Temple of Water & Cave of Tides
With the Enterprise now airborne, the Floating Continent is no longer the edge of the map. Fly off it near Gysahl and a derelict ship comes into view on the surface ocean below, with a long sea path leading to the Temple of Water beyond. This chapter covers the Wrecked Ship and the Cave of Tides for 2 missable chests, 6 new bestiary entries, and 1 boss fight.
From Gysahl, lift off in the Enterprise and head south past the edge of the Floating Continent. The Wrecked Ship drifts on the open ocean.
Wrecked Ship
The Wrecked Ship has no random encounters; just two chests on the deck and below.
Sweep the cabin and lower deck for a Zeus’s Wrath and the Blood Sword. Hold the Zeus’s Wrath for the Cave of Tides boss; it deals Lightning damage as a battle item and the fight at the end of this chapter is weak to it.
The Blood Sword equips on your Knight and drains the enemy’s HP back to the wielder on every hit. With a Knight in the front row, every swing in the boss fight at the end of this chapter both damages the target and tops the Knight back up.
From the Wrecked Ship, fly south past the island to the larger landmass below. The first building you spot on shore is the Cave of Tides.
Cave of Tides
New Enemies
Three of the five entries are weak to Lightning (Poison Toad, Roper, Agaliarept), and the other two have no exploitable weakness. Thundara ends Lightning-weak fights in one cast. Cockatrice drops Gold Needles eight times in a row, so a few stomps through B2-B4 stockpiles a full stack for the rest of the game.
Roper has a different drop pool: every status battle item the bestiary uses (Bomb Arm, Arctic Wind, Heavenly Wrath, Lamia Scale, Bacchus’s Cider, Turtle Shell, Earthen Drums). Steal from a few for free combat consumables before pressing on.
The cave runs B1 down to B4. There are no chests on the route. The final chamber on B4 opens onto the Water Crystal altar.
At the altar, Aria returns her faintly-gleaming shard to the Water Crystal. She is struck down in the cutscene that follows, and Kraken rises to guard the chamber.
How to Beat Kraken
Water Crystal
With Kraken defeated, Aria gives the party a title that carries the Water Crystal’s power before dying. The Water Crystal awakens and restores the surface world.
The cutscene that follows carries the party off the altar; control returns in Amur, where the four new jobs unlock after the inn rest.