How to get Sound Breathing in Slayers 2

How to reach him alive

The damage starts when you enter the snow and does not stop. On screen it shows as the edges turning red. The narrator calls it cold damage and treats the whole route as a race. These are the things that buy you time, each with where it comes from.

• Start from the shrine, not the bear area

  Pro Game Guides places Tengai north of the Iceveil Valley shrine, and its beginner guide recommends buying fast-travel shrines with Wen, the snow village’s included. Teleporting there cuts the walk to the last stretch. The map page shows where the shrines are.

• Carry an Emberheart Lantern if you have one

  The item’s own text says its ember holds off the valley’s freeze while it burns and must be relit at a campfire. The narrator of syoct’s endgame video says it drops from the Yeti and that each sit at a campfire adds time, up to ten minutes.

• Arrive with full stamina

  Running and climbing both drain stamina. On the Wind route through the same snow, later in the same video, the narrator runs dry (14:06). Top it up before you step into the cold, not halfway up a cliff.

• More health means more seconds

  The drain is a race between your health bar and the route. The recording player was level 128 and still arrived nearly dead, so a few extra levels before this trip are not wasted.

The Emberheart Lantern, in short

Legendary, with small bonuses to health and stamina as well as light. syoct’s narrator says you need a Frozen Heart, found in chests, to make the Yeti appear. tana’s narrator equips his on the way to the bosses in the snow.

The route in the video

revolver agz walks in from the starting village, which is the long way round. The part that matters is the final approach, from the ledge onwards.

1. 10:00 Into the snow. The area label reads Iceveil Valley, and from here the health bar starts to fall.
2. 10:45 A rock ledge above dark water. The narrator says to jump down here.
3. 10:55 Into the water, then out onto the rocks on the far side.
4. 11:04 The climbing begins: double jump, then climb, several times over.
5. 12:06 Tengai is on the top. The narrator points out how little health he has left.

Changes since launch, and the tier lists

Neither balance patch names Sound. The developer’s v.09 note skips it, and Pro Game Guides’ V0.145 notes list it among the strong specialists without a change. It is one of only two styles that all three published tier lists put in the same tier; the other is Serpent. Those are opinions, and the full comparison shows how the rest divide.