The Pitch-Black Stone sits ominously in Melinoes training grounds.

We show you how to unlock the Pitch Black Stone and Chaos Trials.

What Is The Loadout?

Melinoë casts her spell to return to the Crossroads when the Trial ends. The top of the image reads Back To Reality.

Similarly, encounters in the Pitch-Black Stone apply towards upgrading your keepsakes.

Some Trials also give you a specific Familiar, Arcana, and Boons to start out with.

When you only have 30 Life, its a valuable one.

Hades 2 Chaos full body portrait against a blurred background of the moon

The heavy lifter here is Strength.

Better to save Strength for when that Death Defiance goes naturally.

What Are The Trial’s Boons?

Artemis makes a random appearance, holding her bow over her shoulders. She comments that “the old [Chronos] are seldom wise, and often weak."

Finally,Broken Resolvemakes your Weak effects more potent.

Weakfoes deal less damage.

Poseidons Heroic Boon,Flood Control, reduces any damage you take by five, but Primes 30 Magick.

Aphrodite holds a spear and shield. She says that “Poseidon’s boasting” about already giving Melinoë a boon.

Finally, your Boon from Artemis isFirst Blood.

Into The Rift

The Trial of Blood is easy if you think about it.Just dont get hit.

Really, though:damage reduction can only do so much.

In the Rift of Thessaly, Melinoë encounters a Trial for Aphrodite and Poseidon. Their symbols float in the middle of some island ruins. Melinoë bemoans “Can’t they form an orderly queue?"

Its very easy to kill most enemies in a hit or three.

It just becomes a matter ofmaking sure you hit first.

A lot of what you choose will be about finding what works best for you.

Eris, Strife Incarnate, stands holding her gun up on one shoulder. She warns Melinoë that “the trail to the mountain’s closed."

In the meantime, though, some are almost always going to be easy picks.

Aphrodites Boons are largely focused on dealing more damage and taking less damage.

They tend to be a little bit less flashy, but are almost always a good option.

The Sister Blades charging up an Omega Special in Hades 2

Just watch out for Life Affirmationit makes anyMax Liferewards more potent, which wont help you here.

Poseidon has a lot of knockback abilities, which help give you room to breathe when surrounded by enemies.

How To Defeat Eris

Thestrategyis simple: hit others before they hit you.

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The execution, a bit more difficult.

It’s fine if it takes practice.

You’re just killing some time, after all.

Hades 2

The Sister Blades are very fast weapons that Melinoe can unlock in Hades 2.

Here’s everything you gotta know.