IX — Black Ops 4 Zombies Easter Egg Guide

Go to the top-floor altar room of each tower — Danu, Ra, Zeus, Odin — and interact with the gong. Each gong summons a Champion (a heavy gladiator). Kill it and pick up the severed head it drops before you leave the tower. Carry all four heads to the Temple and place one on each of the four spikes in the central ring. The heads burn away and the Pack-a-Punch altar rises — the machine appearing is the only completion cue you need.

Solo vs co-op: solo, do the towers one at a time and hold the head; in co-op split the towers but regroup at the Temple, because all four spikes must be filled to trigger the rise. There is no time limit on carrying a head.

This wonder-weapon chain is separate from the head/PaP step and can overlap it.

1. From the Danu-Ra entrance bridge, shoot the flaming brazier so it topples; follow the flame/arrow clue to the tower it points at.
2. Recover the stone head from that tower's named spot (Danu Arboretum / Ra Burial Chamber / Zeus Bath House / Odin Cauldron).
3. Build/activate an Acid Trap, place the stone head on the grate below it and run the trap; when the head dissolves, take the Scorpion Key.
4. Drive crowd affinity to full green and hold it a round so the crowd throws a golden jar into the Arena — pick it up.
5. Put the Scorpion Key in the tree hole in Danu Arboretum and set the jar under the dripping poison; return next round for the filled jar.
6. Interact with the side of the active Mystery Box to apply the poison — the box glows green and the next spin gives the Death of Orion. Pack-a-Punch it to Serket's Kiss if points allow.

Tip: the toppled brazier and the tower head location are match-generated — trust the flame's direction on your run, not a video's. The Acid Trap needs its Acid Pot part, which comes from the flag-rope trials: knife one of the four flag ropes around the Arena to start a trial, and completing three trials awards a Pack-a-Punched Strife pistol and the Acid Pot.

Three Danu ingredients, gathered in parallel:

• Bone: sweep the Temple wall of skulls for the one skull carrying a blue symbol (roughly 10-12 stable wall positions — search them, do not memorise a single spot). Aim at it, activate your Specialist weapon, and interact to knock it down; pick it up. Place it in one of the three Flooded Crypt grinders and fire three fully-charged Death of Orion shots (or two Serket's Kiss shots) into the grinder, waiting for the electricity to fade between shots; take the crushed bone when it stops.
• Wood: bait an axe gladiator into throwing at either wooden pyre in the Arena; pick up the sharpened wood fragment, hang it in the chain in Odin Cauldron, and leave it two ordinary rounds until blackened.
• Manure: drive crowd affinity to full red (running through fire, downs, or shooting/grenading the crowd lowers it — note Wraith Fire does NOT count); the crowd throws a gift package of manure — grab it, then restore a safer affinity.

Round-count rule: dog/tiger and other special rounds can fail to advance the two-round wood wait. Trust the blackening, not the displayed round number.

In Zeus Bath House, add the crushed bone, charred wood and manure to the bowl and wait one full ordinary round; collect the fertiliser. Plant it on the ground between the two Danu trees in the Arboretum and wait two full ordinary rounds until the pile visibly emits green smoke. Get a Fire Bomb alternate-ammo kill directly over the smoking pile — blue cracks spread across the floor. All players stand on the cracks for about fifteen seconds to trigger the corruption.

Tip: the pile MUST be smoking before the Fire Bomb kill registers. If it never smokes, a special round ate the wait — play another ordinary round and recheck.

The corruption opens a warped version of the Danu tower. On the bottom floor, shoot the glowing red plant pod until it bursts — infinite enemies pressure the room, and a Max Ammo plus the opening to the next floor confirm the kill. Repeat on the middle and top floors. Do not rush the stairs before the current pod is visibly destroyed. After the third pod the team is returned to the normal Danu altar.

Solo vs co-op: solo, kite the infinite spawns in a tight loop and burst the pod between passes; in co-op assign one shooter per pod while the others hold the horde.

Build the Brazen Bull first (see Side). Search the wall pool across Arena, Danu Altar, Ra Burial Chamber, Danu Tunnel, Flooded Crypt, Temple, Pit, Odin-Zeus entrance and the Zeus-Odin bridge for four bull symbols and shoot each with the Brazen Bull. An axe gladiator spawns after each valid hit — kill all four to charge the Ra statue and unlock the obelisk.

All players interact with the Ra obelisk. It shows four special-enemy symbols one at a time — write the order down before killing anything, then kill only the enemy for symbol 1, then 2, 3, 4. A second four-symbol sequence follows; execute it exactly. Eight correct ordered kills produce a white flash and finish the chapter.

• Tiger head symbol → kill a Tiger
• Two crossed axes → kill an Axe gladiator
• Helmet / brawler → kill a Brawler gladiator
• Large open mouth / blight → kill a Blightfather
• Element glyph → kill the matching catalyst zombie (sources note up to seven special-enemy symbols in the pool — read your obelisk, do not assume)

Find the carved stone on the underground route and shoot the four marked pole mechanisms; each pole rises and starts rotating — confirm all four are active before you start killing. Equip a weapon with the Kill-O-Watt alternate ammo and kill electrically-stunned zombies while standing inside each of the four circular markings. A blue orb/energy cue above a circle confirms it is charged. When all four are charged the orbs move to the Arena — interact as a team to begin the lockdown, and use the temporary unlimited Specialist energy to survive to the white flash.

Tip: Kill-O-Watt is an AAT (alternate ammo) from Pack-a-Punch, not a wall gun — re-roll PaP onto a fast automatic to farm the stunned kills. If the Pit plate later does nothing, an underground circle was left uncharged; re-sweep all four for the orb cue.

Use charged Death of Orion shots on the revealed three-symbol panels in the Danu Tunnel, the Pit and the Crypts — fire only when the correct three-symbol panel is visible (a wrong panel wastes ammo but does not fail you). Then all players stand on the metal plate in the Pit for about twenty seconds; the screen flashes and the final lockdown begins. Clear every wave, then take the key that appears below the central grate.

Before the portal: top up perks, ammo, Elixirs and shield, and repair the Brazen Bull — the portal beyond the opposite Arena gate is the point of no return.

The Arena first sends tigers and gladiators, then Fury charges in from the left gate; Wrath follows after Fury dies. Circle the outer Arena and drop ranged gladiators first — Max Ammo drops here do not time out, so leave one until reserves are low. Shoot the glowing red armour plates on both sides of the elephant; once the armour breaks, focus the exposed forehead. Dodge the charge laterally (never against a wall when it lowers its head) and sprint away from the tracking fire-spike trail — the Brazen Bull can block it and contact can instantly down even a shielded player. Repeat the plates-then-forehead sequence on Wrath.

Completion: the quest is done only when Wrath dies and the cutscene starts — there is no separate Arena pickup to hunt for.