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The picture only shows Rinde Sunfish, which is the rarest of all, as previously I finished all the horrors, Silver Carp, Rolling Turtle, etc. and yet this straggler still took months all on its own:-).

As a newer player when I began this long road (which ultimately took TWO AND A HALF YEARS for me to complete!), it was really fun to chart my development in the game as I learned better team-building skills. e.g. the only water chars I had at first were like 3-star Cyrus and 4-star Nikeh iirc, so it was really useful to learn that Violet in an earth zone could 1-shot the lake horrors better than trying to exploit weakness using pathetic DPS characters. And then as I got AS Tsubame and m!NS Felmina I developed new 1TnoAF approaches even for the upper set of lake lords, b/c when you need to do something hundreds of times (like in order to get 150 Silver Carp I got 320 Sky Serpents along the way), it is good to keep it as simple as possible, like only one button press and someone to make skills cost 0 mp. Especially since I lacked grastas for like 2/3rds-3/4ths of that journey (as I put all my green keys towards finishing Otherlands).

I enjoyed the ride, but wow I am sure glad it is over too… (that way, I can start in on doing the same for harpooning - groan!).