Beast of Reincarnation: How to Complete Chapter 8, Worm Food (Full Walkthrough)

Worm Food picks up right after Corvus falls at the end of Chapter 7, Root Rot, and drops Emma into the Crater Zone. This is a dense stretch of the game packed with Purifiers, golems, and a Withered Beast, and it ends with a two-phase boss fight against the Cavern Nushi. The chapter also pushes the story toward its final act, so expect a heavier tone alongside the tougher combat.

Quick answer: Beat the Purifier on arrival, speak to the Ancient Golem to learn about the gate, reach the fortress in the crater, use the console to raise the central tower, climb it to unlock the sealed Bulkhead, then enter the cavern and defeat the Cavern Nushi (Taurus) across both phases to end Chapter 8.

Arrive in the Crater Zone and beat the Purifier

The chapter opens the moment you step out of the vehicle and start moving toward the crater. A Purifier ambushes Emma almost immediately, so treat this as a forced fight rather than an optional encounter.

Use Koo’s abilities to bind the Purifier in place. Each bind creates a short opening where the enemy can’t retaliate, so commit to your heaviest attacks during that window and back off before it recovers.

Learn how to open the cavern gate

After the Purifier, Brad gives you the main task for the chapter. You need to find the entrance to the deep cave that leads to the Inukami River Colony, and that means figuring out how the gate works.

Head to the cliffside just across from the campsite and speak to the Ancient Golem standing there. It explains that the way forward is controlled from a fortress inside the crater, and that a console within the fortress opens the path.

Reach the fortress in the crater

Getting to the fortress means moving between camps and clearing groups of Purifiers on the way. Set up the route before you push inside so you have safe rest points and know where the merchant is.

Find the second camp, which sits across the ravine directly north of the first campsite. Expect to fight a few Purifiers along this stretch, so keep Koo ready and don’t over-extend into open ground.

Drop into the ravine below the second camp and find the Keeper Golem there. Talking to it marks the locations of three dangerous enemies on the map, including a Withered Beast, so it’s worth clearing these while you’re in the zone.

Take the path leading to the right side near the fortress to find the merchant. A sealed Bulkhead and a campsite sit next to the merchant, and the Nushi that blocks the cavern is behind that Bulkhead. You can’t open it yet, since the mechanism is locked from inside the fortress.

Near the fortress entrance you can take on an optional elite enemy alongside four golems. On their own these are easy, but a full group can overwhelm you fast. Stay mobile and pull them one at a time instead of standing in the middle of the pack.

Raise the tower and unlock the Bulkhead

Inside the fortress you’ll use two consoles. The first raises a central tower out of the water, and the second, at the top of that tower, releases the seal on the Bulkhead back at the merchant.

Follow the map marker through the fortress to the first console. The route is lined with powerful golems and Purifiers, so clear them before you interact. Using the console makes the central tower rise from the water below.

Climb the tower and follow the marker to the top floor. Interact with the console up there to unlock the sealed Bulkhead. This is your confirmation to head back toward the merchant, since the door to the cavern is now open.

Defeat the Cavern Nushi (Taurus)

With the Bulkhead open, return to the merchant’s location and enter the cavern. The Cavern Nushi here is the Taurus, and it fights across two phases. The second phase is noticeably more aggressive than the first, and the Taurus leans on wide, powerful area attacks, so keep space and watch for the wind-up on those sweeps.

Parrying matters here, because a clean parry refills FP and lets you fire off Koo’s Bloom Arts against the boss. Remember you can’t use the same Bloom Art twice in a row, so open with the art the Taurus is weakest to, then rotate. Once the second phase ends, Emma absorbs the Taurus’s Blight and wakes up back aboard the Bauera.

Ending Chapter 8

Back inside the vehicle, Brad, Kagura, and Emma have a conversation that sets up the next stretch of the story. When you’re ready, choose to depart the Crater Zone. Selecting to leave finishes Worm Food and moves you into Chapter 9, Branching Out, in the Inukami River Zone.

Note: Everything in the Crater Zone stays reachable through fast travel, so if you skipped the Withered Beast or the elite fights flagged by the Keeper Golem, you can return later to mop them up without blocking your progress.