A Serpent Cornered

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A Serpent Cornered was the eighth and penultimate quest of the Season of Blood questline in Diablo IV. It activatd as soon as the player completed Battle of Fear and Faith, and lead directly into In Your Blood.

Objectives[]

Meet Erys at the City of the Ancients
Enter the City of the Ancients
Meet Erys at the Courts of Night
Speak with Erys
Enter the City of the Ancients
Fight through the city to reach Lord Zir
Slay all enemies
Seek out Lord Zir
Kill the Blood Seekers
Confront Lord Zir
Kill Lord Zir

Transcript[]

Hunter Erys: Oh good, it's you. You certainly move like a vampire.

Class: I'm ready. Can you open the gate?

Hunter Erys: The offering of flesh has been made, thanks to the guards. I just need to breach the seals.

Hunter Erys: We can assume Zir knows you've come.

Hunter Erys: (sigh) This is madness. Perhaps that's what it takes.

Zir: Foolish child. I gave you your power...You were mine the moment you crossed my threshold.

Zir: Submit. The pain will end.

Echoes of Lord Zir: You feed upon your own kind and call me "monster?"

Echoes of Lord Zir: You do not deserve the blood in your veins!

Vampire Lord Zir: Enough!

Vampire Lord Zir: Approach the throne.

Optional Dialogue[]

At Ked Bardu

Class: We stopped the massacre. Didn't we stop Zir's ritual?

Hunter Erys: That monster won't stop until he completes his damned ascension. He'll rally his legions soon enough and gather the blood he needs. You need to cut his throat before that happens. I'll do all I can to get you to him.

Class: We can't use a portal? Where is the skull?

Hunter Erys: He was gone when I returned...(scoff). A loose end. We'll tie it later.

Diablo IV Seasonal Quests

Season 01: Burning from Within; A Plague of Hatred; Holding Back the Flood^(*); Answers in the Ashes; A Prayer for Salvation; Hope's Guardian; Ruins of the Faith; The Cold Hard Truth; A Merciful Fate
Season 02: Blood Money; The Hunter's Chase; Summons of the Deathless; A Witness in the Dust; Beckoning Thirst; Wolves at the Door; Battle of Fear and Faith; A Serpent Cornered; In Your Blood
Season 03: A Suppurated Wound; The Yshari; The Ennead
Season 04: TBA
Season 05: Of Lambs and Wolves; The Rising Hells^(*); The Past Behind Us; The Seething Mountain; An Old and Angry Wound; Sins of the Willing; The Wages of Hatred; The Eyes of the Enemy; Inside the Black Tomb; To the Edge of the Abyss; The Infernal Hordes
Season 06: Creeping Hatred
Season 07: TBA
Season 08: A Deceitful Incursion; A Shop of Curios; Belial's Unveiling^(*); Buried Hope; Masked Truths; Chasing Lies; The Lord of Lies
Season 09: The Embers Yet Smolder; The Truths That Lie Within^(*); Keepers of the Glen; To Walk Where Spirits Tread; Reopening the Wound; The Unseeable Demands Their Gaze; Damn the Precipice; The Torch, Unforgotten; Wisdom's Choice; The Priestess Horadrim; The Kin of Cain
Season 10: Sands of Chaos; Bartuc's Reign of Chaos; Den of Iniquity; Fell Visions; Blood on Parchment; The Sword of Horazon; Bartuc, Lord of Chaos; Infernal Cage

The quests marked with "(*)" in superscript involve activities that level up seasonal XP till the next quest is unlocked, and may be repeated in the questline of some seasons.