Imperial Spy

Imperial Spy

General Information

Location	Boletarian Palace: 1-3, 1-4
Description	Fast melee enemy
	White	Neutral	Black
Souls1	171-246	171-246	257-369
HP2	116	145	145
Attacks
Attack	Melee	Physical
Attack	Ranged	Physical
Special Attack	Guard Break	Physical

Attacks

• At medium range, he'll throw a Secret Throwing Dagger.
• If the player is hiding behind a shield, he'll deliver a spin kick that breaks guard if you're using a shield with low Guard Break Reduction.
• Close-range attacks are quick and will sometimes combo into a guard breaking kick.

Strategy

• Now, these enemies aren't your typical predictable enemies who you can dodge and score a quick combo before they react.
• The Imperial Spies can score a deadly combo on you before you can react.

1-3

• You'll encounter the first one as you're descending a flight of stairs.
• You probably won't see him until you're halfway down.
• The best strategies is to quickly combo him before he can attack.
• A safer approach is to lure him back up the stairs and into the small courtyard where their ability to score critical hits is decreased.
• You'll encounter three more not too far ahead.
• After killing the Boletaria Soldier with the crossbow, you'll see a large flight of stairs with an alleyway leading left and 2 leading to your right.
• If you time it well and make a lot of noise, you can lure the first Imperial Spy out of the left alleyway, and most likely, the Boletaria Soldier at the top of the stairs will have pushed his flaming boulder down to crush you.
• If done correctly, the Imperial Spy killed.
• If you continue up the stairs, a second Imperial Spy will emerge from the right alleyway.
• Lure him back down into the courtyard where you should be able to kill him without too much difficulty.
• The third Imperial Spy is optional.
• If you run straight up the alleyway, you won't alert him, but if you take the last right turn into the alley way, the Imperial Spy will jump down from the roof.
• Try not to get trapped in the passageway and deal with him as quickly as you can.

1-4

• As you ascend the tower with the two Red Eye Knights, you will be fired on by two crossbow soldiers.
• Run onto their platform and dispatch them.
• A Spy will land on the platform and proceed to attack you.
• If you can, it's best to kill him as he lands or he will likely be a nuisance as you busy yourself with the second Red Eye Knight further up the stairs.
• Special Note: Spies may temporarily turn invisible since they wear the Thief 's Ring.

Item Drops

Type	Drop
All	Shard of Clearstone Chunk of Clearstone Secret Throwing Dagger Claws Secret Dagger Flamberge (rare)

Enemy ID and Stats

The information below reflects the game's hard programmed values for enemy stats and values. However, these values don't always align precisely with values seen in game. This is due to Special Effect Multipliers (similar to NPCs) and World Tendency Multipliers.

Name	ID	Location	HP	Souls	Defense						Resistance
					Physical	Slash	Blunt	Thrust	Magic	Fire	Poison	Plague	Bleed
Imperial Spy	203000	1-3	145	171	92	92	92	92	86	95	150	100	100
Imperial Spy	203070	1-4	145	246	92	92	92	92	86	95	150	100	100

Special Effect Multipliers

Special Effect Multipliers are blanket multipliers that are applied to NPCs, including Black Phantoms. For example, if the HP multiplier is "x2", the NPC will have twice the health that the player would have if they had identical stats and equipment. The NPC's attack multipliers are applied before the damage is affected by the player's defenses and resistances. Damage received by the NPC is slightly more complicated. When the player does damage to the NPC, the raw damage is put into a formula and computed against the NPC's resistances. These resistances are multiplied by the values in the Physical/Magic/Fire Defense columns before calculation. Afterward, the remaining damage is reduced by resistances, it is then multiplied by the Damage reduction multipliers in the Physical/Magic/Fire Reduction columns. The output damage remaining is the dealt to the NPC.

Enemy	Location	HP	Stamina Damage	Attack			Damage Reduction			Defense			Resistance
				Physical	Magic	Fire	Physical	Magic	Fire	Physical	Magic	Fire	Poison	Plague	Bleed
Imperial Spy	1-3	x1.7	x1.94	x1.8	x1.8	x1.8	-	-	-	x1.4	x1.4	x1.4	-	-	-
Imperial Spy	1-4	x2.7	x2.02	x2.35	x2.35	x2.35	-	-	-	x1.7	x1.7	x1.7	-	-	-

Footnotes

1. Souls gained are from the first run through of the game, from pure white, neutral, and pure black world tendency without any modifiers
2. HP totals are from the first run through of the game, from pure white, neutral, and pure black world tendency