The Hunt

• Weeping Creek Valley
• Early — wagon chase
• Story
• 2 phases
• Difficulty 3/5

The Hunt is a story encounter in Weeping Creek Valley, fought during the early — wagon chase stretch of Phantom Blade Zero. It drops no weapon, so the reward is the route it opens rather than the loot.

Also written as The Hunt boss, Hunt Hunter of the Order, Hunt Sixfold Scythe. Same encounter — launch-week guides spell the name inconsistently.

At a glance

What this fight tests

Dual chain sickles at mid range. This is the first fight where the enemy out-ranges you, so the lesson is closing distance on your terms rather than trading at the tip of his arc.

How to beat The Hunt

1. Stay inside the sickle arc. The chain weapons are weakest at contact range, which is the opposite of how the fight feels.
2. The multi-phase structure checkpoints at the transition. If phase two is killing you, you are not losing phase-one progress.
3. Two later encounters reuse the same skeleton with different weapon sets — Hunter of the Order and Sixfold Scythe. What you learn here transfers directly.

The loop underneath all of it is the same one every boss uses: parry the blue flash, Ghoststep the red one, drain Sha-Chi, then punish the stagger with Power Surge. Phase transitions are invulnerable — heal and reposition instead of swinging into them. And dying in a later phase restarts you at that phase, not at the beginning, so you can throw attempts at the hard half.

The mistake most players make

Backing away to heal. The chain reaches further than your roll, so retreating is the one movement that reliably gets you hit.

Where The Hunt sits in the roster

There are at least 50 bosses across six regions, many of them optional. This one is part of the Weeping Creek Valley block.

• Iron Mask Killer
• Zuo Shang
• Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute — drops Jagged Steel (main weapon)
• Peng Meng — drops Dread Axe (Phantom Edge)
• The Gold-Masked One