This is just like Pirate PQ except there’s no time limit. The Hallway is full of Sand Knights which you must kill to access the portal. In the next room, just beat the first boss, Sangra and you’ll clear the stage. Sangra basically swings around the room like a pendulum and shoots spikes here and then. It’s Sand Fountain attack will toss you up into the air causing damage. You can’t attack in mid air if hit by Sand Fountain.

In this room, Areda will appear. After you Party leader speaks with her, you’ll all get teleported to separate rooms with her laughing in blue text. The party remains this way until the next stage. The rooms everyone is sent to is random.

Room A: This room is full of Storm Guardians, just kill them and move on. There is more than one wave of Storm Guardians.

Room B: The Floor’s glowing with a dark aura. jump quest to the portal without falling. The Floor sends you back to the beginning of the jump quest if you fall.

Room C: Run around the room as the orbs glow one by one. Hit them as they glow then kill the Rune Stone that spawns. After that the portal will spawn.

Room D: Walk to the other side of the room while dodging the beams. Hitting a beam sends you back to start.

Room E: Pretty messed up room we have here……You get a buff that lets you swim like in Aquaroad, avoid the black blobs on the objects.

Room F: Climb up the rope, the obstacles are there to knock you down. You can see that someone used gravity hacks and glued you to the wall.

The Stage begins once everyone makes it here. More text from Areda and monsters will spawn after everyone finished the conversation. You will fight Sand Knights, Black Geomancers and finally Pitch Stalkers. Black Geomancers will summon Rune Stones as they go along. Pitch Stalkers have the ability to teleport and unleash an attack while doing so. Pitch Stalkers are highly mobile and their attacks help with that. For example you can be attacking one from far away but a Pitch Stalker can lance itself at you. Once you fight off the waves, the portal appears.

Jump quest and climb up the tower. Simple enough……except there’s a time limit before a trap begins to rise from the base. When this happens, you have to make it to the top or the trap will kill you and your party. Lucky for us, dying here does not take exp.

Here you will fight the boss of this PQ, Crogema.

Phase 1:
Crogema is protected by some magic barrier first so you can’t do much to it right now. However, notice he has four purple orbs, one on it’s forhead, one on each arm and one in the center of it’s body. Use the springs around the map to elevate yourself and hit the orbs. Sadly, it has an ability out called energy disruption which prevents AoE attacks from working during this phase. Destroy all four orbs and the barrier is finished.

Phase 2:

It still retains most of it’s attacks. It can no longer shoot beams from it’s orbs but now has two weapons to attack with. Springs are gone but now there are two hidden warps to help you get to the other side if it comes too close. Will summon two Sand Knights at certain points during the fight.

Much darker than it was before but anyway, kill the Pitch Stalkers in this room. Afterwards, you’ll fight Tigun, yes Tigun. Apparently he was necromanced and pumped up by magic. Has a Dragon Crusher type attack avoidable by ducking and an unavoidable Dragon Fury like attack. Kill him and move on to the next room

This room is messed up in the same way as Room E from Ardena except no Aquaroad buff this time. This stage is composed of four maps. First two maps involve a jump quest and Dark Misslelists which must be killed to free platforms.

The third map involves moving blocks to their correct slot. They can be moved by simple normal attacking them. However, this room has Alpha Stone Lions spawning from time to time which can push your blocks away. Get rid of them quickly before they become annoying.

The Fourth room is a boss fight against Boculus. Boculus works like wack a mole, the room is full of small pillars and Boculus will randomly pop up in one of the pillars. He only appears for 5 seconds before moving to another pillar. He only has one attack which he preforms immediately after popping up.

Enter the room and get some text, prepare to fight.

Fight 1: The Black Magician?

The Room goes dark and the Black Magician’s head appears. His head is considered a flying monster and will swoop around the room firing lightning bolts, energy orbs and lithium pillars. Do note, if he has two lidium pillars out, get out of the space between them as they unleash a nasty magic attack. He will also taunt you in between.

Fight 2: “Queen Areda”

After “beating” the Black Magician, the Cygnus commander will ask himself “Did we really just kill the Black Magician?.” Then Queen Areda will appear laughing at you. The “Black Magician” was just an illusion set up by Queen Areda to observe you. Suddenly, Ardin, Eleska and Sejan will come in and join the fight. Queen Areda will show her true form and the fight will begin.

Queen Areda knows the super defenses. In addition to that, she will cast and Anti projectile barrier which can be taken down by the melee classes but takes about 10 hits, 5 if you’re using a two handed weapon. Her attacks include:

-Sand twister which works like Shadow Web for those in it’s range.

- Lidium Storm which shoots lidium crystals in random directions (avoidable if you don’t make contact with them)

- Sand Glaive which works like a pillar but then chains off other pillars until it reaches the wall.

- Energy charge. When text appears, run to the edge of the map. This attack will take 90% of your HP. She won’t attack for 5 secs after that though.

- Black Guardians will spawn randomly.

After she's down, she will say "Fools, this......was.....mearly.....a distraction!"