The Manticore Raid

The Manticore Raid is Zenko’s endgame gauntlet — a single unbroken run of nine arenas that ends at the Manticore itself. You fight through waves of creeps, drop two mid-run bosses, and finish on a beast that takes to the sky and forces you onto a ballista to bring it back down. It is the hardest fight in the game and the only place the apex loot lives.

Bring a party of up to four players and split the pressure. Boss health is a fixed pool no matter how many of you show up — only your commander’s effective HP scales with the size of your squad, not the boss. A strong solo trainer can clear the earlier arenas, but the Manticore finale is a co-op capstone: its health pool realistically needs a party to burn down inside the per-arena time limit.

The run marches through nine arenas in a fixed order: three creep rooms, then the Black Bull, then three more creep rooms, then the Sand Man, and finally the Manticore Roost. Creep rooms are waves of creatures that soften you up and drain resources; the bosses are the walls that decide whether you go home rich.

Boss health is a fixed pool at every group size — it is never scaled down for smaller parties. What scales with your squad is your commander’s effective HP, not the boss. A strong solo can clear the earlier arenas, but the Manticore’s 7M pool realistically needs a party to burn down inside the per-arena time limit.

Three bosses stand between you and the payout, each a distinct check. Their health is the biggest in the game — sustained damage, a real healer, and a front line matter far more here than in any solo dungeon.

The Skyhunt — the Manticore finale

The Manticore doesn’t just stand and trade blows. When it takes to the sky, the ground fight can’t touch it — and the raid changes camera entirely.

1. The Manticore flies. Mid-fight it lifts off and circles the Roost, out of reach of your party on the ground.
2. Climb the ballista. A siege ballista stands at the edge of the arena. Take the controls and the game drops you into a first-person view from the weapon.
3. Shoot it out of the sky. Track the beast across the air and land your bolts to break its flight and slam it back to the ground, where the party can resume the kill.

Beat the Manticore and the Roost pays out. Nothing before it does — the creep rooms and the first two bosses are the price of admission, not payday. The reward is a six-chest, pick-two choice: six chests appear, and you open two of them.

The pool holds 15+ exclusive drops found nowhere else in the game, and at the very top sits an apex Mythical tier at 1 / 500 — the rarest pull in Zenko, and the whole reason to run the gauntlet clean.

The jackpot chest draws from a fixed pool of 22 exclusive items found nowhere else in Zenko — combat relics, cosmetic trophies, and two eggs. Whatever it holds, every drop arrives BOUND (untradeable): you own it and can equip it immediately, but it takes a 10,000 $ZOLANA convert before it can ever be sold or traded. The odds below are per run — they already fold in the ⅓ chance that your two picks include the jackpot chest, so a listed 1 / 500 means one apex pull every 500 clean clears.

Rows marked Manticore-only can appear only when the apex beast itself falls — that signature loot can never farm off a lesser kill. The two eggs are chases in their own right: the Roost Egg hatches one of the five exclusive Roost creatures, and the Manticore Egg hatches the apex Mythical Manticore itself.

Odds are per completed run. The six Mythicals each sit at 1 / 500, so pulling one specific named Mythical is rarer still. Every clear also pays a guaranteed Gold and materials floor on top of the two chests you open.

The gauntlet is gated by a daily run allowance, and each entry also costs 50 stamina on top of the run. Every trainer gets 3 free runs a day. Need more? Buy +3 additional runs for 1,000 $ZOLANA — a hard cap on how hard the apex loot can be farmed, and the token flows to the treasury.

The Manticore Raid is the co-op capstone of the raid ladder — for the solo 25-dungeon curve, stamina, and material drops, see Dungeons & Raids; for the power formula that sets your party’s strength, see Combat & PvP.