Fire and Ice is a main quest available in Drustanus of Final Fantasy XVI.
Your objective is to destroy the Drake’s Breath Mothercrystal and slay the leader of the Ironblood.
Here’s a walkthrough and guide of Fire and Ice in Final Fantasy 16.
The quest begins when you arrive on Drustanus.
Explore the area
Just follow the path and you’ll reach the first set of monsters. They’re all Akashic.
Continue slaying the Akashic wolves.
You will then face an Akashic Minotaur. This fight is slightly tougher than the previous.
In the area, the crate will give you The Breath of Wind (Aerial Blast) accessory.
Defeat the Akashic Morbol
Keep going until you reach an obvious stage for a boss fight.
You’ll need to slay the Akashic Morbol. The fight is quite similar to the first Morbol in the game except it’s stronger.
Do a takedown every time the Morbol reaches 50% will gauge.
This Morbol also has tentacles from the ground where you need to dodge a lot.
Akashic Morbol also uses Acid Rain to create pools of acid, followed immediately by Wild Rage where it chases after you.
Explore further
After the fight, continue further. You’ll reach a hotter part of the area with some scorpion enemies.
You’ll also face a Salamander.
At one point, the bridge is blocked by lava. Jill will freeze it temporarily to cross over.
Keep going and you’ll face more scorpions and Bombs.
There’s also a tougher enemy called the Red Mousse. This one has higher HP so the fight is longer.
After defeating the Red Mousse, kick open the crate to get Mythril Wristlets.
This Mythril Wristlets comes with higher armor rating.
Defeat the Flame Lizard
Proceed further until you reach another boss fight.
The Flame Lizard is basically the flame version of the Lizard monster early in the game.
As always, do takedowns when the will gauge reaches 50%. It uses swipe attacks and rolls a lot.
After the battle, you’ll get 2 Gnarled Scale material.
Head into the building
After the fight, enter the building.
Jill will then meet her old friend Marleigh.
Proceed towards the Sanctuary
The main goal is to go towards the Sanctuary where Drake’s Breath is.
Defeat the Ironbloods along the way.
Use the door on your left.
Continue further and you’ll meet an Ironblood Fanatic.
Finally, you’ll reach The Inner Sanctum. There are more Ironblood soldiers to kill.
Kick the crate and you’ll get a Will-o-the-Wykes’ accessory.
You will then meet the leader of the Ironblood in the cutscene.
Jill turns into Shiva and defeats the Ironblood enemies.
A mysterious creature then shows up and attacks Shiva.
Defeat the Liquid Flame
Shiva then sets the arena for you to defeat the Liquid Flame. This boss attacks continuously so you have to keep dodging until you have room to land attacks.
As always, do a takedown when the will gauge reaches 50% to give some breathing space.
Liquid Flame has tons of different attacks including Eleventh Hour where all kinds of flame creatures appear as an attack.
After the battle, you’ll get Liquid Flame as a material to forge a new Platinum Sword.
Cutscenes
Clive then proceeds to destroy the Mothercrystal with an ice-infused sword.
Jill then kills the leader of the Ironblood as part of her revenge plan.
Jill’s friend and the rest of the Ironblood escapes in their boats as the crystal crumbles.
In the meantime, we see Joshua and his companion Jote as they plan to visit Bahamut.
We also see Hugo Kupka with the other leaders of the Dhalmekian Republic talking.
He then brings in Empress Anabelle (Clive’s mother) with her new son Olivier. She seems to have another scheme coming up.
The quest ends here.
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