He cannot block, but has a large amount of health and must be worn down. Marius encounters him by a fire after being separated from his cohort. He is apart of the minotaur tribe, and thus wears a horned mask. The mini-boss is a tall barbarian warrior with a two-handed hammer. There is a mini-boss and official boss in this chapter. She will evade most throws but can be hit, and will retain the damage suffered into the boss battle.
The boss of this chapter is Boudica, king Oswald's daughter. A heavier pseudo-type is encountered in later chapters who wears a helmet and uses stone hammers. His character model is used throughout the game after this point to identify enemies of the same type. He will counter power attacks while his guard is up, but his guard can be broken by a power bash, leaving him vulnerable to combinations. He is capable of performing a power attack, a forward leap which cannot be block and must be evaded, and a four strike combination that culminates in a power attack. The mini boss is a barbarian wielding a pair of short blades and faces Marius at a shallow stream in the forest while Marius is attempting to infiltrate King Oswald's fort. This is the first chapter to include both a boss and a mini-boss. His character model appears occasionally in later chapters to identify enemies of the same type. Aside from this, he is no different from the standard shield infantry. It can however be evaded by rolling to either side, or countered with a well timed shield bash right before he makes contact with Marius. He has a new heavy attack a charge forward ramming into Marius and it cannot be blocked. He is similar to the other shielded barbarians, except that he wears a horned helmet to distinguish him. He appears at the vary end of the chapter in the final skirmish as Marius is defending his men while they ready a catapult to destroy a tower occupied by barbarians. The boss of this chapter is an unnamed barbarian warlord. In Chapter VIII, Vitallion identifies this character type as "shield infantry", and they pose a threat to the Roman formation holding the courtyard and must be killed quickly with the scorpio. His character model is used by shielded barbarians throughout the game after this point, becoming one of the most common enemies. His guard can be easily broken by a simple combination of shield bashing and standard attacks, opening him up to being executed. He is the first shielded barbarian encountered in the game. A true mini-boss, a large barbarian with a shield, is the first enemy Marius faces after falling behind Leontius and being temporarily separated. Leontius can be interpreted as a mini-boss during the training session at the start of the chapter. There is no official boss for this chapter. His character model, an un-shielded soldier with a hood, is used in proceeding chapters to identify barbarians capable of performing this power attack.
He is no different from the standard barbarian soldier aside from the fact that he is capable of performing a power attack that cannot be blocked, but can be preempted by a shield bash if executed quickly. He uses a torch to ignite pitch spread across the floor in the palace throne room and traps Marius. Chronologically, he is also the last barbarian Marius ever fights. The boss of this chapter is a barbarian warlord and is the last enemy encountered in this chapter.
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