Let's Play Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D! Part 18 - Probing the Citadel
2We try our hand one more time at the Monster Arena, but don't quite manage to win. With nothing else left to do, we head to the northwest tip of the area around Rimuldar and use our Rainbow Drop to form a bridge to the central island. This is our path to the end!
Zoma's Citadel is a fairly large dungeon. There's a path to a basement that contains a treasure, but otherwise does not lead to progress... including an infinite staircase that just loops on itself. Taking the path to the center of the ground floor leads to a trap room that contains a continuous battle against Granite Titans, and a throne room surrounded by damaging barrier tiles. Examining the throne reveals a staircase down.
The stairs down leads deep beneath the castle. A further stairs down brings us to a new monster that is actually quite good, a Metal Babble. We pause to use all of our seeds, then continue up to a puzzle room that has an interesting solution... so long as you don't want to get the treasures on either side.
The next floor contains a winding path and another new monster to recruit, as well as a cursed weapon. Not much else to see here, so one more floor down brings us to a cutscene where we find dear old dad fighting a hydra. As we approach the cutscene continues and it looks like he's winning. Finally we reach him and... He falls to a feint by the enemy. We are unable to help him, and he can't see or hear us, but I'm pretty sure he understood who we were in the end.
Of course, we aren't going on, since right before this Pomni reached level 45 and learned her final ability: Channel Anger! We've been waiting for this for sooooo long, and now Pomni can finally become a Sage! Now it's time for the epic grind to get her to a level that lets her actually use some useful spells.
Well, we're almost done. Just a little bit longer and we'll be taking down Zoma!