Final Fantasy IV Glitchless Speedrun Guide

Final Fantasy 4 PsX Glitchless Speedrun Mini Guide    Record Time: 3:45:24
by Fathlo23, Aaron Hansen, Update day October 2, 2014


    *Need to update this for better menu optimization and boss strategies*

    Only save in the game if you aren't confident in your own abilities.

    ATB Strat: Sometimes you can manipulate an enemies ATB and momentarily stop it to gain an ATB advantage. This is done by running the moment you can attack then immediately attacking.



   Game start

Set Battle Speed 1 Battle Message 1
Get through talking and text and grab 3 chests in main room and go to bed
Grab chocobo from forest, hope for no encounters on the way

   Mist Cave

Go straight to boss dont grab any items

Mist Dragon
On mist dragon jump and attack, when dragon turns to mist try to
time your jump to have Kain in the air just before he turns back
to save some time(reverts back roughly 7 seconds after change). Finish with
jumps and attacks. Unequip Kain after battle.

Proceed with game kill guards at the inn, Dark 2x for fastest victory. Use the ATB Strat for each Dark to skip their attacks completely.
At the inn/item shop sell 1 tent and all Kains gear except Iron gloves. Buy 10 potions,
and 10 lifes, leave and talk to Rosa, grab the Ether from pot behind weapon shop.

   Water Cave

Go straight to Tellah, grab Bomb from chest to the right of Tellah and
proceed North West to next room.
Fight battle that spawns 3 fishes to get Rydia to level 2 for proper MP in
Antlion fight. Bolt on all 3 with Tellah.
On floor B3 cross the bridges and grab the chests with some gil and another Bomb, continue
through cave. Once in the Northern Water cavern grab the HrGlass1 and Dark sword
just before the exit.
In the next cave fall down the waterfall, go to next room and grab the 2
chest right before Octomammoth, proceed to the boss.

Octomammoth
At the start of battle use ATB Strat and go into items, equip Cecil with the Dark sword
and use hermes item on him for haste. You use the ATB strat here so you can hope to get in the hermes after 2 his first 4 attacks, otherwise he attacks 4 times before you can do anything. Let Rydia die in this fight. Attack with Cecil
and Bolt with Tellah. Once Octo is down to two tentacles have Tellah kill himself with Bolt. Only have Tellah heal himself if he might die before boss has otwo tentacles left, heal Cecil when needed(below 80 hp). Cecil should get all exp from this fight.

   Damcyan Castle

You Spoony Bard!! Go to antlions cave.

   Antlion Cave

Once in Antlion cave go straight to the next room. In next room grab the Notus
item from the chest along the way and head to save point room to grab the 3 chests
here. Once back in room with the Notus grab the two chests you see one being
another Hrglass1 and a Silk Web. Head to boss room and revive and heal Rydia, heal
Cecil and move Rydia's position one above Cecil's. Head to boss.

Antlion
Use ATB strat with Cecil to get first turn attack and have Rydia summon 4 chocobos keep her at full HP.
While summoning have Edward ether and potion her when needed. Only have Cecil potion
her if in danger otherwise attack. Edward should die around her 3rd summon
after 4th summon have Rydia kill herself, go into items attack herself with
Rod. Have Cecil finish with attacks and get all exp, Cecil should never need
to be healed. After battle use Exit item to escape cave.

Go back to Rosa, then Edward fight against WaterHag. Dangerous fight, if
Edward misses once you can die. Hope for enemy misses. After fight head
to Mt Hobs go through dialogue then straight to Mom Bomb fight.

Mom Bomb
Have Cecil and Yang attack, parry with everyone else. Let Edward, Rydia,
and Rosa die, heal Cecil if needed. When he goes to his cloud phase keep
Cecil above 150 HP. After he blows up he will split into 6 parts parts immediately go into items and move the Bombs and Notus to the top slots for Guards in Fabul then throw an HrGlass1. Spam Dark with Cecil and Kick with Yang.
The bomb blast will hopefully have killed off everyone except Yang and Cecil,
if not, spam Dark with Cecil and have Yang kill any remaining party members.
Cecil and Yang should be alive at the end of the fight. Head to Fabul.

   Fabul

Swap Yang and Rosa's position and head straight to the King, dont bother healing
you will be auto healed for the battles.

Use ATB Strat on all guard battles and Gargoyle, possible use on monster battles also.

Guard battle- Throw Bomb Item
Monsters battle- Kill Edward with Yang here if still alive. Cecil Dark,
Attack WaterHag then Weeper
Guard Battle- Throw Bomb
Gargoyle- Just attack
Monsters Battle- Dark, unequip flame claw on Yang then Attack
Guard Battle- Throw Notus Item
Done, let Kain kick your ass.

After text head too the inn. After talking to King take chest from his room then
head down a floor and grab Bacchus from the lower pot(causes Berserk on character
character who uses it). Head to boat. Leviathan cutscene.

   Mysidia

Head to weapon shop and buy 1 Flame Rod, then armor shop. Buy 1 Magus hat and
1 Paladin shield. Go talk to old man, then head to item shop. Equip Palom with
Flame Rod and Magus hat, Cecil with Death sword, then move Palom to back row.

Sell Shadow and Dark sword, flame claw, hades armor, feather hat, and buy 23
HiPotion's, then head to Mt. Ordeals. On the way fight 2 or 3 battles, kill off Porom
and level Palom once(needs to learn Ice 2 for Milon battle). Fighting goblins have a rare chance to
yield an extra HrGlass1 which can be useful for the Mt.Ordeals paladin grind. Zuu's have a chance to get
1 Hit killed through Cecil's Death sword so just adapt to whatever battles you are given on the way so
you don't have to waste time walking back and forth grinding out front of the mountain. You could get the level for
him on the mountain but the only battle you would really want to fight is a single Lilith encounter. Use your best
judgement on how you want to go about this.

   Mt Ordeals

Head straight to boss.

Milon 1st form
Use HrGlass1 and throw HiPotions at zombies. Leave 1 Zombie so Milon doesnt spam Bolt.
Have Palom Bluff on his turns and after using 4 bluffs total have Palom Ice 2 Milon twice,
if not dead attack Milon once with Cecil and finish the last zombie with a HiPotion.

Change Row and heal with Tellah(Cure 2 all)

Milon 2nd form
Have Cecil use Bachus on himself, Tellah use Blink on Cecil then Palom(or Palom first
if HP low), have Palom use Bluff once then wait on Paloms next turn. after Cecil
has attacked 9 times have Palom use Fire 2 and Milon should die(Tellah might
die in the battle doesnt really matter as long as Cecil and Palom are alive
and blinked before this happens).

Unequip Cecils gear, unequip Palom's Flame rod, Magus hat and Ironring and give
them to Tellah. Change row again and become a paladin. In the battle equip the Paladin shield on Cecil.
Time for a small grind. Safety save?

Cecil needs to get to Level 15 here so that Rosa has proper levels to get the Berserk spell.
Start making your way off of the mountain fighting battles with Lilith enemies, they give good exp
and can be killed with 2 HiPotions. In first battle have Tellah cast Bio on the party to kill
Palom and Porom, then have Cecil kill Tellah. Heal Cecil after every battle. For zombie and
revenant battles you can just attack although these battles can be dangerous if more than
5 enemies show up(if you were lucky enough to get another HrGlass1 from the goblins before Mt. Ordeals
you can use it in one of these larger battles, if not don't bother fighting just run). On the mountain floor
below where you fought Milon grab the two chests and stay here until Cecil is leveled, this floor has the highest rate
for Lilith encounters. After getting to level 16 get out of here and head back to Mysidia.
There is a Chocobo forest right outside the Mountain.

*Rosa berserking in the Valvalis fight may not be that fast if rotations on Berserk attacks are shitty, at this point I am dropping the Berserk strat for extended testing*, only level Cecil to 15. Rosa will still get Berserk when you need it later if Cecil is 15 or 14.
   Back to Baron

Head straight to Yang. Heal Cecil and revive Tellah before talking to him(dont heal Tellah Cecil
should cover him since his HP is low). In guard battle cast Bio on both to kill them. In battle
with Yang let him Kick you twice then attack to end battle. After sleeping at the Inn head to
the weapon/armor shop and sell all of Cecils old Dark Knight gear and buy 1 BoltClaw and
1 IceClaw. Go to armor seller and buy 4 Headband and 1 Kenpo. Head to Waterway.

   Waterway

Head straight to save point and save if not confident in execution. Then head to the castle.
Once there equip Yang with the two new claws you bought and a headband. Equip Cecil with a Headband
and the Kenpo. Swap Yang and Tellahs position and heal Yang and Cecil with Cecil's cure spell if HP was
lowered from battles and set battle speed to to 3.

Baigan
Kill the left arm with Cecil and Yang right away then continue attacking his main body. Let Palom and
Porom die and keep Tellah alive. Have Tellah Ice3 his body. After 3 rounds his wall should be gone, have
Tellah heal the party during this time. After his wall fades Bolt3 Baigan and his Right arm at the same time and
he should die. Heal Tellah with 2 ethers after battle and heal everyone alive with Cecil's Cure2 before
next battle, don't revive the Twins. Go back and safety save if you haven't practiced the timing for the next fight.


Cagnazzo
ATB Strategy

Immediately attack with Cecil but use ATB strat. Attack with Yang and cast Bolt with Tellah, sometimes it's hard to get the Bolt off but if you quickly do the ATB strat again while he is charging his attack it seems to work. His Tsunami should start and hopefully Tellah will Bolt before the wave comes. On the next turn Parry with Cecil and Yang and cast Bolt 3 with
Tellah again. You wont be able to get it off before the wave comes but this wave will be really weak,
as the amount of damage the wave does is based off of Cagnazzos remaining HP. Bolt3 should kill him here. This
battle is fairly simple. After getting the airship head to Troia Castle.

   Troia Castle

Head straight to Edward, after the cutscene set battle speed back to 1 and use Tellahs Exit spell to leave the castle quicker
then go to Chocobo Forest for a Black Chocobo.

   Magnet Cave

Head through the cave until you get to floor B3F. Enter the second doorway and collect the 3 chests in this
room. Leave and continue on and get the Fairy Claw from the next room. Proceed to boss room(save before if you want, do not heal).
Before battle equip Yang with Fairy in his left hand and the IronRing, equip Cid with a Headband and the Iron Armlet.
Everyone should have some form of Metal equipment on to end battle with the Dark Elf quicker(skips him casting magic on
the party)

Dark Elf (real battle)
At the start attack with everyone except Tellah, have Tellah cast Berserk on Cecil. Heal Cecil with a HiPotion if Wind is
cast on him. When he turns to a dragon have Tellah cast Wind on the boss, if it misses dont bother casting it again just keep
Cecil alive until the boss dies.

GRAB THE CRYSTAL BEFORE LEAVING. Leave the crystal room and cast Exit to escape the cave(if Cecil hasn't learned it use Tellahs escape). Fly back to the forest and grab a chocobo to escape encounters on the way back to Troia(if you're lucky and get no encounters on the way back it's faster to walk by holding down when the black chocobo is landing back in the forest so you don't auto enter the forest).

Talk to the Sages once back at the castle and then leave(casting Exit to leave takes about the same amount of time as simply
running out). Head to airship, then time to save Rosa.

   Tower of Zot

*This place can be dangerous at this part of the game if certain groups of enemies ambush you, so keep HP high or just hope for no ambushes*

Grab the Flame Armor from the chest in the North West corner and then head up to the next floor. On the next floor there
is a chest with a monster in it, just attack with everyone aand have Tellah cast Ice 2 to collect the Flame Sword.
Head to to the floor with the Magus sisters and use a tent at the save point just before, drop battle speed to 3.
Save here if needed.

Magus Sisters
Use a Silk Web at the start of battle and equip Cecil with the Flame Sword then start beating down Mindy and Cindy. During
this time have Tellah Bolt3 Sandy once. When they reflect Wall off Cindy have Tellah Bolt3 whoever is walled, you are aiming
for a reflect on Cindy. Finish Cindy with attacks, then Mindy if shes not dead already then Sandy.

After the battle with the Sisters unequip all of Tellahs gear and head to Golbez and Tellah fight.
Before the fight with Valvalis equip Cecil with the Legend Sword and Flame Armor, then give Kain the Flame Sword,
Headband and Kenpo. Swap Cecil and Kain's postions then head to the battle. Heal everyone if HP is low.

Valvalis
At the start of the battle Jump with Kain and have Yang defend. Throw a Silk Web with Cecil then have Rosa Berserk
Yang and Cid. Cecil should attack on his turns and heal himself when needed, Rosa needs to heal Cecil and Esuna stoned members.
Kain should Jump every turn. Battle isn't to complicated as long as Cecil auto covers people who have been winded.

   Agart

Head to Agart to throw the Magma down the well. Outside of the well room and to the left in some grass you will find a Boreas
item. Swap Cecil and Cids positions then use Exit to leave town.

   Underworld/Dwarf Castle

Save outside before entering then head straight to the king. Make sure battle speed is on 2 or 3.
2 doesn't even seem possible 3 seems safe, 4 is easy. You might be able to get the Kain jump off on 2 but i dont think its possible.
Calbrena fight goes very fast on 1 but Golbez is impossible.

Calbrena
Very easy fight, start by using the Boreas item you just got then throw an HrGlass1. While the dolls are frozen kill Cecil with
Yang, Kain and Cecil. After Cecil is dead Berserk Kain and attack with Yang to finish the fight.

Golbez
JUMP WITH KAIN, NEED TO USE ATB STRAT TO GET JUMP OFF ON ANYTHING BELOW 4!!!
Cecil is dead so if you dont get the jump off before he summons the dragon you are dead. When Rydia shows up Jump with
Kain and equip Rydia with Flame Rod, sort some of your inventory down so that the next bit of gear you buy and pick up in the castle is closer to the top of your inventory. The second jump should kill Golbez.


   Back in the Castle

Head to the Armor shop and buy 2 Wizard hats, 1 Wizard robe, and 2 Rune armlets. Next head up to the East Tower and grab
the Dwarf Axe, next floor up grab the Bacchus from the pot on the left and all 4 chests on the top floor. Head to the
Inn and grab the gil from the pot then up to the West Tower, up one floor and grab another Bacchus from the bottom right pot. Go up to
the top floor and grab the other 4 chests on the top of the tower. Head back to the Inn and buy 2 Antidotes then time to equip.

Rydia- Wizard Hat and Rune Armlet
Rosa-Wizard Hat and Robe, Rune Armlet
Kain-BlkBelt and Strength Armlet
Cecil-Dwarf Axe and Mithril Armlet

Set battle speed back on 1

Swap Rosa and Rydia's positions and talk to the shop guy in the middle. Sell all of you gear except the Staff, then buy 30 Lifes and 40 HiPotions. Head out of the Castle, on the way out get 2 Cabins from their chests and heal at the pot before leaving, then to go to the Tower.

   Tower of ?

Head up to floor 3F and grab the Cat Claw from the chest to the left. Continue to floor 7F and grab the Ether2 from the chest on
the left again just after the bridge then go to Lugae's room.

Lugae and Frankenstein
Start the battle by jumping on Lugae with Kain. Equip Yang with the CatClaw and the BoltClaw and use Power on Lugae. Have Rosa cast slow and Cecil cover Rydia. All you want to do is kill Lugae and hope that when he's dead Balnab explodes on either Rydia or Cecil. Really easy fight otherwise.

Lugenborg
After Lugenborg poisons the party have Kain use an antidote on Yang and have Yang use a Bacchus on himself. If Yang is put to sleep heal him with Esuna or maybe an attack(Attacking doesn't always wake a character up). Have Kain jump on his turns and keep Yang alive with other characters.

Head back to the locked room and open it. Before entering the room unequip Yang's weapons. There is a forced battle in the next room where you can also unequip Yang's weapons which is probably more efficient. Just attack these enemies with Kain and Cecil.

   Baron

After the cutscene head back to Baron and head into the East tower and pick up the two Bacus in this room. Go down one floor and
and grab the Elixir from the second pot. Leave and talk to Cids friend just outside to get the crane for your buggy and then head
straight to Eblan Cave.

   Eblan Cave

Make your way to the weapon and armor shop and unequip Kain's Flame Sword and Mithril Shield and sell them. Buy 1 Ice Shield and Black aromor for Rydia then over to the weapon seller and grab 1 IceBrand. Continue to the next part of the cave and open the first chest you see(Ether1). Go through the next room and in the room after there is four chests to the right that you should grab(2 Elixirs a Cabin and a HiPotion) and then another to the south with a Silk Web in it. Head to the Edge and Rubicante mock battle.

Edge vs Rubicante
Watch Edge get his ass handed to him. Before heading into the tower grab the chest on the left(Ether2).

   Tower of Babil

Make your way through the Tower. On floor B4F grab the Ashura weapon right before going to the next floor. Make a save before getting to Rubicante just in case.

Edge's Parents
Equip Kain with the Ice Shield and the Ice Brand and equip edge with the Cat Claw and the Ashura. After that just wait until the fight is over. Try to sort your inventory a little so items that you need later are close to the top (ethers, elixirs, bachus etc).

*Note* Something strange about the upcoming Rubicante fight he seems to always kill me on any battle speed above 3 need to test this a little more, maybe getting unlucky damage rolls. Set Battle Speed to 3 in between his and the Parents battle just in case.

Rubicante
Use a Silk Web at the start of the battle then have Kain use a Bacchus on himself then just let Kain kick his ass. If Kain gets Skorched revive him and cast Berserk on him with Rosa. Dont bother reviving anyone except Kain, ideally everyone should die except Kain. Battle is very simple.

Set battle speed back to 1

After exiting the Tower head back to the Dwarf Castle and talk to Cid to upgrade your new airship. Then the King to get the key to the Sealed Cave.

   Sylvan Cave and the Avenger Sword

*Make sure you set battle speed to 3 before you open the chest with the Avenger Sword, 2 might be ok but you need it to be slow enough to get a HrGlass off before they use Breath on you*

Here we need to get a really good weapon for Kain called the Avenger Sword. This weapon gives Kain Auto-Berserk and is essential to finishing the run with a good time. Trap doors and the Demon Wall in the ancient cave are a push over with this weapon. Now the hard part. This place is extremely dangerous and the sword is guarded by some tough enemies but they can be stopped with an HrGlass2. Anyway  upon entering head south to B2F then North West to B3F. There is a secret path to your immediate right on B3F, take it and go up the stairs to B2F. Continue along the way, grab the top 2 chests you see in a square and keep going. Grab the Ether from the bottom left chest near the empty ones then drop down the hole. Head North and take the teleporter on the left. The Avenger Sword is in the bottom middle chest of the 6 that you see. Its guarded by Marlboro's so simply throw an HrGlass, Berserk Kain with Rosa and cast Titan with Rydia, then wait until Kain finishes them off. Time to leave, take the teleporter on the right and head to the Sealed Cave. Set battle speed back to 1.

   Sealed Cave

Set battle speed back to 1, equip Kain with the Avenger and Rydia with the Black armor, then use a cabin. Head to the first Trap door, just let Kain attack and revive him if he dies. Strategy for the doors is simple but don't revive other characters except Rosa. Heal Kain and Rosa after every battle (or just before the last door make sure their HP is full). After the first door grab the Ether1 on the right chest and continue along.After the second door fight grab the Ether1 from the chest in the room, then  make your way to the last door fight. After the battle have at least 2 characters other than Kain and Rosa Alive and healed when you start the battle, go with Rydia and Edge and try to get a Titan off before Rydia dies.

Set Battle speed to 3

Demon Wall
This battle isn't too hard just have Rosa cast slow on the boss then cast Blink on herself and Kain. Attack with Edge on 2 of his turns and have Rydia summon Titan on subsequents turns until she hopefully dies. If she dies before she can summon have Edge attack 4 or 5 times instead of 2 then make sure he dies by either attacking himself or just dying.

Set battle speed back to 1 and make your way out of the dungeon. Unequip Kain before entering the first room in the cave and give the BlkBelt, Strength Gauntlet, IceBrand and IceShield to Cecil. After the scene head to the Dwarf King again, hop in your airship and go to Mysidia for the Lunar Whale.

   The Moon

Go get Fusoya then head back to earth.

   Giant of Babil

Make your way to Chest section of the Giant. Grab the Shuriken from the first chest and the Ether from the third one then keep going to the until you get to the save point. Here we need to level Rosa up to level 55. At level 27 this should take around 28-29 Mech Dragons, Mech Dragons are summoned by the Searcher enemy you find in this area.

   Mech Dragons and the Searcher(Searcher has 5500 HP)

Set battle speed to 3

When the battle begins it should be a searcher and 2 beamer enemies. Have Fusoya cast Flare on one beamer and edge attack the searcher once, then Fusoya cast Bolt3 on the searcher. You want to bring the searcher around 2000 HP with the Bolt then cast Flare to kill the other Beamer. Once the Beamers are gone attack the Searcher with Rosa or Rydia to make him summon an enemy. Hopefully its a Mech Dragon, if not run and try again. When the Dragon is summoned have Fusoya ready to cast Wind on it then finish with an attack from someone. Rinse and repeat this process until Fusoya runs out of MP and then use Psych on Rydia to regain his MP, later you will have to use have to use Elixirs and Ethers to regain MP but save 2 elixirs.
You want to have only Cecil, Rosa and Fusoya alive for the killing process the rotation being Rosa attack, Fusoya Wind then Cecil finsih with an attack. After you have killed 28-29 Dragons have Fusoya kill Cecil then on his next turn go into your items and use a Kamikaze item to kill the searcher and himself, the Kamikaze item will do around the amount of your remaining HP so ensure the Searcher will die when you use this item. This item needs to kill him or another dragon will be summoned and likely kill Rosa before you get the chance to revive anyone.

After the fight head to the save point to save then head to the battle with the 4 Elementals (Rubicante will  heal you before the fight).

4 Elementals
This strategy is complicated but not hard to pull off. At the start of the fight Have Edge use a Bachus, Rosa Blink Edge, Fusoya Blink Cecil, Cecil use Bachus, and Rydia cast Fire2. On the next turn Blink Fusoya and Rydia, don't bother with Blink on Rosa she has enough HP to survive the whole fight. After all that is set up fight the Elements like normal, Fire3 on Milon, Ice3 on Rubicante, Bolt3 on Cagnazzo and Bolt3/Holy on Valvalis. Rydia can help with her level 2 versions of the spells but if she does die don't bother reviving her. During Rubicante you will need to heal once with Rosa so just use Cure3. After the Rubicante phase you shouldn't need to heal at all with Blink protection still active. Edge, Cecil or Rydia will probably die in the Valvalis phase but it doesn't matter, just keep attacking with Bolt3 and Holy until she dies.

Head back to the save point and use a cabin to heal everyone and swap Fusoya's equipment with Rosa. Then head to the CPU.

CPU(Main part has 30 000 HP)

At the start attack the CPU's recovery bit 3 time,Edge, Cecil then Edge again during that time have Rydia summon Titan. With that part down we can start damaging the CPU's main part. Rosa should be healing when needed, don't heal too much with Fusoya as you need enough MP to do Meteo at the end of the fight. Have Cecil and Edge attack the Main CPU, until you've done 20 000 damage to it. Edge should throw the Shuriken and the 2 Kunai's you have to make this a little quicker. Once you have done enough damage have Fusoya cast Meteo to end the fight.

*You can Wall someone with Rosa and reflect Flares and Holy's on the CPU to speed up the fight, but this is really risky and if it fails you will likely lose a lot of time or simply die. If Rosa and Fusoya dies recovery is very hard.*



The Final Stretch

When you are back on the moon go to the Namingway place and buy 1 elixir, if you had to use more than 3 of your 5.(buying elixir's isn't really needed it just safer for when someone get's Flare'd against Zermous instead of casting a Cure). As soon as you get to an area with battles set battle speed back to 1 and equip Kain with the Avenger, Headband, BlkBelt and Strength gauntlet. Make sure your characters are ordered from top to bottom Kain, Rosa, Edge, Rydia Cecil. You should only need to swap Kain and Edge's positions unless you forgot to swap Rosa and Rydia's spots back in the Dwarf Castle before the Lugenborg battle.

   Final Dungeon

Head straight to Zeromus, save at the save point before the Final descent for safety.(there's a Protect Ring you can pick up along the way which may make Rosa's able to survive Flare better but I have not tested this).

Zeromus

The strat for Zeromus is simple, throw the crystal with Cecil and then it should be Rosas turn after him. When Zeromus starts casting Big Bang cue up a Cure 4 with Rosa. When he casts Bio just heal with a Cure 2. When he casts Blk Hole you can try to throw a Haste on Kain but only if you are ready to cast a spell with Rosa. Eventually he will cast Flare on a single target, its possible that Rosa can die from this but it usually doesn't happen, just heal Rosa or Kain with an Elixir when this happens. If Rosa does die from a Flare its likely a wipe. When he gets close to dying he will start casting Meteo as long as everyone is full health just let Kain continuously attack him until he dies. Hope that Zeromus doesn't reset his HP otherwise you got to do everything again.(After a lot of testing it appears that Kain using the Avenger sword never makes him reset his HP).