Mission 04: Cold Blooded

Library

Use the Devil Buster on the Gyro Blade in the cutscene to power it up, then hit it across the room to bust the seal on the door.

Gallery

Another fight here. Power up the Gyro Blade, hit it with your sword a couple of times to extend the blades, the punch it again with the Devil Buster to smash it around the room. Should create a lot of confusion and some easy style points!

Grand Hall

Drop down to the ground floor here and power up the Gyro Blade. You can smash the coffin in the middle of the room here if you like, but you won't be able to do anything with the seal underneath it for the moment. Head into one of the doorways on either side of the lower part of the Grand Hall, preferably the eastern one.

Large Hall

Ignore the Gyro Blades here for the moment. Instead, head into the eastern door in this hallway.

Not even fire can destroy the Gyro Blade!

Dining Room

Kill the knights in the dining room, then move around and activate the Gyro Blade near the hallway. You can hit it down the long fireball hallway until it destroys the fire launcher there. You can find Secret Mission 02 there.

Grand Hall

Kill the enemies here and power up the Gyro Blade. Open the door leading on with the blue switch on the wall, then start hitting the Gyro blade allllll the way around to the southwestern portion of the hallway, where you'll need to smash through a blue barrier to unlock the fourth and final Gyro Blade. Move both Gyro Blades back to the empty pedastals on the northern part of this area to unlock the door leading on.

Central Courtyard

Boss Fight: Bael

Bael is one of those fights that you might have to try a few times before everything clicks. He can wipe you out fairly quickly, especially if he gets you in his mouth, but if you're lucky, you'll be able to pound him, stun him, and deal heavy damage.

Rusalka Phase

Two Rusalkas will appear here. You'll note the strings that attach them to Bael, but you won't be able to see Bael just yet. You'll need to wear the Rusalkas down before he pops out.

These Rusalkas will dodge most attempts to Snatch or Buster them.

The Rusalkas are tricky customers and will dodge many of your attacks, particularly your Buster, Snatch, and High Roller. Your regular Red Queen combos will still go through as normal, so use your sword to wear them down over time. At the outset, the Rusalkas won't attack very often, but as the fight goes on and you switch back to this phase more often, you can expect them to become a lot more aggressive. Although they're kind of a side-show to the main battle, they can still hurt if they manage to get a few strikes in. On Devil Hunter mode, a single hit will take off one full bubble from your health bar.

Video Walk-through

Bael can be challenging, especially without Devil Trigger, but if you persist you will eventually defeat him.
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To avoid their attacks, it's best to either stay elusive or simply go balls-to-the-wall and slice away at them with your default combo. By default, the two Rusalkas will stick pretty close to one another, which can make it annoying to try and attack one while the other attacks you, but if you consistently switch from one enemy to the other, you can disrupt their attacks before they land. Alternately, you can try to break them up by locking onto one of them and Sliding at her repeatedly. That should push her off to the edge of the screen and let you wail on her there. Be careful, though, as sometimes one of the Rusalkas will power up and spin around, which can hit you repeatedly if you don't run away.

If you beat down a Rusalka so badly that it goes dark and slumps to the ground, you can Buster it to pull Bael back out and start the main portion of the fight again. Also note that if you avoid the Rusalkas for too long and don't attack them, Bael will pop out and attempt to swallow you before dashing back into the darkness.

Bael Phase

After whacking on the Rusalkas for a bit, Bael will pop out. The first time this occurs, a cutscene will prevent you from taking any damage, but in the future, he'll pop out and try to either pop you into his mouth, which will cause massive damage, or swipe you with the Rusalkas. As soon as the screen switches to Bael in the background, start moving to one side of the arena and dodge at the last second, and you should avoid damage.

You can expect to see a bunch of Bael's mouth during this fight.

From then on, Bael becomes a somewhat aggravating fight. He's big, so he's hard to miss, but he's also rather mobile and will jump around fairly often. At the outset, the primary attacks he'll use include ice shards that jump out of his back and hit you from above (you can avoid them by running side-to-side, but attempting to dodge usually won't move you fast enough), and an ice breath that will cause him to shoot shards of ice along the ground. If you're hit by the latter attack, you'll be frozen in place.

Stay close to Bael while he uses these attacks. If you can dodge them, then you'll be in position to hit him a bunch while he preps his next attack, or Slide in if you got knocked back a bit. Avoid his attacks as best you can and get ready for him to be stunned. When he does fall on the ground, be ready with your Buster to deal a significant blow to his health.

In addition to this attack, Bael will also jump around quite a bit. Sometimes he'll simply reposition himself for more breath attacks, but he will occasionally attempt to land directly on you, forcing you to dodge out of the way.

Later in the fight, Bael will start to use the Rusalkas as weapons here, both by pounding them into the ground in front of him and swiping them from side to side. Position yourself on his side if possible, but if you still have plenty of health, you may not need to worry about these.

End Phase

When Bael is close to death, he will shift color to a reddish hue and begin acting oddly. He will periodically encase himself in ice, which is your cue to move out of way of his mouth, as he will quickly jump at you after a second or two. He'll use more swallowing attacks here, which is annoying, but if you can attack him from the side while he freezes himself, this should go relatively quickly, since he'll be on his last legs at this point. You may be able to attack the Rusalkas while he's frozen to gain some health orbs, but doing so puts you at the risk of being swallowed.

After defeating Bael, you'll receive a Rusalka Corpse, which is absorbed into your Devil Arm. That will let you automatically detect secret areas when you're near them. Pretty handy.

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