Golden Vortex

Summary

• Achieve 100% exploration rate to unlock the Chapter Reward and the next Chapter
• Chapter Reward includes 300 BC, 3 Weapon Enhancers, and 10,000 Cogs
• Each Chapter consists of many branches and each branch shows a different part of the story
• Each stages gives rewards when they are cleared
• For each stage, there is a specific Stamina cost and a limit on how many Characters/Omniframes can be deployed
• Every Construct has 12 Stamina per Chapter, a resource similar to Pain Cage's AP, so remember to plan Construct usage carefully
• Construct Stamina will be fully recovered at the start of the next Chapter only
• There is no Serum cost

Chapter 1: Golden Core

M-1: Unveiling the Golden Veil

Hidden in the darkness before Dawn, Gray Raven traveled through sandstorms and entered the unpopulated desert named "Golden Vortex".

M-2: First Conflict

After parting ways with Liv, Gray Raven and the guards of Golden Vortex had conflict for the first time.

Recommended BP: 3000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 30,000 Cogs

M-3: Mystery of the Light Pillar

In the Center of the Golden Vortex was a group of buildings shrouded in the "Golden Pillar". Its origin was still unknown to Gray Raven.

M-4: Mystery of the Light Pillar

30 minutes after Liv left, Lucia found the remains of the Goldfinch members. She swore that she would find out the murderer.

Recommended BP: 3000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 10 Skill Points

M-5: Lone Raven

After the communication with Liv was cut, Lee left to search for her. Lucia stayed back with the commandant.

M-6: Secret Passage

It had been an hour in Golden Vortex, and only Lucia and the commandant were left. They were forced to fall back to the underground secret passage.

Recommended BP: 3000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 10 Skill Points

M-7: The Queen and Hope

After hiding underground for 15 minutes... a Construct caught Lucia's attention. It was walking without purpose like a corpse.

Recommended BP: 3000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 3 Construct EXP Pods (L)

M-8: Royal Guards

The queen's royal guards chased after Lucia and the commandant. They had to run for almost an hour...

M-9: Letter of Invitation

When Lucia was trapped in a tough fight, the mysterious queen sent her royal guards to invite commandant to her palace.

M-10: Awakening

The invitation was in fact a subjugation. Lucia turned down the Queen's offer, so Gray Raven and the royal guards went to war.

Recommended BP: 3000

Required Units: 2

Stage Reward: 150 Black Cards

M-11: Queen's Arrival

It was nearly noon, the sun was hanging high in the sky and scorching the Golden Vortex. The "Golden Queen" finally revealed herself...

Branches from M-1.

BI-1: Companion
Liv joined Browning, the leader of Goldfinch. They started searching for the tactical devices left behind by Goldfinch in the desert.
Recommended BP: 3000
Required Units: 1
Stage Reward: 30,000 Cogs

B1-2: Digging Site
Browning finally found the device after searching in the desert for almost 40 minutes. But it was covered under some golden powder...

B1-3: Protection
The device seemed to have attracted lots of guards. As they quickly came close, Liv swore to protect Browning...
Recommended BP: 3000
Required Units: 1
Stage Reward: 5 Memory Enhancers

B1-4: Aftermath
After more than 10 minutes of digging, the device was almost out. But Browning triggered a landmine underneath it...

B1-5: Trojan Horse
To ensure the search mission could succeed, Liv decided to hack into the device's operating system...
Recommended BP: 3000
Required Units: 1
Stage Reward: 2 Weapon Overclock Core II

B1-6: Cheap Shot
Liv returned to her Construct after 5 minutes of hacking into the system. But Browning...

B1-7: Explosive Encounter
Liv seized the opportunity for a "mutual destruction" with Browning...

Branches from M-4.

BII-1: Value of Existence

Yesterday at noon time, Goldfinch changed their mission objective and started heading toward the center of Golden Vortex.

BII-2: Stumble

It took Goldfinch members almost three hours before they finally arrived at the outer walls of the central area...

Recommended BP: 3000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 3 Construct EXP Pods (L)

BII-3: A Bridge Too Far

Goldfinch members were attacked and chased by the guards. By evening, they realized they no longer had the strength to move any further...

Recommended BP: 3000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 5 Memory Enhancers

BII-4: Contribution

As the night started to fall, Goldfinch members seemed to have foreseen their upcoming fate...

Branches from M-5. Joins back at M-9.

BIII-1: Red Light, Green Light

Minutes after Lee left, he was trapped among a group of guards with peculiar behaviors...

BIII-2: Battle in Alley

Lee struggled for half an hour trying to get rid of the guards. He moved to the secret passage, hoping the guards would be lost...

Recommended BP: 3000

Required Units: 2

Stage Reward: 5 Weapon Enhancers

BIII-3: Big Gamble

Lee fought a tough battle in the underground secret passage. The guards wanted to trap him to death...

Chapter 2: Dream of Sands

MI-1: Maverick

Watanabe reached the Golden Vortex in the morning. The enemy info was still unknown, but he charged in alone.

MI-2: Inquisition

Watanabe spent a few minutes observing the guards. He decided to capture one for inquisition.

Recommended BP: 4000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 30,000 Cogs

MI-3: Risk Transfer

10 minutes into the Golden Vortex, Watanabe met Bianca and decided to follow her.

MI-4: Old Habit

It didn't take long before Watanabe was forced to reveal himself...

MI-5: Clash

The negotiation didn't last long before Watanabe and Bianca escalated it into a violent event.

Recommended BP: 4000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 5 Weapon Enhancers

MI-6: Choice

Watanabe's rescue plan faced challanges immediately after he got away from Bianca...

MI-7: Culprit of Sandstorm

Less than 1 hour into the Golden Vortex, Watanabe found the weather engine responsible for the sandstorm.

Recommended BP: 4000

Required Units: 1

Stage Rewatd: 3 Construct EXP Pods (L)

MI-8:Relic

After leaving the weather engine, Watanabe found a pendant of the Forsaken from a guard...

MI-9: Destiny

Watanabe met Bianca again, but refused to abandon any Forsaken. Violence became the last resort again...

Recommended BP: 4000

Required Units: 2

Stage Reward: 2 Memory Overclock Circuit II

MI-10: Promise

Watanabe and Bianca fought for almost 10 minutes, but neither was going to win. The guards took the oppotunity and laid siege on them.

MI-11: Promise Keeper

It took Watanabe an hour to make sure all Forsaken had safely evacuated. Some tried to persuade him not to return and help Bianca.

MI-12: Queen's Request

Golden Queen announced her requests to the commandant and Babylonia in her palace.

MI-13: For Commandant

Bianca fought alongside the Forsaken to defeat the royal guards. Once again, she faced different choices...

MII-1: Saving the Earth

After sending Liv away, Bianca searched in the sand for half an hour becuase she had figured out Babylonia's real intention...

MII-2: Back Allive

Bianca found survivors of Goldfinch unexpectedly while collecting samples... they were alive!

Recommended BP: 4000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 30,000 Cogs

Joins at MI-4. Branches from MI-5

MII-3: Queen's Treat

Golden Queen revealed her true form to Gray Raven. Meanwhile, Bianca had explored Golden Vortex for hours, but the sample analysis still hasn't suceeded.

MII-4: Tick-Tock

While waiting for the results of sample analysis, Bianca heard some strange noise, She followed the sound but ended up in a group of "Silent Guards"...

Recommended BP: 4000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 10 Skill Points

MII-5: Hostage

After defeating the "Silent Guards", Bianca followed the strange noise into a secret chamber with humans locked up in it...

MII-6: Unexpected Assistance

Bianca considered the pros and cons for a brief moment, then decided to rescue the hostage.

Recommended BP: 4000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 10 Skill Points

MII-7: Two Ways of Rescue

Bianca defeated the warden and freed all the hostages. Bianca stopped him as he wanted to take his own men.

Joins at MI-9. Branches from MI-10.

MII-8: Golden Antibody

Despite letting the hostage go, Bianca still took the Golden Antibody... but the royal guards suddenly attacked her!

MII-9: Fatal Combo

At noon, Watanabe brought Forsaken to help Bianca... but the Queen's royal guards were pouring bullets!

Recommended BP: 4000

Required Units: 2

Stage Reward: 150 Black Cards

Joins at MI-13.

Branches from MI-5.

B-1: Off Form
Kamui and Roland fought all the way to the northwest of the Golden Vortex, when Kamui discovered some anomaly in Roland's Construct.

B-2: Invincible
Kamui had been fighting with the Corrupted for almost half an hour. Roland managed to escape into the building... but Kamui wouldn't let him go!
Recommended BP: 4000
Required Units: 1
Stage Reward: 3 Construct EXP Pods (L)

B-3: Negotiation
After confronting each other for many more minutes, Kamui almost made Roland devastated...

Chapter 3: Weaved Destiny

MI-1: Follower

Karenina sneaked into the Golden Vortex from the south. But she didn't know she was followed...

MI-2: Shield of Protection

The guards had their eyes on Karenina the moment she stepped into the Golden Vortex.

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 10 Skill points

MI-3: Toolbox

After thirty minutes of high-speed marching, Karenina finally got to demonstrate her strength.

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 3 Construct EXP Pods (L)

MI-4: Human Experiment

Nanami joined Karenina to defeat the guards of the main building together, but she disappeared within 5 minutes...

MI-5: Restructure

Karenina received the analysis report of the antibody. She must re-establish the communication network to upload it...

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 10 Skill Points

MI-6: Starting Again

The communication was restored for minutes and Karenina completed her mission with flying colors. It's up to her where she wants to go now.

MI-7: Resistance

Blasting through dozens of walls, Karenina decided to explore Gold Vortex in her own way...

MI-8: Builder's Puzzle

After the walls were destroyed, the route became straightforward. It only took them minutes to break into the forbidden area.

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 3 Construct EXP Pods (L)

MI-9: Merge

Nanami returned, but she brought bad news about Roland the Ascendant...

MI-10: Reverse Invasion

In order to find Roland's whereabouts, Nanami hacked into the guards' internal network. But Nithart saw it all...

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 5 Memory Enhancers

MI-11: Vision

Nanami's hacking only took a few minutes. She failed to trace Roland in the internal network, but she found out that Nithart took the commandant of Gray Raven.

MI-12: Hidden Entrance

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 150 Black Cards

MI-13: Tracking the Sound

After defeating golden guards and royal guards, they were only one door away from the the commandant...

MII-1: Hospitality

After getting rid of Kamui, Roland carefully assessed the threat of Golden Antibody...

MII-2: Imprisoned

Roland stepped into Nithart's trap, Thanks to the antibody, the power of the Punishing Virus was rapidly reduced.

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 30,000 Cogs

MII-3: Seeking Help

Captured by Nithart, Roland was unfortunately covered in the antibody and suffered for 90 minutes...

MII-4: Blockage

Roland spent an hour calling for help, but the reinforcement didn't arrive as expected.

MII-5: Sealing

To Roland's surprise, Nanami broke into the trap and resolved his biggest trouble...

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 2

Stage Reward: 5 Weapon Enhancers

MII-6: Mutual Destruction

Due to the antibody, Roland was completely overwhelmed by Nanami. He had to use more extreme methods to save himself.

MII-7: Annihilation

As the building collapsed, Roland fell into the ruins. He has a chance to prove himself again...

MII-8: Internal Trouble

Roland finally got how power back. He managed to go around Nithart's surveillance network and sneaked into the core power room of Golden Vortex...

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 1

Stage Reward: 30,000 Cogs

Branches from MI-3. Joins back at MII-4.

BI-1: Communication Disorder
After leaving Karenina, Nanami finally found the thing that caught her attention.

BI-2: Alarm of Misplacement
Recommended BP: 5000
Required Units: 1
Stage Reward: 5 Memory Enhancers

Branches from MI-4. Joins back at MI-7.

BII-1: Deterrence

Under Roland's order, the Corrupted managed to stall Kamui for over 2 hours, only to make him fight even harder...

BII-2: Broken Sword

Kamui knew it very well: as long as the Elite Corrupted was defeated, he could go after Roland again.

Recommended BP: 5000

Required Units: 2

Stage Rewaed: 4 Major Overclock Alloys

Chapter 4

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