Rex Infernus:
Main Quest

Two optional steps

Cleansing the temples

The four temples can then be cleansed in any order, one at a time: the three pillars of the Nexus Forge outside the temple must first be aligned, which shows when a light enters the mouth of the Shadowsmith head at its entrance. Each cleansing follows the same pattern:

1. Find the offering of the temple and lay it in the brazier of its Main Chamber, then light the brazier with an Astral Flame. A mist settles on a nearby zombie.
2. Kill that zombie with a Titan Trap.
3. In the Main Chamber, move the square plate of the floor with the action the temple asks for, then raise the circular plate under it with a charged shot of the Warden’s Blight.
4. Turn the plate so its light points at the right wall, and kill zombies to feed it souls until the wall breaks open on a statue.
5. Shoot the statue: a lockdown starts, and every Shadow Soul that appears must be killed. Shoot the statue again to end it.
6. Pull a purple orb under the head of the temple with the Void Claw, raise it into the head with a charged shot, and on a rain round shoot an Astral Flame at it. Lightning strikes and the temple is cleansed.

The Warden

In the Nexus Core under the Pack-a-Punch, each player stands in one of four circles to go down into the arena. The Warden fights as a giant scorpion.

The Warden

He charges the players and throws them off the arena, then summons Warden’s Stingers from the ground and a red disc that bombards them. Destroying the Dread Skulls that float around him stuns him and opens a weak spot at the tip of his tail for a few seconds; the bolts of the Warden’s Blight seek the Dread Skulls on their own.

The jail

A player who dies to a Dread Skull is sent to a cell, where an HVT has to be killed or a timer survived, and comes back with sixty seconds of speed. A second death is final. At the start of the third phase every player is jailed at once.

Four phases

Two Dread Skulls in the first; Stingers, Shadow Souls that make him immune, the red disc and three skulls in the second; four skulls and a wipe attack of the Stingers, stopped by destroying three of them, in the third. Brought down, the Warden drains Ava Jansen and comes back with a third of his health for a fourth phase.

Shadowsmith Blessings

From the second phase, power-ups on pedestals around the arena, one for each Shadowsmith beaten on the earlier maps: Veytharion’s Blessing gives three more perks, Caltheris‘ Blessing a full Field Upgrade and refilled equipment. The Void Claw can be taken from two pedestals as often as needed.

The Warden dead, the ending cutscene plays. A team that goes on playing is sent back to the Nexus Forge with every perk and a pile of loot: Bonus Points, Aether Tools, Aetherium Crystals, Legendary weapons, Salvage and a random wonder weapon.

The ending

Ava Jansen

With the Warden gone, the Entity is free and shows who she is: Ava Jansen, the future daughter of Samantha Maxis and Elizabeth Grey.

Going home

Ava sends Weaver, Grey and Carver back to their world, where they prepare her future before their deaths in Zaravan with Oskar Strauss; Maya goes to a world where her brother Nathan is alive; Dempsey, Nikolai, Takeo and Richtofen leave for a new adventure. Ava and the Twins stay in the Nexus.

Rewards