Cleaning up the map. I was concern about how long it'll take for me to get an S rank on this mission because of the beast, and I definitely toke some damage, but in the end I was able to S Rank it. The beasts though, will definitely take more time to figure out on how to get all the materials. I probably won't the first time and maybe the best way is to not use the rush system in this game to do extra damage. having said that, I'm not sure what types I'll need to bring unless they are on the map the first time. Seems like I should always have a magic user on the field though if a beast comes through.
The 2nd mission though, I really dig. In fact, I can find myself using that as my farming mission, and I'm starting to understand maybe it's best to always have the 'best' version of characters than a even spread verison of characters. As while Claude was able to do some good damage being generally advantage to most types of enemies, Hilda was killing it for the enemies she was super advantage of. But you do want someone who is the more base line of everybody I think as a 'lead' character so they can be around anywhere. While the more generally focused character should do their thing. I really liked that stage for allowing me to see that.
Though, what the fuck was that about Lorenz? First you got me wanting to be like "Oh you're pretty cool Lorenz, wanting to help Marianne." and then you are like "understand your place" to Pira. Geez.