Your objective in this area is to rescue the Lady of the Forest from her glass prison. Enemies in this area are much tougher than those found in the tutorial portion of the game. You require more than Aurora’s sword to easily defeat enemies such as ghosts and gargoyles. Ghosts are weak against light, so use Aurora’s Light Ray whenever you can. The gargoyles scattered throughout the area pretend to be statues. As Aurora moves closer to a gargoyle, it would pounce at her and initiate battle, thus receiving the first chance at attacking Aurora. Be observant of your surrounding and assume that all statues are gargoyles in disguise.

2. The Queen of Light, Child of Light

Use Aurora’s skill points to work towards upgrading Light Ray. The skill path for Light Ray has a passive skill called Counterattack. Counterattack level 1 grants Aurora 10% chance to counterattack upon taking damage from an enemy.

Notable loots:

• Rough Ruby x 2
• Firefly Elixir
• Magic Stardust. Obtained upon defeating the area boss. Permanently increases the magic attack of a member by three points.

Winged Statues

The area boss is a pair of winged statues. The entrance to the boss arena can be opened by pulling a lever, which is guarded by a gargoyle. Farm enemies in the area to level up Aurora a few times and to obtain some oculi and potions as random drops. After a farming round, quit to menu, and load your game again to respawn all non-boss enemies. Rinse and repeat as many times as you want. Aurora would be fighting two enemies at once so she should be as high level as possible to tank a few hits from the boss. Unlike gargoyles, the boss is weak against light, making Aurora’s Light Ray extremely effective against the boss. You would likely have enough MP to defeat one member of the pair by using Light Ray alone. In case you don’t have enough MP to cast Light Ray against the other member of the pair, use Aurora’s sword instead or consume a Magic Potion. The statue that wields a fanfare trumpet can boost the speed of itself and its ally. Use Igniculus to slow down the statue whose speed has been boosted.

Having defeated the boss, the Lady of the Forest would be freed from her glass prison. The Lady would grant Aurora two gifts. The first gift is the ability to fly, allowing Aurora to explore places that were hitherto unreachable. The second gift is an Ordinary Flute that will be used throughout the game to recruit more members to your party.