The First Berserker: Khazan

At the first checkpoint. Interact with the sword in the ground. This Blade Nexus is where you return after dying. Resting refills Netherworld Energy and brings ordinary enemies back. Spend your Lacrima here before a difficult fight. Gold buys goods at a shop. Skill points are spent separately in the skill tree.

Try this on one soldier. With the default PS5 controls, press to lock on. Tap once or twice, then stop attacking so your stamina can refill. Hold to guard a strike, or press it just as the blow lands for a Brink Guard. Use to dodge a grab. When an exhausted enemy shows a red circle, move close and press for a Brutal Attack. Press to heal while the enemy recovers. Once you learn the javelin, the diamonds above your health are Spirit. Keep one for crystals you cannot reach on foot.

20 Soulstones and 13 Jarlings. Each mission below gives the number of crystals and jar spirits to find. Strike red crystals with your weapon. The early pots only become active after Duimuk’s six-jar mission. Return for those four early jars once it is complete.

• Banished Hero (2 crystals, 1 jar). Crystals in the pit on the right beyond the cave bridge and on the rise left of the large yeti after Frosty Cave Exit. Jar just ahead of Crash Site.
• Trials of the Frozen Mountain (3 crystals, 1 jar). Check the foot of the wooden watchtower, the left cave at Frozen Lake and the left path atop the Ice Canyon tower. From Ice Canyon Nexus, check the snowy pots beside the large pillar.
• Forgotten Temple (3 crystals, 1 jar). Break the wooden spikes at the left fork, smash the pots in the temple’s far right corner and aim across the raised bridge. For the jar, pass the second rotating mechanism and look left of the descending stairs. Speak to the bard near Temple Entrance.
• First Act of Revenge (3 crystals, 1 jar). Take the cave on the drops below Cabin on the Hill and follow its right wall to the ladder. Climb to the crystal. Look immediately left through the large dock door and up the wooden stairs beyond the elite. Jar on the right below the Central Storehouse Entrance ledge.
• Jar Enthusiasts (2 crystals, 6 jars). Six jars on one circuit, detailed in Jar Enthusiast. For the two crystals, check behind the pots left of the short stairs and behind the right tower at the final door.
• Night of Tragedy (2 crystals, 1 jar). Check the left house near Bhangau Lot and the ledge beside the stairs below the drop. Smash the small pots to the left as you land.
• Strange Stench (3 crystals, 1 jar). Aim behind the waterfall near Collapsed Mine, search the right-hand recess below the Poisoned Depths ramp and follow the right wall of the second poison lake from Bottom of the Cave. Jar beside the spider egg in the husk chamber. For the detour to Digor from Poisoned Depths, follow stop 2 in The Bard's Lamentations.
• Blacksmith’s Heirloom (2 crystals, 1 jar). Beyond the first beams, check left for a crystal and uphill on the right for a jar. At Jocko Hill, go past the elite and take the wooden stairs to the alcove.

The Stormpass phantom rematch unlocks a hub ability. There is no jar or crystal detour in that arena.

Oksana opens her gear services here. After Inconceivable Truth, visit both Yulian and Tristan before going back to the portal. Follow the optional missions as they open so you can clear their collectibles on the first visit.

28 Soulstones and 11 Jarlings. Each mission below has one jar. Crystal landmarks are in travel order.

• Traitor Revealed (4 crystals, 1 jar). From the double ladders turn back toward the high ledge. Check the ladder behind the alley ambush, strike the loose masonry in the jail and aim behind the Fallen Citadel lift. Jar in the secret forge room behind loose stones above the jail stairs.
• Kaleido (1 crystal, 1 jar). Aim above the great ring past the Underground Passage stairs. Jar at the rightmost pillar in the broken chandelier room.
• Veiled Knives (4 crystals, 1 jar). Look below the large spider for the first crystal. For the second, start at Bandits’ Citadel Nexus. Go left around the building, climb the outside stairs, then take the stairs down into the room. The crystal is in the right corner. For the third, cross the plank in the building to the right of the Nexus. Drop down, take the stairs and check the far end of the corridor. For the fourth, look left from the top of the great stairs toward the balcony. Jar in the little central room past the elite.
• Human Xilence (2 crystals, 1 jar). Aim at the statue’s hand beyond the Cavern Corridor ladder. Search the lower end of the first room off the long corridor. Jar in the far right corner past the Main Cavern Stairway elite.
• Final Conquest (2 crystals, 1 jar). From Destroyed Corridor, climb the ladder then take the right stairs down. At Silent Ground aim above the gateway opposite the boss. Jar beside the right branch at Rain-Drenched Training Ground.
• Devoured Village (4 crystals, 1 jar). At the mission’s starting point, turn around and follow the path back to the first crystal. Later, break the boarded door beyond the water pipe, use the glowing book above Sinister Prison and step off the laboratory lift in motion onto the pipe ledge. Jar in the corpse room beyond the prison, past the pipe on the left.
• Pavel’s Final Words (2 crystals, 1 jar). Go straight at the Path to the Citadel fork. Aim above the ledge facing the lift after the elite. Jar in the first right-hand room past the Overrun by Bandits elite.
• Inconceivable Truth (3 crystals, 1 jar). Circle behind the first lookout building, aim right of the wooden bridge and check behind the first crystal in Cave of Gloom. Jar on the right behind the plague rocks.
• Why Have You Forsaken Us? (3 crystals, 1 jar). Break the glass tank after the wall ambush. From Laboratory Wing 4 aim left toward the statue. Check behind the tube in the twin mages’ room. Jar by the doorway on the left side of the circular chamber. Pick up the first two gold documents for Ozma's Past before leaving.
• Escaping Linon Mine (2 crystals, 1 jar). From the tall ladder, look across to the other staircase and then above your own stairs. Jar on the wooden platform beside the giant spider below Mine No. 2 Central Management Hub.
• Last Command (1 crystal, 1 jar). At the second prisoner’s cage smash the pot behind the logs to its left. Beyond the house, aim at the ledge left of the staircase.

Pick up the three disk fragments while travelling through Witch’s Castle, Corruptor’s Fortress and Strange Melody. Their landmarks are in Reese's Past. Digor also has two stops here. Main missions and bonus missions reuse the same buildings with different pickups, so check the mission name before looking for a missing item.

Seven gold documents for the ending. Follow Ozma's Past as you reach each of these missions. Pick up one page in Corruptor’s Fortress, one in Crimson Trace, two in Transcendental Sword, one in Strange Melody and two in Centurial Order.

33 Soulstones and 13 Jarlings. Each of the following missions has one jar.

• Witch’s Castle (5 crystals, 1 jar). From the Commercial District Nexus, follow the main path to the first ledge drop. Walk along the balcony to the crystal before dropping a second time. For the next three, check the boarded house by the courtyard tree, the door down the right fork before Chaos-Infested Land and the ladder above the right castle stairs. Upstairs in the library use the glowing book for the fifth crystal and smash the pot in the stacks left of the bridge.
• Lacrima (1 crystal, 1 jar). Jar in a boarded side passage beside the first Failed Creation. The crystal is in the alcove behind the next one firing at you from the ladder.
• Valus’s Axe (2 crystals, 1 jar). Aim at the cable in the purple-switch room once power is off. Look behind the far left glass tube upstairs. Jar in the back of the first room on the right across the bridge.
• Unrequited Love (3 crystals, 1 jar). Check the far balcony above Vine-Covered Entrance, the high library-door ledge in the lobby and the ledge above the right stairs near Ivy Garden. Jar in the left stacks across the upper library bridge.
• Hermit Mountains (4 crystals, 1 jar). Turn right after the ravine’s stone bridge, aim right above the first stairs, then check the water rock left of the Abyssal Bridge fog gate. After returning to Hermit’s Cave, follow the right path to the spider. The jar is behind Digor below the wooden barricade.
• Atlante the Precise (1 crystal, 1 jar). Search the balcony beside the alcove beyond the plague trees. Jar near the spellblade’s shadow past Where Death Lingers.
• Corruptor’s Fortress (5 crystals, 1 jar). Check the room left of the long hall, boxes near the watchtower siege ladder, the balcony by the rampaging beast, the room left of the trebuchet and the false wall opposite the disk fragment at Vampire Gate. Jar on the wooden platform inside the Massive Gate tower. Approach the floor opening diagonally to land on it.
• Crimson Trace (2 crystals, 1 jar). Take the left stairs at Bloodstained Fountain and aim left from the bridge arch after the second elite. Jar upstairs to the left beyond that arch.
• Last Sentinel (2 crystals, 1 jar). Break the right wall inside the first building from Fortress’s Great Bridge and aim above the pillar. Check behind the church altar. Jar on the right at the top of the tower.
• Transcendental Sword (2 crystals, 1 jar). Below the stairs, break the wall on the right and follow the ledge. Aim inside the hanging cage above the stairs after the tomb ladder. Jar in the upper left corner of the hall beyond the hidden ledge.
• Strange Melody (4 crystals, 1 jar). Drop through the false floor near the second ranged specter, check behind the piano through the hidden painting, aim above the museum fireplace and break the wall next to the theater key. Jar behind the statue’s false wall after the second elite.
• Centurial Order (1 crystal, 1 jar). Halfway across the bridge from Annex Corridor, aim right. Jar just inside the door after you descend the stairs and turn left.
• Remnants of Chaos (1 crystal, 1 jar). Check underneath the wooden stairs at Ruins of El Ravaca. Jar behind the false wall at the end of the left upstairs hallway.

Finish Bloodied Sanctuary, take the three disk fragments to Daphrona and clear The Vow. Pick up two gold documents each in Fall of the Empire, Bloodied Sanctuary and The Vow. Ozma's Past gives the landmarks. Before Master of Chaos, check that you have all 15 pages, then check all four portals against Countless Tales. Stop at Corrupted Lounge before starting the conversation. Read the first step of THE FIRST BERSERKER now so you know which answer to confirm before the timer expires.

19 Soulstones and 7 Jarlings. There is one jar in each mission below.

• Fall of the Empire (5 crystals, 1 jar). Check the Old Town alley left of the lift, the alcove right of the Chaos rocks, behind the waterfall below, behind the church statue and atop the short stairs beyond the church shortcut. Jar in the corner of the bedroom with the broken outer wall. Talk to Digor at New Town.
• Disobedience (1 crystal, 1 jar). At Crumbled Residence, aim left at the ledge. Jar upstairs next to the tree.
• Charon’s Chains (0 crystals, 1 jar). Smash the pots at Where Despair Echoes. This mission has no Soulstone.
• Birth of Evil (2 crystals, 1 jar). Look right above the wagon-blocked steps and behind the furniture at Nobles’ Manor. Jar by the blocked door left of the stairs at Destroyed Bridge.
• Bloodied Sanctuary (5 crystals, 1 jar). Check beyond the far courtyard door, the balcony left of the upstairs altar, the false wall on the right inside Main Entrance, the left roof edge outside the ladder hole and the ledge opposite the rafters ladder. Jar in the final cell on the right.
• The Vow (2 crystals, 1 jar). Break the right wall on the bend in the corridor. Later search behind the last statue on the right outside the building. Jar just inside the room on the right fork.
• Master of Chaos (4 crystals, 1 jar). Turn left below the secret cathedral stairs. At the rotating room, use the plate and retrace your steps through the entry door. Aim atop the pillar above the curved lounge balcony. Beyond the basement, break the left wall in the room ahead. Jar at the end of the right balcony above Imperial Palace Garden.

Stay in the current journey. If an ending trophy is missing, check the recovery options below before replaying missions so you can still use a recent backup. At a regional portal in the Crevice, highlight a mission on the world map to see its progress. Once inside, open the main menu for its Soulstone and Jarling counts. Compare those counts with the mission’s entry in the regional chapter. Use the closest unlocked Nexus in any mission with a missing pickup. If a character story is incomplete, return to its quest giver and check the bonus mission’s completion mark.

Before starting the second journey, check Standing Alone, The Challenger's Journey, The Expert's Journey and THE FIRST BERSERKER on the PS5 trophy list.

• Finished Beginner or Normal solo with the hidden ending? If only the Expert clear is missing, check Load → Recover or your PS Plus backup for a save made before the final boss fell. The Expert's Journey explains the switch. With no suitable save, start the second journey on Expert after cleanup. You have already earned the solo trophy, so you can use gold allies.
• Finished Beginner with gold allies? Start Expert and skip all gold allies for this whole journey to combine Standing Alone with The Expert's Journey. If you summon again on Expert, finish Expert and reserve the solo trophy for another complete journey.
• Finished Expert with help? Clear the next journey on Beginner without a single gold ally. A previous journey’s summons are cleared when the next one starts.
• Finished Expert solo? If every ending trophy unlocked, entering the second journey is enough. If only The Challenger's Journey is missing, check Load → Recover for a backup from before you defeated the final boss. Return to the Crevice to lower the difficulty before fighting again.

The Blade Phantom’s confirmation starts New Game+. Your equipment and character progress carry forward. The portals open again as you advance the story.