And the level ??? Sword seems weaker than Level 7... Or the Powerful Beast is stronger to compensate. Can't tell.
And that's on the path to the bad ending. Cool bad ending though!
Took less than 30 minutes to get both endings. I guess the Autosave helped, is why. Bosses weren't hard to dodge is partially why too? Got to Sword Level 7 before getting Level ??? and the final element.