After the chaos that was the King’s funeral, you’ll be granted your first taste of real freedom inMetaphor: ReFantaziowhere you can decide how to spend your time and which quests to undertake. One of the quests available to you is ‘A Bullish Embargo’ given by Brigitta, the Igniter shop owner you met briefly before.

It’s not quite as simple as just accepting her quest though, so here’s everything you need to know about how to unlock this quest and what it entails, including details on the treasure and enemies you’ll be facing in the Belega Corridor.

Brigitta speaking to the Protagonist in Metaphor Refantazio.

How To Unlock ‘A Bullish Embargo’

You can findBrigitta standing outside her store on Sunlumeo Streetand she mentions having a quest for you, but then quickly decides you’re not ready for it. Youneed to reach Wisdom Level 2before you can take on this quest.

Completing’Help the Hushed Honeybee' given by Young Nidia on Sunlumeo Street(which requires helping out with cooking one evening in the Honeybee Inn) and thenspending time checking the view of the Royal Capitaljust east of Brigitta will increase your Wisdom enough to reach Level 2.

The protagonist speaking with the knowledgeable man in Metaphor Refantazio.

Once you have enough Wisdom,return to Brigitta to accept the questand she’ll tell you she wants you to go to the Belega Corridor to defeat the Grotesque Guptauros.

There’sno deadline on this quest, so you may complete it anytime really. We recommend that your Party Members are at least Level 10 before undertaking it.

Goborn stats in Metaphor Refantazio.

Quest Prep

Brigitta will recommend that you speak to the informant in the Hushed Honeybee to learn more information about the Belega Corridor. It only costs 250 reeve, but the tips he gives you we’re going to cover anyway, so you can just save yourself the cash.

Ensure that your party is set up properly,we don’t want anyone using a Mace or a Staffas it causes the monsters in the Belega Corridor to go berserk, sodon’t use Mages or Healers. We recommend the following:

The party travelling to Belega Corridor in Metaphor Refantazio.

Knight

Front

Ensure your characters havedecent equipment and that you have some restoration items available to you. The dungeon is hardgoing and there are no vendors in there, so you’ll want totry to conserve your MP and itemsas much as possible throughout.

No weaknesses but are suspectible to poison and paralysis.

Hulkenberg asking the protagonist what to do in Metaphor Refantazio.

Blue Elmenta

Weak to Fire and prone to fleeing on its first Turn Icon.

Nocross

Weak to Wind but should be easily killed without using Squad.

Weak to Fire and Ice.

The first floor of the Belega Corridor in Metaphor Refantazio.

Boss that is weak to Pierce and Ice.

Belega Corridor Walkthrough

You can travel to Belega Corridor and back in a day, so don’t worry about the trip consuming too much of your time.

Entrance

Once you arrive, you’ll have three choices on whether you want to go straight for the end goal, explore for treasure, or ask what a guptauros is.Your answer doesn’t really matter, you’ll be thrown into the dungeon the same way regardless.

Before you head through the doors into the Belega Corridor proper, you canspeak to More to visit Akademia and learn new Archetypes or set any inherited skills you may need. There’s also an NPC who will warn you not to go inside, but forget that dude.

The team speaking with the Talktative Tooth in Metaphor Refantazio.

First Floor

As soon as you canturn right, and grab the Scintillating Marblethat’s nearby. There’s also an NPC north of here that you can talk to, who will also warn you not to use Maces of Staves.

If you want to take the shorter path with less enemies, take the route going downstairsdirectly in front of you on the left and then skip to the second floor section of this guide.

The second floor of the Belega Corridor in Metaphor Refantazio.

If you want to grab some extra treasure, ignore it as there’s another way down that we’ll get to later. For now,go down the corridor on your right.

You’ll have to start clearing through enemies a this point, and it’s mostly going to be Goborns that you’re dealing with.

The protagonist running towards an item in the Belega Corridor in Metaphor Refantazio.

Take the first rightand go into the room tograb the Balm of Life from the chest, after clearing out the Goborns, of course. Next, head back outside and continue north, speaking with the Talkative Tooth on your way past, and thencrouch through the small gap to the right of the tooth continue onwards.

In this next chamber,clear out the Nocross here (you shouldn’t have to go into battle to do it) and the Hexer Goborn, beforegrabbing the Fairy Dustand goingdown the stairs in the west of this room.

The third floor of the Belega Corridor in Metaphor Refantazio.

This is the other entrance we were on about, so when you go downstairs you’ll see there are two sets of stair cases facing eachother. The earlier entrance we ignored is the other route down to here.

Second Floor

If you want to take the shortest route through this dungeon,head east and then take the first exit on your leftto go to the next floor.

For all you would-be treasure hunters who want to score the most loot, let’stackle the area to the west of where we entered this map first. On the right are some Vicious Hundos youcan avoid entirelyif you wish, but if you take the left path it’ll loop round so you cangrab the Strength Incense, though you’ll need to defeat a couple of Goborns in the process. Let’shead back east.

There’s another NPC to chat to here, who will warn youagainnot to use Maces or Staves, but even more importantly will tell you Goborns are suspectible to Poison and Paralysis, and will give you three Stunning Arrows to use.

Follow the path down, battling through the enemies, andtake the eastern exit to the next map(as you can’t get into the lower western area from here).

Third Floor

If you want to continue making a beeline for the boss, you want to head to the stairs in the most northern section of the map (so go east as far as you can, then head north and loop around to the stairs) to take you to the fourth floor. Feel free to skip to that part of this guide.

For the rest of you, let’s get that loot. First,head south and then go west(ensuring that you aregrabbing the Onyx from the corneras you go past) to go back upstairs and into that area on the second floor that we couldn’t reach before. Defeat the enemies and thenloot the chest for a Damascus Vest.

Return back downstairsthe way you came andgo as far east as you can, defeating the enemies on the way. You can’t get into the other corridors and rooms from here as they are all blocked off.Grab the Shiny Stone from the corner on the far east, thenhead through the open northern archway.

Head left and grab the Hero’s Incense, and directly next to that isanother square gap for you to crawl through.In this next chamber, there aretwo chests containing a Witch’s Earring and an Aquamarine, as well as aMagla Pill to the northand aGold Beetle key item to the south.

Return to the main chamber, head to theeastern side and take out the Nocrosssurrounding the item so you canclaim the Great Fairy Dust. Continue around this eastern side tograb a Blessed Water from a corner, then contine following the path around.

Ignore the northern stairsleading down at the moment, as we want tohead west and take out some more Nocross to claim the Fairy Dustthey’re standing around. Then head north again and take the stairs down to the fourth floor.

Fourth Floor

Whether you want to run straight for the boss or explore, you’re stuck in one long corridor either way.

You can find Blue Elmentas here, little blue orb enemies. They are weak to Fire but will flee as soon as it’s their turn.

Just before you reach the southern exit, there isa Scintillating Marble you can grab on your left, then head up the stairs.

Third Floor Revisited

If you want to go straight for the Grotesque Guptauros, simply head east (taking out the enemies in your way) and down the stairs.

However, for those wanting to grab some treasure, we can finally reach those chests we went past earlier.On the northern wall is another square entrance to crouch throughto take you into the other chamber (shown above), but don’t forget tograb the Blessed Water to the right of this entrancefirst.

The two chests in this room containan Imp-Ending Pike and Guard’s Chausses.

There are no enemies in this treasure chamber, so there’s no reason to skip it really.

Head back outside and go west to take the stairs back down to the fourth floor.

Fourth Floor Revisited

There are no enemies on this floor, this is simply the’safe area' before the boss. You caninteract with the Plateau Mirage to visit Akademia, save, or even exit the dungeon by choosing ‘Leave’.The boss is through the doors north of you, so prepare your party and then head on in to take him down.

We havea complete guide on how to defeat the Grotesque Guptauros here.

After the battle, youmight as well choose to leaveas there is nothing else to be found here. You’ll automatically head back to town and have a meal with your comrades.

How To Complete The Quest

The morning after, you canhead back to Sunlumeo street and speak to Brigittato hand in the quest. Completing the quest will take up time, as a heads up, but you’ll earn aPious Igniter, 7,500 cash, and increase your Courage.

Agree to taking on more jobs from Brigitta as there, and you’ll gain a new follower andunlock the Merchant Archetype. You’ll also now be able tobuy items from Grand Trad’s Igniter Shop.