Battle modes
Where gear and materials come from: what opens each Battle mode, Quick Battle, and the modes that come and go.
Updated 29 October 2026
The answer in 30 seconds
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Quick Battle
10 a day, on stages already cleared.
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Emergency Mission
Its tokens are wiped when the event ends.
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Spectral Core
Bought with Energy a few times a day.
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Descent
3 teams, 9 heroes.
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Tactic effects
They ignore Effect Resistance.
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Shadow Company
Its rewards change every 3 weeks.
The Battle menu
- The Battle menu has three tabs: Common, Season and Event.
- Common: Spirit Altar, Hunt, Labyrinth, the rift, Abyss, Fracture, Dimensional Exploration.
- Season: Shadow Information Broker quests, Tactical Archives, Automaton Tower, Trial of the Constellations.
- When a rune boost is on, the Spirit Altar tile shows it.
- On Foundry, Altar runes are doubled until 31 December, 02:59 UTC (03:59 Paris).
What opens each mode
- Labyrinth: Episode 1, Chapter 1. Automaton Tower: Episode 2, Chapter 1.
- Hunt and the rift: Episode 2, Chapter 3.
- Hall of Trials: Episode 2, Chapter 4.
- Spirit Altar and Abyss: Chapter 3 of the 6th World Episode. Fracture: Account Rank 50.
Quick Battle
- In the Episode, Hunt and the Spirit Altar, on stages already cleared: 10 a day.
- A quick battle can fail and still uses a chance; past 150 turns it counts as a loss.
- Not during a battle commission.
Emergency Mission
- An event stage from time to time, in 2 difficulties: the harder, the better its tokens and loot.
- Tokens trade for goods; they are wiped when the event ends.
- Daily entries are limited and refill the next day.
- You can buy more, a few times a day, each time dearer.
- On Foundry until 26 November, two Emergency Missions take turns, a week each:
- Catalyst Search and Emergency Dispatch Mission: Ruins Reclamation.
The rift of the Gate of Chaos
- A space between dimensions opened by the Gate of Chaos, in 3 difficulties.
- Entry takes a Spectral Core, bought with Energy (a few times a day), Leifs or Skystones.
- Inside the gate, extra effects favour the boss.
- It pays a new gear set, and a chance of Spectral Epic gear.
- That gear has key stats only, with high enhancement values.
Descent
- A hard mode after all of Episode 2: 3 teams, 9 heroes, against an enemy that grows stronger as the battle goes on.
- A team of one element gets Element Reinforcement against the boss. No friendship XP, XP or penguin bonus.
Tactical Archives
- Beat a team of 4 heroes. PvP rules apply.
- A pool of heroes limited for the season, and support heroes on offer.
- Tactic effects work for both teams and ignore Effect Resistance.
- Stages replay, each with 3 missions for extra rewards.
- The Archive Centre: Archives by rank, from Rank 3 to Rank 1, each in 3 parts.
Shadow Company
- The Shadow Information Broker's quests, normal and special, are done in Battle - Season.
- They pay Shadow Coins.
- Spend them at the Shadow Company's exchange.
- Quests and rewards reset every 3 weeks.
- This season runs from 29 October to 19 November, 02:59 UTC (03:59 Paris).
- Three tabs: quest rewards, quest list, special quest list; 10 ranks to climb.
- Normal quests: clear Tactical Archives and Automaton Tower floors.
- Special ones: the Special and Forbidden Archives, floor 25 of level 5, the Constellations on Nightmare.
- The exchange limits each item: 5, 6 or a single purchase.