How to Empower the Divine Relic – Cuphead DLC

In this guide, you’ll learn how to upgrade the cursed relic and turn it into a divine relic. Doing this will also unlock the paladin achievement slash trophy for obtaining great power. The guide summarizes that you’ll need to buy the broken relic from the pork rinds emporium for one gold coin. Take it and then equip it.

Next, go to the climbers and talk to the first, second, and third-place competitors. Each of them will have a directional input in their dialogue. You need to write these down.

It’s also important to note that every playthrough is random and your answers will be different from other players.

After that, go to the nine gravestones in the graveyard and always use the middle as your reference point. So if a competitor said I’m gonna go left downtown and around that’s left down and use the middle gravestone as your reference point that’ll be the bottom left corner. You need to interact with the gravestones in the order that the competitors finished first and second, third based on the directions in their dialogue. You will be able to unlock the secret boss battle with this kind of heaven and hell mechanic where you fly across the cloud and use the crack shot to make quick and easy work of this boss battle. It will turn your broken relic into the cursed relic.

After that, you have to turn the cursed relic into the divine relic and you will need to complete boss fights with the cursed relic equipped for this. The cursed relic will spawn you with one HP if you’re unaware. When you shoot with your gun, you will shoot a random weapon to complete boss battles and fully empower the relic. You will need to do seven total boss battles with it equipped.

Any boss from the entire game will work, you can also do the carrot, or goopy and all of the super easy bosses from the beginning of the game. But if you look at the equipment, you have the cursed relic eyeball in the icon that will begin to form kind of these eyelashes and these will continue to grow every time you complete more and more bosses. Eventually, the eye will fill up with eyelashes and change into the divine relic and you’ll unlock the paladin achievement trophy.

The only difference between the cursed relic and the divine relic is instead of spawning with one health you will spawn with three health and a randomized weapon. It will let you bring in more than two weapons to any single boss fight so it might be good for speedrunners in a way it might set a couple of records for a couple of individual boss battles

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