XIV. ARMAGEDDON OR SEPIROTH?
Go to the crater. Now that the barrier is broken, you can go in. But before you go in, make sure you are well prepared!

Section 1
   You will start off outside the airship. Take the ladder down the side of
it and follow the path to where Cloud asks if you are gonna run down
yet. Run down and you will be at the beginning of the cave. Make sure
you have plenty of Ether/Turbo Ether/Elixir/Megalixirs and Phoenix Downs
when you are travelling down the North Cave. I recommend being about
level 45-60 in this area. Jump down and go to the treasure chest where
you will get the vital "Save Point" item (there are no save points in
the North Cave if you were wondering). Don't use the item yet, you will
want it for later. Follow the spiral down to the bottom fighting Gargoyles (2000 HP), Parasites (6000 HP), and Dark Dragons (14000 HP). When you fight the Gargoyles, they cast "L4 Death" when they die, so make sure any of your characters who have a level that is divisible by 4 (ex. lv40, lv44, lv48...) are defended by the "Death Force" enemy skill (received from Adamantanai big turtle guy) by Wutai beach(Manipulate it) or have exited the battle (using "Exit" materia). Exit this section right at the bottom.

Section 2
   When you start in this area, you will have the option of going the quick
way (go right), collecting minimum items or the long way (go left),
collecting items and a materia (HP Absorb). QUICK WAY: go right and down to the bottom-right, collecting some helpful items. SLOW WAY: jump down the ledge you start on, go left and jump up to the treasure chest then
go right on that ledge and you will get HP Absorb. Then just follow the
path down collecting several items, fighting Parasites (6000 HP) and
Gargoyles (2000 HP, be careful of "L4 Death!). When you reach the
bottom, go right to the end of the screen to exit this section. If you
want to get all the items, go down the quick way and come back up the
long way. You can't go up the quick from the bottom.

Section 3
   This is the most confusing part in the game. Once again, there is a
quick and slow way, each with the same drawbacks as Section 2's. You
will be fighting Dark Dragons (14000 HP), Master Tonberry's (44,444 HP;
if heard rumors that you can morph it to a Ribbon), and Scissors' (2900 HP). FAST WAY: After you jump off the ledge you began on, go right (not left to the cave). You will jump down a hole that you cannot see. At the ledge you are on now, go left to pick up the item in the treasure chest. Then jump off again at the right. Go in the cave and follow it around to the outside. Then go left right off the edge. When you land, jump down to the right and jump down the rest of the ledges to the left, down to the end of the section. SLOW WAY: When you start at the ledge, jump off to the right (not into the cave, into a hole hidden behind some rocks). Then go right to the edge of the ledge (DO NOT JUMP OFF). When it says "Push (OK) button to jump", push (OK) and jump to the edge where you can walk to the left,
off the edge and go in the cave. When you get the item (I believe it is
a Megalixir), go back out and go to the left of the screen, you will drop
off yet another hole that you cannot see, down  to a cave hole. Go in
the cave and collect the contents of the chests you see, go in the black
hole near the top-right corner, to the chest. Go back out the top of the
cave. When you are out, go to the fast way part at the top of this
section to exit it.

Section 4
   This is where you meet up with the rest of your party and will decide
which of the two ways you will go. This is a good place to use your Save
Crystal. Choose your current party.

Warning: The people that you send down with Cloud are the only members that can join you later on when you fight Sepiroth.

Note: If you send more than six people on the same side as Cloud, you can make a second party and switch every now and then when you fight Bizzaro-Sepiroth.

   You can fight Dark Dragons (14000 HP), Parasites (8000 HP), Master Tonberry's (44,444 HP) and Dragon Zombies (13000 HP). At this point you can go to Section 5A for going RIGHT at the fork, Section 5B for taking a LEFT. (HELPFUL HINT: if you are not going RIGHT and Tifa isn't in your group you are using now, send her RIGHT, you'll see why in Section 7..., also, send Yuffie LEFT if she's not in your group regardless if you're going LEFT or RIGHT, you'll see why in Section 5B...)

Section 5A
   This is basically just a spiral that goes down to a skeleton of a dead
monster. You can't go back up after you drop off of the spiral. Follow
the spiral down fighting Pollensaltas (4000 HP), Malboros (4400 HP),
Death Dealers (7000 HP -learn E. Skill "Roullete" from them), Dragon
Zombies (13000 HP), and Parasites (8000 HP). Once you reach the bottom,
get the treasure chest directly to your right (between two egg things)
for a Tetra-Elemental. Then go up and right for the treasure chest that
contains teh all-mighty Mystile, EQUIP THIS IMMEDIATELY!!! You go
between some eggs to the left to get a treasure chest at the far left
side. Go to the end where it is reddish colored and follow the skeleton
to the bottom where you will end up meeting the rest of your party once
again.

Section 5B
   In the cave area where you decide UP or DOWN, you can fight King
Behemoth (18000 HP), Armored Golem (10000 HP), and Allemagne (8000 HP (you remember Eye/Phantom and Evileye/Floating Eye from the other Final Fantasies don't you!) in this cave area. If you go UP skip to section
6A, if you go DOWN, go to section 6B. You can exit this cave by going
directly up. (HELPFUL HINT: if you aren't going UP, and Yuffie isn't in
your group send Yuffie UP, you'll see why in Section 7...)

Section 6A
   This is the funniest section (as well as having the most rewards!). I
think this section has the best graphics in all of FF7. In this section
you will fight Master Tonberry (44,444 HP), Movers (Morph for a Protect
Ring (automatically sets up [Barrier/MBarrier], fight in sets of three,
convenient huh?; 3000 HP 9000 AP!!!), Allemagne (8000 HP), Christopher
(6000 HP) and Gighee (5500 HP), Magic Pots (use Elixers on them, then
you can kill it for 8000 EXP/1000 AP; 4096 HP). Fight the Magic Pots, if you don't know who they are, they're things that want Elixirs. They'll say, "Gimme Elixir" at the beginning of the battle. So give them the Elixir and start hurting them. You get 1000 AP for each Magic Pot you kill!!!!!

   You will start on a mound, jump down and go right, jump the mound for an treasure chest, or go left. Going left will force you to go underwater at the green stain at the end of the path. Follow the trail (going left for the treasure box) and you will exit this screen. Go right at the path break for a
treasure chest or go right then left for a treasure chest, up and on the
bank for Shield materia, or up and on the hill, then down at the green
stain and underwater for a treasure chest. There is little trick in this
area: at the chest after you go underwater, you can go in front of the
chest and underwater to get to the end of this screen, and back to the
chest the same way. Exit this screen by going on the bank at the right.
This is a cool little area, you can fight King Behemoths (18000 HP),
Master Tonberrys (44,444 HP), Armored Golems (10000 HP), Allemagnes
(8000 HP), Parasites (8000 HP), and Dark Dragons (14000 HP) here. At the
top of the bright light (Holy?...), pick up either W-Magic, pick up the other materia directly above the light in the bushes (you can kinda see it). Exit this section by going in the hole all the way to the left.

Section 6B
   This section is pretty much a bore. It just isn't fun. But it has some
useful items. You can fight Parasites (8000 HP), Master Tonberrys
(44,444 HP), Allemagnes (8000 HP), Armored Golems (10000 HP), Start off
by going down the steps and grabbing the treasure chest to the left. Go
right and up for another chest. Go down and exit this screen (grab the
chest to your left). When you start this screen, head down and jump down
off the step. Pick up the chest to your left and go around to the right,
picking up the chest to your right. Move behind the big step and keep
heading left. Before you go down, get the Magic Counter floating in
front of the waterfall (it's white on white so look hard). Run down to
exit this screen. Jump down and pick up the contents of the treasure
chest and head left. Keep going down and go up where the trail splits.
Before you jump up to the large piece of land, grab the Mega-All materia
(you'll have to do it while jumping, once you touch the step before the
big land area) Grab the treasure chest on this piece of land at the far
left. Go down and exit this section.

Section 7
This is where your group will meet up again. Grab the treasure chest
before you talk to them. Going back up Section 6B is the only way back
out from here. Talk to all your group members to get items from the
people (if you followed my instructions in Section 4, you will get
Mystile from Tifa!!!, and if you followed my instructions in section
Section 4 and 5B, you will get Counter materia from Yuffie!!!). Pick your
group and head down into Section 8.

Section 8
This isn't a very hard section, but hurry through here, keep your HP and
MP high for what follows. You will fight Allemagnes (8000 HP), Dragon
Zombies (13000 HP), and Iron Man (morph for Escort Guard; 20000 HP).
There's nothing to pick up in this level. OK, before you go down to the
main ground structure, heal up for this battle, it may be hard or easy
depending on your level and what you have. Fight Jenova-SYNTHESIS
Jenova-SYNTHESIS
HP: About 50,000
Weakness: None
MP: Unknown
Attacks: Ultima, ??? (sorry, I'll try to find this one)
Prize: None
Gained EXP: 60,000
Gained AP: 1500
Gil: Not sure

 Kill her before she counts down (she'll cast Ultima on you if you don't kill her before she finishes (make sure you have 4000+ HP if she casts it)).

Section 9
This is the end of the game, the last showdown, the final battle, the
ending fight, you get the idea, but it's not over 'til ole Sephiroth
takes a whacking. Choose your group(s) wisely and HEAL UP.

Bizzaro-Sephiroth

Note: If you want a quick and boring win, cast Knights of the Round on him and he's dead.
   This is the first Sephiroth and he's relatively easy, but can take a while to beat. His arms have about 20000 HP, his head has about 35000
HP, and his body has about 75000 HP. He heals a lot and regenerates his
arms/head. Just concentrate on attacking his body and don't attack the
core, it won't take any damage unless its defenses are down (it'll say
so). You get EXP and AP from him, but it doesn't tell you how much, I'd
guess about 15000 EXP and 10000 AP.

Sephiroth B (Safer-Sephiroth)
   This Sephiroth has cool theme music (One Winged Angel) He is the hardest Sephiroth. He has about 100,000 HP.  Debarrier him when he does Wall. All I can say is watch out for Supernova (good old 4 minute long spell
that drops all your party's HP into the hundreds regardless of how much
HP you have now) and Heartless Angel (it is worse than Supernova, it
drops all your party members to 1 HP!!!). Also watch for Shadow Flare
and Pale Horse. Keep Megalixirs handy!!! When you beat him, its not over
yet!

Sephiroth C (Sephiroth)
   Go through one of the coolest scenes and fight the easiest Sephiroth, he
literally has 1 HP. Use the edited version of Omnislash on him (the camera looks at Sephiroth, then Cloud, then Sephiroth, then Cloud and continues near the end; you will have Omnisalash whether or not you gained it in the game). If you don't attack, Sephiroth will and will do a bit under your max HP, he will never kill you and you will Counter Attack if he hits you and you will kill him. So don't worry about him. Once he dies, go through the LONG movie and watch the credits and watch the little Red XIII and sons movie after the credits. It gets kinda weird at the end...reminds me of a screensaver doesn't it...

YOU'VE BEATEN IT!!!
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