A World of Echoes: Circle

You'll wake up in the Caldisla Inn once more. After the conversation, new party chats will be available. (Are We Dreaming?, Long Live the Glutton Queen) You have to awaken the four crystals again and you'll have more sub-scenario markers in the map. You can fight the other asterisk bearers again but they'll be in groups. Refer to this guide's Ch8 Sub-Scenarios for some strategies in defeating the enemy parties.

Go out and defeat the beasts guarding the crystals once more. The Holy Pillar will appear once again to the southeast afterward. Head there and enter it again.

Temple of Wind

Orthros (Blue)

HP: 75,000, Weakness: Fire, Immune: Water FAM: Beast

Orthros (Yellow)

HP: 75,000, Weakness: Water, Immune: Fire FAM: Beast

This battle will be easier by equipping Iceflame Shields to your characters, especially your healer(s). You can steal one from Heinkel or from the Kobold Slashers in Caldisla overworld map. If you don’t have enough shields, you can rely on a spirit master since his/her skills will allow you to block or mitigate much of the fire and water damage from these bosses. They can still deal heavy damage with Deep Freeze or Hellfire, as well as Blazzard and their Bite and Flaming Fangs. It will be a good idea to stack up BP by defaulting and attacking all at once. Just heal up whenever necessary.

Temple of Water

Boss: Rusalka

HP: 75,000 Weakness: Lightning, Absorb: Fire, FAM: Aquatic

Rusalka is still weak to lightning and can be exploited with the Hunter’s Aquatic Slayer. However, its clones will have more HP. It is important to Examine Rusalka at the start of the battle so that you can keep track of it once it replicates itself. The Iceflame Shield will still provide water immunity here against its Seep + Dark Flow and Aqua Regia attacks, and you should have your main attacker or healer equip an accessory that will provide charm immunity to keep them in the game. If you have a Summoner, you can deal even greater damage using Deus Ex. After taking out the original, clean up the remaining clones to finish the battle.

Temple of Fire

Boss: Chaugmar

HP: 85,000 Weakness: Lightning, FAM: Demon

Chaugnar has move that will steal HP, MP and even BP. That said, it will be risky to stack up BP like you normally do with the other bosses. When it is covered with energy, it will be resistant against any type of damage, even when hit by its elemental weakness. This is where you have to compound items or use the attack items as is. Like the other bosses, you have to use Default once you see it has positive BP. Play defensively when it is in its invulnerable state and heal up any damage you immediately receive.

Since you have access to more skills at this point, you have to put them to good use. Defensive skills like the Templar's Rampart or Spiritmaster's Stillness should protect you from the heavy damage of Energy Burst. You can also equip the Vampire job class' Absorb P.Damage to help you recover some of the damage.

Having a healer with Healing Lore or Holy One will allow you to heal your party much effectively. Hopefully, your stacked BP won't be stolen during the boss' previous attack; use the stacked BP to executive extra actions while the boss is in vulnerable state. Be careful of its Energy Burst as it can knock out several characters at once. If not, your characters will have critical HP. With the Salve-Maker's Healing Lore and Widen Area, you can use an X-Potion to heal 3000 HP to all your characters. Same goes with Phoenix Down that can resurrect multiple characters.

Since the boss has the tendency to drain your MP, an Ether deployed by the Salve-Maker's Widen Area is very effective and efficient. The Salve-maker's Auto-Phoenix ability will also help a lot in instantly reviving downed characters.

Temple of Earth

Boss: Gigas Lich

HP: 130,000 Weakness: Light, FAM: Undead

This world's version of Gigas has increased stats and can cast Death. Make sure to equip your characters with Safety Rings to give them immunity against this. If you don't have enough Safety Rings, you can rely on the Salve-Maker's Auto-Phoenix or Widen Area + Phoenix Down skills and the Vampire's Rise from the Dead skill.

Gigas' Slam deals a lot of damage to everyone while it can use Quaga to deal high earth damage to a single target. Gigas can also use this move on himself to recover a bit of HP. It will use Negative Power to boost its p.attack and m.attack stats. You can use dispel to remove this boost. It will also use Fear to inflict the dread status.

You'll also get some new party chats after awakening the third and last crystals:

3rd: "Wavering of Purpose"

4th: "Wait for You"

Upon entering the pillar of light, the chapter will be complete.