The Seed

* First Stage
* Second Stage

## Appearance

In its first stage The Seed is a small creature that has a circular body with rings popping outside of its body. It also has a dark diamond shaped head with horns and pincers. A player will encounter The Seed when they pick the 'Boss' in a level four choice room or encounter it randomly in Level 4.

## Behavior

The Seed has two stages that each have unique attacks. Like Sentinel whenever a time prolongs in a certain stage, the attacks in that stage repeat.

When a player enters the room it be met with The Seed waiting in the middle of the room, and it will begin its first stage. The Seed's first stage is comprised of three attacks that always happen in the same order. The first attack it has is where it slowly moves after you while Riot-Shields move around it. The second attack is where it will halt and then it will charge after you while spraying bullets from behind it, and when The Seed comes to a stop it will shoot out six spinning, oval-shaped projectiles around the room. After that it will start shooting out circle bullets at you. The Seed will repeat these attacks if the stage prolongs.

When The Seed's first stage is killed it will disappear and reappear in the middle of the room. In its second stage, The Seed has an inner layer and an outer layer. The Seed has a dark diamond-shaped head with horns on every side with a Lens-shaped eye in the middle. Its outer layer comprised of six petal-shaped nodes. Once three remain they become black and they act as a shield. Its inner layer is comprised of six Reuleaux triangles that are black on the inside. The outer and inner Laye spin around the Seed. Its second stage attacks functions similarly to the first stage. Attacks follow a specific pattern, and If the stage prolongs it will reuse the attacks. The Seed's second stage has four different attacks. Its first attack is where It shoots circle bullets from three sides of its outer shield while shooting large Riot-Shields at you. Its second attack is its bullet ring attack, this attack is where The Seed will shoot out six rings comprised of bullets. The rings overlap each other and make a shape similar to the rings that stick out of The Seed's first stage. After this It will make group all the rings into one ring that surrounds The Seed, and it will shoot out three waves of bullets, two bullets thick, and a second apart around the room. The moment its outer layer is left to three nodes it will do its bouncing laser attack. This is where The Seed will shoot out six bouncing lasers and a giant homing bullet. It will add two more lasers every time the attack is repeated. The Seed will keep on repeating these attacks until it killed.

## Strategy

The Seed mainly uses bullet-heavy and power-note projectiles. The Seed has the most attacks of any boss, but they follow a pattern. This means focusing on movement, dashing and positioning is important. Another important thing to focus on is the pattern of The Seed's attacks, this will allow you to interpret attacks before they happen, and it also allows to avoid rash decisions that would end up killing you.

A tip for The Seed is using yellow notes. This is because it gets increasing difficult to hit the nodes on the Seed's shield. Because the first stage attacks are predominantly short-range try to keep moving around the room, while getting shots off on The Seed, dash if you need to. Doing this will make the first stage a breeze.

For the second stage, it is a little bit more bullet heavy, although the attacks follow a pattern. Try to interpret attacks before they happen to make the second phase easier. For its first attack, a tip is dashing around The Seed while you shoot at it. When that attack ends it will do bullet ring attack. You want to move far away when the attack happens, because it is really easy to get hit. You also want to stay alert of any circle bullets from the previous attack. Its wave attack is pretty simple, dash through them, but move backwards after so that you don't keep on dashing closer to the seed. A tip for its laser attack is to stay as far to the sides as you can. This is because the gaps between the lasers are larger and it takes more time for the homing bullet to reach you.

## Attacks

The Seed shooting out circle bulletsThe Seed's orbiting Riot-Shield attackThe Seed's charging bullet spray attackThe Seed's wave of bullet attackThe Seed's giant Riot-Shield and Circle bullet attackThe Seed's bullet ring attackThe Seed's laser attackAftermath of the Lasers