Sekema’s trial Gateway to Ascension The Road of Asylum 2.
This exam will test your strength against seven assignments and bosses that must be completed in a row. As you progress, the room becomes more and more difficult as you suffer from curses and run lowly in honor. However, we’ll help you with some tips as you will need to complete a trial to increase your intensity to the next level.
Here’s how to unlock a Sekema exam The Road of Asylum 2inside and its rewards.
Updated (April 7): The steps to unlock Ascent to Power Quest were changed in the “Dawn of the Hunt” update in April 2025, so we have updated our guide to reflect the changes.
How to unlock POE2 Sekema exam
You need to open it to unlock the Sekema exam Honey Gate And defeated Barbara, traitor In the aisle of the traitor in Act 2. If they are defeated they will fall Rose Burleythis is used as a key to getting into the exam.

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Return to Ardura Caravan and use the map of the desert to move to the trial of Sekhemas at the top of the map. Go inside and find Barbara waiting for you to start trial.
All Sekemas exams are challenged
The Sekhemas trial is a gauntlet that requires seven challenges to be completed in a row to face off against Rattlecage, the Earthbreaker in the eighth and final room. The Sekhemas exam is at level 22Therefore, the monsters you fight will be on the same level. However, you can always take on this assignment, so if you want to spend a simple time, you can listen to it with a very level of level.
There are a few things you need to know before you begin a trial.
- Relics – After talking to Barbara, she will give you a relic. This is an item that will make your trial time a little easier by providing a buff. After inserting the Barbara Barrier Coin, place the artifact on the artifact altar. These relics can offer many buffs, including increasing your full honor, maximum life, or the total amount of sacred water you get from the fountain.
- honor – Honor serves as the sum of unique lifespans used throughout the trial. If you take a hit or take damage, you lose your reputation depending on how much damage you take. If your honor reaches zero, you will fail and have to start over again. To prevent your honor from reaching zero, you need to choose a room that rewards you with honor.

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- Trial Map – After completing the first room and each subsequent room, you will encounter a trial map. Trial Maps allow you to select rewards, modifiers that will wait for you in the next room. If you are trying to spend the easiest time, avoid the room that will torment you with a curse. If you are trying to receive the most reward, try to enter the room where you will be awarded the keys.
- death – If you die or lose your honor, your trial will end, but you can still try again for free. Please interact with Balbala and try again. However, this applies only to Barbara Barrier Coins. If you are using Djinn Barya Coin, the trial will end and you will not be allowed to re-enter.
To begin the trial of Sekhemas, the Barya Coin of Balbala must be placed inside the altar. You can complete the challenge in the first room and find the trial map. This allows you to choose from one of five trials.
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- Charist Trial – Defeat all the rare monsters, fill up the chalice and proceed to the next room.
- Escape Trial – Invalidate all death crystals in the room. After it is disabled with a crystal, the line will fire in the direction of the next crystal, so follow the line to easily proceed to the next room.
- Gauntlet Trial – Find hidden levers around the room and interact with each other, dodging hiding traps and enemies. After interacting with one lever, the gate opens and closes to find a new route to the exit.
- Hourglass Trial – Activate the hourglass and survive until it is finished by the time it is successful. Killing a rare monster will reduce the time, but the main focus here is survival.
- Ritual exam – Defeat Rich Summoner on the side of the portal and shut down all portals. This room has several variations that allow you to gather portals near the center of the room or scatter them around the edges. Focusing on casters as enemies emerge from the portal will immediately perish when the portal closes.
If you are struggling with Sekemas exams, the best tip I can give you for these exams is to stick to the purpose of the trial. Do not do unnecessary things that can devalue your honor by going for purposes.
How to defeat Rattlecage, The Earthbreaker

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Rattlecage, The Earthbreaker, is a giant rock golem that emerges from a pack of rocks in the center of the room when nearby. Here’s a notable move:
- The rattle cage hits the ground and creates a large shock wave around the fist. This attack has a slightly slower animation, with an audio cue from Barbara.
- The rattle cage hits the ground, creating mini volcanoes and cracks in the ground. Stand around the volcano, as they will spit out rocks that will take away your honor.
- A wind pocket will appear on the floor, indicating that the stal litter will fall into the area, so be sure to move!
Ranged users can use lock clusters where rattle cages come out to avoid attacks for most of the battle. Closer users should turn to rattle cage animations and pull the rattle cage away from the volcano and landing zones to keep the level of honor high.
Sekema’s reward trial
Once you beat Rattlecage, The Earthbreaker, you will enter a new room full of breasts and altars.

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If you stack a large amount of keys, you can open the corresponding key chest. Bronze Keys can only open bronze chests, silver keys, silver chests, gold keys and gold chests. There are four bronze vessels, silver breasts and two gold breasts, each breast with a different reward. Chests are random every time you complete a trial, but can be specialized for anything: class items, artifacts, gold, and armor pieces. If you have the remaining sacred sea, you can buy items from Barbara or exchange items for more keys at Kesforge.
The greatest reward for completing a trial must come from the altar of prevailing. I will talk to the altar and choose you Ascendancy Classprovides an additional skill tree full of power abilities.
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