Root of the Infection

Root of the Infection
Type	Infinity's Edge boss
Base HP	2,500
Parts	First phase part (2,000 HP)
Phases	2
IE depths	6, 11, 14
Also appears in	None (Infinity's Edge only)
Reward	Quantum Orbs (base 128)

Root of the Infection is a boss that only appears in Infinity's Edge. It is the boss of depth 6 and depth 11, and the second boss of the depth 14 gauntlet.

Appearances

Depth	Fight	Enemy HP multiplier	HP at this depth (about)	Helper enemies
6	Single boss	x2.65	6,630	No
11	Single boss	x7.03	17,584	Yes
14	Gauntlet The Guardians of the Edge: The Dreadnought, then Root of the Infection, then Solara	x12.63	31,569	Yes

The HP column is the base HP times the depth's enemy HP multiplier (see Infinity's Edge Depths).

Fight

• The fight has two phases. The first phase has its own part with 2,000 HP.
• At depth 11 and 14, helper enemies spawn once the boss intro ends. They come back 5 seconds after they die, until the boss is defeated.

Rewards

• Orbs with a base amount of 128, multiplied by the depth and counted as Quantum Orbs: 288 at depth 6, 448 at depth 11, and 544 as its share of the depth 14 gauntlet (before other orb bonuses).
• The final boss of a depth drops no shards; no IE boss drops a Boss Orb.
• At depth 6 and 11 it is the final boss of the run: defeating it spawns The Tesseract, which ends the run as a win. Beating it at your max depth raises your max depth by 1.
• Defeating it unlocks a Steam achievement, and a second one when you do it in Challenge Mode.

See also

• Infinity's Edge
• Infinity's Edge Depths
• Bosses