Phelios/Stage 4

Part 1
Once the enchanted mirror has faded out and Pegasus has started to propel Apollo forward yet again, three Item Flies will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen; once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, they will leave two "S" powerups and an "O" powerup behind and announce their names in Japanese. Once you have collected the two "S" powerups and the "O" powerup, six groups of three Phoenixes will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, a fourth Item Fly will come flying towards you from the right side of the screen. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at this fourth Item Fly to kill him, he will leave an "H" powerup behind and announce its name in Japanese; and once you have collected this "H" powerup, six more groups of three Phoenixes will come flying towards you from the right side of the screen. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you will come to a Himaira that is spitting flames from his mouth at you from his position on the left side of the screen - and as with the Radon you encountered on the first stage and the Hyudora you encountered on the second stage, his head is his only vulnerable point. So once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at his head to kill him, three more groups of three Phoenixes will come flying towards you from the right side of the screen while six Red Will-O-The-Wisps come flying towards you from the left side of the screen. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you will come to another Himaira that is spitting flames from his mouth at you from his position on the right side of the screen; once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at his head to kill him, six more Red Will-O-The-Wisps will come flying towards you from the right side of the screen while three more groups of three Phoenixes come flying towards you from the left side of the screen. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you will come to a third Himaira that is spitting flames from his mouth at you from his position on the left side of the screen - and once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at his head to kill him, six more groups of three Phoenixes will come flying towards you from the right side of the screen. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you will come to a fourth Himaira that is spitting flames from his mouth at you fromm his position on the right side of the screen; once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at his head to kill him, six more groups of three Phoenixes will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you will come to a fifth Himaira that is spitting flames from his mouth at you from his position on the left side of the screen - and once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at his head to kill him, six more groups of three Phoenixes will come flying towards you from the right side of the screen. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, a fifth Item Fly will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen; once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at this fifth Item Fly to kill him, he will leave an "L" powerup behind and announce its name in Japanese. Once you have collected this "L" powerup, Apollo will either regain one of his lost life-hearts at the bottom of the screen (if he was hit at any time during the course of the game) or gain an additional 5th life-heart at the bottom of the screen (if he was not hit at all before this point, but missed the first "L" powerup in the third stage). You will then come to a sixth and final Himaira that is spitting flames from his mouth at you from his position on the right side of the screen - and once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at his head to kill him, eight Bees will come flying down towards you from the top of the screen and circle around you in a clockwise direction. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, six more groups of three Phoenixes will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen; once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of themm to kill themm, eight more Bees will come flying down towards you from the top of the screen and circle around you in an anticlockwise direction. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, eight more Bees will come flying down towards you from the top of the screen and circle around you in a clockwise direction - and once you have fired enough homming shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, eight more Bees will come flying down towards you from the top of the screen and circle around you in an anticlockwise direction. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, two more Item Flies will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen; and once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, they will leave two more "S" powerups behind and announce their names in Japanese. Once you have collected these two additional "S" powerups, you will come to three Statues that are spitting fiery boomerangs from their mouths at you from their positions on the rocks on the left and right sides of the screen as their heads revolve in a clockwise direction. Once you have fired enough homming shots fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, an eighth Item Fly will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen - and once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at this eighth Item Fly to kill him, he will leave another "O" powerup behind and announce its name in Japanese. Once you have collected this second "O" powerup, twelve more Red Will-O-The-Wisps will come flying towards you from the right side of the screen - and once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you will come to four more Statues that are spitting fiery boomerangs from their mouths at you from their positions on the rocks on the left and right sides of the screen as their heads revolve in a clockwise direction. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, four Dokuro Soldiers of the "B" variety will appear on the right side of the screen and throw their axes up at you; once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, four more Dokuro Soldiers of the "B" variety will appear on the left side of the screen and throw their axes up at you. Once you have fired enough homing shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, the effect of the "H" powerup will be cancelled out and some Japanese text will appear at the bottom of the screen as Apollo arrives at the boss temple of Antaeus. The music will also fade out once he has descended to the temple and entered it - to indicate that you have proceeded to the second and final section of the stage. The three remaining stages of the game after this one are also comprised of two sections.

Part 2
Once Apollo has reappeared inside the temple, three more Item Flies will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen; once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, they will leave two more "S" powerups and a third "O" powerup behind and announce their names in Japanese. Once you have collected the two "S" powerups and the third "O" powerup, Antaeus will shoot two large fireballs from his arms at you - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, Antaeus will shoot two more large fireballs from his arms at you. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, Antaeus will shoot two more large fireballs from his arms at you; once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, Antaeus will shoot two more large fireballs from his arms at you. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, he will fire two more large fireballs from his arms at you - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, Antaeus will shoot two more large fireballs from his arms at you. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at both of them to destroy them, Antaeus will grow up to twice his original size (much like Namco's signature character did when he ate a Super Pellet in his third game) and start spitting hundreds of smaller fireballs from his mouth at you; however, unnlike the larger ones, these smaller fireballs cannot be destroyed and must be avoided. Once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at Antaeus to defeat him, he will explode and Apollo will proceed to the enchanted mirror at the back of the temple - which, once it has faded in, will depict Apollo's lover and twin sister Artemis breaking free from her chainns on the wall of Typhon's temple while the background flashes black and white behind her. The unseen Typhon will then speak out to his arch-nemesis in Japanese for a second time while the accompanying Japanese text for what he is saying appears at the bottom of the screen. Once the enchanted mirror has faded out again, the game will segue into the fifth stage. NOTE: If the arcade operator has set the "RANK SELECT" dip switch in the options menu to "ON" and you have chosen to play the game on "EASY" mode, the game will automatically end at this point and the only way for you to play the fifth, sixth and seventh stages is to choose to play the game on "HARD" mode.