Begin your trip from the Oasis town.

Make sure to have the water girl on the small dock in the village fill your canteen first. Head south for one night.

When day breaks, set up camp. Rest and then break camp and head south until you enter your first random battle.

After exiting the battlfield, turn west ansd start walking again. Keep heading due west for four nights.

When you break camp the on the fourth night, the first random battlefield should harbor the secret weapon--Royal Sword.

It looks like a sword with a red sheath near the center of the arena.

You' find it on top of the sand on the battlefield, much as you'd find an item bag.

Place: Cave of Ages in Mount Zublo
Requirements: Must bring Ryu to room beyond the stone tablet.

Deis's Skills
Skill---Level Requirement
Inferno---2
Blizzard---5
Myollnir---8
Sirocco---11
Celerity---15

Deis's Attributes
HP--- -3
AP+3
Power---+1
Defense--- -3
Agility---+1
Intelligence---+3

Deis is a tough master. If you apprentice with her, you'll have a hard time gaining HP and Defense, but the payoff will be the host of killer skills you aquire after you meet the required levels.

Nina or Momo would be the best to have apprentice with her.

(Note: After you free her from her imprisonment in Angel Tower, and then return to Mount Zublo, say "I like you better this way."

If you tell her you liked her better in the buff, you will never get a chance to apprentice with her.

Place: Windia City
Requirements: Play hide-and-seek with the four teens in Windia. Find them all and then return to Wyndia to apprentice with Bais.

Bai's Reward
Reward---Level Requirement
Chain Formation---3

Bais's Attributes
HP---0
AP---0
Power---+1
Defense---0
Agility---0
Intelligence---0

Instead of a skill, Bais rewards you with a new battle formation after gaining three levels under him.

In the chain formation, all the characters share the agility of the lead character in the battle party. It lowers the overall defense of the party though.

Since he doesn't affect stats much, anyone can apprentice with him.

Place: "?" location in forest west of checkpoint
Requirements: You must have Peco in your party and have visited the faerie realm.

Meryleep's Skills
Skill---Level Requirement
Cham---2
Shadowalk---5
War Shout---8

Meryleep's Attributes
HP--- -1
AP---0
Power--- -1
Defense--- -1
Agility---+2
Intelligence---0

You need to have Peco bash a rock into the pond. Meryleep will then appear and ask that you get the flower jewel that a crow stole.

The crow is sitting in the "?" location slightly west of the Maekyss Gorge.

Hit the tree it is sitting in with Peco, and it will drop the flower jewel.

Whoever apprentices with Meryleep will have not only a high agility increase, but the dodge rate of that character will also increase.

Rei would be a good choice for her, because her charm will help when trying to pilfer items or get opponents to drop items, at the end of a battle.

Place: Hut in Cedar Woods
Requirements: none

-------------Bunyan's Skills-------------
Skill---Level Requirement
Risky Blow---2
Focus---5
Super Combo---8
Disembowel---10

--------Bunyan's Attributes---------
HP---+2
AP--- -2
Power---+2
Defense---+1
Agility---0
Intelligence--- -2

Bunyan is available as a master after you make it to Mount Mynerg after being attacked by Balio and Sunder.

His stats enhance physical fighting but hinder magic usage, so it would be good for Ryu or Garr to apprentice under him.

An easier way to get Kaiser is to combine INFINITY + TRANCE + RADIANCE to get a stroncer and more accurate Kaiser.

To easily beat the Ghosts & the Amalgam at the McNeil Manor when Ryu is a child, just equip a Silver Knive with all of your party members.



The Silver Knive''s property is Holy & it is very effective against Undead & Ghosts. It can be sold at Manillo's shop. To catch Manillo, use a coin.

Everyone always says to kick the berry tree with peco but I found you get loads of catipillars stinging you.



So if you go to the house by meakys gorge and then go along a different path near the house to the shally seed tree.



If you kick that you will get shally seeds which do the same and you get less caterpillars.

Defeating Berserker:



People says that the Berserker is so hard and they can't defeat it easily.



I just beat it with characters: Ryu 43 lvl, Rei 41 lvl and Peco 42 lvl (Third character is pretty useless.) And this is how I did it:



I bought first like 50 Soul Gems from Faerie village (used about 10).



Then I equipped Ring of Fire to all my team-members. (Stolen from Red Drake in Myria station.)



I found Berserker in Container Yard near Caer Xhan as usually.



So my units and items were:



Ryu: Dragon Blade, Dragon Shield (I stole Aries Gloves from Berserker during the fight and equipped them), Dragon Helm, Dragon Armor, Soul Gem and Ring of Fire.



Rei: Slicer, Mind Shield, Sun Mask, Royal Armor, Soul Gem and Ring of Fire.



Peco: Brass Claws, Spiked Gauntlets, UV-Glasses, Amber Breastplate, Sould Gem and Ring of Fire.



When the fight begun, immedeatly I transformed into weretiger with Rei and influenced Berserker with Ryu.



Berserker used Fire Wave (or something like that) with no use on me. Only scary thing was its attack which did like 350-700 damage to my members so it killed my every member with one shot. Berserker uses also berserk-move but it doesn't bother me because it kills me with one shot without berserk.



So fight is very simple: put back lost Soul Gems and attack with every powerful attack. I used Rei's weretiger, Ryu's supercombo with focus and Peco's Myollnir. It died in 15 min or so on.



Have fun with defeating Berserker.