The Tower of Fate: ???? is the final stage in Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. It is here Shovel Knight, Plague Knight, Specter Knight, and King Knight finally do battle with the Enchantress.
Description[]
This level appears to take place at the very top of the tower, within the Enchantress's personal keep. For all four campaigns, it is a relatively short level that starts with an empty room. The player must attack the floor or walls to break through the floor and drop down into the next area, which contains a cluster of floating platforms suspended above a pit of lava. Some of the platforms will turn into deadly projectiles and will fly at the player.
In the first three campaigns, a doorway will open once all the hostile platforms are gone, leading to a long corridor full of platforms that only appear when the player is close enough to them. At the end of the corridor is the room in which the Enchantress is encountered.
In King of Cards, the doorway to the next room is already present but blocked by three hostile platforms which are the last ones to fly at King Knight. Unlike in previous campaigns, the subsequent corridor features Enchanted Blocks that disappear if King Knight jumps off of or Shoulder Bashes into them. As always, though, the room with the Enchantress is located at the end of the corridor.
Story[]
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King Knight, accompanied by the Glidewing crew and the Joustus Judges (minus the Troupple King, who had sent the Troupple Acolyte in his stead), breached the Enchantress's chamber to stop her plan to take over the Valley. Impressed by his power, the Enchantress attempted to persuade King Knight to abandon his friends. However, King Knight's allies encouraged him to fight the Enchantress, so they battled. Afterwards, the Enchantress was left reeling and King Knight's friends implored him to finish the job, but the Enchantress recovered and tried once more to get King Knight to join her cause, calling him a true king. She then mocked the Joustus Judges for hiding behind their champion like cowards, and decided to use her magic to turn them into something "more useful" by fusing their bodies and essences together. The result was the creation of the Grand Triumvirate, a giant made of gold that had all the powers of the Joustus Judges combined. King Knight was able to destroy the titanic tyrant and rescue the Joustus Judges, but the resulting explosion left all of King Knight's allies hanging on the wall of the tower.
With the entire crew hanging for dear life, King Pridemoor asked King Knight for help, but the Enchantress once again tried her hand at turning King Knight to her side, this time offering to let him be king of Pridemoor if he joined the Order of No Quarter. King Pridemoor begged King Knight to turn down the Enchantress and help his friends, but instead King Knight Shoulder Bashed the wall to send all his allies falling off the tower. The Enchantress, delighted with King Knight's decision, welcomed him into the Order of No Quarter and asked him what his first proclamation would be. King Knight told the Enchantress that he wanted the Joustus competition to end so he could be a king forever, so she had her minions go out and destroy all evidence of Joustus as they moved out to conquer the Valley.
Later, Specter Knight infiltrated this area to find and destroy the Enchantress after discovering that she was actually Shield Knight, who he blamed for his death. After their battle, the Enchantress expressed her disgust towards Specter Knight's disloyalty and called upon Dark Reize, who was then transformed into Nightmare Reize and ordered to kill Specter Knight. Specter Knight was forced to fight Reize to bring him back to his senses, and after defeating the monster, Specter Knight struck a deal with the Enchantress to put Reize back to normal in exchange for his freedom.
Plague Knight arrived in the Enchantress's keep later on to try and take her essence. The Enchantress resisted at first, but finally surrendered her essence upon her defeat. Now having all the ingredients he needed, Plague Knight was able to create the Ultimate Potion, but the sheer power of the Enchantress's essence caused an unexpected reaction which resulted in the potion creating a darker clone of Plague Knight known as the Plague of Shadows, which then mutated into the Corrupted Essence. Plague Knight managed to stabilize the potion after dealing with that monstrosity, only to realize that he didn't need it anymore because he already had Mona's love...
Meanwhile, Shovel Knight entered this area in the hopes of getting Shield Knight back, which he managed to do by defeating the Enchantress, freeing Shield Knight from the curse of the amulet. However, Shovel Knight had also accidentally released the dark magic that was in the amulet, allowing it to take on a physical manifestation and become the Remnant of Fate. Shovel Knight and Shield Knight teamed up to fight the Remnant of Fate in order to keep it from escaping the Tower of Fate, and eventually managed to defeat it, while Plague Knight decided to use the Ultimate Potion to destroy the tower. These actions caused the Tower of Fate to become extremely unstable, triggering an earthquake. Plague Knight and Mona managed to escape safely, but the Remnant of Fate attacked Shovel Knight and Shield Knight one last time, resulting in Shovel Knight getting badly injured. Black Knight arrived to rescue the pair, but Shield Knight insisted that he take Shovel Knight to safety while she stayed behind to hold off the Remnant of Fate (she managed to escape later and rejoined Shovel Knight at his camp).
Obstacles[]
- Green Ghostly Flame (SoT)
- Enchanted Block (KoC)
Trivia[]
- In the boss fight with the Enchantress in King of Cards, every time the Enchantress gets hit the crowd will cheer.