AFK Pets and more/The Ancient Guardian

"One may fall, but many will stand!" -The Ancient Guardian

The Ancient Guardian is a Pre-Hardmode miniboss that is intended to be fought after defeating Eater of Worlds or Brain Cthulhu. The Ancient Guardian is an entity being empowered by the magical essence of its lord and infused soul by the Akatsuki clan and it can use its water powers to attack the player.

The Ancient Guardian is the sixth miniboss that the mod offers, the previous being Isaac and the next being the Aquatic Wiseman.

While the Ancient Guardian is alive, the music Boss 1 will play.

Spawn
Manual The Ancient Guardian can be spawned manually by using the while on the Snow Biome at day time.

Random The Ancient Guardian can spawn randomly, although rarely if certain conditions are met:
 * The player is on a Snow Biome in the daytime.
 * The Eater of Worlds or Brain Cthulhu has been defeated.
 * There is a snow block at its potential spawn point (off-screen; see NPC Spawning)

Behavior
The Ancient Guardian has four phases in total. Thanks to its size, The Ancient Guardian can be an easy target, but it can be quite agile even with its huge size.

First Phase The Ancient guardian always starts the battle with the first move listed down below and then cycles between these attacks:
 * Teleports above the player, and then tries to slam them with its body, and when the Ancient Guardian hits the ground, it will send twelve bubbles downwards, and after some time these bubbles will spread around and they will start to float upwards.
 * The Ancient Guardian will jump high and start to rotate rapidly, shooting nine tornadoes in a circle four times.
 * After it finishes spinning, it will dash at the player and teleport itself to somewhere off-screen and dash at the player again, and it repeats this process four times. Each time it dashes, a harmless cyan line will appear to indicate where it is coming from so that the player can get out of the way quickly.

Second Phase In the Second Phase, the Ancient Guardian will fall to the ground and stay stationary.
 * Sometimes, a harmless cyan line will appear pointing to the player, and shortly after, a strong stream of water will emerge from the Ancient Guardian in the same direction the cyan line pointed to.
 * It will start to spawn up to four of the following enemies: (These enemies will vanish after 5 seconds)
 * A Tiny Guardian [[File:Tiny Guardian (AFK Pets and more).png]] that will behave like an Angry Tumbler ;
 * A Tiny Guardian wearing a Red Hat [[File:Tiny Guardian with a Hat (AFK Pets and more).png]] will remain stationary, teleport to random places near the player and send 2 Tornadoes at them;
 * A Winged Tiny Guardian [[File:Winged Tiny Guardian (AFK Pets and more).png]] will behave like a Vulture, the only change made to it is that it sometimes swiftly dashes at the player;
 * The Tiny Guardian, Holy Avenger [[File: Tiny Guardian, Holy Avenger (AFK Pets and more).png]] will try to line itself up with the player horizontally, stop moving, and quickly dash to the opposite direction depending on where it was.

Third Phase
 * Ten Spinning Tiny Guardians [[File: Tiny Guardian (AFK Pets and more).png]] will spawn from the Ancient Guardian and will start to orbit the player from a far distance and shoot one tornado in a random direction, with the purpose of forcing the player to stay near the Ancient Guardian;
 * Jumps a short height above the player and tries to slam them, and will shoot 5 whirlpools that expand in a straight line, spaced equally between each other, and then descend.

Fourth Phase
 * The spinning Tiny Guardians are the same as the Third Phase.
 * The ancient guardians both magical essence and soul start to shatter so it loses its power and becomes stationary along with starting to leak water.

Quotes

 * They say ignorance is bliss but they forget to count the corpses (When The Ancient Guardian Spawns)
 * One may fall but many will stand (After reaching the Second Phase)
 * Everthing become white and black after he go But I know one day he will return and pat my head like good old times (After reaching the Third Phase)
 * Every new become old and alive become dead Maybe it's time for me to rest and watch the beautiful sunset with my lord (After reaching the Fourth Phase)

Tips

 * A platform arena will help with this battle immensely since most of the enemies and even the Ancient Guardian itself aren't able to descend platforms.
 * Since the enemies on Phase Two can overwhelm any player that tries to close distance with the Ancient Guardian, any ranged weapon with piercing shots will help with that.
 * Summoner minions will probably focus on the enemies that the Ancient Guardian spawns rather than the miniboss itself, so the player can right-click it to make the minions prioritize shooting at the miniboss.

Trivia

 * This boss is dedicated to Chippy as a gift and its reference to his great washing machine story.