There Archon Be Only One

There Archon Be Only One is the Main Quest of the map The Archon in Call of Duty: Vanguard. It involves the Allied Special Forces returning to Egypt and complete the trials of the Construct to defeat Kortifex.
A shovel is required for some steps in the quest, and can be found in a train car in the Derailment.
==Step 1: The Ritual==
To start the ritual, the Pack-a-Punch needs to be rebuilt at the Temple. Two parts are required, with one part located on top of a train car in the Derailment and the other on top of a plane wing in the Spike. Once all the parts are collected, the player needs to interact with the Pack-a-Punch to start the ritual which turns all the ghostly zombies and Sturmkrieger located around the area into real enemies.
The Pack-a-Punch now acts as a soul box and the enemies have to be killed near the machine to collect their souls. Once enough souls have been collected, the Pack-a-Punch becomes available and a stone will appear in front of it.
==Step 2: The Relic==
Placing the Relic Mirror on the stone will trigger a conversation between the different characters before Kortifex appears in front of the player to show them that he is now free. As the conversation continues, Kortifex will disappear and the player will need to enter a portal leading to the Corrupted Lands of the Dark Aether. Inside the Dark Aether, Kortifex can be seen communing with the Construct with more zombies spawning. At some point, the Construct will down the player, without impacting their Self-Revive count, and send them back to the Temple to complete its trials.
The Dark Aether portal at the Temple is now locked by three chains, each representing a trial.
==Step 3: The Trials==
The player need to complete three trials, each taking place in a specific area marked with an obelisk.
===Trial of Mindfulness===
To start the Trial of Mindfulness, a challenge needs to be completed first. Using the shovel, the player needs to dig around the area in Merchant Road to spawn a red orb. When interacting with the orb, several symbols will appear followed by several runes featuring symbols on the ground. The player will need to capture the runes featuring the same symbols shown by the orb and in the same order.
If successful, the player will need to survive for less than a minute with a specific condition. The player needs to do the challenge two more times with more symbols appearing each time.
Once the challenges are done, the orb will move to the obelisk which can be interacted with to start the trial. The trial will task the player with capturing several runes on the ground while killing the least amount of enemies possible, as killing too many enemies will fail the trial. Zaballa will spawn during this step. Once enough runes are captured, the trial will end and several Power-Ups will spawn.
===Trial of Resilience===
To start the Trial of Resilience, a challenge need to be completed first. Several Dark Aether crystals can be seen high up the walls surrounding the Debris Field. Destroying one of the crystals will spawn a red orb. The Decimator, trapped in crystals, will speak for the orb which requires three items to be collected and brought back to the orb. Collecting each item will slow the player and they'll have to journey back with a specific condition.
The three items are:
*Cursed Officer's Hat, found in the Tents.
*Cursed Skull, found in the upper floor of the Bazaar.
*Cursed Femur, found in a dig site in the Derailment on the left side of the portal.
Once all three items are retrieved, the Decimator Shield, which is now available next to where the orb was, has to be picked up to complete the trial. The orb will move to the obelisk which can be interacted with to start the trial. The trial will task the player to fill an empty Demonic Fountain by destroying several Syphoncores using the special attack of the Decimator Shield. When a Syphoncore is destroyed, the player need to interact with it to fill a Chalice and use it to fill the empty fountain. Once all the Syphoncores are destroyed, and the fountain is filled, the trial will end and several Power-Ups will spawn.
===Trial of Sacrifice===
To start the Trial of Sacrifice, a challenge needs to be completed first. Using Molotov Cocktails, the player needs to light up three torches within a limited time. All the torches are located in the Derailment, with one of the torches located within the train car leading to the area. Once all three torches are lit, a red orb will spawn. The player will need to give the orb a Pack-a-Punched weapon that will be remove for the rest of the game. The player will then lose all their Armor and a Uberkrieger will appear.
After the Uberkrieger is killed, the orb will move to the obelisk on top of the train car which can be interacted with to start the trial. The trial will task the player to charge several obelisks.
In order to charge the obelisks, the player will need the Ring of Fire Field Upgrade. The field upgrade can be acquired by interacting with a lit stone located next to where the orb was. Killing zombies near the obelisks will spawn a Full Power Power-Up. Using Ring of Fire, the player needs to kill zombies next to each obelisk until a beam of energy connects each obelisk with the central obelisk on top of the train car.
Once all the obelisks are connected, the trial will end and several Power-Ups will spawn.
==Step 4: Defeating Kortifex==
Completing all three trials will trigger a conversation between the characters. The player will then need to go back to the Dark Aether using the portal, now freed from the chains, in the Temple. In the Dark Aether, the player discovers that Kortifex became the Construct's Archon and turned into a giant version of himself. This will start the boss fight, divided into three phases.
===Phase 1===
During the first phase of the boss fight, the player will need to shoot at Kortifex's upper eye as he attacks them using moving orbs, lightning strikes and waves of zombies. Plant-like Anemones are also present, causing damage as they explode when the player is too close to them.
Once the eye is destroyed, removing about a third of Kortifex's life, he will disappear and the player will be teleported to another area of the Dark Aether.
===Phase 2===
During the second phase, Kortifex is now shielded by a sphere of energy. To bring down the shield, the player need to destroy the crystals found around the area to spawn a red Crystal Shard. The player will then need to throw the shard to one of the Anemones until it explodes, leaving a blue Corrupted Crystal Shard. The blue shards have to be thrown to the floating pillars seen above the area to launch them against the Construct to remove the sphere of energy and shoot Kortifex's eyes.
Once one of the eyes is destroyed, removing once again about a third of Kortifex's life, Kortifex will disappear and the player will be teleported to another area of the Dark Aether.
===Phase 3===
The third phase of the fight works exactly like the second phase but Kortifex can now heal himself. Sturmkriegers will also start spawning in the area. Once the last eye is destroyed, Kortifex will die turning himself back to his normal size and dropping into the depth of the Dark Aether as the Construct disappears.
The player is rewarded with several Bonus Points Power-Ups, loot including the Wunderwaffe DG-2, five Sacrificial Hearts, one tier upgrade for the perks they were using during the boss fight and the "There Archon Be Only One" calling card.
==Trivia==
*The name of the calling card and quest is a pun on the 1986 movie tagline, "There can be only one".
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Category:Call of Duty: Vanguard Zombies Main Quests