A New Hero (Part 2)

A New Hero (Part 2)

... Continued from Part 1 

Brightwall Village
Before crossing the bridge leading to the village, continue along the main road and take the small off-road path leading to a chest. Get back to the main path and head towards the buyable house (you can't afford it for now) then search for a Silver Key under the bridge.

Upon entering the village, its time to interact with the people and also hunt for items. You can also sell some stuff to the pawnbroker near the gate. Behind the pawnbroker is a Demon Wall and a chest beside the canal. Enter the free bedroom in the second floor of the pub. Pick up the rare book: (Famous Kings of History: Markus Ivy) from the stand beside the bed.

Climb the stairs of the house before the bridge to find a chest on the second floor. Cross the bridge and your dog should find a dig spot near the well.

From there, go uphill until you reach the chicken pens. Check the crates behind the shed for a chest, then look for a Silver Key behind a tree and some crates, just outside the shed.
 

Continue exploring the village. Go to the second floor of the furniture shop to find a chest behind some crates. Behind the shop is a path that leads to a deadend with another chest. Take the stairs by the stalls near the furniture shop then turn to the left to find silver chest. Take note of its location for now.

Note: This chest only requires 10 silver keys which you can collect sooner or later. Prioritize opening this chest first as it contains 50,000 gold. This amount should be enough for you to afford all the available properties/houses in Brightwall and Dweller's Camp. Properties are perfect investments as they automatically and continuously earn money every few minutes or so. It is a sure way of earning gold in the game (the honest way) without spending too much time doing odd jobs like Pie Making, Lute playing or Blacksmithing.

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To the left side of the library lies another Silver Key, behind the boulders. Now that's all done, you can now enter the Academy.

Brightwall Academy
Don't talk to the Librarian yet. Examine the shelves near the entrance to get a handful of gold each. Check out one of the rooms behind the librarian to find a chest.

After that, talk to librarian and show the guild seal. Follow him to the Reliquary's entrance then place the Guild Seal to open it.

The Reliquary
From the entrance, check the room to your right. Examine the bookshelves to gather a few coins. There's a rare book here called How to be a Master Swordsman on the lone stand in the middle of the room. There's also a dig spot in the far end of the room.

Check out the opposite room to find a silver chest that only requires one Silver Key so make sure to grab what's inside. It contains a book called Dog Training Combat 2. To use it, whistle to the dog and press UP in your DPAD to permanently add its bonuses to the dog. Follow the trail to the next chamber. Check the path to the left first, opposite to the trail's direction to find a chest.

Follow the trail and as you go near the flit switch, Jasper will inform you about the newly opened Armory in the Sanctuary. From here, you can either choose whether you want to carry the Hero Hammer or Hero Sword. Just choose what fits your fighting style then return back to the Reliquary.

Hit the switch with your melee weapon then cross the bridge. Ignore the locked door behind you since it requires an ordinary key that you can acquire from Sidequests.

Cross the bridge and a new enemy will appear. Defeat it easily with your melee weapon. More of these Hollow Men will appear and will start to overpower you. You may want to roll away to get distance then use your AoE fire attack. Just charge your magic then wait for the white circle to appear. If timed correctly, you should be able to take out most of the enemies in one blow.

Cross the other bridge and your dog will find another dig spot downstairs. Continue downstairs and open the door. Find another chest along the flight of stairs. There is another (ordinary) locked door at the end of the stairs so just ignore it for now.

Backtrack to the main path and follow it until you reach the objective point. Use your fireball to shoot the switch and to raise a set of stairs. Step on the blue arrow to create a platform. Get off the platform by taking the path to the right, which leads to a lone chest by the ledge.

Stepping on the blue arrows will raise the platform on that direction. You need to defeat Hollow Men that will appear to feed energy to those blue arrows.

Continue making your way to the other chests; just raise the platforms necessary to reach them. After grabbing all the chests, just continue raising platforms until you reach the next floor. Don't mind the other areas for now since you don't have any of accessing them just of yet. Vault to reach the floor below. Jump off the ledge and dive. Follow the trail then dive on the diving spot along the way.

Step on the platform then press and hold B to charge your fireball. Now use your analog stick to point yourself to the door then release the charged fireball there to unlock the door.

Go through the door then defeat the Hollow Men that will appear. Don't continue ahead yet; instead, go down the ramp to your right to find a chest inside the caved in room to the right.

Continue along the path and you'll fight a second wave of Hollow Men. Get rid of them then follow the path again. As it turns to the right, check out the dig spot nearby by going straight north then turn left to find a mound. Now follow the path and you'll encounter a skeleton a short walk after the stairs.

Right after the skeleton are several braziers. All you need to do is to light them all up using your fireball spell to open the door. A Silver Key lies behind it.

Silver Key Reliquary

Follow the path again until you exit to the large cavern. Continue running along the path and defeat Hollow Men along the way. There is also a dig spot along the way so just wait for your dog to sniff it out. Continue fighting your way through. You should reach the other end of the path which brings you back to the previous area you're in. As soon as you enter there, your pet should immediate detect a treasure. Just check the path behind the debris and you should find the chest there.

Go past this chest and continue following the stone path until you reach the same floor where you dealt with the raising platforms earlier. Pull the lever in the middle of the large platform and defeat all Hollow Men that will appear. After doing so, a set of stairs will appear northwest of the platforms you've raised a while ago. Take those stairs and it will lead you to a Silver Key.

Vault from where you obtained the silver key, then follow the golden path. This will lead you to a yellow switch. Jasper will inform you about the need to use firearms to activate the new switch. Head back to the Sanctuary's Armory. You can select a pistol or a rifle. Like the melee weapons, these evolve over time, as you use them. Make your selection then go back to the field.

To use your firearm, just press Y to fire. It will auto-lock on the nearest target making it more convenient for you to chain attacks as needed. While a fire-arm is equipped, you can zoom its sights to make more accurate shots. Use this to destroy the flit switch. Destroy the additional enemies that will appear.

Follow the path and go up the ramps while clearing the Hollow Men that will appear along the way. When you reach the platform that has a chest on it, a large group of Hollow Men will appear. Fall back to the ramp to create a bottleneck, then let them eat your fireballs and bullets. Grab the 3 Slow Time Potions from the chest then continue up the ramp. Follow the path to find a dig spot behind the platform with the round pillar. Continue up and destroy another large group of hollow men. Destroying all of them will raise the ramp leading to the doorway.

Enter it and you should find the treasure you're looking for. Go behind it first then dig the mound behind it. Grab the treasure afterward and to open the portal leading to the Road to Rule.

You can now spend your collected Guild Seals to purchase upgrades and additional packs. Landlord and Friend Expression Packs are quite cheap so grab them both. The Landlord pack will allow you to buy, sell and decorate houses.  Renting out houses is a good way to earn steady income over time. The Expression packs add more options for you when interacting with people. As for the offensive packs, I suggest stick with Fireball for now since there's really no need for you to buy Shock yet. It is recommended to upgrade your magic and ranged levels as you'll be using them often, especially in crowd control. Melee can wait since you probably won't use it often until you get more powerful weapons later on, unless you generally prefer close-quarter combat.

Take note that these skill levels STACK. Which means if you happen to purchase a higher level version of the upgrade, you'll also get the lower versions of it (buying LV3 will also give you LV1 and LV2) so it's up to you what you should prioritize. Once done, exit through the portal.

You'll be back in the Academy afterward. Before leaving, grab some G's from the shelves. If you're too lazy to walk, you can just Fast Travel to Brightwall Village to return to the entrance. If you bought the Landlord Pack earlier, then you should start buying a property or two in Dweller's Camp then fully repair them. The properties there are cheap so you can start your real-estate business early.

Also, if you have purchased the Expression Pack, then you can have more options to interact with people and further enhance your relationship with them. At this point, you can do Relationship Quests. Just max out the current bar by pressing and holding A while interacting with people (character with good morality) and an NPC will offer you a quest either to deliver something or find something via digging. You can only do this to NPCs with relationship bars. Completing this will make you their friend. I suggest being friends with shop owners as they'll offer you exclusive discounts.