From the library we learn that two things are needed — Malachite, and an Arlon Stone. The Malachite is easily found in the underground lava area but the Arlon Stone is on Samosa Isle in Riglord. Diana takes us there, and now with those items, Falco repairs the Wings.

Now you can go anywhere in the game — I guess I could have gone back to Yamatai to get the optional character. There’s also one or two new places to go (a cave with some treasure, and a town that has the extra dungeon similar to the one in Riglord Saga 1). But I just headed to the Dimensional Road to follow the 7 Council.

The Dimensional Road has three sections. The first one is fine; the second is annoying because you have to get down the cliffs by sliding down them and taking damage (or maybe the pickup by Dragon or Bird-Kamui works). I lost several characters doing this, but fortunately everyone gets restored at the end of this part. At the bottom, the lingering spirits of Galzard and Raglos tell us to beware of the Council and talk about how their inner feelings were exploited or something like that — you all said that literally all living things deserved to die and tried to make that happen, so no redemption arc for you.

One of the Council leaves, but the other 6 Council stay to fight up. They’re fairly strong (and get two actions like a lot of the bosses) but they only come at you two at a time, and if you use Myu’s defense/magic defense fields they can’t really do that much. They also waste some of their turns on Giga Healing (which only restores 400 HP).

Now it seems like we won and saved the world, but Myu sort of saw the 7th Council member leave so they decide to go around the world to see if there are any further problems, starting with the library. Anju’s dad left them a letter which explains the situation — he’s actually the leader of the Council. He and the other six were researching the Chaos power in Cuchuran years ago, but they began to be infected by the Chaos power that awakened their latent ambitions and hatred. Based on this they tried to take over the world and destroy it. Anju’s dad has decided to end his life in the lava below.

Anju tries to stop him, but he throws himself into the lava. But the lingering spirits of the other 6 stop him, and destruction begins to rain over the land as the Chaos power goes haywire. Just then, the crystal that had sealed Chaos before appears and we get drawn into it for the final battle.

Anju’s dad has already become just a disembodied spirit, but he tells Anju to fight against the 7 lingering spirits even if that means his own soul will be destroyed.

This is a harder battle than the last one because there are 7 of them, they’re stronger than the 6 before, and they all come at you at once. Nevertheless I didn’t have too much trouble with it. I started by using Myu’s defense fields. Rusty did Arc Heal every turn and the other people just attacked with their strongest moves, paying attention to what defensive moves the 7 were using (i.e. don’t use physical attacks when they have Counter). Myu died but I was able to revive her. Once you take out one or two of them it becomes considerably easier. Sometimes they get into the defensive fields but Asuka’s Mountain Storm can move them out of it.

The ending scene just has us dropping everyone off at their places. Myu gives the Wings to Diana, who will go with Falco and Hawekeye to start an import business.

Rusty finally confesses his feelings…

And they have a baby.

I didn’t do some of the optional content; my final timer was somewhere around 26 hours which still isn’t that long but it’s much longer than original Riglord. I’ll make a wra-up/review post later this week.