New Soul – Sakuyo (Inferno)

New Soul ‘Sakuyo (Inferno)’ will make an appearance.

• Type: Beast
• Class: Ranger
• Attribute: DEX
• Role: AoE Artifact: Yoshimoto Samonji (Inferno)
• Schedule: 2024-12-12 (Thu) after MA ~ 2025-01-02 (Thu) 08:59 UTC+9

[Sakuyo (Inferno): Skill Info]

Ultimate	Denouement – Annihilation	Targets the nearest enemy, and slashes a large area from the target at once and deals damage. If there are “Boss”, “Minion”, or “Evil Soul” in the area, she deals additional high damage to them.
Main	Beginning of the World	Slams the ground and deals damage to the linear area. Additionally, bursts a round explosion to the end of the line which deals massive damage. The damage from linear AoE and explosion can be stacked, and silences and decreases the ATK of the targets affected by the skill.
Sub	Nether’s Burning Blade	Slashes linear area and deals damage, and burns the targets. After the skill, she grants “Burning Blade” effect, which empowers her normal attack and “Heat Slash”. The effect becomes more powerful depending on the targets’ stacks of “Burning” effect.
Sub	Heat Slash	Targets the nearest enemy and slashes the space of the target. Deals damage to the target and surrounding enemies, and decreases their Physical Resistance.
Passive	Command the World	Increases her Crit Rate and DMG by a large amount if she has the highest ATK among the allies. If else, decreases the final receiving damage.
Artifact	Reign Over the World	If she has the highest ATK among the allies, decreases all allies’ receiving damage, if else increases all allies’ damage output.  If she is in the back row, her ATK increases by a large amount.
Support	Lord of Hegemon	Empowers the leader Soul’s sub skill. If the leader is Sakuyo, immediately unlocks the “Blade Form” to the 7th stage, and empowers “Triple Heaven Sunder”.

[Information About Variant Soul]

• Sakuyo (Inferno) is a ‘Variant Soul’, and she can be deployed on the battlefield with the original Soul (Sakuyo).
• Sakuyo’s costumes can’t be equipped to Sakuyo (Inferno), and vice versa.
• The Variant Soul shares stat buff effects from Bond Level with the original Soul.
  • ATK increasing effect from Sakuyo’s Bond Level is applied to both Sakuyo and Sakuyo (Inferno), and vice versa.
  • Reaching Sakuyo’s Bond Lv. 12 – Increasing ATK by 1.2% of Sakuyo, Sakuyo (Inferno)
• Variant Soul will have ‘Soul Story’ instead of the ‘Love Story’.
  • After watching all of the 「Soul Stories」 of the Variant Soul, the theme song for the Soul will be unlocked – which can be used in the lobby screen.
• Variant Soul will receive a special costume after reaching Origin tier.    

2023 Christmas Event Pick-Up

Pick-Up Summon for Dora / Garnet / Catherine, the main heroines of 「A Cozy Kumawreaths」 will be available.

• Dora Pick-Up Summon Period: 2024-12-12 (Thu) after MA ~ 2024-12-19 (Thu) 08:59 UTC+9
• Garnet Pick-Up Summon Period: 2024-12-16 (Mon) 10:00 ~ 2024-12-23 (Mon) 08:59 UTC+9
• Catherine Pick-Up Summon Period: 2024-12-19 (Thu) after MA ~ 2024-12-26 (Thu) 08:59 UTC+9

2023 Christmas Event – A Cozy Kumawreaths! (Re-run)

Changes

1) Rewards of Dora’s Attendance Check

2) Rewards of Christmas Exchange Shop

3) Max Level reward of the event raid

4) Components and quantities of Christmas Prize Shop

5) Rewards of Christmas Season Pass

During the event period, a re-running 「A Cozy Kumawreaths!」 event will be available.

• Schedule: 2024-12-12 (Thu) after MA ~ 2024-12-26 (Thu) 08:59 UTC+9
• Event shop will be available until 2025-01-02 (Thu) 08:59 UTC+9.

[Content of 2023 Christmas Event – A Cozy Kumawreaths!]

Dora’s Christmas Gift

• – Detail: During the event period, an attendance check in which you can obtain Dora’s Christmas gift will be available.
• – Total reward of 7 days: Everstone x 1,200, Normal Summon Ticket x 10

Day	Reward
1	Everstone (Free) x 200
2	Everstone (Free) x 200
3	Everstone (Free) x 200
4	Everstone (Free) x 200
5	Everstone (Free) x 200
6	Everstone (Free) x 200
7	Normal Summon Ticket x 10

A Cozy Kumawreaths! Event Story

• – Detail: Let’s check a fluffy warm story on the Christmas at the event story.
• – You can obtain rewards by viewing the event stories. (Total reward: Normal Summon Ticket x 7, Lobby Background x 2)
• – The event stage and event raid will be available after viewing the event story.

Event Stage – Snowball fights are fun♬

• – Detail: During the event, you can choose and challenge one from two event stages – [Tra-la-la! Go Team Dora!] and [Hey-ho! Go Team Garnet!] 

• – Event items will be given according to each cleared stage.
• – Event items are given according to which type of Event Stage you cleared- [Tra-la-la! Go Team Dora!] → Dora Friend Badge, and [Hey-ho! Go Team Garnet!] → Garnet Friend Badge
• – You can purchase various rewards in [Event shop – Christmas Exchange Shop] with the obtained event items.
• – The costumes and pieces of furniture in the shop are the same as the event from 2023.
• ※ If you already have the limited items from 2023’s Christmas event, you can’t purchase the same items due to the holding limit.

Event Raid – Christmas Happening

• – Detail: During the event period, you can challenge the raid boss by joining the event raid [Christmas Happening].
• – You can challenge the event raid from 100 to 400 level, and the fight will use only one formation.
• – You can obtain [Christmas Prize Medal] and Gold/Mana Dust/Mana Crystal by winning each raid battle.
• – You can’t use the 「Skip」 feature in this event raid.
• – 「Sweep」 feature is available.
• Max Level Reward
  • – You can earn rewards based on the maximum level you clear during the event raid.
  • – The maximum level reward is only available once for clearing a specific level.

Max Level	Reward
100	Everstone (Free) x 100
125	Everstone (Free) x 200
150	Everstone (Free) x 300
175	Everstone (Free) x 400
200	Everstone (Free) x 500

• – You can join the [Christmas Prize Shop] by consuming the event item (Christmas Prize Medal).
• ㅇ Winning Items: Glorious Prayer’s Tree (Idle Mana Dust loot +20/min) (1 time), Soul’s Memory: Dora x60 (1 time), Soul’s Memory: Garnet x60 (1 time), Soul’s Memory: Epic x60 (1 time), Artifact Stone of Primordium x8 (1 time), Epic Soul Type Selection Chest x1 (repeatable), Artifact Summon Ticket x40 (repeatable)
• ※ You can skip the round and go to the next round when obtaining the winning items, and if you claim every reward without skipping additional ‘Artifact Summon Ticket x5’ will be given.
• ※ You can terminate the exchange when obtaining a key item during the multiple exchange.
• – The feature is available when ‘Terminate the Exchange When Obtaining a Key Item’ feature is activated.
• ㅇ If you already have 1st round winning item (key item), the winning items will be changed to Everstones.
• ※ Glorious Prayer’s Tree → Everstone x250
• ※ For the details about rewards and probability, please check the [Christmas Event Prize Shop Probability Table] notice.

• – You will receive the Christmas Season Pass points for the event item you redeem at the Christmas Prize Shop.
• – If you do not have enough Christmas Season Pass Points to claim a reward, you can use Everstone to purchase the points (200 Everstones = 500 points).
• – From the Christmas Season Pass, you can obtain various rewards such as Soul’s Memory: Catherine, Catherine’s Christmas Costume.
• ※ If you already have A Nun of Snow Flower (Catherine’s Christmas costume), you can obtain 500 Everstones instead.

• – By purchasing the Gold Ticket, additional rewards such as Epic Soul Summon Ticket Selection Chest, Wish-Filled Stocking, and Catherine’s Chapel will be available.
• ※ Wish-Filled Stocking, Catherine’s Chapel will be changed to Everstone x 500, Everstone x 2,500 if you already have them.

[Wish-Filled Stocking]

• – Placing a [Wish-Filled Stocking] in your Town will give you 1,000 Town EXP points (no other special features included).

[Catherine’s Chapel]

• – Placing it in your Town will give you 2,500 Town EXP points, and deploying Catherine will increase her HP by 10%. (Only Catherine can be deployed in the object.)

• – Placing her in the Town gives her a new part-time job, [Charitable Activities].
• – For this job, you can earn 540 Town Coins and 1,000,000 Mana Dust.

Battlefront 31st Area

Battlefront 31st Area – Road to Purgatory will be implemented.

Unlimited Gate Depths – 300th Stage

Unlimited Gate Depths will be expanded up to 300th Stage.

Evil Soul Subjugation – Butterfly of an Ominous Dream

During the event period, a new Evil Soul boss – Butterfly of an Ominous Dream will be available.

– Schedule: 2024-12-12 (Thu) after MA ~ 2024-12-19 (Thu) 08:59 UTC+9

Boss Introduction

• – The 9th Evil Soul Subjugation boss is [Butterfly of an Ominous Dream – Naiah].
• – The boss is Fairy type.
• ※ You can find the details of the tips and skills of the boss in the [Detail] screen in the game.

[Butterfly of an Ominous Dream: Naiah – Skill Info]

Skill Info
Main	Terror-Imbuing Nightmare	Lv.1	The Butterfly of an Ominous Dream interferes with the enemies’ spirit. Deals 400% ATK damage to all enemies.
		Lv.301	Damage changes to 550%.
		Lv.401	Damage changes to 750%, and inflicts “Trauma” debuff to all enemies, which increases 10 stacks of “Stress” every 2 sec until the effect is removed.
		Lv.500	Damage changes to 950%, and if the target has more than 50 stacks of “Stress”, deals additional 450% damage.
Sub 1	Soul-Leeching Nightmare	Lv.1	The Butterfly of an Ominous Dream leeches all allies’ spirit. Deals 150% ATK damage to all enemies and inflicts 5 stacks of “Stress”.
		Lv.220	Damage changes to 175%. If the target has more than 50 stacks of “Stress”, leeches the target’s Mana by 20%.
		Lv.320	Damage changes to 200%, and the damage becomes double if the target has more than 50 stacks of “Stress”.
		Lv.420	Damage changes to 250%, and the empowering condition of Stress stack changes from 50 to 30.
Sub 2	Inescapable Nightmare	Lv.1	The Butterfly of an Ominous Dream charges behind to the farthest target. Deals 125% ATK damage to all enemies in the line.
		Lv.240	Damage changes to 150%.
		Lv.340	Damage changes to 175%. Additional explosion bursts from the target, which deals 100% damage to the enemies within a 2.5m radius.
		Lv.440	Damage changes to 200%. Damage of additional explosion changes to 150%.
Sub 3	Hope-Encroaching Nightmare	Lv.1	The Butterfly of an Ominous Dream dives into the dream and spreads out the energy of evil. She becomes immune to groggy state during the effect, and each hit deals additional 100% ATK damage.
		Lv.260	Damage changes to 125%, and each attack inflicts 3 stacks of “Stress” on the target.
		Lv.360	Damage changes to 150%, and each attack increases her damage output by 15%. The effect is removed when the skill is ended.
		Lv.460	Damage changes to 175%, and each attack increases the target’s final receiving damage by 20%. The effect can be stacked, and exists until the debuff is removed.
Passive	Death-Wishing Nightmare	Lv.1	The Butterfly of an Ominous Dream mentally oppresses all enemies. All allies’ stack of “Stress” increases every 3 seconds, and gains additional effect depending on the stacks of Stress. Each 1 stack of “Stress” increases the final receiving damage by 1%. More than 50 stacks of “Stress” – Becomes “Insane” state, which deals 100% ATK damage every 2 sec to herself. More than 100 stacks of “Stress” – Becomes “Mental Break” state, which deals 1,000% ATK damage every 2 sec to herself. Any debuff removing skill decreases 10 stacks of “Stress” per removed debuff.
		Lv.280	If the target has less than 50 stacks of “Stress”, inflicts 1 more stack of “Stress”.
		Lv.380	Removing Stress stacks from debuff removing effect changes to 5.
		Lv.480	The Stress stack condition for activating “Mental Break” decreases to 70.

Anomaly Season 2 – Rule Anomaly will be applied.

Anomaly Name	Effect	Applied Level
Rule Breaker	The 1-time use limit on ultimate skills is lifted.	All Lv
Psychological Resistance	Increases all allies’ ATK by 50% if the “Stress” count is more than 30.	Higher than 401 Lv
Tribute of Sacrifice	When the battle begins, an ally with the highest ATK at the time becomes “Tribute of Sacrifice”, which makes the target can’t do anything, and decreases the target’s ATK by a large amount. However, increases all allies’ ATK, DEF, and HP by 50%.	Higher than 501 Lv

How to Play and Rewards

– How to play and rewards/ranking rewards will be the same as the previous Evil Soul Subjugation.

[Naiah’s Evil Soul Costume – Dream of a Black Butterfly]

[Naiah’s Evil Soul Costume – Dream of an Evil Butterfly]

Iridescent Scenic Instance

Rotation of the Unicat boss is changed from Mackerel to Choco.

• – Schedule: 2024-12-12 (Thu) after MA ~ 2024-12-19 (Thu) 08:59 UTC+9
• – Some of the Unicat’s skills and debuffs will be changed.

※ The changes will be announced in the update notice (detail).

Fixes & Improvements

Town

• Snowy weather effects will be applied to the Town.
  • Snowy weather period: 2024-12-12 ~ 2024-12-31 (Always snows in the Town.) / 2025-01-01 ~ 2025-02-19 (Sometines snows in the Town.)
• You can ride the sled in the Town during the snowy weather.
  • You can ride the sled by press [Ride] button.
  • If the Auto Riding feature is turned on, you will ride the sled after a while of moving.
  • When you ram the logs, rocks, or monsters while riding the sled, you can destroy them. Ram it down!
  • You will dismount from the sled when you try to attack or pick up furniture.

• [Suspicious Snowman] mission will be available by the boy in the Commercial District.
  • The mission is available 1 time per day, and will be reset every 09:00 UTC+9.
  • The mission will be completed when destroying all snowmen in the Town.

• Like/dislike will be displayed in the option of Outing.
  • A ‘New!’ marker will be displayed in the option that has never been selected as the same as before.
  • Options that has selected more than 1 time will display like/dislike marker.

Misc

• ‘Normal End’, ‘Always & Forever’ will be added in the lobby BGM.
• A notification will be displayed in a certain situation when trying or retrying the summon in the Erika’s Alchemy, Targeted Summon, or Artifact Summon.
  • Choosing Origin+5 Soul, or choosing a Soul that can be ascended to Origin+5 by holding Epic, Epic+ Souls
  • An Artifact that is already Origin, or can be ascended to Origin by holding Artifact Memories