

But Slade knows better and helps you escape the jail.

As Sarah learns it, she gets mad at him and tries to escape. As you wake up, your party confronts Slade, who had been jailed and whose jewels were taken away. But as you make your way outside his house, Galam soldiers capture you and send you to jail. Before he dies, he tells you that Grandseal is doomed the sacred barrier from the Groundseal has been broken and all hell will soon break loose. But once you reach him, soldiers from the Kingdom of Galam were torturing him in order to learn about the Groundseal too. Because of all the problems, King Grandseal summons your party to go look for sir Hawel, a renowned historian, to learn more about the Groundseal, whose history has been lost with time. Sir Astral exorcises it, but faints after giving such a big effort. Once you dispose of his spawns, it runs back to the castle and possess the King. Once there, he finds an evil Gizmo, a ghost that possesses people. Fortunately, since the Groundseal appears to have been disturbed, Astral summons your party to investigate the place. Once they reach King Grandseal's room, Astral is unpleasantly surprised to seem his pupils. He leaves class for the castle, but Chester and Sarah want to follow. And he was right to be: right as he is about to start class, a soldier from the castle comes to fetch him, as the King is very ill.

As you make your way to school, you teacher seems upset. You play Bowie, a young swordsman attending Sir Astral's class with Chester the centaur knight, Jaha the warrior dwarf and Sarah the elven priest in the Kingdom of Grandseal. And indeed he found them! But little did he know that those two jewels were in fact the Jewel of Light and the Jewel of Darkness, which were used to seal an ancient evil. Accompanied by two other people, he went to an ancient, remote cave where it was rumored that two very precious stones were kept. Shining Force II Review by: janus - 9.5/10 Still shining after all those years It was just supposed to be a routine theft for Slade, the greatest thief of the land.
