Lerid, the Shadow Blade
Boss · Chapter 2: The Seed
Lerid is the pillagers' assassin and the fastest chapter boss, moving at 6.0 with 2,450 HP behind it. The fight is a duel against someone who refuses to hold still: blade combos, thrown steel, stealth, and one outright lie at the end.
The lie is the famous part. Lerid fakes his death once, and the fight only ends on the second, real one. Do not walk into the corpse.
Three distinct melee strings, each with its own ready pose. Learning the poses is the fight; the strings themselves are fast but honest.
A spread of daggers thrown in a fan, plus randomized single daggers mixed into his movement.
An oversized shuriken that crosses the arena slowly and keeps being a hazard long after he has moved on to something else.
A stealth dash along a marked lane. The lane telegraph is your dodge; he reappears attacking.
Clones fan out on a circle around you and throw shurikens inward, collapsing your safe space from every direction at once.
He goes down before he is actually dead and gets back up when you commit. Keep your distance until the real death animation plays out.
In hard mode every boss also draws from the pool of 10 modifiers listed on the bosses page, from flat HP and defense gains to elemental resists and ignoring your defense or evasion.
Defeating Lerid for the first time adds these to the item pool: