E1M5: Hallowed Grounds

## Hallowed Grounds

**Hallowed Grounds** is the fifth level of the first episode (The Way of All Flesh) in Blood.

## Secrets

There are 9 secrets and 1 Super Secret in this level.

1. Inside the front door of the temple, past the Gargoyles, you will come to a big room with pillars and more enemies. On your left, high up on the wall, you will see two stone displays; blow up the one on the left and use the Boots of Jumping (which you can find another pair of in this map if you currently don't have any on you) to reach it ***(Doctor's Bag)***
2. Past the previous big room, you will come to a door that leads to another big room with high platforms on each side, teeming with Cultists and Fanatics. Across the way you will spot an eye above the door; shoot it to open a niche behind you ***(Guns Akimbo)***
3. In the same big hallway as the previous secret, face the door with the eye design above it and jump up to the platform to your left, then turn around and look up to spot a Gargoyle status. Use the Boots of Jumping to get up to the high-up alcove. Doing so will bring the Gargoyle statue to life ***(Death mask)***
4. Again in the same hallway, this time head up to the other platform, and head outside. Use the Boots of Jumping yet again to get up onto a higher ledge and follow it all the way around to a secret stash with yet another Gargoyle status which will also come to life when approached ***(Box of Flares, Box of Shells)***
5. Still in this same hallway, go back over to the left platform and go into the seemingly dead end room across from where the Gargoyle status used to be. Look up and to your left to spot an alcove and use the Boots of Jumping to reach it; follow the path to your prize ***(Cloak of Invisibility)***
6. Upon grabbing the Skull Key, the wall behind the key will eventually open, revealing a horde of Axe Zombies; blow them all up and go into the room to collect a new pair of Boots of Jumping. Immediately use these to jump up into a secret niche ***(Reflective Shots)***
7. When facing the Moon Key door, take a left turn and get on the elevator; while on its way down, strafe over into an alcove on the right side (or use the Boots of Jumping to reach it from below) ***(Body Armor)***
8. In an underwater area full of Bone Eels, swim to the other side and hit the switch. Instead of immediately heading back to where you came from, however, wait a few seconds and you will see a portion of wall open up adjacent to the switch you used (to the right if you are facing the switch) ***(Life Seed)***
9. In them room with the Moon Key, there are two pictures on the wall; use the right one to raise the 3 columns in the room. Once you grab the secret item on the middle column, watch out, because the Gargoyle statues on the adjacent columns will, you guessed it, come to life ***(Super Armor)***
10. **SUPER SECRET!** In the final room of the map, where you must cross a rope bridge to the exit, look to your left and down; you will spy a ledge way down that requires the Boots of Jumping to "safely" land on without instantly dying. However, the ledge itself is deadly and will kill you nearly instantly if you stand on it for too long. Even constantly spamming jump while on the ledge won't be of too much use. The ideal way to get this Super Secret is to spot the wall where this damaging ledge ends, and to fall down towards this exact spot while spamming the use key to open the wall, that way you can enter the secret room, which does not damage you like the ledge does; inside here, along with some really valuable goodies, is a switch on some sort of... flesh altar to stop the constant chanting in the background ***(Life Seed, Super Armor)***