Chapter 6: Gronoa: Holy, Shrine Trials & Gelidus

Why is the miasma still blocking the route?

Fina must learn Holy from the elder after you return the White Jade Stone. Obtaining the stone alone is not the final condition. Finish the overnight training and retrieve Fina before returning to the Bog of No Return.

The Research Center route covers its card sequence and central teleporter. Use the newly obtained clearance when a route opens; buying unrelated recovery items does not replace the laboratory objective or the elder’s training scene.

Cross the mountain and Gronoa Shrine

Travel through the cleared bog and Rugged Mountain Pass. Prepare Dark for Lux at the mountain encounter. Light attacks are resisted, so do not use Fina’s usual offensive element simply because it worked against the previous chapter’s boss.

Continue through Duggle and the Gronoa Shrine objective. Elfdrit is weak to Fire and Light, with ailments and a gauge-refilling action to watch. Its battle guide explains how to respond to Recuperate. After the shrine events, follow the eastward route to Sanctissimus; the Dark Crystal has not become an optional cave hunt.

Six monster trials are followed by another test

Sanctissimus tests different combat decisions, not one repeated weakness. Read each stele and review your equipped commands before the corresponding fight. The full trial sequence covers Archaeoaevis, Dad Bomb, Test Rider, Yakhanati, the paired Arch Gargoyles and Dragon.

Prepare both physical and magical damage for Yakhanati. Bring simultaneous finishing damage for the Gargoyles. Dad Bomb’s low-health explosion and Dragon’s breath warning require recovery and defense to remain available; copied HP thresholds from another difficulty are not a reliable plan.

After the six monster battles, the Paladin test is Rain versus Lasswell. Check Rain’s own healing and equipment rather than relying on a full-party formation that cannot participate in the duel.

The final shrine battle restores the party

Gelidus comes after the duel and challenges the full party. Recheck Fire access, restore resources where the game permits and prepare for physical-defense reduction and Ice bursts. Gelidus’s guide keeps that fight separate from Rain’s earlier test.

Complete the scenes after Gelidus and the Dark Crystal’s displacement to finish chapter 6. Chapter 7 begins with an airship search and the Pharm lead; continuing to examine the empty chamber does not recover the moved crystal.