Temple Of The King, 5th Trip

Now that you have a couple more tools, it's time to head back to the Temple of the Ocean King, where you'll be able to proceed further down than you could before. The time pressures will be eased a bit by the addition of four more minutes to your clock, but again, if you haven't yet, you may want to hit all of your treasure points to try and find more sand for you Hourglass.

When you reach the Temple, you can take the shortcut down that you unlocked earlier, or you can try and use your tools and knowledge to substantially improve your time, not just to the B6 shortcut, but beyond that, as well. Remember all those gems you had to collect on floors B7 and B8? Well, there's a way to avoid doing that again if you read carefully. There are also some new items to be unlocked on some of the floors.

B1 Floor

Use the grappling hook and the bow to the west of the door here to unlock a new treasure chest with a Courage Gem inside of it.

B2 Floor

Bomb the wall in the northwestern corner and use a bombchu to flip the switch beyond. The chest that appears contains a Wisdom Gem.

B3 Floor

There's a substantial shortcut here, as you can head north from the entrance and then use the grappling hook between the two torches to jump up to the upper platform. It's important that you go to the southeastern corner of this level, though, dig up the airjet, and drop the patrolling Phantom into the ground and grab the Small Key from him. You don't need it to exit the level, but it'll be handy to do so. You can also find a 30 second time bonus by heading up to where you used to insert the gems and standing in the safe zone there. Use a bombchu on the bombable blocks in the northeast, then boomerang the jar there to get the time.

B4 Floor

Another big shortcut. Head to the northeastern corner and shoot an arrow into the eye to shut down the steam jets, then hug the northern wall and head west. Run past the Phantom Eye that patrols here, grab the red jar, and break it near the two mouseholes here. You can use bombchus to the north and south to lower the spikes leading to the small key and the door leading on. You'll need to unlock the door here with the key you brought from B3, then grab the key on this floor before heading downwards.

B5 Floor

If you enter this area from the B4 shortcut given above, you'll come out on the northwestern corner of this map. Dig an airjet and land yourself up near the switch and shut it down. Grab the Treasure Map from the chest and then turn the airjet back on to jump across the gap.

B6 Floor

Head to the northeast and shoot the eye target across the gap to reveal a treasure chest with a Treasure Map in it. With that done, you can head directly to the door and enter your symbol onto it. Do the Sacred Crest symbol (the hourglass) first, pick up the 30 second boost inside, then head back out and put the triforce symbol in.

At this point, if you've been picking up the new treasures on each floor, you may simply want to go back outside the Temple and start over from the first floor, concentrating solely on doing everything quickly. We managed to get to the beginning of floor B4 in a total of four seconds, thanks to the two 30-second jars on floor B3. Our time to the Triforce door was 1:22, although we're sure you can do better if you seek out more time bonuses.

It's important to note, however, that when you do manage a good time you don't want to warp back to the entrance; doing so will cause you to lose the small key that you've picked up. Just keep on going down when you're satisfied with your timing. Things get a bit tricky here, but if you have a small key on your person, then you're golden.

B7 Floor

You should still have a small key in your possession here. (If you don't then you'll be able to perform the shortcut that we describe here, but you'll still have to perform some of the older steps from the last time you were in the castle.) Ride the platforms around to the northwest, but don't head to the northeast corner. Instead, pull yourself over to the middle-north section, directly north of the doorway, with the grapple. Open the chest to find one of the three Crystals. Wait for the platform to arrive on your east side, walk across, then use your key on the door here, pick up the crystal again, and head down.

B8 Floor

Drop down here and head to the bombchu slot that you can see on your map. Send a bombchu through and flip the switch, then head through the door to reach B9, still carrying the crystal with you.

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