dark wood

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"This dense wood lies to the south of Olicano"

A battle scenario against the powerful wizard Milesius. The good witch Gaion will eventually join you to help (with this, and future missions). Milesius will escape when heavily injured (but will be back...).
difficulty: medium

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  • experience point breakdown
  • tactics
              spell choice
              possessing PoPs
              attacking melisius
              step by step
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    • experience point breakdown

    The maximum points you can receive (to spend on upgrading your character) are:
    talked to milesius 20
    befriended gaion 20
    gained psillosibin 25
    defeated all chaos troops 15

    tactics

    This level is well known for being quite a jump in terms of difficulty. Concentration is required.

    spell choice
  • You should now have 3 talismans and 2 spell ingredients (nightshade and valerian) in your portmanteau. If you don't have all three talisman (you should have picked up a law talisman in the previous mission) go back and collect it!

    Having said that, don't use the law talisman for this particular mission, and instead stick with the default spells that you have been given (summon wolf and fireball). You will need fireball to injure melisius, and summon wolf is the only creature summoning spell that you can make from the talisman-ingredient combinations available - and you need a creature to occupy POPs to regenerate mana.

    bury
    holy water
    		 You could arm yourslef with either bury or heal by moving the nightshade or valerian ingredients into the law talisman - both might seem very useful, but you can pickup holy water enchanted objects from the landscape for free, and Gaion will heal you if you pay her a visit.


    possessing PoPs
  • Take over PoPs from the north - there are 6 on the landscape in total. Create 2 or 3 wolves to occupy each one. Wolves are pretty useless - zombies and skeletons will have no trouble killing them, so when possible use holy water on enemy occupied PoPs to destroy the undead troops, and replace them with a wolf.

    attacking melisius
  • Melisius is armed with the powerful dragon's breath Keep your distance, but stay in his range. KEEP MOVING, so as to dodge the projectiles he will continue to fire at you.

    Now to attack - fire as many fireballs as you can at him. The most accurate/quickest way to do this is by selecting the fireball spell, and then right clicking on the wizard spotted icon (a little picture of milesius in the top right of the screen). This is equivalent to right clicking melisius himself, but doesn't require you to track him on screen as he moves.

    step by step
  • use wolves to take possesion of empty PoPs
  • find 1 or 2 holy water enchanted items as quickly as possible
  • after meeting milesius for the first time, use bury to destroy the skeletons he summons around you
  • wander around the landscape, looking for milesius, and firing fireballs at him at every available opportunity
  • if you're heavily injured, visit Gaion to be healed
  • when Melisius is heavily injured, he will teleport to the south of the map ('1' on the above map)
  • before heading towards him, make sure you have a couple of shots of bury available
  • when you reach melisius he will leave the map - use the holy water to kill the skeletons/zombies he creates on his escape
  • if you want full experience points, re-visit all the PoPs and destroy the remaining chaos troops occupying them
  • leave the map via the portal

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