Skip to content
CODZOMBIECall of Duty: Black Ops 4 insignia

Main Quest · IX

Venerated Warrior

IX’s main quest — "Venerated Warrior", defeat the most venerated opponent — runs the Chaos crew through a trial per tower god: Danu’s blighted trees, Ra’s burning bulls, Zeus’s storm poles and Odin’s flooded symbols, stitched together with the arena’s strangest shopping list (bone meal, charcoal, and dung thrown by a crowd you have deliberately enraged). The arena answers with its champions: waves of tigers and gladiators, then the war elephants Fury and Wrath, armor shot away piece by piece. Soloable, on Normal or above.

Difficulty: ExpertSolo availableSpoilers: high
Start Guided ModeJump to steps
Still from “Official Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 Zombies - IX”
IX · Call of Duty via YouTubeOpen route diagram

Spoiler warning

This walkthrough reveals the map's finale. Continue only if you want to know how it ends.

Preparation

Before you start

Prerequisites

  • • Pack-a-Punch open — ring all four altar gongs and set the champions’ heads on their pikes
  • • The Death of Orion (three charged shots feed the grinder)
  • • The Brazen Bull shield, for Ra’s fire

Walkthrough

Step by step

  1. 01

    Blood must flow

    Ring the gong in each tower’s altar room, defeat the summoned champions, and place their four heads before the Pack-a-Punch altar.

  2. 02

    The fertilizer

    Grind a hidden skull to bone meal with three charged Death of Orion shots, burn wood to charcoal in Odin’s cauldron, and anger the crowd until it throws the last ingredient.

  3. 03

    Danu and Ra

    Feed the fertilizer to Danu’s trees and purge the shadow-tower pods; ignite Ra’s four bull symbols with the Brazen Bull and answer the obelisk’s kill-order challenge twice.

  4. 04

    Zeus and Odin

    Raise the arena’s four poles and charge them with electrified kills, then shoot Odin’s nine flooded blue symbols and survive the grate lockdown for the key.

  5. 05

    The arena

    Enter the red portal: waves of zombie tigers and gladiators open the show before the headliners arrive.

  6. 06

    Fury and Wrath

    Two armored war elephants, one method: shoot away the side armor, then the face. The ending plays the crowd one last trick — the High Priest of Chaos does not honor clemency.

Following along in-game? Switch to Guided Mode for one step at a time on a screen you can read at arm's length.

References

  1. 1.Ancient Evil — Call of Duty Wiki — Call of Duty Wiki (Fandom). callofduty.fandom.com · accessed Jul 22, 2026Community-verifiedcorroborate

Last reviewed Jul 15, 2026. Spotted an error? Suggest a correction.