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Off to the Mine of Judgement, since I don't really have anywhere else to go. Slogras drop more table souls.
As well as some new armor. Can't say if the gimmick (i.e. random invincibility) is still intact, though; I'm not gonna equip it and get hit on purpose to test it.
...Their other drop is trash.
This makes sense. I mean, Rippers are basically Flea Men with knives, right?
I get the ability to spawn flying sickles from... Excuse me, Konami, that is clearly a giant snail, not a giant slug.
Side note: This place is infested with Tanjellies, and they love to interrupt you by jumping off the walls on you. Frustrating as hell.
Anyway, those mislabelled gastropods also drop armor for me. Not very good armor, but armor.
Gaibon's soul drop is still worse than just farming and selling Valman-Bhuj, not least because it requires I actually take damage, and I can't do that forever.
His item drop, meanwhile, is about as effective as you'd logically expect given its material.
Traditional Death battle at the bottom of the mine. He's hard for all the wrong reasons- nigh-unavoidable attacks that hit like a train. Arguably harder, considering how PoR has that one incident where you need to stop a train to enter a stage.
Dropping an extra copy of a soul I'm already capped on is just insult to injury.
Who woulda though Arc Demons would like milk?
They also give on-command invincibility, though it's expensive as hell, as you'd expect.
For posterity, here're the stats on that Mjollnir I made; it's not impressive.
This thing vehemently does not live up to its name.
Oh, and this is the only place in the entire game that the sand pits show up. Told ya the Mud Demon soul's pretty much worthless.
Speaking of which, they drop this worthless doohickey.
And the Harpy familiar.
And they have horrible taste in food. Thankfully the Ghoul soul exists in this game; Soma is, as far as I know, the only Castlevania protagonist who can actually benefit from this crap.
Spear cannon. Either there's a boss somewhere that drops the crystal-breaking soul, or it doesn't exist, because I've checked everything else.
You wouldn't expect bullying chicken mages to give me the ability to summon a super robot, but here we are.
Oh, guess the crystal-breaking soul could be the Dead Mate I skipped back in the Ruins after all if I can get this from Malacoda. Not gonna go check until I find the last warp point, though.
Also, Mal's drop sucks, to nobody's surprise.
Abaddon's a welcome respite after the BS that was Death; it's actually possible to not get hit by his attacks, and he's pretty flimsy.
And here's Balore's soul, finally. Only needed to kill almost literally everything in the game to find it...
Black Panthers turn me into Bomberman.
And drop... well, on the one hand, truth in advertising, on the other, it's the first accessory I've found that gives more defense than the Hoop Earring.
Since I finally have the Balore soul, might as well go back and do its checks just to see what the seed was hoarding, right?
Guest House Left: Garbage.
Guest House Right: Garbage.
Wizardry Lab Crystal Hallway: A snack.
There is a pretty good defensive accessory in the mirror, though.
Dead Mate soul: Knives. This is the last soul in the game, so I don't need that Soul Eater Ring anymore and can switch to the Flame Necklace full-time.
Bat Company soul: Already have it.
All that's left to do is finish the game. And yes, Doppelmitrii exploded to make that thing. Dunno why it's humanoid, though. Or why it's not named Legion.