Ancient King

Ancient King

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Boss Enemy

The Master of Death, residing in subspace. Inflicts aberrant conditions with its finger attack. Can use a variety of magical attributes.

Basic Information

Range

Short

Weapon

Smash

Weakness

Light

Damage Resistances

Slash

-5

Thrust

0

Smash

5

Grapple

5

Throw

0

Fire

5

Water

15

Wind

10

Earth

25

Light

-35

Dark

50

Plain

0

Status Resistances

Poison

100

Paralysis

100

Sleep

100

Confusion

100

Petrify

100

Seal

100

Blind

100

Stun

100

Teleport

100

Death

100

Gameplay Information

Gender

Unknown

Kind

Boss • Undead

Location

• Subspace

The Ancient King is an undead-type boss enemy that appears in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. It is the floor 26 boss in Hero Mode's Hero's Trial Grounds and can be considered the superboss of the game.

Defeating the Ancient King earns the player the Hero Beyond Time and Space Achievement.

Information

Styled as the Master of Death, it resides in subspace. It can use a variety of magical attributes and also inflicts aberrant conditions with its finger attack. It appears to be the same or similar to the being summoned by the Rune of Skeleton King Flick and Rune of Summon Skeleton King.

Strategy

The Ancient King earns its title as "Master of Death" as it can pose a threat to many different party types. In Hero's Trail Normal Mode, the player will at least have the advantage of a full heal after clearing Floor 25 and the other enemies on Floor 26 are relatively meagre by comparison.

Even so, the Ancient King is a potentially fatal enemy as it has several devastating techniques that the player may only have limited means to mitigate depending on their party structure by the time they encounter the being. This is even more of an issue on Endless Mode where resources may be scant, especially by Floor 52.

Its Death's Scythe skill, available once the Ancient King becomes "charged", is by far the most potent move in its arsenal. This attack deals 6 rounds of Dark magic damage to each character with a base damage of 200. This is enough to completely wipe out many a character's total HP if unprepared. High Magic Defense characters with damage mitigation buffs is almost a requirement for getting past this attack relatively unscathed.

Like all Hero's Trial enemies, on Endless Mode this attack is available to it immediately as the Ancient King will begin in its "charged" state. Although the Death's Scythe attack does require the Ancient King to use Royal Charge to use, the Ancient King's two to three actions per turn (depending on difficulty) means it is unlikely the player will have any forewarning, unless its uses Royal Charge as its final action.

The Royal Flick attack is generally weak in terms of damage, but is used to add debuffs to the player's party. The Ancient King also has access to powerful magic spells from each element, except Water, so leaning too far into Dark prevention can also work against a party, especially if it breaks out the Light Magic technique.

While the Ancient King has high stats, its HP is not especially insurmountable. Its threat lies in its powerful techniques backed by its MGC stats, rather than as a HP sponge. In fact, its Endless Mode variant has less HP than in Normal Mode. If a player can survive its powerful attacks, their own attacks in turn should be enough to bring down the Ancient King in due course.

Stats

Hero's Trial Normal Mode

Normal Difficulty
HP		MP
13948		15498
PWR	MGC	DEX	SPD
430	430	229	278
PD	MD	LUK	APT
308	308	222	3

Hard Difficulty
HP		MP
15343		15498
PWR	MGC	DEX	SPD
448	448	248	278
PD	MD	LUK	APT
308	308	222	3

Details
Level	85
Armor	None
Baqua	42500
Items	Rune of SP+ (50%) Superior Revival Medicine (100%)

Hero's Trial Endless Mode

Normal Difficulty
HP		MP
6858		17145
PWR	MGC	DEX	SPD
447	447	241	292
PD	MD	LUK	APT
321	321	234	3

Hard Difficulty
HP		MP
7407		17145
PWR	MGC	DEX	SPD
469	469	265	292
PD	MD	LUK	APT
321	321	234	3

Details
Level	99
Armor	None
Baqua	49500
Items	Rune of SP+ (100%) Magic Holy Water (100%)

Other languages

Language	Title	Romanization	Notes
Japanese	エンシェントキング	Enshentokingu	Transliteration of the English words "Ancient King"
Chinese (Simplified)	远古之王	Yuǎngǔ zhī wáng	Translation of English
Chinese (Traditional)	遠古之王	Yuǎngǔ zhī wáng	Translation of English
French	Roi ancestral		Translation of English
German	Uralter König		Translation of English
Italian	Re antico		Translation of English
Korean	에인션트 킹	Einsyeonteu king	Transliteration of Japanese
Portuguese (Brazilian)	Rei Antigo		Translation of English
Russian	Древний король	Drevniy korol'	Translation of English
Spanish	Rey antiguo		Translation of English