was finally able to play this. Going to riovannes to rescue alma. it was a 3 part battle that lead into chapter 4. The begining has Barinten realising who holds the true power, the church and their shrine nights, who he requests and audience with vormav, his son islude, and wiegraf. Barinten realises the stones power and wants to join the church if they refuse he has the germinok scriptures that paint St. Ajora in a bad light. But Barinten doesn't know the true power of the stones which Varmav accesses it before we leave the scene. Alma is in her prison, when she hears fighting, she hears screams of death and one guard opens the door and collapses by her side, saying there is a monster and that she should run. Alma ever the caring spirit holds his hand until he passes and bracing herself with reslove ventures forth into the melee to try and escape.



First you fight malak and his group at the gate entrance, rafa trying to convice him that barinten is bad, but he escapes after he has low life and rafa disappears after him when you win the stage a guard comes out of the door and collapses saying there is a monster.

2nd battle has you enter the courtyard place and there is weigraf. Ramza says Miluda would be ashamed of him, but the stone has consumed wiegraf and he states that he could care less about Miluda's death and that he wants to bring distruction to the world. You fight (which is one of the hardest battles of the game, but all you gotta do is have auto potion on and accumulate with guts until your one monk hit takes him for 999 damage, which is 15 accumulates) and when you knock him down, he disappears, only to reaapear a distance away and calls unpon the stones' power. You fight ( still have accumulate going so one hit will do him in) and right before he dies, he excalims "they are only human!" before he explodes in a flash of light. Ramza's search for alma continues.

Alma finds the place where barinten and vormav "negotiated" corpses lie everywhere, including that of vormav's son Izlude. Though he possed a stone he did not know the true power and so fought alone side the others to try and defeat the demon vormav turned into. Alma was about to leave, when she heard him stir, ran to his side, and helped him as best she could. Izlude realised ramza was right and gave alma his holy stone, then he "needed to rest" and died. Vormav appeard, sensed wiegraf's death and was about to kill alma when his stone reacted to her. He was pleasantly suprised and quickly subdued alma and disappear with her, but he didn't notice the stone alma was given by Izlude fell out before the left.

3rd. we cut to barinten on the roof, confronted by rafa determined to avenge the death of her and malak's parents. she draws her sword, but barinten has a gun (ancient technology) and points it at her exclaiming that (in a round about way) he was responsible for their parents death. Malak over hears it and asks if it is true that he killed them, barinten says "you turn against me to?" but rafa advances. Malak yells no! and pushes her out of the way right before barinten shoots. Instead of killing her he kills malak. He demands the holy stone malak has, rafa gets it off malak but before she could give it to him. An assassin lede walks up behind barinten, he turns around startled and is pick up with one hand by her. She calmly tosses him off the roof to his death. two more people enter the scene, Lede's fellow assassin Ceclia and Elmdor, the silver haird noble who died fighting elsewhere, but somehow he is here in the flesh. He demands the stone, but Ramza warns rafa that the 3 aren't human and don't give it to them. they fight, and when elmdor is down to a few hp he disappears demand to give him all the sontes in Ramza's possession or never see alma alive again.

Back to the roof, Rafa is watching the sun come up sitting beside malak's body, she laments of better times, and ramza stading near, decides to leave to give her some time alone, but just as he was about to turn, rafa's holy stone reacts and thinking that it shares her loss she thanks and accepts it, ramza warns her but it is already in the process of bringing malak back to life, not as a demon, but human. It seems that it depends on who holds the stone and their intentions. Alive, Malak, rafa, and Ramza talk in the courtyard about their next move. Ramza decides to go and talk to Delita.

so begins capter 4, and prince larg massing his army for an all out battle and a pivital supply depot for both sides. this will make or break either side