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Having initiated the “Save the Mourning Snakes” quest, which will unlock Junah’s Masked Dancer Archetype (and grant you the chance to get her as a follower soon thereafter), it’s time for anotherMetaphor: ReFantaziooptional dungeon. This time, your destination is the Orbwise Path.
This guide endeavors to give you the full layout of the Orbwise Path, as well as what you’ll encounter along the way, and how to get every treasure this place has to offer. When you reach the end, we’ll re-link the “Save the Mourning Snakes” guide, which will help you to defeat the boss, Kokasadors, in style.
The Anxious Mustari Soldier
From the entrance, the path splitsnorth and east, but the east path is adead end. Follow north, and prepare for the first of manysandworm-type enemies which will attempt to ambush you. You’ll almost certainly tear through them without squad battle, though.
Speak with theAnxious Mustari Soldier, who will gift you twoHeartwarmeritems to cure theFrostbite ailment. As he mentions, the local worms can inflict this pesky ailment.
Just past the soldier,the path forks into four routes: west, slightly northwest, and slightly northeast, and southeast. Quickly take the southeast direction to scoop up aMagla Injection.
Head back to the soldier. This time,go west, grabbing theEmperor White Maskfrom the nearby treasure chest. Don’t go back yet - instead,check to the south of the chest for a crawlspacethat leads to the following four (!) treasures:
Between The Soldiers
At this point, you should still have two paths to take. (If you’re able to view the above image, your map might look like ours up there at this time.) We’ll start with thenorthwest path. Clear the worms; the blue item’s aMalnova Hardwood.
In this area, the path once again splits:two routes to the north, and one route to the east. First,take the north route, which wraps around, leading to an Azure Dew and a staircase.
Don’t use the stairs yet; let’s clear out this floor first. Take the east route this time. There’s a blue item,Saccharine Stalk, to get.Continue east- you may’t get those chests from here.
Don’t miss theGold Beetle,which is located on your side of the obstacles blocking the chest, very slightly southeast from the lower of the two chests!
Take thesouth path from the unattainable treasure chests, passing another staircaseto meet theUneasy Mustari.
The Uneasy Mustari
After chatting them up,follow the passage west to flip a switch and move through the newly-cleared spotto get aMalnova Hardwood.Now,return to the Uneasy Mustari.
This time,go north from the Uneasy Mustari,past those darned blocked treasure chests, to find a chest withMiraculous Medicine.
By now, you should have this floor’s map as complete as possible, withtwo staircases; one northwest from the chests, and one slightly southwest. We started with thenorthweststairs, back where you got that Azure Dew.
Right off the bat here, there aretwo ledges to jump down from. Don’t use either yet. There’s asecond Gold Beetle, as well as another Saccharine Stalk. You should nowjump down the one further to the rightto return to where theMiraculous Medicinewas.
If you’re curious about that other ledge, it simply leads you down to the first floor at another, less useful, location.
We’re pretty close to the other staircase, the one southwest from the chests. Go ahead andtake the stairsnow.
Notes
Kapcero Sondro
Weak to Wind. Uses Hyper to increase its magical damage, Thunderstruck Thrust to deal medium Electric damage and lower Defense, and Kandeon and Gakendeon to deal single-target and party-wide heavy Electric, respectively.
Waterworm Valmo
Should die quickly, but if you leave it for a second turn, it may very well inflict Frostbite.
This is the first place that you’llencounter enemies that will probably actually require a squad battle.TheKapceros Sondros along the water on this floor will leap out, so take care not to get ambushed.
Across the little water-sided corridor, you can go eithernorth or west.Choose northto get aMagician White Mask. Back to the fork,go westthis time. Follow the long route as it goes north, and then veers east.
When this results innorth and southoptions, thenorthpick sends you to a dead end with an appraisableMossy Threads, so grab it and thengo south. TheYoung Mustarihere strongly doubts our motivations, but in fairness, outsiders haven’t been very nice to these people.
At any rate,you can only keep moving rightafterward, butinstead of going north afterward toward Plateau, find thecrawlspacealong the lower end of the wall, just prior to the north turn. Go through!
The Cat
You’ll soon finda ladder, and just past that,a ledge that leads back to Plateau. Let’sclimb the ladder. You wind upback on the first floor, but you’re now able to access those treasure chests from earlier.
The first chest has aRuby, which isfine.The second chest has aBloodthirsty Vestment, which isterrific.250 DEF is no slouch at this point in Metaphor: ReFantazio, but the real deal is theHP recovery after defeating an enemy in squad battles.
After you get the chests, turn back around, andflip the switchnearby for another simple shortcut. You’ve now seen everything Orbwise Path has to offer, sohead to Plateau, save your game,and prepare for the boss fight -which we’ve got a guide for right here!
