Follow this Dragon Quest IV walkthrough for Part 18, guiding you through Torneko's chapter, from working at the shop to obtaining the Steel Strongbox.
Walkthrough
- 1Begin by working at the weapons shop. Sell customers weapons they want and buy anything they offer to sell.
- 2After work, go north past the inn to the item shop. Find a secret door on the northern wall, go upstairs, and collect the Leather Shield.
- 3Return home and break the barrels on the carpet north of your house for an Antidotal Herb.
- 4The next day, head outside at dawn. If asked, push the old man in the northeastern part of town into the church to earn 4 Coins.
- 5Return to the weapons shop and continue working. Keep an eye out for a customer wanting to sell a Cautery Sword. If you find it, buy it to stock it in the shop. Alternatively, you can buy another weapon and equip it, but it will be less powerful.
- 6Fight monsters on the world map until Torneko reaches Level 3.
- 7From town, head north until you find a dungeon. Enter it.
- 8In the dungeon entrance, ignore the water and head down the stairs to the west.
- 9In the next room, ignore the switch and go up one of the two stairways to the south.
- 10Follow the path down another stairway and ignore the switch. Open the chest west of this switch to find a Chain Sickle.
- 11Press the switch you passed earlier. Torneko will be washed away to a new area.
- 12Once Torneko can walk again, head west at the first fork and go down the stairs.
- 13You will see a large, circle-formed boulder. Run south from it, head east at the first fork, then west when the path splits again. Finally, head north at the next fork. The boulder will fall, creating a bridge.
- 14Walk across the stone bridge and head down the stairway on the other side.
- 15On the lowest floor, take one of the two small boulders and push it to the northwestern part of the area, past the gate, and into the room with the safe.
- 16Once you and the boulder are in the safe room, the gate will shut. Examine the safe to get the Steel Strongbox.
- 17Push your boulder onto the space where the safe was standing to open the gate again. Exit the dungeon.
Tips
- If you don't want to wait for the Cautery Sword to be sold, you can equip a different weapon, but you will be less powerful.
- The Steel Strongbox prevents you from losing items if you die.
- The ASCII drawing in the source text can help visualize the boulder puzzle if the directions are confusing.
- Leather Shield
- Antidotal Herb
- 4 Coins (optional)
- Chain Sickle
- Steel Strongbox
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