A friend in Canaan suggested that the Warriors of Light visit King Argass, but when their ship lands there, they found the castle completely empty. Meanwhile, the city of Tokkul is being raided by mysterious brigands, who come from a flying castle, but the Warriors of Light cannot get to that fortress either. The only thing left to do is to cross the desert and visit the Village of the Ancients, who probably know something about the Light Crystals.
The Ancients are quite disappointing, instead: they tell you how the Light Crystals were threatening the World and four Warriors of Darkness turned them off. But you're the Warriors of Light: are they trying to persuade you give up the video game? One little thread starts from their village, though: someone suggests to visit the Gulgans in their home valley.
Before the dungeon
Inner Sea
You can go back to Castle Sasune and start the Fix Sara's Pendant Quest or finish the Save the Children Quest if you are level are 13 or higher. There are several places that you can visit now but, we're gonna grab some loot!
Looting
From Nepto Temple, sail North-west until you come to a peninsula, disembark and head a very short distance West to find Castle Argus
Looting Castle Argus
Enter the castle and you'll find that it's empty...may as well grab some loot! Go inside and head all the way upstairs.
Once on the top floor if you need to heal or revive head out the south door, otherwise go to the weapon rack north east of the round table, then through the wall just south of it for two chests (Antartic Wind and Bomb Fragment). head east between the chests(through another secret wall) to find another chest (Artic Wind).
There is another secret passage, but there is nothing useful in it at this point so we'll come back to it later.
Since you couldn't meet the King of Argus, head to Tokkul.
Looting Tokkul
From Castle Argus follow the coast southwest until you come to the village of Tokkul
Enter the village and search a tree in the northwest corner of town (Lamia Scale). South of the tree is a searchable crate (Great Bow) and southeast of that crate is another crate (Bacchus's Cider). Go east and seach along the tree line for another bit of loot (Ice Staff).
Enter the north-most house and walk into fireplace for two chests and a searchable vase (Serpent Sword, Kenpo Gi and Sonic Knuckles).
Once you've stuffed your pockets, exit Tokkul and Trek west on foot until you come to a shoreline, follow that south and then west across a fairly narrow strip of land to arrive at a forest, a little further west and you'll find the village of the ancients!
Village of the Ancients
As usual, items between brackets should not be purchased, because they can be found for free.
| Weapon | Price | Armor | Price | Magic | Price | Item | Price | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serpent Sword | 1500 | Shell Armor | 1250 | Sight | 100 | Potion | 150/50 | |||
| Fire Staff | 3500 | Flame Mail | 2400 | Fira | 1500 | Hi-Potion | 1200/600 | |||
| Ice Staff | 3500 | Headband | 1200 | Blizzara | 1500 | Gold Needle | 300/100 | |||
| Light Staff (DS) | 3500 | Kenpo Gi | 2000 | Thundara | 1500 | Maiden's Kiss | 100 | |||
| Killer Bow | 2000/4000 | Mage Robe | 2000 | Cura | 1500 | Echo Herbs | 100 | |||
| Fire Arrow | 30/150 | Teleport | 1500 | Mallet | 100 | |||||
| Ice Arrow | 30/150 | Blindna | 1500 | Eye Drops | 40 | |||||
| Light Arrow | 30/150 | Antidote | 80 | |||||||
| Wightslayer sword (NES) | 1000 |
Once inside the village go upstairs twice and go west around the wall, to talk with a child. He will give you a prize (Gnomish Bread) if you run the outer ring of the continent on a chocobo and then return to him.Do this if you want. After you're done playing with birds check the white flower (Serpent Sword) north of the well near the Inn.
Head to the item shop and buy some Maiden's Kiss, you'll need them soon, and buy anything else you may need/want here(check out that Light staff!)
Once you've had your fun grabbing loot and play with Chocobos head back to your ship and sail back to Castle Argus. From Argus head west until you run into a mountain range, follow the mountains north then around to the south west (note: the northwest passage is another chocobo woods!) You should see a cave just to your north, go on in to Gulgan Gultch.
Gulgan Gulch
Go in and downstairs. Talk with the Gulgan in the middle and he will give you the spell Toad which is needed in Tower of Owen, where you'll go next. He will also tell you that Desch's destiny lies in the tower. Go south through a secret passage to three chests (Fire rod, Ice rod and Mage Robe).
Tower of Owen
The tower is north of Castle Argus. On the first floor go around to a small room and turn your party into toads and enter the room. One floor higher turn your party back and continue west to floor 3. On half way you will hear a eerie voice who welcomes you here. On floor 3 go west of a chest (Echo Herbs) to next floor. Nothing here, so Go to floor 5. On floor you will hear a laughter from the eerie voice again. check the chests (Spark Dagger) and continue to next floor.
The eerie voice tell you on floor 6 that you'll never find the way to the place. Check the north nische to make a wall disappear. Check the chests (Echo Herbs) west of the stairs and go upstairs twice. Go right to find 2 chests (Echo Herbs and Bomb Fragment), then go left to next floor.
Go west, north, then east to find a chest (Sonic Knuckles). Go west and west again to the last floor before the boss. On this floor are 3 chests (Salamand Sword, Flame Mail and Zeus's Wrath).
BOSS: Medusa
| Level 17 | HP: 3,000 | Weakness: - | Gil: 2,600 | Exp: 1,680 |
A team of mages would be best against Medusa, but other authors suggest the opposite. Start casting the highest level spells, then continue with lower levels after you used up the most powerful ones. Let your physical attackers simply keep attacking (it's pretty much the only thing they can do).
NES differences
The items in the Tower of Owen are different:
- GF: -
- F1: -
- F2: Maiden's kiss
- F3: -
- F4: Tyrvine sword
- F5: Maiden's kiss; (secret door)
- F6: -
- F7: Echo Herb, FragBomb
- F8: Echo Herb
- F9: Salamand sword, Flame mail, Zeus' Rage
- F10: BOSS: Medusa