Volcanic Grotto

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Completing Volcanic Grotto grants access to Road to Paladia.

Unlocked by completing each area of the Old Mine at least once.
Monsters with Thorns/Shield are useful here, but when used against you, use magic attacks with high damage.

1:

Monsters:	Adm. Eagle	Triglodyte	Blood Knight
	Odd Couple x2	Wolf Rider	Headless
Items:	Battle Axe	Light Bombs	Long Sword
	Brutal Boots	Boomerang	Brittle Ointment
	Metal Cap

Difficulty: 3
Cost: 12 Light
Gain: 135 Coins & 21 EXP
Reward: 1,000 Coins (5 fights) / Moon Globe (20 fights)

Melee only except for the Admiral. Use Shield or/and Thorns. Blood Knight / Headless is easy prey for your mages.

2:

Monsters:	Mister Frozen	Cyclops Outcast	Triclops
	Desert Striker	Lost Explorer x2	Headless
Items:	Battle Axe	Fur Armor x2	Crushing Hammer
	Light Bombs	Long Sword	Throwing Dagger

Difficulty: 3
Cost: 12 Light
Gain: 138 Coins & 21 EXP
Reward: Light Crystal (5 fights) / 1,500 Coins (20 fights)

Be careful. Don't let the AI get too much monsters on the board, or else you're doomed.

3:

Monsters:	Plasmic Ooze	Fiery Ooze x3	Lava Ooze x3
Items:	Spiked Armor	Spiked Leggings	Long Spear
	Long Sword x3	Courage Pendant

Difficulty: 4
Cost: 12 Light
Gain: 138 Coins & 21 EXP
Reward: 1,000 Coins (5 fights) / 1,500 Coins (20 fights)

Thorns and Reach = Ouch. Your melee position is under constant attack. Use a Flying non-melee with Armor or a high-shielded passive (ideally with Thorns) and let your back row do their job.

4:

Monsters:	Cyclops Outcast x2	Headless x2	Kukulkan
	Queen o' Clean	Cleaning Fairy
Items:	Long Sword	Chain Mail	Hunter's Bow
	Light Bombs x2	Dragon's Tear	Brittle Ointment

Difficulty: 4
Cost: 14 Light
Gain: 161 Coins & 24 EXP
Reward: Courage Pendant - War (6 fights) / Moon Globe (24 fights)

With a little (much) luck, several armors, Counter and the occasional assistance from your usually not very long living back row, a Blu'jutsurtle can do pretty well here. The flying cards are very annoying. A well protected card with Thorns prevents Thrash damage and helps quite a bit. Armor also helps, as the AI has lots of damage dealing items.

5:

Monsters:	Cyclops Outcast x2	Triclops x3	Coldfoot x2
Items:	Long Spear x2	Light Bombs	Heal Flute
	Charger	Chain Mail	Dragon's Tear

Difficulty: 4
Cost: 14 Light
Gain: 164 Coins & 24 EXP
Reward: 1,000 Coins (6 fights) / 1,500 Coins (24 fights)

Only Melee cards, but everything deals at least 30 damage. Except for Thrash and Light Bombs, your back row is safe, so keep your Melee healthy. Get rid of the card using Long Spear or perish.
6:

Monsters:	Blood Knight	Adm. Eagle	Cleaning Fairy x2
	Ninja Fox	Dark Drums	Tridentite
Items:	Chain Mail	Fur Armor	Heal Flute
	Brutal Boots	Healing Vial x2	Medusa Shield

Difficulty: 3-4
Cost: 15 Light
Gain: 180 Coins & 26 EXP
Reward: T-Crystal (6 fights) / Glittering EVO (24 fights)

Kill the Blood Knight and this level becomes much easier. Magic probably works best, but enough armor and decent Melee damage + back row support works, too. If you have one, put a Shield20 with enough HP card against it, but watch out for equipment and the ranged cards picking on your back row. NOTICE: opportunity can be incredibly useful, especially if you can hit all cards w/o armor in one hit.

7:

Monsters:	Musculard	Kukulkan	Adm. Eagle
	Mister Frozen	Blood Knight x2	Butterbat
Items:	Battle Axe	Crushing Hammer	Hunter's Bow
	Chain Mail x2	Heal Staff (useless)	Healing Vial

Difficulty: 4-5
Cost: 15 Light
Gain: 180 Coins & 26 EXP
Reward: 1,500 Coins (6 fights) / Hard EVO (24 fights)

It's vital to build up and/or keep the computer from building up. Musculard first usually means you can't kill him, your first card will be destroyed and he will constantly attack your melee position. Too much dodging from Kukulkan can make winning rather difficult.
Sometimes, the computer does not want to / can't play a card on turn 1 and one card is dumped. This can give you a decisive advantage.

8:

Monsters:	Amber Dragon	Kukulkan	Cyclops Outcast
	Adm. Eagle	Acolyte	Tux Shooter x2
Items:	Demonic Armor	Judgement	Excalibur
	Poison Dagger x2	Heal Staff	Dragon's Tear

Difficulty: 6-7
Cost: 15 Light
Gain: 187 Coins & 27 EXP
Reward: Moon Crystal (8 fights) / 3,500 Coins (30 fights) / Shining EVO (45 fights)

Probably only rarely beatable with just Level 1/2 cards without farming Crystals for more Boosters / EVO Crystals.

Get some better cards / EVO Crystals if you are stuck. Early Dragon is rather bad, especially if it equips an armor. To be able to win, your first card played has to survive (and ideally, kill the computer's first card). If that's not possible, consider not playing a card, you might just lose equipment and can play 2 cards / card with equipment at once next round. Acolyte and Sniperoo in the first rounds are a rare, but joyful opportunity to build up and crush the opponent. Good luck. NOTICE: farming this area is not recommended unless you have nowhere else to go, don't like swarms, and is absolutely stuck on a stony shore.