Once more with feeling!

The group trudged through the desert until they came across another of the epic monster, and after a couple tried defeated it. then they found a couple of the adults that were taken off into the desert, but they were ambushed by this weird ghostly floating blob thing. After defeating the thing though they all felt weak and fainted in the desert, a short time later though Yuri woke up to find him and the others at an Inn. I saved here so I'll find out what happened tomorrow.

Even though it was basically just 2 boss fights I had to do them over and over again, for different reasons. During the epic monster fight my party kept dying off. So after a couple of tries I dragged them all the way back across the desert (leveling up along the way) and bought every useful armor and weapon I could from the shop, also stocking up on healing items. Then I went back across the desert and tried fighting the monster a couple more times before finally beating it.

With the boss monster (which Judith said is not a monster) it was more a problem that it was too easy. The first time I fought it the party killed it so quickly that I couldn't get the secret quest achievement, breaking the orb that it uses to heal it's self, so I had to restart from the last save. Then next time I tried using Judith to fight the monster since she has more jump attacks that could get the orb, but she was too different to control than Yuri and the party died while I was trying to get use to her. The third time though I used Yuri's one jumping attack over and over and was able to break the orb before killing the monster! Then I realized that I never scanned the monster for the monster book side quest, and had to restart and do that all over again, the firth time everything went right and that's when I saved.