[ Guide ] Alchemy Stars – Navigating Secret Territory

Once you clear stage 3-7 of the main story in Alchemy Stars, you will be able to unlock Secret Territory. This guide will cover the basics of the game mode, how it works and recommended relics.

WHAT ARE SECRET TERRITORIES?

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In Alchemy Stars, Aurorians have fixed stats and have individual HP bars in Secret Territory. It allows you to use Aurorians you haven’t raised for your main team(s), so consider this partially a testing ground. HP and skill cooldowns will carry over across battles. There are only five floors total, so you only have a finite amount of Text Fragments you can earn per season. Seasons, as well as the Secret Store offerings, reset weekly.

This mode also utilizes its own “energy”, dubbed MS. Each round you take consumes 1 MS by default, and can be restored through the Exploration room in your Colossus. Any remaining MS by the end of the season will be converted into Text Fragments.

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SECRET STORE

The biggest offering you can get here will be the 2 Star Flares, which will cost 2000 Text Fragments, or the Recharger Packs at 2000 Text Fragments each. Additionally, you can obtain more furniture, as well as gifts for Aurorians. You’d probably want to prioritize the Star Flares and the Recharger Packs before gifts or furniture depending on your needs.

SECRET TERRITORY NODES

Once you get into the game mode proper, you’ll be given options to explore various nodes. There will be basically:

General Area

Regular Eclipsites.

Dangerous Area

Will have various modifiers filled with Elite Eclipsites. These modifiers can also apply in Lethal Areas.

Lumina Spring

Restore 50% HP for 2 random Aurorians or revive 1 random Aurorian. Both options also recover default 5 MS. Relics can boost the spring’s effectiveness.

Special Area

Indicated by a ? node. This one requires you to collect Intel.

Relic Warehouse

No enemies will be in this area. Simply step on the 3 raised buttons on the map to get rewards.

Scrounger

4 enemies who do not attack with high movement and will escape. A Relic can delay their escape by 3 turns.

Lethal Area

The floor’s boss.

AREA CHARACTERISTICS

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CHARACTERISTICS	EFFECTS
Echoes of Wails	Upon death, Eclipsites reduce ATK of player’s team by 10% for 3 rounds.
Vengeance	Upon death, Eclipsites increase ATK of the remaining Eclipsites by 15%.
Tides of Horror	Upon death, Eclipsites cause an explosion within 1 surrounding cluster.
Shadowy Demise	Upon death, Eclipsites randomly generate a summoning rune on the map.
Darkness Instinct	Eclipsites gain a permanent Frightened state that increases their HP by 50% at the start of battle.
Darkness Blessing	All Eclipsites gain 3 rounds of Shield at the start of the game.
Lethal Damage	All Eclipsites ATK +10%.
Wild Growth	All Eclipsites HP +10%.
Ultrafast Reflex	Eclipsites’ movement distance +100%.
Creator’s Grace	Eclipsites gain immunity to all debuffs.
Blasphemous Touch	Eclipsites grant 1 stack of Poisoned upon attack.
Deadly Quagmire	Eclipsites extend the cooldown of a random Aurorian’s Active Skill for 1 round upon attack.
Hell Walker	Small Eclipsites leave flaming traps in their paths.
Bloodthirsty	Eclipsites absorb 25% of Damage dealt to recover HP upon attack.
Into the Madness	Aurorians lose 5% HP per round.
Lightless Night	Aurorians cannot be healed during this battle.
Fool’s Strike	Converter Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Shattering Spells	Detonator Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Massacre Target	Sniper Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Blocking Elimination	Support Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Condensed Disillusionment	Converter and Sniper Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Smothered Flames	Fire Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Bounded Lightning	Thunder Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Incinerated Woods	Forest Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Evaporative Bombs	Water Aurorians take 25% more damage.
Turbulent Vortex	Refresh the colors of all Tiles in the room every round.

GENERAL EXPLORATION

It is best you conquer as many Dangerous Area nodes as you can, due to the limited nature of nodes and potential for Text Fragments. They also have higher probability of giving higher rarity relics. The general team building rules and character recommendations will still serve you well, with relics and / or various Area Characteristics potentially shaking things up.

Thanks to a combination of Relics and Area Characteristics, you can even still opt for an off-element team to take down Lethal Area enemies, though this will naturally vary accordingly to your line-up.

RECOMMENDED RELICS

The following is a list of highly recommended relics with the least amount of variables:

RELIC	RARITY	EFFECT
Kaleidogem	S	4 adjacent tiles randomly become chromatic tiles (any colour)
Silent Death	S	Kills Eclipsites under 10% HP
Death Note	S	Inflicts Wounded debuff on Eclipsites for damage on moving
Falling Sakura	S	Normal attack combos in multiples of 5 deal one explosion damage
Floating Scorcher / Icer / Forestwrath / Thunder	A	Hovers around an Aurorian. Deals elemental damage on Normal attacks. When all 4 Floating units are obtained, deals map-wide damage on chain combo, depending on captain’s element

The Floating set is incredibly potent and can help easily annihilate anything even without a Chain Combo. B-rank relics are typically flat buffs, while some A-rank relics require a full set for double effects and are more conditional:

Silvermoon set: Affects small monsters
Radiance set: Effects occur on-kill of Large Eclipsites

That’s pretty much it to Alchemy Stars Secret Territory! It’s quite recommended to speed through the story to get here, since this will be a reliable way for you to get some Recruitment done. Good luck!

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Alchemy Stars

Publisher: Tencent

Developer: TOURDOG Studio

Release Date: 2021-06-17

Android, iOS

As ancient forces collide, harness the power of the Light to save the world from darkness! A revolutionary RPG that pushes the genre to new heights of strategy and suspense presented by Tencent Games and Tourdog Studio