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Royal Retainer

The most loyal and devout servants of the King.

Hunter’s notes

Simple, weak creatures find strength by forming a hive and obeying a ruler. Such creatures become the arms and teeth and claws of their monarch.

The notes unlock after 10 kills.

Nail hits to kill

Its 5 HP over the nail's damage per hit at each upgrade, plain and with Fragile or Unbreakable Strength (×1.5, rounded the game's way).

NailDamageHitsWith Strength
Old Nail511 (8 a hit)
Sharpened Nail911 (14 a hit)
Channelled Nail1311 (20 a hit)
Coiled Nail1711 (26 a hit)
Pure Nail2111 (32 a hit)

Where it is, its HP and Geo there 5

HP and Geo are read from each scene’s own HealthManager, so they’re exact for that place. Geo with Fragile Greed follows the game’s rule: each coin size gets 20% more coins, rounded up.

AreaHPGeoWith GreedPlacedMap
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Overview

HP
5
Kills for the Hunter’s notes
10
Placed copies
33
Kind
Enemy

Also mostly in White Palace 1