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Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga

by Luisfe

Part 11: GOD DAMN STATUES.




Update 11

Okay, let's move ahead. The Citadel has a gimmick. That gimmick is that it has holes. Lots and lots of holes. At least it is decent enough to give you an indicator to WHERE the hell those holes are. It is decent there. It could be horribly bad and evil and just drop you with no indication. And then it could not mark it on the map. Fortunately, it does not do that.

Blue eyes means SAFE.



Argilla favors magic. That should be obvious.
Hell, her lowest stat is HALF of her magic stat.




In the dungeon there are parts that are closed off by a hole. That sounds paradoxical.


"Heat learned Tera!
Heat learned Void Earth!"




And after that he will learn basic Force skills. You see, the physical path was already mastered. The assist path is also advanced. That leaves the Magical path open.
Also, it is better that way, since those are cheap, and are all that can be afforded at the moment.



Useful.




Once again, blocked.



More money!



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Goddamnit.



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The next one takes just a little bit longer. Notice how it is more than twice as expensive as the previous one. Mantras are nasty like that.



Matera is a multiple enemy Earth skill. Useful.



"Serph learned Mazio
Serph learned Elec Boost
Argilla learned Mabufu
Argilla learned Ice Boost"




That just means thatthey too get to acquire new cheap mantras, if possible.



Yup.




Heat favors St and Vi. His low magic makes him become much less useful later on, though.
Sure, he will kick ass thanks to Ragnarok, but he will suffer a lot with ANY kind of magic.




THIS.
THIS is bad.
This room is the most annoying part of the dungeon.
Well, this KIND of room. It contains red and yellow eyed statues. It will be seen later.


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Atill mostly balanced, you see. Luck affects item drops, and those are kind of important. Luck will be the focus for a while more.



Ah, the Yellow eyed Statue. That means "precaution", you know.



In this case, when you get close, it becomes a RED eyed statue. That's bad news.




The Succubi are kind of annoying.



"The dead body of a member of the Maribel.
Worn out words can be seen at the corpse's fingertip.
Watch out for that woman.
She will repel you..."


You know what that means?
Sub boss time!

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"But this is some bitch in a long, ugly skirt.
Either way, you have horrible taste, so you might as well die!"




Well well well, this is ptobably not good.
Well, it would be not good if Heat did not have that skill.

Soon, the Valkyries will be very, very annoying




In the end she becomes nothing more than a snack for Serph. He is the leader, you know.






And the first key is acquired. Hooray!



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That also provides access to the beggining of the dungeon.


"Serph and heat learn:
Matera
Earth Boost.

Argilla learns Mazio
Eelec Boost."





FOUR TIMES AS EXPENSIVE AS THE PREVIOUS ONE. God damn it.








These are not only found on blue things. No, they are also DROPPED by enemies.
Sure, it is a very rare drop, but with enough patience, you can get perfect stats on most stats.
And unlike Nocturne, the stats in this game max out at 99.


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This is new.
Yellow objects can also contain TRAPS.
That is more than rather annoying.



In this case, it is two Nues.


Nue has changed a lot.




I personally prefer the Nocturne design.





Phew, that was close.




And this one was not fair.
DAMN YOU STATUE, DAMN YOU.




Those statues guard more money.



Damn them and their statueness.




How typical.



Luck will probably be left at that level for a while.



"Mazan
Force Boost"




Heat wants to bankrupt Serph.




Another similar room.


"The dead body of a member of the Maribel.
Careful with the next one...
It's tough..."


This one lies.






This is a nice statue.




It is a Tarrasque!








Beating it provides the other key.



And Argilla gets another increase in her levels.


"Void Elec"




STOP TRYING TO BANKRUPT SERPH, HEAT.




Remember what that corpse had written before dying? Right is left and left is right?
Well, it applies here. And since I do not want to go down the hole again, left it is.





Hooray!





Same in this one. Now it is safe.



"I smell a rat. Let's be careful."




And the decoration changes. What lies beyond thaere, I wonder?



Long stairs!




A terminal!



A useful item!




And this.




Well, Mick better be there, or it would be annoying.




Mick was not waiting for them. (viddler) (MANY MANY MANY thanks to Zidane13, he uploaded it for me sinc e Viddler is not working correctly for me)
Instead we get ANOTHER ONE. A turdak. And IKUSAS. (Youtube)








Oh no! They fell into a trap!




"Bat came squealing to us.
Mick has probably devoured the Maribel's leader by now."




"That bastard!"





Heat is correct. It would have saved so much time.

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OH NO TURDAK.


Hungry Turdak, at that.



And so , the battle starts.



First, there is a wave of these annoyances.


The na second wave. They are worthless.



Then a goddamn third one with the Turdak.

Turdak information, oh my!







Heat hates everyone.





Serph said that NO BETRAYAL.
So, Argilla will have her wish. They shall help. YES.




Hahahah he has no idea.