IX
By Caleb Irvin / September 14, 2026 / No Comments
1. 🏆 Unlock Pack-a-Punch
There are four god towers:
🌿 Danu
☀️ Ra
⚡ Zeus
❄️ Odin
At the top of each is a gong. Ring it to summon that god’s Champion.
Defeat the Champion and collect the head it leaves behind.
Once you have all four Champion heads, go underground to the Temple and place them on the four spikes surrounding the altar.
🔥 The heads burn.
Pack-a-Punch rises from the floor.
That’s your first major objective complete.
2. 🦂 Get the Death of Orion
You’re going to need IX’s Wonder Weapon, the Death of Orion.
The quest involves knocking down the flaming brazier near the Danu/Ra bridge, following its clue to find a stone head, using the Acid Trap on that head to obtain the Scorpion Key, and then using the key at the tree in the Danu Arboretum.
Place the Golden Vase underneath it and allow it to collect the poison.
Take that poison to the Mystery Box.
Poison the box → use it → receive:
🦂 DEATH OF ORION
Pack-a-Punching it turns it into:
⚡ SERKET’S KISS
You’ll need its charged attack later.
3. 🛡️ Build the Brazen Bull
You also need the Brazen Bull shield.
Its three components are found throughout the:
☀️ Ra Tower
⚡ Zeus Tower
❄️ Odin Tower
Take the three pieces to the workbench in The Pit.
Build:
🛡️ BRAZEN BULL
Keep it available because it’s required for a later puzzle.
4. 💀 Prepare Danu’s fertilizer
Now things get very BO4. 😂
You need three ingredients.
💀 Bone meal
Find the special blue skull with a symbol on its forehead inside the Temple.
Take it to the skull grinder in the Flooded Crypt.
Use three charged Death of Orion shots on the grinder.
Collect the bone meal.
🪵 Charcoal
Have an axe-throwing Gladiator hit one of the burning wooden pyres in the Arena.
A piece of wood falls off.
Pick it up and take it to Odin’s cauldron.
Leave it there long enough for it to become charcoal.
💩 Manure
Yes.
I’m afraid that’s actually part of the Easter Egg. 😂
Get the crowd’s affinity extremely low. Eventually they’ll throw the required material into the arena.
Pick it up.
5. 🌱 Make the fertilizer
Take:
Bone meal + Charcoal + Manure
to the bowl in the Zeus Tower area.
Place everything inside and let the mixture process.
Eventually you’ll be able to collect the fertilizer.
Take it to the Danu Arboretum and place it between the trees.
Wait for it to produce the required effect.
You’ll eventually see green smoke.
You need a Pack-a-Punched weapon with:
🔥 FIRE BOMB
Trigger Fire Bomb on a zombie directly over the fertilizer.
The screen changes and you’re sent into the Danu trial.
6. 🌿 Danu Trial
Work your way through the altered Danu Tower.
There are three corrupted red pods, one on each level.
Destroy each one while surviving the enemies.
Destroy all three and you’ll return to the normal map.
🌿 DANU COMPLETE.
7. 🐂 Find FOUR bull symbols
Now grab your Brazen Bull.
Four bull symbols have randomly spawned from a pool of possible locations around IX.
Possible areas include:
Arena
Danu Altar Room
Ra Burial Chamber
Danu Tunnel
Flooded Crypt
Temple
The Pit
Odin/Zeus entrance
Odin/Zeus bridge
Use the Brazen Bull’s ranged attack on each symbol.
Every successful symbol summons a special Gladiator.
Defeat all four.
Their energy travels toward Ra.
8. ☀️ RA-MON SAYS
Head to the top of the Ra Tower.
Interact with the illuminated obelisk.
Pay VERY close attention.
It shows four symbols, one at a time.
Each represents a special enemy type, such as a:
🐅 Tiger
🪓 Axe Gladiator
💪 Brawler
👹 Blightfather
🔥⚡ Catalyst type
Write down the order.
Now defeat those four special enemies in exactly that order.
⚠️ Killing the wrong special enemy can reset the attempt.
After completing the first sequence, you’ll receive another four-symbol sequence.
Memorize it and repeat the process.
Complete both correctly.
☀️ RA COMPLETE.
9. ⚡ Raise the FOUR lightning poles
Return underground.
Four poles are hidden around:
Danu Tunnel
Odin Tunnel
Collapsed Tunnel
Cursed Room
Activate/shoot the appropriate mechanisms to raise all four poles into the Arena.
10. ⚡ Charge the poles
You’ll want a Pack-a-Punched weapon with:
⚡ KILL-O-WATT
Four electrical circles correspond to the raised poles.
Get Kill-O-Watt zombie eliminations inside the circles to charge them.
Continue until all four are completed.
This unlocks the next trial.
11. ⚡ Zeus trial
Enter the Zeus portion of the challenge.
Survive the encounter and complete its objective.
Once you’ve finished:
⚡ ZEUS COMPLETE.
Three gods down.
One remaining.
12. 🌊 Odin symbol puzzle
Go underground.
There are three groups of hidden symbols that need to be hit using charged shots from the Death of Orion/Serket’s Kiss.
The trick is getting the correct angle through the environment.
Complete all three sets successfully.
Then head toward:
THE PIT.
13. ☠️ THE PIT LOCKDOWN
Interact with the metal grate in The Pit.
In co-op, everyone needs to interact.
You’ll enter a brutal lockdown.
The game throws waves of enemies at you, including heavy special enemies.
Clear everything.
When you’ve survived the entire encounter, collect the key.
❄️ ODIN COMPLETE.
And that’s all four gods.
⚠️ BOSS-FIGHT PREPARATION
Don’t jump into the portal immediately.
Get yourself ready.
I’d recommend having your strongest upgraded gear, Serket’s Kiss, the Brazen Bull, full perks, specialist charge, and as much ammo as possible.
When you’re ready, return to the Arena.
A:
🔴 RED PORTAL
appears.
Enter it.
🏟️ 14. THE ARENA
You’re transported into the final version of the arena.
Before the actual bosses arrive, you’ll have to survive waves of:
🐅 Tigers
⚔️ Gladiators
🧟 Zombies
Keep clearing them.
Then you’ll hear something enormous approaching…
🐘 BOSS #1 — FURY
And suddenly IX decides normal Zombies bosses aren’t enough.
IT SENDS IN A WAR ELEPHANT. 😂
🐘 FURY
Focus your attacks on the elephant’s armored weak points.
Break the armor to expose vulnerable areas.
Continue dealing damage until Fury falls.
But we’re not finished.
Because apparently one giant armored elephant wasn’t enough.
🐘🐘 BOSS #2 — WRATH
The second elephant enters:
WRATH
Same basic idea:
Break armor → expose vulnerable areas → damage → keep moving → repeat.
You’ll also have enemies swarming the arena, so don’t tunnel-vision entirely on the elephant.
Keep dealing damage until…
💥 WRATH FALLS.
🏆 VENERATED WARRIOR
The arena falls silent.
The quest completes and the Chaos storyline moves forward.