Venerated Warrior

The main quest for the map IX is called Venerated Warrior. The main goal of this quest for our Chaos story crew is to summon and defeat the Venerated Warrior.

Requirements

This main quest can be done with any number of players, but requires a few items to fully complete this quest:

• Death of Orion (can also be found in the Mystery Box)

• Hellion Salvo

• Homunculus

While the Hellion Salvo and Homunculus are not truly required to complete this main quest, we have included them as a requirement because of how powerful both of these items are, and they will make your time doing this main quest much more enjoyable and achievable.

Recommended Class Setups

Recommended Elixirs

Step 1: Blood Must Flow

When you spawn on the map, knife one of the ropes of one of the four flags around the arena to start your trials. Complete three of these trials to obtain a Pack-a-Punched Strife which will help you open Pack-a-Punch and give you the Acid Pot part that will be used later in the main quest.

Once you have your Pack-a-Punched Strife head to each of the four towers and summon their champions by interacting with a gong on the top floor of each tower, after killing a champion, collect their head by walking over it, and once you have all four heads, make your way to the Temple below the map and place the heads on the stakes to unlock Pack-a-Punch.

While you are doing this you can simultaneously work on building the Brazen Bull which is the shield for this map.

Step 2: Purge the Blight

Powder

Head to the Temple, you must find a skull with a blue symbol on its forehead hidden within the walls of skulls around the Temple. Once you find this skull, activate your Special Weapon to pop the skull out of place allowing you to collect this skull. There are eight locations for this skull which are shown in the image below:

Once you have the skull, head to the Flooded Crypt and place the skull in the grinder. Once inside, shoot the grinder with a charged shot of the Death of Orion to grind the skull. When the electricity fades away, shoot another charged shot, then repeat one more time for a total of three charged shots to fully grind the skull into a powder you must collect from the grinder.

If you have Pack-a-Punched the Death of Orion into the Serket's Kiss, then you will only need two charged shots to fully grind the skull

Wood

Head to the Arena and wait for an axe-throwing Gladiator to spawn, once spawned bait the Gladiator to throw an axe at one of the two wooden piers, knocking a piece of wood off of it you must collect.

Once collected, bring the piece of wood to the Odin Tower: Cauldron and place it in one of the holders to start burning the wood. You must wait two full rounds for the wood to fully burn allowing you to re-collect the piece of wood from the Cauldron.

Poop

Head to the Arena, you must obtain bad Crowd Affinity (red thumbs down) by running through the fire, shooting the crowd, or throwing grenades at the crowd (Wraith Fires do not work). Afterward, the crowd will throw a pile of poop into the Arena you must collect.

Once you have all three items, head to the Zeus Tower: Bath House, place the items into the bowl on the side of the bathhouse, and wait for another two full non-special rounds. Afterward, the fertilizer should be smoking green indicating that it is ready for use.

Head to the Danu Tower: Arboretum, place the fertilizer on the skeleton on the ground between the two trees in the middle of the room, and wait another two full non-special rounds. Afterward, the fertilizer should be smoking green indicating that it is ready for use and you must acquire the Fire Bomb ammo mod by re-packing your weapon to get this effect and kill a zombie using this effect when it is standing over the fertilizer.

Once that has been done, all players in the game must stand on the fertilizer for around 15 seconds until they receive a white flash and are transported into a dark alternate version of the Danu Tower.

You must destroy three red orbs inside this alternate version, one on each tower floor. The Hellion Salvo is recommended here with the Stock Option elixir to take care of these orbs easily, you can also throw Homunculus to distract the zombies while you damage the orbs.

Once completed, you will receive another white flash and will be transported back into the normal version of the Danu Tower, completing this step.

Obtaining the Death of Orion

Head to the Danu-Ra Temple Entrance, look into the window between the two tower entrances, and shoot the flaming bowl with any weapon, knocking the bowl over and spawning an item on the map you must collect.

Head to the Stone Bridge connecting the Danu and Ra towers, while on this bridge, look out towards the Arena, and below the bridge will be a flaming arrow pointing at one of the four towers, indicating where the item is located.

Go into this tower and collect the item. The item only has one spawn location per tower:

After collecting the item, you must build the Acid Trap which requires three parts two of which are located inside the Temple and are in the same spots every game:

The final part is obtained from completing three of the trial challenges, which you should have already done, and can be collected from the Challenge Pedestal in the middle of the Arena.

Once you have all three parts head to the entrance of either Danu or Ra's tower and build the Acid Trap on the skull on the side of the entrance. Afterward, interact with the metal grate in front of the Acid Trap to place down the item you collected from one of the three towers, and activate the Acid Trap.

Once the trap has ended, a key will be revealed on the metal grate you must collect. You will then have to keep good Crowd Affinity (green thumbs up) for an entire round, which can obtained by performing well inside the Arena, completing trials, and not getting hit by the fire or zombies. If successful, when you end the round you will hear "A gift from Serket" and the crowd will throw a golden cup into the Arena you must collect.

Head to the Danu Tower: Arboretum and knife the hole in the tree to place the key, then interact with the ground below the key placing the golden cup and extracting poison from the tree. You must wait for another full round for this cup to be filled, afterward, you must collect the cup head to the Mystery Box, and interact with the corner of the Mystery Box to poison it, guaranteeing your next box spin to be the Death of Orion wonder weapon.

Step 3: Answer the Dawn

Around the map are four bull symbols you must ignite using the Brazen Bull's primary fire, after igniting a symbol a Gladiator will spawn that you must kill to have its soul absorbed by Ra. There are nine total locations where a bull symbol can spawn:

Once all four Gladiators have been killed, head to the Ra Altar Room and interact with the obelisk with a symbol on it. A white flash will occur and the obelisk will begin showing four symbols you must remember in the order they appear. These symbols correspond to a special enemy type on the map you must kill in the order shown on the obelisk. Use the image below to help identify which special zombies you need to kill.

Once completed, a white flash will occur, and you must do this one more time with a new set of symbols to complete this step. The recommended way to complete this step is to wait a few seconds to let the enemies spawn in, activate your Special Weapon and clear out any normal zombies, then use your Special Weapon's melee ability to target the specific special enemies.

This step cannot be done on Special Rounds. If you kill a special enemy out of order, you must flip round to try again. Also, Fire Zombies must be killed by a player, if they explode on their own that will fail the step.

Building the Brazen Bull

The Brazen Bull requires three parts to be built and each part has three locations it can spawn.

The first part is the Bull, which can be found in the Ra Altar Room:

The second part is the Spear, which can be found in the Zeus Tower:

The final part is the Plat, which can be found in the Odin Tower:

Once all three parts have been collected, head to The Pit and build the Brazen Bull on the workbench there.

Step 4: Summon the Storm

Head to the Arena and when ready, interact with the Challenge Pedestal to be teleported underground. You must find four metal rods and shoot them until they disappear. These rods are located:

The easiest way to complete this is by using the Brazen Bull's primary fire, or by using the Hellion Salvo

Once completed, re-pack one of your weapons until you get the Kill-O-Watt ammo mod, then head back up to the Arena where you will find four electrical circles in the four corners of the Arena. You must shock enemies using Kill-O-Watt and kill them while they are stunned inside one of the circles to transfer the electricity into the metal rods until fully charged.

The easiest way to complete this is by killing Gladiators within these circles, as only two Gladiators are required to completely fill a single rod.

Once completed, there will be four blue orbs in the bowls near the Challenge Podium. When ready, all players in the game must interact with an orb causing a white flash and repeatedly spawning Gladiators. You must kill all Gladiators and Tigers that spawn and only when all are killed will you receive a white flash, completing this step.

During this, killing any enemy will completely refill your Special Weapon. This means as long as you are killing things with your Special Weapon you can have it out for the entire duration of this step.

Step 5: Channel the Flood

You must shoot three sets of three symbols around the underground of the map, and each set of symbols needs to be shot with one single shot of the Serket's Kiss (pack-a-punched Death of Orion). Use the images and descriptions below to help you line up these trick shots:

If hit successfully, the symbols will stay lit up. If you struggle to hit these symbols keep trying and adjust your aim ever so slightly until you hit the right spot.

Once all three sets of symbols have been successfully hit, head to The Pit and have all players in the game stand on the pressure plate just behind the metal grate just to the left of the Brazen Bull workbench for about 10 Seconds until you see a white flash. This starts a three-phase lockdown, where you must survive against zombies and special zombies.

If you have Victorious Tortoise, you can abuse the shield during this lockdown since you are right next to the Brazen Bull workbench and can buy a new shield anytime your shield breaks, allowing for an easy time during this lockdown.

Once all phases are done, interact with the metal grate to pick a key and a white flash will occur, indicating the completion of this step.

Step 6: Fury and Wrath

Prepare for the final boss fight, fully pack-a-punch your weapons, get all your perks, get the Hellion Salvo and Homunculus out of the box if you haven't already, and get a fresh shield before going into the boss fight

Head to the Arena and there will be a portal opposite of where you spawn. All players in the game must interact with this portal to be teleported into the boss arena for a three-phase boss fight.

Phase 1

You must survive against a ton of Gladiators and Tigers. The Hellion Salvo and Serket's Kiss are good for taking care of these enemies and Max Ammos will spawn during this boss fight so you don't have to worry about being conservative.

Phase 2

After a while of killing Gladiators and Tigers a giant Elephant will come storming into the boss arena. Throw a Homunculus to distract the zombies, activate your Stock Option elixir, and rain fire on the critical points of the Elephant to break off its armor plating.

Once the armor plating is destroyed, throw another Homunculus and rain fire on the forehead of the Elephant to do massive damage to the Elephant until it is defeated. During this state, the Elephant does have an attack that can instantly kill you if you aren't aware of it. If you see the Elephant charging up, pull out your shield and stay on the move to avoid this attack, and if you happen to get hit Dying Wish or Victorious Tortoise with the shield out will save you.

Phase 3

After defeating the first Elephant, another Elephant will come storming into the arena. This Elephant is no different than the Phase 2 Elephant, so just repeat what you did for Phase 2, until the elephant is defeated completing this boss fight, and the main quest.

Congratulations! You have beaten the IX main quest: Venerated Warrior.

Video Guides

Solo Guide by CodeNamePizza

Solo Guide by Joltz

Co-op Guide by MrRoflWaffles

Credits

Some images were sourced from the following community members:

• CodeNamePizza

• Kalinine

• Joltz