1-7 Champion's Sword

## Collectibles

**1**

**2**

**25**

The **Champion's Sword** stage is a mysterious forest that will make you lost if you make even one wrong turn. Going the wrong direction will send you back to the beginning. Just follow the Little Princess' handkerchiefs and you'll reach the other side.

After the Healing Altar, you can finally see the princess and Loraine there. The princess will question as where are they going, because the princess knows that this is not the way to the inn. Loraine will try to make excuses but just as she was confessing, the Mercenary Trio, better know as the Mad Panda Trio, drops from the sky on her. They are bout to catch the princess but you jump in and a boss fight will start.

The tactic here is to just avoid dodge the charge attacks from afar, but then get close when they spinning the spiky ball. Once you defeat them, the princess is finally reunited with you. But Loraine is still watching from afar and runs away as you see her. Following her will lead you to another sword in the stone. The Little Princess asks you to pull it out as she is too weak to do so.

Once you pull on the sword, you'll be sent flying to the sky and there will be an angel-like figure named Lili. She'll tell you that she is Little Princess' ancestor and a prophesy is about to come true. The prophecy said that *"an unknown evil would come and bring about the end of the world"*. The sword that you pulled out turned out to be the Champion Sword that was meant to be used to defeat the evil. But you need to collect the Champions before you can use it to its full power. Lili will tell you to go back to the Inn and *"a new path will reveal itself"*. She'll send you back to the ground.

As you're back, the princess asks to hold the sword. She'll play with it for a bit before Loraine shows up once again and attacks the princess and steals the sword. She'll tell you to *go die elsewhere* before accepting that she'll have to fight you. The fight will stop before you defeat her and she'll start charging an attack. The princess throws a stone to distract her and you'll stab her in the stomach. She will start shapeshifting into other characters and speak nonsense before dying and dropping the Champion Sword. The Little Princess will fall asleep from the exhaustion and you'll pick her up and carry her away.

### Collectibles

Talking to the lady on the first screen you enter, she'll tell you that the forest is making her confused. She wishes you to tell her if you find a way out and will follow you as a Poacher Lady on SNS.

You can find the Unknown Dungeon by instead of following the handkerchief left by the princess, you go in a pattern, that is shown by arrows on the bottom-right of the map after first clearing the forest maze following the story. Follow the code as follows: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right. You will reach a dungeon gate which will upon interacting, reveal the location of Unknown Dungeon. (This is a reference to universally known "Konami Code")

Going south from the Healing Altar, you'll find ten  purple coins and a  Star Piece.
Just next to the Champion Sword to the north, there is a secret passageway. It will lead you to a treasure chest that has Lv. 15 Cloud Two-Handed Sword in it.