Forest Of The Fallen Giants - Let's move on | Walkthrough Dark Souls II Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
After the encounter with The Last Giant, you've received a Soldier Key, which opens the further part of the location. Let's start from the beginning. Run up the stairs behind the Merchant Hag Melentia. Atop the stairs you will stumble upon a door - open them with the previously acquired key. Inside, you will see a large number of barrels and wooden chests. Behind the wagon, which you must destroy, you will find a Lifegem and a Hand Axe. A bit further you will notice another door. Before opening them, however, kill the enemy lying beside it. Step into the next room and open the chest. From it, take an Estus Flash Shard and a Small Sign Soapstone. Approach the hole and jump down, trying to land on a branch - take a Divine Blessing from it.
Afterwards, use the ladder and enter the previously visited place. Open the door to the left with the key. Go down the stairs. Kill a halabard-wielding soldier, sitting against the wall on the left. Go slowly ahead, until you encounter a beast with a mace. Wait for a bit, for the beast to move, and retreat to the stairs. Fight the beast like the last time - attack only after the beast's attack. Pick up a Black Firebomb and a Homeward Bone from under the left wall. Go straight ahead and get rid of the bomb-throwing enemy. In the further part of the corridor, you will encounter another enemy with a mace. Take the torch and kill the pikeman guarding the door.
After leaving the basement, a difficult passage awaits you. In this location, you will have to face five mace-wielding enemies. In most cases, you will be able to fight them one on one. At the beginning, you can greatly injure one of the enemies, without much risk. To do so, lean out from behind the wall a little and throw a fire bomb at him - after that, don't bother yourself with him, as he will have a long way to travel in order to reach you.
In the meantime, another enemy will come running to you. After you defeat him, finish off the one you threw the bomb at earlier. Being here, you should be wary of the archer on the other side of the gulf - there's a small chance that he will fall off of it, but you can never be sure. Open the door before you, get inside and deal with the beast.
After reaching the roof with a ladder, a tough encounter awaits you. You will have to face two enemies on a limited roof space. To defeat them, you will have to circle around them and wait for them to be next to each other - then strike and jump back. Pick up the souls after the battle. Afterwards, go down and into the building. There will be two bandits standing on your way. After killing them, pick up a Bastard Sword. Leave the building and kill another bandit. Approach the grating and collect a Green Bossom and Amber Herb.
Go to the other side through the hole in the wall. If the archer didn't fall, you now have a chance for a direct encounter. Climb up the wooden platform and from the chest pick up Trash. Go through another reach and light the bonfire inside. From there, you can transfer to the place where you will find the Merchant Hag Melentia.
Climb down the ladder and go through shortcut you unlocked earlier. Go straight ahead and defeat several pikemen at the end of the route. Turn left, open the door next to the stairs, and after reaching the upper level, you will have to face two enemies - one wielding a pike and one with a halberd. When you get to the top, on your right there will be souls and a Lifegem to pick up. Afterwards, go through the fog - you will encounter The Pursuer here.
After the boss fight, go further through the narrow passage and jump down a level, to pick up a Drangleic Set. Go all the way up through the same route that you used to get to the boss. After reaching the elevation, you will see a nest - you can use to it move to the Lost Bastille. Do it just to unlock the bonfire. You will come back here later.