Soul of Rebirth is a bonus epilogue chapter that is only available once you have a save file that contains game-clear data. It can be very annoying and I recommend you save constantly - like every time you open a treasure chest and after every battle. Some of the enemies are ridiculously strong and you can get the wrong encounter at any moment and get a game over before you have any chance to attack or flee. Also there are a LOT of monster varieties in this chapter - 25% of Final Fantasy II's bestiary entries come from Dawn of Souls.
Unknown Cave
Soul Eater, Bigfoot, Gil Snapper, Sea Serpent, Death Horn, Gigas Worm, Death Knight, Glasya Labolas, Miss Vamp, Giga Parasite (4F), Flan Princess (3F), Pyrolisk (3F), Beast Devil (3F) Black Knight (Boss), Zombie Borghen (Boss), Roundworm (Boss)
When you're done, open the chest nearby for an Elixir and then get an Ether from the top-left corner. The room in the bottom-left corner has the stairs to the next floor.
Heal if you need to then head up to find another old friend (along with an old enemy). Zombie Borghen has enough HP to go a few rounds with your party but doesn't pose much of a threat. Have Minwu cast Protect on everyone, have Scott cast Fire and have Josef attack. He'll go down and you can claim the Thief's Gloves from the chest nearby. Go all the way left and get a Hellfire then go all the way down for an Ancient Sword. Go all the way left then all the way up and enter the room to find the stairs.
Go through the next room avoiding the doors and getting a Silver Cuirass from a chest in plain view. As with the main game, there is a hidden shop behind the waterfall at the bottom of this floor - this time it sells the Haste, Berserk, Holy, and Flare tomes. Go all the way left from the waterfall and enter that door, the other two contain nothing.
Go up for a Hi-Potion then go further up and enter the room for a Golden Shield, Eyedrops, and a Demon Spear. Go left for an Aura Tome then go all the way down to find the room with the stairs.
Get the Ether from the chest, then interact with the monster. Ricard joins your party now, making it complete. He is likely miles ahead of everyone else in terms of stats and equipment, so if you want you can spread his armor among the others for now. Continue along to get a Protect Ring and a Hi-Potion then enter the door at the end of the path. Follow the linear path on this floor to a warp point. It leads to a town named Machon where you can buy better equipment for everyone and stock up on Ethers and Hi-Potions. We will also see a couple familiar faces here.
Including this guy. Hey Cid! Thanks for the airship back in the day. Sorry that you're dead. If you wander around town you will see that there are two different warp pads leading out. Let's see where the one in the southeast corner of town leads.
Oh yes it can be! And it is! Head straight upward to find the sealed door, and Minwu will use Hyper Beam on it like before but this time he won't die. I do appreciate that, as we wouldn't survive this chapter without him. Like before, inspect the outer four crystals first to raise your stats, then inspect the one in the middle. However, before we obtain Ultima this time we have to fight a boss - I really recommend saving first as it's a very tough one.
Unless you've done some serious re-configuring, Josef and Ricard will probably be essentially useless during this fight. Even with Haste and Berserk on them both, they weren't really doing any damage, but Ricard was very good for absorbing hits with his 5500 HP and keeping the others safe for one more turn. Scott was really my only damage dealer using Flare Lv.7. Minwu should use Shell on the party on the first turn because Ultima Weapon will be casting a high-level Flare spell on a single target most of the time. If it uses Blaze or Earthquake that is pretty much a blessing because it will deal very low damage to the whole party which can be easily gotten back targeting everyone at once with Cure. I had Josef using Ethers and Hi-Potions to keep everyone going and Ricard attacking even though he was only dealing about 180 damage. It was a narrow scrape but I did manage to win on my first try.
If you win, everyone's stats will probably increase further and you will get the Ultima Tome. Go back to town, rest at the inn, and then take the warp pad at the north end of town.
Unknown Palace
Li'l Murderer, Purobolos, Bloodbones, Warg Wolf, Mini Satana, Dark Magician, Chimera Brain, Lamia Matriarch, Cait Sith, Orukat, Malboro Menace, Chaos Rider, Gold Golem, Black Dragon, Dark Behemoth (3F), Twin Heads (3F), Catoblepas (3F), Dark Soul (3F, 4F and 5F), Mother Brain (5F)
I don't know how you know that but alright. Follow the linear path to the second floor, and there when the path opens up go north to get an Ether. Continue right to the next warp point. On the third floor go all the way down and then left for the Genji Gloves then go all the way up and left. Go down and take the warp pad here.
On the next floor go up and go through the left-most door. Go up and open the chest for a Ribbon guarded by a Steel Giant. This miniboss is weak to Lightning. Go back and go in the third door, following the path to a Stardust Rod guarded by Yamatano Orochi. This miniboss has no particular weakness but I found Flare and Holy dealt a lot of damage. Go back and go through the fourth door, taking the paths in the order left, left, right to get the Wyvern Lance which is guarded by a Black Dragon.
Backtrack a little bit and then take the left path all the way to the end, passing through the wall at this point to a hidden room with a chest containing the Wild Rose sword, guarded by Lucifer. This miniboss has a few spells which won't deal too much damage, but has a very dangerous physical attack that will also heal it. Have Minwu cast Protect on your party, then you can lay into it with physical attacks, Holy and/or Flare.
Go back and take the second door now, opening the chest along the way for the Bracers which are guarded by Beelzebub Soul. Follow the path the rest of the way to the warp pad.
Back on a different section of 4F, follow the path to the warp pad. On the next floor go up and get an unguarded Genji Helm before continuing to the warp point. On the next floor go all the way up along the right wall to get the Genji Armor. Go back down and go all the way left alone the bottom of the room for an Aegis Shield. Go up to the warp pad. On the next floor go all the way down and all the way right to the warp pad.
The Emperor (apparently his "light half") will tell you a bit of a tale and say that the passage your team thought was Jade was actually Raqia, the realm of fallen angels. He asks for your forgiveness and offers you eternal life in return, but you hear the voices of your loved ones telling you not to be fooled. There's really no indication that he is trying to trick you, he doesn't even reveal any ulterior motives after the battle. But nonetheless, we do battle him.
I casted Haste and Berserk on Josef and Ricard and had Minwu and Scott use Holy/Flare every turn respectively, and I finished the battle without ever having to heal. He casts a few spells including high-level Flare but the most frequent spell he used on me was Dispel even though I hadn't put up any barriers.
In the end you will see almost the exact same scene as the end of the main game, the Soul of Rebirth team will just offer a few lines of their own input. Despite the annoying enemies and having to build another set of characters from the ground up, I actually think this is a nice epilogue/bonus chapter.
Minwu
HP: 2896
MP: 466
Attack: 96
Defense: 92
Spirit: 99
Intelligence: 99
Stamina: 48
Agility: 34
Magic: 99
- Stardust Rod
- Aegis Shield
- Diamond Helm
- Dragon Armor
- Diamond Gloves
Cure Lv.13
Life Lv.8
Basuna Lv.6
Esuna Lv.4
Barrier Lv.8
Blink Lv.6
Protect Lv.7
Shell Lv.7
Wall Lv.6
Dispel Lv.4
Silence Lv.5
Sap Lv.5
Fog Lv.7
Holy Lv.10
Fear Lv.4
Teleport Lv.1
Scott
HP: 3014
MP: 396
Attack: 124
Defense: 150
Spirit: 32
Intelligence: 99
Stamina: 51
Agility: 70
Magic: 37
- Dragon Shield
- Wild Rose
- Genji Helm
- Genji Armor
- Genji Gloves
Fire Lv.8
Thunder Lv.8
Blizzard Lv.8
Cure Lv.4
Life Lv.5
Flare Lv.11
Josef
HP: 2496
MP: 42
Attack: 139
Defense: 90
Spirit: 10
Intelligence: 25
Stamina: 99
Agility: 25
Magic: 16
- Yoichi's Bow
- Ribbon
- Dragon Armor
- Bracers
Haste Lv.5
Ricard
HP: 8321
MP: 73
Attack: 234
Defense: 78
Spirit: 46
Intelligence: 19
Stamina: 88
Agility: 99
Magic: 10
- Wyvern Lance
- Thunder Lance
- Ribbon
- Diamond Cuirass
- Diamond Gloves
Berserk Lv.5
Once again, thank you to anyone who read along and I hope you found this helpful :)
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