Since the crystals of time first appeared in the lands of the Empire, numerous scientists among the Sunny City's magicians had turned their bright minds to understanding the unthinkable mysteries and secrets that were cloaked within the enigmatic facets of that wondrous find. However, it was none other than the Ñourt magician Abu-Bakir who succeeded the most in this endeavor. Many tried to keep up with him, yet no one could even get close to the level of scientific progress that was delivered by the famed sorcerer. Some were even driven to extreme despair by this hopeless race, which forced them to abandon everything and change their research field. But not the Councilor Bilir. Lacking a natural magic gift that could be at least half as powerful as Abu-Bakir's, he channeled his energies into mastering another aspect of the "great teaching". After all, magic can be created not only from the energy flows of the Source, but also with an inventive mind and the correct tools. And yet, even this approach occasionally requires getting out of the cozy workshop into a world full of dangers to conduct practical tests of the new inventions. And at such moments, you cannot do without a reliable guardian.
Brave Lords and Ladies, Councilor Bilir requests your combat support on a short scientific expedition to one of the less safe corners of the Empire's domains. All those who wish to respond to the call of the magician-inventor should get their armies and best ammunition ready — they may certainly come in handy.
Combat Briefing:
- All Lords and Ladies of combat level 5 and above are invited to participate in the expedition.
- For regular and lesser battles, only shop artifacts are allowed and enchantments have no effect.
- For battles against superior enemy forces, artifacts with enchantments totaling at least 40 points are allowed, and you must be of combat level 12 or higher.
- On each level, the regular battle and the battle against superior enemy forces are mutually exclusive. If you defeat the regular opponent, its superior counterpart will become inaccessible on that level, and vice versa.
- New! An easier choice will also be available, for which you will only get half the point and gold reward of an ordinary battle. Victory against the lesser enemy will allow you to progress further on the map. If desired you can return and improve your result against an ordinary or superior enemy, obtaining the remainder of points and gold.
- You will fight using your personal army.
- Each battle will grant you activity points, for which you can bestow magical enhancements on your army (valid only within this expedition).
- The number of activity points you receive will grow as you move along the map.
- There will be 50 main battle stages available on the expedition map with gradually increasing levels of difficulty.
- Clearing each battle stage will give you its valuable reward only once; additional wins for improved results will only give you the remainder of activity points and gold. The main event reward will be given for defeating the 50th battle stage.
- 50 additional battle stages will be available against superior enemy forces, with minor rewards. Each player will have a maximum of 100 attempts to clear these 50 additional battle stages.
- All main battle stages are identical for all players of the same combat level, faction and class.
- Important! On the additional battle stages, the enemy factions will be the same for all players of the same faction and class, regardless of their combat level, but with a difficulty coefficient factored in.
- On the first day, only the first 10 battle stages will be available, with an additional 10 stages added each following day till the 50th stage inclusively. On the 6th and 7th days, 20 additional battle stages will open, with the final 10 stages opening on the 8th day.
- The expedition will last 10 days, till February 24 inclusively.
- Councilor Bilir will additionally award a trophy artifact and an event achievement to all Lords and Ladies who defeat the enemy at the 10th battle stage. The durability of the trophy artifact will depend on the number of activity points earned in battles, including additional ones.
- There will be no other awards in addition to the ones listed here.
Important! During this event, the "Battle Exhaustion" system is in effect. Starting from the 15th turn of any battle, the Lord’s or Lady’s "Mana recovery" talent and the troop abilities "Life Drain" and "Battledive" will cease to function for units in the Lords' and Ladies' armies, and all enemy units will gain the ability "Attentive", as well as an increase in initiative and speed. Notifications corresponding to this exhaustion will appear as a warning 1 turn before and at the onset of exhaustion.
During this event you will be able to earn up to 20 parts of Fear Cloak and up to 20 parts of Imperial Ring!
- The top 75 military clans and all of their active members will be specially rewarded. Awarding will be based on the clans’ final ranking, in which the final result will be equal to the sum of activity points gained in battles of the top 100 clan members. Wins at the additional stages are included in this calculation.
- All unblocked Lords and Ladies of successful military clans will be rewarded if they bring at least 8000 points to the clan!
- If a Lord or Lady leaves or is evicted from a military clan, the clan loses all the points the Lord or Lady gained for that clan, if they rejoin the clan, all the points will be returned to the clan.
- It will be impossible to leave one’s clan on the last day of the event and until the rewards have been given out..
- From the second day of the event and onwards, military clans may accept no more than three players per day while the event lasts.
- Important! Once you defeat the 50th battle stage, you will be temporarily unable to join any military clan while the event lasts.
Rewards for active members of top-ranking military clans:
| Clan rank | Reward | Glory | | 1 | | 1,500 | | 2 | | 1,300 | | 3 | | 1,100 | | 4 | | 1,000 | | 5 - 8 | | 900 | | 9 - 13 | | 800 | | 14 - 20 | | 600 | | 21 - 30 | | 500 | | 31 - 45 | | 400 | | 46 - 60 | | 250 | | 61 - 75 | | 100 |
Personal rewards for the top 5,000 Lords/Ladies based on the expedition results:
| Lord/Lady rank | Reward | | 1 - 50 | | | 51 - 100 | | | 101 - 200 | | | 201 - 400 | | | 401 - 650 | | | 651 - 1000 | | | 1001 - 1500 | | | 1501 - 2250 | | | 2251 - 3000 | | | 3001 - 3750 | | | 3751 - 5000 | |
Onwards, to scientific discoveries! |
