You may be the son of a fisherman — hot-tempered by nature, destined to spend half your life in arms. You once had a love you'd never forget, and you brawled with thugs to protect her. You once mustered the courage to defeat the neighborhood's bully, and you even outdrew the "god of luck" in a card duel. Growing up, you joined the Assassins' Guild and the Order of the Holy Flame, uncovered the Conspiracy of the Bright Faction, thwarted the corruption of the Candlelight Cult, and even saved the world from the clutches of the Black Death. In the end, you fell in a great battle defending the royal capital, sacrificing yourself bravely to protect the king. In your dying moments, you look back on this life, and tears well up in your eyes — as if you were 11 years old again, swinging a stone sword as you set out to conquer the world. You only live once, but in this game, you can live again, and again.
The description above is just the tip of the iceberg of this game's experience. The game features a wide range of gameplay: combat, interactive storylines, puzzle-solving, progression, and more. All gameplay comes in the form of event-story packs that you pick at random, with one epic event each year. There are 24 types of gameplay in total, including: Duels, Trials, Quizzes, Chance Encounters, Shops, Resurrection, Exploration, Recovery, Training, Star-Up, Switching Allies/Skills/Equipment, Enchanting, Combat, Executing Rival Lords, Recruiting Rival Lords, Curses, Defending Allies, Memories of the Gods, Mirror Battles, and Doomsday Races. Along the way you'll grow in many ways: gaining new allies, learning combat skills, learning adventure skills, acquiring new equipment, joining prestigious factions, collecting items, leveling up, walking the path of good or evil, and earning loot. Once you complete a life, your epic biography is written automatically and can be shared with one tap. After leaving a life, you can also learn Talents and Star-Up your allies/skills/equipment, making your next life run even smoother.
The main challenge of the game — besides the endlessly complex and brain-burning strategic combinations of allies + skills (if you've played our 【Element Invaders】, you'll find it easier to pick up) — is clearing the main storylines of each story pack. Each story pack contains multiple main storylines, and each main storyline may have different branches. A single choice of yours can steer the story toward a different ending. Only by finding and completing these endings can you earn the game's richest rewards and sense of achievement. Note: the main storylines are as intricate as a maze — miss one fork in the road, and you may have to wait until your next life to make up for the regret. You'll need to play through and explore multiple times before you can complete all the hidden endings in a story pack.
**Other Game Elements:**
**Origin (Background):** Provides a large amount of bonus experience and determines your leveling playstyle for the run.
**Personality:** Provides bonus adventure attribute points.
**Fate (Destiny):** Provides life quests of varying difficulty; completing them grants generous rewards.
**Adventure Attributes:** Strength, Agility, and Intelligence directly affect the combat attributes of your ally cards. Luck is an important foundation for using adventure skills and certain event gameplay. Leadership determines how many ally cards you can have at once. Lifespan determines how old you live to (Lifespan = 50 means you die of old age at 50). The Justice-Evil value constantly shifts, and many events have requirements for justice or evil.
**Ally Cards:** Essential cards for combat events. Ally cards wear out quickly but can be continuously replenished through events.
**Combat Skill Cards:** Skills only take effect in combat when slotted into an empty socket on an ally card.
**Adventure Skill Cards:** Adventure skills provide extra effects in event gameplay and more adventure attributes.
**Equipment Cards:** Provide a large amount of adventure attributes. Replacing equipment during a run destroys the original piece.
**Faction Prestige:** Faction prestige is the prerequisite for the vast majority of main storyline events. Completing events accumulates and raises your prestige level.
**Items:** Collected in-run and used as prerequisites for certain events. Items are never consumed.
**Loot (Spoils):** Loot is the only reward — besides Life Medals and Adventure Keys — that you can carry out of a life and keep permanently.
**Endings:** Endings include Perfect Endings and Flawed Endings. They are hidden in the middle or at the end of each story line, and some endings can only be triggered by dying on the battlefield. Completing endings grants the richest rewards.
**Talents:** Talents permanently unlock abilities for your lives, including carrying more cards into a life, gaining adventure attributes, increased gold, and benefits to ally/skill/equipment cards, and more. Use Life Medals to upgrade talents. Life Medals come mainly from daily quests and achievement quests, though you can also earn a small number during a life.
**Adventure Keys:** Extremely rare items that can be exchanged at a merchant for the highest-quality ally/skill/equipment cards (permanently usable). Adventure Keys mainly come from daily quests, achievement quests, and the daily free gift, and you can also obtain them by completing fixed endings.
**Synopses of the Ten Story Packs:**
**【Eternal Blade】** This story pack contains 100 events, including 5 main storylines and many branches. Join the Assassins' Guild and face the royal family's assassination schemes, the infighting within the guild, the betrayal of its leader — and even "The Damascus Rose of the Haunted Family" from the case files of the Assassin Master Detective. Rise from the shadows!
**【Kingdom Legends】** This story pack contains 99 events, including 3 main storylines and many branches. How many steps does it take for a beggar to become king? You can marry the princess, build unparalleled achievements, found a commercial empire, or even assassinate the king and usurp the throne. Every story demands your all!
**【The Bard】** This story pack contains 103 events, including more than 10 shorter main storylines and many branches. You'll play a dashing bard, spending your whole life traveling — making friends, composing music, unraveling the mystery of your origins, and seeking out a legendary dragon. In the end, you must find the meaning of life. That is the ultimate purpose of playing this game.
**【The Twin Shades (Black & White Twins)】** This story pack contains 95 events, including 4 main storylines and many branches. In this epic tale of two protagonists, you'll play a valiant mercenary separated from his brother by fate. When you and your brother reunite, a destined duel awaits. Will you choose to believe in friendship, or fight to the death?
**【Soul of the Tomb Keeper】** This story pack contains 89 events and only 1 main storyline. As the sole survivor of the tomb keeper clan, your only purpose in this world is revenge. You'll lie in wait in the ancient tombs, track down the three mysterious forces that wiped out your clan, and slaughter them all. This is a lonely journey of vengeance — you must face an army of thousands alone and walk into the bloody abyss.
**【The Healing Sage (Kind Heart Saves the World)】** This story pack contains 84 events, including 3 main storylines and many branches. You play a physician devoted to saving lives. Facing the terrifying plague that devastates the city, the chaos of the Bright Faction's rebellion, and the despair of a demon invasion — will you sacrifice yourself to save the world, or cling to survival and find a quiet corner to hide?
**【The Fading Candlelight】** This story pack contains 90 events and only 1 main storyline. As a humble believer in a devout kingdom, you will join both the powerful Candlelight Cult and the ascetic monks on the decline. After discovering that the cult is a heresy plaguing the world, how will you save the people's faith?
**【The Sorcerer Century】** This story pack contains 90 events, including 3 main storylines and many branches. You are fortunate enough to become an apprentice of the great Wizards' Order. Your destiny is to become the Dark Archmage and unite the world with sorcery. Facing declarations of war from three major factions — can you walk this dark path to the end?
**【Pirate Legends】** This story pack contains 93 events, including 4 main storylines and many branches. You join the freest faction on the kingdom's continent: the Skull Helm Pirate Crew, embarking on a carefree treasure-hunting adventure. After sailing through countless seas and returning with your spoils, the real story is just beginning. Now wealthy beyond measure, you must still face greed, disaster, fear, and conspiracy — with no end in sight.
**【Hero's Lament】** This story pack contains 87 events, including 5 main storylines and many branches. You are a hero straight out of myth, like Heracles — destined to achieve great feats. But you cannot escape the shadows of betrayal, corruption, pride, desire, and death. Whether a great hero can meet a good end — this story will tell you the answer.
