Doing the turtle quest on level 2 is nice, but looking and calinda's save, I don't think he did that. There's quite a bunch of quests completed before lyaro island, and maybe just as right - having as much +XP items before fighting the turtle gives a rather handsome XP boost. I also saw that it takes some time to go to lyaro and back, so that quest is probably best completed at the end of day 1 so that you don't lose a day traveling.
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