A side mission like Spellbound sounds quite simple, almost medieval, but Cyberpunk 2077 adds an extra layer of difficulty with the hidden code. Players are sent on this side mission, Spellbound, by Nix in the Afterlife. Nix lays it out as a simple task to buy a spellbook from a dealer known as R3N0.
Players gain access to this mission in Act Two after completing the main story mission called Ghost Town and Nix’s previous side mission Kold Mirage. After accepting the job from Nix, players will need to reply to his text to receive the dealer’s cell phone number. Call R3N0 to set up a meeting, agree to her price and she’ll send the location. The difficulty begins almost immediately after the player meets up with R3N0.
How to Get the Code from R3N0 in Cyberpunk 2077
When meeting with R3N0, players have a couple of different options depending on their life path and their stats. Only players who chose a Corpo lifepath or have an Intelligence score of nine or higher will be able to gain the code from R3N0 without paying full price. Nix has offered to pay V double what they pay R3N0 for the book, so as long as the player has the money, they will make the money back. However, this means that the player needs to have the full 3,600 eddies upfront.
Either purchase it here from her or take the alternative routes. As a Corpo, players can talk her down to half the original asking price and simply gain it by paying the new amount. Alternatively, players with an Intelligence score of nine or higher can simply incapacitate R3N0 by coming up behind her at the meeting and grabbing her. Killing her may cause hostility, whereas incapacitating just makes the rest of the customers at the bar panic. Afterward, jack into the suitcase-laptop she brought with her on the bar.
Successfully hacking this will grant the player extra money and access to more files. Open up the laptop, and open the file marked Coordinates. This should mark the location of the spellbook on the player’s map. Find the pink suitcase and open it to find the spellbook. At this point, the player can decrypt the spellbook to gain even more information and a secret message from Spider Murphy.
How to Decrypt the Book of Spells in Cyberpunk 2077
No matter what the player’s Intelligence score is, they should be able to decrypt the book. Once the player has the spellbook, they can open their menu and head into the Journal section. Scroll down to the Shards section of the Journal and the Spell Book will be the very last option available. Open the spellbook and hit the F key, Square (Xbox), or X (PlayStation) to crack the document. This will bring up a quickhack for players to crack. The code that the player needs to enter is BD-E9-BD-55-1C-FF-BD.
The first BD is the top line, second choice over. The E9 to choose next is the third option down. After is the BD two to the right, not the one at the end. 55 is one up from here. 1C is all the way to the left. FF is at the very bottom. Lastly is the BD, which is three to the right. This choice and order will grant the player a copy of the daemon on the shard as well as downloading a crafting spec for a new advanced quickhack.
After following through with any of the previous pathways, bring the spell book back to Nix and ask him to pay up. If the player has an Intelligence of 12 or higher they can ask Nix to up the price which will score the player roughly 16,000 eddies in total for the mission. However, asking for more money will ruin the player’s relationship with Nix and possibly keep him from offering V goods or missions in the future.
Cyberpunk 2077 is available now on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Google Stadia.
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