This walkthrough has been written by Monocromatico (HP) (who has also edited it) and Saner.
So you start with chaz in Aiedo. Everything in Aiedo is made for you, to try every commands and to know how the game works. Try catching the dog in that house in the western side of the city. The owner will give you pennies, useful in the future. Important thing: Take the Alis' Sword with you, you can find it at Alys' house. At the beggining, any help will be a must for you
Alys has left you alone home, and you need to find her. She went in a quest by her own, and you can't leave the city or take missions at the Hunters Guild without Alys, so go find her. Go find a north eastern part of the city where Alys is talking to "R" They'll exit towards the right. Go right and there will be a wall.
Examine every inch of that right wall with the Z key on your keyboard (Chaz will discover something and you will be able to pass through the wall. There is a beat up house in the graveyard. Enter it. Just follow Alys until you can talk to her.
Just KEEP CRYING until she gives up and takes you with her. Just go right from there and you'll be outside where R will join you. Reenter the cave and go back to the "red area". Rune....I mean "R" will cast an ice spell on those "red stairs" go up and you are in a pretty evil maze.
I can't say much about beating the maze yet. Your characters are too weak now. keep fighting monsters (concentrate on beating the bats, try to avoid the snakes) and hopefully you'll find the Knife for Chaz (he'll be able to do around 10 HP damage with that). and maybe a monomate and antidote in the maze.
If you can, use R's Hinas technique to warp out of the dungeon (he learns it later)
Leveling up is important cause Rune only starts with Foi (fire) and Alys only has Res (heal).
Also, they start with very little TP/MP. Start fighting monsters and rest in Alys's house when necessary. Also, if you're lost in the dungeon and need healing, MAKE SURE Rune has AT LEAST 10 MP/TP or else he won't be able to cast HINAS so that you can warp out of the dungeon!!!!
The purpose of that dungeon is to find the lost scientist and discover what he was doing (that scientist you see in the opening scene turning into a monster).
Now, this is the way you have to follow. After climbing those ice stairs where R casted that spell, on the next screen, GO UP. Take the left path that leads all the way up. There are stairs at the top. take it.
next floor- go ALL THE WAY DOWN. Past that wooden "bridge". Manuver you way around rocks as you go down. there are stairs at the bottom. take them.
next floor- take the stairs that are on the upper right.
next floor- there is a black rectangle HOLE in this room. GO AROUND the hole and stand on the bottom RIGHT corner, next to the hole. STEP ON THE BOTTOMMOST CORNER OF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HOLE!!!!!
floor below- R will act like a jerk. Take the stairs.
You might face some scorpions in this area. Go up and there is a "house" with a door. DO NO ENTER IT!!!!!! Don't step on the small hole on the right either!!!! If your characters' levels are high (maybe level 10) and Chaz has a knife. you MIGHT stand a chance!!!
Inside is the most powerful Zombie boss I've ever encountered in an RPG!!! (And this is the first boss in this game!!! geez. I wish Alys learned the Vortex skill from PSIV)
The Zombie does like around 11 HP damage or more. Level up a lot before you encounter with him, and make sure to have monomates with you, so you can save Alys' magic. R should attack with a spell. Protect Chaz, he will have the strongest normal attack, but his HP will be still low. Remember, it's dangerous to have any of your character with less than 20 HP.
OKAY. THIS IS IMPORTANT. DON'T LEAVE THE ROOM. Check the gargoyle statue for a PAGE. Then check every BUCKET until you find a "little key". Go to the leftmost bookshelf and examine the diary. you can open it with the little key. After some talk. you guys will be back at Alys's house. I think you gotta find someone in Aiedo who's from Piata. The "first stage" is over.
The guy from Piata is in the Hunter's Guild. Talk to the Guild master (the girl behind the counter) and then go to the far right to see that guy. Talk to him. He will tell to go to Molcum to find some ancient ruins there. Now you can leave Aiedo.
Go north a couple of steps and Rune says something. He'll show that he can warp you to Molcum automatically. In Molcum the house at the very top and east of the town has a wife who's husband is a scientist and he went to the mountains north of Molcum. In this town you have a few things to check out (not essential, but somewhat fun) things. First, there are a group of kids playing ball, near to the entrance. Play with them, and Chaz will kick their ball into a hole (heheheh). Now, to get the ball back you have to use a rope that is in the wheel on the left side of the town. Near the wheel you will find a partucular bush that talks to you! It will demand 5 pennies (the ones you got catching the dog in Aiedo) for an information (what is a fire dew, what are Alys' measures, and another that I really can't remember :^P). I've heard something about something inside the same wheel, but I didn't try it, I don't know what it is
A hint: on the south eastern corner of the Molcum area there's a small forest. You can enter there. You will find the scorpions, plus the snakes (easier to beat) and other monsters (all poisonous, carry a load of antidotes with you when going there). You may find a house there, but if you didn't take any duty at the Hunters Guild, you won't find anything (some day in the future, read the Hunters Guild Walkthrough :^P). The other path leads you to a skeleton on the ground. You will find an amulet that allows you to use any spell with half MP. Equip Alys with it.
When you feel strong enough to face the enemies in the montains, go there... The entrance is right in the north of Molcum. Enter in a path in the left side. You will find an elder, who will give an amulet to R. Go back, and follow the main path, untill you find a cave, in the north. Enter it. Now you have to find the ruins inside.
You will follow a way that will lead you to an empty room, on the left side. Go to the wall on the right and you will find another secret path, like that one in Aiedo. You will find a straigh way to go to the ruins per se. The scenary and music will change into... more familiar ones :^)
The mosters there are stronger, the best thing is to kill the Eidons and Eidonex and avoid the others (nice amount of XP and MST). Kill the hounds are a good idea only if you are strong enough, has some dimates, and wants to use R's techiques, and has the advantage of a preventive attack. Look for the treasure chests.
A hint: if you try to hit a wall from the north, you will see that you can walk behind these walls. Use it to find your path inside the ruins.
Ok, organizing what we have here: the ruins, you find 2 switches. There's one near to the entrance, following the way of the north teleporter, near the entrance (relatively speaking, it's the "easiest" one to find). The other you will find searching deeper in the maze (don't worry, it's not so hard when you become used to it... read, "get lost, use hinas, and get lost again" in this line :^P). You will also find 2 closed doors, one leads to a closed room, and the other leads to another pathway.
Ok, here's what you have to do. The first switch opens the room door. You will enter there, and the first thing you will notice is another closed door, and a computer. The computer is broken. Get out of there and go to the second switch. Don't forget to pull the first back to position. It will close the room door, and will allow you to open the other after pushing the second switch.
Runing through the second door, you will find the missing guy, who isn't completely mutated into a monster. NOW YOU CAN SAVE YOUR GAME, SO SAVE IT!!! And now you will have to fight him. He is strong, use gires if you can and attack him with gifoi, or giwat, whatever R can use. After beating him, you will be asked i you want to kill him or to keep him alive... KEEP HIM ALIVE (that's why you came down all that way, right?).
He will give you a manteinance card, so you can use it on the computer and fix it, and open that closed door in the room (don't forget, to go there you have to pull the first switch again). He also will ask to you to bring him a healing DNA, to cancel the mutation. Use the card and enter the code the guy has gave to you. The door will open, and a chest is waiting. There you will find 3 kinds of DNA solutions. Chose the red one. Give it to the guy, and finaly, the game is over.
Enjoy the final scene :^)
PS.: There are 3 different endings, if you kill the guy, if you save the guy, or if you take the red DNA to the guy at the Hunters Guild (that one from Piata). Save a game before fighting the zombie and try all the tree from that point.
PS2: There are a lot of "secrets" in the game, but I (me? why not YOU?) would have to play it again to find out everything.