Nova

**Nova**, dubbed the **Spectrum of Fear**, is a special and thorned monster, an NFT, and a boss in the game encountered during in special chapters and events.

## Boss Battle

Nova is a boss rush consisting of the 6 simulacula, a short interlude, and then the showdown with Nova. This is by no means an easy fight, and you are almost guaranteed to take some damage during this 4 minute+ fight. The phases are as follows:

Phase 1: Emerald

Emerald’s main attack is her shooting rings of clumped bullets, with her spawning either large or small stars to go along with it. There is a wall of void in the back, and every so often, a Void Spike protrudes from the void wall, aiming at the heart. Small orbs periodically spawn, and when destroyed, they send out 1-3 rings of bullets.

Phase 2: Ruby

Void walls appear at the top and bottom of the screen, and yellow safety bubbles slowly fall from the ceiling. Ruby does the same rings of bullets, with the addition of fire trails that wiggle around slightly, and large fire bullets. Ruby’s orbs, when destroyed, explode into a ring of red bullets.

Phase 3: Citrine

The safety bubbles disappear, and Citrine appears. Citrine does the same main attack, but adds rings of zap bullets. The orbs in this section, when destroyed, release a small ring of zap bullets with a big zap orb in the center.

Phase 4: Sapphire

The void goes away for this phase, and Sapphire appears. Sapphire shoots the spiral of bullets, but periodically shoots several strings of diamond bullets. The orbs in this phase explode into 1-3 rings of zap bullets.

Phase 5: Topaz

Void walls appear on the left and right of the screen. Topaz has the spiral of bullets, but also shoots rings of petals alongside it. Periodically, snake bullets move across the screen. The orbs she sends out release a flower-like pattern of bullets, much like Glacia’s exploding orbs.

Phase 6: Amethyst

Amethyst is the most complex of the simulacula, and has 3 attacks:

* The mandatory spiral, which has added fire bullets to spice things up
* Amethyst spawns 2 safety bubbles that you have to stay inside; this attack only lasts a second.
* Amethyst stops moving for a second, and Void Spikes come out of her body.

The orbs that she spawns explode into a ring of fire bullets.

Phase 7: Breakdown

Each simulacula comes back one at a time, shooting their spiral of cluster bullets. These simulacula are destroyed in a few hits, so there is no real reason to panic (both literally and figuratively)

Phase 8: Interlude

During this phase, small white orbs start appearing. They will either shoot a laser, two strings of diamond bullets, or a spiral of bullets. When you break them, they explode into 3-5 rings of accordion bullets.

Phase 9: Nova

This is it. The last phase of the fight. And boy does she put up a fight. Nova starts with her eye closed, and has 3 rings of breakable objects orbiting her. She has only one attack:

* Nova shoots a continuous 8-armed spiral of clustered bullets. When her eye opens, she will periodically shoot small stars while this attack is happening, or shoot rings of petals.

The difficulty with this phase is the orbs that spawn. They are the same as in the interlude, but can easily kill an unsuspecting player.

Once you have defeated Nova, you should congratulate yourself. You deserve it.