking good. this first section of the game will be dealing largely with the aftermath of all the events that happened at the end of vol 2. i'll warn you now, alot of stuff happens and not alot of it is good. and to be completely honest you're going to have to deal with all this $hit first before you'll be able to get to anything good and intresting. lets start things off with the e-mails. and make sure to start at the bottom of the list and work your way up. ----------------------------------e-mail- uchiyamada : conversion bonus features short version: ok, when i first read this e-mail everything was ok until i read about the doppelganger then i got confused as heck. 1) id you check your movie player on your desktop you will find the 6th episode of .hack//roots. so that's cool. 2)if you defeated the doppelganger and did all the stuff i told you to in my other guides, then you got nothing to worry about. i'll cover when you should go fight him and what not. and that won't be for awhile considering you can't get the items from him until the post game section. so don't worry. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp. : notice of campaign completion short version: it means all the camaigns from vol 2 are now over and your chance to get the special items from those events is now passed. (hopefully you maxed out the books of 1000 before you started into the next game) -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : new town access short version: you can now go to breg epona. a new town for advanced players. but it's not the last town you can go to, there's one more, but that'll have to wait till later. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp. : your benefits as holy palace champion short version: basicly canard has expanded to an advanced level guild. there are 3 bonuses for achieving this. 1) your @home is now located in breg epona. 2) you can use alchemy on weapons that have a difference of 20 levels. 3) when viewing your guilds storage you can press tri-angle and exchang

the item for money. (although your better off just selling it at the guild shop) -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- atoli : about moon tree short version: she talks about the aftermath of the event that took place at moon tree. remember that the crowning ceramony for haseo, the thing with moon tree, the battle with sakaki, and then facing off with ovan: all happened on the same day. my guess this is somewhere within a week afterward. haseo did mention he needed some time to himself before he could move forward. i'm willing to bet he took a couple days off. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- anonymous : the power of the avatar short version: bascily someone knows who you are and what's going on. however he refuses to give you his name. but he's let you know that instead of divine awakening you can now perform avatar awakening. anyway, he says he's your unseen ally. that's cool. personally i think it's the guy who wrote the terminal disk. aka a head cc corp. programming engineer who resigned after...........well, lets just say he was co-leading the project that created the avatars. which just happens to be the project that caused the fire at the cc corp. building and destroyed 80% of the first version of the game. ............and you want this guy messing with haseo's character?! not really, the fire wasn't his fault. it was the other guy...... ----------------------------------

----------------------------------e-mail- anonymous : growth of the avatars short version: ok, here's what i was saying in my last guide about the lost weapons having the potential of being the ultimate weapons for the epitaph users. remeber the weapon haseo got in the last game (ticking death?). well if you collect enough virus cores by using avatar awakening you can upgrade the weapon and it will become stronger. i'll walk you through the process in the guide so don't worry for now. besides the only weapons i would suggest doing this for is haseo, atoli, and kuhn. the others are optional and not really nesscary. i was able to get 4 out of 7 weapons fully upgraded by the end of the game. so really it wasn't that much

trouble and not really a big pain. ----------------------------------

ok, next thing you should do is flip over to the news. you might as well look at this and get it out of the way now. ----------------------------------news: short version: -there's a new online jack. the first one in this game isn't greta, but the other two are really good. but, watch it anyway, it's still rather funny. -the internation space station is having problems and if they continue it's going to fall out of orbit..... well that sucks. -some cars are seriosuly jacked up. stupid people should know better then to let a computer drive for them. -there is an extreely odd topic about the arena and how the rules have changed......what the crap?! ---------------------------------lastly look on the forums. remember that you're seeing the aftermath of everything that took place in vol 2. ----------------------------------forums: short version: -some ppl talking about moon tree and see black spots. -version update for crimsion vs -some ppl commenting about the news -more ppl talking about black spots -and pics on the apkallu. ---------------------------------when that's done it'll be time to finally log-in. there's some stuff on the offical forums, not really important, just view it quickly then log-in. ----------------------------------town: mac anu -------

---------------------------open your menue to see all the new stuff they got for you. 1- you can check the growth (level) of the lost weapons under your menue now. 2- avatar awakening can be leveld to to a max of levle 10 at which point it will do the most damage. (i only ever got mine to level like lvl 6) then, transfer over to the new town. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------this town will be your base of operations for about 3/4 of the game. your first order of bussiness is to head to the new @home. it's located at the back of the city, you can use a warp point to get there or you can walk/ride the steam bike. your choice. i would take time to look at what's for sale in the new shops. this city is the 2nd biggest one in the game. at first i really didn't find this one that likable, it was a bit bright for my taste. however, after taking some time to slow down and appreacate it: it really is rather detailed and after awhile i decided i liked it. by contrast the new @home is kinda dark...... well, what ever. generally speaking i think it's pretty cool. silabus and gaspard are there and metion its time for a grunty event. then atoli appears out of no where and scares haseo: blind spot again. at anyrate, talk to death grunty to get on with the event and on with the story line, of course you can't help but chuckel at death grunty and haseo. you'll get some key words and this'll be the first area for the game. also, talk to death grunty and view the books of 1000. i had 4 of the 8 max out right then and there. then turn around and take the money you just got off death grunty and buy the new guild expansions. lastly, the items you got as game convertion bonus, yeah, i'd just sell them because to me they're worth more in gp to me then actually using them in battle. it's up to you but it's a good way to earn some extra cash.

-equipment and itemsok, add atoli and silabus to your party. then head back into town. make sure to stop at the weapon and armor shop. pick up the following things: ---(note if you have the doppleganage weapons and the lvl 100 armor from beating the game's hidden quest then haseo won't need a weapon and armor upgrade for about half the game. but: i'm sure it's safe to assume that there are a couple ppl who perhaps bought the games out of order or just didn't bother to get the doppleganger items that are so very very useful. that being the case i figure for the sake of arguement. i will not use any of those weapons during the normal game play while writing this guide. (even tho it'll be a serious pain in the @$$) haseo: twinblades- lvl 101 (wp shop in breg)- fire att and drain 10%hp broad sword- lvl 101 (wp shop in breg)-fire att and drain 10% sp scythe- lvl 101 (wp shop in breg)- light att and drain 10% hp armor- lvl 101 (arm shop in breg)-25% phy and -10% magic accessory- lvl 95 (2nd game)- +10% speed, red stone x2 (decrease arts sp consumption) silabus: lvl 101 sword-move the materials to his new weapon lvl 101 light armor- *dido for materials* leave accessory as is for now (lvl 95) atoli: level 101 robes like i said above: if you followed my guide from vol 2 you should have the doppleganger weapons and also the armor from beating "the god eater" in the hidden quest for vol 2. that equipment will actually last you for almost half the game before you need to upgrade your equipment. in other words, haseo doesn't really need anything at the moment. also, make sure to go to the magic shop where they sell scrolls and pick up a few sanity scrolls. it allows you and atoli to learn the spell to cure confuse. you will need this. -also make sure to buy about 40 items that also cure confuse (lucid soda) and give about 30 of them to atoli. also buy a bunch of the item called wonder soda (it cures any negative effect) and also give some to atoli.

save then head for the chaos gate. ok, then off we go.

---------------------------------- 1)universal, ocean's, glide ---------------------------------area type: field area level: 96 party: haseo, silabus, atoli my level: 100 first off, assuming you followed my guide for the last game. your will be well prepared for this first section of the game. bascily for this mission you need to run around to three different hills and be marked with the grunty sent. once you do that you can go to the last hill and locate melo grunty. before we get to that, i need to metion some things first. 1) hopefully you took the time to max out your level before moving on the vol 3. if you did so you will note that you exp is 999/1000 fighting just one enemy on this field will alow you to gain a level. 2) if you took the time to max out your skill levels from vol 2. you will note that by using your skills (of each weapon type) just once, you will gain a skill level (lvl 21). this will grant you the level 3 arts for your scythe, broad sword, and twin swoards. these skill are you last arts you will be able to gain for each type of weapon. from here on out, every time you gain a skill level (22-30) you will decrese the amount of sp needed to use the skill. in other words it's still a good idea to gain as many skill levels as possible. 4) now that you have your final arts available to you it's be a good idea to set them to your skill trigger: tri-angle: ghost faclon square: armor break circle: reaper's dance x: (put anything you like here, it's up to you) 3) if you picked up the equipment i suggested, make sure to give it to silabus and atoli once they get to level 101. hopefully you were smart enough to do the bike trials from the old game and if you did them all you got the tridal muffler: this will make you

invisable to monsters while on your bike. so obviously you should use your bike to get around. (note: use your bike and get all the symbol fragments to open the beast temple. you shouldn't have to fight anuthing usless you want to) -there are two small hills on the east (right) side of the map. you need to visit the one in the more to the south (on it's own little island) go here first to meet up with wise grunty. -once done then head for the west side of the map (left) the hill on the island most to the south is where you can locate gao grunty. - the hill more toward the north from above mentioned position, is where you will locate king grunty. -> once you get to all three locations you will get a message from death grunty and then you can locate melo grunty on the hill beside the beast temple which is located in the north west corner of the map. once you talk to him the mission will end. then use the platform near the beast temple to get back.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you arrive back, head for canard's @home. watch the scene then log-out. read these from the bottom up. ----------------------------------e-mail- melo : thanks short version: like the title sugests, he's just saying thanks for the help.....even tho he's not real. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- anonymous : reguarding the sacrament short version: bascily you dont need to worry about this just yet. i'll be covering the lost weapons in my guide. so no worries......yet. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- pi : emergency short version: something's going down, and you need to hop over to raven's @home in mac anu..... well obviosuly you already know about yata getting the boot, but you don't know the other half.

and no, it's not going to be good news. -------------------------------------------------------------------forums: short version: you'll find some pics in here. ---------------------------------log-in.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------warp over to mac anu.

----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------head for raven's @home. watch everything that happens and we'll deal with it as best we can afterward.

-------------------------------movie- sakaki arrives short version/main points: sakaki is a b@$tard. that really sums up alot. but that wont do since i'm writing a guide here: bascily

sakaki got yata fired and is now running the whole game. -traslation-> you...... are........ screwed!!! --------------------------------

ok,anyway. as you leave raven you'll get a mail which is what you'll be wanting to read. so log-out and while the game is loading you're desktop read ahead: 1-yata is off somewhere in their real world being all emo. he's pretty pi$$ed and yet terribly depressed at the moment. 2-sakaki is now watching you 24/7 from the serpent of lore. 3-you will be spending the first half of the game rebeling against sakaki's rule over "the world" while trying to figure out a way to over throw him. 4-last but not least: things are going to get worse. alot worse before it's going to get better. "what does that mean?" "it means buckle your seat belt dorothy, because kansas is going bye bye."

----------------------------------e-mail- silabus : lets go on a quest short version: questing time. lets head out. ---------------------------------but first: ----------------------------------e-mail- pi : reguarding sakaki short version: pi says that sakaki is indeed the game's head admin. of course that sucks for you, but anyway. pi says she'll try to figure out what exactly cc corp. was thinking when they gave him the job. ---------------------------------if your smart you could probably guess why yata got the boot. but she'll be e-mailing you after awhile with all the details so hang tight for the mean time.

for now you need to slack off in terms of being the bad @$$ hero of the series and try to enjoy yourself a little. what better way to do that then doing a quest with two of the crazziest guys around? ----------------------------------forums: short version: gives you some good hints about the quest you'll be doing shortly. this makes things no fun for me. =( they bascily stole my job.....well anyway. i'll still be coving the quests anyway; after all i'm sure you all like me better anyway; or will by the time this game is done. =p ---------------------------------log-in. head to breg epona.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you get here i should mention something. you should know that leveling up in this game is rather hard. infact it got so bad that i had to go to areas that were 4 levels higher than haseo just to gain a decient amount of exp. as far as i can tell there are two reaons for this: 1-i noticed that the last game was a little more difficult to gain levels then vol 1. and now vol 3 is even harder then vol 2. 2- with out giving away too much, you do not need to be level 150 to beat the game. in fact you could probably do it at level 125. so really you only need to gain about half the levels avabilable. anyway, i do have to set some kind of standard while writing this guide. and i've managed to come up with 5 check points you need to meet for the first half of the game. for right now you, need to reach level 107. that's six levels higher then you are at the moment. right now is the best time do this. reason being: you will need to train with atoli and kuhn for the majority of the game and

once you reach level 107 you will only need to gain 2 or 3 levels at a time from here on out. (at least for awhile) also there's another reason you'll want to go out and train: you need to upgrade haseo's lost weapon asap and the sooner you do that the better. ok then, place atoli and kuhn in your party and lets go gain some levels. note- hopefully you followed my last guide and used kuhn in your fight with the 'god eater'hidden quest. if so, atoli and kuhn will be level 101. anyway, buy kuhn the level 101 steam gun and amor at the weapon's shop and give it too him for usage in owning monsters.

--------------------------------random) buzzing, wrath's, starlit sky------------------------------------area type: field area level: 105 party: haseo,kuhn, atoli my level: 101 the biggest thing i can say is that if you work on using your rengeki attacks as much as possible, you will benfiet in the following ways: 1: it trains your skills to get better which means you lvl 3 arts cost less sp when used. 2: it boosts the exp you can get from battles, which ussally puts it up to about 200+ exp instead of like 150ish exp. and trust me it makes a difference. 3: this builds the moral guage faster, and therefore you can use avatar awakening. read on for more info. go, level up, collect items, and use avatar awakening as much as possible! ((for best result use on a enemy parties that have: 1 large monster and 2 small monsters, or 2 large monsters.)) ---news clip: "having problems with aida infection? want to get that nasty ai out of your brain? use new and improved avatar awakening. removes aida in just one blast. try it today! =d warning: may cause loss of consiousness or extensive brain damage" ---anyway, you need to get about ohhh.....85 virus cores to fully upgrade haseo's lost weapon. it could take awhile, and you probably wont get it

done anytime soon. but you should really considering doing it for kuhn and atoli too. -granted you cant fully upgrade the weapons (lvl 4 upgrade) till you are level 140 to beat the beasts of seal. however, if you get them upgraded to lvl 3 (second best upgrade) near the beggining of the game, then they are really quite usefull.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------ok, i'm willing to bet you realize now just how difficult it's going to be to level up. so i'm sure you won't be suprised at me saying you'll more then likly need to go to several more areas before you get to level 107. so just continue to level up and come back when you're there. i know this is a pain in the @$% but it simply needs done now. trust me, you'll be thanking me later. i made the mistake of only geting level 104. not a good idea considering that i nearly died several times. so trust me: get to lvl 107. --i had to go to a lvl 106, 107,and a 109 before i reached level 107. as a side note: in level 107ish areas you will proabaly encounter an enemy called "captian hook". they will counter with paralize, which gets highly annoying. use your hold and relase broad sword. it uses the least amount of hits (less chances to get counter attacked) yet still gets the job done.

---ok once you've reached level 107, add silabus and gaspard to your party. go to the armor and weapon shop and buy new lvl 101 weapons and armor for them. once done head over to the quest shop and accept the new quest. when done get ready to head out to a new type of area: (note: i thought you might like to know that you now have access to all types of fields for the series which are as follows: lost grounds/landscape, field, jungel cave, temple dungeon, highland field, tower dungeon, and finially forest dungeon.)

---------------------------( quest )---------------------------

----- 8)dubious dog ---------------------------------- 2)unseen, alien, elf animal(q) ---------------------------------area type: forest dungeon area level: 97 party: haseo,silabus, gaspard my level: 107 block 1: use a fairy orb to reveal the map, and then a speed charm on haseo. you don't need to fight anything usless you want to. i just used smoke screens before i got near monsters, this turned me invisable for about 3 or 4 seconds. anyway, all you need to worry about is just getting to block 2. block 2: as you come to the first room in the 2nd block you'll see a sceen. follow haseo's leading and just work your way toward block 3. block 3: if you look closly at the map you'll see several paths branch off. all of them head south. you need to make for the one in the middle right. it's the only square room at a dead end that has nothing in it (no treasure chest or chim harvesters). in other words: use the following directions if you don't get itfirst split: go east second split: east third split: go south when you get thereyou will discover the heatwave hound. beat him to pulm, or become doggy chow. just use your scythe, and at level 107 it wont be all that hard. this fight was not easy when i did it the first time at level 102. when you're done you'll atuo finish the quest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

as you finish up, you'll get an e-mail, so do the only logical thing and log-out to find what it says.

----------------------------------e-mail- pi : redguarding sakaki 2 short version: ok, here's the deal. sakaki is using the lie that he can control aida

and therefore can solve cc corp's problem. of course that isn't true but leave it to the thick skulls running the company not to notice. ok anyway, sakaki only had one major condition under which he agreed to do this: he gets to be the tyrant of the ‘the world’ and dictator of g.u. aka- he's going to try and make your life miserable. anyway, pi want to meet with you. she has some neat little things to show you. ---------------------------------you can glance over the other e-mails if you want. ----------------------------------e-mail- gaspard : have fun? short version: self explantory -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- silabus : thanks! short version: just saying things are looking up..... yeah well, he doesn't know that things are about to get very bad. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp. : notice of campaign commencment short version: the chaotic pks campaign is back-fun. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: just some ppl complaining about being owned by the black list pks. i'm sure we can fix that. but not just yet. we got other things to worry about at the moment. ----------------------------------

well, log-in. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ----------------------------------

invite pi and atoli to join your party. while here, buy some equipment for pi. then,warp over to dol dona server. ----------------------------------town: dol dona ----------------------------------

now, before you go running off to start in on the next event. i want you to go and upgrade haseo's lost weapon first.

---------------------------------- )hidden,forbidden, sacrament ---------------------------------area type: landscape/ lost grounds area level: none party: haseo,pi,atoli my level: 107 when you get there, walk up to the scythe and select it. (if you don't have the scythe with you just walk to the platform and access your guild storage, that is if you've been keeping up on your guild upgrades too) hopefully you have enough virus cores by now to upgrade haseo's scythe to lvl 2 upgrade, other wise it won't even be worth your trouble. head back to town when done. ----------------------------------town: dol dona ---------------------------------head out to the new area.

---------------------------------- 3)hidden,forbidden, hades ---------------------------------area type: landscape/lost grounds area level: none party: haseo,pi, atoli my level:107

ok, when you get here pi will start talking to you. come back and read when you gain control over haseo.

-ok, basicly pi installed a program to haseo's character that will allow you to area hack. in other words, exploit the bugs in the system. to do this walk forward toward the edge of the walkway. you will see the screen flicker and hear white noise. -when that happenes, press the r1 button on your controler to hack the bug in the area. -then approch the point where the graphics swril. select it and chose to warp. -pi will explain everything too you, so if i didn't cover something i'm sure you'll understand in a bit. -come back and read when you reach the outer dungeon.

--outer dungeon-when you arrive pi presents a short explaination of where it is you are. basicly one of the side affects of aida being present in 'the world' is that these dungeons were produced. these dungeons are on the rim of the game, on the very edge. they are at the point of being part of the game, and yet at the same time not. in other words these dungeons are the middle ground between the game and the rest of the network. well now. time to get a move on. you need to head along the path from the north east corner of the dungeon to the south east corner of the dungeon. it's kinda a pain but you can do it. also, you will meet monsters here. you can chose to fight them or chose not to. i leave it to you. when it comes right down to it you've already leveled up to where you need to be for awhile, so i don't see a good point in fighting usless battles. the only benfiet i can think of is getting rengeki exp and virus cores from avatar awakening. anyway, make your way along the path,you should watch out for little

boxes that like to shoot lasers across your path, they can be painful. you'll know when they're about to fire when the glow yellow. when you get to the end watch the scenes and enjoy. afterward use the platform to get back to town.

----------------------------------town: dol dona ---------------------------------when you get back, pi decided to head off to search for yata in the real world. for now you need to take the next step which mean reading your new e-mail. log-out.

----------------------------------e-mail- sirius : got a minute? short version: he need to talk to you about the new type of tournament that comming up. well, if it's important enough for him to contact you. then it's important enough to go and take a look. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------e-mail- cc corp. : notic of the sage palace tournament short version: ok, basicly there's going to be a special one time tournament that is based on pkers. those who have the most kills since they began the game get picked to be in the tournemant. unfortunitally that also mean pkks too... .....like haseo. so yeah. as a side note, like haseo said: it's odd that taihaku resorted to using cheap taunts? maybe it has something to do with being tickeled by aida at the end of vol 2.? also, lumina cloth and breg epona are pk possible towns. in other words you can now get killed while in the town...... f#%*

!!!!!

that sounds like it'll be lots of fun. yeah, fun like pouring lemon juice on a paper cut. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------e-mail- pi : outer dungeons short version: she re-caps on outer dungeons and what not. she does mention that right now there's no other threat in the dungeons other then the outer bugs. -------------------------------------------------------------------forums: short version: just some pics, and a topic about a new type of chim. ---------------------------------well, lets get a move on and head to lumni cloth. ----------------------------------town: dol dona ---------------------------------transfer over. ----------------------------------town: lumina cloth --------------------------------you see some scenes. watch first then read ahead....this is important.

-------------------------------movie- holwing sword short version/main points: what has four eyes, is incredably evil. and roars? "your mom?"

not exactly. anyway, that thing that spoke out of taihaku's sword: well lets just say it is the true source. the source of everything. and right now, it's sleeping, waiting to be awakened. it's waiting to be brought back out of the ruins and shadows of the events from seven years ago......... --------------------------------

when everything is over with, save then log-out.

----------------------------------e-mail- silabus :meeting time short version: you need to drop by canard's @home. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sakaki :letter of inventation short version: oh f#5& monkeys..... well, boys. that's it: check mate. sakaki's got haseo cornered. now haseo really does have to take part in the tournament. peachy. well there is at least one good thing. if haseo survives this, he'll have conquered all three levels of the arena. the first in the game's history....that is if he survives. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sirius : about taihaku short version: says he's counting on you to pull through for alkaid and taihaku. ---------------------------------log-in.

----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------transfer to the sigma server.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ----------------------------------

head for canard, when you get near there, you'll see some scenes with gaspard and silabus.

after the scenes there's not alot to do but log-out.

there's some posts on the official forums that annouced the rules for the toury. anyway this is totally not cool. check your e-mail. ----------------------------------e-mail- kuhn : lets meet up short version: take atoli and kuhn and go to the lost ground and then to the outer dungeon. you need to have another meeting. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- silabus : about gaspard short version: just some stuff, bla bla bla. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: some ppl complaining about pkers, which is understandable. then some stuff about the new crimsonvs update, which i find unimportant considering that i won, got my rank to #1, and beat the title match all with the same deck. and then there's some pics in the apkallu. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------"crimsion vs"load up crimsonvs. go under deck and complie the folowing deck: 1st: #074 'gemme some chim' 2nd: #081 'dancing lion' 3rd: #081 'dancing lion'

general: #020 endrace the exqusite register this deck for battle. and i can pretty much bet that you'll have no probelms winning your way to rank #1 and beating the title match. it wins about 3/4 of the time. so yeah. also, megan wiseman e-mailed me with some other decks, so if this deck isn't doing it for you. here are some other highly suggested decks: general: shino of the twilight brigade unit 1: no. 060 ace of hearts (cost: 5 trinity: shield) unit 2: no. 078 reckless roar (cost: 4 trinity: snipe) unit 3: no. 040 treasonous shell (cost: 5 trinity: assault) general: zelkova unit 1: no. 124, what's most important (cost - 7, trinity - shield) unit 2: no. 30, the trinity (cost - 2, trinity - assault) unit 3: no. 139, a false future (cost - 6, trinity - snipe) again, special thanks to: megan wiseman ----------------------------------

log-in ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------transfer to dol dona. ----------------------------------town: dol dona ---------------------------------head to the same area as before and the same place as before. add kuhn and atoli to your party then head out.

---------------------------------- 4)hidden,forbidden, hades ---------------------------------area type: landscape/lost grounds area level: none party: haseo,kuhn, atoli my level:107

ok, when you get there area hack by using the r1 button.

--outer dungeon-make your way along the path, watch out for traps when you get to the end watch the scenes and enjoy. well there really wanst much of a point in meeting was there? at least you did get two valuable peices of info. 1) saku and endrance are 'bussy'. 2) the whole game is slowly but surely turing into one big old aida server. afterward use the platform to get back to town.

----------------------------------town: dol dona ---------------------------------log-out, see whats new.

----------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : pk tournament short version: you need to head for the arena counter and register for the tounament. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- pi : announcment short version: ok here's the plan. pi looked into some things and it is true, like kuhn said, that the world is slowly turning into an aida server. so pi is going to keep looking for yata, who will hopefully know something that will help bring down sakaki's rule of terror. you, haseo, need to enter the tounament to prevent sakaki from spreading aida seeds all over the game. this will buy pi.....lol, buy pi.....buy pie? anyway, it'll buy her some time to find yata and figure out a way to finish sakaki. great. >_< ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: you should now see a topic called "strange place' dont reply to it!!!!!! wait till later. i repeat- do not reply to this topic yet! ----------------------------------

log-in.

----------------------------------town: dol dona ---------------------------------transfer over to the other server. ----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------go to the arena counter and register for the toury. you need to access the arena counter twice to complete the registation totally. you'll know you did it right when some scenes take place afterward. at the end of the scenes with the pks, you'll get a short mail from silabus. looks like somethings up with gaspard. run off to breg epona to see whats up.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------as you enter the main square you'll see a scene insue with silabus and gaspard. intrestingly enough the little fat guy decided to get some man hood and isn't going to back down. right on fat man. once the scene is over log-out. you've got a couple e-mails that need reading.

----------------------------------e-mail- kuhn : let meet short version: says that everyone needs to meet and talk about the pk tournament and who from gu is going to take part in it. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- antares : to my student short version: he says he has no idea why they chose him. but that he is going to compete anyway. well i'd think it's obvious: sakaki wants to get at haseo and anyone who's his friend too. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- matsu : my reasons short version: he says he's fighting for the restoration of moon tree and that he hope he won't have to fight haseo. -------------------------------------------------------------------forums: short version: some quest advice you don't really need. and then some pics of sirius and pkers. ---------------------------------ok, time to log-in and head for the meeting.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------you've got a new area to head off too. so get atoli and kuhn in your party and let's go.

---------------------------------- 5)calm, betrayal's, longing ---------------------------------area type: forest dungeon area level: 100 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 107

this area is really very simple. just use a fairy orb to reveal the map, then use atoli's speed enhancement spell (makes you 50% faster).

and beat a hastey path to the beast statue. you can fight the monsters if you want, but really it just means wasted time. once there things will unfold. just head back to town when things are done and then i'll explain.

first off, the thing with endrace just kinda walking out on you guys is kinda rude. not to mention way out of character for endrance, i mean i can understand saku, but endrance? somethings up. next is that atoli will thankfully acompany you in the up comming tournament. which is great cause i've been using atoli and kuhn as my main party for most of the series anyway. also, now that the events with moon tree are over atoli has awakened and can now summon her avatar anytime she wants. also i think it's cool that atoli isn't a wimp anymore. i mean, seriously, its about time. for now, head back to town. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------log out cause you got a few e-mails.

----------------------------------e-mail- matsu : wanna do a quest? short version: says he'd like to do something to pass time and for you to invite someone else along too. ok, sounds fun. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- endrance : ........ short version: bascily endrance tells you getting out while the getting is good......not really, he just says he's doing things his own way now and he'll see you around. ---------------------------------(?) | >_<

ok, log in.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------add matsu and atoli to your party and head for the quest shop. before you head out, you need to buy the lvl 101 steam gun and heavy armor for matsu.

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 6) hail bikman -------------------------------------- 6)gathering, familiar, mascot(q) -------------------------------area type: temple dungeon area level: 102 party: haseo,atoli, matsu my level: 107

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block 1: as you arrive you'll see some scenes. really there isn't alot to this quest. for now, just head to the next block. block 2: this is really rather simple. all you have to do is go from the entrance to the block on the left (west) to the last room in the middle on the right (east). the room is empty and it's where you'll find the grunties. just get there and the scenes will ensue, which although are rather odd and makes you wonder if the game creators weren't smoking weed at the time of thinking this up.....they are in some small way, a bit funny. * shrugs* the japaniess have an odd sence of humor. you got to enjoy haseo's comments on the situation. anyway, about that time a boss monster shows up......fun. well just pull out your twin swords and wail away at it. when things are over with you'll head back to town. yay, what fun... >_>

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------so when you've finished the quest you'll get an item, use it on haseo to gain +5 maigic defense. now, log-out for a couple of very important emails.

---------------------------------------------no choice -------------------------------------------

well my friends if you want to or not, you have no choice but to compete in the arena. it's unfortunate but nessaccary. so lets try and make the best of a bad situation by winning haseo's 3rd emperor thrown in a row. =)

----------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : 1st round in pk tournament short version: haseo will be facing the first round of the toury and it will be one heck of a match. and no, sakaki does not tell you who you'll be fighting, and trust me when i tell you it wouldn't do you much good anyway, because this round will be unlike any other you've ever faced. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notice of campaign commencement short version: same old same old. ----------------------------------

time to log-in and get ready for battle.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------before you run off don't forget the basics: save, restock items for haseo and atoli, restock items in the guild shop. then transfer over to the arena. ----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------save!!!!! save before you do anything else. this will be a long and slow fight, and once you start there's no going back: it's a do or die situation.

------------------------------------ 7)tournament:round one -----------------------------------------party:haseo (107),atoli (107),kuhn (107) -opponets: not available (n/a) -before the fight advice: this round, more than any other tournament round you have ever been in, is the one that hings the most on equipment and level. this fight is a five round survival match against 5 parties of chaotic pkers. there is no going back once you enter the waiting room. it's do or die. see, now aren't you glad i made you level up so much? now you stand a chance of actually winning, where as i did this round at lvl 104 and if it hadn't been for the doppleganger weapons i would have deffinatly lost. anyway: just use crap loads of counter attacks and you should make it through alright. but go easy on just wildly using skills. you have to survive 5 matchs with out recovering your sp (atoli wont be able to help you with items since using items in the arena is forbidden) ------------------------------

after the match you'll see some scenes that are rather important. everything is going good until tragedy strikes..... watch first then come back and read.

yes, sirius is comatose. gone..... poor b@$tard. and the ones who put him into a coma are none other than a new party of sakaki's little puppets. he's infected three players then hacked their characters to grant them strength that bends the rules of the game. great, they will have to be delt with eventually. for now, your hands are tied my friend, and there's nothing you can do.....for now. log-out. it's time to move on.

----------------------------------e-mail- kaede : to haseo short version: she'd like to meet up with you since it's been awhile. she'd like you to bring pi along too. and i suggest doing so becuase soon things will start to be revealed concerning zelkova and kaede. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- pi : sirius short version: confirms that sirius is now a lost one. she says you need to be carfull, if you fight the hetero trio and lose...you could become a lost one too. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------e-mail- atoli : aida server short version: she mentions that the arena is turning into an aida server and things are likly to get dangerous. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- kuhn : the first round short version: it seems sirius entered to save his friends..... even though he knew there was nothing he could do.... ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: there's some ppl complaning about various stuff going on and then some pics for your backgrounds. ---------------------------------well, that's enough for now. remember to save then head out.

----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------transfer over to breg epona.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you arrive you'll meet pi, aperentally she got an e-mail from kaede as well. i suggest adding pi and atoli to your party. set pi to "free-will" under the stragedy menu. note- i think i should tell you that soon you'll need to gain some more levels, don't worry though. it's not that bad. you just need to get to level 110, that's only another 3 levels; not a big deal. ok, time to get a move on. head out for the next area.

---------------------------------- 8)wise, calamity's, water mill ---------------------------------area type: field area level: 105 party: haseo,atoli, pi my level: 107

this is simple. just get on your steam bike (hopfully you did bike missions from vol 2 and have the tridal muffler which makes you invisable to monsters) and just ride around and collect the symbol fragments. i suggest getting the ones on the west side of the map first then heading to the east side. once completed head for the beast temple. when you get there cut scenes will occure.

well, it seems zelkova is something more than your average player. of course i was hinting at that all through the first and part of the second game. oh yes. i know who he is....or rather who he knows and learned all the tricks of the trade from. yes, he is more then he seems. but enough of that. it appears zelkova was asking if pi had seen something other than aida, maybe something like......oh i dont know......something worse than aida?

so anyway, head back to town and we'll go from there.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you get back to town pi will take off again in search of yata. afterward, do the ussal: save, restock items for haseo and atoli, restock items in the guild shop. for now you need to gain some levels. i know it's kinda a pain but you really do need to keep up with this or else you're going to get mowed over later in the game. add kuhn and atoli (if you haven't done so) to your party and lets head for a new area to train at.

------------------------------random) buzzing, genesis's, drama----------------------------------

area type: field area level: 111 party: haseo, atoli, kuhn my level: 107 your new goal is to reach level 110. this is only three levels higher then you are right now. so: a) not hard to get to, and b) you will generally own anyone you fight during the next batch of story events including your opponents in next round in the tournament who will only be level 107. the reason why i'm having you level up so high is because if you don't: you will get killed later in the game! well, enough of that, time for some training: kill monstes, collect itmes, open chest, all around pwn everything. i should also mention that due to story events you obviously now have the area hacking program for haseo. this means that you can area hack normal areas, not just lost grounds. so when ever you run across a place where the screne starts to flicker and you start to hear white noise just press the r1 button. this will start the area hack. it will reveal the abnormal data. if you walk up to it and search it you can recive healing items and key items called cheat codes. these are very usefull later in the game. so try and collect as many as you can while out and about training. i suggest using your broad sword for any fights involving the enemy called captian hook-> cause they will counter with paralyize. which can get annoying. using the broad sword cuts down on the chance of getting countered vs a weapon like the twin swords. when you clear the field head back to town.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you get back to town do the ussal: save, restock items for haseo and atoli, restock items in the guild shop. well, my trip to this above mentioned field turned out rather good. i got to level 109 and just a few hundred exp till level 110. also i managed to get a level 110 robes for atoli and lvl 110 light armor for kuhn. and also some lvl 116 armor for haseo that he won't be able to use for awhile, but that's ok.

anyway i'm going to head out to another field just to gain some quick exp to top off my level and reach the goal of 110. if you find yourself needing more time to reach the desired goal do so now. what ever the case may be, don't move on till you've reached the desired level.

-----------------------------random)screaming, swift, hand song---------------------------------area type: field area level: 112 party: haseo, atoli, kuhn my level: 109 this area took me a little while longer then i thought it would. but none the less it paid off in the end. see i was able to get my total of virus cores finially up to 50. now i can go and upgrade haseo's lost weapon for the last time with virus cores. i also got a set of level 113 twin swords which will come in handy later in the game considering that i'm not using the doppleganger weapons for the benfiet of those who didnt get them in the last game.....*sigh* well, at any rate, i was able to top off my level and get some decent itmes.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you get back to town do the ussal: save, restock items for haseo and atoli, restock items in the guild shop. when that's done it'll be time to upgrade the lost weapons. --note: if you do not have 50 or more virus cores then don't bother with the following few paragraphs. instead skip ahead in the guide and log-out. however, if you do have 50 or more virus cores follow the following instructions->

transfer over to dol dona.

----------------------------------town: dol dona ----------------------------------

head for the lost grounds.

---------------------------hidden, forbidden, sacrement---------------------------------area type: lost grounds/landscape area level: none party: haseo, atoli, kuhn my level: 110 -------

just walk up to the scythe and select the option to upgrade the weapon. you'll recive a message telling you that in order to complete the weapon's growth you will need to fight a lvl 135 seal beast. of course you are way too weak for that and it's no use in trying cause you'll just die. from now on you'll be working to upgrade atoli's staff and kuhn's gun. when you're done head back to town. ----------------------------------town: dol dona ---------------------------------transfer to breg epona and then just log-out.

alright, time for some intresting events. this next round will be fun. ----------------------------------e-mail- cc corp. : notice of 2nd round for the tournament short version: it's time to kick some seriosu butt. if you didnt reckonize the names i wouldn't blame you. after all you haven't seen these guys since you started vol 1. time for some pay back. ---------------------------------the follwoing e-mails should be read from bottom to top so that they all make sense. ----------------------------------e-mail- kaede : about sakaki short version: says thx for your effort to stop sakaki. dang right we're gana stop him....just got to figure out how first. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- zelkova : how to defeat sakaki short version: lol, speak of the devil. zelkova is here to give you some info on how to beat sakaki into a finly minced meat pie.

alright, zelkova to the rescue, he just gave you the key to bringing sakaki's rein of terror to an end. ok: without aida sakaki is just a normal player and there for cc corp would have no reason at all to still allow him to continue his dictatorship. so, if haseo can some how get sakaki to enter one of the fights, haseo can fight sakaki with his avatar and remove aida from him..... perfect! just one problem, how is haseo going to get sakaki to jump right into the middle of a match? hmmm, who knows, someone might just help haseo out... also, i should note that this e-mail confirms that zelkova knows about aida and more importantly that haseo has an avatar....wow. that's odd. this explains why zelkova (who is like lvl 127) was in a low leveled dungeon when pi and haseo first met him, remember? it was when aida attacked pi and haseo had to fight her. my guess is that zelkova was there looking into what exactly aida was. ---------------------------------now the last e-mail. ----------------------------------e-mail- pi : inside cc corp. short version: ok this is a very important e-mail. one of two explaining yata's past. 1st: zelkova knows alot and seems to be on your side, yeah pi, no duh. 2nd: yata used to be a hacker and an informant (aka sells information for cash) anyway, yata had skills that cc corp. liked. not to mention he was connected to the legendary .hackers (aka the group of heros from the original game series) so the hired him to get rid of aida. well, what you have to understand is that yata wanted to research aida and understand it were as cc corp. wanted it to be destroyed completely. and so yata found himself and cc corp. wanting two very different things. well anyway, the big thing this e-mail tells you is that yata was once a very skilled hacker and also a character from the original game. and if any of the vetrans of the series are worth their salt, they know by now exactly who yata was from the old games. ----------------------------------

ok, enough of that, time for some revenge. log-in.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------as you log-in to the game some scenes will take place involving saku, taihaku, and of course endrance. hmm....intresting developement we have here. this could get intresting.

add atoli and kuhn to your party. make sure to give them the lvl 110 armor that you should have gotten from training. once done transfer over to the arena.

----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------save. then head for the arena counter and enter the 2nd round.

-also note- enjoy the scenes for this story event, they are by far some of my favorite. ------------------------------------ 9)tournament:round two -----------------------------------------party:haseo (110),atoli (110),kuhn (110) -opponets: iyoten (107), asta (106), maniac helluger (106) -before the fight advice: these guys are hard core easy compared to the can of whoop @$$ you are about to open on them. just use counter attacks, awakening, and all around anything you like to beat them to death. good luck, see you on the other side. ------------------------------

well, did you enjoy it? i did. ok then, log-out and read your mail. there's a topic on the official forums if you want to read it. just some ppl saying it's dangerous to play the game......well, about time someone figured it out.

----------------------------------e-mail- kuhn : quest short version: kuhn wants to know if you feel like going on a quest. from here on in you'll start to notice a pattern in the events of the game: quest/story event then a tournament round. repeat. this will go on till the toury is over then this patteren will be broken. ---------------------------------for now, read your other e-mail. ----------------------------------e-mail- matsu : he got me short version: antares beat the poop out of matsu. hehe, way to go old man. he's not a legend for nothing. the first arena emperor. lol, i knew he was famous, i just didn't know he was that famous. ---------------------------------before you go running off you should check the news and the forums. ----------------------------------news: short version: apperentally the people in charge of fighting viruses and dealing with computer hackers have announced that aida is now considered a virius.....lol, it's only half true seeing as aida is actually an ai program. so yeah, it is kind of a virus. it's just one that has a mind of it's own and can't be destroyed normally. kinda like a super virus. anyway, in other news. the professur (the guy in online jack) has been enjoying the new boom in the sales of his book he wrote. the one that got online jack intrested in investigating 'the world'. apperentally it's become rather famous. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: just some ppl asking how to get crimsonvs cards and then some pictures in the apkallu. ---------------------------------well, log-in and lets enjoy a nice quiet quest.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------add atoli and kuhn to your party and go accept the quest.

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 5)the chim chim song ---------------------------------- 10) glowing, passive, fairy(q) ---------------------------------area type: jungel cave area level: 105 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 110 you'll notice that during the quest kuhn seems kinda down all of a sudden. hmm... for now, lets get one with the objective. floor 1: have atoli cast 'ap do' (increase speed by 50%) on all party members. then use a fairy orb to reveal the map. for now all you need to do is make your way to the next floor down. as you make your way to the next floor you see some scenes here and there where kuhn remains being slighty depressed.... floor 2: now, use a fairy orb and you'll see that there are several dead ends on this floor. well, we can deal with that in a minute. more forward until you see a scene with a stray chim chim. afterward, if you follow the chim you'll come to a fork in the road. here you need to take the right path. this will take you to the objective and the end of the quest. but of course before you can reach your objective you are met by a very annoying boss monster. just use your broad sword to pumble him until his armor breaks. then switch to your twin blades to finish the job. then continue on. when you reach the end of the path the scenes

will take place and end the quest. you'll auto finish. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------lol, awwwww, poor kuhn. looks like he's been adbandoned again. wow, talk about a loser. dating online?! come on.....*sigh* he needs to get back with mia from //liminality.

--ok, well it's time for a fresh batch of training. this time you only need to gain 2 levels bringing you to level 112. don't worry it shouldn't be all that hard so buck up and lets get this over with.

-----------------------------random)screaming, wrath's, generation---------------------------------area type: field area level: 114 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level:110 this area isn't that great for leveling up. that just happens in this game. some times it'll be easy to level up and then other times it just isn't. i really doubt you'll reach level 112 in just one area and it wouldn't suprise me if you need to go to another area to level up. do so if you need to.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you've finially reach level 112. it'll be time to move on. don't forget the ussal stuff: items, restock guild shop, save. when you're done, log-out.

read e-mails from bottom to top in order to understand everything. ----------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : campaign comencment short version: same old same old. go to mac anu for the campaign -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notice for tournament semi finals short version: this time you've got to fight antares. and although it's a good thing that you need to beat him so he doesn't face the hetero trio (who would make him a lost one), things will get messy before the end of this next round. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- anatres : master against student short version: haseo and antares are going to fight it out, man to man. all out, holding nothing back. lets give him a match to be proud of. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- pi : sakaki short version: i don't know abut you, but i am getting sick and tired of having to deal with this @$$hole. the sooner he gets removed from his dictatorship the better. anyway, cc corp thinks sakaki can control aida. which is an obvious lie, but they're really desprate at this point and have little choice but to believe what sakaki is telling them. they've been backed into a corner as much as you have. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- kuhn : message from pi short version: pi is toughing it out as she's working against time and even her own company. this are looking bad. haseo has got to buy her more time to work with. ---------------------------------time to get this on with. as you log-in you'll see some scenes with sakaki and the higher-ups from cc corp. apperentally, cc corp/ isnt happy with what sakaki is up to, but like haseo: they have little choice in the matter. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ----------------------------------

transfer to the arena.

----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------save, then head for the next match at the counter.

------------------------------------ 11)tournament: semi finals -----------------------------------------party:haseo (112),atoli (112),kuhn (112) -opponets: antartes (110), bigwig (106),daikoku (106) -before the fight advice: your best bet for winning this match is just going right for antares. although considering the levels i'm having you train to you will probably be able to handel these guys fairly easily. just keep an eye on antares, he likes to counter attack you alot. good luck, see you on the other side. and watch all the scenes afterward. if you thought things were bad before, they are about to get alot worse. ------------------------------

don't say i didn't warn you this might happen. haseo's been found out and now everyone knows he has special powers. even though sakaki is wrong in saying that haseo's character is hacked. haseo didn't hack his

character, cc corp made it with special abilites. no, haseo's power is one of the 8 pillars and foundation on which the game was built. in other words, haseo's power has been around since the game was created. he's just the first one to use it. -------------------------------movie- incrimination short version/main points: this fricking little movie shows haseo when he first gained the abilty to use his avatar. if you remember correctly, he didn't use it very wisely and made some mistakes. well sakaki uses these to his advantage and shows them to everyone out of context to what happened. -------------------------------ok, so basicly haseo was about to be banned from the game completly when taihaku shows and says that he will deal with haseo personally. that if sakaki will allow haseo to stay in the game, taihaku will face and beat haseo in the title match. of course your fear concerning saku and endrance have been confirmed. they've sided with sakaki...... well, thankfully the pride of taihaku just saved haseo's @$$ from being banned from the game which would end the hope of saving shino. now, all that's left is to do you best and face taihaku in the title match.

log-out when you leave the arena. ----------------------------------e-mail- antares : quest short version: he says it'd be nice to have some fun and go on a quest. you know just to blow off some steam about what happened in the arena. ----------------------------------

-warning!(if anyone reading this guide is easily offened by crude remarks using the word 'gay', i ask that you ignore the following e-mail and that you skip it. thankyou.)

----------------------------------e-mail- sakaki : to the dirty, cheating 'terror of death' short version: sakaki wants to tell you that he likes men and is very gay. and enjoy's aida becuase of his gayness and futher more he wants you to know that he, sakaki, is a little man touch on top of being gay. aside from being gay, sakaki tells you he has the power to mind control people with aida. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: some people talking about dissapointed they are in haseo. but as the posts go on several people start realizing that things aren't adding up. well, anyway, there some pics in the apkulla. ----------------------------------

ok, well anyway, lets get on with things. we got to move it so we can hurry and un-thrown sakaki. time for some training. log-in (transfer to breg epona) ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------add atoli and kuhn to your party and head out for a new area to train at.

-----------------------------random)sceaming, wrath's, pure bred---------------------------------area type: field area level: 116 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 112

kill monsters, get items, earn money, est. you know the drill: reach level 114 then continue on.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------first take care of the basics: restock the guild shop, restock items for atoli and haseo, and look around for armor and weapons upgrades. next, if you managed to get your hands on a pair of lvl 113 twin swords. i suggest equiping them now. also, it wouldn't be a bad idea to start looking around for equipment that is around lvl 110-120. ok, i want you to head to hidden,forbidden, sacrament. you should have enough virus cores to upgrade atoli's lost weapon, proabaly twice. after that, remove kuhn from your party and add antares. you need to get the following equipment: haseolvl 113 twin swords lvl 101 broad sword lost weapon scythe-upgrade lvl 3 lvl 108 heavy armor lvl 95 acessory atolilost weapon staff- upgrade lvl 2 lvl 101 robes lvl 95 acessory antareslvl 101 sword lvl 101 light armor lvl 95 acessory

once you have all of this, head for the quest shop and accept the new quest.

---------------------------( quest )---------------------------

----- 4)steam professor's reshearch ----------------------------------------------- 12)undercover, lakeside's, metal beast(q) ---------------------------------------area type: field area level: 108 party: haseo,atoli, antares my level: 114

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all the monsters in this are will be a cake walk. this quest is rather simple once you know how exactly to do it. 1st: you need to go to three of the alters and defeat the monsters there. you will place one of the wave generators everytime you defeat an enemy party of monsters. 2nd: when all the generators are place, begin to walk around the edge of the lake, eventually you will encounter the enemy boss. just use your scythe to pound him to death. it's not that hard of a fight. when you finish you'll return to town and auto finish the quest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------once done, log-out. ----------------------------------"crimsion vs"if you check crimsonvs you'll notice that by this time you've managed to get your rank down to #1. all with the same deck. =) told you it'd work, heheh. my record was about 550 wins and only 100 losses. don't do the title match just yet, save it for later if you want. ---------------------------------when done with that, check your e-mails. ----------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notice of tournament finals short version: it's time to face off with the hetero trio. the infected players who are being mind controled by sakaki. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notice of campaign comencment short version: same old same old. ---------------------------------well my friends, time to log-in and get this show on the road.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------add atoli and kuhn to your party first. transfer over to the arena. ----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------save. then it's time to face off in the finals with the infected players.

------------------------------------ 13)tournament:final round -----------------------------------------party:haseo (114),atoli (114),kuhn (114) -opponets: hetero (109), leucistic (107), axanthis (107) -before the fight advice: you're best bet is just to kill the leader, but considering how completly awsome you are now that you're lvl 114, you will completly own these guys. so it's really not a big deal. the biggest thing you'll have to worry about is the fact that these guys are very very good at counter attacking you. so watch yourself. when you get their hp down a ways, a scene will happen and you will enter an avatar battle. ------you see, the herto trio aren't the bad guys, they're as much the victums of sakaki's rein of terror as you are. they've been forced to do things that they'd rather not. they been controled by sakaki.....poor guys.... time to set them free. ----------------------------------boss fight!: aida my level: 114 -enemy attacks: normal slash- the aida will come right at you. as soon as it gets in range it'll slash at you with it's arms. wait till it gets close then dash to the side to avoid being pumbled.

archene shot- shoots spider web stuff at you. either slash through it or dash to the side to avoid. kobold bullet- it will unleash loads of shots at you, wait until the last second and then slash away at them as them come at you. archno trap- this is like one of magus' attack. at the lines expand just stay still. as the come down move a little to the right. as they come back up, move back to where you were, a little to the left.

-stragedy: this fight is very simular to the fight you had with the aida that infected bouxdeau. only this fight will be slightly easier. the biggest thing it to pound away with shots as much as possible and to stun as often as you can. the attacks from this aida can really rack up over time. so try not to get hit too much. once it protect breaks, charge up data drain while dodgeing the incomming shoots. when it's fully charaged wait till the aida stops and let it rip. you can get in close for more of a point black range target if you think it'll help you more. it works better sometimes. ----------------------------------after the battle watch the scenes. when it's all over with, log-out. ----------------------------------e-mail- atoli : it's almost time short version: she says that she has something to talk to you about, and if you want it'd be nice to do a quest. well, i think you should take her up on the offer,cause this quest is the most intresting one in the whole game....... -------------------------------------------------------------------forums: short version: just someone offering quest advice that isnt that great seeing as mine is more detailed. =p ---------------------------------ok, time to log-in. ----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ----------------------------------

transfer over to breg epona. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------before we head out you have some training to do. i know, i know. it proabaly isn't high on your to do list, but trust me. you need to do this. there's a boss fight comming up that is not easy and if you don't level up now, you'll have to do alot of leveling up later. our new objective is to reach level 116. so add atoli and kuhn to your party and lets get going.

--------------------------------random) screaming, wrath's, two wings------------------------------------area type: field area level: 118 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 114 you should be able to get plenty of good items here. do what you gotta do and get back to town when you reach level 116. if you found yourself comming up short with exp, then go to another area and finish off leveling up.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you get back to town first take care of the basics: save, items, restock guild shop, and keep an eye out for new equipment. when all that's done go to the quest shop and accept the new quest.

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 3)story of kudan ---------------------------------- 14)looming, muddled, seer(q) ---------------------------------area type: temple dungeon

area level: 110 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 116 this is probably my favorite quest in the whole game series. although it seems to be your run of the mill quest, it has a very intresting and unexpected out come. use fairy orb. then have atoli cast 'ap do' on all party members for faster movment speed. 1st block: nothing really too important. just get to the second block 2nd block: not much, just get to block 3. 3rd block: you need to head for the center room in the far south of the block. you'll see a scene, afterward run up to the kudan and give it three good kicks right in a row. that will trigger some scenes where it will fortell your future for you.....unlike you're local fortune teller. this little bugger acutally is giving you a true prediction of your future! "a grave danger that is creeping up on our world...." "a resurrecting demon and the abominable army of death that follows him..." "and you are destined to take part in the great battle to come..." "and when all is done that must finially be done..." "you will have a surprising and unexpected encounter...." you'll auto finsh the quest, and you'll get a peek at what might happen at the ending of the game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------well, when that's over, i don't want you to log-out just yet. there's one more quest you need to do before running off to the title match. go to the quest shop and accept the only other quest that is avalible right now. being that this is a solo quest. remove atoli and kuhn from your party. note!- before you enter this quest i should warn you now, if you did

not complete the bike missions in vol 2 and so earn the rare bike parts from said missions: you will find this quest rather difficult to complete. your best chance at success is to go to the bike parts shop in breg epona and buy the best bike parts that you can find. --best bike parts from breg epona: 210 engine type 800 armor type 800 muffler 190 tires --best bike parts from vol 2 bike missions: kirisame engine kurogane armor tidal muffler night tires well, with that said, lets get on with things. ---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 7)the goblins are comming! ---------------------------------- 15)running, speed's, rider(q) ---------------------------------area type: highland canyon area level: 96 party: haseo,(none), (none) my level: 116 ok, you have to survive 4 rounds of tag with the goblins. --round 1--haseo, the terror of death vs. stehoney ok, the first two arent all that hard. start off and run into some chims to fill one of the nitro guages. next chase after the goblin. wait until you're right behind him then hit the r1 button for a boost. if he's turing you cut in on the inside of his turn you can cut him off and nail him. --round 2-haseo, the terror of death vs. jonue this one is pretty easy, just fill the nitro guage and give chase. you have to hit him twice though in order to beat him. --round 3-haseo, the terror of death vs. zyan and albert

pick one of the two and just go for him. remember to cut them off in their turns and to use the nitro. you need to hit albert 3 times

and zyan 2 times to beat them.

--final round-haseo, the terror of death vs. martina, the speedy

this one is considerably harder. you have to hit her 3 times and she gets faster everytime you hit her. just use the same strgedys as you have with the other goblins and you'll win. when it's over you'll complete the quest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------well, now that that's done. we can move on. log-out. it's time to put sakaki in his place. it's time to revolt.

----------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notice of title match short version: yes my firends. it's time to rescue taihaku from aida, time to over throw sakaki, and it's time for the begining of the end. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notic of champaign commencment short version: same old stuff. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notic of champaign commencment

short version: same old stuff. if you want to do the bike missions for vol 3, then talk to kufa in dol dona. -------------------------------------------------------------------forums: short version: just some pics for your background. ---------------------------------alright then, lets log-in and get read to go. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------add atoli and kuhn to your party and lets go.

----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------save! then head for the arena counter.

now ladies and gentelmen, the moment you've been waiting for since vol 1. the title match with the saga palace emperor. taihaku, one of the strongest players in the whole game. one of only two conquerors of the 'forest of pain'. now is the moment. will haseo beat the infected taihaku and win his third straight title match, or will haseo's luck finially run out when facing aida. ----------------------------------- 16)tourtament: title match -----------------------------------------party:haseo (116),atoli (116),kuhn (116) -opponets: taihaku (113), endrance (109), sakubo (109) -before the fight advice: well, there's good news and bad news. the good news is that taihaku has decided to fight you solo with out endrance or sakubo. the bad news is that he's still really hard to beat. this is a hard battle my friends, get buckeled down, this is going to hurt. start off using you're twin sword and pound on taihaku as much as you can to begin with. taihaku may attempt to use dust bullet on

you, you can counter attack this with your own arts. his other major attack you need to watch out for is his magic crimple spell. it bascily slows you way down and makes it impossable to use arts or spells for about 15 seconds. the best thing you can do is attemp to run away from taihaku when he uses this skill. as soon as he stops walking toward you, make sure to block. becuase taihaku will raise his sword and fire a shot into the air that will damage you if you're not blocking. and what every you do, do not use arts unless you are counter-attacking. the reason is because, well taihaku will counter you and it won't be prety. the best thing is just to wail on him with you twin swords using regular attacks. then when taihaku goes to use skills, just counterattack him. the match will end when he has about 500 hp left. watch the scenes until you're ready to face off with an avatar battle. ------------------------------

-------------------------------movie- devouring dark short version/main points: haseo almost get consumed by aida when he destroy's tiahaku's sword. but thankfully atoli was there to bring him back and he was able to fight off aida's infection. -------------------------------as the match with taihaku ends sakaki gets angry and decideds to take matters into his own hands. he jumps down into the arena and is about to finish off haseo when....ta-da! endrance saves the day by stabing him in the back. see endrance would never really betray haseo, he was just looking for a chance to make his move. good thing too. anyway, sakaki goes aida/avatar style and summons his aida. --------------------------------

movie- purge short version/main points: because of haseo's close brush with aida, he is unable to summon skeith by himslef, so atoli, kuhn, and endrance all led him their strength to summon his avatar and fight sakaki. alright! time to finially finish off sakaki. --------------------------------

----------------------------------boss fight!: aida my level: 116 -enemy attacks: normal slash- the aida will do a nifty little spin move to wind up and then charge you, where it will slash away at you. dashing is the best way to avoid this attack. normal shot- sakaki's aida will fling feathers at you, slash to break through this attack. royal bullet- lots of shots homing in on you. basicly wait till the last second then slash. excelent ray- basicly sakaki will fire off a couple lasers at you. just continue to dash out of the way to avoid this. elegent orb- this is one of the best ways to stun sakaki's aida. he will form an orb of dark energy and then launch it at you. you can hit it back at him if you complete a full slash combo on it. just dont slash back too soon or you wont perform the full combo correctly. -stragedy: just keep blasting away with shots until he stuns, the best opertunity to stun him is during his normal shots. then move in quick for some slashes. eventually he will protect break, when he does do your best to avoid getting hit, then move in close and let data drain rip.

other then that, not alot to say. just make sure to enjoy the scenes after the fight. they are rather good. well, i mean except for the fact that endrance keeps plegeding gay love to haseo.... but other then that they are rather good. ----------------------------------well now. sakaki fell into the outer dungeons after the avatar battle with haseo. where, of course, he met ovan. it seems that ovan has been pulling the strings the entire time. sakaki was only acting under orders

from him. great. well anyway, it seems ovan was only using sakaki becuase he up and leaves him to face 3 very unhappy people at that point the azure trio shows up and puts sakaki in his place. thank god, it's about time he finially died. well, now it's time to start in on the next section of the game.

anyway, back in town. ----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------save, then head over to mac anu ----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------well, looks like you can finally use raven to meet at again. go and see how pi's been doing.

---------------------------------------------key of the twilight -------------------------------------------

as you enter raven you see some scenes with pi. she explains that she found yata in the real world and that at the moment he's asleep. however it's going to take some convincing to get him to return to the game and resume work for cc corp after their betrayal. well, there's not alot you can do at the moment so log-out and check your mail. you've got a long list of e-mails. and you need to read them going from bottom to top, other wise they might not all make sense.

----------------------------------e-mail- pi : about yata short version: pi just talks about yata and how he's doing. but haseo points out that only pi really understands him. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- ovan : congratulations short version: ovan gives you a very clear explaination of what's been going on. i don't think i need to re-cap on it as it was very well explained. really all i can say is this: although everything he's doing seems so cruel and so wronge. ovan doesn't enjoy what he's doing. he's doing it because he has to. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- taihaku : to haseo short version: he says he has something important to talk to you about. he says he'll meet you at the icolo @home. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- gaspard : you're the champion short version: he says congrats and that canard will be really really famous now. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- silabus : congrats on your 3 rank sweep short version: he says congrats and now things are getting back to normal in the towns and what not. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- matsu : atta boy! short version: says congrats even tho he lost. says he's still going to try and rebuild moon tree. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------e-mail- antares : good job short version: haseo still denies that he is antares' student, lol =p ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: just some random pictures. ----------------------------------

well time to log-in and go talk to some ppl. ----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------save, before you do anything. before you run off to meet taihaku. go out into the city and get on your steam bike. enjoy a nice long ride down to the harbor, where you need to board the ship and head for the isle of kings. there you'll have an event with the announcer for the tournaments. it's not really like the other times you've been there, no one is there, just you and the announcer. when the event is over head back to the ship and sail back to town. when you get back head to the chaos gate and warp over to the arena. ----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------i know you haven't been to icolo in awhile, but it's behind the chaos gate. look on the map if you're really lost. as you enter you'll see some scenes with taihaku. they're pretty sweet. not alot to point out in their conversation. however. i will say this. ---speculation time---when haseo asked, "if that's how you feel then why are you even in "the world"?

taihaku replies, "who knows." there are some of us who've been with the series for awhile. and some, not all, of us think that taihaku was once a very well known character from the original games. i've been hinting at his true idenity for awhile. here's the evidence to back this up: 1- taihaku is one of the strongest players in the game. 2- in //roots he was talking with ovan about doing the forest of pain quest. and taihaku mentions he wonders where aura went. (meaning he was one of only a few people to acctually know about her existence. this very possibly places him in the group of the original .hackers from the original series. 3- this character is the type of person who would always keep playing "the world" even after r1 got shut down. add it all up and you get:

taihaku = bulmung

granted there's no absolute proof of this. but i like to believe it's true. taihaku reminds me alot of what an older, more grown up version of bulmung would be like. but hey, that's just what me and a couple other people think. there's no solid proof. ------------------------when you get done there's a short mail from saku. and get ready for this one, because this is intresting. head to the back alley behind the arena counter, you know like where the black market sales person is, yeah there. go now. as you approch the place, a scene happens. watch and enjoy.

saku admits that she doesn't exisit in the real world. (see i told you so in my guide from vol 2. and i was only making an educated guess) so anyway, she tells haseo that because he, atoli, and kuhn are looking out for bo now, that

she isn't needed anymore. and she's leaving.......

afterward you'll get some e-mails. however! i do not want you to log-out just yet. because of upcomming events you need to level up just a little bit. you should currently be level 116, you need to get to level 118. this isn't nessacary for the upcoming event, but it will be nessacary to get to level 120 a little after that. which means it only makes sense to level up a little now instead of doing it all at once when you are itching to find out what happens next.......... ok that was a really long and unnesscary explanation. never mind. just, level up. go to the chaose gate and warp over to breg epona ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------add atoli and kuhn to your party and lets get a move on.

---------------------------------random)screaming, wrath's, alga grass -------------------------------------area type: field area level: 119 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 116 ok, first off, hopfully you have the keywords for this area. second, hopfully you didn't get above level 116. because, there is a lucky animal here that is very worth getting. the reason being that this lucky animal will give you accessory materials, and especially an item called: sapphire eye that renders the user +50% exp. now, what you want to do is go to this area and find the lucky animal (on the north most island). kick it then leave the area and go back to town. then enter the area again. and repeat the process, until you have 3 sapphire eyes. keep one for haseo, give one to atoli and the other to kuhn. (note: every time you get a sapphire eye, put it into storage. other wise

the lucky animal wont give you another one.) this will make things easy in the future. or at least better. -after you get 3 sapphire eyes, then you can begin to train. (make sure you customize your party's equipment when ever you train) this area doesn't really have many good monsters to level up on. so i won't be suprised if you need to visit one or two more areas to reach level 118.

-------------------------------random)screaming, muddled, dead wood-----------------------------------area type: field area level: 120 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 117 there's lot of good stuff to kill here. so train away until you reach level 118.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------hopefully you came across a certian peice of armor that kuhn can use now, it's a level 118 light armor. make sure kuhn puts it to good use. now then,make sure to switch everyone back to their normal set-up with their accessory materials. take care of the normal chores: items, equipment, restock guild shop, ect.

log-out and check you mail. read the e-mails (on the game) from the bottom to top so that they make sense. ----------------------------------e-mail- taihaku : forest of pain short version: he askes you to save alkaid and sirius -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : coronation ceremony postponed

short version: yeah, that sucks, but what do you expect. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sakubo (bo) : my sister short version: wow, talk about weird. bo wants saku to stay..... -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- pi : yata short version: yata has gone mia in the real world and pi and no idea where he went to. she wants everyone to come to raven. asap. ---------------------------------ok, time to get down to bussiness. log-in and lets go.

as you start to log-in there'll be some scenes with ovan and yata. and you learn some intresting things. continue when the scenes end.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when you enter the city, select the chaos gate and head to mac anu.

----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------now, you knwo the drill, head off to raven. when you enter raven, scenes will ensue. watch them all and then continue with the guide.

pi's taken over in yata's absence from the serpent of lore. she mentions that the position is free since cc corp big wigs are still trying to figure out who to blame the sakaki problem on. i mean, it was a royal mess after all. -------------------------------movie- crazed yata short version/main points: not sure what was up with that. looks like yata is awakening. and it doesn't look fun, in fact he looks completly crazed to me. -------------------------------pi wants you to go with her and beat a hastey path to where yata is. well, alright then. lets get going!!

head for the chaos gate. warp to breg epona ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------add atoli and pi to your party, make sure pi is set to 'free-will' under the stragedy menu. save before you head out. ------------------------------------- 17)ethical, prodigy's, prophecy------------------------------------area type: jungel dungeon area level: 110

party: haseo,atoli, pi my level: 118 heheh, it's time. time for haseo to become fully grown, fully matured. floor 1when you enter this dungeon use a fairy ord and speed spells from atoli. the make a b-line for the beast statue on the loswest floor. floor 2nothing special, just keep moving to the next floor. floor 3just head for the north east room. and prepare for a boss fight.

you see some scenes where yata's avatar goes berserk. not good! ok haseo, lets do this. ----------------------------------boss fight!: fidchell my level: 118 -enemy attacks: normal shot- fidchell will fire off a wave of shots, much like gorre from vol 2. you can slash throgh these shots or dash to avoid. spinning death- fidchell takes the mask from his face and throws it at skeith. this is just like the tiger claw attack from the azure flame god. just deflect the attack when it comes near you with on flick of your scythe. quadra halo- the four disks surrounding fidchell will line up and fire a battry of energy beams at you. you have to be very very carfull. hold still and the beams will miss you when they fire. then they'll start to move (ussally to the right) just bearly tilt the joy stick to move with the beams safely in the small space between the beams. data drain- use the two fingure technique i taught you and smash the x and square button fast. you should be able to break free qucikly. lesser data drain- fidchell will form a lesser form of dd and will shoot it at you. if you perform a full combo of slash on it, it will rebound on fidchell and stun him.

-stragedy: just keep pounding him with shots. the best chance to stun him is when he unleases his rapid fire two or three times in a row. you ussally can land enough hits to get him to stun. his thing where he likes to dissapear and reappear else where can get annoying. he should always appear to the left. --when he protect breaks charge dd and watch out for his rapid fire. dash to the right or left to avoid. also, he'll attempt to run to the side as to make it so you cant hit him with dd while he's moving. therefore you have to hit him with dd when he goes to fire off his shots at you. you'll know this is comming when he dissapears and shows up to the left. you'll have to be quick on the trigger to get him. good luck. ----------------------------------watch the scenes that take place afterward and then continue.

well, that was intresting. anyway, grab the beast statue treaure and head back to town. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------training time! ......again. >_<

head back to that least field you used to train at. this time we need to hit level 120. -------------------------------random)screaming, muddled, dead wood-----------------------------------area type: field area level: 120 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 118 there's lot of good stuff to kill here. so train away until you reach level 120. it shouldn't be too hard with

everyone having sapphire eyes to boost the amount of exp. you should be able to get several new lvl 120 accessories here.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------ok, now. on top of restock the guild shop and getting the normal items for atoli and haseo. i want you to look over this list of equipment and get this stuff if you can. ---haseo: twin swords- lvl 113 spin nezumi (fire att, drain 10% hp) broad sword- lvl 117 broad dowan (fire att, drain 10% sp) scythe- lvl 75 ticking death (upgrd lvl 3) armor- lvl 116 rough red bone (-10% magic, -25% phy) accessory- simple slant hood (-10% all sp consumption) ---atoli: staff- dancing haze lvl 75 (upgrd lvl 2) armor- sub habit lvl 118 (-10% magic, -25% phy) accessory- simple slant hood (-10% all sp consumption) ---kuhn: steam gun- silent jade (upgrd lvl 2) armor- loose wyvern lvl 118 (-10% magic, -25% phy) accoessory-simple slant hood (-10% all sp consumption) --(note: you may need to go to hidden, forbidden, sacrament inorder to upgrade atoli and kuhn's lost weapons.

when done log-out. as you log-out you'll see some scenes with ovan, he does a little vitory dance becuase he's finally managed to get all the avatar user to awaken. but, his celebration is short lived. aina dissapeared to some where and ovan is all worried and stuff.

when you reach you're desktop, you'll have a number of e-mails. (read them in game from bottom to top) ----------------------------------e-mail- pi : gu to resume acctivites

short version: pi tells you that yata got his job back. on one condition: take care of aida, and do it fast. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- yata : the future of gu short version: he tells you that now all 8 epitaph users have awakened. it's also likly ovan will be ready to move soon. yata is having pi locate ovan. for now, he says you should stand by and wait. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- yata : stories from the past short version: ahhh, finially some more confermation on the fact that yata was once a key member of the .hackers. he says he and ovan were both fellow hackers. and friends. at some point ovan changed. that's when things started happening. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- pi : aida signal short version: she says a very strong aida signal is comming from breg epona. that really might not be good at all. i mean: aida in a town! yikes! better look into it, and fast. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sakubo (saku) : just in case short version: read the e-mail and hit the x button. reply: "bo's big sister" ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: there's an awesome rumor on the boards. it's really good stuff, especially since it will affect the game just a little later on. i'll give a full explanation when it comes up again later. for now i'll leave you hanging with the fact that net slum is still around. ---------------------------------when done, save and log-in.

----------------------------------town: breg epona -------

---------------------------as you enter you'll see some scenes with bo and aina. then you'll meet up with pi. afteward, go to the warp point and warp to the "3 way junction". from there, either ride your steam bike or walk down to the end of the alley way. you'll see some quick scenes where aina and bo dissapear. add atoli and pi into your party and lets area hack the anomily. press r1 after you have your party together. this will lead you into an outer dungeon. ---------------outer dungeon--------------this place is pretty simply really. just follow the path like and s curve until you end up at the south middle most room. it shouldnt be hard to figure out. aslo, you'll have to fight all the monsters in the dungeon in order to progress the story. good luck.

at the end, you search renders nothing. well,return to town and log-out.

----------------------------------e-mail- gaspard : i'm not afraid of any ghost short version: he says there's a rumor on the comunity forum. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------forums: short version: this guy said he saw a little girl. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------e-mail- pi : ghost girl short version: pi says she contacted the player who saw the girl. he'll meet you in the back streets of breg epona. ---------------------------------log-in

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------again warp to the '3 way split' and head down the alley. you'll meet the guy at the end of the path. he says he's not talking about it and takes off. at that point you hear yelling from the bike shop area. head back up to the shops to see whats up: hopfully a group of angry players has finially decided to string up piros and kill him. unfortunitly no. piros comes bounding through saying he knows the key words to the location of the ghost girl. take his tip and head for the chaos gate. add atoli and pi to your party. ---------------------------------- 18)fading, moonflower, glory ---------------------------------area type: temple dungeon area level: 115 party: haseo,atoli, pi my level: 120 1st blockthis is one of those crazy warp point puzzels. i'll do my best to map it out for you guys. --------------------------------------------|-| | | |_|

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--------------------------------------------directions: -from start go and use warp point 1 to get to warp points 2 and 3. (2 is north of 3) -use warp point 3 to get to warp points 4 and 5 (4 is north of 5) - use warp point 4 to get to warp point 6 -from warp point 6, walk to exit of block

2nd blockagain you have another maze, but this one isn't as bad. ----------------------------[start]-[ ]-[1]-[3] | | [exit]-[8] [4]-[2] [5]-[4*]

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------------------------------directions: -use warp point 4 to get to 4* (yes 4,other ones are useless) -walk to warp point 5 and use it to get to warp points 6 and 7. - use warp point 7 to get to warp point 8 (7 is north of 6) -from warp point 8 walk to exit

3rd blockthis block is more or less straight forward. just head straight, don't turn south. you'll see the screne flicker in the second room. press r1 to area hack. chose to warp. --------------outer dungeon-------------and here yet again is a new maze. follow these instructions. -----------------------------[3]-[ ] [ ]-[start] | | [4 5] [ ]--[ ]-[1]

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-----------------------------directions: -take warp point 3 to warp points 4 and 5 (4 is west and slighly north of 5) -take warp point 5 to 6/the finish. finially, you reached the end. well now, that could have been worse. watch the scenes and enjoy.

when done head back to town. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------when the cut scenes are over, log-out.

----------------------------------e-mail- antares : quest short version: he says he's got a quest for you to go on. sounds like a plan to me. lets go. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sakubo (saku) : re: bo's big sister short version: reply: white chrysanthemum -------------------------------------------------------------------forums: short version: some usless quest advice, some comments on the ghost girl rumor, and some pics. ---------------------------------right then. time to do a bounty hunter's quest.

----------------------------------town: breg epona -------

---------------------------add atoli and antares to your party. the head to the quest shop and accept the bounty hunter related quest.

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 1)lawless fort -------------------------------------------- 19)vulnerable, barren, safe house(q) -------------------------------------------area type: jungel dungeon area level: 116 party: haseo, atoli, antares my level: 120

----floor 1 this floor is prety simple. you'll find the there is more or less one central path to follow to get to the next floor. along the way, no matter which way you go, you'll run into the pkers you need to find and defeat. use fairy orb and atoli's speed+ spell to hurry the process along. --pker's group #1-greedy cervantes: easy enough, just pound away. broad sword is a good idea. --pker's group #2-garden michelle: take him out second. broad sword might be best here. fiery genie-five: take her out first. scythe is a good idea here.

----floor 2 central path, all the way. --pker's group #3-wicked ibaku: take him out second. he has a certian amount of physical tolerance that will wear off as you continue to fight him. it take awhile. wicked gerango: take him out first. he has no physical tolerance and there for easyier to take care of.

----floor 3 five down, five to go. really this last floor you'll have have to wonder around a bit to find everyone.but ultimatly you need to head to the west and north most side of the dungeon. really it doesn't matter, the pkers are located in such a way that you'll fight them no matter what. you really don't need to go looking for them. --pker's group #4-immortal goriki: scythe is the best idea here. --pker's group #5-these guys are your final challenge and they are really not that hard. just use your scythe and keep using arts over and over. you'll be just fine. when it's over with, you'll warp back to town. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------right then. you know it suprises me how haseo can always tell when he's about to get an e-mail. =p at any rate, i suggest putting the main story on hold for just alittle bit. normally i'd be telling you to run off and advance the story as fast as possible. i mean i know you're probably itching to see what's about to happen and all. but before you do i need to mention something. i know you must be feeling pround of yourself being all like level 120 and all but to be completly honest you are not strong enough. not yet. see there is an upcomming boss battle. and although it's all exciting and stuff. i garantee you won't be albe to beat it at level 120. i know because i tried and it's just not possible. however if you gain just a few more levels this boss battle goes form unbeatable to completely do-able. so, you need to get yourself to level 125. so, unfortunitly, it's time to train.

-------------------------------random)agonizing, warth's, generation-----------------------------------area type: field area level: 124 party: haseo, atoli, kuhn my level: 120 when you get here, switch everyone's accessory material to the sapphire eye for the +50% exp bonus. proceed to kill eveything in sight. this is a prety good area to train at. i managed to just barly get level 123. remember that at level 122 you can use a better set of twin swords. ---------------------------------random)unselfish, warth's, fast horse-------------------------------------area type: field area level: 126 party: haseo, atoli, kuhn my level: 123 (but just barely) "take what you can; give nothing back." kill you some monsters. and don't come back till you have.

---------------------------------random)unselfish, warth's, hand song-------------------------------------area type: field area level: 127 party: haseo, atoli, kuhn my level: 124 kill everything in sight till your party reachs level 125.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------note: around this time in the game you'll probably start

comming across key items called "cheat codes". you get them from area hacking normal areas. they are very usfull as they will allow you to alchemize weapons, armor ,and accessories that are rarity lvl 5. in other words you can upgrade equipment that normally would not be allowed to be upgraded. however, you can't use this ability just yet. soon, but not yet. just try and collect as many 'cheat codes" as you can.

also, there is one more quest at the quest shop for the game. it's another gold goblins related quest. and the only reason i mention it is because of the reward for completeing the quest and/or the bike missions. if you finish the quest you will be awarded with an accessory that will render you invisable to monsters while in the fields or dungeons. this is very usfull for advoiding fights you simply dont want to deal with. but more importantly, with out this item, the hidden quest for vol 3 becomes almost impossible to beat. so, reguardless of weither you chose to do this now, or later, is up to you. but for advantage sake i'm going to cover the bike missions and this last quest right now. after all the bike missions would be kinda useless after you do this final goblin quest (which is an actual race against all 5 gold goblins)

------note: remember, you don't have to do this now. but it will certianly be to your advantage. for the walkthrough on the 'bike trials' #1-5, see my guide for vol 2. in order to do the bike trails simply go to the chaos gate, make sure the first key word is "passing". use the other two slots to adjust which bike mission the field is set up for. you can tell which trial you're doing by looking at the field mission.

-----------------------------------------------bike missions----------------------------------------------------(optional) i highly suggest doing bike trials 1-5 before attempting to do 6-10. the reason being is that you will recive some of the rare bike parts (not all becuase there are a few that can only be gained by getting them from vol 2) if you find yourself unable to get those bike parts. i suggest going to the breg epona bike store and buying the best bike parts you can afford.

now, once ready, lets get going. i'll be writing the guide assuming you got the bike parts from vol 2 and bike missions 1-5. note: in order to actually start the bike missions, you must first visit the campign npc in dol dona. he's a duck looking npc (kafu) that is right across from the warp point near the town's @home. once you've talked to him you may begin the bike trials. also, notice that i can only give you general advice on how to beat these races. when it comes down to it, you have to do it yourself. just remember that if you continue to do these trials over and over and over. eventually you will get good enough to beat them. just keep at it. -----------------------bike trial #6 -----------------------example: (passing,warth's, benadonna) note:do not get a field that is cloudy, foggy, or dark. you always want areas that are day time. engine: kirisame engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: tidal muffler tires: night tires ok, then. 1) begin with a boost start. you can do this by holding down the square and x button at the same time. this will change the boost.(signaled by white steam comming out of muffler) when the counter says go! release the square button (brake) and you will launch forward. 2) swerve to the left to hit the first row of chims. keep hitting the r1 button when doing this to activate the nitro as soon as possible. 3) after the second group of chims prepare to do a 180 degree turn around the curve. (it's a sharp one) 4)collect the next row of chim and boost into the turn. clip the edge of the king (check point) and head for the bridge) 5) hit the chims on the bridge and turn a hard right. 6) follow the arrow to the last king. look for chims along the way. for 1st place you will get the: kogane armor. not very useful, but it's a start.

--------------------------------------now that you've gotton 1st place, i want you to go to kafu and view your record with him, this should render rewards: some useful, some not. -----------------------bike trial #7 -----------------------example: (passing,warth's, fast horse) engine: 210 engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: type 800 muffler tires: night tires this is a hard corse just because there is so little room for mistakes. however with the 210 engine that provides the best max speed. you might just make it. 1)boost start as soon as it says go. 2)keep pressing r1 so you will boost as soon as guage is full. 3) drive straight ahead, as you approch the first king wait until you are almost there then jerk the joy stick down. this will cause you to perform a sliding u-turn. if you time it right you will swipe through the king at the furthest point in the sliding turn. in other words you will slide into the king as you perform the u-turn rather then after you've already passed through it. 4) stear to the left as soon as you complete the u-turn and head to the king on your left. do the same u-turn move to clip the king. 5) boost toward the last king with as much speed as you can beat out of your bike. if you have the above, you should be able to beat this mission. reward: big wave muffler. useful for offsetting the 210 engine's lack of acceleration. --------------------------------------two down three to go. -----------------------bike trial #8 -----------------------example: (passing,wrath's hand song) engine: 210 engine armor: kurogane armor

muffler: big wave muffler tires: night tires this course thing is to then trying through the

isnt as hard as you might think. really the biggest run through it once or twice to get the feel for things. it again at full speed. the trick here is to cut corners s-curves at hte begining and the end.

1) boost start. get the first batch of chim while turning right. 2)cut the first corner and head for the first king 3) as you get the first king, prepare for a 90 degree turn to the left. 4) turn left again at the bridge. 5) go up the hill clip the king and then down the hill on the next path down. 6) across the bridge and then an 90 degree turn to the left. 7)right after the bridge will be the biggest chance to gain time on the clock by cutting the corner in a slant through the s-curves. 8)boost toward the last king. reward: rain tires. one of the best tires. -------------------------------------------------------------bike trial #9 -----------------------example: (passing,warth's, two wings) engine: 210 engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: big wave muffler tires: rain tires 1)start boost. get the first row of chims. cut the first corner. no not use the bridge, it's not worth it. go around the 'long way' (which actualy is faster) hit the first king. 2) round the next corner (do not cut it took close) and hit the next kind. 3) then just drive right at the last king. reward:ayanami muffler. --------------------------------------ok, first off i highly suggest you empty your inventory of all unessacary items, because the reward items you get from this mission are amazing! like not even joking at all, the weapon/armor/ accessory materials are some of the rarest in the whole game and you will want to be able to keep as many as you can! -----------------------bike trial #10 ------------------------

example: (passing,black, arrows) engine: 210 engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: big wave muffler tires: rain tires this track is very easy compared to the others. 1)boost start, grab first row of chims. boost with nitro. 2) turn lighlty left to aim at first king. 3) steer throguh s-curves. 4) just before the 2nd kind is a 180 degree turn. follow the line of chim around the curve and don't try to cut it close or else you'll miss the king. 5) grab a row of chims to fill guage and boost. take the most direct path right to the last king. good luck. reward: akagane armor (best bike armor of the game) --------------------------------------save!! ok, the only thing left to do is go to kafu and see if you've completed 50 runs and collect 3000 chims. you'll get loads of great items for completeing the campign. --i highly suggest that any items that will raise you skill level, that you save them for later. now that you have all those sweet bike parts and your ride is now pimped out. it's time to give the gold goblins a good run for their money.

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 2)last salute of the gold goblins --------------------------------------------- 20)undetered, legerity's, goblin(q) -------------------------------------------area type: highland canyon area level: 101 party: haseo, (none), (none) my level: 125 ok, this quest is a five lap race against the golden goblins.

each goblin will run one lap. this is actually really easy. just follow the course counter clock wise. the bridge act's like your check point. you will get extra boost stock for every lap you complete. with your awesome pimped out bike, this will be a peice of cake. good luck. just make sure to keep to the inside of the turns and to get the group of chims on every lap, you should be fine. when done you will get an awesome accessory. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------!!!!!!!!!!!!note!!!!!!!!!!-----------do not! i repeat, do not under any circumstances get rid of the demon safe shoes. this accessory is customized with a certian material that is very very very very rare! infact it is only one of two opertunities to get it. and you must have one of the two in order to have any resonable chance of beating the hidden quest for vol. 3 aka-->

keep this item!!!!!

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ok, now that that is all taken care of and out of the way. it's time to move on with the story line. finially, log-out.

----------------------------------e-mail- pi : to gu members short version: she got some news for everyone. time to head to raven to see what's up. ----------------------------------

log-in. as you begin to log-in you'll see some scenes with ovan. watch first then continue.

-------------------------------movie- tragic scream short version/main points: you see one of ovan's memories. you witness ovan being infected with aida. and of course ovan goes nuts and can't control himself and he turns his powers on aina. --------------------------------

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------transfer over to the other server. ----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------head to raven. as you enter there'll be a big string of scenes. watch them all the continue.

yata and pi go over the prediction that fidhell made. the come to the conclusion that is it likly to refer to ovan and that he is the key to everything that has been happening. haseo says that ovan is the one behind aida, but of couse how can that be true if ovan sees the aida in his left arm as an enemy that hurt aina? so you see it's all a rather large mess and yata points out that it won't make any differnce to keep going. haseo suggest they go after ovan. and lo: ovan appears on the serpent of lore's display screne and he talks to everyone present. he suggest that because there's lots to talk about, they all get together for a chat. rather nice of him isn't it? i wonder if that chat includes haseo trying to kill ovan again? anyway, watch the rest of the stuff and then lets head out. we have the biggest story event since the end of vol 2 comming up.

head to the chaos gate and transfer over to the sigma server. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------add atoli and kuhn to your party. make sure to restock atoli's supply of healing itmes, make sure you have all the updated armor and other equipment. when it's all said and done: its just time to get on with things. it's time to find out the answer to the biggest question of the entire series: why is ovan doing all of this? -------------------------------------- 21)immersed, crime's, paraphrase -------------------------------------area type: forest dungeon area level: 119 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 125 1st block: equipe the demon safe shoes, use fairy orb, and cast ap do on all party members. you're only objective here is to move as quickly as you can through this dungeon and get to the outer dungeon. 2nd block: this one has some warp points involed but it's not a full blow maze. just follow the path and use the warp point at the end of each segment of path. just watch out: near the end of the block you'll run into two warp points side by side, use the one more to the south. not too hard.

3rd block: first off head more or less straight ahead toward the beast statue. claim the prize there. then head to the north east corner of the map. there use gate hacking to reach the outer dungeon. ------------------outer dungeon----------------fairy ord the map to discover that the place is a monsterious mess of warp points. peachy. well here's a map on how to conqure this maze: --------------------------------------[4,5,6]

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take 2 -> 3 (2 is south of 1) take 3 -> 4 take 5 -> 7 (5 is in the south west corner) take 7 -> 8 take 8 -> 'fin' -----------------------------------------once you reach the center platform, i would save. switch your accessory from the demon safe shoes to your normal lvl 120 accessory. the upcomming boss is not easy. then, when you're ready, area hack by pressing r1. then chose to warp. you'll watch alot of scenes before anything happens in terms of fighting. when the next boss battle is about to start, i'll give you adive on how to beat him. watch scenes then continue.

ovan starts talking to haseo about some stuff. like that the white room they are in is part of the black box folder from the previous version of the game. also that things will never be the way they once were, but rather there is no need for that. about that time haseo butts in and says he wants a straight answer: if ovan knows how to bring back the lost ones. ovan says that if haseo can deafeat ovan, there is a one in a million chance that shino will return. i'll explain this later. for now you have to worry about the fact that ovan will refuse to give you the truth unless you take it from him in a battle. so let's do just that......

----------------------------------boss fight!: ovan my level: 125 -enemy attacks: toss up- ovan will slash, spin, then blast you into the air. not fun and the only real way to deal with this attack is to run away. tri-edge attack- ovan will uses his aida arm and regualer arms to with a three blade attack just like he would make a tri-edge sign. lots of damage. not good, no way to avoid it. cannon blast- ovan will change a shot and unlease a death star style blast that will do alot of damage. jump smash- ovan will leap into the air and when he hits the ground will send out shock waves. just run away from him as he crouchs to jump. -stragedy: use twin swords to knock his health down fast. then use scythe once he begins to summon black orbs. switch between the two weapons as needed. use avatar awakening as much as possible and ,if it works out right, to finsh him off. - other advice: at level 120 this fight it pratically impossible. at lvl 125

it's very do-able. ----------------------------------a scene takes place half way through the action. ovan is begging haseo to destory him. now more then ever. destory him with a fully developed avatar. one who has fought and consumed all the other avatars. haseo, alone, who has fought atoli, kuhn, yata, sakubo,endrance, pi ,and ovan. and now, like last time, ovan summons his avatar. only this time, it's bigger and badder.

----------------------------------boss fight!: corbenik <2nd> my level: 125 ---enemy attacks: normal shot- he'll fire energy balls out of his aida arm. you can avoid these by simply moving to the right. no need to dash. you can if you want, but not nessacary. variant summon- he summons little aida to attack you. dash in fast and kill them qucikly with one hit. or use shots to blast them to peices. celestial wrath- ovan unleases a massive amount of shots into the air. these will rain down around you. you can avoid this by dashing very quickly to the right. don't stop dashing till the shots stop comming down around you. mental vampirism- he will fire a low power version of data drain at you. you can defeclt this back at him by using a combo on the engery ball. this is the only way to stun him in the second half of the battle. data drain- ovan will plaster you on the end of his giant arm cannon and then fire data drain at you at point blank range. you can defeat this attack by the normal button smashing. ---stragedy: -1st part of battleit is possible to stun him while he attemps variant summon. however stunning him at all is very very hard. -2nd part of battlethis is marked by ovan casting a shild barier around himself making it impossible to stun him with shots or even land slashs on him. you will have to find a new way to break his shield and stun him.

to do this wait until he uses mental vampirism (low power data drain) on you. you can deflect this back at him by using a full combo on the ball of energy as it gets near you. -3rd part of battleprotect break: this is tricky. you have to data drain ovan twice in a row. once to break his shield, then again to finish him off. problem: if you don't data drain him fast enough the second time, he will recharge his shield, and as always you only have about a minute to data drain him twice in a row. i suggest moving constanly (not dashing) to the right while charging data drain. only stop moving to the right long enough to fire data drain in a straight shot. you should have less of a problem doing it this way. good luck. ----------------------------------after the fight will be the longest set of scenes since the opening movies of vol 1. kick back relax and enjoy the show. ps: haseo is about to become more awesome then he is already. wait till all the scenes are over before continuing on.

ovan finially has got what he wanted. yata is about to come to a solid concusion when ovan forces them to be warped out of the area leaving only

haseo, ovan, and aina. -------------------------------movie- rebirth short version/main points: the truth is finially revealed. ovan has done everything this far, to save his sister. when aida attacked him he went berserk and infected his sister with aida. (he didn't data drain his sister, unlike shino) as for the rest of it, i'm sure you can see that plain enough. --------------------------------------------------------------movie- netslum short version/main points: although haseo wasn't at ground zero for the release of the 'rebirth', he diffently caught a huge blast of that energy. being that his character and real person are connected by mental bonds, he's very lucky to be alive. (kinda like the matrix: "the body can not live with out the mind") same concept. well anyway, i'd say it's time that some things started making sense. obviously net slum is still around, only this time it is mobile on the back of a giant flying turtle rather that being stuck in one place. not a bad imporevment if you ask me. -------------------------------anyway, everything goes dark and the next thing haseo knows he is talking with zelkova. then he remembers everything that's happened to himself. and then, he is reunited with his epitaph. you know, i think that haseo would have looked awesome sweet with black hair and white armor instead of black armor and gray hair. but hey, thats just me.

-------------------------------movie- xth form short version/main points: ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! pure awesomeness!!!!!!! haseo is amazing!!!!! .......nothing else need be said. -------------------------------right now just watch the scenes. come back when you get turned lose in the new town. ---------------------------

haseo has now recived his final form: the x-th form. you can now use the duel gun weapon type. the guns specialize in long range attacks. -x button: fires guns is a semi automatice patteren. - hold x: to perform an area attack. -press o: to reload (will reload automaticly after bullets are spent) -double tap o: to dash quickly duel guns are very rare and there are only 4 sets of guns in the game. the closer you get to a target the more powerfull the attacks become. the x-th form allows you to use the double trigger, this allows you to perform a second art 'judgemnt' to allow you to switch back to duel guns after performing an art with another weapon type. -----note: for future refernce i'm going to add this in right here so i won't get more e-mails asking this. know that if you follow this guide the whole way through i will walk you through getting all these weapons. but just incase you were wondering here's how you get the other three sets of guns: note:first understand that all dual guns carry a weapon materal that allows you to perform the double trigger skill. there are four sets of dual guns in vol 3: 1) dg-x: you get one set from a story line event when haseo recivies the x-th form job extension. these guns have a physical attack of +20 per-shot they don't however have a second material for customization. and like all the guns can't be custiomized excpt through cheat alchemy which only increases the number of bullets the gun can carry and gives the alchemy bonus of x1.25 damage (at most). 2) dg-o: you get these guns for defeating the doppleganger once haseo has recieved the x-th form. they are the 3rd most pratical dual guns. aside from having the dual trigger skill, they are customized with a material that will increase the damage done to enemies as haseo's hp is lowered. however, if you're a defesive player you won't want to use these much. also, to compensate for having this ability these guns only have +18 physical attack. meaning they're weaker then then the dg-x. using these guns are a risk and personally

it's not my style. 3) dg-y: you can get these guns in the forest of pain on the 51th floor. complete objective #6 by defeating 6 parties of monsters. these guns are customised with the godspeed bullet which allows you to recharges your skill trigger faster. however, these guns only have a physical attack of +10 making them not very pratical for the forest of pain being that many of the stonger bosses have very high defense. 4) dg-z: can be obtained by beating the final boss in the forest of pain. these guns are by far the most powerful and the least usefull. (after you beat the forest of pain it's unlikly you'll have anything major in the game to even use them for.) reguardless, they have a physical attack of +25, and are customized by a material giving the guns an ability called death's bullet; it reduces the enemie's hp by 95%. -------------------------ok, first off there are two major complaints about the x-th form i want to voice. 1) there are only four sets of duel guns and only two of the four sets are even worth using: the set you have now, and the set you get for completeing the hidden quest (which is kinda pointless considering you could have used them the most during the hidden quest not after.) 2) other complaint is haseo looks like he has a really fat @$$. reason being that the circle armor plates on his lower back give him the appearence of having girl hips aka retarded! but, if you can over look these faults then you should enjoy the x-th form very much as it will make haseo complete ownage.

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this section of the game will be intresting to say the least. in all reality: it will be the calm before the storm; or better yet the eye of the hurrican. enjoy the peace while you can; it wont last.

----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------first thing to do is back track to the chaos gate and save. also, there's some quick stuff you need to adjust with you character and what not. open the menu: go to skill trigger and set justice to your x-button on the skill trigger. you now have one art for all four types of weapons: x-justice (duel guns) o- reaper's dance (scythe) square- armor break (broad sword) tri-angel- ghost falcon (twin swords) also, you'll find some of the items at the new stores very useful. there are only two stores here but both are at least some what useful. at the weapons shop you can find any of my suggested weapon upgrades that you might have missed: -------------------------------------------------twin swords- lvl 122 spin goria (all damage +25%)<-from bike mission 10 broad sword- lvl 117 broad dowan (strategic attack) <-tartarga weapon store. scythe- lvl 75 ticking death [upgrd lvl 3] armor- lvl 124 rough diamond (-10%mg dam. and -25% phy. dam.) accessory- lvl 120 simple slant hood (zem master= all sp cost -25%) <-bike mission 10 ----------------------------------------------------also at the item store near the choas gate: the

stock of items they have here is very impressive. however you simply don't need all of them, just a few. here's what i suggest you buy: menami muffler- for your bike, last bike part for the game. crystal skull - this is an excelent weapon material, one of the best. healing potion x40 restoring drop x25 fairy drop x40 nobel drop x25 omnipotent soda x25 revival medical x25 revive potion x25 warrior tome x25 ---------------------

then head to the bridge to continue with the story. as you enter you'll see some scenes with all the avatar users, zelkova, and kaede. also, note that about half way through the scenes a glitch will occur. the text subtitles wont match what the people are saying. just ignore it. it's one of the only glitchs i found in the game, and is definitally the first major one for the whole game series. anyway watch away until things settle down then i can finially explain who or what zelkova is. and all the other stuff.

---ok, first thing. the x-th form is an illegal form design by zelkova. the powers it holds are the result of zelkova altering the connection between haseo's character and the epitaph/avatar. secondly, zelkova is in fact the now present day ruler of the net slum. there are two possible reasons for this: 1- there is a slim possibilty that zelkova is infact helba from the original game series. she simply made a new character and is now going about

her days disguised as the moon tree guild master zelkova, howerver this seems very unlikly being that zelkova's personality and hebla's personality are worlds apart and are nothing alike. other explaination: 2- zelkova is in fact a hacker (or more likly still is that he is a very smart ai that has hacking skills). it is likly that helba met zelkova some time ago and when she grew tired of the game gave him the rule over netslum before she retired from the game and her days as a hacker. it may even be that she chose to quit the game around the time that the first version of the game was destoryed and 'the world r2'was released. ok, next point: haseo points out that ovan was willing to sacrafice himself in order to save his comatose sister. and by the way, if haseo was standing near ovan when the rebirth went off, just think about what condition ovan is in being that he was at ground zero for it. yeah, i think he'll be very lucky just to be alive. anyway, yata starts talking to the ship: tartarga. vetrans of the series may be wondering where that name rings a bell. the answer is that tartarga is the rather smart ai that kite and blackrose had a coverstation with when the first visited net slum in the original games. you know, the little green dude they talked to about the epitaph of twilight? yeah, him. also, zelkova and kaede give you their member adresses. sweet! zelkova is by far the strongest party member you can get in the entire game series. which is complete ownage. near the end of things haseo talks about how the rebirth affected everything in the world that was connected to the network. but none-the-less. it seems the game has become peaceful again. aida has been destoryed once and for all, and the coma victums that were made comatose by aida are slowly returning....everyone but shino. ---

you end up at your desktop. there's lots to look at. save your e-mails for last, lets check the forums and what not. ----------------------------------forums: short version: just some random crap and then some pictures. ---------------------------------read from the bottom up (on the game) in order to make sense of the e-mails.

----------------------------------e-mail- sakubo (saku) : re-white chrysanthermun short version: reply-what a flower means -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : regards to connection issues short version: they say their sorry for crap happening but they're looking into it. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sirius : i'm back short version: he says he managed to make it back, but that he can't reach alkaid.... -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- atoli : it's over short version: she says even if things are done, she's still worried for some reason. and if i were you, i'd be worried too. zelkova said the seeds of danger are not gone from the game. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- endrace : the finale short version: he says he agrees with atoli and that there's reason to believe that things are not over with just yet. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- kuhn : situation at cc corp. short version: -------------------------------------------------------------------

-e-mail- pi : the phrophecy short version: pi points out that something else is still out there. you havn't seen the end of this yet. ---------------------------------as you leave your e-mail you get a new e-mail from yata marked urgent.

----------------------------------e-mail- yata : urgent short version: yata says that the coma victums recover at different rates and that you must play your hope in that she will get better soon. second, he needs you to come to hidden, forbidden, bulwark at once. and to come alone. ---------------------------------log-in.

----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------select the choas gate and chose to warp. ------------------------------------ 22)hidden, forbidden, bulwark -----------------------------------area type: lost grounds/landscape area level: none party: haseo, (none), (none) my level: 125 as you enter the scenes will take off, watch them and then continue afterward. watch and be afraid.

-------------------------------movie- pulse short version/main points: what has four eyes, was a mojor boss

in the previous series, and goes roar!!!!! stay tuned to find out. -------------------------------yes, cubia is back. we're talking about the monster that will send someone flying across a battle field just by sneezing on them. it will have to be faced and destroyed, just like it had to be destroyed in the last series. for now head back to town. ----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------as a side note: yata was there. he is wiseman from the original series. he fought side by side with kite and the other .hackers//. yes, the final peices are starting to fall in place. soon, very soon. the climax will come. but until it does, lets do some training shall we? first add atoli and kuhn to your party. then head to dol dona. ----------------------------------town: dol dona ---------------------------------you need to upgrade the lost weapons somemore.

---------------------------)hidden, forbidden, sacrament---------------------------------area type: lost grounds area level: none party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 125 -------

i want you to upgrade atoli's staff to lvl 3 upgrade. i really doubt you have enough virus cores to upgrade kuhn's weapon to level 3 upgrd too, but he will certianly be the next person on the list to do so for. when done head back. ----------------------------------town: dol dona ----------------------------------

trasfer to breg epona. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------first things first. go to your @home and put your new muffler on your bike. time to train. adjust the materials in your party's accessorys to get the +50% exp from the sapphire eyes. then lets get going. your new goal is to reach level 130. also, all those begginer's text/books and the the master book and master text, yeah, use those now on haseo. ---------------------------------random) unselfish, wrath's, alga grass------------------------------------area type: field area level: 129 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 125 kill all, take items, the basic stuff you know how to do oh so good by now. one major difference. you now have the x-th form to make things go faster. and this will be a great proving grounds for the xth form. (don't fight any of the white large monsters called 'royal pain' until you gain at least one level)

--xth form useage-now, the biggest thing about the xth form, is it's skill set up. whenever you are in a normal fight, you'll want you use the dual guns 99% of the time. why? because the dual guns allow you to move side to side while firing, allowing you to avoid enemies easily. also because they have the highest rate of inflicting damage (faster then twin swords) so you use duel guns for normal attacks in most situations. when you go to use arts, ussally enemies are weak to one of the types of weapons haseo has: twin sword, broad sword, and scythe. so you use the skill trigger to switch to the one that the enemy is weak to which dishs out the most damage. then, by using the double trigger you can switch back

to the duel guns which are the best weapon type for just normal fighting. basicly you'll use the duel guns the most and just use the other weapon types for dishing out arts. granted it makes using all your other weapons kinda pointless, but this is the most effective way of using them. it'll take awhile to get used to the guns but eventually you'll realize how awesome they are and you'll never want to go back. ------

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------i was able to get to 127. three more levels to go. so restock and head for a new area. ---before you head out again there are a few chors to take care of. and doing this stuff will be a big help later on. i want you to remove kuhn from your party and replace him with yata. now, i want you to give yata the following items: -25% magic damage (buy from lumia cloth item store) -10% physical damage (if you dont have in storage then never mind) -10% all sp consumption aka all knowing (breg epona stores) also, go to hidden, forbidden, sacrament and up grade yata's fans at least once with 10 virus cores --well time to move on, put kuhn back in your party and head out to a new field.

-----------------------------random) dejected, swift, belladonna---------------------------------area type: field area level: 130 party: haseo, atoli, kuhn my level: 127 same always. kill stuff. earn exp. get items. rock out hard core. just continue to get use to the xth form. try to gain as many lvls as you can.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------it's completly likly that you'll have to go out at least once more to get to level 130. do so if you need to now. -----------------------------random) deject, evil's, bum ---------------------------------area type: field area level: 132 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 129 same as always. just head back to town when everyone is lvl 130. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------ok, you can finially relax. first off, know that you will only have to train one more time between now and the end of the game. so that should be a relief. also, don't purposly go out and train to raise your level. the reason for that is because i have something planned that i think you'll like. so don't train until i tell you. (and don't worry, i've given you a couple levels lee-way so don't fill bad if you gain like one more level by accident) you can now finially log-out. when you get to your desktop you'll have loads to watch and read. for now lets ignore the e-mails and go for the news and forums. we'll start with least intresting to most intresting.

----------------------------------forums: short version: ok, first some ppl talking about the problems at nucluar power plants near to where they live. and how things are getting pretty bad in the 'real world'. one guy is even at a shelter. the other topic is some ppl ranting about how angry they are that this guy masato indou aka ovan, is resonsible for making aida. which of course is absolute bull $hit because cc corp holds alot of political power and is pinning everything on him. but of course the ppl

complaining about all that don't know any better. ---------------------------------ok, now to get a better idea of what everyone was talking about. ----------------------------------news: short version: first and formost is the thing about where they think they know who is responsible for aida. which of course is bull. second thing worth watching is the new online jack episode. and third, various differnt articals: nuc. power plants going crazy, trains crashing, air planes crashing, and the space station falling into the planet. freaking crazyness. ---------------------------------well, lets take a look at the e-mails and see whats up.

----------------------------------e-mail- aina : to haseo short version: she'd like you to meet her. ---------------------------------well, sounds like a plan. but first the other e-mails. ----------------------------------e-mail- yata : cubia short version: cc corp is getting jumpy becuase cubia is back. and like yata said, things are going to be really bad once cubia becomes active. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sakubo (saku) : re: what a flower means short version: she says she might stick around. geeze, and you think your life is hard. just imagine what bo has to put up with. ----------------------------------

ok, log-in and time to get on with the story line. ---------------------------------- 23)incensed, world's, build-up ---------------------------------area type: forest dungeon area level: 122 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 130

as you warp in, take note that there's really no need what so ever for you to fight monsters. i just equiped the demon safe shoes and ran straight through the dungeon. block 1: uneventful. block 2: there's some warp point here. continue forward to the first useable warp point you can find, then use it to move forward. after you warp to the next area simply rotate the camera to face a new warp point. use that to move on toward the exit of the block. block 3: this is pretty straight forward. just keep moving until you get to the beast statue and the end of the area. watch first then read on.

so you meet aina and she explains that she knows who you are because she's shared ovan's memories through aida. after which she asked you why you didn't save ovan. she explains that he's comatose and that he on the edge of life and death. and then she runs off all upset. next thing you know the ground shakes and you get a short mail from yata. he says to make an emergence meeting at raven. head back to town. ----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------before you run off to raven. i highly suggest you go to any of the item shops in the various towns and stock up on items that you might be low on. becuase soon (not now but soon) you won't get the chance to go back to them for a good long while. make sure atoli also has her items stocked up. once that's done, then head for raven.

----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------when you get there pi will explain the situation. the bo comes busting in begging haseo to help him save aina. well we can't have

all the work ovan did go to waste. time to kick some butt. add bo to your party and lets head out. transfer over to the other town.

----------------------------------town: breg epona ---------------------------------once you got everyone together, head out.

--------------------------------- 24) fleeing, dismayed, emotion ---------------------------------area type: highland canyon area level: 124 party: haseo,atoli, bo my level: 130 this area is prety simplr. get on your bike and ride from the east side of the area to the west. activate the warp point and then use it. again head from the east side of the area to the west. you can collect the symbole fragments if you want but it's not really nesscary. on the west side of the area you should find aina and her attackers. after you beat them easily, you see some scenes about the story. after that head back to town.

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head back to mac anu. ----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------back yet again to the serpent of lore.

when you arrive you see some scenes. i won't bother to explain a huge amount about whats going on other then say this: aura was the reason the creator of the game made the game in the first place. she is the reason what epitaphs exist. she is the reason why everything started to begin with in the original games. anyway. add atoli and yata to your party and head for the chaos gate. it's time to visit some ppls. warning!!!!: be ready for one of the hardest non-avatar boss fights of the whole series!! ---------------------------------- 25) hidden, forbidden, holyground ---------------------------------area type: lost ground/ landscape area level: none party: haseo,yata, atoli my level: 130 when you enter the area make your last preperations and then enter. aina begins to explain that her brother gave her the creator's epitaph of twilight. when she brings it out things start to happpen. watch on and come back right before the boss fight. i'll explain things and give you advice.

as yata and haseo talk it become clear that the book is resonating with haseo's avatar. yata says that if all eight epitaphs were gathered that they would be able to speak with aura. haseo points out that ovan is

gone. again yata reminds haseo of some of ovan's last words and shows haseo that he contians all 8 epitaphs with him; that haseo is the key of the twilight. haseo was what ovan had been searching for all along. -------------------------------movie- key of the twlight short version/main points: haseo summons his fully developed avatar, and with the aid of his x-th form, sheith has evolved into his third and final form. you dont get to use him yet, that comes later. anyway, haseo unites his epitaph with aina. and the end result? ---------------------------------yikes!! the azure knights!!!!! tri-edge and his buddies....you know what this means? show down!!!!

haseo, terro of death

vs

the azure knights

round one,fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!

----------------------------------boss fight!: azure knights my level: 130 -enemy attacks: -basic attack: orca and bulmung will attack with regulare blade combo and also normal blade arts. tri-edge will basicly stay in one spot and attack you from a distance or when you approch him. -light spells- the three azures line up and cast huge amounts of light spells at you, these are very powerfull. make sure to block. -azure three combo- all three of the azures attack at once and will basicly pumble one character into the ground (this be haseo) negate bad.

this attack isn't that bad if you have armor materials that damage less then 50, or if your level 130. all around, not too

-stragedy: ok, you're best stragedy in this situation is to consentrate only on tri-edge. if you kill either of the other two, tri-edge simply will revive them after a little while. so really your only hope of winning is to kill tri-edge. a)use your dual guns and attack tri-edge from behind. this will ussally allow you to avoid his magic as he will likly consentrate on those infront of him. b)use arts alot! keep an eye on atoli's sp as this battle tends to drain it quickly. c) use awakening as soon as you can. at level 130 this battle isn't that hard. - other advice: if you're level is 125 or lower--> pray and hope you're skilled enough to win. ----------------------------------when you finially beat them you hear aura's voice and yata realizes that the azure knights are infact guardians of the game, and that they were created by aura to protect her. she just didn't get to finish them and also because she was working with damaged data from the previous version of the game. so anyway. aura talks to you about some important stuff and then tri-edge gives you his twin swords. sweet! well, yata continues to mumble to himself about various things concerning the problems at hand. really if you read between the lines all you need to know is that if the avatar users go head to head with cubia, there's a chance to defeat cubia, but it will mean the end of the epitaphs. one problem, in order to even cancel out the power of cubia, they need all eight epitaphs. that means ovan too. ---->so, at this point in time: battle with cubia = suicide. so anyway, after the scenes you'll be back at mac anu. ----------------------------------town: mac anu -------

---------------------------yata says that many players are leaving the game. but that at the rate that cubia is taking over, the towns will be destroyed soon. --note: this is your last chance to shop in any of the normal towns. after this point in time there is no going back until the after the end of the game. the biggest things you need to worry about is getting healing items from the various shops in the different towns. here's a shoping/ to do list. before you do anything or go anywhere, do yourself a favor, equipe the new twin swords you got from tri-edge. they are in fact the best twin swords in the whole game. so, thats 1/4 ultimate weapons down. --breg epona a) check in at the guild @home b) buy and store 50 lucid soda and wonder soda in the guild storage. c) check in with gaspard at the guild shop. --dol dona a) buy and store 50 solution soda and esthesio. --mac anu a) buy and store 50 anitdote soda,blessing soda, and stimulant soda. once you've stored 50 of each item, i want you to go and buy another 40 of each of those so that you have 50 in storage and 40 in your inventory of the obove mentioned items. you won't need to stock up on any other items because the only other type of items you need are hp and sp recovery items. and you won't need to worry about that. trust me. aside from my advice here, just use your best judgement. when you're done, head to the serpent of lore in mac anu. ----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------head to the serpent of lore. here you will see some major scenes where yata and the others are forced to say farwell to gu's home. everyone has become refugees in the other regions, the netslum.

----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------when you enter the town, cut scenes will begin. watch and enjoy.

when done there's some things to adress. 1) obviously you cant go back to any of the towns, so thats tough luck if you missed anything. 2) tartarga choas gate is a multi-server gate, meaning you can visit areas from all the servers. 3) all quest are unavalible from here on out, but if you folowed my guide that won't be a problem. for now head for the bridge. that will render progression in the story. as you approch the bridge note wise grunty on the right. if you ever manage to upgrade all the lost weapons; wise grunty will trade you items and cash for your extra virus cores you collect. but that doesn't seem likly considering it takes so long to collect cores. --note!!! the following scenes have a re-occuring glitch in the movie. it won't affect game play, just the over all feel of the story. the subtitles for the movie are off. they're the subtitles for the next plot cutscene. not this one. apperentally namco bandi didn't catch this glitch. feel free to point and laugh at their stupidity. anyway, just ignore the subtitles for this cut scene. this is the only major glitch i found in the entire series. back in the main section of town there are some things to cover: a)scenes with saku, she's back and staying for good. *sigh* b) canard is now based in tartarga. you can visit the guild via the door to the side, and also the guild shop is set up here aswell. c) you can now use cheat codes to upgrade lvl 5 rarity equipment. this includes, armor, weapons, and your duel guns. so area hacking to collect tons of cheat codes would be a great idea.

d) when you're done looking around and getting stuff, log out.

ok once you log out, check your e-mail first. note the order in which i list the e-mails. you should read them in the following order: ----------------------------------e-mail- zelkova : to all who love "the world" short version: is a call to arms. to all the players of the game to rally together and fight one last time to save not just the game, but the human race.......wow. ironic. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sakubo(bo) : i'm back short version: says saku is back. yay. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notice of emergency maintenance short version: cc corp is crapping their pants over whats happening. hopefully they can keep their legs crossed long enough for haseo to pull off something off. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- zelkova : planning meeting short version: he says you need to log in and meet with the others so you can get on to kicking some gomora butt. it's time for the final stage of our journey. -------------------------------------------------------------------forums: short version: some people talking about the e-mail zelkova sent everyone. then some rumors concerning tartarga, and the rumors about ppl quiting 'the world'. oh well, tim to get on with things. --------------------------------when done, log-in.

it's time to enter the final chapeter in our story with haseo and

his fellow comrads. my friends it's been a long journey, but now is the time. in the famous words of kite, "now is the time, to end this!"

--------------------------------------------- war of the epitaphs ---------------------------------------------

----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------head for the bridge. zelkova says that there are four main areas where infection has reached dangerous levels. they must be taken care of quickly or else the game will start comming apart at the seams. they're lost grounds you visited before. all have importance. but they should be attempted in a certian order so that the story line flows well. i'll walk you through each dungeon (which are annoyingly like mazes). add atoli and kuhn to your party and head for the choas gate. change servers to the dol dona server. once done select the first location. and get ready for war. -------------------------------------- 26)hidden, forbidden, dragonbein -------------------------------------area type: lost grounds/landscape area level: none party: haseo,atoli,kuhn my level:130 as you enter the area, seens will start. you'll see piros the 3rd, gaspard, silabus, and antares here. they

will begin to fight and hold back the gomoras while you push ahead and the outer dungeon. so do just that, head to the end of the walk way and use area hacking. continue on through. follow this map to find and kill all the gomoras: --------------------------[ ]-[ ]-[2] [1] | | [3] [ ]-[ ]-[ ] | |-| [ ]-[ ]---[enter] |5| | | | [6] |---[4]

-----key----1->2 3->4 5->6 back to town -----------------------------------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------re-supply, then head out again. 3 more to go.

-------------------------------------- 27)hidden, forbidden, battlefield -------------------------------------area type: lost grounds/landscape area level: none party: haseo,atoli,kuhn my level:130 first time i played through the game i saved this one for last thinking it would be approperate. but there scenes here are the least good of the four areas, hence i'm saving the best scenes for last and just doing this one now. enter the area, see scenes with gabi, the pkers you hate, and some other people from way back when you started your journey. afterward, on to the outer dungeon.

this one is easy. it's straight forward. just follow the path and kill the gomoras. -------------------------[ ]-[ ] | | [ ] [ ] | [ ]-[ ] | [ ]-[2]

[1]-[ ] | [ ]-[ ] | [ ]-[ ] | [ ]-[enter]

1->2 back to town -------------------------head back to town once done. ----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------restock then head right back out, another battle field calls your name. this time change the server over to the mac anu server.

---------------------------------- 28)hidden, forbidden, bulwark ---------------------------------area type: lost grounds/landscape area level: none party: haseo,atoli,kuhn my level:130 as you enter the area you'll see scenes with a whole bunch of moon tree members: matsu, kaede, est.

outer dugeon time, and the next two aren't exactly easy style dungeons: ----------------------[4] | [ ]

[2] [3]-[1]-[enter]

[ ] [5]-[8]

[ ] [ ]-[7]

[6]-[ ]

-----key----1->4 2->4 4->2 3->5 5->6 6->1 7->8 8->7 use they above key and map to get around, find all the enemy parties. good luck. when done, back to town. ----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------ok, time for the final area. and i saved this one for last for a good reason. re-stock your items then save you game. ---------------------------------- 29)hidden, forbidden, radiation ---------------------------------area type: lost grounds/landscape area level: none party: haseo,atoli,kuhn my level:130

here you meet all the arena rankers who you battled to reach the top. taihaku called in some favors and rallied them to fight. and then, alkaid..... watch the bitter sweet scenes.

then continue on with area hacking: outer dungeon: this is probably the hardest outer dungeon in the game. -----------------------------

[10] [7]-[6 [8]

[9] | 4,5] | [ ]

[ ]-[enter] [ ] | [1] [3,2]

--------------------note: 4 is north of 5 ---key---1->2 2->1 3-> 4,5&6 4->1 5->3 6->1 7->8 8->7 9->10 10->9 -------------------when done, head back to town. ----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------ok, save then head for the bridge. after a short meeting, it's time. time for the final battle. our time grows short friends. but this time there will not be another game to continue on with. ah, well. let's finish this up.

------preparing for the final battle--------

--here's a list of things to check first: -------------------------------------------1)--note:on top of having your final party ready to go, you must also prepare 3 other parties for battle as well. you will use these three parties for only one battle each. then they will be left behind while you continue forward deeper into the final dungeon. here's the party members i suggest: 1st: gaspard and silabus 2nd: sakubo and endrance 3rd: pi and yata final boss party: atoli and kuhn you don't really need to prepare them in any special way. you just need to know it's comming. the best thing you could do is buy healing items and give them to gaspard, sakubo, and pi. (your healers) and then set their stragedy to "life". 2)--the next thing is that you need to restock your items for the final battle. this means get as many healing items as you can get. 3)--next,you need to get to level 133. i think it is fitting that since haseo started his journey at level 133, he should finish it at level 133. so go out and train! try a level 134 area, that should do the trick. 4)-- use cheat codes to upgrade your duel guns and your new twin blades. 5)--last, you should hopfully be able to upgrade kuhn's steam gun one last time with virus cores. aside from that, there's not alot i can say. prepare as best you can, use your best judgement. after 3 games worth of experience, you should be fine. -----------------------------------------here's my equipment and item set-up for the final battle: --haseotwin swords: empty skies lvl 125[customized: mortal] broad sword: broad white lvl 133 [customized: strategic att]

scythe: ticking death lvl 75 [upgrade lvl 3] armor: rough imperial lvl 132 [customized: -10%mag,-25%phy] accessory:simple slant hood lvl 120[customized:zen mastery] items: healing serum (200hp) x40 healing potion (350hp)x40 restoring drop (750hp) x40 sprite drop (50sp) x40 fairy drop (100sp) x40 nobel drop (250sp) x40 revival medicine (revive ally) x40 revival potion (fully revive ally) x25 wonder soda (all status affects) x40 omipotent soda (all status affect all allies) x25 --kuhngun: silent jadelvl 75 [upgrade lvl 3] armor: loose regalia lvl 126 [customized: -10%mag,-25%phy] accessory: simple slant hood lvl 120 [all knowing] items: (whatever)

--atolistaff:dancing haze lvl 75 [upgrade lvl 3] armor:sub vestment lvl 126 [customized:-10%mag,-25%phy] accessory:simple slant hood lvl 120 [heal mastery] healing serum (200hp) x40 healing potion (350hp)x40 restoring drop (750hp) x40 sprite drop (50sp) x40 fairy drop (100sp) x40 nobel drop (250sp) x40 revival medicine (revive ally) x40 revival potion (fully revive ally) x25 wonder soda (all status affects) x40 omipotent soda (all status affect all allies) x25 -------------------------------------------------also, give any other powerfull healing items you might have come across while out adventuring to atoli. if you've got this stuff done, then you should be good to go. when your done getting everything you might need. it's time to move out. save, then go to the chaos gate and switch to the breg epona server.

then head for the last dungeon.

note: after this point, there is no return. none. this a straight shot to the end. do or die.

--------------------------------- 30)excited, conflict's, fate ---------------------------------area type: forest dungeon area level: 128 party: haseo,atoli,kuhn my level: 133 get ready for a very very long road ahead. -------------------final battle: stage 1------------------our first task is to conquer this three floor dungeon with warp point mazes. -1st floor: this floor is very easy to understand, it dosen't need much explanation. just head for the exit on the oppisite side of the floor. use the demon safe shoes to bypass all the normal monsters that need not be fought and would therefore waste your supplies of items needed for later. -2nd floor: this is where things get intresting. use the below map to navigate the area. -----------------[exit]--[5]

[4]-[ ] | [ ]--[ ] [3] | [enter]-[1] [ ]-[2] --(key)-1->2 2->3 4->5 -----------------

-3rd floor: again, this floor features a rather nasty warp point maze. but again, with my help it'll be no problem. ------------------[

] [3,4] | [fin] [ ]-[ ]-[ ]-[ | [ ] [1,2] | [enter]---[ ]

]

-(key){warp point 1 is north of 2} 1->3 4->goal -----------------once you reach the last room, use area hacking (press r1) to reveal the entrance to the next stage of our final mission.

-------------------final battle: stage 2------------------the second stage of the final area is an outer dungeon. this one isn't so hard except for the fact that you only have a 1 in 4 chance of guessing the correct warp point at the end of the dungeon. iroicly enough, i knew i was going to write this guide after playing through the game once. so when i guessed the correct warp point that leads to the end of the dungeon on the first try, i made sure to write it down. =p -outer dungeon-----------------------------[ ] [ ]-[ ] [2] [3] [ ] [4] [ ]-[ ] [ ]-[enter] [5] [ ] [ ]-[ ] [6] [ ] [ ]-[1] [fin]-[ ] -(key)1->2 2-> 3,4,5,&6

4->finish -----------------------------at the finish, you'll be given a chance to save. i suggest you do so because after this, there is no turning back. none. no platforms back to town, no escape. none. from here on in it's do or die. prepare yourself for an avatar battle.

-------------------final battle: stage 3------------------as you enter, you'll see some scenes with everyone talking. watch all of the scenes then come back and read. pause right before you start into the avatar battle. and i'll give you some quick advice on this final boss fight.

alright, you saw some scenes with everyone talking. alot of it is self explantory. easy to understand. here's what you need to know. the final boss fight is broken into 3 parts. this is part one. the first thing is to attack cubia from the outside and to destory the outer shell that protects cubia's head, the weak point. ---------final boss fight: part 1 - avatar battle-notes on skeith: first, skeith has got some major upgrades with the aid of the xth-form. -a)skeith's slash attacks now move in enery blades that fly away from skeith, meaning his physical attack now have some

range to them. this is very useful as you won't need to be face to face with a target to attack it. -b) skeith can lock-on to multi-targets by holding down the square button. the max number of targets locked-on will be shown when the target circles turn from white to red. -c)normal shots for this battle are completely useless. use lock-on shots. ----------------------------------boss fight!: cubia alpha my level: 133 -enemy attacks: normal shot- cubia will fire purple energy at you. just move side to side to aviod. ectoplasm- this attack wont do any damage to skieth, but it will knock him away from the dragon head after it recovers from being stunned. -stragedy: hold the square button to lock on to as many targets as you can. don't fire untill the target circles turn red. you need to target all the cubia gomoras and the 'dragon head' too. once you stun the 'dragon head' dash forward and attack using slashs with your scythe. you'll only be given a certian amount of time while the 'dragon head' remains stuned. once you defeat it, you will have to repeat the process 3 more times. note that it will become harder to stun the 'dragon heads' each time you defeat one. also note that after defeating about 2 of the 'dragon heads' you'll see a new type of cubia gomora in the form of a snake like gomora. you have to slash these as they come at you. you can slash at them before you see the (x: slash) signal. remember that your slash attacks have some range to them now. ----------------------------------once the forth 'dragon head' is defeated, the outer shell will break and cubia will rear it's ugly head. ----------------------------------boss fight!: cubia beta my level: 133 -enemy attacks: normal shot: cubia will fire energy shots at you, just move steadily to one side or the other to avoid. gomora: cubia summoms more gomoras to fight.

jihad: cubia fires off a salvo of energy, dash to avoid. chaos gehenna: cubia goes matrix setinal style on you and sends a solid stream of gomoras right at you. nothing to do but slash away and hope you survive. -stragedy: simple=> use lock on to kill gomoras and stun cubia. move in for the kill. and don't die. after that, just wait till he protect breaks. avoid being hit and blast data drain in his pretty little face. --megan wise man pinted out i forgot to metion this: the trick to beat this guy is to make sure you dash backwards and put some distance between you and cubia after he pushes you back, hence alot easier to get the multi-lock to work. sry i forgot to mention this before, me being a defensive gamer for me this is habit. so for those of you who are a little more agressive, here's a tip that might help. -----------------------------------

anyway so after you beat this guy from the out side you discover that data drain is completly useless. so yata gets the bright idea to go inside cubia and destroy the core star wars style.......great idea retard!!! so now that you've broken open the shell, you can get inside cubia via his over grown mouth. literally into the belly of the beast. -------------------final battle: stage 4---------------------------final boss fight: part 2 -stopping cubia's healing-

this next part of the game is actually the hardest part of the final battle. the reason is beacuse you will face 3 parties of dopplegangers. yes 3 parties of them. and you also have to leave both your party members behind after each battle. so here we go. and pay close attention. after some incrediblly cheesy scenes with everyone talking, you'll be given the opertunity to save. if you do so, save on a differnt file. you can also access storage and form a new party. also, dont forget to equipe your good accessory (aka not the demon safe shoes)

--party #1: silabus and gaspard. set gaspard to healing. ----------------------------------boss fight!: dopplegangers my level: 133 -enemy attacks: every attack you have, they have. -stragedy: use your dual guns do not switch weapons. only use your dual gun art: justice. go after the dopplegangers that are not haseo first. they should be lower leveled then you because they are equal level as your party members, and therefore will be weaker and easier to kill. after which your party members can help gang up on haseo's doppleganger. use the dual gun ability to quickly switch targets to keep haseo's doppleganger on the ground/knocked over while also targeting one of the other dopplegangers. always counter-attack haseo's doppleganger, never use arts first. again, a helpful tip from "megan wiseman"right after using arts, try just holding the o button to block and just waiti till your skill bar recharges and then continue to use arts again. so arts, block while recharge, arts, block while recharge, rise and repeat. ----------------------------------once done, set up your next party and move on. --party #2: endrance and sakubo. set sakubo to healing. note:(same stradgy as above) ----------------------------------boss fight!: dopplegangers my level: 133 -enemy attacks: every attack you have, they have.

-stragedy: use your dual guns do not switch weapons. only use your dual gun art: justice. go after the dopplegangers that are not haseo first. they should be lower leveled then you because they are equal level as your party members, and therefore will be weaker and easier to kill. after which your party members can help gang up on haseo's doppleganger. use the dual gun ability to quickly switch targets to keep haseo's doppleganger on the ground/knocked over while also targeting one of the other dopplegangers. always counter-attack haseo's doppleganger, never use arts first. ----------------------------------once done, set up your next party and move on.

--party #3: pi and yata. set pi to healing. note:(same stradgy as above) ----------------------------------boss fight!: dopplegangers my level: 133 -enemy attacks: every attack you have, they have. -stragedy: use your dual guns do not switch weapons. only use your dual gun art: justice. go after the dopplegangers that are not haseo first. they should be lower leveled then you because they are equal level as your party members, and therefore will be weaker and easier to kill. after which your party members can help gang up on haseo's doppleganger. use the dual gun ability to quickly switch targets to keep haseo's doppleganger on the ground/knocked over while also targeting one of the other dopplegangers. always counter-attack haseo's doppleganger, never use arts first. ----------------------------------now then, time for your final party of the really kick butt characters: add atoli and kuhn to your party, and then get ready to rock and roll.

-------------------final battle: stage 5---------------------------final boss fight: part 3 -destorying the core-

----------------------------------boss fight!: cubia core my level: 133 targets: right core, left core, core shield, central core -enemy attacks: -stragedy: the first part of the battle will switch between fighting the right core and the left core. right core is weak to twin sword attacks, and left core is weak to scythe attacks. use dual guns for noraml/non-skill attacking. goromas will appear when a switch is made from right to left arm. a)first the right arm. wait until it hits the ground then move in with the dual guns and attack. use your twin blade skills as the right arm is weak to that kind of attack, use double trigger to switch back to dual guns for normal attacks. pound away until right arm is destroyed. b) left core is weak to scythe attacks. c) core shield is weak to broad sword attacks. d) central core isnt weak to any type of attack. not alot to say really, it's an easy fight, just pound away till you kill it. use arts when ever it trys to use a skill so you wont take any damage. just keep using powerfull attacks till you kill it; awakening helps. and if you want to end the series in style, use your awakening to finsh off the core. ----------------------------------congrats friends you just beat the game, and the whole series. now instead of going into detail about what you've just done, i'll just let you watch the movies and enjoy. talk to you when you reach your desktop. enjoy the moment.

-------------------------------movie- one mind short version/main points: shows haseo gathering the power of the epitaphs for one final attack. but unfortunitly the best result they hope for is that their powers will cancel each other out and that both anti-existance and epitaphs will be destroyed. with out ovan the epitaphs are missing 1/8 of their power = they're screwed. but ovan shows up in the nick of time to end it. --------------------------------------------------------------movie- entrusted future short version/main points: dispite the fact that ovan was help you end the threat to the network, and therefore the ovan begins to turn blue and he begins to fade. yes, this for ovan. but he tells you that his ending is really your and so it ends. --------------------------------

able to world; is good bye new begining.

well you end up at you desktop after awhile. time to check out what's going on.

----------------------------------forums: short version: just some ppl complaining about cc corp. ---------------------------------now, here's the important thing to worry about. make sure to read the e-mails from bottom of the list to the top. ----------------------------------e-mail- sakubo (saku) : jerk! short version: says master en still has a thing for you and that she won't allow it. well, personally that's fine with me cause i always thought the haseo-endrance thing was pretty weird myself. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- zelkova : nice and peacefull short version: says that everything is

dying down and returning to normal. he says that the worst was avoided (aka nucs going off all over the planet) -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- pi : it's over short version: pi says that she's leaving the cc corp. which likly means that she will no longer have a reason to visit the world. but for now there's still the aftermath to deal with. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- kuhn : good work short version: kuhn syas that he'll be out a part time job for cc corp. and that it isn't likly anyone will be comming out to thank haseo and his friends for saving the world. such is the fate of the un-sung heros. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- endrace : for you short version: he continues to pledge gay love to haseo which i find kinda creepy. but whatever. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- sakubo (bo) : my best short version: he kinda stumbels through saying he tried his best and that he feels braver thanks to haseo. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- yata : what comes next short version: he says that he and pi are working on clean up. he also says that haseo should enjoy the game as a normal player, he earned the right to do so. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- antares : bravo kid short version: says he's proud of you. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- silabus : we did it! short version: finally silabus and gaspard know the truth of what you've been doing all this time, and silabus says he'll never forget it. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- gaspard : we won!

short version: says 'we won this together'. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- alkaid : thanks short version: alkaid can tell atoli's got a thing for haseo. but she says she won't let you go. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- kaede : thank you very much short version: she just sends her thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- matsu : the real world short version: he says he's thought alot about his life and he needs to deal with some things away from the game. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- gabi : oh yeah short version: "this is great" ok, tony the tiger. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- aina : happiness short version: she doesn't say alot but you can tell that she knows ovan is dead. and that she's trying to move on as best she can. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- shino : i'm waiting short version: shino!!! ahhhh,yay! she's waiting at the catherdral. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : maintenance complation short version: cc corp's bull $hit answer for everything that's been happening. ---------------------------------well, anyway. log-in and time for the final story event of the series.

----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------don't bother trying to add anyone to your party. just go alone.

--------------------------------- 31)hidden, forbidden, holyground ---------------------------------area type: lost ground/landscape area level: none party: haseo, (none),(none) my level: 133 when you enter the area. just head for the door and go in. the scenes will play and you'll witness the end of the game scenes. personally i was expecting the ending to be amazing, but it wasn't. it's still good, but not great. enjoy everyone.

-------------------------------movie- at a walking pace short version/main points: yep, that's right. haseo turns and runs after her. kinda ironic.........sad, and ironic. ironic that haseo would fight all that time to save shino, and yet sad that he didn't end up with her at the end. still, now that i've had time to think about it. it makes sence. haseo changed so much since the begining of his journey. it's impossible for things to be the way they were. no, now that haseo has grown he has to move on. but hey, that's just my opinion. --------------------------------

watch the credits, save your new clear data. and finially. enjoy my post game sections.

well guys and girls. it's been fun. i'll be happy to include several sections that will help you wrap up the little odds and ends left over from the game. i hope you enjoyed my guide and i think it's a privilege to have the oppertunity to walk you all through one of the best rpg series for the ps2. i certenily hope you enjoyed yourselves and i hope i wasn't too boring along the way. i did my best to write a guide from the player's perspective and make it enjoyable. well, please e-mail me and tell me what you thought of my guides and also more importantly if you have any questions. you will find my contact info. at the bottom of the guide in the credits section. and now, we say good bye..........just kidding. you still have the hidden quest left to do. but of course if you choose not to do it then see you later. the rest of us however, will be taking part in the ever so ridiculous forst of p........ oh wait i'm not suposed to say that yet. >_< ------------------------------------------- end of vol. 3 / post game -------------------------------------------ok, after the credits you'll end up at your desk top. now there's a couple hours worth of stuff to do now that you've beat the game. so lets get to it.

----------------------------------e-mail- ono : you are not the strongest! short version: apperentally a high ranking team in the arena wanted to challenge you durng a tournament. but they weren't included in the pk tournament. therefore they have asked for a match in the normal limit battles. of course you can't refuse. but we'll want to level up and get some better equipment before then. they are the very best arena team.....other than you. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- zelkova : fyi short version: he says that tartarga can now be used like a normal town for you and anyone in your friends list. also, canard has been permenitly set up at tartarga. sweet.

-------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- shino : i'm back short version: shino gives you her member address again since you lost everything when azure kite accidentally hit you with data drain in vol. 1 when he was aiming for ovan who was standing right behind you. so..yay! you now have another harvest cleric -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : special word short version: they give you a really nice keyword that's very handy. this is one thing on our list of things to do. see the 'god' chimchim is rare, and can only be found areas when you use a this special keyword. it appears on the field in place of the lucky animal. inreturn for defeating it, your party member's affection will increass. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- aura : to morgana's children short version: this e-mail is incredibly cheesy. i don't know who was in charge of the final 'ok' on this game, but they need shot in the knee caps for putting crap like this in the 3rd game. (they must have been running short of funds near the end of the series) anyway, the good part is that aura just gave you the member adresses of azure kite, azure bulmung, and azure orca. sweet. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- bordeaux : be happy, a message from bordeaux short version: she gives you her member address. yay? another blade brandier to add to the list. woo.... -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- uriyamada : congrats on beating the game short version: you can play the game fully restored. yay? not that there was a whole lot wrong with it anyway. at least in the old series the graphics of the towns and areas got fixed. *shakes head* i seriously would have done a few things to this game to make it better........hmmm maybe i'll put a ranting section near the bottom of the guide about how i would have made this game better. lol. ----------------------------------

----------------------------------news: short version: lots of stuff here. first and biggest thing is the new online jack. you get to see the real life shino leaving the hospital. in other news, you have some post crisis news concerning ovan and some military robots gone crazy. also, there's a short and rather choppy article about polls selecting haseo as the number one online gamer. -------------------------------------------------------------------forums: short version: some ppl says that cc corp has got to be finished now that they've screwed up so badly. anyway, the rest is just some ppl talking about game mateniance. also, a picture in the apkullu. ---------------------------------well, that's it for now. time to log-in and get going on the extra things that need doing. also note a random topic on the offical forums. ----------------------------------town: mac anu ---------------------------------transfer over to tartarga. ----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------ok now, time to break out the list of things that need doing. ------------ to-do list -----------a)level up to level 140, then level 150. b)defeat the doppleganger c)upgrade lost weapons/defeat beasts of seal. d)kill all 7 chaotic pkers/est. e)beat the sweepstakers in the arena f)open and beat the game's hidden quest

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-------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------first thing to do is level to lvl 150. there are several reasons for doing so: a)you want to be able to beat the beasts of seal to upgrade your lost weapons to their final upgrade. b) you want to be able to beat the doppleganger for vol 3 because he has new and amazing items you give you. c)you want to be able to beat the level 150 team that challanged you to an arena battle. d) you want to not die during the hidden quest.

i just thought those would be some good reasons to share with you. so get to it. i want you to train until you are level 150. yeah anyway, just go to field areas that are 4 levels higher than you. doing this will ussally ensure you fight monsters that have good amounts of experiecne. although i don't suggest going to areas with field bosses as the area objective, i'd stick to the symbol collection missions. they tend to be easier monsters to kill there. note: i almost forgot. since the party that you are leveling up to level 150 will most likly go with you to the hidden quest, there is something you long, very very very long! you good, they have to be amazing. that you use atoli and zelkova of the post game activities.

should know. the last dungeon is need party members that are above that being said i highly suggest as your party members for the rest

see, zelkova has items that restore full health and full sp. and, he pratically never runs out. he has 99,999,999gp thats just under a 100 million gp. so he always restocks his items everytime you log-in. hence he is a very valuable party member: he's high leveled, he's strong, and he has healing items. and also atoli is a given considering that she's an amazing healer. hint: use +50% exp material on accessory on all party members. so, come back when you've leveled up everyone to level 150.

ok, so now that you're level 150, pat yourself on the back for making it to the level 150 cap. you are now as stronge as you'll ever probably be. except for maybe getting the dual guns at the end of the hidden quest.

anyway, it's time to get haseo's best equipment for the whole series.

------------------------------ 1)doppleganger ----------------------------ok for those who havn't been following along with the whole guide and just skipped to this section here's a quick overview of the doppleganger and everything you need to know about it not only for redemption, but also vol. 1 and 2. --------------------------------what is the doppleganger? --------------------------the doppleganger is a rare monster that looks like an evil version of haseo. this monster is very strong and is always 8 levels higher then you. even if you reach the level cap of 150 he will still be 8 levels higher then you.(lvl 158) (and to verify that information i have friends who like to code break games. aka they like to put it on their computers and mess with the game programming to see if they can cheat. they're the ones who found out that the doppleganger is always 8 levels higher then you regardless of level cap.) anyway... i should tell you that he is by far the hardest monster to beat if you try to beat him in a straight forward fight. in fact i almost dont think it can be done. that's why we have to cheat a little. now as you can see being that this monster is always 8 levels higher then you; you might be wondering why on earth you would be intrested in it. well, the simple fact of the matter is that if you beat the doppleganger you can aquire the best armor in the entire series for haseo. however there are several requirements you have to meet in order to get these items: --------1) you must have defeated the doppleganger one time in vol 1. (giving you the own king key item) --------2) you must have defeated the doppleganger two times in vol 2. (giving you the forgotten shadow and the moonlight faith

key items) note: without the own king, moonlight faith, and forgotten shadow key items; you will not be able to aquire the doppleganger armor and accessory. however, even if you don't have these key items, you will be able to still aquire the doppleganger dual-guns the first time you beat him.

-------------------------------------------------how do i find and defeat the doppleganger? -----------------------------------------the doppleganger can only be found on the open field type areas. they can not be found in dungeons. (also note that if you use the keyword moonlight in the area keywords, the doppleganger will always be present in the field until you kill him.)

----here's the stragedy to defeat the doppleganger for vol 3: 1) first and formost you have to beat the game inorder to get the doppleganger rewards so it doesn't make much sense to mess with it before you beat the game. 2) since you beat the game you should have done a quest that unlocked the lucky animal campaign. go to the alchemy distric in mac anu and talk to dr. pao (i think that's his name) and he will give you the lucky animal radar. this item is very important. 3) once you have the lucky animal radar, go and buy about 20 smoke screens. 4) then, chose two characters that you want to take with you on the hidden quest. (i always use zelkova, and atoli) now, level haseo and your chosen party members to level 150. 5) if all your party members at at level 150, go to: [sigma] serene, wrath's, two wings (area level 148) here you will find a sleipnir lucky animal. this lucky animal is the key to beating the doppleganger. do not kick it yet. 6) go around the field and kill all the monsters you can until you have

filled the moral guage so that you can perform avatar awakening. save the awakening, don't use it yet! 7) after you have killed all (or at least most) of the mosters in the field, go and find the sleipnir lucky animal that you hopefully left alone. now, you may kick it. once that is done, leave haseo standing still with out moving or pausing the game for about 5-10 minutes. by standing still you will cause the doppleganger to appear on the field. it will begin hunting for you. it basicly wanders around a general area on the field for about a minute and then it will warp to a new location in an attempt to find you. 8)you will start to see a red arrow much like the ones that show where an enemy party of monsters are. however, this arrow points to doppleganger. it's rare, but after ten minutes if he still hasn't shown up, just continue to walk around the field until you find him. see he warps from place to place in the field as to increase the chance of running into you, like i said above. you'll know it's him when the edges of the screne turn red and the creepy music starts playing in the back ground. 9) once you have found the doppleganger, get behind it and suprise attacke it. the sleipnir lucky animal will come to your aid and attack the doppleganer. now, you will notice that it does absolutly no damage. don't worry it's ok. you are actually damaging it, it just doesn't show it yet on the life bar. 10)now, once the sleipnir has attacked, use a smoke screen and escape. wait until the affects of the smoke screen wear off and then attack the doppleganger again. you will have to do this 3 or 4 times before the doppleganger starts losing health. 11)the sleipnir will aid you to attack the doppleganger 7 times. after the 7th time trigger avatar awakening, and the doppleganger will be owned.

--note!- what ever you do, do not let him attack you while engaged in a fight with normal monsters. he can walk into a battle area then you'd be dead. -------------------------------------------------what are the rewards for doing all fo this? ------------------------------------------if you defeat the doppleganger once in vol 1 you will recive a key item own king. this key item allows you to get the doppleganger weapons in vol 2. -if you defeat the doppleganger twice in vol 2 you will recive a broadsword, twin swords, and a scythe that are level 50 but are as strong as level 100 weapons. you will also recive two key items: forgotten shadow and moonlight faith. the key items allow you to get the doppleganager guns and equipment in vol 3. -if you beat the doppleganger twice in vol 3 you will recive a set of dual guns, the best armor in the seires for haseo, and the best accessory in the series for haseo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

well, that's it. if you do this, you will get the best armor and accessory for haseo in the whole entire series. but unfortunitly the dual guns are complete trash and aren't even worth using. *sigh* anyway, pat yourself on the back, with this equipment haseo is pratically invincealbe: -first off haseo takes 75% less damage from almost any type of attack. the only exception to this would be the awakening from players in the arena. the only other type of attack that would affect his is negitive status attacks like poision, charm, est. second, if an enemy manages to get around the fact that he takes 3/4 less damage, haseo takes sp damage before he starts taking hp damage, so it's

like he has an extra 700 hp. -and finally, even if an enemy were some how able to deplete haseo's sp and cause enough hp damage to kill him. his accessory automatically regenerates hp and sp. now that is what i call sweet. anyway time to move on. our next item on the to do list.

------------------------------------------ 2)lost weapons ----------------------------------------------the lost weapons are weapons that can only be used by the 8 epitaph users: haseo, atoli, kuhn, yata, sakubo, endrance, and pi (ovan's gun is already missing which suggest that he has already aquired the gun and has always been using it.) the lost weapons act as the 'ultimate weapons' for these 7 charatcers once they are obtained and fully upgraded. anyway, in vol 2 the lost weapons could be unlocked by presenting a certian amount of adler's keys to the alters. you could unlock all the weapons except for yata's fans. in vol 3 you are given the ability to upgrade the weapons by presenting the required number of virus cores to the weapon's alter. virus cores are collected by performing avatar awakening on monsters, bosses ,or even player's in the arena. finally, the lost weapons can reach their final stage of growth by defeating a beast of seal. (lvl 135) after the beast of seal is defeated it will change appearence aswell as becoming stronger. here is a list of the required number of virus cores to upgrade the lost weapons. ________________________________________________________________________

character |number of virus cores needed | level of upgrade | ----------------|-------------------------------|----------------------| |10 | lvl 1 | haseo |25 | lvl 2 | |50 | lvl 3 | |fight beast of seal (lvl 135) | lvl 4 | ----------------|-------------------------------|----------------------| |10 | lvl 1 | atoli |25 | lvl 2 | |50 | lvl 3 | |fight beast of seal (lvl 135) | lvl 4 | ----------------|-------------------------------|----------------------| |10 | lvl 1 | kuhn |25 | lvl 2 | |50 | lvl 3 | |fight beast of seal (lvl 135) | lvl 4 | ----------------|-------------------------------|----------------------| |10 | lvl 1 | yata |25 | lvl 2 | |50 | lvl 3 | |fight beast of seal (lvl 135) | lvl 4 | ----------------|-------------------------------|----------------------| |10 | lvl 1 | sakubo |25 | lvl 2 | |50 | lvl 3 | |fight beast of seal (lvl 135) | lvl 4 | ----------------|-------------------------------|----------------------| |10 | lvl 1 | endrance |25 | lvl 2

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|fight beast of seal (lvl 135) | lvl 4 | ----------------|-------------------------------|----------------------| |10 | lvl 1 | pi |25 | lvl 2 | |50 | lvl 3 | |fight beast of seal (lvl 135) | lvl 4 | ----------------|-------------------------------|----------------------|

if you are following my guide you will be at the point i ask you to finish this sub-section of the game. however, i should tell you that if you descide to use haseo, zelkova, and atoli for the hidden quest, then just worry about upgrading haseo's and atoli's lost weapon. honestly i was only able to get about 5 of the 7 weapons upgraded before i finished the hidden quest. so if you don't get them all done then don't sweat it. really it's just a nice bonus to have them all upgraded. anyway, here's a little tid-bit of information that you might find usefull. i got this from a friend of mine who also wrote a guide: ------------------------------------------------------------------------this is the information i got from zero's guide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------once you have unlocked all lost weapons to level 4, you will receive an email from zelkova, after you have relocated to net slum. it tells you that you can now use the virus cores to exchange for these stat-boosting items. find raven's guild grunty (wise grunty) along the path to the bridge. he will be able to exchange them. ------------------------+------------------------------name |required virus cores ------------------------+------------------------------beginner's text |3 beginner's book |5

expert's text(?) |8 expert's book(?) |14 text of power |8 text of stamina |8 text of wisdom |8 text of sense |8 word of vigor |10 word of spirit |20 book of power |12 book of stamina |12 book of wisdom |12 book of sense |12 dawn chim chim |18 dusk chim chim |36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------ to-do list -----------a)level up to level 140, then level 150. b)defeat the doppleganger c)upgrade lost weapons/defeat beasts of seal.

(done) (done) (done)

d)kill all 7 chaotic pkers/est. e)beat the sweepstakers in the arena f)open and beat the game's hidden quest ----------------------------------------ok, the next thing on the to-do list is to beat all the chaotic pkers. however, seeing as that is all part of a quest champaign, then please just refer to that section on everything you need to do, and i should tell those of you who played the first two games, that there are not just 7 but 8 chaotic pkers in vol 3. so please read that section to find out how to find and kill all seven. refer to this section:

f)chase the bounty

just press ctrl+f then paste that^ into the search box and that section will give you all the infomation you need to know about beating the chaotic

pkers including the side quest section on the 8th chaoctic pker. note: i suggest the key words: serene, wrath's, berserker (the battle area is on the other side of the beast temple.) also not a bad area to get cheat code items. -----------------------------------------

alright then, now that you've defeated all the choatic pkers. it's time to accept the challenge at the arena. ----------------------------------town: lumina cloth ---------------------------------save first, then add zelkova and atoli to your party. or if you want a really great challenge, do this battle solo. (which is how i'm going to do it, just for kicks.)

------------------------------------------arena limit battle: the sweepstakers-------------------------------------------------party:haseo (150),zelkova (150),atoli (150) -opponets: ono (150), peej (150), wolf song (150) -before the fight advice: there's really nothing extra special about this battle. they're just pretty strong. but really the main point of doing all this is for the 3 weapons they give you after you beat them. so good luck and fight them like you would anyother arena battle. ---------------------------------------------------------when you beat them, they send you a message that you fought a good battle and to show that there's no hard feelings, they give you 3 pretty nice weapons: - broadsword- deadly fearblade: lvl 148 (keep and use it if you want, but honestly i just stick with silad) - twin swords- wrath bringer: lvl 146 (i ussaly give these to alkaid) - staff- summer's staff: lvl 146 (i ussally give this to shino seeing as atoli already has a lost weapon) ----------------------------------

well my friends, there's really only one major thing to do before i finish writting up my guides for the .hack// gu series. and that is the hidden quest. after that it's farwell for good. i've read a little bit from namco bamdi and they say they would like to continue the .hack series on the ps3. however i have no intention of buying a ps3 so it's very likly you won't see me writting anymore guides for the .hack series ever again. sad but true. anyway, enough of that. let's finish out the games with style by digging into the hidden quest.

---------------------------------------------------- 3)hidden quest: forest of pain ----------------------------------------------ok, before we attempt to dig into the hidden quest, we need to make sure we've done a few things. -------------1) levels/party members haseo, atoli ,and a third party member (perferably zelkova) all need to be at level 150

-------------2) equipment: ---haseo: twin blades- empty skies: lvl 125 broad sword- silad: lvl 140 scythe- shadowy death: lvl 75 (upgrade lvl 4) dual guns- dg-x: lvl 101 (cheat lvl 2) armor- otherself: lvl 150 (cheat lvl 2) accessory- shadow: lvl 150 - demon safe shoes: lvl 112*

*note: the demon safe shoes are the key to beating the hidden quest. this accessory allows you to walk right past normal enemies and they won't even blink an eye at you. in other words, you can walk right through the entire dungeon with out having to fight any of the regular battles. which is a good thing since it'll take you like 4-6 hours if you had to fight every party of normal monsters along the way. not only that, but fighting all those monsters will drain away you items; which is bad considering that you have to do the last half of the hidden quest in one straight shot without going back to town to restock your items. -also, if you for some reason you lost the demon safe shoes there is one other way to get the accessory material. if you beat the bike mission 10, you will get a acessory material that will have the same affect as the demon safe shoes. just customize a level 145 accessory with this item.

---atoli: staff-flame dancer: lvl 75 (upgrade lvl 4) armor- sub comet+5: lvl 142 (custom: -10% m,-25% p) accessory- simple super belt+5: lvl 145 (custom:heal mastery) ---zelkova: scythe-goddess scythe: lvl 127 armor- rough monarch+5: lvl 145 (custom: -50% p) accessory-simple super belt+5: lvl 145 (custom: zen mastery) --------------3) items

make sure haseo, zelkova, and atoli have the following items:

fairy orb x50 smoke screens x50 healing serum (200hp) x40 healing potion (350hp)x40 restoring drop (750hp) x40 sprite drop (50sp) x40 fairy drop (100sp) x40 nobel drop (250sp) x40 revival medicine (revive ally) x40 revival potion (fully revive ally) x25 wonder soda (all status affects) x40 omipotent soda (all status affect all allies) x25

warrior tome x30 knight trump x30 also, give any other powerfull healing items you might have come across while out adventuring to atoli. if you've got this stuff done, then you should be good to go. ----------------------------------------------------------------------alright then, if you've managed to get all of this then you you are ready to begin the hidden quest. but first we have to open it. so time to log-out and check the forums. save! ----------------------------------forums: short version: look for the topic called: 'strange place' there should be two posts, reply to the last one by pressing the x button. reply: 1) "a question" -"tell us the area words." after that, log-in to the title screne then log-out. if you look at the topic again, you will be given keywords. ---------------------------------time to log-in and check it out.

----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------put your party together and head out to the new area. -------------------------------h.q.) unknown, mortuary's, shadyrite---------------------------------area type: jungel cave area level: 101 party: haseo,atoli, zelkova my level: 150 this place is like many of the other 'pre-main mission' dungeons. it's pretty much a straight forward walk to an event. feel free to equipe the deamon safe shoes to avoid the annoying regulare battles. when you reach the back of the dungeon an event will take place. you will see some gusy who looks alot like your old friends from

the previous hidden quests. they will summon zombie type goblins take you on, of course this is futile against the haseo. kill them off and watch the scenes afterward. anyway, after that, head for the platform in the previous room, and head on back to town. now, log-out and check for more information on the forums.

----------------------------------forums: "i found the abyss!....i think" short version: read through the posts and reply to the last post: "area words"- "can you tell log-in to the title screen then log forums. the punk will see that you, is asking the questions now, and of the keywords. ----------------------------------

us the area words?" back out and check the the three arena champion cousre quickly forks over

well, time to get going. log-in. ----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------time to head off for the new area. -------------------------------h.q.) clashing, frisson's, oracle---------------------------------area type: jungel cave area level: 110 party: haseo,atoli, zelkova my level: 150 again, feel free to use the demon safe shoes. now, head for the end of the floor and watch the event yet again. anyway, you will head a been chosen as a judge. break out from the seal one who can face him in

voice from above saying that haseo has see the lord of the dead is attempting to to the underworld, and haseo is the only battle.

well, right about then, your old buddy shows up and summons a death penalty. dont worry, its very easy to beat. and once you do the scenes continue. after the scenes you get an e-mail. great. =) head to the previous room and head back to town via platform.

----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------log-out and check your e-mail.

----------------------------------e-mail- tabby : hey short version: she says that she's decided to log-in for a change and that she would like to get together and hang out for a bit. she says she'll be waiting at the entrance to the forest of pain. -------------------------------------------------------------------e-mail- cc corp : notice of "forst of pain" commencement. short version: they sent you an e-mail saying that the event will be starting. they also say that it is highly suggested that you are over level 135 and that you prepare well due to the fact that you will be unable to pull items from your storage while in the forest of pain. alright then. it's to tackle the biggest dungeon i've ever seen in the .hack series. ---------------------------------log-in. ----------------------------------town: netslum tartarga ---------------------------------double check to make sure that you have all the needed healing items. also that your equipment is ready to go and finally that you have the demon safe shoes (as they will be key to you beating the forest of pain within a reasonable amount of time). alright, once you've added atoli and zelkova to your party,save!, then it's time to head out.

----------hidden quest dungeon: forest of pain---------

-------------------------------h.q.)hidden, forbidden, sin realm---------------------------------area type: landscape/hidden quest dungeon/forest dungeon area level: none (roughly lvl 135-150+) party: haseo, atoli, zelkova my level: 150 --entrance here you'll get an excelent view of the forest of pain. and don't be suprised if the forest is actually as big as it looks. anyway, you'll see some scenes with an npc. afterward, haseo mentions that it feels like it's been years since he was last here. you see, i may have mentioned in my other guides, but that when shino went into a coma, haseo started seeking power so that he could destory tri-edge. that search lead him here to the forest of pain. even though he was low leveled he still attemped the dungeon. he basicly just ran through the dungeon ignoring the monsters until he got to the end. where he met someone. someone who's been part of the game for many many years. anyway, this person granted haseo alot of power. haseo skipped his 1st job extension and went right to his 3rd form, he was also leveled up to level 133. haseo and taihaku are the only two people to ever beat the forest of pain. anyway, from there haseo became the terror of death and well,the rest as they say is history.

well now, time to get a move on. go ahead and use the warp point infront of you to enter the forest of pain. ------------------------------------

bonus objecttive: 25 hit combo -block 1: right then you'll get a short message about the phase bonus or bonus objectives. these objectives are purely optional to complete the forest of pain. however, they will render rewards for completeing the objectives. you can view what your objectives are by viewing the map and pressing x. as a general rule i won't be covering the bonus objectives. if you

wish to attempt them then feel free in doing so. but i must warn you that it will take time and believe me, time is something you don't want to waste in this dungeon. note:the only bonus objective i'll be covering is the objective for blocks 51-54. i'll explain more when we get there. for now here's what you need to do: 1)equipe the demon safe shoes. 2)have atoli cast 'ap do' on all party members, and cast again when it wears off. 3)use a fairy orb on map every block/floor. 4)run straight through each floor ignoring all regulare monsters.

-block 2: (same stragedy as above) -blcok 3: (same stragedy as above) -block 4: (same stragedy as above) -block 5: now things get intresting. you face only one monster here. it's a boss monster like the ones you would encounter in a field. for now these monsters are very easy. but later in the dungeon they can be down right nasty. also note that there are two types of boss fights: regular boss fights and special boss fights. regular boss fights are what i mentioned above; boss monsters from fields. special boss fights are monsters that mimik hidden quest monsters you've fought from previous games. for now, this one is just a regular boss fight. also note that for every boss fight, especially the ones later on in the dungeon, you need to switch to the shadow accessory while fighting bosses and then back to the demon safe shoes for moving around the dungeon. ----------------------------------boss fight!: maxima bazooka (6,00hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: just pound away. ----------------------------------you have reach the check point of block 5. you can now warp directly back to block 5 from the town. save if you want.

bonus block block block

objective: perform 10 skill triggers 6: normal stragedy 7: normal stragedy 8: normal stragedy

block 9: normal stragedy block 10: regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: maxima bazooka (6,00hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: just pound away. ----------------------------------check point reached.

bonus objective: destroy 10 objects block 11: normal stragedy block 12: normal stragedy block 13: normal stragedy block 14: normal stragedy block 15: regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: forest king (5,500hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: dual guns and broad sword to death. ----------------------------------check point reached.

bonus objective: 40 hit combo block 16:normal stragedy block 17:normal stragedy block 18:normal stragedy block 19:normal stragedy block 20:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: forest king (6,500hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: broad sword and dualguns to death. ----------------------------------check point reached.

bonus objective: perform 12 skills triggers block 21:normal stragedy block 22:normal stragedy block 23:normal stragedy block 24:normal stragedy block 25:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: giga mammoth (6,800hp) my level: 150

-stragedy: broad sword and dualguns to death. ----------------------------------check point reached.

bonus objective: open 5 treasure chest or trapped boxes block 26:normal stragedy block 27:normal stragedy block 28:normal stragedy block 29:normal stragedy block 30: special boss fight well, make sure you change your accessory over to shadow, and make sure everyone's ready then select to warp. you end up at indieglut lugh where you come face to face with a shadow of the dark lord. in other words this boss fight isn't as hard as when you fought this guy in the vol 1 hidden quest. but it's still a decent boss fight. ----------------------------------boss fight!: darklord's shade (9,999hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: use twin swords and dualguns and beat this guy into a pulp. easy. ----------------------------------check point reached. also; for beating the darklord's shade you get an item called pure medallion. it's an item that heals 350 hp and has infinate uses! yay!

bonus objective: 65hit combo block 31:normal stragedy block 32:normal stragedy block 33:normal stragedy block 34:normal stragedy block 35:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: sorceror owl (7,100hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: twin sowrds and dualguns. ----------------------------------check point reached.

bonus block block block block block

objective: perform 15 skill triggers 36:normal stragedy 37:normal stragedy 38:normal stragedy 39:normal stragedy 40:regular boss fight

----------------------------------boss fight!: sorceror owl (7,100hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: twin sowrds and dualguns. ----------------------------------check point reached.

bonus objective: destory 15 objects block 41:normal stragedy block 42:normal stragedy block 43:normal stragedy block 44:normal stragedy block 45:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: megalo adamant (7,200hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: braod sword and dual guns. ----------------------------------check point reached.

bonus objective: perform a 80 hit combo. block 46:normal stragedy block 47:normal stragedy block 48:normal stragedy block 49:normal stragedy block 50: now then here, you'll finally catch up with tabby and as you enter the first room you find her sitting on the ground. watch the scenes and enjoy. you also get her member adress. when the scenes are done continue to the boss fight. ----------------------------------boss fight!: megalo adamant (7,200hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: braod sword and dual guns. ----------------------------------last check point reached! thats right, after this point you will be doing an all or nothing drive for the end of the dungeon. it's a good idea to head back to town and restock on all your supplies. when your ready we'll continue to the end of the dungeon. you will especially want to restock all 50 of your fairy orbs. and all of your status cure items for atoli, she almost ran out when i did this dungeon the first time.

--------------forest of pain: second half-----------------remember, there's no more check points from here on in. it's do or die. *note: for floors 51-54 i suggest that you do the bonus objective. the resaon being that you will recive a set of dual guns for completing the objective. granted the dualguns are crappy and arn't even worth using. but still, it's nice to say you got all four sets of dualguns.

bonus objective: 1. perform 18 skill triggers *2. defeat 6 enemy parties* 3. clear while being ko(ed) three times or less. 4. perform awakening 4 times. *complete objective #2 for the dual guns. block 51:normal stragedy block 52:normal stragedy block 53:normal stragedy block 54:normal stragedy block 55:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: dryramas (7,300hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: twin swords and dual guns. avatar awakening alot. -----------------------------------

bonus objective: 1. open 6 treasure boxes/trapped boxes 2. defeat 7 enemy parties 3. get ko(ed) 3 times or less 4. use awakening 4 times block 56:normal stragedy block 57:normal stragedy block 58:normal stragedy block 59:normal stragedy block 60:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: dryramas (7,300hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: twin swords and dual guns. avatar awakening alot. -----------------------------------

bonus objective: 1. 100 hit combo 2. defeat 7 enemy parties 3. ko(ed) 3 times or less 4. use 5 awakenings block 61:normal stragedy block 62:normal stragedy block 63:normal stragedy block 64:normal stragedy block 65:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: brigandine (6,400hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: broad sword and dualguns. -----------------------------------

bonus objective: 1. perform 20 skill trigger 2. defeat 7 enemy parties 3. get ko(ed) 3 times or less 4. perfom 5 awakenings block block block block block

66:normal stragedy 67:normal stragedy 68:normal stragedy 69:normal stragedy 70:special boss fight

as you use the warp point you are taken to morrigu barrow where you face off with the one sin clone. (much like the dark lord shadow) ----------------------------------boss fight!: the one death (9,999hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: use broad sword to break the armor then use the twin swords or dual guns to widdle away at the hp. this really isn't very tough. remember that if you use awakening, that you use it after the armor had been broken on the hands. good luck. ----------------------------------afterward you see some short scenes. for beating the the one death you recive some money and the icon of purity which restores 50 sp for an infinate amount of uses. sweet. now time to move on.

bonus objective:

1. 2. 3. 4.

open 7 treasure boxes/trapped boxes defeat 8 enemy parties get ko(ed) 2 times or less perform 6 awakenings

block 71:normal stragedy block 72:normal stragedy block 73:normal stragedy block 74:normal stragedy block 75:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: deepone (5,100hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: ok, this guy is actually pretty hard. see he has a certian amount of physical damage tolerace just like the doppleganger. which means you have to just keep attacking until it starts taking damage. i suggest using a warrior's tome to boost your party's strength. this should help alittle. -----------------------------------

bonus objective: 1. 110 hit combo 2. defeat 8 enemy parties 3. get ko(ed) 2 times or less 4. perform 6 awakenings block 76:normal stragedy block 77:normal stragedy block 78:normal stragedy block 79:normal stragedy block 80:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: huge grudge (7,400hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: twin swords and dual guns. warrior tome helps. -----------------------------------

bonus objective: 1. perform 25 skill triggers 2. defeat 8 enemy parties 3. get ko(ed) 1 time or less 4. perform awakening 7 times block 81:normal stragedy block 82:normal stragedy block 83:normal stragedy

block 84:normal stragedy block 85:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: judgment (7,777hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: use dual guns and braod sword to bring this one down. not as bad as some of the other bosses. ----------------------------------bonus objective: 1. 8 treasure chests 2. defeat 9 enemy parties 3. get ko(ed) 1 time or less 4. use awakening 7 times block 86:normal stragedy block 87:normal stragedy block 88:normal stragedy block 89:normal stragedy block 90:regular boss fight ----------------------------------boss fight!: tinder baron (5,300hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: probably the hardest 'regular boss' in the whole dungeon. can only be damaged by awakening. regeiki to build up moral guage, then unleash awakening. it's only way it can be hurt. just be pacient, you will eventually kill it after about 7-8 awakenings. trust me, it can be defeated. -----------------------------------

bonus objective: 1. 125 hit combo 2. defeat 9 enemy parties 3. get ko(ed) 0 times 4. perform 8 awakenings block block block block block

91:normal stragedy 92:normal stragedy 93:normal stragedy 94:normal stragedy 95:regular boss fight

last regular boss fight. ----------------------------------boss fight!: choas empress (9,000hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: easy, just use dualguns and broad sword. it has low defense.

----------------------------------bonus objective: 1. 140 hit combo 2. defeat 9 enemy parties 3. get ko(ed) 0 times 4. perform 8 awakenings block block block block

96:normal 97:normal 98:normal 99:normal

stragedy stragedy stragedy stragedy

block 100: dungeon's fianl boss before using warp point, use all stats boost spells, items, est. get ready for a truly ridiculous boss battle. after you warp, you find yourself at indieglut lugh again. this time you come face to face with the real dark lord, and he is no push over. ----------------------------------boss fight!: true cernunnos (9,999hp) my level: 150 -stragedy: he has very high defence, has alot of attack power and can heal himself 1,000hp at a time. in other words: use your dualguns to avoid status counter, use broad sword for skill trigger, use avatar awakening alot. use warrior tome to boost strength, and knight trump to weak the dark lord. this fight takes awhile, but as long as you keep pouring your arts attacks into the boss, he will eventually die. good luck. ----------------------------------well congrats my friends. for beating the final boss you recive 50k and the dg-z which are proabaly the most over powered weapons in the whole seires. well anyway, congrats on beating the 100 floor dungeon of the .hack series: the forest of pain. enjoy the honest to goodness final scenes of the .hack// gu series. its been fun all.

oh yeah, just as a side note. that's harald's ai that haseo is talking to. harald is the original creator of the game who somehow managed to seal his consiousness in the game. 0.o yeah, not sure how that works *shrugs* the ai is like his alter ego. it was meant to help raise aura when she was born. (see characters and story section for more explaination.) -------------------------------movie- sign of the truth short version/main points: just haseo and shino talking about if ovan will ever come back or not. -------------------------------===================================================================== ===================================================================== =============( end of the hidden quest for vol 3.)=================== ===================================================================== ======================(forest of pain)=============================== =====================================================================

well firends, not alot felt to do. feel free to raise your guild rank. or even do the final greeting card. (go to areas using the 'bbq plate' key word to raise party member's affection ratings. personally i'm not too big into the whole 'promise' thing. i just sent it to alkaid once i got her affection maxed seeing as i think she was the coolest girl haseo has in his member list.) but anyway. you'll find a few sections wraping up the odds and ends of the game. and don't miss my story and characters section near the bottom. it wraps up some other odds and ends from the story and also gives background of the various installments to 'project .hack//' well, even if you don't want to do these side sections, you can read my parting words at the bottom of the guide.

----------------------------------- 4)quest champaigns ----------------------------------

---------------- a)highway master ---------------refer to this section --other then what is listed in that section on how to complete the differnt tracks; for this champaign you must complete: 1: complete 50 or more bike trials 2: collect 3000+ chims on the tracks -stragedy: go to the differnt bike mission areas and beat them all. by the time it takes you to get 1st place in all of those trials you will probably have completed the above objectives. ------------------- b)stray mecha grunty -----------------for this champaign you must complete: 1: help mecha grunty 30 times -stragedy: you must go an area or many different areas and just give chims to mecha grunty 50 times. try to find an area where mecha grunty is very close to where you enter into the area. fields are good for this. and just go there over and over and over again till you get it up to 50 times. ------------------- c)lucky data collection -----------------for this champaign you must complete: 1:kick up to 50 lucky/unlucky animals. 2: must kick all types of un/lucky animals at least once.

the lucky animals are alot harder to find in this game. they are no longer set to one area. ex) if you go to an area and find say a gold bird is there, there will always be a gold bird in that area from then on.

not so with vol. 3 now the lucky animals are based on your partie's average level compared to the level of the area you are in. the top value along this chart is the last digit of your party's average level. the value on the side is the last digit of the area level. the lucky animal that will be in the area is determined where those two digits cross in the chart, kinda like the game battle ship. =p anyway here's the link to the chart. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h157/zerotheburninator/walkthrough/lu cki.png

this is a chart that allows you to do things the hard way, and unfortunitly i found it rather hard to understand and use. there is a better way but you have to wait till you're level 100. -stragedy: level all your party members to level 150. then go to mac anu. go to fields and then dungeons that are level 1-10. the lucky animals on the chart will be there.

list of lucky animals: --------------------------------------name : lucky/ unlucky effect --------------------------------------gold bird------ :turns all objest into treasure chests moon rabit----- : all members +400 exp leviathan------ : recieve 5 items sleipnir------- : will aid in 5 battles tsutsuga------- : saves you from game over 3 times ganesha ------- : max hp/sp increased next 5 battles high wolf------ : gives you an item set fate worm------ : gives you 100000 gp totetsu ------- : objects turn into treasure boxes kudan ------- : gives you 300 exp tengu---------- : get4 items chimera ------- : will aid you in next 4 battles qi lin ------- : saves you from game over 2 times tohkoh ------- : max hp/sp increased next 4 battles baku ------- : get an item set ouryu ------- : get 8000 gp nue : summons king chim chim two-tailed fox- : takes money away from you malice cat----- : hp/sp halfed for next battle dark goat------ : hp/sp halfed for next battle white malice cat: hp/sp halfed while in area

------------------- d)chim's kicker -----------------for this champaign you must complete: 1: collect 1000pts of chim data -stragedy: just go out and kick huge amounts of chims. fields work best. just kick the trees to make them pop up.

------------------- e)bikman model -----------------for this champaign you must complete: find all 160 npc character in the fields or in town. stragedy: use the flyer rader. just keep going from town to town till you get all of them. note: this following list was made by zer0 and is taken from his guide. this list is not my creation. got it? good.

character name | location ------------------+----------------------------------------------human male npc locations ------------------|----------------------------------------------ninjato | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona eddie | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona rudolph | mac anu, lumina cloth nogmung | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona oimatsu | mac anu, lumina cloth iga | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona vergilius | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona midnight-head | mac anu, lumina cloth dominator | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona rider chyob | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona lieutenant okada | mac anu, lumina cloth corporal yano | mac anu, lumina cloth ookami itto | mac anu sidewinder | mac anu tres | mac anu, breg epona ubadama | mac anu heretic | mac anu kunio | mac anu encephalon | mac anu, dol dona, breg epona

lonely wolf | mac anu boltz | mac anu dimitri | mac anu maxburst | mac anu aralagi | mac anu aryosha | mac anu mihirogi | mac anu nagi | mac anu, lumina cloth kazuki | mac anu, lumina cloth blue eye samurai | mac anu, lumina cloth mark | mac anu, lumina cloth wise dragon | mac anu, lumina cloth battery tomekichi | mac anu, lumina cloth yoshio | lumina cloth katar | lumina cloth, kestrel nagare | lumina cloth, breg epona dragonfly | lumina cloth, breg epona, kestrel colt 31 | lumina cloth, breg epona pokuri | lumina cloth, breg epona exile | lumina cloth fang | lumina cloth, kestrel chamnosuke | lumina cloth nonbe | lumina cloth ak47 | lumina cloth pilgrim | lumina cloth, kestrel lettuce taro | lumina cloth machida man | lumina cloth takowaza380yen | lumina cloth, kestrel great leo | lumina cloth ayuo | lumina cloth jj | lumina cloth flamberge | lumina cloth saltaholic | dol dona, breg epona signaless | dol dona ohmrice | dol dona, breg epona kaki leader | dol dona, breg epona umbrella | dol dona, breg epona renji | breg epona oshino 8 seas | breg epona, kestrel mister ma | breg epona, kestrel kyon-tama | breg epona ------------------|------------------------------------------------human female npc locations ------------------+------------------------------------------------schrodinger | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona trigger | mac anu, lumina cloth, breg epona naoo | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona isolde | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona wang lin | mac anu, lumina cloth, breg epona, kestrel chobi | mac anu, lumina cloth dr.d | mac anu, lumina cloth henako | mac anu, lumina cloth syake | mac anu, lumina cloth senion | mac anu inui | mac anu, kestrel angel hair | mac anu olive | mac anu

heavenly flower | mac anu -cooh | mac anu mile | mac anu moonlight dance | mac anu alice | mac anu pen pen | mac anu abcinian | mac anu 1/2 | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona restia | lumina cloth, breg epona zebra | lumina cloth, breg epona mako | lumina cloth, breg epona aira | lumina cloth, kestrel menou | lumina cloth chrysanthemum | lumina cloth, breg epona punisher mitch | lumina cloth black pearl | lumina cloth meruru | lumina cloth, breg epona heart in brocade | lumina cloth hiira | lumina cloth, kestrel niangniang | lumina cloth ayame | lumina cloth, kestrel rental daughter | lumina cloth kiira | lumina cloth, kestrel sapphire | lumina cloth madame insane | lumina cloth jade | lumina cloth joanna | lumina cloth ruby | lumina cloth aleneor | lumina cloth onyx | lumina cloth stella | breg epona katura | dol dona beatrice | breg epona princess sakuya | breg epona momoka | breg epona yamato_nadeshiko | breg epona iota | breg epona --------------------------------------------------------------beast male npc locations ------------------+-------------------------------------------barson | mac anu, lumina cloth pale | mac anu, lumina cloth nuada | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona tanu | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona vanguard | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona sky | mac anu seisaku | dol dona, breg epona, medic union hideyo | dol dona, breg epona, medic union bj | medic union osamu | medic union genpaku | medic union ryotaku | medic union towa | mac anu, lumina cloth shirochan | lumina cloth, kestrel eteman | lumina cloth yatsuhusa | lumina cloth, breg epona chamee | lumina cloth, kestrel

suzuki pig | lumina cloth pochi | lumina cloth julias | dol dona, breg epona governor tadashi | dol dona, breg epona msf | medic union bernard | medic union vitamin | medic union jyunjiro| medic union aspekt | breg epona -----------------------------------------------------------------------------beast female npc locations -----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------ingrid | mac anu, lumina cloth tomcat | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, breg epona sagittarius | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona, kestrel quasar | mac anu, lumina cloth, dol dona gates | mac anu b1u3 | mac anu mikatan | mac anu tiphereth | mac anu lady of the lamp | medic union florence | medic union rintaro | medic union ougai | medic union agnes | medic union telese | medic union amber | medic union william=g | medic union doyle | medic union watson | medic union phelix | medic union jill | medic union yoko | lumina cloth, kestrel cecile | lumina cloth kanko | lumina cloth evil woman | lumina cloth ishikari cat | lumina cloth kitty ladle | dol dona, breg epona applestar | dol dona, breg epona, kestre yabu | medic union ryogoro | medic union victor | medic union stein | medic union electronic frog | medic union galvani | medic union axel rod | medic union katz | medic union nanase mitabi | breg epona marian | breg epona

------------------- f)chase the bounty -----------------for this champaign you must complete: 1: defeat 50 pkers 2: defeat all the black list pkers --black list pkers: genjyo the fatal kaotin in the shadows magical pokotan silent teru poison lei lei lady bomber jahad yokochi steel taro (?????????) yep there is an 8th chaotic pker, and i'll tell you how to find her too. stragedy: go to an area where a battle area (blue energy barrier) appears right next to where you enter the area. fields work best. anyway, just keep going to that area over and over and over again. everytime you enter one of those battle areas you will encounter 1 of 3 types of fights going on. most likly-> 1: pker attacking player 2: monsters attacking player less likly but will still happen-> 3: black list pker attacking player see 1 and 2 are the most likly what you will find every time you enter the battle area. however if you keep going back over and over, eventually you will be able to find and kill all 7 black list pkers. ---side quest: 8th chaotic pker

once you have killed the first seven chaotic pkers; check in with the npc in the back ally of mac anu's mercenary district. then log-out and check the forums. here you will see some posts concerning the 8th chaotic pker. log

back in and go to a field with the 3rd word 'beserker'. find the 8th and final chaotic pker the same way you found the other choatic pkers. fight and kill her. and those of you who played the old games will obviously know who this little but strong lady is. anyway, once you've beat her log out and check the forums again. you will see a post saying she was spoted in the back ally of breg epona. so head over there and back to the end of the long ally way. there you will see gayros...i mean piros the 3rd and natsume talking away. piros will see you and insist that natsume give you her member address, sweet! you now have 3 of the original .hackers in your party. (not including the azure knights) well anyway, that wraps things up for the chaotic pkers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

well thats it for quests champaigns. personally i ussally dont even finish most of them. just enough to get the special items from them, in order to just barely get my guild rank up to max.

------------------------------- 5)bike missions ------------------------------

this setion is also known as the highway master quest champaign. although like i have said before i don't really consider this a normal champaign. first, head over to see kafu near the @home. he should be right across from the warp point. read what he has to say, then head back to the chaos gate. open the warp menu, now set the first part word to 'passing'. now depending on the combinatione of words after that you will get different types of areas, if you look to see what the misson for the area is it will say this: "bike mission (course #)" there are five different courses. the should be done in a certian order becuase of the level of difficulty. the order is 4, 3, 5, 1, 2. <- a little tip i got from skitchell. so you want to go to an area that is course 4 to start off with. now there are some general tips you want to follow, but chances are you won't really understand what i'm talking about until you try the bike

missions yourself at least once. so...i suggest these key words: "passing, wrath's, two wings. go here and try the bike mission at least once or twice, that way you get a feel for how things work and then i can re-cap and explain stuff you may or may not have missed. ok here's the general rules you need to keep in mind: 1:generally speaking the fist mission is the hardest because you don't have any of the rare bike parts yet. 2: always start off the mission with a charged boost that will save you time, unless i say other wise. you can perform a charged start boost by doing the following: as the counter begins to count down from 3, hold the square and x buttons at the same time. when the timer hits zero; release the brake while still holding the gas. 3: you want to keep the nirto guage full and in use as much as possible, aka the entire time. 4: keep pressing the r1 (boost) button over and over again the entire time you race. it's alot easier then trying to guess when your guage is full while trying to stear aswell. it saves precious seconds you need to win. 5: never go to an area that has fog in it. makes it alot harder to do this when it simply doesn't need to be. order of missions: 4, 3, 5, 1, 2

---(vol 2 bike missions)---

-----------------------bike trial 4 -----------------------engine: 170 engine armor: yamane armor muffler: type 500 muffler tires: 150 tires (found at dol dona junk shop) it's a canyon highlands area. i think it's the most annoying mission out of all of them. there are two ways to do this mission:

option a: 1: as the counter starts prepare a boost start. take off and swearve left into chims. keep hitting the nitro. 2: as you round the corner, try to hit as many chims as you can. 3: round the corner and just bearly clip the king. 4: work through the s-curves, be careful and try not to hit the walls as much as you can. 5: round the corner and hit the chims, keep pressing r1. 6: round another corner, hit the chims and boost toward the next king. 7: round the courner and hit the chims while angling toward the last king. option b: 1: do not prepare a boost. when the counter says 'go!', do a u-turn by aiming the joystick down and to the left. 2: this part is important. round the corner and clip the king. 3: then with out slowing down, get all the chims in the first row. there is just enough to fill the nitro guage. 4: boost as you turn the corner, get as many chims as you can. 5: through the curves, then through more s curves, and clip the finial king. even with a bad time this way turned out faster then the other way. which way you do it is up to you. when you beat matsu's time, head back to town. -------------------------------------------------------------bike trial 3 -----------------------engine: kirisame engine armor: yamane armor muffler: raging muffler tires: night tires (did bike mission 4 and rewards from kafu (did 15 runs and 877 chims). -when you start this mission dont boost. just press the gass normaly and bear to the right getting all the chims and filling the boost guage. as you start to hit chims keep pressing boost button over and over so you boost as soon as you can. - head straight but bearing slighting to the right. then as you approch the first king, stear in quickly so you hit the nest row of chims almost head on. -after the chims end stear a little to the left. hit the next group of chims in the middle to get the most. follow along the side of the hill. soon you'll see the next king. hit him and follow the path of chims. -take a some what to get up on the hill. head straigh to the last chim. note: you wont be able to beat the 1st place time if your boost isnt going the whole time after you trigger it at the very begining. in other

words you have to keep it filled so it can run the whole race. good luck. make sure to tune up your bike before going out again, and check in with kafu to see if he gives you any more stuff. -----------------------bike trial 5 -----------------------engine: kirisame engine armor: yamane armor muffler: tidal muffler tires: night tires this one is a little tough. -charge a boost start. let go and use your nitro boost as soon as you can. -then, take the turn wide as that you hit the king chim at a 90 degree angel to the end of the hill. this will allow you to go over the hill instead of the whole way around. as you exit the hill make a 90 degree turn to the right. gather chims as you go and hit the second king. next, as you aproch the last line of chims from the second king, bear left and hung the shore line so you angel toward the last kind. do the same with the endge of the hill on your right. that angel will take you to the last king. -----------------------bike trial 1 -----------------------engine: kirisame engine armor: yamane armor muffler: tidal muffler tires: night tires -as you start follow the chims to the right. boost asap. - bear a little to the right as you head for the next king. -clip him and hit the two groups of chims on your way to the next king in the middle. -after you ram the next king head straigh just long enough to hit the group of chims. forget the last group and cut the remainder fo the corner and b-line it for the last king. ------------------------

bike trial 2 -----------------------engine: kirisame engine armor: hagane armor muffler: tidal muffler tires: night tires last mission. this one is short but fast and is one of the only missions that requires are skid turn=> -as you start off, charge a boost. -collect all chims in the first row and hit the king. -stear hard left. -as you are just about to run into the second king. cram the joystick down and hold it very quicky. you will do a u-turn while running into the 2nd king. -after the side u-turn, chims the group of chims and boost to the end. being this race is shorter then the others. there's little room for error. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------bike trial #6 -----------------------example: (passing,warth's, benadonna) note:do not get a field that is cloudy, foggy, or dark. you always want areas that are day time. engine: kirisame engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: tidal muffler tires: night tires ok, then. 1) begin with a boost start. you can do this by holding down the square and x button at the same time. this will change the boost.(signaled by white steam comming out of muffler) when the counter says go! release the square button (brake) and you will launch forward. 2) swerve to the left to hit the first row of chims. keep hitting the r1 button when doing this to activate the nitro as soon as possible. 3) after the second group of chims prepare to do a 180 degree turn around the curve. (it's a sharp one)

4)collect the next row of chim and boost into the turn. clip the edge of the king (check point) and head for the bridge) 5) hit the chims on the bridge and turn a hard right. 6) follow the arrow to the last king. look for chims along the way. for 1st place you will get the: kogane armor. not very useful, but it's a start. --------------------------------------now that you've gotton 1st place, i want you to go to kafu and view your record with him, this should render rewards: some useful, some not. ---(vol 3 bike trials)---

-----------------------bike trial #7 -----------------------example: (passing,warth's, fast horse) engine: 210 engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: type 800 muffler tires: night tires this is a hard corse just because there is so little room for mistakes. however with the 210 engine that provides the best max speed. you might just make it. 1)boost start as soon as it says go. 2)keep pressing r1 so you will boost as soon as guage is full. 3) drive straight ahead, as you approch the first king wait until you are almost there then jerk the joy stick down. this will cause you to perform a sliding u-turn. if you time it right you will swipe through the king at the furthest point in the sliding turn. in other words you will slide into the king as you perform the u-turn rather then after you've already passed through it. 4) stear to the left as soon as you complete the u-turn and head to the king on your left. do the same u-turn move to clip the king. 5) boost toward the last king with as much speed as you can beat out of your bike. if you have the above, you should be able to beat this mission.

reward: big wave muffler. useful for offsetting the 210 engine's lack of acceleration. --------------------------------------two down three to go. -----------------------bike trial #8 -----------------------example: (passing,wrath's hand song) engine: 210 engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: big wave muffler tires: night tires this course thing is to then trying through the

isnt as hard as you might think. really the biggest run through it once or twice to get the feel for things. it again at full speed. the trick here is to cut corners s-curves at hte begining and the end.

1) boost start. get the first batch of chim while turning right. 2)cut the first corner and head for the first king 3) as you get the first king, prepare for a 90 degree turn to the left. 4) turn left again at the bridge. 5) go up the hill clip the king and then down the hill on the next path down. 6) across the bridge and then an 90 degree turn to the left. 7)right after the bridge will be the biggest chance to gain time on the clock by cutting the corner in a slant through the s-curves. 8)boost toward the last king. reward: rain tires. one of the best tires. -------------------------------------------------------------bike trial #9 -----------------------example: (passing,warth's, two wings) engine: 210 engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: big wave muffler tires: rain tires 1)start boost. get the first row of chims. cut the first corner. no not use the bridge, it's not worth it. go around the 'long way' (which actualy is faster) hit the first king. 2) round the next corner (do not cut it took close) and hit the next kind.

3) then just drive right at the last king. reward:ayanami muffler. --------------------------------------ok, first off i highly suggest you empty your inventory of all unessacary items, because the reward items you get from this mission are amazing! like not even joking at all, the weapon/armor/ accessory materials are some of the rarest in the whole game and you will want to be able to keep as many as you can! -----------------------bike trial #10 -----------------------example: (passing,black, arrows) engine: 210 engine armor: kurogane armor muffler: big wave muffler tires: rain tires this track is very easy compared to the others. 1)boost start, grab first row of chims. boost with nitro. 2) turn lighlty left to aim at first king. 3) steer throguh s-curves. 4) just before the 2nd kind is a 180 degree turn. follow the line of chim around the curve and don't try to cut it close or else you'll miss the king. 5) grab a row of chims to fill guage and boost. take the most direct path right to the last king. good luck. reward: akagane armor (best bike armor of the game) ---------------------------------------

------------------------------- 6)normal quests -----------------------------here's just a quick list of all of the normal quest and advice on how to finish them.

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 1)lawless fort -------------------------------------------- 19)vulnerable, barren, safe house(q) -------------------------------------------area type: jungel dungeon area level: 116 party: haseo, atoli, antares my level: 120

----floor 1 this floor is prety simple. you'll find the there is more or less one central path to follow to get to the next floor. along the way, no matter which way you go, you'll run into the pkers you need to find and defeat. use fairy orb and atoli's speed+ spell to hurry the process along. --pker's group #1-greedy cervantes: easy enough, just pound away. broad sword is a good idea. --pker's group #2-garden michelle: take him out second. broad sword might be best here. fiery genie-five: take her out first. scythe is a good idea here.

----floor 2 central path, all the way. --pker's group #3--

wicked ibaku: take him out second. he has a certian amount of physical tolerance that will wear off as you continue to fight him. it take awhile. wicked gerango: take him out first. he has no physical tolerance and there for easyier to take care of. ----floor 3 five down, five to go. really this last floor you'll have have to wonder around a bit to find everyone.but ultimatly you need to head to the west and north most side of the dungeon. really it doesn't matter, the pkers are located in such a way that you'll fight them no matter what. you really don't need to go looking for them. --pker's group #4-immortal goriki: scythe is the best idea here. --pker's group #5-these guys are your final challenge and they are really not that hard. just use your scythe and keep using arts over and over. you'll be just fine. when it's over with, you'll warp back to town. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 2)last salute of the gold goblins --------------------------------------------- 20)undetered, legerity's, goblin(q) -------------------------------------------area type: highland canyon area level: 101 party: haseo, (none), (none) my level: 125 ok, this quest is a five lap race against the golden goblins.

each goblin will run one lap. this is actually really easy. just follow the course counter clock wise. the bridge act's like your check point. you will get extra boost stock for every lap you complete. with your awesome pimped out bike, this will be a peice of cake. good luck. just make sure to keep to the inside of the turns and to get the group of chims on every lap, you should be fine. when done you will get an awesome accessory. ------------!!!!!!!!!!!!note!!!!!!!!!!-----------do not! i repeat, do not under any circumstances get rid of the demon safe shoes. this accessory is customized with a certian material that is very very very very rare! infact it is only one of two opertunities to get it. and you must have one of the two in order to have any resonable chance of beating the hidden quest for vol. 3 aka--> keep this item!!!!! -------------------------------------------------

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 3)story of kudan ---------------------------------- 14)looming, muddled, seer(q) ---------------------------------area type: temple dungeon area level: 110 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 116 this is probably my favorite quest in the whole game series. although it seems to be your run of the mill quest, it has a very intresting and unexpected out come. use fairy orb. then have atoli cast 'ap do' on all party members for faster movment speed. 1st block: nothing really too important. just get to the second block 2nd block: not much, just get to block 3.

3rd block: you need to head for the center room in the far south of the block. you'll see a scene, afterward run up to the licky kudan and give it three good kicks right in a row. that will trigger some scenes where it will fortell your future for you.....unlike you're local fortune teller. this little bugger acutally is giving you a true prediction of your future! "a grave danger that is creeping up on our world...." "a resurrecting demon and the abominable army of death that follows him..." "and you are destined to take part in the great battle to come..." "and when all is done that must finially be done..." "you will have a surprising and unexpected encounter...." you'll auto finsh the quest, and you'll get a peek at what might happen at the ending of the game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 4)steam professor's reshearch ----------------------------------------------- 12)undercover, lakeside's, metal beast(q) ---------------------------------------------area type: field area level: 108 party: haseo,atoli, antares my level: 114 all the monsters in this are will be a cake walk. this quest is rather simple once you know how exactly to do it. 1st: you need to go to three of the alters and defeat the monsters there. you will place one of the wave generators everytime you defeat an enemy party of monsters. 2nd: when all the generators are place, begin to walk around the edge of the lake, eventually you will encounter the enemy boss. just use your scythe to pound him to death. it's not that hard of a fight. when you finish you'll return to town and auto finish the quest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 5)the chim chim song ---------------------------------- 10) glowing, passive, fairy(q) ---------------------------------area type: jungel cave area level: 105 party: haseo,atoli, kuhn my level: 110 you'll notice that during the quest kuhn seems kinda down all of a sudden. hmm... for now, lets get one with the objective. floor 1: have atoli cast 'ap do' (increase speed by 50%) on all party members. then use a fairy orb to reveal the map. for now all you need to do is make your way to the next floor down. as you make your way to the next floor you see some scenes here and there where kuhn remains being slighty depressed.... floor 2: now, use a fairy orb and you'll see that there are several dead ends on this floor. well, we can deal with that in a minute. more forward until you see a scene with a stray chim chim. afterward, if you follow the chim you'll come to a fork in the road. here you need to take the right path. this will take you to the objective and the end of the quest. but of course before you can reach your objective you are met by a very annoying boss monster. just use your broad sword to pumble him until his armor breaks. then switch to your twin blades to finish the job. then continue on. when you reach the end of the path the scenes will take place and end the quest. you'll auto finish. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 6) hail bikman -------------------------------------- 6)gathering, familiar, mascot(q) -------------------------------area type: temple dungeon area level: 102 party: haseo,atoli, matsu my level: 107 block 1: as you arrive you'll see some scenes. really there isn't alot to this quest.

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for now, just head to the next block. block 2: this is really rather simple. all you have to do is go from the entrance to the block on the left (west) to the last room in the middle on the right (east). the room is empty and it's where you'll find the grunties. just get there and the scenes will ensue, which although are rather odd and makes you wonder if the game creators weren't smoking weed at the time of thinking this up.....they are in some small way, a bit funny. * shrugs* the japaniess have an odd sence of humor. you got to enjoy haseo's comments on the situation. anyway, about that time a boss monster shows up......fun. well just pull out your twin swords and wail away at it. when things are over with you'll head back to town. yay, what fun... >_> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 7)the goblins are comming! ---------------------------------- 15)running, speed's, rider(q) ---------------------------------area type: highland canyon area level: 96 party: haseo,(none), (none) my level: 116 ok, you have to survive 4 rounds of tag with the goblins. --round 1--haseo, the terror of death vs. stehoney ok, the first two arent all that hard. start off and run into some chims to fill one of the nitro guages. next chase after the goblin. wait until you're right behind him then hit the r1 button for a boost. if he's turing you cut in on the inside of his turn you can cut him off and nail him. --round 2-haseo, the terror of death vs. jonue this one is pretty easy, just fill the nitro guage and give chase.

you have to hit him twice though in order to beat him. --round 3-haseo, the terror of death vs. zyan and albert pick one of the two and just go for him. remember to cut them off in their turns and to use the nitro. you need to hit albert 3 times

and zyan 2 times to beat them.

--final round-haseo, the terror of death vs. martina, the speedy

this one is considerably harder. you have to hit her 3 times and she gets faster everytime you hit her. just use the same strgedys as you have with the other goblins and you'll win. when it's over you'll complete the quest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------( quest )------------------------------- 8)dubious dog ---------------------------------- 2)unseen, alien, elf animal(q) ---------------------------------area type: forest dungeon area level: 97 party: haseo,silabus, gaspard my level: 107 block 1: use a fairy orb to reveal the map, and then a speed charm on haseo. you don't need to fight anything usless you want to. i just used smoke screens before i got near monsters, this turned me invisable for about 3 or 4 seconds. anyway, all you need to worry about is just getting to block 2. block 2: as you come to the first room in the 2nd block you'll see a sceen. follow haseo's leading and just work your way toward block 3. block 3: if you look closly at the map you'll see several paths branch off. all of them head south. you need to make for the one in the middle right. it's the only square room at a dead end

that has nothing in it (no treasure chest or chim harvesters). in other words: use the following directions if you don't get itfirst split: go east second split: east third split: go south when you get thereyou will discover the heatwave hound. beat him to pulm, or become doggy chow. just use your scythe, and at level 107 it wont be all that hard. this fight was not easy when i did it the first time at level 102. when you're done you'll atuo finish the quest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------- 7)books of 1000 ------------------------------------------

======================================================================= ===== the following section was not written by myself. this is a collection of information that was gathered from two differnet sources. one is from the vol. 2 and 3 guides written by zer0 and the people at www.dothackers.net and the other source is from a guide for vol 2 written by playboyskitch. i here by give the full credit for the information to those two people. all that i have done in this guide is simply re-organized some of the information to better suit this guide: an example of this is using item names from zer0's guide and and getting the levels of equipment from playboyskitch's guide. again i did not get this information by myself, so credit to them. the only thing i did was organize it into this section for the books of 1000. (see bottom of this section for credits) ======================================================================= ====== ----ryu book 1 - battles

description: this keeps track of how many battles you have won, how many successful suprise attacks you've done, how many rengeki attacks, and how many awakenings you have used. strategy: don't really need a strategy, just keep fighting monsters. the level doesn't matter. ----ryu book 2 - trades description: this book keeps track of your trades with party members, how many times you've invited a party member to join you, how many gifts you've given a party member, and how much all the gifts are worth. strategy: give your party members a bunch of crap, over and over. it'll get your gift amount up real fast. :) ----ryu book 3 - treasures description: this keeps track of how many times you've opened beast temple treasures (the treasure chests at the end of the level, in front of the floating statue), how many normal treasure boxes you've opened, how many trap boxes you've successfully opened, and how many objects (jars, muchrooms, etc) you've destroyed. strategy: go into a dungeon and play through it, opening every treasure chest and object you see. ----ryu book 4 - items description: keeps track of all items, weapons, armors, and accessories you've ever had in your inventory. strategy: use the item/equipment list

----- a)lucky animals

------------------------lucky animals----

--------------------also i want to insert a section on how to find all the lucky animals for the lucky animal campaign. the reason is because it's hard to find them all and you need to do that to be able to get several items, armor, and or accessories. see the lucky animals are alot harder to find in this game. they are no longer set to one area. ex) if you go to an area and find say a gold bird is there, there will always be a gold bird in that area from then on. not so with vol. 2 now the lucky animals are based on your partie's average level compared to the level of the area you are in. the top value along this chart is the last digit of your party's average level. the value on the side is the last digit of the area level. the lucky animal that will be in the area is determined where those two digits cross in the chart, kinda like the game battle ship. =p anyway here's the link to the chart. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h157/zerotheburninator/walkthrough/lu cki.png

this is a chart that allows you to do things the hard way, and unfortunitly i found it rather hard to understand and use. there is a better way but you have to wait till you're level 100. stragedy: level all your party members to level 100. then go to mac anu. go to areas that are level 1-10. the lucky animals on the chart will be there. --------------

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b)items

---------------------items--------------------fire storm - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) fire barrel - buy at magic shop in dol dona tidal wave - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) water dragon - buy at magic shop in dol dona tornado - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu)

hurrican razor - buy at magic shop in dol dona earth spike - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) earth rain - buy at magic shop in dol dona light arrows - buy at magic shop in dol dona holy arrows ? buy at magic shop in breg epona air stroke - buy at magic shop in dol dona hell raiser ? buy at magic shop in breg epona health drink - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) healing serum - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) healing potion - buy at trade store dol dona healing tonic ? trade with zelkova healing rain ? dropped by lady guard revive rain - dropped by hell vulture healing storm ? dropped by gimmick torch revive storm ? breakables at (sigma)ignorant muddled two wings sprite drop - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) fairy drop ? buy at trade store dol dona elven drop - trade with zelkova sprite rain ? dropped by living tower fairy rain ? trade with tiphereth elven rain ? trade with kaki leader weird black tea ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga strange coffee ? dropped by long-lived-lord special tea ? trade with aryosha holy potion ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga godly potion ? breakables of block 56 or 57 of forest of pain wonder potion - trade with blue eye samurai or sky or yoko antidote soda - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) stimulant soda - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) blessing soda - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) solution soda - buy at trade store dol dona esthesio soda - buy at trade store dol dona lucid soda ? buy at trade shop in breg epona wonder soda ? buy at trade shop in breg epona omnipotent soda ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga revival medicine - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) revive potion - buy at the kiosk in tartarga revival serum ? bikman flyer reward asian mango - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) caramel sauce - shop in the kiosk (mac anu) restore drop ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga restore rain ? trade with wang lin noble drop ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga noble rain ? trade with ohm(butt)rice strange soda ? anomalies at (theta)dreaming wrathfs bum chicha potion ? anomalies (sigma) elegant asterfs berserker hadesbane sailve ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga pure medallion ? dropped by darklordfs shade icon of purity ? dropped by the one death vital talisman ? buy at trade store dol dona spirit talisman - buy at trade store dol dona vital charm ? buy at trade shop in breg epona spirit charm ? buy at trade shop in breg epona speed talisman ? dropped by chickie mama speed charm ? buy at trade shop in breg epona the death - buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona the moon - buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona

the devil - buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona the emperor - buy at magic shop in dol dona the hanged man - buy at magic shop in dol dona the hermit - buy at magic shop in dol dona the fool ? buy at bad @$$ guild breg epona the lovers ? buy at bad @$$ guild breg epona the wheel ? buy at trade shop in breg epona warrior blood ? buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona knight blood ? dropped by ruby cutter wizard blood - buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona astrologer blood - buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona warrior seal - buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona knight seal - buy from bad @$$ guild shop wizard seal - buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona astrologer seal - buy from bad @$$ guild shop in dol dona warrior soul ? trade with heavenly flower knight soul ? dropped by scissor byte wizard soul ? trade with corporal yano astrologer soul ? trade with kunio warrior chain ? trade with eddie knight chain - trade with eddie wizard chain ? trade with boltz astrologer chain ? trade with abcinian warrior tome ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga knight tome ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga wizard tome ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga astrologer tome ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga warrior trump ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga knight trump ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga wizard trump ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga astrologer trump ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga smoke screen ? buy at dol dona kiosk fairy's orb - buy at dol dona kiosk return feather - buy at dol dona kiosk return wing ? buy at kiosk in breg epona beginner's text ? buy at bad @$$ guild breg epona master text ? buy at bad @$$ shop in breg epona beginner's book ? buy at bad @$$ guild breg epona master book ? buy at bad @$$ shop in breg epona text of power ? quests book of power ? quests text of stamina ? quests book of stamina ? quests text of wisdom ? quests book of wisdom ? quests text of sense ? quests book of sense ? quests word of vigor ? quests dawn chim chim ? virus core trading after lost weapons all maxed word of spirit - quests dusk chim chim - chim data side quest reward health scroll ? magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) antidote scroll - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) dawn bird scroll - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) priest scroll - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) life scroll ? buy at magic shop in dol dona resurrect scroll - buy at magic shop in dol dona

reflex scroll - buy at magic shop in dol dona repeal scroll - buy at magic shop in dol dona sanity scroll - buy at magic shop in breg epona hellfire scroll - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) tidal scroll - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) tornado scroll - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) avalance scroll - magic item shop in mercenary district (mac anu) halcyon scroll - buy at magic shop in dol dona abyss scroll - buy at magic shop in dol dona vitality scroll - buy at magic shop in dol dona chim crown ? randomly dropped by chim king coupon - gifts from npcfs you meet in dungeons/fields flyer radar ? bikman flyer side quest animal radar ? lucky animal side quest fairy queen orb ? block 36-39 reward fop (15 skill triggers) smoke bomb - block 81-84 reward fop (25 skill triggers) guiding wings - block 61-64 reward fop (100 hit combo) fire mouse skin - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) olm shell - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) wing of lufu - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) soil bug antenna - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) scorpion tail - lumina cloth shop midoro flagellum - lumina cloth shop sleeping powder - lumina cloth shop mantis nail ? dropped by fat lancer bear paw ? empireo guild shop (mac anu) thunder deer hoof ? buy at junk shop dol dona dark lizard tail - buy at junk shop dol dona astrid specimen - buy at junk shop dol dona cow stomach - buy at junk shop dol dona stingray stinger - buy at junk shop dol dona shark tooth ? buy at material shop lumina cloth niki baku tongue ? buy at material shop lumina cloth ein baku tongue ? buy at material shop lumina cloth demon bat horn - buy at material shop in dol dona maidenfs hair ? breakables at (sigma)elegant asters berserker sabertooth tooth - buy at magic shop in breg epona niki baku fur - buy at magic shop in breg epona ein baku fur - buy at magic shop in breg epona niki baku jawbone ? rank reward for bike course ein baku jawbone ? rank reward for bike course stopping moss ? trade with bordeaux (scythe) ? trap chest block 94 fop anti-air compass - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) nutcracker - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) ninja claw ? breakables (theta) decadent pocketed slacker strategic fan ? buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) war drum ? buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) nil strike - block 56-59 reward fop (defeat 7 enemy parties) nil theft - block 61-64 reward fop (defeat 7 enemy parties) nil madness - block 66-69 reward fop (defeat 7 enemy parties) nil defile - block 71-74 reward fop (defeat 8 enemy parties) nil ally - block 76-79 reward fop (defeat 8 enemy parties) nil charm - block 81-84 reward fop (defeat 8 enemy parties) nil encroach - block 86-89 reward fop (defeat 9 enemy parties) nil abduct - block 91-94 reward fop (defeat 9 enemy parties) nil embrace - block 96-99 reward fop (defeat 9 enemy parties) ginseng ? trade with kunio or mile

grudge water - defeat all chaotic pks crystal skull ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga lodestone ? dropped by boss at (sigma)elegant asterfs berserker cat fang ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga shogunfs fan ? trade with wise dragon fire serpent skin ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona jurgl shell ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona phoenix feather ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona greatworm feeler ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona stormbeast hoof ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona dark iguana tail ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona octoscorp tail ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona starfish ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona iron cow stomach ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona gurah fist ? farewell mecha grunty quest hermit shell ? buy defense armor from moon tree guild (dol dona) turtle shell ? buy from empireo guild (mac anu) turtle crest - buy from empireo guild (mac anu) cleansing pill - lumina cloth shop jinx's bane - lumina cloth shop caffeine drink - lumina cloth shop poison leaf - buy from moon tree guild (mac anu) curse plant - buy from moon tree guild (mac anu) dream wood leaf - buy from moon tree guild (mac anu) body egg ? d rank (delta) dancing doomed bum (2 barrels then leave) mind egg ? customize demon suit dropped by long-lived body scale - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) mind scale - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) fire resist seal ? buy from moontree guild (mac anu) aqua board ? buy from moon tree guild (mac anu) calm propeller ? buy from moon tree guild (mac anu) dustproof lens ? buy from moon tree guild (mac anu) iron shell - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) iron crest - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) armadillo shell ? dropped by death kettle armadillo crest ? dropped by sorceror owl tinted glass - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) flash light - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) opening cutter - buy at junk shop dol dona fast glycerin - buy at junk shop dol dona anti-paralysis - buy at junk shop dol dona blast leaf ? dropped by meggido hydra whirlpool leaf - breakables at (theta) paling starting route vacuum leaf - breakables (theta) ephemeral times memoir desert rose leaf ? dropped by entowal flash leaf - breakables (theta) unselfish deity's clepsydra dark leaf - breakables (theta) confusing maiden's rash action coiling vine - breakables (theta) unselfish deity's clepsydra paralysis leaf ? dropped by druk body larva ? breakables at (theta) counting wrathfs bum mind larva ? breakables at (theta)decadent pocketed slacker body wing ? buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) mind wing - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) tortoise shell ? breakables at(theta)roaring discordfs resort tortoise crest ? breakables at (theta) counting wrathfs bum twin scales - breakables (theta) springfs discords resort steel shell ? trade with oimatsu for absorb armor

steel crest ? trade with pen pen for holy armor sanity fan ? trade with wise dragon health aroma ? trade with vergilius confusion leaf ? buy item called delude from moon tree guild breg epona fairyleaf ? buy item called seduce from moon tree guild breg epona body butterfly ? buy hp +50% armor from knights guild breg epona mind butter fly - buy sp +50% armor from knights guild breg epona body moth ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona mind moth ? buy empireo guild shop breg epona world mirror - defeat yokochi "steel" taro spirit tree bud - breakables (theta)decadent pocketed slacker (rare) dual angel ? breakables (theta) essential swift two wings broad angel - breakables (theta) paling starting route scythe angel ? breakables (theta) graceful grieving drunkered bayonet angel ? breakables (theta) clever asterfs hand song (rare) blade angel - breakables (theta) dreaming wrath's bum gauntlets angel - breakables (theta) decadent pocketed slacker lance angel - breakables (theta) serene fighter runner staff angel - breakables (theta) paling starting route grimore angel ? breakables (theta) essential doomed pure bred fan angel - breakables (theta)dreaming doomed belladonna phonosheet - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) indulgence ? rank reward for bike course fire leaf ? buy from material shop breg epona tide leaf - buy from material shop breg epona galegrass - buy from material shop breg epona stone rose petal - buy from material shop breg epona tomorrowleaf - buy from material shop breg epona leaf of lament - buy from material shop breg epona toxic leaf ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga sanctuary leaf ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga dreamhold leaf ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga leaf of binding ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga numbing lotus ? buy at the kiosk in tartarga frenzyflower - rank reward for bike course charm leaf - rank reward for bike course red sun stone - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) blue moon ore - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) white star sand - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) gray comet dust - material shop in alchemy district (mac anu) gold snake skin ? buy gp +10% acc at guards guild breg epona drowsing rod - buy drop +10% acc at guards guild breg epona amber dragon eye - buy exp +25% acc at guards guild breg epona evil snake skin - buy gp +25% acc at guards guild breg epona dowsing chain ? buy drop +25% acc at guards guild breg epona gudo oil ? buy item with the name compress from guards guild shop boost candle ? buy acc called appraise guards guild shop (dol dona) jade dragon eye ? buy exp +25% acc at guards guild breg epona colored core - buy at material shop in breg epona giant snake skin - buy at material shop in breg epona dowsing board ? buy from material shop breg epona skill candle - buy from material shop breg epona vigor crystal ? breakables at (sigma)buzzing wrathfs belladona spirit crystal ? breakables at (sigma)winding wrathfs phoenix cat whiskers ? rank reward for bike course fastbolt oil ? rank reward for bike course sapphire eye ? buy exp 50% acc at guards guild shop breg epona

time conch ? buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) demonic mallet - buy from emperio guild shop (dol dona) battle cosmetics ? trade with kunio or mile true sun stone ? buy from trifle guild shop breg epona true moon ore ? rank reward for bike course silver stardust ? rank reward for bike course ashen comet dust ? rank reward for bike course seed of land - buy from empireo guild breg epona grab bag ? trade with wise dragon bell of time ? buy from empireo guild breg epona divine seed ? rank reward for bike course rosary of health - block 91-94 reward fop (8 awakenings) rosary of spirit - block 96-99 reward fop (8 awakenings) ----- c)accessory -----------------+-------+-----------accessory | level | location -----------------+-------+-----------simple bracelet |1 |equipment shop simple necklace |1 |equipment shop seal of yu wang |1 |kestrel guild shop crown of lu ming |1 |moon tree guild shop medic badge |1 |medic clerk guild shop 1 line reference |1 |trifle clerk guild shop secret news book |1 |empireo guild shop simple fire idol |15 |equipment shop simple water idol|15 |equipment shop simple wind idol |15 |equipment shop simple earth idol|15 |equipment shop simple steam ring|15 |save mecha grunty 5 times simple gloves |20 |dxarmor shop simple earrings |20 |dxarmor shop steam bracelet |20 |save mecha grunty 20 times simple pendant |24 |trifle clerk guild shop simple fire bell |30 |dxarmor shop simple water bell|30 |dxarmor shop simple wind bell |30 |dxarmor shop simple earth bell|30 |dxarmor shop simple pouch |35 |trifle clerk guild shop simple head band |35 |a reward for saving people simple watch |40 |trifle clerk guild shop =================(vol.2)=================== simple wing cap |51 |armor shop (dol dona) simple shoulder |51 |armor shop (dol dona) simple glasses |51 |armor shop (dol dona) wind barrette | |lucky animal research vol 2 wrist watch |50 |mecha grunty rescue vol 2 shallow wit |51 |bad @$$ guild shop (dol dona) feed bag |51 |zoo guild shop (dol dona) for her |51 |knights guild shop (dol dona) devote guts |51 |salt mania guild shop (dol dona) shining love |51 |guards guild shop dol dona simple clogs |55 |guards guild shop (dol dona simple fire balm |60 |armor shop (dol dona)

simple water balm|60 |armor shop (dol dona) simple wind balm |60 |armor shop (dol dona) simple earth balm|60 |armor shop (dol dona) simple light balm|60 |armor shop (dol dona) simple dark balm |60 |armor shop (dol dona) steam watch |62 |mecha grunty rescue vol 2 simple coat rope | |guards guild shop simple goggles | |guards guild shop simple brazier | |guards guild shop biker's charm |72 |complete biker's quest simple hood |75 |guards guild shop simple fire comb |80 |guards guild shop dol dona simple water comb|80 |guards guild shop dol dona simple wind comb |80 |guards guild shop dol dona simple earth comb|80 |guards guild shop dol dona simple light comb|80 |guards guild shop dol dona simple dark comb |80 |guards guild shop dol dona simple mittens |90 |guards guild shop dol dona simple gaiters |90? |guards guild shop dol dona simple handbag |90? |guards guild shop dol dona flicking scale |90 |dropped by the one sin simple fortunes |95 |guards guild shop dol dona =================(vol.3)=================== simple fire pill | |buy at armor shop in breg epona simple water pill| |buy at armor shop in breg epona simple wind pill | |buy at armor shop in breg epona simple earth pill| |buy at armor shop in breg epona simple light pill| |buy at armor shop in breg epona simple dark pill | |buy at armor shop in breg epona air rollershoes | |rank 1 reward from mecha grunty quest magical bandage | |rank 1 reward from lucky animal quest demon safe shoes | |complete "last salute of the goblins" quest simple super hood| |purchase at netslum's equipment shop simple auto clock| |purchase at netslum's equipment shop simple star play | |purchase at netslum's equipment shop steam apron| |rank 2 reward from mecha grunty quest simple fire ball | | chest at (sigma) saddened daybreak's fast horse simple water ball| | chest at (sigma) counting leading fountain simple wind ball | | chest at (sigma) dreaming humbling blue cloud simple earth ball| | chest at (sigma) decadent humbling blue cloud simple light ball| | chest at (sigma) petitioning mortuary's life simple dark ball | | chest at (sigma) dejected barren royal edict steam shield | | rank 4 reward from mecha grunty quest simple man gloves| | trade with ookami itto simple jump clogs| | trade with shirochan simple fate book | | trade with dragonfly guide to divinity|150 |(unknown, somewhere in forest of pain) simple slant hood| |chest at (sigma) unselfish kourin's venom fang simple super belt| |chest at (sigma) serene cursed arrows victor's brooch | |purchase at crusade's guild shop in breg epona badass uniform | |purchase at gem's guild shop in breg epona empty eye of sin | azure kite, azure orca, and azure balmung's initial equip shadow | |beat doppleganger

---- d)weapon

-----------------+--------------+-------+-----------weapon name | type | level |location -----------------+--------------+-------+-----------| | | =======================(vol.1)=================================== spin gai gu |spin |1 |starting weapon spin kouga |spin |4 |mercenary area weapon shop spin man que |spin |8 |mercenary area weapon shop spin rasetu |spin |14 |mercenary area weapon shop spin corpse |spin |18 |trade with ninjato spin locust |spin |23 |a reward for saving people from pkers [spin ban mu] |spin |26 |kestral guild merchant (water ban mu) spin piney |spin |30 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector spin axe |spin |35 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector spin needle |spin |35 |buy from kestral guild merchant ripper's blade |spin |45 |kill all of the blacklisted pkers =======================(vol.2)=================================== spin ribs – |spin |51 buy from weapons shop(dol dona) spin indigo |spin |62 buy from weapons shop(dol dona) lit honeysuckle |spin |66 story event spin fang – |spin |78 dropped by maxima bazooka spin heaven – |spin |91 dropped by massacre mummy heine's invasion |spin |50 transfer vol 1 data and defeat dopple =======================(vol.3)=================================== spin mujin |spin |101 weapon shop breg epona spin nezumi |spin | dropped by riverdyle spin gorai |spin |122 weapon shop tartarga spin drake |spin | trade with ubadama spiral edge |spin | hidden character starter weapon (8th special pk) empty skies |spin |125 story event wrath bringer |spin | post game arena challenge vol 3 =======================(vol.1)=================================== broad demon |broad |1 |mercenary area weapon shop broad wheel |broad |10 |mercenary area weapon shop broad maiden |broad |15 |mercenary area weapon shop broad legged |broad |20 |recieve after completing job extension broad zhen |broad |25 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector broad tu wan |broad |30 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector flame sword |broad |32 |receive after the 2nd arena

tournament [broad wings] |broad |43 |trade with iga (wrath wings) =======================(vol.2)=================================== broad guiren |broad |51 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) broad seigen |broad |60 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) broad kuajie – |broad |70 |dropped by anchor bind broad sheaf – |broad |80 |dropped by scissor byte broad fenlong – |broad |92 |dropped by blind pain heine's shadow – |broad |50 |defeat dopple vol 2 =======================(vol.3)=================================== broad otome |broad |101 | weapon shop breg epona silad |broad |140 | story event vol 3 broad dowan |broad | |weapon shop tartarga broad white |broad |133 | trade with sagittarius deadly fearblade |broad | | post game arena challenge vol 3 =======================(vol.1)=================================== gun steel |gun |1 |mercenary area weapon shop gun fu yue |gun |8 |mercenary area weapon shop gun waves |gun |24 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector gun ocher |gun |31 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector water bayonet |gun |13 |trade with kuhn [gun hong] |gun |41 |trade with sidewinder (fire hong) =======================(vol.2)=================================== gun lion |gun |51 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) gun bead |gun |66 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) silent jade – |gun |75 |lost weapon gun fisher – |gun |87 |dropped by gobtank 75 =======================(vol.3)=================================== gun petal |gun |101 |weapon shop breg epona gun luna |gun |116 | weapon shop tartarga gun garma |gun | | trade with sidewinder or iga =======================(vol.1)=================================== blade guifei |blade |1 |mercenary area weapon shop blade fern |blade |4 |mercenary area weapon shop blade thorns |blade |10 |mercenary area weapon shop blade thread |blade |17 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector blade sun |blade |35 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector =======================(vol.2)=================================== crimson sword – |blade |35? |antares starter weapon | | | princess blade – |blade |42 |enderance’s starter weapon blade luer |blade |51 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) blade rivet |blade |67 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) tempting rose – |blade |75 |lost weapon blade rank – |blade |83 |trade with nogmung =======================(vol.3)=================================== empty mirage |blade | |post game character starts with it empty shadow |blade | |post game character starts with it blade frost |blade |101 | weapon shop breg epona

blade seki |blade | | weapon shop tartarga blade jijo |blade | | trade with nogmung =======================(vol.1)=================================== tiger fist |fist |14 |trade with pi [fist altair] |fist |32 |trade with mihirogi (poison altair) =======================(vol.2)=================================== fist talon |fist |51 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) fist fairy |fist |66 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) stained wing – |fist |75 |lost weapon fist thrush – |fist |92 |trade with rider chyob =======================(vol.3)=================================== fist claw |fist | | buy from knights guild breg epona feline soul |fist | |hidden character forest of pain starter weapon fist hisa |fist | | weapon shop tartarga =======================(vol.1)=================================== golden spear |lance |15 |trade with piros the 3rd lance yantie |lance |24 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector lance law |lance |42 |trade with aralagi =======================(vol.2)=================================== lance xiong |lance |51 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) lance tulong |lance |63 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) lance snake – |lance |86 |dropped by sea trident =======================(vol.3)=================================== lance quake |lance |101 | weapon shop breg epona lance rook |lance |122 | weapon shop tartarga lance tower |lance | | trade with yamato_nadeshiko =======================(vol.1)=================================== spell xialin |spell |1 |mercenary area weapon shop spell xinzhu |spell |15 |mercenary area weapon shop spell baiyan |spell |32 |buy from kestral guild merchant [spell omen] |spell |38 |trade with naoo (wind omen) =======================(vol.2)=================================== spell ji yi – |spell |51 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) dancing haze – |spell |75 |lost weapon spell noble – |spell |92 |trade with naoo =======================(vol.3)=================================== enchanted staff |spell | |post game character starts with summer staff |spell | |post game arena challenge vol 3 =======================(vol.1)=================================== magic amber |magic |1 |mercenary area weapon shop magic hosei |magic |15 |mercenary area weapon shop magic nymph |magic |28 |buy from dxweapon shop alchemy sector [magic crest] |magic |37 |trade with nagare (sleep crest) =======================(vol.2)=================================== magic huawen |magic |51 |buy from weapons shop(dol dona) ogre's heaven – |magic |65 |sakubo starter weapon infinite spiral -|magic |75 |lost weapon magic dielin – |magic |89 |trade with isolde =======================(vol.3)=================================== magic ji fu | | | weapon shop breg epona magic fumon | | | weapon shop tartarga magic cloud | | | trade with naoo

=======================(vol.3)=================================== fan jasper | | | weapon shop dol dona voice usurper | | | story character starts with it dark crow | | | story character starts with it =======================(vol.2)=================================== scythe shouxiao –|scythe |51 |vol 2 job extention scythe hook – |scythe |62 |buy from kinights guild shop (dol dona) ticking death – |scythe |75 |lost weapon scythe bite – |scythe |82 |trade with barson scythe hidaru – |scythe |93 |trade from alkaid or buy at knights guild:dol dona heine's zero – |scythe |50 |defeat dopple vol 2 twice =======================(vol.3)=================================== scythe toge |scythe |101 | weapon shop breg epona scythe dakini |scythe |116 | weapon shop tartarga goddess scythe |scythe |127 | zelkova's starting weapon =======================(vol.3)=================================== dg-x |gun | |story event dg-y |gun | |block's 51-54 of forest of pain (kill six enemy parties) dg-z |gun | |last boss of forest of pain dg-0 |gun | |beat dopple after getting dg-x ------------------------------------------------------------------------

---- e)armor -----------------+--------------+-------+-----------armor name | type | level |location -----------------+--------------+-------+-----------| | | =======================(vol.1)=================================== sub gear |robe |1 |equipment shop sub robe |robe |10 |equipment shop sub gown |robe |20 |delta blurry cursed pure bred [sub attire] |robe |28 |moon tree guild shop (vigil attire) sub yin yang |robe |36 |dxarmor shop sub garment |robe |42 |trade with nogmung wild robe |robe |47 |complete the lucky animal quest =======================(vol.2)=================================== sub cape – |robe |51 |buy dol dona armor shop sub mantle |robe |61 |buy dol dona armor shop the unexperienced|robe | |lucky animal research vol 2 sub frock |robe |69 | buy dol dona armor shop steam vest |robe |71 |mecha grunty rescue vol 2 sub suit – |robe |76 | dropped by long-lived sub cloak – |robe |84 | trade with pen pen sub dragon |robe |92 |trade with oimatsu =======================(vol.3)===================================

sub dress |robe | | armor shop breg epona sub shawl |robe | | buy from knights guild in breg epona sub habit |robe | | weapon shop tartarga sub vestment |robe | | dropped by long-lived-king cloak of eight |robe | | lucky animal research reward sub cowl |robe | | dropped by magi ramon sub comet |robe | | dropped by lava dodo enlightened cape |robe | | lucky animal research reward =======================(vol.1)=================================== loose sash |light armor |1 |equipment shop loose guard |light armor |10 |equipment shop [loose kimono] |light armor |20 |moon tree guild shop (remedy kimono) loose vest |light armor |28 |graceful humbling holy relic [loose plate] |light armor |36 |trade with dominator (dry plate) loose sheath |light armor |42 |trade with encephalon =======================(vol.2)=================================== loose leather |light armor |51 |buy dol dona armor shop steam coat |light armor |56 |mecha grunty rescue vol 2 loose fur |light armor |60 |buy dol dona armor shop golden lion |light armor |62 |lucky animal research vol 2 loose guardian |light armor |68 |buy dol dona armor shop loose scales |light armor |76 |chest:(theta) unselfish exposed windup box loose case |light armor |84 |trade with eddie loose lionel |light armor |92 |trade with dominator =======================(vol.3)=================================== loose papa |light armor | | armor shop breg epona loose battle |light armor | | dropped by raid liger shelled uniform |light armor | | lucky animal research reward loose wyvern |light armor | | weapon shop tartarga steam war suit |light armor | | mecha grunty rescue reward loose regalia |light armor | | dropped by trapspore loose dispel |light armor | | dropped by tele tali loose holy |light armor | | dropped by chaos empress empty demon suit |light armor | | post game character starts with it =======================(vol.1)=================================== rough armor |heavy armor |1 |equipment shop rough shell |heavy armor |10 |equipment shop steam plate |heavy armor |20 |complete the chim chim quest rough mail |heavy armor |20 |equipment shop [rough defense] |heavy armor |27 |moon tree guild shop (wall defense) [rough jiongjia] |heavy armor |35 |moon tree guild shop (haunt jiongjia) steam armor |heavy armor |35 |mecha grunty quest rough metal |heavy armor |42 |dxarmor shop rough alloy |heavy armor |47 |trade with -cooh black armor |heavy armor |48 |complete abyss quest steam suit |heavy armor |50 |complete mecha grunt quest =======================(vol2)=================================== rough steel |heavy armor |51 |buy dol dona armor shop whistle armor |heavy armor |55 |lucky animal research vol 2 rough wave |heavy armor |60 |buy dol dona armor shop

rough buddha |heavy armor |68 |buy dol dona armor shop mountaineer vest |heavy armor |73 |lucky animal research vol 2 rough iron |heavy armor |75 |knights guild shop rough amalgam |heavy armor |82 |trade with encephalon steam battle pod |heavy armor |83 |mecha grunty rescue vol 2 summit king |heavy armor |85 |lucky animal research quest volume 2 rough dragon |heavy armor |90 |dropped by olin pack invincible shell |heavy armor |92 |bounty hunter black list volume 2 rainbow scale |heavy armor |100 |dropped by god eater =======================(vol.3)=================================== rough tiger |heavy armor |101 |armor shop breg epona rough puma |heavy armor | |dropped by brigandine rough red bone |heavy armor | |dropped by sir unknown rough diamond |heavy armor | |weapon shop tartarga rough imperial |heavy armor | |dropped by death radar rough mercury |heavy armor |140 |trade with eddie dragon rage |heavy armor | |lucky animal research reward superhero suit |heavy armor | |mecha grunty rescue reward emperorfs armor |heavy armor | |lucky animal research reward rough monarch |heavy armor |145 |trade with tomcat other self |heavy armor |150 |defeat doppleganger post game vol 3

----ryu book 5 - play time/warps description: keeps track of play time, and the number of fields you've gone to. strategy: for play time, you can leave your ps2 on overnight, and for the other 3 entries, just warp to different types of places.

----ryu book 6 - arena description: this book keeps track of how many arena matches you've fought in, how many times you've counterattacked (using rengeki), and how many winner points (wp) you've acquired. strategy: fight in the arena a whole lot to get your arena matches and wp up. to get your counterattack up, when the match starts, wait until someone (probably the leader) begins to glow, and then hit r1 and attack that person. then back up, and wait for them to do it again. repeat this process as many times as you wish.

----ryu book 7 - monsters description: this book keeps track of how many types of monsters you've fought. strategy: use the monsters list note: if you imported data from a previous .hack game, kite will be named whatever your character was named in the previous games. ------- f)monsters note: if you imported data from a previous .hack game, kite will be named whatever your character was named in the previous games. --ogre-lv1-10 goblin rookie - (delta) submissive tragedyfs 1000 oaks hp 102 gp 1 drops- health drink gun giant - (delta) buzzing aster's bum hp 354 gp 10 drops- health drink, revival medicine, spin kouga lv11-20 wight ride - lotd quest vol 1 hp 351 gp 42 drops- antidote soda goblin mage - (delta) upfront blazing camellia hp 289 gp 15 drops- spirit drop, sub gown gigamouth - (delta) essential bustling generation hp 728 gp 114 drops- loose kimono goblin guard - (delta) creeping wrathfs two wings hp 378 gp 40 drops- health drink, spin corpse lv21-30 goblin abyss - (delta) piling returning hand song hp 486 gp 68 drops- the death, element baiyan/xinzhu poisoned dead - lotd quest vol 1 hp 561 gp 55 drops- the death gurugon - gurugon quest vol 1 hp 1357 gp 235 drops- nothing baz giant - (delta) graceful humbling holy relic hp 1492 gp 289 drops- revival medicine, spin ban mu lv31-40

living corpse - lotd quest vol 1 hp 1058 gp 85 drops- antidote soda lv41-50 apititer - (delta) counting blazing berserker hp 1997 gp 930 drops- loose sheath goblin knight - (delta) counting blazing foot stone hp 882 gp 330 drops- health drink, blade sun lv51-60 goblin sage - (theta) dawning wrathfs two wings hp 789 gp 320 drops-spirit drop, element crest giga bazooka ? (theta) buzzing vane two wings hp 2810 gp 1653 drops- healing serum, revive rain, spin ribs steam goblin ? (theta) halberd daybreakfs belladonna hp 1156 gp 540 drops- healing serum, tidal wave morgul ? (theta) chaotic fortified guard (abyss quest v2) hp 896 gp 562 drops- antidote soda lv61-70 goblin nemesis - (theta) buzzing returning phoenix hp 1129 gp 606 drops- the emperor, fire ji vi , fire storm lv71-80 mono-grosser ? (theta) essential doomed pure bred hp 3757 gp 2710 drops- loose guardian lv81-90 maxima bazooka ? (theta) dreaming doomed generation hp 4800 gp 3500 drops- healing potion, healling,storm, spin fang lv91-100 duster goblin ? (theta) galloping wrathfs pure bred hp 1859 gp 840 drops- healing potion, elemental attack item lv101-110 zombione ? abyss topic area 1 vol 3 hp 1950 gp 9652 drops- antidote soda, the death deepone ? boss for area levels 103-104 hp 5127 gp 9600 drops- loose papa lv131-140 goblin general ? (sigma) developed bustling daydream hp 2461 gp 1340 drops- restoring drop, healing tonic, wrath seki --demon-lv11-20 angelic gore - (delta) truthful marblefs bum hp 307 gp 18 drops- health drink, spin man que lv31-40 fat lancer - (delta) agonizing blazing camellia

hp 507(shell) gp 139 drops- mantis nail, wrath yantie holy eater - (delta) counting wrathfs two wings hp 861 gp 267 drops- health drink, healing serum, spin axe lv41-50 cernunnos - lotd quest vol 1 hp 4145 gp 5000 drops black mail gaze knight - (delta) dawning red plumfs berserker hp 922 (shell) gp 491 drops- mantis nail, wrath yantie lv51-60 heavens doom ? (theta) buzzing wrathfs phoenix hp 1038 gp 870 drops- healing serum, healing potion, spin indigo lv71-80 solid eye ? (theta) graceful wrathfs belladonna hp 1372 (shell) gp 849 drops- shark tooth, wrath tulong death eater ? lost weapon guard (scythe) vol 2 hp 3212 gp 1000 drops- nothing mirage banisher ? lost weapon guard (staff) vol 2 hp 3518 gp 1200 drops- nothing propagate stopper ? lost weapon guard (bayonet) vol 2 hp 3824 gp 1400 drops- nothing lv81-90 avenge preventer - lost weapon guard (gauntlet) vol 2 hp 4119 gp 2000 drops- nothing tempt rejecter - lost weapon guard (blade) vol 2 hp 4400 gp 2250 drops- nothing scheme breaker - lost weapon guard (grimoire) vol 2 hp 4689 gp 2000 drops- nothing lv101-110 funnyface ? (sigma) courageous wrathfs daydream hp 1545(flying) gp 1052 drops- warrior tome, warrior trump lv111-120 hell guardian ? boss for level 112-114 areas hp 5294 gp 10152 drops- wrath claw lv121-130 evil grinner ? (sigma) paling engaging daydream hp 1858(flying) gp 1214 drops- knight tome, knight trump horndrigal - (sigma) graceful bustling belladonna hp 2280(flying) gp 1255 drops- dead wood leaf, deadhold leaf, vigil vestment memento mori ? boss for level 121-123 areas hp 5500 gp 12500 drops- wrath claw

vicious seed - (sigma) graceful bullfs eye daydream hp 2109(flying) gp 1465 drops- wizard tome, wizard trump magi ramon ? (sigma) dreaming ruined two wings hp 2519(flying) gp 1300 drops- dream wood leaf, dreamhold leaf, vigil cowl lv131-140 the undying ? beast of the seal (scythe) hp 3212 gp none drops- nothing the undeceived - beast of the seal (staff) hp 3518 gp none drops- nothing the unswayed - beast of the seal (bayonet) hp 3824 gp none drops- nothing the unangered - beast of the seal (gauntlet) hp 4119 gp none drops- nothing the untempted - beast of the seal (sword) hp 4400 gp none drops- nothing the unhidden - beast of the seal (book) hp 4689 gp none drops- nothing the uncounseled - beast of the seal (fan) hp 4689 gp none drops- nothing duke orius - boss for level 133-135 areas hp 6152 gp 13525 drops- wrath hisa darklordfs shade ? block 30 forest of pain hp 9999 gp 25000 drops- pure medallion lv141-150 mikistri ? (sigma) winding wrathfs belladonna hp 3007(flying) gp 1442 drops- dreamhold leaf x2, vigil comet true cernunnos ? last boss forest of pain hp 9999 gp 50000 drops- dg-z tinder baron - boss for level 148-150 areas hp 6885 gp 14895 drops- wrath hisa --sea monster-lv21-30 spear fish - (delta) rising loves gate hp 382 gp 55 drops- tidal wave lv31-40 lancer marine - (delta) counting wrathfs two wings hp 710 gp 284 drops- tidal wave lv81-90 sea trident - (theta) counting wrathfs bum

hp 1829 gp 1042 drops- tidal wave, water dragon, drop snake lv91-100 azul sachem ? (theta) springfs wrathfs two wings hp 1991 gp 893 drops- healing potion, seal ji vi, fairy drop lv101-110 riverdyle ? (sigma) essential asterfs bum hp 2469 gp 1159 drops- water nezumi mosa machine ? steam professorfs research quest vol 3 hp 3333 gp 10000 drops- nothing lv131-140 sea guathan - (sigma) petitioning blue silver utopia hp 2935 gp 1354 drops- water gorai lv141-150 blue mage - (sigma) insightful swift two wings hp 3087 gp 1400 drops- restoring drop, noble drop, seal ji fu high one ? block 96 foesrt of pain hp 3956 gp none drops- nothing --supernatural-lv1-10 zan bezel - (delta) wealthy daybreakfs globe hp 109 gp 2 drops- tornado vak bezel - (delta) submissive tragedyfs 1000 oaks hp 117 gp 1 drops- fire storm lv11-20 gan bezel - (delta) truthful marblefs bum hp 248 gp 10 drops- earth spike rue bezel - (delta) creeping vane camellia hp 268 gp 28 drops- tidal wave lv 31-40 zan juggler - (delta) saddened humbling bulwark hp 645 gp 195 drops- tornado, wind piney vak juggler - (delta) saddened joyous shadow hp 701 gp 280 drops- fire storm, fire piney lv 41-50 gan juggler - (delta) counting joyous shadow hp 737 gp 320 drops- earth spike, earth piney rue juggler - (delta) protected lovefs bum hp 845 gp 410 drops- tidal wave, water piney lv 61-70 lei zin - (theta) troubled her antithesis hp 876 gp 539 drops- light arrow, spirit drop, light fairy

zan zin ? (theta) warm doomed generation hp 1058 gp 583 drops- hurricane razor, spirit drop, wind fairy lv 71-80 rue zin ? (theta) paling leading phoenix hp 1128 gp 635 drops- water dragon, spirit drop, water fairy ani zin - (theta) bequeathed insatiable mysteries hp 1202 gp 646 drops- air stroke, spirit drop, dark fairy gan zin ? (theta) paling doomed belladonna hp 1319 gp 678 drops- earth rain, spirit drop, earth fairy lv 81-90 vak zin ? (theta) saddened asterfs phoenix hp 1428 gp 721 drops- fire barrel, spirit drop, fire fairy lv111-120 atmosphere ? (sigma) courageous asterfs two wings hp 2099 gp 1050 drops- earth rain, fairy drop --avian-lv11-20 chickie ? (delta) overjoyed wrathfs berserker hp 209(flying) gp 20 drops- smoke screen trainee owl ? (delta) screaming aster's bulwark hp 552 gp 80 drops- sub robe raven claw - (delta)croaking military whicker hp 381 (flying) gp 39 drops- health drink lv31-40 chickie dada - (delta) coiling friendfs whiplash hp 589 (flying) gp 208 drops- smoke screen scalvenger ? scalvenger quest vol 1 hp 792 (flying) gp 243 drops- healing rain hermit owl ? (delta) counting cupidfs bum hp 1793 gp 780 drops- turtle crest lv41-50 black raptor - (delta) freezing bustling whicker hp 894 (flying) gp 440 drops- health drink, healing serum lv51-60 lady guard ? (theta) clever geniusfs moon river hp hp 882 gp 484 drops- healing serum, healing rain, drop ji vi lv61-70 sorceror owl ? (theta) halberd daybreakfs belladonna hp 3490 gp 2047 drops armadillo crest, sub mantle chickie mama ? (theta) essential wrathfs dagger hp 909(flying) gp 700 drops smoke screen, speed talisman

lv71-80 hell vulture ? (theta) paling red plumfs generation hp 1258(flying) gp 950 drops healing potion, revive rain lv91-100 ignis tail ? (theta) galloping wrathfs pure bred hp 1693 gp 858 drops healing storm, revival medicine, blaze dragon(robe) wisdom owl ? boss for level 101-102 areas hp 5354 gp 8000 drops- lodestone, sub suit lv111-120 chickie gramma - (sigma) paling engaging daydream hp 1622(flying) gp 1195 drops- smokescreen, speed charm lv131-140 harpy queen ? (sigma) dreaming ruined two wings hp 1542(flying) gp 1320 drops- revive rain, restoring drop, drop ji fu lv141-150 lava dodo - (sigma) winding asterfs phoenix hp 3007 gp 1400 drops- hadesbane salve, restoring rain, blaze comet --plant-lv1-10 onion mash - (delta) submissive tragedyfs 1000 oaks hp 137 gp 1 drops- health drink lv11-20 crumple tree - (delta)great cursed in-laws hp 559 gp 45 drops- caffeine drink lv21-30 truffle - (delta) piling red plumfs twin rocks hp 512 gp 94 drops- health drink lv31-40 elder growth - (delta) piling red plumfs twin rocks hp 1881 gp 600 drops- vigil vest lv51-60 hanger berry - (theta) buzzing doomed pure bred hp 1041 gp 493 drops- the moonx2, vigil guardian lv61-70 entowal ? (theta) buzzing doomed pure bred hp 3315 gp 2010 drops- desert rose leaf, dream fur lv71-80 funger hat ? (theta) piling bustling pure bred hp 1362 gp 765 drops- healing serum, radiant amalgam lv91-100 forest king ? (theta) galloping asterfs dagger hp 5190 gp 4500 drops- desert rose leaf, dream lionel

lv131-140 trapspore - (sigma) decadent engaging whicker hp 2876 gp 1302 drops- the moon, dream regalia --demon beast-lv1-10 rue fang - (delta) buzzing wrathfs puddle hp 162 gp 2 drops- health drink, tidal wave gan fang - (delta) starting bustling holy ground hp 228 gp 2 drops-health drink, earth spike bravo nose - (delta) wealthy dusk's bum hp 401 gp 12 drops- healing rain vak fang - (delta) truthful forbidden 1000 oaks 259 gp 7 drops- health drink, fire storm zan fang - (delta) truthful forbidden 1000 oaks hp 268 gp 7 drops- health drink, tornado lv11-20 ani fang ? (delta)spectating cloudless hand song hp 292 gp 16 drops- air stroke lei fang ? (delta) soulful swift alga grass hp 344 gp 30 drops- light arrow lv21-30 zan ziger - (delta)paling grey gate hp 393 gp 63 drops-tornado, wind altair rue ziger - (delta) rising cursed metal doll hp 504 gp 86 drops- tidal wave water altair lv31-40 ani ziger ? (delta) thrilling doomed two wings hp 605 gp 124 drops- air stroke, dark altair don elephant - (delta) counting hereticfs frog lake hp 1537 gp 420 drops- healing rain vak ziger - (delta) saddened returning shadow hp 560 gp 162 drops- fire storm, fire altair gan ziger - (delta) counting gamblerfs 1000 oaks hp 672 gp 180 drops- earth spike, earth altair lei ziger ? (delta) cheering exposed generation hp 687 gp 210 drops- light arrow, light altair lv51-60 shadowless dog ? gathering shadows quest vol 2 hp 1110 gp 300-550 drops- nothing mighty nauman ? (theta) buzzing bustling pure bred hp 3210 gp 700 drops- healing serum

lv61-70 strange head ? (theta) buzzing wrathfs dagger hp 1018 gp 542 drops- dry budda lv81-90 olin pack - (theta) counting wrathfs bum hp 1549 gp 744 drops- fountain dragon lv91-100 giga mammoth ? (theta) roaring asterfs phoenix hp 4800 gp 4100 drops- healing storm heatwave hound ? dubious dog quest vol 3 hp 5505 gp 9200 drops- holy arrow, light claw lv101-110 raid liger ? boss for level 107-109 areas hp 5510 gp 13565 drops- remedy battle lv 111-120 sir unknown ? (sigma) essential bustling belladonna hp 2422 gp 1125 drops- blaze red bone lv121-130 spheranodon - boss for level 127-129 areas hp 6550 gp 12955 drops- fortitude regalia lv131-140 tele tali - boss for level136-138 areas hp 7000 gp 14201 drops- aware dispel lv141-150 chaos empress - boss for level 142-144 areas hp 7326 gp 14450 drops- aware holy --mecha beast-lv1-10 wild kettle - (delta) buzzing wrathfs puddle hp 171 gp 2 drops- turtle shell, rough shell lv11-20 knuckleman - knuckleman quest vol 1 hp 749 (shell) gp 150 drops- memory module buster kettle - (delta) creeping wrathfs two wings hp 315 gp 50 drops- rough defense, turtle shell steam shell - (delta) rough song dusks hand song hp 773 (shell) gp 150 drops-turtle shell, rough mail lv41-50 metal fist - (delta) counting blazing foot stone hp 1921 (shell) gp 1150 drops- rough meta #rain ? (steam scientist quest) vol 2 hp 1094 gp 1000 drops- nothing

#cloud - (steam scientist quest) vol 2 hp 1094 gp 1000 drops- nothing lv51-60 death kettle ? (theta) blazing multiple buttercup hp 904 gp 504 drops- armadillo shell, rough steel #rain cloud - (steam scientist quest) vol 2 hp 1914 gp 3000 drops- nothing lv71-80 process gear ? (theta) paling leading phoenix hp 2857(shell) gp 2869 drops- armadillo shell, rough iron gobtank 75 ? (theta) dreaming swift belladonna hp 1215 (shell) gp 688 drops- speed talisman, wrath fisher lv81-90 bowler head ? (theta) roaring swift belladonna hp 1843 gp 765 drops- nothing lv91-100 chain whip ? (theta) springfs doomed belladonna hp 2042 gp 885 drops- nothing gobcannon 77 ? (theta) galloping doomed two wing hp 1545 gp 885 drops- speed talisman, rush fisher lv101-110 brigandine ? boss for level 105-106 areas hp 3659(shell) gp 10000 drops- aradillo shell, rough puma lv111-120 tetra foot - (sigma) fading moonflower glory hp 2709 gp 1175 drops- wrath dowan lv131-140 black gurah ? farwell mecha grunty quest hp 2560 gp none drops- nothing proto gurah - farwell mecha grunty quest hp 6666 gp none drops- nothing gobdam 78 - (sigma) dreaming wrathfs belladonna hp 2255(shell) gp 1360 drops- speed talisman, speed charm, rush garma break rest - (sigma) developed bullfs eye daydream hp 3000 gp 1386 drops- noble drop, noble rain lv141-150 heavy stamp - (sigma) winding wrathfs belladonna hp 3239 gp 1423 drops- wrath white arachnophobia ? (sigma) competing wizardfs daydream hp 3300 gp 1489 drops- wrath white

--dragon-lv1-10 lizard hunter - (delta) truthful marblefs bum hp 255 gp 4 drops- blade thorns lv21-30 lizard assassin - (delta) piling military shadow hp 429 gp 71 drops- blade thread drygon ? (delta) blurry cursed camellia hp 1379 gp 240 drops- fire mouse skin, simple fire bell fever horse - (delta) graceful wrath's shadow hp 572 (shell) gp 82 drops- fire mouse skin, fire legged lv41-50 blaze drake - (delta) roaring wrathfs berserker hp 756 gp 400 drops- fire mouse skin, simple fire bell dryas - (delta) roaring doomed snow caps hp 2234 gp 1500 drops- wing of lufu, simple wind bell lv51-60 elite lizard ? (theta) buzzing wrathfs fast horse hp 943 gp 545 drops- wrath luer lv61-70 meggido hydra ? (theta) essential wrathfs fast horse hp 1150(shell) gp 975 drops- blast leaf, fire seigen lv71-80 long-lived ? (theta) essential doomed pure bred hp 1292 gp 619 drops- healing serum, weird black tea, demon suit lv81-90 dardeus ? (theta) counting bustling generation hp 4668 gp 3295 drops- thunder deer hoof, simple light comb lv91-100 long-lived-lord ? (theta) galloping swift two wings hp 1514 gp 820 drops- healing potion, strange coffee, demon suit lv121-130 dryramas - boss for level 118-120 areas hp 5308 gp 12000 drops- dark lizard tail, simple slant hood long-lived-king - (sigma) graceful bullfs eye daydream hp 2730 gp 1302 drops- restoring drop, strange soda, demon vestment lv131-140 metal dragon ? farwell mecha grunty quest hp 2592(shell) gp 13250 drops- fire mouse skin, fire otome --crustacean-lv21-30 hecatonfoot - (delta) graceful aster's pure bred hp 868 (shell) gp 195 drops- naja defence

carrie - (delta) rising cursed metal doll hp 427(shell) gp 5 drops- health drink ruby cutter - (delta) piling red plumfs twin rocks hp 574 (shell) gp 100 drops- knight blood lv31-40 mad jaws ? (delta) disputing gray tiny beast (crab monster quest vol 1) hp 861 (shell) gp 245 drops- nothing great jaws - crab monster quest vol 1 hp 1522 (shell) gp 960 drops- nothing lv41-50 carrianne - (theta) counting red plumfs shadow hp 698 (shell) gp 340 drops- health drink horned archelon - (theta) protected bustling weed eater hp 2078 gp 1320 drops- naja alloy fate crab - (theta) dawning wrathfs two wingfs hp 827 (shell) gp 460 drops- knight blood, broad wings masked beast - masquerade quest vol 2 hp 997 gp 500 drops- nothing lv51-60 tick mask ? (theta) buzzing vane pure bred hp 813 gp 426 drops- wrath luer lv61-70 scorpio e17 ? (theta) warm bustling generation hp 968 gp 579 drops- absorb iron carrizabeth ? (theta) essential wrathfs dagger hp 962 gp 745 drops- healing serum, healing potion lv71-80 face bug ? (theta) paling wrathfs phoenix hp 1198 gp 695 drops- wrath rivet lv81-90 scissor byte ? (theta) dreaming wrathfs pure bred hp 1398 gp 1025 drops- knight soul, broad sheaf hash chase ? (theta) decadent pocketed slacker hp 1689 gp 716 drops- absorb amalgam bison tortoris ? (theta) paling doomed belladonna hp 3539 gp 2900 drops- absorb amalgam lv101-110 grim stag ? (sigma) courageous wrathfs bum hp 1607 gp 1076 drops- wrath frost lv111-120

megalo adamant ? boss for level 115-117 areas. hp 4139(shell) gp 11500 drops- absorb red bone wheel jack - (sigma) graceful bustling belladonna hp 2709 gp 1230 drops- absorb diamond lv131-140 carrionteinne - (sigma) developed bullfs eye daydream hp 2200(shell) gp 1453 drops- restoring drop, healing tonic undead lv61-70 anchor bind ? (theta) warm doomed generation hp 3649 gp 600 drops- revival medicine, revive rain, dark kuajie lv71-80 druk ? (theta)thrilling aster's pure bred hp 995 gp 700 drops- healing serum, paralysis leaf, demon suit lv91-100 titan dead - abyss quest vol 2 hp 4591 gp 1250 drops- nothing massacre mummy ? (theta) galloping swift two wings hp 1879 gp 716 drops- paralysis leaf, dark heaven blind pain ? (theta) roaring doomed two wings hp 5301 gp 896 drops- revival medicine, healing storm, drain fenlong lv101-110 captain hook ? (sigma) essential asterfs bum hp 2284 gp 1100 drops- drain frost lv111-120 death penalty ? abyss topic area 2 hp 6591 gp 10854 drops- nothing vice ripper - (sigma) confusing barren fairy hp 2394 gp 1100 drops- paralysis leaf, numbing lotus, dark nezumi lv121-130 straight felon - boss for level 124-126 areas hp 6801 gp 3650 drops- hadesbane salve, restoring rain, drain dowan lv131-140 yo-ho hyle - (sigma) dreaming wrathfs belladonna hp 2509 gp 1358 drops- drain jijo lv141-150 huge grudge - boss for level 139-141 areas hp 7125 gp 4201 drops- revive potion, revive storm, drain white barbarous ankh - (sigma) winding asters phoenix hp 2884 gp 1460 drops- drain jijo --demon stone-lv71-80

hell charm ? (theta) buzzing doomed pure bred hp 1147 (flying) gp 633 drops- fire barrel, fire huawen living tower ? (theta) piling bustling pure bred hp 4280 gp 688 drops- spirit drop, spirit rain lv91-100 gimmick torch ? (theta) roaring swift belladonna hp 1352 gp 806 drops- healing potion, healing storm, fire fenlong lv101-110 break pillar ? (sigma) courageous bustling bum hp 2109 (flying) gp 1000 drops- fire barrel, fire dielin lv111-120 6 arm maiden ? boss for level 110-111 areas hp 5123 gp 3320 drops- fairy drop, fairy rain, radiant red bone lv121-130 malphas ? (sigma) essential engaging two wings hp 2100 gp 1140 drops- restoring drop lv131-140 death radar - boss for level 130-132 areas hp 6001 gp 3988 drops- noble drop, noble rain, radiant imperial lv141-150 judgement - boss for level 145-147 areas hp 6429 gp 4159 drops- elven drop, elven rain, radiant monarch --angel-lv71-80 heavenly ray ? (theta) unselfish wrathfs pure bred hp 1612 gp 646 drops- fairy drop, healing rain, light tulong lv131-140 noble pain - (sigma) unselfish bullfs eye grey dance hp 2828 gp 1322 drops- noble drop, noble rain, light rook --divinity-lv111-120 zan dibro - (sigma) fading moonflowers glory hp 2361 gp 1154 drops- hurricane razor, train wind pill vak dibro - (sigma) essential bullfs eye daydream hp 2565 gp 1203 drops- fire barrel, train fire pill lv121-130 gan dibro - (sigma) paling engaging daydream hp 2610 gp 1205 drops- earth rain, train earth pill lei dibro - (sigma) unselfish blue silver raven hp 2886 gp 1268 drops- holy arrow, train light pill rue dibro - (sigma) paling wrathfs camellia hp 2956 gp 1268 drops- water dragon, train water pill

ani dibro - (sigma) thrilling bullfs eye grey dance hp 3008 gp 1302 drops- hell raiser, train dark pill lv141-150 vak abado - (sigma) competing blue silver utopia hp 3200 gp 1520 drops- fire barrel, fireserpent skin, train fire ball rue abado - (sigma) springfs black two wings hp 3200 gp 1543 drops- water dragon, jurgl shell, train water ball zan abado - (sigma) concealed honor blue cloud hp 3200 gp 1555 drops- hurricane razor, phoenix feather, train wind ball gan abado - (sigma) protected honor blue cloud hp 3200 gp 1520 drops- earth rain, greatworm feeler, train earth ball lei abado - (sigma) competing blue silver utopia hp 3200 gp 1518 drops- holy arrow, stormbeast hoof, train light ball ani abado - (sigma) winding bullfs eye fate hp 3200 gp 1532 drops- hell raiser, dark iguana tail, train dark ball --???-lv41-50 last boss vol 1 hp 2518 gp none drops- nothing lv81-90 last boss vol 2 hp 4500 gp none drops- nothing lv91-100 the one sin ? abyss quest vol 2 hp 6701(legs shell) gp 3500 drops- flicker scale bugborn alpha - outer dungeon 1 hp 1700 gp none drops- nothing bug queen alpha ? outer dungeon 1 hp 1900 gp none drops- nothing god eater ? (theta) returning invincible huge beast vol 2 hp 8000 (leg shell) gp 5000 drops- rainbow scale lv111-120 bugborn beta - outer dungeon 2 hp 2100 gp none drops- nothing bug queen beta - outer dungeon 2 hp 2500 gp none drops- nothing lv121-130 bugborn gamma ? outer dungeon 3 hp 2350 gp none drops- nothing bug queen gamma ? outer dungeon 3 hp 3100 gp none drops- nothing

cubia gomora ? story events hp 1800 gp none drops- nothing ovan ? story event hp 6800 gp none drops- nothing azure balmung ? story event hp 3500 gp none drops- nothing azure orca ? story event hp 3500 gp none drops- nothing kite ? story event hp 7000 gp none drops- nothing lv131-140 cubia core ? story event hp 6000 gp none drops- nothing lv141-150 the one death ? block 70 forest of pain hp 9999 gp 35000 drops- icon of purity

----ryu book 8 - drive time description: this book keeps track of how long you are on your bike, and how many times you've crashed. strategy: get on your bike, then ride around the town. or leave your ps2 on overnight while on your bike. maybe tape a penny to the controler so haseo is moving around and so it counts the time. (it wont count if he's sitting still on the bike)

---------------------------------credits for books of 1000 section ---------------------------------main credit to: zer0 ---credits from zer0's guide dualreact tsukasaelkkite an0maly jowyz stammig dot hack haseo

mystere man fallen_hero mystic tiger darrcyphfeid spartan0021 red frost penpen4 xolver leon481 the_rebirth sotaka & her buddies at gamefaqs akuta tolgabar tannimfodder eclipsesin demonluo azure crow also credit to: playboyskitch (for most of the wep/armor/accessory levels) section organized by: jonfireblade =================================================== end of "book of 1000" section ===================================================

-------------------------------------------- 8)crimsonvs -----------------------------------------this section of the guide for crimsonvs is a joint effort between myself and a friend by the name of megan wiseman. so first off credit ---------a)basics -basic advice: really its hard to give advice on card set ups becuase the more battles you win the more cards you get through random selection. so until you have pratically all the cards you can get, i really can't do much other then give you general advice. however, i do

include some really excellent deck suggestions a little later on, so make sure to check those out. for now here's some general advice: rule #1: check your rank, if you have more losses then wins you need to redo how your deck is set up. that's prety obvious. -a) general cards that have high hp or high ap aren't always the best ones to use. the best general cards are ones with high charisma and with avarage hp and ap. reason: you can compensate for average hp and ap by using the general's high charisma to add in unit cards that boost the general's abilities. -b) cards that add ap or hp onto you general's stats every round are ussally the best ones you can use. (not always, but ussally) -c) use the pratice battle!! toy around with it and figure out what combinations of cards work and which ones don't. -d) view the battle log. it will teach you alot about how the battles run. make sure to note what cards the enemy uses and how they use them. learn from them, and copy their style to turn their stradgey against them. or keep an eye out for weaknesses in their deck set ups. you'ss find that the game only uses about 4-5 differnt decks against you at a time.

here's some general advice from megan wiseman: ------------------------------------see, in vol. 3 you acquire "opponents", right? players from "the world". so you can do practice battles against these opponents instead of just against your own decks. this is really helpful, because you get to pick which of their three decks you want to battle against. plus, when you are picking, you can look at the cards. why does this help? because the deck shows what delta combo it has, and you can *write down* what cards make up that combo. you see, there are lots of cards that make up the same delta combo. and different ones might work better in different decks. some are cheap cost, some are higher cost, etc. this is how i started figuring out which cards, say, would make a heroine combo...or a twilight brigade combo. then i just kind of fiddled with adding and subtracting different cards in the list until i got a combination that a) made the delta combo i wanted; b) worked well together; and c) worked well with my general and his/her ability (if they had one). complex? yeah. time consuming? well, double yeah. but hey, if you like the

crimson vs thingie, it's probably worth the time to figure out how to do it if you want to go all the way to the top and beat card master gaspard! lol. and actually, it didn't take that long for me to figure out a couple of decent delta combos. it's just that i haven't really figured out a good one to go with the two best generals from the first set, which are endrance and shino. they have the highest charisma, but kinda low ap and no special junction ability. so i'm still fiddling with those. with the delta combos, though, having a high charisma isn't always necessary. there are several good generals in the 9-11 range, for instance, who have higher ap numbers, good junction abilities, and you can find a delta combo that fits in their cost and has synergy with them. *shrug* so i guess it pays to just kind of experiment some, look at your opponents' decks and see how they work, and see if you can try to come up with one that is even better.

---------b)getting cards -by winning you will gain cards. you can get most of the cards just by raising your rank. however, there are a few other ways to get cards: through the process of beating vol 2 and 3 you will gain cards. if you follow my guides you will most likly get them. the only other thing would be the books of 1000, but i don't think that's very often, or even at all: not sure to be honest. ---------c)suggested decks

my personal favorite is this deck. i got this from copy cating gaspard in the title match in vol 2 and it work for me ever since. so here's my suggested deck: (tends to win about 1/2 to 2/3 of the time.) 1st: #074 'gemme some chim' 2nd: #081 'dancing lion' 3rd: #081 'dancing lion' general: #020 endrace the exqusite decks reshearched and suggested by megan: general: shino of the twilight brigade

unit 1: no. 060 ace of hearts (cost: 5 trinity: shield) unit 2: no. 078 reckless roar (cost: 4 trinity: snipe) unit 3: no. 040 treasonous shell (cost: 5 trinity: assault) general: zelkova unit 1: no. 124, what's most important (cost - 7, trinity - shield) unit 2: no. 30, the trinity (cost - 2, trinity - assault) unit 3: no. 139, a false future (cost - 6, trinity - snipe)

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-------------------------------------------- iii)characters and story line -------------------------------------------

============================================= ============================================= -------------(!!warning!!!)----------------do not, and i mean: do not read, look at, or even sneek a peek at this section unless you have beat vol 3!!!! including the hidden quest! this section is a mine field for spoilers. so enter at your own risk. and trust me, you do not want to read this until you beat vol. 3 ============================================= =============================================

this section is something i like to refer to as: "the almighty section of knowledge" ta-daaaaa!!!!!! in here you will find the answers to every question, ever secret. all of it. or at least everything i can think of. i'm going to cover all the main characters and their history and connections to the other chacters and all that good stuff. not to mention a full explanation of the avatars and aida and what not. in other words this section will give you information that builds on what i've already talked about in the guides. some of the info has already been given, but some of it you will only find in this section. -people who havn't played the original series and dont have the terminal disk; or haven't watch //roots or //sign, will find this section very helpful as i give info on all those topics. (note that alot of this information is solid but that i've had to add in bits and peices of theory to help along this section)

----------------------- 1)characters -----------------------

------ a)epitaph users

--the terror of death, haseo haseo is a 17 year old male living in japan. he started playing "the world" because his friend told him it was fun. this friend no longer plays the game. it's believed that this friend played the original version of the game (or the 'r1' version.) some believe sora (from .hack//sign) is connected to this. and no, not sora from kingdom hearts. there are two theories about sora: 1)sora grew older after the events in the original games ,and he doesn't remember anything about what happened. his parents had cancalled his account for 'the world' since he was in a coma. anyway, after a few years, a friend of his told him about the new of version of the game and so he makes a new character called haseo. so theroy one is: sora=haseo. 2)the second theory is that the real life player of sora was the one who told haseo about the game. so theory two is: sora= haseo's friend in real life. both theories could be true but neither have been proven. anyway, more on sora in a second. haseo is a typical teenager and as such tends to a bit immature at times. when he started playing you would consider him a normal guy, until of course shino goes into a coma and he goes nuts and becomes a jerk. however through the games haseo begins to grow and he becomes less of a jerk until he finially becomes the amazing hero of the game series. and personally i don't think i've even seen the main character of a game developed so much. it was a truly amazing story.

--the mirage of deceit, atoli not alot is known about atoli in real life. however, she shows alot of personal growth in the series starting out as a shy timid girl who was completely dependent on sakaki, who grew into a strong young woman who captures the heart of haseo. i enjoyed watching her character grow and change through out the series.

--the propagation, kuhn he is a vertan player returning from the original series. back in the days of r1, he was known as sieg. he was the thrid best player of "the world" and considered the rival of bulmung and orca (the first and second best players). he is considered a side character yet still played a some what important role in the series. he was one of the first coma victims in the original series and was the real life boy friend of mai minase. (main character from bonus disks //liminality and not to be confused with mia who was an ai cat character) kuhn was once the co-guild leader of kestral. he left and became the founder of canard where he met silabus and gaspard. however after comming in contact with aida, which resulted in his avatar awakening, he left canard as to not involve silabus and gaspard. he then joined g.u. as one of the first avatar users.

--the prophet, yata yata, like kuhn, is a vetran hailing from the r1 days of the game. he however played a far more active role in the original game. yata was known as wise man back then: a information broker and a hacker. he had close ties to helba and net slum. when kite (the main hero of the searching for information on the "epitaph presented kite with a deal. if kite would give kite all the information on the

old games) first met wise man, he was of twilight". wise man (aka yata) obtain an item for him, wise man would "epitaph of twilight" that he had.

kite met the terms of the deal,this suprised wise man seeing as the item was in a prtected area (aka areas only kite could hack into). this set in motion the contection kite had to wise man. once kite had explained everything to wise man, he knew at once what must be done. and so kite,

wise man, and helba began to work together to find a solution to what was happening around them. in summary of yata's past: he was a powerful ally that helped kite over come many chalenges and worked closely with helba as one of the leaders of the operation to counter-attack on the cursed wave.

--the machinator, sakubo not alot is known about bo in real life. what is known is that bo is a small boy who gets picked on alot. for this reason he started playing the game, gorre attached itself to bo's character because he had the right mental requirments for the epitaph. it is believed that because of this saku was born inside the game as bo's alter ego (being that the machinator is a twin) anyway, bo grows attached to haseo and looks up to him as a big brother.

--the temptress, endrance ok. first. endrance was known by the name of elk in the original games: infection-quaratine. in those games you play as the main character kite. kite meets elk and a mysterious cat like character in an ally way in mac anu (back during the r1 days). this was the year 2010 during the begining of the second network crisis (sometimes called pluto again or the morgana incident.) anyway. mia was an illegally modified character who looked like a cat and helped kite gain knowledge of the extent of his powers: data drain and gate hacking. anyway, elk and mia were good friends and always seemed to be together. elk was only in 7th grade at the time. he started playing 'the world" r1 to make new friends since he didnt have alot in real life. ok, so as the story progressed things were all good until the part 3 //outbreak. at which point mia starts acting really weird. she starts losing parts of her memory and acts all depressed. that goes on until the final game of the original series part 4 //quaratine. near the beggining of that game kite finds mia and elk in a dungeon. mia admits that she has no memory except of when she plays 'the world". at that moment kite shows up and she starts freaking out. she starts yelling at a

voice in her head saying to it, "no! i want to remain as myself." at this point she transforms avatar style into none other then macha, the 6th phase. elk is warped away from the area and kite is forced to battle macha. he data-drains her. as the avatar starts comming apart mia is released. kite catchs her and he holds her much the same way haseo did for alkaid. elk shows back up and is only bearly able to say good bye before mia disapears. ok, see mia was an ai program that was being controled by macha to some extent. yet at the same time mia was a differnt person/ ai. just like haseo is seperate from skeith. *gasps for breath then continues* at the very end of //quaratine, during the post game dungeon. (in which you fight through a 15 floor dungeon that is crawling with data bugs) kite is finially able to bring back mia. so elk and mia are back together again. one problem. the macha factor, or the macha epitaph reattached itself to mia after the game. and in order for cc corp. to make the epitaph user for macha. they were forced to destory the cat character it was attached to...... aka mia. so you see. mia is gone and aida was pretending to be mia so that it could control endrance. there it is. the explanation of "she". *gasps for a really big breath*

--the avenger, pi pi is the younger sister of jun bansyoya who was originally in charge of project gu. he was one of the head programming engineers at cc corp for many years. his personal journal (the terminal disk that comes with the special edition of //rebirth) was passed onto his little sister along with the epitaph tarvos. it's because of her older brother that pi has been working so hard to find the answers to the mysteries behind the epitaph and aida. she, like her brother was, is a fulltime employee at cc corp. although her skanky outfit in the game suggest she's a slut, she is in fact a very serious bussiness woman who works hard and has an oddly limited social life due to so much time spent working for cc corp. --the rebirth, ovan

in the game ovan was once a legendary hacker that worked closly with yata. some speculate that ovan was 'bith the black'from the //liminality bonus disks. however no facts have been found to support that theory. ovan is perhaps the one person in the whole game that the least is known about in 'real life'. it is known that ovan has a younger sister that was probably the first comatose victum sicne the 2010 morganna incident. since being infected by aida and causing his sister to go into a coma, ovan has been working non-stop to find a cure for his sister. his sister's injury, cause by aida, was too serious to be healed by data drain which led ovan to seek a stronger cure. to do this, he formed the twilight brigade to search out the other 7 epitaphs, but most importantly the terror of death. ovan beleived that if he could activate the rebirth he would be able to completly destory aida and so heal his sister. he was, infact, able to do just that after causing haseo to awaken and then fight and devour all the other 7 of the other epitaphs. after ovan helped destory the anti-exisitence it is believed that ovan died in real life, but that a peice of his mind was sealed in the game much like harald's own consiousness.

---- b)'background' characters --harald hoerwick harald was a genius german programmer who meets his unrequited love interest, emma wielant, at a seminar for anthroposophy. harald immediately falls in love with her, but emma is only interested in his programming talents. one day emma calls harald and asks him to meet her. she never makes it, crashing her car and dying at the age of 28. harald, unaware of the accident, waits for her under a gingko tree. harald, grief stricken over his love's death, decides to create a tangible expression of his love for emma. harald decided to create a virtual daughter,

named aura, who would become the ultimate ai by receiving data on humanity and it's various emotions. to do this, harald created morganna mode gone, an omniscient ai program designed to collect information and then be data drained by aura, in order to complete her as the ultimate ai. in 2006, harald brings a game called fragment to the company cc corp, the vessel for aura's birth disguised as an mmorpg. however, things do not go as planned. morganna deletes the maternal part of her program out of fear, and becomes unstable. aura, meanwhile, has been sleeping, waiting for morganna to wake her up. for 2 years morganna does not awaken aura. realizing that things aren't going as planned, harald leaves his physical body behind to talk to morganna. here is a quote by harald right before his transformation:

ai harald in .hack//sign"i must...speak with morganna. to go where she is, the living flesh poses a hindrance. but i must. i must go. for our aura. emma, please give me a little more courage." despite his efforts, harald becomes trapped in the game world by morganna and restricted to various niches in the world. it is there he stays, trapped in a looped dialogue expressing his regrets and the error he made in creating morganna. it is this form that bt, bear, tsukasa and the rest of the .hack//sign party find, (dubbed by them as "the broken man.") however, he is unintelligelible, repeating the same dialogue over and over again. tsukasa recognizes "the girl" he is talking about is aura, but is data drained by morganna before he can tell the rest of the party. later, the party finds a more functioning version of harald, where he warns the party about morganna and begs the players to protect aura, saying "i will gladly receive any punishment...but aura does not deserve this." morganna, enraged by harald's meddling, deletes him, which is seemingly the last of the genius programmer. however, harald is not dead. in .hack//quarantine, kite and blackrose of the .hackers meet harald, although now he is a giant tablet of stone. he is, again, largely unintelligible, but he does impart one phrase that

strikes kite: "it is darkest...before...the dawn." kite thinks this means that harald meant for aura to become complete, not for morganna to win and for the coma victims to be lost. harald is then destroyed by cubia. whether this is the last of harald in the world is unclear; his resilience thus far hints at another possible return. an ai found by taihaku and haseo in the forest of pain event could possibly be harald somehow still alive within the world r:2, though the area he was in was deleted shortly after haseo met him. harald later appears after completing "the forest of pain" event in the third g.u. game. the floating statue he was attached to in sign is visible, and his voice can be heard. after asking a series of questions, he declares that haseo will not get an item, but one wish. ovan then appears, stating that haseo is the light in the bleak grayness that surrounds him, he makes a few other comments, then disapears.

--emma wielant born in the late 1970's as the daughter of a rich winery owner, emma wielant suffered early loss of her mother as a child and later her father during her late teens. denied her inheritance, she enrolled into a nursing school in order to support herself, only to overwork herself into illness. while recovering at a resort in southern france, she experienced some sort of supernatural or spiritual event, causing her to develop an interest in anthroposophy and the supernatural. it is at this point, emma starts her career as a poet and at some point began the epic poem the epitaph of twilight which was only available on her personal website. one day while attending an anthroposophy seminar, she meets a german programmer named harald hoerwick who instantly falls in love with her. alas his love is unrequited, as she is only interested in him professionally for his skills. they worked together for an unknown length of time, until one day, she dies in a car crash on her way to meet him. she died with harald still hopelessly in love with her and with the epitaph of twilight unfinished.

on her headstone, presumably harald leaves the following epitaph: "the hand that spun a legend will also become a legend itself." not soon after her death, the unfinished epitaph of twilight, which recently become popular in many fan-circles, is removed from her website. due to the inevitability of time and the nature of the internet, the original whole text has been lost, with it being frequently modified or fragmented into excerpts. in his grief, harald decides to create a tangible expression of his love for emma, a virtual daughter named aura. he creates the ai morganna, disguised as fragment, an mmorpg based on epitaph of twilight. presented to cc corporation, together they developed it into what will be known as the world. and thus, emma wielant indeed became the stuff of legend, as players delve deep into the mysteries surrounding the connection between the epitaph of twilight and the unusual occurrences happening in the the world.

--aura she is an advanced ai. her virtual avatar is the form of a young girl whose white hair, skin and garments give her a ghostly appearance. before the creation of the world a german programmer named harald hoerwick fell in love with emma wielant, who wrote an epic poem entitled the epitaph of twilight. after emma died in a car accident, harald became distraught and created fragment (the prototype to the world) inspired by the epitaph. but this program was actually intended to create the ultimate ai, aura. harald worked on aura as a symbol of his love for emma as the daughter that could have been. at the beginning of .hack//sign aura is asleep as her mentor program, the ai morganna has yet to gather enough data from the players to awaken her. but morganna is intentionally trying to keep aura asleep since she realizes that she would lose her purpose when her job—raising aura—is completed.

morganna manages to imprison the consciousness of tsukasa (the protagonist in .hack//sign), trapping him inside the world, and linking his emotions to aura's development, while she manipulates him in order to stop aura from awakening. at the end of the series, tsukasa is able to awaken aura, allowing himself to log out of the game. however, aura's awakening throws morganna into a rage, who then sends the phases to chase aura down and delete her. a few months after .hack//sign, the world has succumbed to some severe problems, including invincible monsters and glitched graphics. all of this was a part of morganna's intention to capture aura and prevent her from developing data drain, which is necessary for her to become complete. however, aura is able to cultivate this power into an installation book, and attempts to give it to the legendary player orca. unfortunately, skeith, one of the phases, attacks them, data draining orca and causing the player in the real world to fall into a coma. his best friend, kite, a novice player, is with him at the time, so aura is forced to give the installation book to him. upon opening the file, his player code is rewritten, and he receives the twilight bracelet. this allows him to use data drain, the only power capable of defeating the corrupted monsters as well as the eight phases of the cursed wave. when kite encounters the first phase, skeith, it is already in the process of data draining aura, scattering her data throughout the world in fragments. kite defeats skeith, creating cubia in return. fortunately, aura's consciousness is still partially functional, so she is able to send corrupted e-mail messages to him, which are possible to read but with great difficulty. with the help of other players (who later become known as the .hackers), kite is able to face and defeat six more of the eight phases: innis, magus, fidchell, gorre, macha, and tarvos. after aura becomes complete, there is only cubia, and the final phase, corbenik, left to deal with. aura tells kite not to confront cubia because cubia is connected to the bracelet. however, kite still confronts cubia and has to destroy his bracelet to defeat it. this makes it impossible for the final phase, corbenik, to be defeated, and the over twenty million people in the world could potentially die. kite fights the final phase anyway, but when he is about to deliver the final blow to it, aura steps infront of him and is apparently killed. when this happens, aura, who has collected data on positive emotions, merges with morganna, who has data on negative emotions, completing

aura's final incarnation as the ultimate ai. from then on, aura becomes an omnipresent yet mostly silent force within the world. in .hack//legend of the twilight, aura is able to do anything she wants in the game without fear of administrators or other people who could delete her. she holds a fake contest and posing as an administrator, bestows upon shugo and rena, chibi versions of the avatars of the legendary .hackers players kite and blackrose. aura gives shugo the twilight bracelet, to help him fulfill his dream to become a hero, which he told her about a few months after sign, mistaking her for another player. she also has a daughter named zefie, an ai that was as powerful as she is, but with an extremely wild and uncontrollable personality, even going as far as to give players pink afros for the fun of it. zefie was created for two reasons: one was to complete aura by allowing her to experience child birth, and the other was to help shugo with his goal. at the end of the year 2014, aura was lost. it is unknown how or why she vanished, but with her disappearance, cpu processing has increased in the world. the loss of aura meant the networks were returning to their original specs. the suits of cc corp began to understand. with no god to run their world, what would happen? with the world losing its glory and credibility, there was only one choice left to the management of cc corp: the rebirth of aura. and with this grand plan, project gu was born.

--aida and cubia found in the .hack games, cubia represents the 'opposite side' of the mystical "twilight bracelet", being born when the bracelet was first created. cubia did however not have a physical form until kite, the protagonist in the .hack video games, data drained the first phase, skeith. skeith's massive amount of data built up and made a physical form for cubia. every time kite data drained a phase, cubia got stronger. aura sends many e-mails to kite, telling him not to fight cubia. this is because if he does kill cubia, the bracelet will also be destroyed, taking away any chance kite has to defeating the final phase, and the world will be

destroyed. despite this, kite fights anyway but has no luck destroying cubia until he understands how the bracelet and cubia are linked. kite tells blackrose to attack the bracelet, destroying it along with cubia, leaving them no way to defeat corbenik, the eighth and final phase. in g.u. it is revealed that cubia was created by harald as the antiexistence to the epitaph users. when ovan releases rebirth throughout the internet, a new cubia is born. the new cubia can be seen in numerous areas of the world, and exists throughout the rest of the internet as well. in a final act of desperation, it is defeated by haseo with help from ovan. cubia in its new form can spawn an unlimited amount of gomoras, which spread throughout the world. "now for a theroy from your friendly .hack guide writer": although i can't prove this, i believe that aida is the side affect of cubia being reborn. when cc corp tried to forcefully restore aura i believe that the r.a. program and the avatars caused cubia to be reborn. however, i think that the r.a program wasn't strong enough to bring cubia back fully. instead aida was born as a side affect. in other words, while cubia existed in the game it remained dormant for the mojority of the series while acting through aida which was it's offspring. (cubia = source of aida) the proof i have to support this theory: 1)at the end of vol 1 haseo, kuhn, and pi fell through the floor infront of the lockers. while falling they saw a huge ball of aida. something much bigger then any singel aida. i believe that this was cubia in it's development stage before it became fully active. 2) also the fact that sakaki was searching for "the main body" in vol 1. 3) in vol 3 taihaku's sword spoke through aida. if you look closly you can tell that the face in aida's black spots is cubia. this suggest that cubia was already born but that it was attempting to become fully active by taking over taihaku, and other players and also by working through aida. so to summerize: i think that when the avatars were created that they caused an anti-existence to appear. while cubia remained not fully active but instead was working through aida which was working to resurect the main body of cubia. however, when ovan activated the rebirth, the power was enough

to bring about cubia's full resurection despite the fact that aida was destoryed.

---- c)other important characters

--kite at the beginning of the story told in the games, kite's friend, yasuhiko, tells him about the mmorpg, the world, and tells him to meet online there. kite does so and meets up with yasuhiko's character, orca. orca leads kite to a "newbie" field and teaches him the basics about playing the world. while his official canon name is kite, the player can set it to what ever they want. if the player loads a clear data from the games while playing gu, azure kite's name will be the same as the one they set in the games. after clearing the field, they enter the dungeon, where orca teaches kite about some of the more advanced aspects of the game. after retrieving the treasure in a dungeon level, they head for the exit, but they are waylaid by a glitch in the game. the field they are in becomes corrupted and aura appears, trying to give orca a book. before having a chance to react, skeith appears and orca tries to fight him off, but gets data drained. skeith turns on kite, then a large white staff is speared into the ground, and the program crashes. kite passes out and is dropped into net slum. there a woman in white (helba) wielding the staff watches as the book falls into kite's inventory. when he wakes, he finds that orca is gone, and that he is left with the book. kite logs out and discovers that his friend yasuhiko has fallen into a coma. kite logs back into the world to find answers. he later opens the book to save his new friend, blackrose and balmung from a data bug when it attacked them in the hulle granz cathedral. the book is actually the book of twilight, the cultivation of six months of effort by aura to grant the data drain ability to someone capable of defeating morganna. it rewrites his player data with several powerful programs. his normal green clothes are changed into reddish-orange, with golden symbols written on the pants. his character data is also writeprotected, preventing the most important parts of his character data from being modified or deleted. the most noticeable change to kite's character is the addition of the twilight bracelet, an invisible item on his arm that allows him to data drain infected monsters to get "virus cores". using these virus cores, he can "gate hack" with the bracelet into protected or sealed areas of the game. kite also uses this bracelet against the 8 phases that he encountered in the game. the bracelet was destroyed by blackrose when the two of them

encountered cubia, after discovering that the bracelet and cubia are two sides of the same coin, enabling to defeat it. this later caused complications when kite and his friends would have to fight the last wave cobernik without the power of data drain. after they defeat him and aura is reborn, she entrusts kite with the book of twilight ~ daybreak, giving him a new bracelet. this bracelet appears to have exactly the same functions as the previous one, but it is a "clean" bracelet that has not yet formed a shadow. to distinguish it from his old one it is called the dawn bracelet. in real life, kite's real name is purposely never mentioned due to the games intent on making kite the persona or extension of the player. he admits in one of his e-mails to blackrose that he is an 8th-grader during .hack//infection and it is implied that he and orca are good friends. orca himself is a student at the same school. everything else is carefully hidden and he himself is never mentioned outside of the games so far. all other "incarnations" or look-alikes prove not to be kite. the only exceptions are in unison and his brief cameo at the end of the twilight manga. if the player converts the files from the past .hack games to .hack//g.u., haseo gets a message from blackrose, indicating that she and kite finally meet each other offline, and that she has feelings for him. also one of the legendary .hackers

--blackrose blackrose is a female heavy blade and the first character that kite meets in the game the world after orca . when they meet she yells at kite for no particular reason and runs off to come back shortly. she explains that she wishes to go on an adventure with him. soon after they arrive at an area that blackrose told kite about called "hidden forbidden holy ground" in delta server. she then explains that she is new to the world despite the way she acted earlier. they get attacked by a monster that cannot be defeated by a normal character. kite gets his bracelet after this incident. however with blackrose following kite around, she gets constantly watched by the administrators of the world. it turns out that "? hidden forbidden holy ground" was where her younger brother, kazu (fumikazu in real life), was attacked by a data bug, rendering him unconscious and in a coma in the real world, similar to kite's friend orca. she and kite decided to work together, in hopes of finding a way to cure their loved ones as well as discovering the mystery of the world.

later on in .hack//legend of the twilight, rena gains a chibi version of blackrose's avatar, which is ironic considering rena and blackrose knew each other in real life but never knew of each other's online identity. in addition to this, she was depicted in .hack//gift as wielding a tennis racket, which is appropriate giving her real life alter-ego's penchant for playing the sport. the novel series, .hack//another birth, is a retelling of the .hack games from blackrose's point of view. during the novel, some aspects are changed around. an example of this is when kite lectures blackrose on not staring in the world since it is rude. this actually happens the other way around on the video game version. akira, the player of blackrose, is a member of the tennis team at her high school. she is a first string player. her father is also a gym teacher. she also later on admits that she has grown feelings for kite.

--sora in .hack//sign, sora acts as one of the antagonists, mainly for tsukasa's friends, though he hardly has contact with tsukasa himself. sora is an irritation particularly to mimiru, who can't stand being near someone she considers creepy, and bt, who uses sora for information and vice versa, though she is usually on the receiving end of his player killer activities. he gets involved early on, searching for fame as the one who discovered the key of the twilight, but also planning to become tsukasa's friend. at the end of the series, he betrays morganna mode gone in order to let tsukasa, subaru and mimiru escape with aura from her domain. this results in him being data drained by skeith as the player behind sora falls in a coma. it was revealed in the end of the world (the terminal disc included with .hack//g.u. volume 1: rebirth) that sora played a major part in the development of epitaph users, player characters capable of using the power of the phases, reconstructed as "avatars". in .hack//zero, sora acted as a basic form of epitaph user for skeith, though the phase controlled him rather than vice versa, which allowed skeith to travel freely throughout the world.

this, alongside macha's transformation into mia, proved that phase data could be fused with player character data in order to create epitaph users. when it emerged that only certain players could control these avatars, sora was also the first candidate for this task, but was, unfortunately, not playing the game at that point in time.

--alkaid, former emperor of the demon palace she is first seen in icolo's guild. icolo is a guild in which only arena emperors may enter. she and haseo quickly begin to argue and the argument ended when alkaid challenged haseo in the demon palace, saying he was weak. haseo and her do face each other in the arena where alkaid comes close to victory. however haseo then lost control of his avatar, skeith attacks alkaid and she is defeated. alkaid then leaves, calling haseo a cheater. in vol 2 alkaid pursuades haseo to help her fight sirius in the title match so she can talk with him face to face. alkaid and haseo develop a mild romantic relationship,but soon afterward falls into a coma after being attacked by aida. close to the end of volume 3, alkaid awakens from her coma and helps fight the cubia gomoras which are appearing in the world. offline alkaid is played by chika kuramoto who is a sixteen-year old japanese girl. she lives in sapporo, hokkaido and is on the library council for her high school. she values reading and reads both chinese classics and western contemporary fiction. --shino real name shino nanao . one of the few people close to ovan who acts as leader of the twilight brigade whenever ovan is incapable of doing so. gentle-mannered but strongminded, she holds the twilight brigade together during ovan's frequent absences. she and ovan seem to have a more involved relationship than mere guildmates, as they have both known and seen each other somewhat frequently outside the game as it was alluded to when shino asked about ovan's doctor visits. during episode 13 shino is attacked by tri-edge and azure kite is framed, resulting in her pc seemingly erased and her real self sent into a coma. she had been living alone and her landlord discovered her unconscious. the doctors cannot treat her because they do not know the cause behind her coma. those who have suffered fates like hers are referred to as a

lost one, since it is rumored that once pked by tri-edge a player can never return to the game. in real life, shino is 18 and studying medicine. --helba character from the original series. she provides help and information to some of the main characters in the storylines, though she usually works in the background. her avatar in the mmorpg the world is a level 99 wavemaster outfitted in a white dress with purple triangular designs and what resembles a matching queen's helm, that hides her eyes behind a red visor trimmed by gold. she is quite infamous to other players and especially to system administrators, as she is a professional hacker of extraordinary skills both in and out of the world. the games classify her as an "original class" because she edited her character to be beyond what a normal wavemaster is capable of. background in .hack//liminality kyoko tohno reveals that helba's name comes from the long lost net-distributed text, the epitaph of twilight. but other than that, little is truly known about the person behind the avatar, or what her true motivations are. as a hacker she manages a large amount of information, and is sometimes willing to share it with others, making her a valuable asset in the storyline. in .hack//mutation she gives kite a segment of the epitaph of twilight and directions to net slum. since the events of deadly flash and pluto's kiss, the world network council (wnc) of the united nations, have passed harsh penalties for hacking or endangering computer systems. some crimes were punishable by death. this makes hacking a serious offence in the .hack storyline, and helba must take care in protecting her identity.

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here is an over view the the series to date. i'm not going to put down everthing i know or else i'd be here for a month typing this all out. i'll consentrate mostly on events directly concerning the gu series. still even so. this section is very long. so if you don't enjoy reading.

then don't. if you think i missed some really really important, e-mail me about it and i'll consider adding to this section. (this section is refering to the game setting)

----the world r1----

- a)pre-morganna incident -background this section refers mainly to the time period before the morganna incedent, or in other words the time period before our heros of the .hack// series needed to become heros. you'll find some intresting back ground information here about this alternet world in which the story takes place. ------------------------------------set in the early part of the 21st century, the internet has spread across the planet, creating a unified global network which controls everything from the stock market to vending machines. at the center of this network is a popular virtual-reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (mmorpg) called the world. players from all around the world play this game, which has been made available in over 20 different languages. however, problems begin to arise when players begin mysteriously falling into comas while playing the game. each part of the .hack series gives the viewer a different piece of the mystery of the world, which when put together explains what is actually occurring within the game. each project, project .hack and .hack gu, is set in a different part of the world's history. project .hack occurs in the original game the world and .hack gu takes place in its sequel, the world r:2. both stories are related, and share common themes and characters. 'the world' is an online game that simulates a middle ages culture setting that provides players with the opertunity to play as

a character and pursue various roles of their choice. the original game was realsed shortly after the first network crisis. also called pluto's kiss, named for the virus that caused the incident. (some 9 year old kid managed to make a super virus and it kinda affected the whole netwrok through out the world on christmas eve, like military and everything. nukes were literly counting down to go off.) anyway, the game was made by one harald hoerwick. he was a programming genius. and more importantly,he was in love. he met one emma wielant while studying in japan (he was german). they were both living at the time in a remote village away from the hussel of modern life. they were both there for different reasons but both were recovering in (in their own ways) from recent events. but what is important is that they became friends and he fell for her. problem was she didn't return his love; thinking of him more as a friend and liking him for for his talent then as a lover. at the time of their meeting emma was working on a poem, epitaph of twilight. a story about how the age of the gods came to an end. but i won't get into that just yet. unfortunitly for them both, emma died shortly after, leaving the poem unfinished. however segments of it had been published on a web site. the problem was the company running the site went out of bussiness so the text was scatter and much of it lost. however, a few people still managed to get ahold of some of the text. sadly many of these people have added their own spin to things and so telling the difference between what the original and the altered version had became impossible. never the less, it emma passed away. using "fragment". it was the programming genius

is believed harold recived an unaltered copy before it as a basis he created a game. a game he called a fusion of the beautiful peom emma had wrote, and of harold.

harold sold the game and the rights to cc corp. who soon published the game renaming it "the world". they did so not knowing what was inside. within just 2 years the game sold 20 million copies world wide. however, cc corp. was in for a suprise. it was known to cc corp. that deep within the game was an untouchable black

box folder. known as the harold system. the system admins had attempted to remove the seemingly needless data and when they did so the system crashed. they were ,of course forced,to restore the folder to it's original state. as far as anyone can tell everything was going fine....that is. until the the story creator decided to screw with the characters lives. it began with the anime series that started everything for the .hack series.

- b).hack//sign sign is a orignal games. this entire series games and laying the foundation peices of it, namely the first five enjoyable and i wish it didn't cost already.

anime series that takes place just before the has the singel purpose of building up to the for the series. i've only seen bits and episodes. at anyrate, the story is very so much to buy them or i would have done so

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here's an overview of what happened. .hack//sign follows the story about tsukasa being mind-trapped into the game. despite being a "fantasy quest type adventure", it does not rely on action sequences. instead, the show is driven by mystery, slowly revealing its secrets to the viewer while paying much attention to the individual characters. questions like what happened to tsukasa in the real world, who he really is and why he is unable to log out are driving points of the story. soon after the beginning of the series tsukasa is led to a hidden area. there he meets morganna, depicted as a voice without physical appearance, and aura, who appears as a young girl clad entirely in white, floating asleep above a bed. the storyline introduces morganna as an ally, but her real intentions are unknown at this point. people interaction is portrayed mostly in the form of dialogue: the image of characters sitting along and talking is a persistent one. as the story progresses many characters are introduced, some who want to help, some

who have ulterior motives. then more questions arise as to "what is happening in the game itself, who are these various characters, what are their true goals and what will happen to tsukasa". all the while he is seen struggling with his increasingly dire situation as well as his own social and emotional shortcomings. tsukasa isolates himself, but eventually he begins to get closer to other players, and builds strong relationships with some of them. the most important is that which is born between him and subaru, a kind and thoughtful female heavy axeman. in the meantime, the anime follows the quest for the key of the twilight a legendary item rumored to have the ability to bypass the system in the world. some characters want the key to gain the power this supposedly offers. others believe the item will provide tsukasa with a way to log out. despite the reasons for seeking it, everyone agrees that it is related to tsukasa in some way, as he is also a factor bypassing the system in the game. his body being in a coma in the real world adds a sense of urgency to the quest. near the end of the series tsukasa's real-life identity takes a more central place in the storyline, particularly in relation to his growing bond with subaru. the series shows his fear and insecurity as he confesses to her that he is probably a girl in the real world. it is also at this point when tsukasa is told morganna's plan by a highly skilled hacker called helba. morganna conceived the plan to link aura to a character who could corrupt her with negative emotional data, placing her in a state where she would never awaken. the chosen character was tsukasa, as his mind was filled with distressful memories of his real life. helba also suggests that when aura is able to awaken, "the key of the twilight will take form". the story reaches its climax when tsukasa confronts morganna. then the viewer sees him declaring that he is no longer afraid of her or of reality, and will log out because there is someone he wants to see. this statement triggers aura's awakening, allowing tsukasa to log out. the last scenes feature an emotional encounter between tsukasa's real-life self, finally shown to be a girl, and the real-life player behind subaru.

- c)time of pluto again this time period of the series is marked by the development of the crisis known as pluto again. for many of us fans, everything started here. it started with us putting in a game and stepping into the story as kite. the entire //sign series was done completely for no other reason then to build up to this: the original game series. -infection-quartine (classic\original games)

a few months after //sign ends the hero of the original series steps into the game. - d)//infection set after the events in the anime .hack//sign, the story begins as players take on the role of kite, who joins his real life friend, yasuhiko, in the popular mmorpg the world. yasuhiko is better known as orca, a player of legendary status in the world, and rightly earned. from the message boards within the game, kite learns that orca has helped many beginner players set out, just as he does kite. however, what starts off as a simple crash course in the game's mechanics turns horribly wrong. kite and orca encounter two strange creatures: aura, who appears as the floating ghost of a young girl, and the monsterous humanoid figure known as skeith, who is chasing after aura. orca soon gives chase after the pair but ends up over his head as he battles skeith. the battle ends with skeith using a strange ability on the legendary player. when skeith turns his attention to kite, the legendary hacker helba intervenes, and things begin happening very quickly and the game's server crashes. kite soon discovers that yasuhiko, orca's real life persona, lies comatose. to make matters worse, yasuhiko is not the only player of the world in this

condition. as a result of his encounter with aura, kite discovers that he now the wields the twilight bracelet and is host to many strange abilities including gate hacking (which allows kite to enter previously restricted fields within the game) and data drain (an attack that alters the corrupted data in certain enemies, usually resulting in them becoming significantly weaker). however, data drain is the very attack that skeith used to put yasuhiko into a coma. though kite intends to use these abilities to find the cause of the comas and save the victims, he finds himself the enemy of cc corp. (the game's administrators), as well as other players, for engaging in what are illegal activities. he quickly teams up with black rose, a young girl whose brother, kazu, has suffered the same fate as yasuhiko. the two set off on a quest to get to the bottom of what is really happening (which the game's administrators may or may not be hiding) and find themselves not only opposed by balmung (orca's in-game partner), but also mired in a recreation of the epic poem known as the epitaph of twilight. much of //infection is kite coming into the full possesion of his powers and his continued search for clues to what is happening around him. the volume ends with kite finially catching up with aura in time to see her data drain by skeith; which splits her data into three segments that a scatterd across the game. after a short stand off the battle's on and kite barely defeats skeith. the defeat of skeith results in a massive release of data that gives birth to none other then cubia.

- e)//mutation the second game of the original seires starts off right after the defeat of skeith. this volume portrays kite as he and blackrose continue to search for clues. in the process they are confronted by the system admins who view their actions as dangerous. with the intervention of helba kite ends up working with the system admins for a time in order to try and collect more information. during this time kite discovers a second enemy that is simular to skieth. upon defeating innis kite recives a segment of aura. at this point it is also revealed that the actions of kite and his friends are having an impact on the real world causing problems with the network which results in many accidents and problems.

soon afterward kite recives an e-mail from aura to meet her in an area. kite is able to return a segment of the data to her before he is confronted by cubia. a battle erupts that ends with kite barely being able to fend off cubia. the game continues and reaches a climax when kite comes into possesion of a segment from the epitaph of twilight and discovers the existence of 8 phases of the cursed wave. (kite gets this key peice of information from none other then wiseman an information broker and a fellow hacker who works with helba. this character is none other then yata's younger self.) the volume ends with kite traveling to the "net slum" to meet with helba. kite is betrayed by bulmung to the system admins who intend to delete kite and his friends. however the admins are stopped with the arrival of the third phase and a battle between kite and the 3rd phase ensues. despite the victory the battle results in the game servers and towns being badly damaged.

- f)//outbreak the third game is the low point for kite. the game's main theme is kite discovering for himself what he is doing is right or not. however with some help from blackrose, he resolves to continue. with the help of hebla, kite is able to track down and destroy the 4th phase and recives a segment of aura. kite soon after saves bulmung from a data bug (corupted monster) ,despite the fact that bulmung had betrayed kite. this act earns bulmung's respect and he joins kite to have a better chance of bringing back orca. again aura contacts kite and with the help of bulmung and blackrose, kite is able to return another segment of aura's data to her and drive off cubia. later in the game kite is able to forge an alliance between helba, the ruler of netslum, and lios, the system admin. this alliance works together to confront and defeat the 5th phase. - g)//quaratine

the main flow of the game has kite and the newly formed alliance moving toward their goal of finishing off the remaining phases in an attempt to free the comatose victims and end the real world problems that continue to pop up everywhere. however, even with the newly formed alliance of lios and helba hope is still slim. the higher ups in cc corp are seriously considering destorying the game servers to cover up for the fact that their game is responsible for so many problems in the real world. destorying the game servers would spell doom for the comatose players because their minds remain traped in the game. kite has to make tough choices. he is forced to sacrifice one of his friends who turns out to be the vessel of macha, the 6th phase. however, he is able to gain the final segment of aura and return it to her. putting aside his personal feelings kite puches ahead and is able to defeat the 7th phase tarvos with the help of the alliance and the other .hackers . racing against time and searching for answers kite seeks out the creator of the game harald. kite finds him at the bottom of a 10 floor dungeon that is infested with data bugs. there he meets aura who has now been restored to the way she was before she was data drain by skeith. however, cubia enters the scene. aura tells kite to flee telling him that the twilight braclet (kite's powers) and cubia are oppisite sides of the same coin, and in order to defeat cubia the bracelet would be destoryed. however, kite is unable to escape cubia and is forced to enlist the help of blackrose to destroy the braclet and therefore cubia. the game finishes in a seemingly hopeless battle where kite and the .hackers face off with the 8th and final phase. with out the bracelet their battle turns into a slaughter. the battle only ends when aura sacrfices her self on the tip of kite's blade to end the fighting and bring victory for the heros.

-the network golden age-

- h)//legend of the twilight (understand that the story line for this anime is simple and was aimed at a younger crowd around the age of 10-12 year olds) the anime has many differences from the manga. the story begins in much of the same way. rena wins a limited edition character model contest for

the world. she invites her twin brother shugo to play the character of the legendary kite while she plays as the legendary blackrose. on their first outing together, the duo meet a gigantic level 48 "super armored shogun" in a beginners area. shugo is killed by the monster, but is revived by a mysterious girl named aura. as well as reviving shugo, aura gives him a mysterious bracelet and tells him about data drain. shugo is transported outside to find the monster still rampaging after his sister. he takes aura's advice and uses data drain and the large monster is reduced to a very weak beginner’s monster. it is realized that data drain can rewrite data. shugo and rena embark on a quest to unravel the mysterious bracelet's secrets and locate aura. along the way, rena and shugo meet new friends like the peppy mireille, the fierce ouka, the quiet hotaru, and the veteran player sanjuro. together, the friends play together in the world, but the fun quickly ends when rena is killed by a monster and goes into a coma. shugo and friends frantically search for a solution, whilst a group of four children are planning something terrible on the outside of the world. to make matters worse, the cobalt knight brigade, a debugging team for cc corp, are determined to capture shugo for he is using an illegal item, aura's bracelet. not only that, but an administrator that had been helping look for rena, balmung, loses his position as administrator and makes things difficult to continue the search. then shugo and company finally reach a mysterious place where rena might be, but are met by a mysterious ai who systematically annihilates the cobalt knight brigade, save for its leader kamui. using the bracelet and a little help from an inside ally, the group finally locates the source of the problem and proceed to stop it. they transport themselves to a root town that is not open to others and are confronted by the ai along with an undefeatable monster. to make the situation even more dire, the monster has rena trapped inside it and has implanted a virus that will destroy all that rena has connections to. shugo manages to data drain the monster, but the world will be destroyed. awaiting the destruction, the group speculates the reappearance of kite's and blackrose's characters. they realize there must have been a reason why both characters were brought back instead of just one. rena

and shugo then activate blackrose's and kite's joint power and save the world.

- i)g.u time period the begining of the gu time period is marked by the journal of jun boytoya: aka the terminal disk. this nifty little thing explains in detail what happened after the original games ended what why thing turned out the way the way they did: how avatars came to be, what happened to "the world r1", and why cubia/aida were born.

it's best to start off with the terminal disk and its contents.

======================================================================= (note: full and total credit to crtwenty. this next bit comes 100% from his guide and was not is anyway shap or form written by me. he copied this down from the terminal disk: so creds to him.) =======================================================================

seeing as i included a re-cap of infection-quaratine, i don't see the need to include the first 4 files. this next section consists of the information you'll need to understand the avavtar and the epitaph users.

----------------------------------------------------report 5 - disappearance of aura - guardian ubiquitos the four-year period between 2011 and 2014 were golden years for "the world." it was no accident that this coincided perfectly with the presence of aura. after all, "the world" was an online game managed by the ultimate a.i. even in cc corp. this was known only to a limited number of people. from the moment it began, no one fully understood aura, the omnipresent a.i. system that controlled "the world." the average player would have no way at all to even learn of her existence. aura had inherited the intelligence of the genius harald hoerwick, and the beauty of a poet emma

wielant. she was the ultimate administrator of "the world" and a gifted debugger. and yes, she could behave like a temperamental creator. as the lone deity in "the world" aura would sometimes act impulsively, like a fickle goddess. for example it was aura's idea, not cc corporation's to create a replica of the kite character and use it in a promotional giveaway campaign. she even put the hero of the bracelet in a demo version and returned him to gameplay. as to when aura disappeared, that can only be determined by examining conditions in "the world." our best estimate is in late 2014. it was seven years after the day of pluto's kiss that abnormalities first began to be clearly detected in "the world." time lags, and frequent crashed servers began to seriously interfere with the game. these problems didn't just cause trouble for "the world," they effected the entire network. load processing increased, and real world trouble quickly magnified. the network marketing research organization n.a.b. (network analysis bureau) along with other institutions investigated the cause. and although they suspected it was due to a new type of virus, one similar to the one that had caused the original network crisis, they were unable to find evidence of sabotage. that was no surprise. the real reason was simply that aura had vanished. this alone caused the network to revert to its original specs. it took until early 2015 before executives at cc corp. would come to that realization. and that's how it began. the network albeit quietly, began to fall into decay, and "the world" faced its own dark age. as it became less and less reliable "the world" soon lost its popular appeal. aura the guardian ubiquitos... only a handful of people understood the relation between the loss of aura and the network chaos. the top executives at cc corp. were forced to make a decision. their plan was to resurrect aura and bring her back to the network again. but the father of aura, harald hoerwick was dead. therefore the r.a. plan, the plan for bringing her back required a different organization. this is how project g.u. was established. ----------------------------------------------------------report 6 - salvage plan: gateway to utopia the loss of the ultimate a.i. aura, was the second major network crisis. in other words the birth of aura paved the way for "the world's" second paradigm shift. "the world's" golden age lasted from 2011 until 2014. when aura's disappearance was confirmed "the world's" golden age had truly become a dark age. a variety of problems such as faulty servers began to spread everywhere. not just "the world" but the entire internet. however, once cc executives learned that the cause of these problems was due to the loss of aura. they began to formulate

a plan to counteract against the silent danger. they would forcibly restore aura back to her original state. they intended to seize control over the next network society by creating and managing this ultimate a.i. themselves. it was a return to the plan both cc corp. and altimit corp. had hatched during the first network crisis, that was back in 2005, when they were still using the altimit operating system. altimit had managed the network's hegemony. this is how project g.u. officially began. it was all thanks to cc corp.'s sponsorship. the budget was limitless, a special team was put together, first-class engineers, a.i. programmers, and other technical experts. i myself was also a major part of this project. i was brought on to represent cc corporation and insure their goals were met. the project's overall objective was to restore aura, and thus g.u.'s r.a. plan began. the r.a. plan, we were to salvage the eight broken pieces of the morganna factor, which had sunk into a sea of data after being destroyed by kite's bracelet during the 2010 morganna incident. it was thought that by sealing each piece of morganna factor separately into character data, players could then take control of them one at a time. there were precedents for this kind of strategy. the mind of a player known as sora had attached itself to skeith. and there was macha, whose mind was thought to have adhered itself to the wandering cat-like a.i. mia. of the people involved in project g.u., there was one man on the team who was absolutely invaluable, jyotaro amagi. an elite mind who came to cc corp. at age 19 after working intelligence for the ministry of economy. for his age, he was truly a genius. although mr. amagi and i were far from what you would consider friends our complementary knowledge and combined abilities helped greatly to advance the project forward. we were the two essential wheels that kept g.u. rolling. our age difference didn't matter, yet we would frequently clash in fevered arguments. for some reason a strange mixture of feelings: respect, envy, and scorn had begun to grow in my heart. even so amagi and myself scoured the network, finally managing to find a single piece of the morganna factor. it was magus, the factor for propagation. after a great deal of trial and error the team finally succeeded in attaching the morganna factor to a character in "the world." this completed prototype became known as an epitaph user, so named for morganna's eight phases of the epitaph. the one we completed first was called the epitaph user of propagation. however no one involved in the project, not even myself or amagai could use one of these characters. when some one would try to log into "the world" using one of these characters an unbearable vertigo, nausea, and headache would paralyze him. the morganna factor, just as it had in the cases of skeith and sora, showed a high affinity for human minds. but perhaps that was only towards the chosen ones.

amagi had a theory that the morganna factor could choose the player it would attach too, and though conditions were unclear the morganna factor would approve only a certain type of human. if that were indeed the case, locating those eight chosen ones became an important issue for project g.u. at the advice of amagi, a search team was created within the security admin department. they would filter players in "the world" to find the chosen ones. unfortunately we learned that sora's real life player had already canceled his account with "the world." ----------------------------------------------------------mia is reborn in "the world" following her defeat at the hands of kite. ----------------------------------------------------------amagi and i continued our search for the other seven pieces of the morganna factor. skeith, innis, fidhell, gorre, macha, tarvos, and corbenik. eventually we discovered that the macha piece had once again attached itself to the cat character mia. we were able to extract it by destroying the cat character. we continued to produce epitaph users one at a time. and eventually we had completed all eight of them. all we had to do next was allow the chosen ones to control these epitaph users. then have them use the power of morganna's eight phases to activate the program amagi had created. this r.a. program would restore aura. gateway to utopia. we at project g.u. had come so close, we had almost arrived at our utopia. ----------------------------------------------------------interim report 7 - cubia: the anti-existence: gathering of the unwilling jyotaro amagi and i continued looking for the morganna factor as part of cc corps. project g.u. after collecting each epitaph force: skeith, innis, magus, fidhell, gorre, macha, tarvos, and corbenik, we managed to complete eight epitaph users. all we then had to do was allow the chosen ones to control these epitaph users, then have them activate the r.a. program that amagi had created in order to restore aura to existence. to put it simply this involved unleashing the immense power of morganna eight phases into the network. however, during preperations for the final stage i realized that there was something incredibly dangerous that could occur in rebooting the morganna factor. the use of a power that shouldn't exist, strong enough to revive aura the ultimate a.i. doing so could produce giant distortions all over the internet. these distortions were basically "anti-existences." they had also occured during the morganna incident. kite's bracelet, given to him by aura unleashed a force, and it was this force that had created the nightmarish cubia. ----------------------------------------------------------cubia's birth, encounters with kite, and eventual destruction.

----------------------------------------------------------if the distortion field produced from a single bracelet resulted in cubia... there's no telling what the distortion caused from eight powerful epitaph users might do. the salvaging of the eight pieces of the morganna factor would literally become a gathering of the unwilling. distortions would appear randomly like unwanted tumors. i reported these findings to amagi and urged him to put the r.a. plan on hold until my concerns could be resolved. but amagi refused, saying that the distortion produced earlier was due to hidden bugs in the harald system. he said the r.a. program he had designed would never allow anything like that to occur, and laughed at my concerns. with our rivalry and the envy of the genius harald hoerwick consuming him, amagi began to press ahead with the r.a. plan at all costs in order to prove his own abilities. ----------------------------------------------------------report 8 - jyotaro amagi: genetics of the unknown i was concerned about the r.a. plan, so i opposed amagi's attempts to experiment with his program. fearing the situation would worsen to a point of real danger, i secretely removed one epitaph user from "the world" and hid it in my home computer. this was the epitaph user integrated with the morganna factor of tarvos the avenger. without all eight characters there was no way the r.a. program could be activated. but amagi didn't even bat an eye at the expected absence of a key epitaph user. it turned out that amagi had secretly constructed a dummy morganna factor, and had prepared his own original epitaph user as a backup. it didn't take him long to deduce that the missing epitaph user was my doing. amagi went ahead with his plan. he proceeded to gather seven of the potential chosen ones together. systematically he matched them up to each epitaph user. meanwhile he used his own dummy epitaph user to connect to the network and began testing the r.a. program. this was the highpoint of amagi's life. if he succeeded in reviving the ultimate a.i. his genius would be considered on par with the great harald hoerwick. if he could somehow manage to control the ultimate a.i., then in the eyes of many he would even surpass harald's genius. he was playing with genetics of the unknown. and unfortunately, i knew it was only to further himself. he wished to combine his own mind, and fuse it with the ultimate a.i. he wanted to become a god inside the network using the eight pillars to support him. as a result amagi's experiment was anything but perfect. in an instant the r.a. program crashed. suddenly over 80% of "the world's" game data was completely wiped out. the minds of all seven potential chosen ones were caught up in the morganna factor's rampage and they

fell into comas. sadly, amagi suffered severe mental damage as well. ----------------------------------------------------------report 9 - loss of epitaph users: genocide of the unfaithful amagi's experimentation of the r.a. program ended in failure. i arrived shortly after the r.a. program went beserk and set about containing the situation. however, i was only able to recover a single epitaph user from the devastation. the one i recovered was the epitaph user integrated with the morganna factor of propagation, magus. his experiment having failed, a deranged amagi caused a fire to break out. the fire spread fast, consuming a third of the cc corp. building causing tremendous damage. the media was given news of only the fire itself, announcing to the public that several people were injured. genocide of the unfaithful, what was the reason for this miserable failure? most likely it was because amagi did not approach "the world" with enough respect. it may also be that the one most cursed by the ghost of harald hoerwick was none other than amagi himself. whatever the reason, the r.a. programs failure and the huge fire that accompanied it caused over 80% of "the world's" data to be lost. and at the same time project g.u.'s research data was also irrepably damaged. g.u. was suspended and i took responsiblity for the projects failure by resigning from cc corporation. ----------------------------------------------------------report 10 - generation of unity: last day of "the world" as a result of huge fire that was gone. g.u. its failure by

jyotaro amagi's project g.u. failure and the accompanied it over 80% of "the world's" data was dissolved, and i assumed responsiblity for resigning from cc corp.

in the end i supposed i couldn't win against either amagi or harald hoerwick. but i didn't lose to them either, the faith of engineer jun bansyoya had not yet been broken. it was soon decided that "the world" would be shut down temporarily. one can only theorize at the purpose of cc corp's executives, but after having lost over half their data it was assumed that it was a simple managerial decision. they reasoned that instead of working towards repairing the old game's data, it would be a better idea to apply their resources to a new generation game. a new game project the company had dubbed "r:2." this was also a way to escape from the ever looming ghost of the genius harald hoerwick. of course, analysis of the harald system had been halted. and the re-examining black box data had also been implemented into r:2. soon the day arrived. the town and area data that they had managed to save were presented to the public. the first generation of "the world" faced its final day. i logged in

with my own private character to see. mac anu was serenely quiet. the cityscape that made one think of venice was beautiful, and the waterways reflected the evening sun. many had gathered underneath the bridge. it reminded me of a happier time when the voices of hundreds of players echoed on the streets. like a midsummer night's dream, the next day this world would be gone. with lingering memories and grieving voices. those who were angry at cc corporation completely disregared the presence of system administrators on that final day. the characters that they had grown so attached to would not be carried over to the next version, effictively ending their lives all at once. even so they gathered together in the town. everyone said goodbye to their friends. some vowed to meet again, others decided to move on. ----------------------------------------------------------aura... ----------------------------------------------------------keeping to myself in a desolate alley i couldn't help but wonder. i wondered where aura had gone, she was like amaterasu hiding in her cave. after losing her, those four golden years had all of a sudden come crashing down upon us. we humans had lost our god. we couldn't stop from wailing and weeping. project g.u. had been designed to give us a new god, but it had collapsed in flames. ----------------------------------------------------------she integrated into the world. ----------------------------------------------------------i don't know exactly when it happened. a young girl bathed in the sunset whispered the following to me. ----------------------------------------------------------you mean aura? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------abandoned the individual and became a god. and now abandoned godhood and distanced from fate, returned to null. ----------------------------------------------------------the barefooted girl with saffron colored hair whispered to me. ----------------------------------------------------------you know of aura? so i will return to the wind as well. ----------------------------------------------------------her last whisper disappeared, as if and then the girl was gone. it felt i tried to make sense of her words. with her obviously hacked character

the wind had blown it away. like i stood there forever. and then i realized that girl might well have been a

wandering a.i. somehow she gave me the impression of aura that i had once known. "the world" will end, it will end. and yet its core will be preserved in the next generation. generation of unity, it is what people have always wished for. was i the only one to think that this comforting chaos, although ironic, somehow fit perfectly with "the world?" but now, it is all too late. ----------------------------------------------------------report 11 - guide to an uprising: ovan: corbenik the rebirth "the world r:2" was released to the public on december 24th 2015. that day, which became known as "death of a goddess" must have been bittersweet even for the players who knew nothing about the disappearance of aura. releasing the new game barely a year after the unforseeable data loss... cc corp surprised even me with their speed. and even though all the graphic data, and the battle engine were already up and running on release. the message text as well as the core system must have been hastily thrown together by programmers. they couldn't have had time to properly debug. as a result r:2 was plagued by constant bug issues since day one. and the game had to be repaired and refined through regular maintanence. the majority of the epitaph users had been lost. the only epitaph user left to cc corp was the propagation, it should have been carefully stored by the security administrators who took over the now defuct project g.u. however the avenger, the epitaph user i removed to prevent amagi's experiment was still being kept in my computer. eventually, cc corp will become aware of the existence of tarvos, which contains a piece of the morganna factor and that i have it. i have to come up with some countermeasures. when the r.a. program failed the other six pieces of the morganna factor, having been seperated from their epitaph users were once again lost in the networks ocean of data. project g.u. was gone, amagi was beyond any hope of recovery, and with me now gone from cc corp things will be safe. at least as long as the chosen ones don't access the world. if they do, they may unwittingly draw epitaphs to themselves. then, much like what happened with sora and skeith could happen again. in the end, my goal of preventing the birth of cubia the anti-existence can be said to have been accomplished. having known harald hoerwick, jyotaro amagi, and "the world" more intimately than any other i had one final duty. i had to keep the epitaph user of tarvos safely hidden away. i had to prevent those outside cc corp from learning of the morganna factor. however, things had taken a turn for the worse. ovan... he is the epitaph user of the rebirth. ovan has already started to act. he's assembled a guild. his members include sakisaka, b-set, godo, and finally shino. the name of the guild is "twilight brigade." does he know about harald hoerwick and the epitaph of twilight? where did he learn about it? does he also know about morganna? and the ultimate a.i. aura? i've confirmed that ovan's left arm contains indechiperable data...

what on earth is it? he has an almost incalcuable amount of data capicity within him... please stop ovan, i'm begging you! everything is ovan's doing! i repeat, everything is in ovan's hands! that man will become the guide to an uprising! ----------------------------------------------------------12 - gate of uroboros: to my sister to my little sister: i'm so sorry that my final gift to you ends like this. right now it is far too dangerous for me to see you in person. however, i can think of no one wiser than you to whom i can give this journal. i want you to use the character left on my computer... you must use it to access "the world." i'm certain it will help to open up a new door for your life. the rest, i can only leave up to you. my wish, is that you will walk this path of fate for the sake of your beliefs and for justice. you are a chosen one... we are siblings with many years between us. i'm sure you don't remember me as you and i parted ways when you were still just a small child. but i remember you, the little girl you used to be. and i know what you've done with your life in the time since. my only regret is that i was unable to see you again. please forgive me for being unable to watch over you. reiko... even though our parent's went their seperate ways a long time ago, you and i are brother and sister. and that will never change, ever... you will always be, my darling sister... ----------------------------------------------------------------------

- j).hack//roots the anime series .hack//roots follows haseo's adventures when he first starts playing 'the world' and follows through roughly 8 months before //vol. 1: rebirth. in this time some very important events take place. granted i havn't seen any of the series other them the 1st and 6th episode that come with the games, but i do know a enough to comment on the highlights of the series. (compliments of dothackers.net forums) .hack//roots is the prequel to the .hack//g.u. videogames. it follows the

story of haseo, a black 'adept rogue' (a class that can use multiple weapons) and member of the twilight brigade guild. in the year 2015, cc corp. building burnt down, and with it, most of its data for the world. by splicing data from what would have potentially been another game, cc corp. created the world r:2 and released it in 2016. the main revisions of this release were that the game allowed for guilds and pvp (player vs player) play. starting eight months before .hack//g.u. and finishing during the events of the first .hack//g.u. game, rebirth, haseo logs into the world r:2 for the first time and falls victim to the pkers that reside within. he is saved by ovan, which prompts him to join the twilight brigade. the twilight brigade members are on a mission to find the key of the twilight, however, the tan guild opposes this because they want ovan's character data possibly because of his device in his arm and will stop at nothing to keep the twilight brigade from their goal. but possibly the reason is because ovan is after it. their current mission is to find the 6 virus cores before tan does. haseo has the green virus core and the purple core, shino has the red, sakisaka the yellow, ovan the grey, and gord has the blue one. there is a lost ground with 5 towers, where the brigade used the supposedly-unusable virus cores. when the five are used it transports them to the tower above the 5 small towers to where they can find the last virus core. this mission, unfortunately, was just a trap made by the members of tan in order to investigate ovan's strange character data. with ovan gone, and no sign of the key of the twilight, the twilight brigade quickly breaks apart. b-set and gord quit the game entirely, and sakisaka and tabby quit the guild, even though tabby is still hopeful things will pick up. shino goes into 'mourning' over ovan, as it has been hinted that their relationship is that of more than friends. haseo stays by her side supporting her. however, even this is quickly shattered, as shino is soon after killed within the

game. what's even more alarming is that haseo can't contact her in real life. soon after haseo begins his pursuit of tri-edge. a pker who haseo believes killed shino in the game. he believes that if he could become strong enough he could defeat tri-edge, he bring back shino. this pursuit of power leads him to the forest of pain. he suprisingly enough manages to escape the countless number of monsters and comes face to face with harald, the creator of the game, who grants haseo large amounts of power. haseo then goes on a pkk rampage in an attempt to learn where tri-edge can be found. the series ends with haseo's dual with tri-edge.

--------------------------------------------------------------------well, now you understand everything that has happened up until the begining of //rebirth. and i'd like to think i've done a decently good job explaining everything throughout my guides. so now that you know all of the back ground info. i have a suggestion to make. re-read this re-cap on the series to this point, then: go play the whole gu series over again and enjoy them completely now that you know what's going on. =) ps: .hack// gu trilogy a full lenght movie is in the works right now. head to www.dothackers.net for more info.

------------------------------credit: huge amount of credit goes out to all who contributed to the articles on wikipedia. although i do get some credit after all. not all of the information was writen by other people, all in all i'd say i wrote about half of it. also credits to crtwenty for his guide/info on the terminal disk. for the people at dothackers.net as i learned tons from them about the series.

anyway hope you found this section intresting and helpfull in understanding the series as a whole.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------(like i said above, not all of this is proven. if you don't agree with what i've wrote here, then thats fine. just take what i've said with a grain of salt. if you feel the need to debate these topics feel free to visit the www.dothackers.net forums if you want other opinions on the story.) also, feel free to look stuff up on wikipedia as i've taken information directly from there and all i've done is simply reorganized it while adding a bit of my own flavor. anyway hopfully this section was at least some help. hope you enjoyed and if you think i missed some really really important, e-mail me about it and i'll consider adding to this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------======================================================================= ====== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------- frequently asked questions ------------------------------------------being that this is a faqs/ walktrough guide i thought that after getting several e-mails i would put together a little q and a section to put into my guides from the series. in here you'll find all the questions that have come up from the e-mails i've gotten from people. i really enjoy doing what i can to give you good info. and i love hearing from everyone. (even if it's just to tell me what you thought of the guide/guides) so i hope this might give you all some good advice. --------------------------------------------- 1)technical/game play/story line questions --------------------------------------------

------- 1)questions for all 3 games : -----1) can't stop sp draining q: my sp goes down by one like every second and i can't make it stop! it only does it when i'm in a field or dungeon, not a town. can you tell me what i'm supposed to do?? a:if it keeps happening over and over again no matter what; my guess is that you should check your armor materials. you know, the items you use to customize armor? check it. my guess is that you have an item called spirt tree bud. that item (armor material) has an intresting affect: it will decrease your skill points over time but the benifiet is that it will increase haseo's stats as the sp is consumed. -2) how to get keywords q:i want to ask you how to get (blank) area words? a: there are only three ways to get keywords. some are more common then others. 1-you will get keywords from story line events. 2- you can get keywords from topics on the forums and official forums, you can only get certian ones this way. 3- lastly you will get key words as rewards for getting b, a,or s rankings when leaving an area. these are random and tend to be harder to get. just try to do well everytime you go to an area and you should be albe to earn alot of them. -3) job extensions q: when can haseo start using other weapons besides dual swords? and how do i unlock them? a: ok. a common question for rookies to the series. these are the weapons haseo can use: -twin swords- default weapon. -broad sword- job extension right before 1st round of the demon palace tounament. -scythe- job extension near the begining of vol 2. -dual guns- ahhhhh not aloud to say how he got it, but basicly it's near the middle/end of vol 3. -4) books of 1000 q:can i complete the missing things from the book of 1000 from vol 1 in vol 2? a: yes, to some extent. see 99% of the books can be done in any of the volumes. however, quest champaigns is where the problem is. you get special rewards for doing the champaigns: special armor, accessories,

and once in awhile weapoms. the problem is that all champaigns from the quests in vol 1 end(or become unavaible) at the begining of vol 2. and all champaigns from vol2 end at the begining of vol 3. so you lose the chance to get those items. the best thing to do is just max the limit on the book for item collection before you play the next volume. the only other thing i can think of is that you should complete the hidden quests in each game and get the doppleganger weapons in vol 2.

-------- 2)questions for vol 1 : ------1) bounty hunter/ripper's blades q:how do you get the ripper blades? a: first off the bounty hunter quest becomes avalible as the story progresses. it's called "hunter's test". once you clear this quest you can't start the champaign. you need to log-out and then log back in before you can find the npc in the back ally of mac anu in the mercenary district. for more info. see the quest section of my guide for vol 1. ------- 3)questions for vol 2 : -----

-1) doppleganger's weapons q:i had a problem with doppleganger. i was level 100 and had the key item "own king" from vol. 1 and i was able to defeat him but he just gave me the two weapons (dual sword and broad) and only one key item. could please tell me why i couldn't get the scythe and the other key item? a: it's really quit simple. the answer is: go beat him again. yes that is right. you need to defeat him twice (2 times) in order to get all three weapons and the both key items. -2) crimson vs q:i was wondering if you could tell me how to actvate crimson vs.?

a: simple. it becomes avalible near the begining of vol. 2. just progress the story line.

-3) divine awakening q:does affection hav something to do with the divine awakewnig? how's it work? a: yes, it does affect it: when you use divine awakening the little marker starts to scroll across the bottom of the screne. obviously if you get it closer to the middle you'll do more damage. there are 3 'perfect" marks in the middle of the bar. by increasing your party member's affection, those three 'perfect' marks become wider and therefore easier to hit. therefore giving you a better chance to do mroe damage.

-4) password from salvador aihara q:when you go to the rumors board and news section you hear some stuff about salvador aihara and that he plays the world. after an annoying chase of checking the rumor board and logging back in you meet him as his character kazubolo “the last hope” in mac anu’s back ally, where he tells you his true identity as the famous news reporter, and tells you to keep quiet if he gives you the wallpaper and password: nurse carnival. soooo…i guess my question is, what is the purpose of the password: nurse carnival? i know its not area words cause i checked all 3 sections. a:that topic has been discussed several times on the dothackers.net boards. see we have the privledge of having a few ppl who visit those forums who are from japan and speak english, they've been able to answer several questions for us. and as far as any of us can tell the password is useless. however, i've read in some of the interviews with the game creators that they are putting bonus material in the gu games just for the north american versions of the games. so it may or may not have something to do with bonus stuff in vol. 3. but it doesnt seem too likly. if i hear anything i'll put it in my guide for vol 3. for now dont worry about it becuase it appears as if the password is worthless.

-------- 4)questions for vol 3 : -----1)final boss for the series q: is ovan the final boss in vol. 3 , if he is not then who? a: no, ovan is not the final boss for vol 3. although i can see where you might think that. i mean corbenick was the final boss of the original series. but no, the final boss for vol 3 is bigger, badder, and generally a whole lot worse the corbenik (ovan). who the last boss is exactly, well lets just say that he was a major enemy from the original series. 2) last hidden quest q: is there hidden quest in vol. 3 and who is the boss ? a: yes there is a hidden quest for vol 3. and it's one haseo has done before. (aka he did it before the events of //rebirth, during //roots, look around on the rumor's boards and see if you can figure it out) and, no: there isn't just 1 boss. instead there are: 17 normal field bosses that are stronger then normal, 2 semi-hard bosses that mimick the hidden quests from the other games, and one finial show down with a truly rediclous monster. 3)hardest avatar battle q: what is the hardest avatar battle and the hardest boss you foughtin all 3 volumes ? a: well, that's a hard question. see the vast majority of the avatar battles don't have to be tough. reason being that you can just go out and level up; which in turn boosts skeith's stats hence making the avatar battles easier. so really all of the avatar battle could be tough, but they don't have to be. but if i had to chose one battle i'd say azure flame god. the reason is that even at the level 50 cap, the azure flame god is still a pretty hard battle. i mean it's fast paced, and it's really hard to avoid all the attacks. the next worse battle would probably be corbenik the 2nd as you have to data drain him twice to kill him. --------------------------------------------------------------------well that the end of the q and a section. note that all the questions

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===================================================================== ===================================================================== ===================================================================== ===================================================================== end of guide for .hack// g.u. vol 3: redemption well my firends. not sure what to say at a time like this. this being the end and all. but you know, every ending is really just a new beginning. and who knows, i've heard rumors that there's a stand alone .hack// game in the making (non-series) in the works. so who knows. although in all reality, i don't see myself buying a ps3 anytime soon. if anything i'll probably get a xbox 360 or a wii. so unfortunity i dont see myself writing guide for any future .hack// games. at very least i found out that bandainamco is doing a full length movie called .hack// gu trilogy. it'll be a cg movie of the story line from all three games. it's suposed to come out in japan in january of 08 so my guess is that if you add another 6 months on (july 08) you'll have a decent guess for when it'll be out in america. my guess is it won't cover alot of detail. probably just the main story events. well anyway. it's been fun all. i'm glad you read my guide and perhaps found parts of it helpful. i got to admit the .hack games are probably the only video games i'd ever want to write guides for........ so yeah. hope you enjoyed. e-mail me to tell me what you thought or if you have questions........or even if you want to sit around and bs about .hack =p alright then. good luck to you all and god bless.

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--------------------------------------- iv) credits ------------------------------------------this guide was written and organized by: azurekay "i'm sad to see it end. but such is life. hopefully they'll continue with the series and make some more games that are just as good. although it took me awhile to finsih this guide i'm glad i was able to complete the whole series. i hope this helped you all who read the guides, and who knows; i might end up writing some other guides. we'll anyway, keep your eyes open for more .hack games and media. by the way. www.dothackers.net really is the best web site for .hack games and media. so yeah, now that i'm done with all of that. i'm going to go play all three games right in a row for fun." --thanks zer0 and the people from www.dothackers.net for allowing me to use their work for the "books of 1000" section for redemption. -zer0 dualreact tsukasaelkkite an0maly jowyz stammig dot hack haseo mystere man fallen_hero mystic tiger darrcyphfeid spartan0021 red frost penpen4 xolver leon481 the_rebirth sotaka & her buddies at gamefaqs akuta tolgabar tannimfodder eclipsesin demonluo azure crow

also credit to: playboyskitch for some info. on some equipment levels.

bandai - for the first four classic .hack games: they inspired me to work on my own stories and projects. bandainamco - for the .hack//g.u. games, they are even better then the original. and i think the .hack series rivals final fantasy (*ducks to aviod being shot by ff fans*) just kidding, both are amazing. d5t - thank you for www.dothackers.net, i was able to rediscover the .hack seires because of the web site you created. and has let me enjoy the games that have .....consumed so...much of my life.....yeah.... anyway, here's a shout out to all the great people there! piros the 3rd - i want to say that i hope you die a bloody and gruesome death at the hands of grunties tearing you limb from limb. =d everyone on the dothackers.net forums - you guys are an awesome group of people and i'm glad that you guys like the .hack series as mush as i do.

and last of all: all those awesome people who read my guide and told me how much they enjoyed them. thanks guys and girls. it's nice to know one's work is liked so much.

--contact info: you can contact me with questions and comments either by e-mail, i love to hear from you guys and will do what i can to answer questions: you can also find me on the forums at www.dothackers.net under the user name: azurekay (had to change my e-mail to gmx because for some reason msn/hotmail is jacked up right now and i can't use it to reply to e-mails. >_< ) e-mail:

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