All final battles need a sufficiently epic setting and/or background.
this is the one for this

originally, i wanted the background to be like the one here but well... there was some misunderstanding and no time to start over.

Lets talk about the Final Battle
In the first round of the final battle, the player fight the human heroes in their base forms.
the human heroes cover each other's weakpoints very efficiently. For example, the leader, use "Cover" on the white mage so that damage to her is transferred to him while the White Mage heals him and everyone. That mean if the player want to defeat the White Mage (in a "shoot the medic first"), they need to defeat the leader Alengale. HOWEVER, the leader is covered by the big guy who added his defense stat to Alengale's already impressive stat. In turn, the Big Guy is covered by Dark Friend who added his evasion stats to the Big Guy's. All thats left is the White Mage who added her magic defense stat to Dark Friend's stat.
They each cover each other's points, which makes for a very hard battle befitting a final battle. They also use many revive items, to befit their roles as the classic RPG heroes.
On the other hand, if the player still manage to defeat them, you get immediately sent to the credits in a non-standard ending.

though since its the first round and the player is the final boss, its the playable characters that suffer the first round defeat.
Afterward, cutscene where the playable characters, team Ravager, while thinking about why they should continue the fight (devil propose for power, Infested propose for revenge because it was his last words and died on the spot, golem propose for the sake of making the enemy suffer), yeren, on the other hand, propose to fight for friendship. the others (minus Infested who just died), went "meh, why not?". So the characters use the orb of Dorien to fuse and cue second round.
note that its thanks to that fusion that infested is still alive since he got revived. otherwise, he would have stayed dead.



I wonder why i forgot to post this when i first got it? oh well.

Artist :  kehven