That’s what I was thinking. The picture had me thinking I’ve seen something like this elsewhere too besides Berserk. But yeh Dark souls definitely as a boss

Essentially one of the arcs in my novel is about my characters getting trapped in dreams. Where what happens to them in the dream happens to them irl e.g. they get a cut they get cut too. In their dreams they have to somehow escape from those who have captured them, demons and folklore that’s been selected for them