EvilWall and the Surface

The Crystal is ours. Naturally, leaving with it can’t be as simple as walking back across a bridge. Make sure everyone is healed after the final TrapDoor before starting back from the Crystal Room.

Boss Fight Prep

This is a damage race, not a battle to settle into while Edge searches the enemy’s pockets. Keep Cecil’s equipped, Kain ready to attack, and Rydia supplied with casting MP. Have your Throw items easy to find.

If selecting commands quickly is uncomfortable, set Bat Spd to 6 (Slow) and use Wait before the fight. Giving yourself more manageable menu time is a perfectly reasonable adjustment, not a failure to play correctly. It doesn’t remove the need to attack efficiently.

Boss Fight: EvilWall

Steal	Skip it; spend Edge’s turns on damage.
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weakness to build around. Physical attacks and are useful.
Reward	8,000 Gil and 23,000 total Exp, divided among eligible survivors.
Drops	No required item pickup; the immediate priority afterward is recovery and equipment preservation.
Strategy	Slow the wall, strengthen the physical attackers early, and keep dealing damage before it reaches the party.

EvilWall has 28,000 HP and keeps moving closer. Once it reaches the party, Crush kills characters one at a time. You want to finish before that point, not prove that you brought enough to keep feeding people into it.

Have Rosa cast Slow early. Then use and Haste on your physical attackers while there is still time to benefit from them. Cecil and Kain can attack repeatedly; Edge should attack or Throw /, and Rydia should keep summoning if you earned it. If not, is a practical alternative. Keep Rosa free to heal or cure status trouble when necessary instead of making every party member uncontrollable.

Prioritize the early buffs rather than spending many turns setting up an elaborate combination. A cast just before the final blow doesn’t help nearly as much as one near the beginning. Avoid optional steals, equipment experiments, and unnecessary menu browsing during the race.

If the wall wins, return to your pre-fight save and streamline the opening before assuming more grinding is required. Restore HP/MP, check equipment, slow the battle setting if needed, and put damage ahead of optional actions. Since you can’t use Exit, this might be a spot to grind a bit if needed.

Before Leaving the Cave

After victory, return to the B4F save room. Use a Cabin and save, then remove all five pieces of Kain’s equipment before leaving the cave. Make enough bag space to retain both hand items, his helmet, body armor, and arms equipment. Do this after EvilWall, not before fighting it.

You can use Warp from the higher floors to shorten the return, or retrace the cleared route. Exit still won’t work. Near the entrance, the next scene removes Kain and the Crystal from the party. Having his useful equipment in your inventory makes this development slightly less expensive.

Dwarven Castle and Cid’s Drill

Return to King Giott at Dwarven Castle. Follow the discussion of Mysidia and the Lunar Whale, then Cid’s offer to modify Falcon again. This time it gets a drill, reopening the route to the surface.

There are only so many ways to show shipbuilding with old-school sprites. Apparently, running everybody back and forth across the deck does the trick. Anyone else find if funny that Edge says his hat’s off to Cid? I mean, just look at him.

Anyway, once the scene finishes, Cid can remain in the infirmary. You don’t need to find another cure for him before leaving. Yang’s situation is a separate optional errand; visiting the surface is how we’ll obtain what he needs.

Equipment and Storage Check

Before feeding Fat Chocobo, compare Kain’s former gear with Cecil’s current equipment. A spare or Diamond piece may duplicate what Cecil already wears. If Kain had , try it on Cecil before storing it. Its Strength and Vitality bonuses can improve his physical performance, but you give up some magical protection compared with . Keep the alternative in storage rather than treating either as best for every encounter.

Store the spare spear, duplicate shields and armor, and other unused equipment. Keep recovery supplies, ammunition, Gysahl, Rat Tail, and . Those last two matter for the upcoming surface errands. If Legend can’t be stored, that isn’t a reason to try to get rid of it another way.

Back to the Surface

Board Falcon and head for the northeastern Underworld opening. The drill reopens the passage, bringing you out near Agart. Save once you’re safely back outside.

Mysidia is the next story destination, but we’ll take care of a few errands first. Collect Pan from Yang’s wife in Fabul and exchange Rat Tail at Adamant Grotto before the next trip underground. That lets us combine Yang’s recovery with delivery of the smith’s materials rather than repeatedly crossing between worlds for one item at a time.

The grotto visit needs Enterprise and the hovercraft. Falcon’s drill does not give it Enterprise’s carrying hook, and your old vehicles are wherever you parked them. Keep that distinction in mind before flying straight to the tail collector and wondering why you can’t land at his front door.