The marker leads you to a locked door, which requires the
ultimate key. The King of Darkness is on the other side of the
door and the battle against him begins immediately. His primary
attacks are an overhead chop, a spinning slash (which knocks
Barbella and Rollo share the secrets of making the legendary
Sword of Kings and auroral armour when you speak with them.
In order to make the legendary equipment, you must mine gold,
you away), and a twisting jump attack. All these attacks start
out slow, providing plenty of time to avoid them. Sometimes,
his attack fails and he falls to a sitting position.
rubies, zenithium, and orichalcum from the caves beyond the
red teleportal.
A magic cannon works for mining zenithium, but orichalcum
requires wrecking balls. Get eight zenithium ore while you're
out, otherwise you'll be back again later. The reward for crafting
the Sword of Kings is silver (x2). For the auroral armour, you
receive gold and the recipe for the hero's shield.
When the King
of Darkness
sheathes his
sword, he becomes
invulnerable and
summons zero,
one, or two raving
lunaticks to aid
him. They remain in place after being summoned and you need to
Myrlund asks you eliminate them quickly. He continues to summon them throughout
to improve the the fight and you don't want to deal with more than two at a time.
castle to lv. 3,
The fight concludes
which you likely
just before the King
have reached just
of Darkness loses all
through the recent
his health. He runs
additions. He
away, leaving you to
gives you a seed
claim the prismatic
of life when it's accomplished.
crystal from the
now-unlocked treasure chest. Return to the castle, where you
can claim a seed of life from Myrlund for returning with the
prismatic crystal.
Talk to Myrlund again and
he hands you the keystone.
He marks the location of
the prismatic crystal your
compass and you learn how
to make the ultimate key.
Craft the key at the diviner's altar (if you need a float-o-copper,
get it from a troll), then travel through the red teleportal.