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Level 7 The Demon Walkthrough

The Legend of Zelda 100% Completion Walkthrough14 chapters
Walkthrough overview
  • The GatheringGet the Wooden Sword, buy bombs, take your first Heart Container, collect early rupees and buy the Blue Candle.
  • Money Caves, the Red Potion and the Blue RingMoney cave payouts, the Blue Candle, a Heart Container gift, the Magical Shield for 90, Red Potion for 68.
  • Level 1 The EagleKeys, Bow, Boomerang, Dungeon Map, Compass, the Aquamentus boss, and the Heart Container.
  • Level 2 The MoonReach the entrance, get the Magical Boomerang and Map, then beat Dodongo for a Heart Container and a Triforce piece.
  • Level 3 The ManjiTake its keys, the Raft, Compass and Map, then defeat Manhandla for a Heart Container and the third Triforce piece.
  • Level 4 The SnakeLevel 4 The Snake walkthrough with the lake route, keys and dark rooms, Stepladder.
  • The Magical Sword and the Medicine ShopThe graveyard cave with the Magical Sword, the three-staircase warp cave.
  • Level 5 The LizardReach the statue cave on the Lost Hills, collect small keys, and buy the 100-rupee bomb upgrade that raises bomb.
  • Level 6 The DragonKeys, the Magical Rod, Gleeok mini-boss and Gohma boss tactics for its Heart Container and sixth Triforce piece.
  • The Potion Shop and the Ring Shop AgainBuy the Red Potion and the Monster Bait between Level 6 and Level 7 in The Legend of Zelda NES.
  • Level 7 The DemonRecorder entrance, bomb upgrade, Monster Bait, Red Candle, Map, Compass, Aquamentus and Triforce piece 7.
  • Level 8 The LionBurn the entrance bush, get the Book of Magic and Magical Key, then beat four-headed Gleeok for its Heart Container.
  • Level 9 Death MountainReach Spectacle Rock, clear the skull-shaped dungeon, and get its Map, Compass, Red Ring and Silver Arrows.
  • The EndingBeat Ganon in his dark room with a Silver Arrow after the sword hits, take the Triforce of Power.
Coversthe lake entrance, the Level 7 Demon labyrinth, and the boss room and Triforce room at its end
DungeonLevel 7 (Demon): Recorder to open the entrance, Monster Bait for the hungry Goriya, Aquamentus as boss, Triforce piece 7
RewardsRed Candle, Map, Compass, bomb upgrade (100 rupees, bombs 12 to 16), small keys, Heart Container from Aquamentus, Triforce piece 7

Level 7 is the Demon labyrinth. Bring the Recorder, Monster Bait and a supply of bombs. Open the entrance from the lake with the Recorder, clear the keys and rooms, buy the bomb upgrade for 100 rupees, feed the Monster Bait to the hungry Goriya, collect the Compass, Map and Red Candle, then beat Aquamentus for a Heart Container and the seventh piece of the Triforce.

Purple lake drained to a sand patch with a staircase in its centre
Green Level 7 room with rows of blue blocks and a doorway in the bottom wall

Reach the Level 7 entrance

Recorder

Play the Recorder at the lake

The entrance is hidden in the lake at C5, the lake with no fairy, which you reach from the ring shop. Stand at the water’s edge and play the Recorder. The lake drains away and a staircase appears in a sand patch where the water was. Walk onto the stairs to go down into Level 7.

Link stands at the edge of the purple lake before the Recorder is played
Drained lake with the staircase in the sand patch and Link on the sand

Clear the first green room

Level 7 opens in a green room with diamond-shaped blocks on the floor. Red Goriyas are the main enemies you meet in this labyrinth. Keep moving through the room and clear the enemies that come at you.

Orange segmented Digdoggers in a green room with diamond-shaped blocks
Orange Digdogger segments winding across the diamond-block room

Small keys and the dark rooms

Small Key

Collect the floor keys

Green rooms in Level 7 hold small keys lying on the floor. Walk over every key you can reach, because you need them for the locked doors along the way. Your key count rises to four and then five as you pick them up.

Link in a green room with a key count of four in the HUD
Small key lying in the centre of a green room floor with four keys held

Clear the dark rooms

Dark rooms hold groups of blue bats, which are Keese. Clear them before you try the doors, because the doors stay shut until the room is empty. Bomb any wall that looks flat, because the labyrinth hides passages behind several of them.

Group of blue Keese bats gathered in a dark room with Link below
Blue Keese bats spread across a dark room as Link moves across it

Bomb upgrade for 100 rupees

Bomb

Buy four more bombs

Unlock the door to the room with three fires and an old man at the centre. He offers four more bombs for 100 rupees. Stand in front of him and buy the upgrade. Your bomb count goes from 12 to 16, and your rupees drop by 100, so bring at least 100 rupees into this room.

Old man in the three-fire room offers more bombs for 100 rupees, the line typed out in full
Link in the three-fire room with the bomb count at sixteen

Feed the hungry Goriya

Use the Monster Bait

Further in, a room with three fires holds a Goriya that grumbles and blocks the way forward. Move up to it and select the Monster Bait on the B button. Use it on the Goriya. The Goriya leaves the room, and the path opens.

Grumbling Goriya in the three-fire room blocking the way forward
Link holds the Monster Bait up over his head toward the Goriya in the three-fire room
The three-fire room after the Goriya has left, with the path open

You carry the Monster Bait from the ring shop on the previous stretch. Without it, this room is a dead end, so check your inventory before you enter.

Link walks into the three-fire room where the Goriya grumbles
Link approaches the grumbling Goriya in the three-fire room with the Monster Bait on the B button

Compass, Map and Red Candle

Compass

Get the Compass through the top wall

Find the dark room with Keese and a ring of blocks in its centre. Bomb the top wall of that room, and a passage opens to a shortcut room. The Compass lies in that room, so take it before you go back.

Blue Keese and other enemies in the dark room, with Link's boomerang and a sword beam in flight
Link at the bottom door of the dark room with blue Keese above and a small red heart near the centre

Find the Map above the Goriya room

The Map is in the room directly above the hungry Goriya’s room. From the map room, go into the room to the right and bomb its right wall. Go through the right passage, defeat the Goriyas in the room beyond, push the leftmost block aside, and walk down the stairwell you find.

Link in a green Level 7 room with two tan beasts and clusters of purple blocks
Blue Goriyas throwing boomerangs across a green Level 7 room
Red Candle

Take the Red Candle below the stairs

Below the stairwell you find the Red Candle, the main item of Level 7. Unlike the Blue Candle, it can place more than one fire in an area at the same time. Return to the room above and bomb its right wall to reach the next room.

Digdoggers in the sand rooms

Digdogger

Defeat each Digdogger in full

Sand rooms deeper in the labyrinth hold stronger Digdoggers. The Recorder‘s melody weakens a Digdogger, and the stronger one splits into three smaller pieces when it is hit that way. Defeat every piece before the room lets you move on.

Orange segmented Digdoggers across a sand room with Link at the bottom
Orange Digdogger segments crawling across the sand room as Link moves
Link in the sand room with a Digdogger segment near the centre

Aquamentus and the Heart Container

Boss of this level: Aquamentus

Enter the boss room

The boss of Level 7 is Aquamentus, the green dragon that also guards the Level 1 Triforce piece. It fires energy orbs from its horn. Use the same plan as Level 1: strike between the orbs, and never block them with a regular shield, because the orbs hurt you when you do.

Green dragon Aquamentus fires a blue energy orb from its horn in the diamond room
Aquamentus at the right wall of the diamond room as Link advances to strike

Strike the head six times with the Wooden Sword, or three times with the White Sword. Sword beams can hit any part of the dragon’s body, so fire them when you have full health.

Link fires a sword beam toward Aquamentus across the diamond room
Link's sword beam reaching the head of Aquamentus
Heart Container

Collect the Heart Container

Defeating Aquamentus gives you a Heart Container, which takes you from fourteen hearts to fifteen. Walk over the item where the dragon fell to take it before you leave the room.

Red heart lying on the floor where Aquamentus fell
Link crosses the boss room after taking the red heart, with the floor now empty

Triforce piece 7

Take the piece in the room to the right

Go through the door on the right side of the boss room into the next room. The seventh Triforce piece lies on the floor in the middle of this room as a small triangle.

Small triangle on the floor of the next room as Link enters through the left door
Small triangle on the floor at the centre of the room with Link below it

Walk onto the piece and Link lifts it over his head. Your Triforce count goes up by one, and you are done with the labyrinth.

Link holds the small triangle over his head after lifting it
Link holds the purple triangle high above his head in the green room

Leave Level 7

Head back to the overworld

Walk back out of the room through the nearest door and head for the overworld. Your key count is down to one by this point.

Link walks toward the exit of the green room with the triangle room shrinking around him
Purple lake with four boulders on the overworld after leaving Level 7

Chapter checklist

TypeNameWhereNotes
ItemRed Candle Red Candlestairwell below the room of the Goriyas, reached through the right passageplaces more than one fire at a time
ItemMaproom directly above the hungry Goriya‘s roomshows the labyrinth layout
ItemCompass Compassshortcut room behind the bombed top wall of the dark Keese roomdungeon item
UpgradeBomb upgradeold man’s room with three firesbombs 12 to 16; costs 100 rupees
ItemMonster Baitused on the hungry Goriyabought in the hidden ring shop on the previous stretch
Keyssmall keysfloors of the green and dark roomskey count up to five at its peak
Heart Container Heart ContainerHeart Container Heart Containerboss room, where Aquamentus fallsboss reward
Triforce TriforceTriforce piece 7room to the right of the boss roomseventh piece of the Triforce

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