Demons Roots - Complete Chapter 5 Guide

Chapter 5 Walkthrough

All credit goes to Hentaika!

You have access to 5 allies – Polca, Ange, Kalinka, Sarasa and Lily.

North from you is church with a healing, south is minor consumables.

For main progress you need to go all the way north.
But first go into east building. there are shield stands with mithril/force shields.
There is also miniboss on top of the building and a chest with crystal armor behind it.

Before entering castle – west/east from it are chests. West one has an evasion necklace.

Inside the castle – there is nothing to do until you reach the throne room so just keep heading north.
Once you can move after cutscenes in throne room – grab 2 red chests nearby for 2 crystal helmets.

East wall from the throne has a SECRET passage you can walk through.
To the south are 2 chests. Between them is a cracked wall which reveals 3rd chest and yields ACHIEVEMENT.
Also yields incredibly good defensive armor piece – I would say It’s probably worth replacing the bikini armor for since It’s only 5% evasion.

As you leave the throne room – Mebius will split from your party.
Talk to him to change his equipment. I recommend equipping him with gear you grabbed along the way – the crystal stuff gives massive defense and lacking evasion doesn”t really matter as you wouldn”t really dodge with Mebius anyway.
For accessory slots – x2 empire cloaks are good enough. This will likely bring your defenses to ~500+.
I also recommend feeding him books.

Once inside next area – your main goal is north BUT go into sewers first to the west.
You will be inside the place I told you to remember.
East wall from you has a secret path forward.
Fight the “strong enemy” you previously skipped.
It’s a boss and It’s main trick is that it will get stronger if you slay slimes around it. So simply ignore those and focus on single target attacking the boss.
Beating it yields ACHIEVEMENT and 2 stat boosts behind it.

3rd area has a secret place with ACHIEVEMENT.
Once you reach northernmost point of it – the wall in the middle should lead north into a secret room.
This also yields an armor similar to dark armor from other achievement. The only difference is It’s 50% light damage decrease instead of dark.
It’s useless for now but for hardest optional fights it will be a must for Ange.

Inside 5th area go west first.
Golden urn with stat boost along the way.
Go inside the cave – there will be another stat boost along the way and an assault drone chest at the end.
Assault drone is THE best accessory.
It’s kinda an onion cape with +40 atk on top of it.
I recommend lily using assault drone/turbo arm and kalinka using sage glove/onion cape.

Backtrack all the way to where you entered 5th area. Go down this time.
Head east across the bridge – first climb the vine south to get a stat boost urn.
Climb the vine back up and proceed further east and north through the darkness to get Mana Armor – not too great.

Backtrack to the road split. West is dead end with nothing so only south remains.
Nothing noteworthy until you reach the next road split which has a golden urn with stat boost nearby.
This is actually not a road split however – the only way to go on is west.

As you climb the ladder up to the north you might notice a chest nearby.
The main path further is leading south BUT there is a slightly hidden “bridge” to the west – use it first.
It’s a narrow road leading to “powerful enemy”.
It’s a boss which grants ACHIEVEMENT and a superb accessory for Sarasa which allows you to use a better staff on her due to MP regen. It also gives her holy magic she otherwise doesn”t have.
Boss is not particularly strong but it does have one move which will guarantee kill 1 target unless you evade it.
Boss also has 2 stat urns behind it.

There are no more secrets – It’s a straight road to game finale from now on consisting of only bosses/scenes.

Go into final area to the south. There is a healing point you can use which is where boss fights start.
Make sure you set your party correctly as you won”t have chance to swap it.
Your FIRST SLOT however will be replaced with Polca unless you have her. So you kinda are forced to use her instead of Naj… not a big deal.

You start with a Mebius fighting Kudan. Change equipment if you didn”t yet.
Kudan is pretty strong.
Upkeep atk/matk debuffs from Monsoon on him. Reapply if he does his offensive buff which cancels the debuff.
Aside of that – use consumables to not die and you will be fine.
Eventually you will enter second phase which should be pretty easy.

Next boss is with main party.
It has 7 phases but it should have weakness to basic attacks from both Lily and Kalinka…
Which makes it at most like 1-2 turns per phase and super easy.

After this are some cutscenes and eventually 3 more fights.
First is super easy.
Lily will join in 2nd fight and carry it for you.
3rd is somewhat challenging but nothing problematic – use carnivorous/ultimate when HP allows and full heal when needed.
Game finishes after that but there is still unique content in NG+.