Part 38: Extra Stage 5 (Baal)
There is but one true strongest Overlord of all, and that is the legendary Tyrant Overlord Baal. It is said that no force in the universe can defeat him Overlord Feinne on Makai Kingdom:
A few things happened in between Laharls map and this.
And that means Im ready to give a shot to the big man himself. This wish can be done at any time by someone who is high enough level.
Its high level and expensive, and chances are you wont stand a chance if youre just now hitting 300. Because were about to be fighting the big guy himself.
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Hyaaha! I get it! Im so bad-ass that I came around full circle!
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No way This doesnt feel like me at all!
But, whats it mean, then?
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What it means, Zetta, is that were in Makai Kingdoms fight with Baal, and hes using your body. Lets take a look at our opposition.
Zettas stats are through the roof thanks to his level, massive aptitudes, and incredible equipment. Hes leagues ahead of any enemy weve faced before, and that means we need to think harder about how we want to face him. There are two real methods. Ill detail the boring, lame one first because I dont use it.
1) We could just level up eight characters enough to have the stats to seriously clobber Zetta in a normal Combo. The downside of this strategy is that doing so is quite time consuming, since hes got almost a hundred thousand health and for most of the Combo we wont even be able to hurt him. I dont think my party quite has the juice for this even with mk5s 25k attack. That leaves us with the much better strategy that I use.
2) We chain buffs from our main character to Zetta with a healing spell, allowing us to benefit from a huge Combo while also greatly increasing the attack stat of our best character. Since the first five characters in our Combo would be unlikely to harm Baal anyway, theres really no reason not to do it this way.
Of course use a Castle, you can actually invite it right in range of Baal. Pop everyone out, making sure that you have the main attacker in position to do their attack so they can be buffed by the early parts of the Combo then attack. If you can manage to get more than one person in the buffs feel free to do so, but you shouldnt need to rely on it if you can get numbers like Ive got and a good single target attack like Rolling Thunder to unleash. Toss out the Combo and give it a whirl. If you dont kill Baal, you need to spread everyone out because his Sword skills can hit wide areas. You want as many people left as possible, because as long as your main attacker is still alive you can probably try one more time to finish him off. I didnt need to though, because he got neatly cut in half by my first Combo.
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Thats Overlord Baal.
What are you doing here!?
Overlord Baal Eh, hes an aggregate of evil souls. Hes a powerful existence, and can appear at any time, anywhere. If he loses a battle, eh he just finds another body and moves in.
So hes done for millions of years. Thats how he continues to exist.
Yeah, Ive heard the legends I just didnt expect him to be real.
It seems that he found your body somewhere Probably after you Confined into the Sacred Tome.
What!? You mean Im supposed to fight against my own body!?
Howd you know all that, anyway?
Hee hee Mm, I know everything.
Okay, then How do I defeat him?
What?
Well, I cant be the strongest in the cosmos as long as hes around, right?
The only choice I have is to destroy him. So, how do I do it?
I suppose he went to find another body to move into
So what happens to my body?
I dont think you should leave it there. Why not take it with you?
Its a little morbid, but I guess
System Message: Zetta acquired his empty, lifeless husk of a body!
Overlord Baal, huh ? Well meet again
So yeah, we got Zettas body for that. Lets talk for a second about it.
Weapon Skills: Sword, Katana, Beam Saber, Dagger
Magic: None
Stat Boosts: HP+8!, SP+8!, ATK+8!, DEF+8!, INT+8!, RES+8!, TEC+8!, MOVE+15!, JUMP+15!
Mobility: Very High
Slots: 5
Unique Skill: Omega Drive (ATK)- Single target skill with the highest power in the game.
Zetta is very simply the best character in the game. He has massive stats, gets incredible benefit from his equipment, and his proficiencies allow him to be powerful against single targets, groups, and vehicles depending on what you need. If you level him up theres nothing that can stand in your way. Hes also the motivation for doing Baal this early, because it lets you have some fun and actually use Zettas body instead of getting it so late its almost a hassle to level up.
Anyway, there is a small yet crucial mistake you can make before the fight that guarantees you get a Game Over no matter what happens, and that is to make Laharl your party leader. It gives you a unique intro and outro which I think will nicely explain matters.
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Hyaaha! I get it! Im so bad-ass that I came around full circle!
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Hm No This auras totally different than mine!
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No way This doesnt feel like me at all!
I didnt spend 200 game hours in the Item World to be defeated now Youre going down!
The fight is totally the same, but things start to go badly for our hero once we beat Baal.
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Great work, Prince. You finally avenged His Majesty.
Your father must be pleased.
Isnt Overlord Baal just a legend?
No, hes an aggregate of evil souls. He can appear anywhere, any time Hes a very powerful being!
He kept finding new bodies and became a menace to the universe!
What ? So now hes got my body?
Hm, it makes sense. You did misplace your body, right? I assume he found it Thats his thing.
After hundreds of millions of years hes probably pretty good at it.
Weve been after him for a long time even longer, in Japan. I think were about done, now.
I owe you an apology, Zetta. At first, I figured you for a class-A dumbass
But maybe I was wrong. This guys the real Overlord Baal!
Tch So what now?
If we dont kill his soul now, hell find another body and be reborn
Whoa, hold up! Thats MY body!
Yeah, that kinda sucks, but whatre you gonna do? This has to end somewhere.
Time to die, Overlord Baal!!
Yep, and with that you go to a credit roll and then a GAME OVER. You dont get Zettas body, you dont even get to start a new cycle, you just go back to the title screen. Of course, if you could beat Baal once you can just as easily swap leaders and do it again, so as long as you didnt do something dumb its really no thing. This is the only map in the game that gives us a straight Game Over for winning, there are of course several that will give us end of cycle Bad Endings, one of which well see next time!