Iron Butcher, the Frenzied Brute

Who he is

Iron Butcher, the Frenzied Brute, is an optional boss of the Mountain of Imprisonment, the true-ending region north of Meigu Lake, near the Lady's Path bell (KeenGamer). Beebom lists him under the Mountain of Imprisonment; OfZenAndComputing puts the same fights in The Heart's Trail and rates him among the hardest, saying his pressure favours taking a hit and resetting over chasing an opening. Like Jagged Steel in Weeping Creek Valley he carries the Frenzied Brute title. The reward is the Iron Butcher Mask, the Soul Tempering material for Jagged Steel.

He is the 2024 demo's Tie Sha the Frenzy (癫狂暴徒铁杀) under a release name: the retail fight is in the demo's courtyard with the demo's entrance, as set out under The 2024 demo's Tie Sha below.

What the footage shows

PowerPyx's capture (Oct 29, 2026) opens on the Mountain of Imprisonment map at 3% completion. From 0:10 Soul fights through a jungle of mossy ruins, wooden scaffolds and campfires: ordinary enemies from 0:15 to 1:00, then at 1:05 a hulking figure wreathed in red threads beside a wooden scaffold. At 1:10 the camera finds him on the cliff above the courtyard, green-haired and bare-chested with the axe raised over his shoulder; at 1:14 he leaps and at 1:16 lands among the crates. At 1:20 the name bar "Iron Butcher, the Frenzied Brute" appears and stays to about 3:20; he is a broad, bare-armed brute in a ragged hat. Orange sparks fly at 2:10, a purple flare at 2:20, an orange explosion at 2:40, at 3:05 he leaps down a stone stair, and a purple explosion at 3:15 ends it. The capture ends at 3:25 with Soul on the steps.

Attacks

Not on record. No English guide published by Nov 2, 2026 names this boss's attacks or counters; the footage notes above are what this site has seen, and it does not invent tells from them.

Drops

The Iron Butcher Mask, Soul Tempering material for the Jagged Steel (KeenGamer; item card in PowerPyx's capture at 3:18). The card reads: "Iron Butcher Mask. Weapon Soul Tempering Materials. His brother killed people; he buried the bodies. His brother set fires; he stayed behind to cover his escape. When his brother robbed someone of a blade, he was the one who got caught. They prised his mask open and did something inside his head. Ha! Haha! How light his body felt! A power told him: "kill... kill and enjoy killing!" Never again would he be the tail that trailed behind his brother! Used to Soul Temper the Jagged Steel." The brother it describes is not named on the card.

The 2024 demo's Tie Sha

Three things in PowerPyx's retail capture of Iron Butcher (Oct 29, 2026) match the 2024 demo's Tie Sha fight and nothing in the Jagged Steel capture does. The entrance: at 1:10 the camera finds a bare-chested, green-haired brute on the cliff above the courtyard with his axe raised over his shoulder, at 1:14 he leaps down and at 1:16 lands among the crates, the same shot as PlayStation's Gamescom 2024 video at 0:57 to 1:03. The arena: a grassy, rubble-strewn courtyard under wooden scaffolding with a ladder, with stacked crates, a campfire, a shrine of red candles against the back wall and a large woven disc leaning by the scaffold, all present in both captures. The region: the retail fight is on the Mountain of Imprisonment near The Lady's Path bell, and the 2024 demo's other two bosses, Commander Cleave (now Bi Feng) and Huangxing, are also on the Mountain of Imprisonment in the retail game. Jagged Steel, the other Frenzied Brute, is fought in a dark riverbed in Weeping Creek Valley with none of these features.

So the 2024 demo level is the Mountain of Imprisonment, and Tie Sha the Frenzy is Iron Butcher, the Frenzied Brute, renamed for release as Huangxing's rooftop foe and Commander Cleave were. No source states the identification in words; it rests on the footage comparison above.

What 2024 hands-on reports say

But Why Tho's TGS 2024 hands-on says he "struck aggressively with a massive handaxe, often following up with multiple slashes and swings", and uses the fight to describe Ghostep, the smoke-shrouded flip that a perfectly timed dodge or block triggers. Gamereactor, at Summer Game Fest 2024, grouped him with Commander Cleave as mini bosses that "required better timing and strategy, with their more complex patterns and devastating blows". Digital Trends called him "a mid-boss wielding a giant axe". All of this describes the 2024 build.