Towers aren't much different from caves and labyrinths, except that they tend to be in better condition, have more floors with numerous stairs, and include an exterior map to add more connections with balconies and ladders. Tower dungeons use 1-20 "Tower" as the background music.

This tower bars passage across a narrow strip of land. The party enters from the south end. The northern exit, which leads elsewhere, is blocked off for now.

As for puzzles, there's a fairly simple blocks and buttons puzzle almost right away, a simple puzzle involving pushing a pillar onto marked floor tiles, a switch on a carpet that can only be reached by stepping where the carpet has no fringe, a fairly obvious pillar and pots moving puzzle, a switch hidden under a pile of bones (Bombs deal with them), and then a sound mimicking puzzle...

...which leads to the important chest...

Those who delve into such things have also found an unused set of rooms near the one with the notes puzzle. One holds an amazing 21 treasure chests, but none of them are functional, and neither are any of the other objects that would normally be interactive. Similar rooms existed, unused even then, in a prototype build, though the chests, curiously, were a later addition.

Near the top of the tower are the usual HP and MP recovery tiles and save point.

A rather odd arrangement appears inside a room on the second-highest floor. It has a roughly circular section of floor with a white tile in the middle and black tiles at the top, the bottom, the left edge, and the right edge. It also has a pillar on the tile to the right and a block on the one at bottom. A sign on the wall gives a hint about what to do:

The figure on the floor represents a clock face, with the pillar as the minute hand and the block as the hour hand. Moving them to the 9:00 arrangement opens the door, which lets the party reach a switch that allows access to the top floor. But there's more to do here. A sign outside the clock room says:

The date changes at 12:00, of course. Since both the pillar and the block can't be on the same tile at the same time, the pillar goes on the tile at the top, and the block goes right below it (since the hour hand is shorter). This makes another door appear, which leads to a Warding Helmet.

Finally, the party climbs to the top floor of the tower, where they need to use the Sky key to enter. 1-24 "Shudder" plays up here.

Inside, the man who attacked Tanbel earlier stands guard over Hilda.

Boss time, again. Finally, we see that the guy's name is カミュ, a rendition of the French name Camus. Camus has some interesting attacks, though none unusually powerful, and he's also weak against thunder, which is nice since Tanbel sells swords with a thunder IP. He sometimes summons minions, which are just the creatures that appeared in Tanbel earlier. Before long, Camus goes down. Lucky players may win a Camus's Cryptolith, at a 3% drop rate.

There's no way to tell from the Japanese, at this point or for some time afterward, whether it's one god or several gods. Japanese doesn't usually distinguish between singular and plural, but since English almost always does, that makes it difficult to translate effectively here.

That's actually a nice change from the overdone "you're going to die anyway so I'll just go ahead and tell you everything I know" thing.

The tower begins shaking, "Despair" starts playing, and...

As he finishes his gloating, Camus finally dies and disappears, like a good little monster. :-P

Maxim and Tia run off to the door while Guy goes over to Hilda.

Guy and Hilda join up with Maxim and Tia by the door.

Suddenly, the shaking stops and the door opens.

Iris, the fortune teller, runs into the room.

Swing (スイング) is the teleportation spell used to jump between towns. The name was changed to "Warp" in the English version.

Iris teleports them all out of the tower...

...and Guy, Hilda, Maxim, and Tia appear at the entrance to Tanbel. Iris isn't with them. No music plays for the moment.

They all go inside. "Peace of Mind" plays. Guy puts Hilda in bed upstairs in their house...

...then sits down with Maxim and Tia at a nearby table.

A young woman walks upstairs and sits down next to Guy. She has long dark pink hair and wears a pale green dress that goes well with it.

Maxim's not making observations on Guy and Jessie, he's grumbling about how Tia doesn't believe in him the way Jessie believes in Guy.

Anyone else notice that Maxim and Tia don't click nearly as well as Guy and Jessie? This isn't the first indication of trouble, and it's hardly the last.

The formality stuff has some difficulty in translation. Japanese usage places a lot of emphasis on social status and politeness and such, and in short, Maxim has up until now been addressing Guy with deference. This is presumably because they've just recently met, because Guy is, at least locally, a person of some importance, and because Maxim tends to err on the side of caution (generally a good rule to follow). Guy apparently cares little for formality and is sick of it by now, so he says to cut it out.

This part's about the long form verb endings Maxim has been using around Guy, though it's an exaggeration to call it keigo (the extremely formal form of the language), as Guy does here.

It seems that "became a companion" is a more concrete, lasting sort of thing than "joined the party".

Credit goes to Artemis for figuring out what probably went wrong with this line in the NA version. In the compressed text, "Sundletan" is 0x0513 and "north" is 0x0613, so it would be simple for an error to occur here, making it say "on the way Sundletan" instead of "on the way north". Later proofreading (which apparently there was at least a little of) would then (mistakenly) correct that to "on the way to Sundletan" as it is in the final NA version, grammatically correct but with the wrong meaning.

The party leaves Tanbel and heads for the tower. Before passing through, they (ought to) raid the top floor for a Fire Dagger, Pearl Bracelet, and Camus's Armor. The armor has a fairly nice healing IP and solid defense along with a small attack boost, though it's too heavy for anyone so far except Guy to wear.

It's possible to come get the treasures before Hilda is kidnapped, but that means clearing the tower (minus the Camus battle) with just Maxim and Tia. Camus also resists fire, making the dagger less useful against him.

The barrier blocking the northern exit has vanished, so they pass through and continue north. Another small shrine blocks passage farther north, so they stop by the nearby village.