Trial 1: The Dark God of War

**Höd, God of War: Very well. If you think yourselves worthy, you will have to follow certain rules**

**Höd, God of War: The Eternal Cycle of war will have to be respected**

**Terror: ...**

**Dissension: ...**

**Battle: ...**

**Destruction: ...**

**Höd, God of War: Let's start with Dissension!**

### After Fight

**Höd, God of War: Congratulations! But do you really think you can defeat the God of War?**

**Höd, God of War: War will never disappear. And defeat is only temporary for me.**

## Statues

### Dissension

So despite the order the statues talked in Dissension is the first statue Höd decides on.

#### Abilities

Dissension's ability is to poison your squads, his crystals do increase his initiative so destroying them will cause the poison to be activated less often.

### Battle

Following Dissension in the cycle is Battle who relies on his physical attacks.

#### Abilities

Battle buffs not only himself but his crystals as well making those crystals extra deadly.

### Destruction

Following Battle in the cycle is Destruction, this statue is all about destroying multiple units at once.

#### Abilities

Destruction uses an AOE ability with a fire typing so earth units beware

### Terror

Following Destruction in the Cycle is Terror, his goal is to weaken your units.

#### Abilities

Terror weakens your units making you heal and damage for less.

## The Fight

### Order

you must attack the statues in order or Höd will punish you for breaking the cycle(he does a 9999 army AOE)

the order is

1. Dissension (Top Left)
2. Battle (Bottom Right)
3. Destruction (Top Right)
4. Terror (Bottom Left)
5. Höd, God of War(Middle)

### Höd's Phases

Killing the statues makes höd get more involved in the fight

1. Killing Dissension: Höd gains a powerful basic attack(stronger than Battles)
2. Killing Battle: Höd gains an AOE attack(stronger than Destructions)
3. Killing Dissension: Höd gains a buff that increases his dodge and initiative(Very Large)

## Tips

* Destroy the bottom right crystals first, they get an attack buff which give them large single target damage
* Poison Höd, God of War(Middle) before you kill Terror(bring him down to 1 HP and kill him same turn poison activates), trying to get poison twice is unfavorable
* There are certain tank positions in squad that take all the basic attacks, Bottom Squad: Oracle Position(2nd from the left) Top Squad: Breaker Position(1st from the right) Middle Squad: Guard + Oracle(1st+2nd from the left)
* Poison the statue that's currently being targeted even if you don't plan to attack it right away since it saves time.
* Destroy all the Crystals before destroying Battle, 2 AOE + all the crystal damage can overwhelm your teams who have a magic debuff from Terror
* Lucana's and Nevsky's army heals can be a great asset here, Reed's general ability will be very powerful if you have 15 human units for decent teams, Eru's army AOE would sabotage this dungeon.
* It is possible to burst down Höd before destroying the statues but you'd only have 1-3 turn cycles(if you're lucky) so you better have some good damage.
* If your team is strong enough you can destroy the 2 battle crystals and the 2 dissension crystals quickly and take your time destroying the rest of the crystals before destroying Dissension(which activates Höd's heavy basic attack)