Enemies Encountered: Bitterfly, Gremlin, Beelzebub.

Navigate the Laboratory in Castlevania, encountering invisible Bitterflies and Gremlins before facing the boss Beelzebub. Learn strategies and find the Ring of Arcana.

We are back in the Laboratory. After leaving the red door, drop-down and make a counter-clockwise direction in the room. In this room, you will encounter some pesky Bitterflies which are invisible but sporadically reveal themselves. There is one just below you when you drop-down. At the top right of this room will be a glass orb that will contain a Turquoise. Once you have explored this room, go through the door on the right to proceed.

This next room will be a narrow hallway containing a few Gremlins.

The room after is a save on the middle left, and the top left is another pathway. We have already explored there. Go through the door on the top left to connect this area's map coverage and the one we have explored.

The room on the right is the boss room where we fought Slogra and Gaibon in the normal castle. There is a boss fight in here too. An item that will help us to equip the topaz circlet, much like the beryl circlet we used with Galamoth, this circlet will heal you when you take poison damage.

BEELZEBUB

Beelzebub is our boss fight here. It is pretty simple to deal damage to Beelzebub.

To start, Beelzebub is just chilling in the center of the room. He can stand because he has meat hooks in him that allow him to look like he is upright. Beelzebub himself does not attack; he has Bee-like servants who will keep respawning. You cannot get rid of them completely. The bees will fly around him for a few cycles, then they will all fly straight towards you in a dive bomb fashion.

If the bees hit you, you will take damage. Where the poison damage happens is on the floor underneath Beelzebub, there are worms that, if Alucard steps on, will get poisoned by them. With the topaz circlet, you will get a nice 5 HP per hit. It is not a lot, but there are typically several worms there most times.

The strategy to defeat Beelzebub is to attack his limbs. The easiest will be his legs, things, and torso. You will have to gas cloud up to deal with the bees. Then you can transform out of the mist and hack at him with Alucard. Using the gravity jump to get to his head works too; It makes you vulnerable to the bees if flying around him. That is all we have to do here with Beelzebub. Grab your Life Max Up when you have defeated him.

After beating Beelzebub, stay in the boss room and go to the bottom left of this room, and in the single room, you will obtain a Ring of Arcana. This ring is a thing of beauty with this game. If you do not know already, but every enemy in the game, except Bosses, will have two kinds of drops. One of the two is a common drop; usually a common item you can buy or find in other places. The second is a rare drop, where the enemy will drop a significantly better item. This scales with the enemy's level with Low-level enemy is not dropping that great of items and higher-level enemies dropping better items. Having said all that, this ring of Arcana will boost you to seeing more rare drops from enemies. As it stands right now, if you have equipped the Mystic Pendant and the Moonstone, I would replace the Pendant with the ring.

Now leave the single room, then make sure you have the boss room map coverage. Then we have connected the two parts of the Laboratory, and it is time to go back to the Marble Gallery, which we just came from. The room we are going to go back to is the one with the two Gorgons and the Jack O’ Bones.