8. WALKTHROUGH - CHAPTER 6 - OF MICE AND MAGMA [800]

In the town of the 'populi' (rat-people), find Adolphus in a tower. He will initiate a TRADING SEQUENCE, giving you an apple and asking for gold.

Find another quest inside one of the houses from Bolmus. He wants you to clear monsters from his basement, which is a magmatic cavern filled with fiery ghosts and spiders.

Augment your weapons with sapphire oculi for the basement. Some enemies are hidden in chests. You will also need to solve environment puzzles.

Near the beginning of the magmatic cavern, go through a false wall to find HP STARDUST.

The reward for clearing Bolmus' basement is a couple of MAGIDUSTS.

Go to the left side of town to meet the MAYOR. You must solve the town's economic problems before he will talk.

Outside, you will meet YOUNG MOUSE ROBERT, who joins your party. He will take you to the mountainside and convince it to open a path to the city vault.

Robert is an archer who can cure ailments, slow foes, and attack another foe if he lands a killing blow. He has a SLOW ability.

Enter the dungeon, which is full of fiery foes. If you augmented weapons with water power previously, you can keep your oculi as they are.

In the center of this dungeon is a big pink heart with a spider boss. Before fighting the boss, find 3 other special spiders at the end of three branching hallways.

Going straight down from the pink heart and then left leads to CONFESSION #9.

Slightly to the right of the pink heart is a DEFSTAR.

Going down from the DEFSTAR leads to the BOLMUS VAULT. Robert will leave your party unless you break into the vault for him.

To solve the vault puzzle, rotate the symbols above the door to match the door's symbols. Pull both switches twice.

Inside the vault, Robert rejoins you. He tells you not to touch the treasure chests, but you should take all the treasure you can.

To find the spiders to kill: one is on the left side of the area with a MAGDEFSTAR nearby. One is on the bottom right of the cave. Above that one is a door to a dark room with a STRSTAR. The last spider is to the right of the pink heart.

These three spiders are armored with high magic resistance, so use physical attacks. They each have about 400hp.

After killing all three spiders, return to the pink heart to fight the queen mama spider. Aurora was level 26 when this boss fight was encountered, which seemed like a suitable level.