Chapter 13 - The Fiendish Awakening

You're almost there! Keep up your continuous wall-run around the room to spiral up and out.

Continue along the cave of bats, and pick up the complete map of the Vigoorian Underground and a diary from the dead ninja. You'll eventually reach a room with a save station and a bunch of the red wasp monsters. There's also a chest behind the save station with a Life of the Gods. Though it's a pain, be sure to kill all the wasps. When you do, a chest will appear at the top of the room containing a Talisman of Rebirth. Getting to the top of the room will require a long, continuous wall run. You'll make several circuits around the room as you spiral upward. Go through the door, and you'll end up in the underground waterway, near where you found the stone tablet for the blue water reservoir in chapter 10.

Make your way out of here, up through the aqueduct, and all the way back to Dworku, near where the train crashed. You should then go to the drawbridge back to Tairon, saving at the various save stations along the way, if you wish. Across the bridge, in the drawbridge square, you'll run into three zombie troops. They behave much like the large zombies you fought in the tombs of chapter 6. These zombies can sustain a lot of damage, but you should take the time to defeat them all. If you do, a chest will appear here that contains another precious Talisman of Rebirth.

Tairon

Your next objective is the fountain at the Twin Serpents Plaza. Along the way you can stop at Muramasa's for some shopping. When you get to the plaza, you must reassemble the pieces of the stone tablet that you've collected throughout the game. Go there, and put the tablet together on the pedestal next to the serpents sculpture. A short cutscene will play. Remember all those stone circles you've been seeing around the game? These now function as warp points. You get automatically warped to Hayabusa Village. Before you do anything here, you have a choice.

Before doing your business in Hayabusa Village, return to this warp circle in Tairon for a challenging side mission.

If you're up for a tough fiend extermination mission, return to Tairon through the warp point. Check your map and notice the other warp circle in Tairon, which is marked by a fuzzy bluish circle. It's in the northwest part of Tairon, past Muramasa's shop, through the door with the five green jewels, and on your right in the open building. Using that warp circle will take you to the fiend realm, where you'll have to take on dozens of pink fiends, and the larger dark fiends who have pincer claws on their hands. This is a challenging extermination battle, as the waves of fiends never seem to end, but if you can make it through, you'll earn a Lives of the Thousand Gods. Use your lightning ninpo to help you through. By this point in the game, your life bar is already pretty long, so the value of that extra bit of life isn't that great, but if you're up for a challenging side mission, this one is worthwhile. Go back to the Twin Serpents Plaza and warp to Hayabusa Village.

Hayabusa Village

Break this rock with your war hammer for a nice treasure.

Remember that large stone with the white crack in it that you couldn't break before? Smash it with your war hammer now for a Jewel of the Demon Seal. Climb up into the building with the shop kiosk and do some shopping for elixirs here if you need them. Head toward the graveyard. As you walk through it, a cutscene will play and your sword will be transformed into the True Dragon Sword. Climb up the last set of stairs in the graveyard and warp to the next area using the warp point.

You're in an area with two warp circles. Walk to the next one and use it. You'll end up in a room adjacent to the Magma Cavern, near yet another warp circle. You may want to exit the Magma Cavern to the ice cavern and save your game, as you're about to begin the boss fight. When you're ready, warp one last time, and walk across the field to begin the boss fight.