Slaughterhouse



The Slaughterhouse is a battle arena in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII located in Yusnaan, where Lightning can combat opponents to win items. There will be no downloadable battles.

Contests of skill are held from 7 PM each night until 3 AM the next morning. Entering a Slaughterhouse tournament will consume ten minutes of time. If the player wins, they get a reward. If the player cannot win, they must use Escape to flee. When losing a battle one will not only lose the ten minutes, but fleeing via Escape is also penalized. Slaughterhouse battles do not give battle spoils.

Slaughterhouse Matches
Matches in the Slaughterhouse are only available for a certain time, and even the item acquired will change as time passes. The following is an example of one nights matches.

The Fighting Actress
As part of the Yusnaan main quest, 2-2 The Legend of the Savior, after delivering the Fireworks to the Pyrotechnician Boss at the Augur's Quarter, Lightning speaks with the director who asks her to get a garb for the night's play from the Slaughterhouse. Next Lightning must speak with Zoe at the Slaughterhouse, and she signs her for a tournament.

After winning all three matches, Lightning obtains the Midnight Mauve garb.

Battle's Bounty

 * It appears that one of the soul fragments is in Yusnaan's battle arena, the Slaughterhouse. Rumors are flying that a "special match" is being held with a most unusual prize being offered to the winner. Could that prize be the soul fragment? There's only one way to find out...


 * Lightning emerges victorious in the battle arena special match and claims the Fragment of Courage as her prize. One question lingers, though. How did Zoe of the Slaughterhouse get the fragment in the first place? Could she have looted it from the body of a losing contestant?

As part of the Wildlands main quest, 5-1 Father and Son, Lightning must take part in a special battle against a Zaltys in the Slaughterhouse. Winning the match yields the Fragment of Courage.

Treasures

 * Dispel Lv. 2 (behind vegetation in northwest corner)

Trivia

 * When Lightning successfully completes a battle, crowd can be heard cheering the traditional "Victory Fanfare" instead of an original victory fanfare composition from the trilogy.
 * The enemies fought in the Slaughterhouse have slightly different names from their regular 'versions': Gremlin goes by the name "Ghost Gremlin", Anubys goes by the name "Anubys of the Abyss", Zaltys goes by the name "Zaltys Brimstone". This is possibly to indicate that defeating enemies in the Slaughterhouse isn't connected with the Last One gameplay element.