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While the main gameplay ofRune Factory: Guardians Of Azumarevolves around the four main regions for a long time, it expands quite rapidly once you get past the first part of the story where you have to find the gods. This expansion leads you to a bunch of new areas through various sky islands.
The Underworld is one such area, and you’ll get there as you try to find the Oni god of the world and return his power to him. However, to get through this area, you’ll have to do some specific things and get rid of all the surrounding blight.
How To Beat Mezuki And Gozuki
The name of The Underworld will first come in the storyafter you’ve helped all four gods of the main regions: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. As the identity of the Oni god gets revealed to you, he’ll take you to the Oni Island in the sky. However, as you’re about to enter the Underworld, Mezuki and Gozuki will block your path.
These are the two monsters guarding the door, andyou’ll have to fight them at the same time if you want to progress. They’ll also be level 55, which makes them quite difficult to defeat unless you pay attention. Mezuki and Gozuki are weak to the earth and water elements respectively, while both of them are also weak to Short Swords.
you may consistently get better blueprints for this type of weaponas you interact with the red shrines around the world.
Mezuki is arguably the harder boss here since your Sacred Drum can’t deal any damage with its normal attack. To get past this battle quickly, it’s recommended to focus on Gozuki first. Simply stay near Gozuki anddodge one of his attacks to trigger the time slow effect, and attack him with your charged attacks during it.
This will give you abunch of progress on his stun bar while also giving you spirit bar. After Gozuki is stunned, use your Sacred Parasol’s abilities to deal high damage to it while also increasing Mezuki’s stun bar. After the ability, keep attacking Gozuki with your Sacred Parasol’s attack using your RP as much as possible.
You can trigger the time slow effect from both bosses' attacks, so youshould attempt to keep both of them in your line of sight.
Once Gozuki is defeated, you can follow the same method to stun Mezuki and use Sacred Drum’s abilities on him. After defeating both of these bosses, you can enter the Underworld and get the quest to reach Devil’s Bluff.
How To Beat The Underworld
As soon as you enter the Underworld, you’ll be able to see yourfinal destination, which is the entrance to Kai’s castle, right in front. However, the bridge taking you there will be blocked and you’ll have to go all the way around the area. As you move a bit forward and enter an open part, you’ll constantly have to fight enemies here.
These enemies will be quite high level and will spawn constantly, so you need to be ready for everything. Apart from that,you’ll also enter larger segments blocked by a bunch of blight, and you’ll have to remove it in a specific order to get past. The first such blight can be found as you reach the middle of the left alley going up.
There will be three purple flowers that you’ll have to destroy with your Sacred Sword here. Thefirst one can be seen in the open beside the structure in the middle with stairs on it. You can find the second and third blights behind an Oni and a normal boulder respectively on the corners of the room.
You have to use yourSacred Mask on the oni stone while the normal boulder can be broken with your hammer. After getting rid of all three flowers, you’ll be able to move forward.
The Underworld has a bunch of chests and frog statues hidden in corners behind Oni boulders, so you should look out for them.
After going forward just a bit, you’ll first have to defeat a couple of archers on top of vehicles. Yourmelee attacks can’t reach these, so you’ll need a high-level bow or talismans here. Once you defeat the enemies, find the big fan on the left side of the area, which triggers the wind current nearby. You can then ride this current to the purple blight and get rid of it.
Going forward from that, as you’re about to reach the top central area with the statue,you’ll have a big fight surrounded by a bunch of red blights. After defeating the monsters here, you can first climb the vehicle in the middle using the wooden cart beside it. Get to the edge of the vehicle near the blight and use your Secret Parasol attack.
This will help you clear the blight on both sides, andthen you can clear the final one near the groundto move forward.
As you get past the teleport statue, you’ll enter an area with a total of four blight plants. Youhave to get rid of them in a certain ordersince the veins from previous plants are blocking some of the later ones:
Once you get past this room, you can once again progress while defeating enemies until you reach the bottom right side, where you’ll have to find the blights in a specific order again:
After all this, you can finally get to the castle entrance and the boss fight once you head inside.
How To Defeat Lord Ura
Lord Ura is the final boss of The Underworld in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, and while this boss fight can be fought just like any other, the sheer size of him can be quite intimidating. Even when that’s the case,your main focus should still be on perfectly dodging one of his attacksso that you can get a bunch of stun and spirit bar.
The boss has light and long swords as his weakness, and while you won’t have the former during your first battle with him, it’s still recommended to use your best long sword, if possible. Theboss also summons some enemies at times that you’ll have to defeat. Once he’s stunned, you can simply use the abilities of the Sacred Treasure that is leveled up the most, except the Sacred Mask.
