It was time to move on to the next block of Tartarus in Persona 3, but first I spent some time redoing personas again, getting a few of the better top-tier ones like Siegfried and Odin, and fusing Growth 2 onto a few others.

The graphics in block 5 of Tartarus were a bit unexpected, as it looks like some kind of trippy disco, with neon point lights and lines all over the place. The floor 171 boss fight was a bit tricky since their AE electric attack kept killing party members, but with Odin not only was I immune to them but getting hit with electric attacks heals me, so I wound up finishing off the fight entirely by myself. Having Mitsuru would have made it even easier, but she was away at the time.

On a second trip after Mitsuru finally came back, I made it up to the floor 180 boss fight, which was fairly easy as I just had to keep pounding them with my own AE electric attack. And I made it all the way up to the floor 190 boss as well (the fifth block doesn’t appear to have the same barriers after each set of two bosses), which was supposed to be a tough fight due to its tendency to throw around instakill attacks, but I wound up beating it in two turns thanks to a crit from Siegfried and an all-out attack.

Ah, Siegfried. His vorpal blade attack hits everyone and does extra damage when I’m in ‘Great’ condition (which is almost all the time now, since I don’t have to study at night), and with it I can one-shot most of the monsters I run across now. I’ve also got ‘Cool Breeze’ fused onto him, so I regain some health and SP at the end of the fight. I can pretty much sustain myself indefinitely now, instead of having to return to the first floor to regenerate every once in a while. He’s by far the most powerful persona I’ve made so far.