Red, the Mysterious Swordswoman
Perfect Transcensions · Mandate Encampment · Chapter 5, Hero or Heretic
Red, the Mysterious Swordswoman is a Mandate Encampment boss in Phantom Blade Zero, met in Chapter 5, Hero or Heretic. Its enemy level on a first playthrough is 19. Beating it gives 66,000 Remnant Dust. The game tells more of its story in The Twin Heroes' Memory Flower (2 scenes).
Red's story in the game
Memory flower
The Twin Heroes' Memory Flower
They say this is for 'righteousness.' What kind of righteousness is this? Whose righteousness?
If there truly is a righteous path, they should walk a path of their own.
I. the Mandate's Decision
- Female Mandate Grandmaster
You vile temptress! Now that you've fallen into the Mandate's hands, we'll make you beg for death!
- Red
We kept to ourselves... why must you wipe us out?
- Male Mandate Grandmaster
Save your shameless poisonous lies!
- Male Mandate Grandmaster
You seduced my prodigy and turned him against me... this is sin of the worst kind!
- Red
We love each other. I regret nothing!
- Red
Masters, Transcension has already spread across the Wulin. Your true enemies are those inhuman monsters!
- Female Mandate Grandmaster
Rot within is far worse than any threat from without!
- Female Mandate Grandmaster
Come! Slice that pretty face to ribbons!
- Male Mandate Grandmaster
Not enough! Bathe her with boiling water... dump her in the snake pit if she survives that!
- Female Mandate Grandmaster
Hehehe… how marvelous! Hehehe... how truly marvelous!
- Female Mandate Grandmaster
Let's see how you plan to seduce the Mandate's disciples now!
- Two Mandate Grandmasters
Hahahaha... hahahahaha!
II. Own Decision
- Seven-Star Chief Disciple
After what happened to Red.. I've simply stopped caring.
- Seven-Star Chief Disciple
This "Perfect Transcension" is Master Bai's scheme to control the Mandate.
- Seven-Star Chief Disciple
But... for people like us...
- Seven-Star Chief Disciple
Be it Master Bai... or Mandate... They manipulate us all the same.
- Seven-Star Chief Disciple
Listen... we're doing Perfect Transcension... but not to better serve someone...
- Seven-Star Chief Disciple
We do this to no longer serve anyone!
- Seven-Star Chief Disciple
I've said my pieace. The door is right there if you don't agree.
- Seven-Star Chief Disciple
Now who's with me?
About Red
Red, the Mysterious Swordswoman
红衣女剑客
A mysterious woman in red who once appeared atop the Dovecote tower. Her swordplay is light and graceful, yet Sha-Chi has already burned her face into a twisted hollow. A thread of reason remains. She stays atop the tower as if waiting for someone important. Thus, when she fought Soul, she had no intention of giving it her all. Driven by Sha-Chi, she could barely control herself.
She came from an evil sect, yet fell in love with the Chief Disciple of a Mandate sect. The Mandate's upper ranks could never tolerate the sect she came from, and their love became an excuse to persecute her. They subjected her to humiliation after humiliation, then hypocritically spared her life.
How absurd. Those same leaders had no desire to stand against inhuman creatures, yet were willing to go to great lengths to deal with a small sect living in seclusion. They proclaimed themselves the righteous path, yet possessed not a fraction of the courage and integrity of the disciples beneath them.
To survive, and to seek revenge, she underwent Transcension. But as she stands atop the tower, looking down upon the ruined Mandate Encampment, does she wonder if it was all for nothing? Or perhaps, when it comes to the love and hatred of her life, she has no regrets.
What beating Red gives
66,000 Remnant Dust
Where to find Red
Mandate EncampmentChapter 5, Hero or Heretic
Path of the Baishan's FallTraining Grounds DepthsThe ConfinementTraining GroundsRoad to the Training GroundsBehind the Encampment WaterfallTower Rear ExitThree TowersMoji's CenotaphMass GraveMain Encampment GateCliffside Walkway OverlookBeneath the WatchtowerDovecoteBattlefield RuinsCliffside Walkway EntranceSunset Path
Red
Nearest bellDovecote, 30 m away
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