 Welcome back folks to another episode of Let's Play Dragon Quest XI S on Nintendo Switch. Last episode we defeated the giant spider monster in the basement of the church and saved all the fighters who were kidnapped. Turns out Vince was behind it all. Jerk. Anyway, we accepted our reward for winning the MMA tournament and had the face off against Vince who died in two hits. Yeah, he died in two hits. And uh, Rab, here, our buddy, our old friend, he stole the rainbow from the fighter's place and he took it to Dundrasil which is where he's holding a hostage for us. So yeah, that's a problem and it makes me wonder why we even did any of this fighting thing when Rab could have just stolen it like in the first place. He could have just, he literally could have just stolen it from this guy like right there and then we didn't have to do any of this fighter stuff. I'm guessing he was investigating and he wanted to find out what was happening to the fighters so there's that. Anyway, everyone in town is a fan of me and these are my fans right here. Look at them, they're so excited to see me. But of course, business as usual, we have to head over to Dundrasil, the birth place of the luminary. I wonder why Rab wants to meet me there. It's a bit suspicious. Let's head outside now. You know what? We're gonna walk over to Dund... No, not walk. We're gonna hide our horse over to Dundrasil. Now Dundrasil, as you know from the opening cutscene, was destroyed by, is Veronica okay? Because she died in the boss fight. Okay, she's fine. I get worried about her, you know, so she's so innocent she needs to be protected at all costs because how weak she is. Anyway, Dundrasil got destroyed and luminary. We got put in a basket rolling across the sea, not to see the river. Okay, there's that big guy. So that's the hardest region, Dundrasil is this way. Gonna avoid these guys in Russia over there. Oh, the area is loading. That's a switch version for ya. There's something here around this corner. There might be some treasure here, you always gotta check to see. Alright, let's look for that there treasure. This is a big area. Let's get off the horse and investigate a little bit. Nothing... Anything here? Nope, nothing there. Not just a cliff, I'm gonna fall off. Oh, enemies! Yikes! Okay. The baddies, as I called them. Trunk of silver ore. Oh! He's running! These guys do not give up. I don't like those cactus guys, they're creepy. Okay, anything else around here I can investigate? Hmm, there's not much else. Alright, let's hop back on our trusty steed, who does not have a name. He's still a good boy. Okay, and it looks like Dundrasil is here, and I run to bet any baddies on the way. It's raining. This game has full weather, I just remembered, so the weather changes as the days go by, which is awfully cool. Now, this area is a good place for metal slime hunting, but most people don't realize it. There's gonna be some armored knights around here. If you attack them, they sometimes have metal slimes associated with them. Silver ore, that's not bad. We could probably build something cool with that. There's a cow who's probably gonna tell me about the weather. Our bovine friend. Okay, a butterfly wing. That's disgusting. There's a taco sitting in this, oh, treasure, treasure ahoy. Alright, here we go, let's see what's in here. The rod of rapidi, holy. The rainbow was baited, wait, what was Eric saying? That was what he played us, we fell for it, hook, lion, sinker. The rainbow was baited, he was trying to lure you to him. What do you gotta say? Why would a rap tell you to meet him in Dundrasil? Can you really just have chosen your home town by chance? Eh, what do you have to say? It how Veronica felt is all left out because of this. I'm gonna talk to her now, my little boar, where's she? Hello? Is that enough of it? Sultan, yeah, she's right, it is hard to get the rainbow. I do want to investigate a little more of these ruins because I feel like there might be, oh, you see that? It's a golem. That would be bad news if I fought him. Oh, a shilling, a Drazilian shilling. I actually should keep that, if I'm being honest, because if you lose it, then what the heck? Oh, oh, oh, oh, no, that's not good. Well, here's Dundrasil. As you can see, it's seen better days and a tower up there must be where the woman era is born. That's the castle. Let's investigate Dundrasil a little bit. I'd heard the rumors about what happened here, but still, I never expected this. To think that not so very long ago, this was one of the world's great cities, and that it was reduced to rubble in a single night. The king and queen murdered by monsters, the princess of Heliodor too, the poor thing was only visiting. I don't need to tell you this, they were your parents after all. So where's the old guy from the tournament anyway? So, he lit the torches, looks like. Man, this is Dundrasil, where the luminaries' parents were killed, and where all the mysterious happenings happened. Why were Rapp and Jay making us come all the way here? What is it plotting? Yeah, it is time we get some answers. This is very mysterious range that we've made to come to the place where you were born. Incidents? Yeah, it seems like an odd coincidence. Get out of the way, so I can talk to her! Okay. Hello. Hello. Uh, those two torches, that's where Rapp should be. Let's see now. Oh, that's a dragon! Holy crap. That would not be a good fight. There's gotta be some treasure hidden around here, though. There's like, you know, runes from the runes, but this place was probably ransacked afterwards for years. It's been like 20 years or something since Dundrasil got destroyed. Yeah, there's not much. Oh, what is this? Magic Beast Hide. That's gotta be like a shield. Slime. Oh, he looks friendly. Oh, he's not a bad slime. Something still surprising. This well goos all the way to the castle. You can ooze it to get where those brazier things are. Okay, so we can use this well to get over there. I'm still gonna investigate a little bit more because there's gotta be some good items to get. Okay, I'm not gonna be able to get up there. Maybe just a ladder of some sort. Yeah, those dragons would not be a good fight. I could probably use Dragon Slash to kill them. They might be good for grinding, possibly. Any way to get up there? Well, I can hide. I wonder what I could do with that. Here's another building that got destroyed. Not much here. Sorry, I just like investigating everywhere because, you know, you never know what kind of secrets might be hidden. Who knows, might learn something about Dundrasil by investigating around. Okay, I think that's enough. We should go to that well that the slime was talking about. Because it looks like the castle entrance is blocked up by rubble. Yeah, there's no way we're gonna be able to get over that. Alright, let's head on down. Jump around to a well. Anything good here? Not much there. There's no treasure or anything down here. So we'll just head on up. Go and see Rabb and Jade once and for all. See what they want. Okay, so I know there's some stuff hidden around here. There's stuff hidden for building the Drasilian armor. I know that for a fact. So I just gotta find that stuff. Let's see. Is it around here somewhere? There's Rabb. Yep, we're here. Now where's the rainbow? What do you want us here for? Is it just you? Where's your friend, the girl? Yeah, where is she? She has duties to attend to. She'll be glad you came though, as am I. It's not like we had much choice. Now where's the rainbow? We need it. I wonder what he's playing at. Pause that because your pal hears the luminary. He knows. He saw the mark on the hand. It's really interesting. Who is Rabb? What's his deal? No, there's something I want to assure you. If you'll indulge an old man for a wee while. Rabb is so mysterious right now, but I think we'll figure out what's going on. How could he know? He's really slow also at running, I think. Yeah, you gotta savor the moment by walking slowly with him. I'd like that he know that I was luminary. Does the baddies figure out who I am? Rabb has a little more to Rabb than we realize. What's he trying to show me? What's over here? Is this Dundrasil after all? It's Wayladdy. He's a really great part of the game, so I'm going to keep quiet. He brings back some memories, Shuren. Are you going to tell us who you are or what? He's given up most of my duties by then. I spent most of my days in the city enjoying my retirement. We had some fun. He's from Dundrasil then. Rabb used to live here. He's from Dundrasil. Rabb is the luminary's grandfather. He's the old king of Dundrasil. It wasn't for that that someone had a purpose in mind for me. I set out to learn why Dundrasil was destroyed. And I've been on the road ever since. Isn't this crazy? So Rabb is the grandfather's luminary. They're finally reunited. He once believed in the power of the luminary. Carnaline believed in the luminary before? He blames you for everything. Even the death of his daughter Dundrasil. The change in my old cause to his after all. That scene gets me so much every time. Such a great scene. Especially the next part. Ritual. So Rabb and the luminary are going to go off on their own. Oh I thought he was going to go alone. Alright here is what the item I was talking about. Strong medicine. That's not what I meant. Down here. We're going to explore a little bit and then we'll go help Rabb out. So Rabb is the luminary's grandfather. He is the original king of Dundrasil. Before his son-in-law Erwin took over. Dress like a Drazilian. Alright nice. And finally Rabb and the luminary are together again. Brave. Here like King Erwin and Queen Elinor of Dundrasil. There he is waiting for us. Wouldn't it be interesting if there was something hidden down there? Oh isn't that kind of interesting? How there's a bunch of rocks here and there's some sort of hidden thing. What's the point of this place right? Ooh. Very mysterious indeed. I keep giving stuff away but yes there's going to be something with that area later on. Oh a Drazilian sovereign. Alright Rabb I'm here. Burning night time. Your grandfather's royalty. I had no idea. I hope I was in a routine. Heh. Well. That's true. You never know when they were royalty. Mr. Rabb made it himself. Rachel's meant to send his souls into a dead to a better place. Oh yeah we should help Rabb out. He is an old man after all. Must be hard to trek up the hill. Alone. Baylady. Alright we're almost there. Is that it? Oh my goodness. Errik's like ruining the moment by spinning around in circles. It looks like we're here. Okay. Alright Rabb is this where you wanted to show me? Or it's a little bit further up ahead. He's very slow because you know you gotta savor the moment a little bit more. Veronica was hoping she wasn't rude to him. Is it through his cave? It's a really long trek. Well we're almost there. The altar of souls. Yeah that's where we need to be. Veronica got out of his way. She hasn't got out of his way because he was like out of my way Lassie. It's a long walk. There's Jade. Everything's ready. Keep princess. It looks just perfect. Princess. Mind standing back here with me. Only members of the Dracillian royal family may perform the ritual. So only me and Rabb can be here. Do the ritual. She doesn't want to explain it. Alright. The souls of those who depart this life must all return to Egdrasil. One life for each leaf of the great world tree. But those taken by monsters cannot return to their own accord. So our ancestors devised a ritual to send them on their way. If you're killed by a monster your soul can't be at rest. The smoke guides them back to where they belong. To Egdrasil's bosom. Each butterfly is a lost soul. And now they can all be at peace. So many of them. Princess. It was a noble sacrifice you made. I hope you don't mind me asking but... Your mother didn't leave you anything. Did she? She left me that necklace thing on the letter. What'd she do? So this letter's why you went to see King Carnelian. Oh yeah, she did tell me to go see King Carnelian. You could say that. It's fine. This is a really emotional scene. Rav's gonna have to be left alone for a little bit. Hey Rav. You look so sad. We'll leave Rav alone for a little bit. Hey Veronica. It would be a lot easier if we could just fly up to Egdrasil like all his butterflies. Okay. Now's not the time to be saying silly things. Where's Egdrasil? I can't see the tree for some reason. Anyway we should head back and talk to the others. There's Eric. Hey. Figure out who the girl is. Who is she? Oh the princess of Heliodor. That's who Jade is. The girl at the beginning of the cutscene who apparently dies. She survived actually. Wasn't the queen brave rescuing the way she did? Veronica and I must learn from her example. After all it's our job to protect you now. She looks very sad also. There's Silvando. And there is the mysterious woman. Jade. You weren't supposed to see that. Of course I was supposed to see her crying. I was just thinking about Lady Eleanor. Why don't we take a little walk? Yeah okay. Take a little walk on Jade now. We're on a rain. I can't believe how much time has passed since then. Oh no it's Heliodoria. Wait. They tracked us down. This isn't good. Something tells me they're looking for you and your friends. And there's only one kingdom that can send that many soldiers out on a manhunt. How do they manage to find us? It's so weird. How do they know we were here? To get back to the others. Yeah we gotta warn the others before they get captured. Where's the Heliodorian forces? They're down. Okay we gotta go this way. Jeez. You okay? Okay I'll just return. Quickly warn everyone. Or Hendrick catches them. Hendrick's probably here right now. How do they know? Is there like a spy or somebody telling them where to go? Oh they're there too. That's not good. It must have something to see in the butterflies and came here. What? Oh crap. This guy. Our time to go. Time to go. There's too many of them are surrounded. Time for some ass-kicking time. Kick them by the face. Not bad Jade. She's running to Hendrick. We'll head around the mountain and meet up with the others before he gets back. Yeah I've gotta go before Hendrick gets here. Holy crap. Alright let's run. The baddies are over there. There's Hendrick. Dammit he caught up to us. This guy's such a pest. That's how he tracked us down. Get ready for a fight. Hendrick versus Luminary. He's way too angry. He's like way way too angry. Wait who? It's a really high cliff. Oh he remembers her. That's the princess of Heliodor so... Hendrick basically. That's what happened. He's always so angry looking. He looks so pissed off. Alright. What next? Some sort of cabin? Where would we wake up? Dundrasil region still. So there must be a cabin nearby. Oh there she is. Yes shall we? I can't have forgiven myself if it happened again. I suppose Rad must have told you about your mother. That she sacrificed herself to save you and the princess of Heliodor. You've probably worked it out for yourself already but... I was that princess. Your mother saved my life. Ow. That night. The night Dundrasil fell. We ran from the castle but... The monsters were too fast. She handed you to me and distracted them for long enough for us to get away. She died to save us. Even though she trusted me with you, I... I was too weak and stupid to... I fell in the river and... I let you go. I can't tell you how many times I've wished that it was you, Radfished, out of there and not me. After he found me, we headed back to Heliodor. We thought my father might help us to find you. But when we got there, we found out he was telling people I'd been killed by the Luminary. He was trying to make people believe awful things about you. Rad was convinced that he wasn't in his white mind. Someone must be... Controlling him. I think Cornelia's being brainwashed. That would make a lot of sense. So we set out together to find out who. And why. We're expected to see Hendrik again. Let alone in the battlefield. We were lucky to get out of there alive. I'll say. That was daytime. We should head back to Dundrasil. Yeah, hopefully everyone's okay. Then he got caught by the Heliodorian forces. Let's head off. Alright, so... Just gonna leave a fire burning without putting it out. That's not very safe. But whatever, let's just leave. But you know what? Completely wooden cabin. Oh, hello. Dear. It's awfully calm while that's around. You okay, Jade? She's swear she will never let me go again. Wow, that's some dedication. Alright, I hope everyone's okay. Uh, here we go. Save spot. We have a lot of money. I forgot about that. Of course we're gonna continue. We gotta see what happens next. I don't even know where we are. Okay, now I know where we are. We're right around the corner from Dundrasil. Okay, so... We'll just head on over. Imagine carrying around a giant skull because you just have to. There's some... Trolls here. Or where are those? Those are orcs. Yeah, that's not the Dragon Quest to work. Oh my god, it's him again, Hendrik. I thought we lost him. That never gives up. I'm always being a knight. Oh, he's threatening her now. He's way too loyal. Oh, she's gonna fight him. She's gonna fight him now. Let's go. I'll see this. Jade versus Hendrik. She's gonna kick him in the face. Whoa. Damn, she's like really good at martial arts. You're rapturing her really well, I gotta say. Here he comes. Oh, he hesitated for a little bit. Oh, he stole his horse. He's even pissed about that now. Again, I just got my horse stolen by these two people. What have you become, chasing down some guy? All right, we stole Hendrik's horse. Nice. Nice job, team. Oh, where's his horse at? Where's Jade? There she is. Hendrik hadn't fought her, we'd be done for. All right, so where's the team at? Oh, there they are. They're just waiting for us. The Robb knows Hendrik. Yeah, he's still really bitter about that. His name, finally. That's the name of the villain of Dragon Quest XI, Mortigan. Oh, good job finding out about him. Mortigan. You're the luminary after all. You were born to defeat the Dark One. Yeah, that is true. Because the world has never seen. Our way to Yggdrasil, as soon as we can. The legends of Arboria tell of the means of fighting the darkness, but can only be found there. Something in Yggdrasil to fight the darkness that can only be found there. There's something there for me. Finally, we have the Rainbow. If anyone can get this old stick to show us the... Nice, we finally got it. Yeah, good plan. No, no, I definitely want you guys to join me. A big team is a good team. Rabb and Jade join the party. Nice, we got two really good awesome party members now. I think I'll replace Serena with Rabb now. Because these are really a better healer. And Jade, she's crazy good. Just watch, she's awesome. Where's my team at? Hey fellas. Forcibly able to take a hold of Helidor. Hello, Veronica. She's so happy that Rabb and Jade decided to join us. Yup, hurt some of his leadership skills that I'm lacking. I have leadership skills. I have plenty of leadership skills. The power to overcome the darkness lies within Yggdrasil. So something is in Yggdrasil waiting for me. The power to defeat darkness. Alright, we gotta head over there then. Let's talk to my other new party members. Real shame about the rainbow. When you get moving, you'll never know when soldiers will come back for us. Hello Jade. All we've succeeded in learning is the name Mordigan. We feared we had reached a dead end, but things have changed. So Mordigan is the villain. He's the phantom that we needed to defeat. Operating from the shadows. So he must have taken over, taken control of Helidor somehow. Or changed the king of Helidor's mind. What's this? Owing. It was some sort of vision. Alert orbs, that sounds familiar. Exactly. So the red orb is what we needed this whole time. There was a meaning behind it from the very beginning. But this is way more important. It's yours now. Just don't lose it, okay? Well I did get it back from those griffins myself after all. It's not like I belong to you anyway. Alright, I have the red orb, so we already have one of the orbs. That's awesome. A second one. Our prize from the tournament. Lucky we didn't sell it in the end. I was all set to swap it for a few piffling trinkets for the road. It's yours now though, laddie. But we already have two of the orbs. That's awesome. There's four orbs left now. Giant pearl sinking to the bottom, so she heard about that. In which case, let's head for Puerto Vallor. We can get out into the open ocean from there. It's off to the northwest of Gondolia. A fairly straightforward voyage if you ask me. And you'll be pleased to hear that I'm friends with Don Rodrigo, the big man over that way. I'm sure he'll open the sea gates for us. What is deal? Keep moving, shall we? The sooner we get our hands on those orbs, the sooner we can make our way up to Yggdrasil. Alright, so... Our team is all together and we're ready to head off. Where do we go though? Like the six orbs return to First Forest? No idea where to find them. Puerto Vallor, that's where they told us to go, right? There's something I want to talk to you about. You know the Rainbow Special, I wasn't expecting to be able to do anything like that. Now I know exactly what to do. Hmm, why does Savannah look like that? Interesting. Alright, that's a little weird, but whatever. Now this dude right here is friends with some metal slimes. So you know what? I think it's time to test out our new party members, if you ask me. Okay, you are going to replace... I'm sorry. And I'm sorry. The twins, the twinsies. Let's go. That's just a fungul. Or a musher mage as they call it. Nice. Okay, this is tough. Okay, okay. Yeah, that was easy. Oh wow, so with these two on my team, I can easily defeat everyone now. Like, the team is all assembled, you know? Alright, let's look for more metal slimes. I know metal slimes pop up with this guy. Night errant. Hip drop. That's a crazy move. Wow, flame slash him. Nice. Oh, so that didn't work. Come on, Rab. Nice. So Rab's spells are really good. Serena just leveled up. She learns zing. That's not bad. She can bring people back to life now. So that's going to be very, very useful. Alright, Porto Valor is where we should go. So... Let's zoom somewhere nearby. Okay, uh... This is Vardras C. So we're going to go to our boat immediately. Just by zooming. Wouldn't be too bad. Alright, now we're on the inland sea. Check the map again. And Porto Valor should be down there. Of course I can't zoom there yet, so we're going to... make our way over there. Hopefully there's not too many guys to fight on the way over there. That's the whole world map. Oh, it's turning nighttime. Okay. There's some stops nearby also, but we should stop by Porto Valor first. Oh, it spoke too soon. Wow, those guys look like umbrellas. Umbrella Emitator. Wow, that was a one hit kill. Alright, we're going to try scissing them. But then do anything. Oh wow, he has a really good spell that attacks everyone. How much gold? I have a lot of gold. That's a lot of gold I got. Alright, Porto Valor. It's supposed to be like Spain. That's what I'm guessing at least. And that should be it right there. Group of enemies. Wow, she killed him in one hit. Yeah, I think I'll attack this guy. We got so chuffed after our last fight that these guys are just a piece of cake. Alright, not bad. Another victory. Veronica leveled up to level 18. Let's zap. Now we'll wait until she gets more skill points. No reason to spend them now. Alright, let's head on over here. That should be the poor town. It's not a poor town, it's just a coastal town. The Costa Valor. Not bad at all. Alright, so it's very sandy here. And there's a lot of baddies here. Oh, it looks like there's a hidden cave here. Let's run through it. There's a lot of these mists here, so we gotta... Oh crap, avoid them. Crimson Coral. Alright, this is a wide area. Climb Nights. The campsite here. There's gotta be a lot of treasure hidden around here that I don't know about yet. The Mangle Grove and Mount Panglai is up ahead. We should probably head back to Costa Valor to port over Lore though. That's where we were heading. Alright, so we're gonna go across this land bridge right here. In between these rocks. That should port over Lore. Wait a minute. What was that? Is he sparkling? That wasn't any original. Alright, let's try this. Drake Slime, you're dead. Here you go, Lottie! Alright, keep trying to attack these guys. And our defense go down. Alright, not bad. But now you can ride the Slime Knight. So what, he's just standing there for me now? He's just gonna give it up. Balancing. Look at this, I'm holding his sword. And I can swing it around and attack stuff while wearing this sword. Let me see if I can attack these sunflowers. Group and Knot Childs. We're dancing now. Look at her dance. Okay, so this is pretty interesting. Look at this Slime Knight. He's like grabbing onto the thing. This is a new mount we have. I don't think we get something like that. What? That was weird. Oh, Don Rodrigo doesn't know. Alright, understood. The rabbit kind of travels around the world and he doesn't really tell people that he's a king. He kind of keeps it to himself. That's really cool. He's like a traveling dude who used to be a king when he was passing stuff. Rab's pretty awesome. Alright, let's save. Hello. Yes, we like to overwrite. Thanks for the save. And you know what, I think I'll end today's episode here. That was a long episode. We finally found out the origin of Rab, what his deal was, who Jade is, and everything. We got the rainbow, we got two orbs, and we know what our mission is to defeat Mortigan. This is really where the game opens up. This is where it starts. So next episode is sure to be really exciting. See you then. Bye.