So I made my way back to the boss. Luckily, the dungeon before him hadn’t reset, so it was pretty easy to get back to him. A tough fight, but I defeated him. And then, as is the way of these things, he transformed into a different form and splatted back to church. So I decided to try one more time to kill him. As luck would have it, he doesn’t reset back to his earlier form so I only had the second form to deal with.

I checked the boss tips on GameFAQs, which scared me. I hadn’t set myself up properly, didn’t have any of the recommended attacks or weapons and thought I was going to die. I nearly did, too.

We were twenty or thirty turns in. My main healer was on the floor dead and my secondary healer was near death and running out of magic, fast. He could have died that turn but the boss chose another target. And after the boss’s turn it was my turn. A fireball in his face and then a huge scythe chop and… down he went! I couldn’t believe it.

Far easier than GameFAQs had led me to believe… though I could have died had things been slightly different. I guess I was a bit lucky.

Anyway, after he was defeated the game got back to normal… more or less. Harder now, for reasons I won’t go into, and darker than it’s been previously. Things are getting serious.

Thirty-seven hours in and still a lot to do.