Name : Legend of the ZYCA Introduction The world was destroyed by ZYCA three thousand years ago, only those in hiding manage to survive. It was predicted that ZYCA will arise again to destroy the world but at the same time, someone will save the world. Combat There are 14 places for you to explore. Each area have creatures of a certain level. Don't go too far away from you current location if your level is not high enough. Gain a few more levels before going further. During an encounter, YAP - ODP = demage done OAP - YDP = demage done where YAP - your attack power YDP - your defend power OAP - opponent attack power ODP - opponent defend power Gaining a level will increase this attributes (+1 to +5). You can increase this value by getting a better weapon and armour. Weapons & Armours The weapons are ranked as follows: dagger short sword long sword bronze sword black saint sword iron sword zyca sword steel sword The armours are ranked as follows: wooden shield wooden helm cloth shirt leather shield leather helm leather armour bronze shield bronze helm bronze breast plate iron shield iron helm iron breast plate steel shield steel helm bronze armour zyca shield zyca helm iron armour steel armour zyca armour Magic There are three kinds of magic: Healing, Fire and Lightning. Healing Cure Poison - SP 5 Basic Healing - SP 5, Heal 40 Intermediate Healing - SP 20, Heal 100 Advance Healing - SP ??, Heal ??? Fire - attack hit a single opponent. Basic - SP 5, Demage 20 Intermediate - SP 15, Demage 50 Advance - SP 30, Demage 100 Lightning - attack all enemies. Basic - SP 5, Demage 10 Intermediate - SP 15, Demage 25 Advance - SP 30, Demage 50 Hints and Tips Temple - You can only save your game in the temple in the beginning. When you have reach the holy pagoda, you can find a device that let you save the game anywhere you like. Healing - Don't waste your spell points casting healing spells when you are near any town. Just save your game in the temple when your hit points is low. After that go out to get killed (shouldn't be difficult). The game will be restored when you get killed. Upon restoring the game, you will be given FULL hit points. This is useful when you are low in cash and level. Note that poison is not removed when you restore the game, but there is no need to cast spell to remove it because the enemies will poison you again and again. ? Option - The following action will be executed randomly: 1. Stand still doing nothing. 2. Attack three times. 3. Restore hit points. 4. Lose half your hit points. 5. Execute a special attack with an attack power of 3000. 6. Half your attack power. 7. Execute an attack with double your current attack power. Walkthru 1. Town Cosy Walk around to get familiar with the place. Talk to the fortune teller. She will tell you what to do. Go to the gate and talk to any guard over there. He will send you to prison. Once inside, search the room to get a little saw. Use it to get out of the room. Use the saw to release the lizard man and ask him to join you. Talk to those guards at the door. Frighten them to get out of the jail. Walk to weapon shop (the one with a sword symbol, like a cross) go inside and search for a cloak. Use the cloak to cover the lizard man. Talk to the guarding the manor a few times, they will get angry and attack you. Kill them and go inside the manor. The lizard man, Su Er, will break open any locked door when you investigate. Search the place for treasure. Search the book shelves to open a secret passage. Enter the passage to get a security pass. Talk to the guard at the main gate and show them the security pass to exit the town. You won't be able to enter this town anymore. Check you inventory, get yourself equipped. Follow the road to Aule Village. 2. Aule Village If you didn't enter the village and accept the quest. You would find creatures attacking you. Take the opportunity to explore the place. Try to locate the bandits who kidnapped the young girl but don't talk to them (or you'll get killed). It'll be easier if you know the way. Enter the village. Talk to village head, agree to save his daughter. Gain a few levels first before attempting to save his daughter. When you are strong enough, kill the three bandits and save the girl. Go back for a reward. Search the forest for a device that improve hearing. Follow the path until you reach a split junction. One leads to the Deserted Place and the other leads to Mife City. It doesn't matter which way you take, but i suggest that you go to Mife City to save your game and buy some better weapon. 3. Deserted Place Talk to the guard, show him the bracelet Su Er gives you. Go in and look for Su Er. Talk to him and go to Mife City. 4. Mife City This place will be one you spend most of your time in. Go to headquarter and take the stairs behind the two guards and talk to the general. You must do something to cure the general. Go to the 2nd floor of the inn. Search one of the bed to find a piece of paper. You won't be able to read it, it's written in some foreign language. Bring the paper to Aule Village, show the paper to the girl you saved from the bandits. Follow her instructions and go to the Deserted Place to look for Sai Jia. Talk to him and give him the device to improve hearing. Show him the paper and he'll translate it for you. Go back to Mife City and talk to the teacher. Show him the paper and he'll attack you. Kill him and talk to the general again. You'll be given a bronze key that will open many doors. Look for a job and go to work. Follow your employer to an old man house. Go through the sequence, and win the fight with Grey. You'll be given the permission to get the two swords at the dungeon. Search for the dungeon at the forest outside Mife City. It's easy to find it with a map. Go inside, join Grey to fight the dragon and get the black saint sword. Go back to the inn. Use the bronze key to open a room and talk to someone. He'll give you a ring. At this point, spend your money wisely, as you are going to lose half of what you have. Go to the forest NW of the Aula Village. Talk to the man guarding the passage. Give him the ring. Go inside and use half of your money to buy a VIP card. Go to the inn and use the VIP card to get inside the gambling den. Go inside the arena and fight Grey. After winning the fight, talk to the soldier that have just come inside the gambling den. Pay him $200 to buy the house from him. You'll be given a key. 6. Haunted House Follow the path outside Mife City. Your house is somewhere on top of the mountain near the palace. Use the key to open the door. Fight the ghost inside. Talk to him afterward. His name is Peter and he is the servent of Nita. Go to the deserted place to attend the ceremony. After the ceremony, a soldier will ask you to see the general. See the general and agree to find her daughter, Wendy. Look for her at the classroom. Give her your magic necklace. With the necklace gone, you lost all your abilities to cast spells. Go back to your house and talk to Peter. He'll give you a crystal that allow you to access the cellar. Reach the diary of Nita (6 parts) and stand in the middle of the statues to regain your spell casting abilities. 7. Elven Village Go to the elven village from your house. Follow the mountain path carefully or you might need to walk the path a few times. Once you're in the village, rest in the inn and save the game by talking to one of the elves. Talk to village head and get the lighting stone. 8. The Cave The cave is just outside the elven village, use the lighting stone to enter it. There are two stairways leading down. You can find a special mask in the first. Exploring the second stairway, you can find the following items: steel helm, steel shield, steel armour. Exploring further will leads you to the skeletons that are attacking the water demon. Defeat the fellow from the holy pagoda. The water demon will bring you the zyca sword but you won't be able to get it now. After the old man stab you, you'll find yourself in the elven village again. 9. The Palace Go back to your house. Talk to Peter. Talk the path behind your house to reach the palace. Explore the palace until you find the princess. After the animation sequence, get out of the palace and go back to your house. You will meet Stailon and he'll give you the zyca sword. (He was ordered to give the sword to Grey but he has mistaken you to be Grey at the jail). Go home and talk to Peter. Wendy is looking for you. 10. The Graveyard of Heaven Go to Mife City and talk to the general. Go back to the cave and talk to the water demon. He will join you with 0 hit points. Heal him to full hit point so that he can fight during combat. He will have the same fighting power as you, but he can't cast spell. Go to the lake to the SW of Mife City. The water demon will send you up to the Graveyard of Heaven. Talk to Wendy and she will join you. Heal her so that she can fight during battle. She have the same fighting abilities as you and SP 255 when fully rested. Kill the dragon guarding the entrance (it has 700 HP). After killing the dragon, walk carefully, you might just fall to your death. Search for the coffin of Nita and talk to his spirit. Look for the zyca shield and zyca ring in the treasure chest. Don't ever use the zyca ring unless you want to start this trip all over again. Walk to the place you came up, and return to Mife City. 11. The Temple of Zyca The temple is NW of Mife City, go and have a look at the remains of Zyca. 12. The Holy Pagoda The Holy Pagoda is near Town Cosy. Cross the bridge to enter the Pagoda. Search the first level carefully to get a electronic checkbook. With this you can save your game anywhere in the Pagoda. Those glowing ball are staircase, they are usually protected by some guardian robots. If you find those guardians, you are on the right track, if not, you are going to a death end but you might find something useful. Special item found: zyca helm, zyca armour. Search for Grey and Su Er. Once you find them, use the bracelet to wake up Su Er. Then you must fight the three Gods. They cannot be killed in battle, but you can use the zyca ring to invoke Zyca to destroy them. Watch the ending sequence that follows. You have finally defeated the enemies, but you seem to be having some family problems to deal with... Su Er does know how to make money... Poor Grey... VOLUME 14/12/91