How to Get the Obsidian Fang in Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse (Location)

The Obsidian Fang is one of the earliest damage relics in Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse. You can grab it as soon as Joan is down. It sits in a chest in the Guard Level of the Prison Tower in Paris Streets, at the bottom of a spike-lined shaft. Clearing that shaft takes careful wall jumps and well-timed bursts of Holy Light.

Quick answer: Beat Joan, get Holy Light at Stairs to the Tower Roof, then go down through Torture Level to Guard Level. Clear the spike shaft above the chest with Holy Light and open the chest.

What the Obsidian Fang does

Whenever Rose shatters an opponent’s guard, Obsidian Fang gives her a damage increase of 45% for 3 seconds. The boost then expires, making rapid follow-up attacks more effective than a slow, cautious approach. Rose needs the relic in one of her three relic slots for it to work.

Field	Obsidian Fang
Type	Relic
Area	Paris Streets
Trigger	Rose’s damage increases by 45% for 3 seconds when she breaks an opponent’s guard.
Bonus	+45% damage
Duration	3 seconds

The item’s description says the talisman came home with young mercenaries from distant lands, and that it brought either fortune or doom.

Requirement: Holy Light from the Joan fight

You can’t reach the chest without Holy Light. Chaos Shard blocks seal both the way down the tower and the shaft above the chest, and Holy Light is the only tool that clears them. You get the ability right after defeating Joan on the Roof of the Tower. These records cover that fight and the unlock:

Record	Joan (boss)
Location	Paris Streets, Roof of the Tower
Health	1800
Attack	24
XP	600
Arcana card	The Warrior
Rewards	Infernal Pyre, The Warrior’s Key

Joan is immune to freeze, petrify, launch into the air, slam down, Chains of Justice root and stun, Chronomantic Dive slow, Freezing Path link and Infernal Pyre launch. Build your damage plan around standard hits, not crowd control.

You receive Holy Light in the Stairs to the Tower Roof district of Paris Streets. Keeping the button held creates a halo around Rose; any Chaos Shard that contacts it is destroyed. A quick press immediately before an attack connects triggers a light parry, preventing its damage. C is the keyboard’s default key.

Route from the Roof of the Tower to Guard Level

Take down Joan on the tower’s summit in Paris Streets. After the fight, your map should display the Roof of the Tower district.

Joan Boss Fight — The Joan fight on the Roof of the Tower, which you have to win before Holy Light unlocks. Shown at 00:08 in Shark R’s video. Image: KONAMI

Return inside the tower, then find The Fallen at Stairs to the Tower Roof and speak with them. A Holy Light tutorial pop-up confirms you have the ability.

Hold Holy Light next to the black, cracked Chaos Shard blocks on the stairs to break them. Once they are gone, the path downward is open.

Breaking Chaos Shards — Holding Holy Light breaks the Chaos Shard blocks that seal the stairs going down. Shown at 00:48 in Shark R’s video. Image: KONAMI

Keep going down through Stairs to the Tower Roof. Skeletons and archers wait in the broken cathedral rooms along the way, so clear them before you drop to the next floor.

Tower Descent Combat — Skeleton enemies guard the rooms on the way down the tower. Shown at 01:56 in Shark R’s video. Image: KONAMI

Go through the doorway at the bottom to enter Torture Level. Look for its name on your map before you go any further.

Entering Torture Level — The doorway from the tower stairs into Torture Level. Shown at 02:15 in Shark R’s video. Image: KONAMI

Head down Torture Level’s central shaft, past the spiked pits, toward Guard Level. A Chaos Shard barricade along this route hides a Wise Heart Fragment. Holy Light breaks it, and four fragments permanently raise Rose’s Mana.

Descent Through Spikes — Spiked pits line the drop through Torture Level, so watch where you land. Shown at 03:00 in Shark R’s video. Image: KONAMI

Obsidian Fang secret chest: the Guard Level spike shaft

In Guard Level, the chest sits in a small alcove under a vertical shaft. Spikes line the shaft walls, and Chaos Shard blocks are mixed in with them. You can’t walk to the chest directly. You have to climb up and then come back down from above. The trick is that Holy Light breaks Chaos Shards the instant it is on, and some of those blocks are the platforms you need to stand on. Only switch it on when you want a block gone.

Discovering the Secret Chest — The secret chest that holds the Obsidian Fang, sealed off below the spike shaft. Shown at 03:31 in Shark R’s video. Image: KONAMI

Jump onto the left wall of the shaft. Start here with Holy Light off.

Wall jump to the right and tap Holy Light for a split second while you are in the air. That clears the blocks in your way. Release it right away so you land on solid ground and not on spikes.

Wall jump up the central column with Holy Light off the whole time. Keep climbing until you reach the upper ledge.

Turn on Holy Light at the top of your jump to break the barrier in the upper wall. Land on the platform above the chest.

Drop through the broken floor into the alcove. Open the chest.

Most failed runs come from holding Holy Light too long. If a block you meant to land on breaks, short taps in the air are the fix.

Confirming and equipping the Obsidian Fang

Opening the chest brings up an item notification naming the Obsidian Fang and its guard-break damage effect. It then shows up in the Relics menu, where you can check it and put it in one of Rose’s three slots. Once it is equipped, break any enemy’s guard and the 45% damage window starts on its own.