- Chapter 3 -
A Childhood Promise

Index

• Level 23
• Level 24 - [Optimized Grinding]
• Level 25
• Level 26
• Level 27
• Level 28
• [A Childhood Promise] - Level 29

- Level 23 -

04/07/2023

My daily streak was finally broken now that I had achieved Madness Hero. Still, 4 days gets me satisfied. The big thing to take from this is that I got 30000 Gold, which will allow me to immediately buy 3 Legend Casques when I reach Lohan, and make my entire party even more OP than it's gonna be by that point. Certainly didn't expect the huge amount of gold from this challenge, but it goes to show how much grinding is needed.
I should point out that enemies here can drop Healing Potions and Pellets, each selling for 5 Gold each so I can get a little bit more Gold than just the one dropped by enemies directly. Take that for what you will :P

- Level 24 - [Optimized Grinding]

04/07/2023

So here's another fantastic breakthrough for my grinding. I was working on a commission the whole time since I got Crush Dance, going from work time on the commission and winding down with the grinding, and the Tweet here explains itself: I grind by using the controller with my left hand while drawing only using my right hand. And considering how much I get distracted and procrastinate, this is a fucking blessing to me! I plan on using it when I start doing this year's Art Fight, it will make both the grind and the working much better.
Fun Fact: I was grinding while writing everything you've read up to today :D In and out, but still was :P(4/Jul/2023)

- Level 25 -

04/07/2023

As proof of what I said on the previous post, not only what I say here in the tweet, but that it only took me a day yet again and I didn't have to sacrifice any work time! :D
Not much else, just more of the good stuff :3

- Leve 26 -

04/07/2023

On this level up, the big highlight is how I exceeded 100 hours on the in-game clock, which to be fair has been inflated due to me doing other stuff while I grind, you know, leaving the controller aside to eat, bathroom, went to do something else, etc. but didn't wanna turn off the game, but still it's a ton of hours :P

- Level 27 -

04/07/2023

And thus, on the 4th of July of 2023, I got to level 27!
And of course
I FORGOT TO HAVE THE CAMERA READY TO TAKE PIC WITH [LEVEL UP] WITH IT
Regardless of poorer than perfect presentation, it's with great pleasure that I can share now my progress first here and then share it on my Twitter, therefore I can gush to my heart's content and eventually stylize this place to properly display my experiences wtih this.
I will add here that I will be away from home for a bit, so I won't be able to grind at all, BUT I will take my laptop with me so I do hope to learn some more coding to make this website look a little bit better. I will print out this website into a PDF file to save it to compare to how it will look in the future.
Until then, thanks so much for following the challenge so far. I really REALLY appreciate it and can't wait to show you more of it. :D

- Level 28 -

19/07/2023

After a long while, doing a ton of house chores, moving stuff from my dad's to my mom's, and most notably spicing up the site (hope you guys are liking it so far :D), I got to lvl 28!
I'm kissing 2000 HP, as if only taking 1 damage per attack wasn't great enough... Surprised I'm still not taking 0 damage tho, but oh well, I'm now curious to see when my natural defense + basic armor will negate all damage in this area. (THE ENEMIES HAVE AN ATTACK STAT OF 2 FFS, MY ARMOR IS A TOTAL OF 70 AT THIS POINT)
Anyway, I'm glad to be back in the swing of things, I'm a little bit aimless as of now but I will see what happens in the coming days. I will try hard to grind a lot, especially since the coming level is perhaps the most important, at least emotionally, and will mark the end of this chapter.
Stay tuned ;)

- [A Childhood Promise] - Level 29 -

25/07/2023

Strap in, fellas. This one's a big one.

Finally... I have unlocked Moon Strike, Dart's final addition obtainable through level ups, and my goodness this one is worthy of that position, with high power and aggressive as fuck, it also has in my opinion the hardest counterattack prompts out of all of Dart's additions, so it took a while to get to level 5, and I got counterattacked all the way to the top.
And because I'm a theatrical fuck, yes, I did perform EVERY addition 19 more times than needed just to max out its counter, to complete all of them before moving on to my favorite of Dart's additions: Crush Dance

I did spend a whole unnecessary chunk of the day, LIKE TWO HOURS, getting my beloved twirly addition to 99 perfect executions, 100 in fact because I had a double battle when I was 1 away from 99 so I performed 2 in that battle, and by doing it I learnt a lot, like how likely counterattacks are to trigger on it and how much sense it makes considering how much Dart exposes himself on the actual choreography of the attack... But what I am most proud to announce, is that I actually performed all 100 Crush Dances IN A ROW... Yeah, I didn't screw up a single time, and I sometimes screw up even Burning Rush! So it does seem like this addition fits me like a glove, and my goodness I enjoyed all of those 100 attacks.
And if you know about The Legend of Dragoon, you know what all of this means...