The Hunt Boss Guide - Hunter's Chain Sickle Location

Who Is The Hunt?

The Hunt is the capstone boss of Weeping Creek Valley and one of the most important fights in Phantom Blade Zero’s opening act. The prize is not just progression — it is the Hunter’s Chain Sickle, a Phantom Edge that permanently changes how you move through the world.

If Maskwalker Jagged Steel was the game’s combat exam, The Hunt is its traversal gate.

How to Unlock the Fight

Clear Weeping Creek Valley’s main route, including the Maskwalker Jagged Steel encounter earlier in the region. The Hunt’s arena opens at the valley’s end. Stock up on healing medicine and make sure your weapon of choice is Soul Tempered if you have materials — the fight assumes you understand both parry timings and Ghoststep cancels.

Attack Patterns and How to Respond

The Hunt fights like its name: fast lunges, gap-closers, and feints designed to bait early parries.

• Blue-flash lunges — parry these on reaction. The Hunt recovers slowly from parried lunge attacks, giving you a reliable punish loop.
• Red-flash pounces — unblockable. Ghoststep through the pounce, then counter while it reorients.
• Summon phase — at reduced health, The Hunt calls in lesser beasts. Do not ignore them; the adds pressure your Sha-Chi gauge and punish greedy boss focus. Clear them with wide swings or a Phantom Edge special.

Strategy

The single biggest adjustment for this fight is patience with parry timing. The Hunt’s startup animations are deliberately jerky — a twitch, a pause, then the real hit. Players who parry on the twitch eat the attack. Wait for the color flash itself; the parry window is generous when you react to the flash rather than the animation.

Keep a third of your Sha-Chi gauge in reserve for emergencies. The Hunt’s combos are long, and a Breached state mid-combo against a fast boss is usually fatal. If your gauge runs low, back off and let the adds chase you into a corner where you can kill them safely to rebuild resources.

Rewards

• Hunter’s Chain Sickle — a Phantom Edge equipped to R2 that grapples Soul across gaps no jump can clear.
• Access to previously unreachable areas across all eight regions, including routes tied to the true ending requirements.

Why the Chain Sickle Matters Beyond Traversal

The sickle’s real endgame value comes from Soul Tempering. Upgrading it with the Alloyed Scythe Blade grants Gleaming Hook, which adds Bleed build-up to every grapple attack. Paired with the Jagged Steel (which fills Bleed even through blocks) and the Livingwood Talisman (which lets Bleed proc on Puppets), the tempered sickle anchors one of the strongest builds in the game.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does The Hunt drop in Phantom Blade Zero? The Hunter’s Chain Sickle, a traversal Phantom Edge that unlocks grapple points across the world’s eight regions.

Is The Hunt a hard boss? It is a moderate difficulty spike — faster than Jagged Steel but with cleaner punish windows. Learning to parry on the color flash rather than the animation is the key skill it teaches.

Source: community-verified launch day data (October 29, 2026).