// Threat assessment

Bosses

Each region of a run ends in a Boss Hazard Zone. Bosses have high poise — break it with heavy attacks and Authority skills to open a stagger window. Values below are base stats before difficulty scaling.

"Sledgehammer" Blake artwork

// Chapter 1 · Sector 7

"Sledgehammer" Blake

  • HP2,000
  • Poise400
  • Tier20
  • Power rating300

Before the Infurno, Sector 7 was overcrowded and chaotic, nothing like the desolate place it is now. Blake's Repair Shop was one of the businesses there, specializing in light motorcycle repairs. "Sledgehammer" Blake once owned the shop. How an ordinary man…

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Contaminated Test Subject artwork

// Chapter 1 · Sector 7

Contaminated Test Subject

  • HP1,800
  • Poise400
  • Tier20
  • Power rating300

The now-destroyed Old District was once the industrial heart of Sector 7. Major companies like Noah Heavy Industries and Advent Pharmaceuticals rose from here. Then, on what should have been an ordinary morning, a chain of violent explosions tore through the…

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Grimes artwork

// Chapter 1 · Sewers

Grimes

  • HP3,400
  • Poise400
  • Tier20
  • Power rating300

Advent Pharmaceuticals merged with NDS and secretly launched a research project codenamed Grimes, aimed at finding a way to harness HIEROS-I contamination at its critical threshold. The idea was that, under the right conditions, life exposed to HIEROS-I…

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Amalgamated Slime artwork

// Chapter 1 · Sewers

Amalgamated Slime

  • HP900
  • Poise600
  • Tier20
  • Power rating300

Ordinary Slimes may devour and fuse with one another, but they struggle to maintain a large, stable form. Inside an Amalgamated Slime, however, floats a highly concentrated HIEROS-I energy core. The energy it continuously releases binds the otherwise loose…

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// Chapter 2 · Tranquil Forest

Glimmerscale Venomwing

  • HP4,000
  • Attack20
  • Poise1,000
  • Tier20
  • Power rating300

Above the forest canopy, a shadow sometimes flashes past—the Glimmerscale Venomwing on patrol. Its body is made up of tens of thousands of crystalline scales, their colors constantly shifting as it moves through the air.

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Erik the Betrayer artwork

// Chapter 1 · Land of Terminus

Erik the Betrayer

  • HP13,600
  • Attack50
  • Poise400
  • Tier20
  • Power rating300

Timehacker, you have no right to look upon me.

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// Spoilers · from the game files

Secret & endgame bosses

These bosses exist in the demo data tables. Some are only reachable through secret routes; others are not in the demo yet.

The Timehacker Ye appears as a secret boss in the demo.

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