Ceres

Ceres is the final boss of Evoland 2. She is first seen in Grizzly Pass before being captured by the guards from Genova. She is seen a few times throughout the game, such as in the future era after you defeat The Prophet. After the Great Disaster occurs, Ceres will save Kuro and the others from the explosion. She says that the only way to revert this disaster is by finding the 5 fragments of the Magi Key, which takes up a good 5 to 10 hours of playing. After returning to her once the Magi Key is finished, the Great Disaster will be prevented. However, Ceres will gain a lot of power from this. This is because she was weakened when the Great Disaster occured, since Professor Giro used her power to make the Weapon work. Now that you have prevented the Great Disaster, her power has been restored and says that she will use it to destroy time entirely. First, she summons The Exogarth to slow you down. You will have to fight many monsters on The Exogarth in a combination of Platformer Mode and Shoot Em' Up Mode. After The Exogarth is defeated, it will land in an area near Nibiru Village, where Ceres will create a portal to the Anomaly. You will need to place The Stone of Time on a pedastal in order to open a portal to where she is. Once you and your friends make it there, Ceres will use her power to erase Fina, Menos, and Velvet from time entirely. She tries to do the same with you, but your connection to time itself is too powerful to be erased. You will gain your own, non-upgradable power for just this fight that slows down time after FOCUSing. Ceres realises that your fates were not to understand each other, but to fight one another. The battle will begin after this.

## Strategy

Ceres has four health bars, or stages which all must be depleted in order to win the battle. In the first stage, Ceres will be covered in triangular, electric forcefields which will damage you if you try to go close to her. To destroy them, you must attack all three corners of the triangle so they all power off, then slow down time and attack Ceres as many times as you can before she turns the forcefields back on. Repeating this process two or three times should do the trick. Also watch out for little drones on this stage, they will walk around and damage you if you touch them, but can easily be destroyed. In the second stage, you will fall down and the graphics will swap to the past. You will now be in platformer mode with these tetris-like blocks moving down. You will need to keep jumping on different blocks but dont worry about falling since you will just be put back to the top. One of Ceres's attacks on this stage is her going to the bottom of the screen and firing purple beams to each side of her. Keep jumping up and make sure not to fall into these beams. She can also make a ring of beams around her which will fire out and bounce off walls. Her last attack is summoning fireballs from the sky and aiming them towards you. You can just run to the left or right to dodge this. Remember, you can slow down time to damage her more. Also make sure that you have both a green and red potion on you so you can heal when you need it, since you will probably need it on this next stage. The graphics on the third stage will switch to the present graphics, and you will be in the Shoot Em' Up Mode. Here she will have three parts you need to damage: The head, the laser and the bottom. You will not be able to damage the laser until the head and bottom are destroyed. When the head and bottom are still attached, they will fire probes at you which will run towards you and will also deal a suprising amount of damage. Once both are destroyed, the laser will now be able to shoot you while you are trying to destroy it. This laser attack is different from other attacks in the game since it will only deal 1 damage but very rapidly since there is no invincibility time with it. This can actually kill you very quickly and can be one of the main reasons you would need to heal. There will also be these new, four sided probes that will make lines in all four directions then shoot those ways a second after. This is the toughest part of the batle, but is still definetly doable. After the laser is destroyed, Ceres herself will show up and the final stage will begin, where she will shoot many lasers at you and alternate which side she is on. This stage is quite easy since her damage won't be dealing much more than 3 to you. This could be because the game does not want to frustrate players who get this far and be forced to restart the battle after dying. After you finish Ceres off, she will stop, move in front of you, and will begin to talk to you. There is alot that she says, but she says at first that she never really wanted to fight you, and she's sure that you didn't either. She has already erased time, so she tells you that she will use all of her power to bring it back. However, this power will make it so time will be taken all the way back to the start so you'll have to go through everything again. She says that she is very sorry for her actions but will hope to see you again before vanishing. Before time is reset, however, Fina and the others will sit at where you and Ceres fought, hoping that you would come back. They wait for days to even weeks but you do not show up. Menos and Velvet give up and leave while Fina continues to wait there for you. The credits will play, but at the end it will show that in the past Menos and Velvet had a baby, Ceres, and that Fina finds Kuro by opening a door froom typing on a computer. You will be taken back to the title screen after some more credits.

## Gallery

* Concept art
* Ceres card