Silver Palace — Beginner Guide

Right at the start of your journey in Silvernia, you pick between the male Detective (Hugin) and female Detective (Munin). Both are 5-Star Gravitas Striker DPS units, and both are S-Tier carries worth building:

• Pick Hugin if: You prefer heavy Charged Attacks, fast quick-swap burst damage, and stronger Tactical Assault entry attacks when tagging in with Reactor Energy.
• Pick Munin if: You prefer staying on the field to finish full 5-hit Basic Attack combos and landing massive Perfect Dodge Counters.

Between CBT1 and CBT2, Elementa reworked combat into a fast, reactive system. Don't mash buttons - every fight follows five simple steps:

1. Skills Have Zero Cooldowns (Build & Spend)

Skills in Silver Palace don't have cooldown timers. Instead, landing Basic Attacks, Charged Attacks, Parries, and Dodges fills your character's unique Resource Bar at the bottom center of the screen (such as Lorin's Street Smarts, Rex's Rage, or Gratia's Muscle Memory). Pressing your Skill button spends that bar. The more aggressively you attack and parry, the more Skills you can spam!

2. Read the 3 Warning Circle Colors

When an enemy winds up an attack, a colored circle flashes to tell you how to counter it:

• Yellow Circle = Parry: Press your Parry button right before the hit lands. Parrying cuts incoming damage (leaving you at a minimum of 1 HP even against one-shot open-world bosses), deals counter damage, chunks the enemy's Stun Bar, and chains straight into high-damage combo finishers.
• Red Circle = Dodge: Can't be parried! Time a Perfect Dodge just before impact to follow up with a high-multiplier Pursuit Attack / Dodge Counter.
• Blue Circle = Interrupt: Hit the enemy with a heavy character skill or charged attack to interrupt their wind-up and briefly stun them.

3. Break the Stun Gauge & Land Executions

Every enemy has a white Stun Gauge. Hitting them—especially with Parries and Break Suppressor characters (like Alf, Lorin, or Captain Kaboom) - fills and breaks this bar. Once broken, the enemy enters a Stunned / Weakened State where they take increased damage and accumulate Resonance faster. A prompt will appear on screen to trigger a cinematic Execution for massive burst damage.

4. Use Tactical Assaults & Synchronized Combat

• Tactical Assault: Actions in combat build up to 3 stacks of Reactor Energy. When you swap to a teammate while holding energy, they enter the fight with a powerful Tactical Assault entry attack (which also triggers your equipped Reactor Catalysts!).
• Synchronized Combat: If you swap characters right as your current character performs a Charged Attack or Charged Skill, the outgoing character stays on the field to finish their animation alongside your newly swapped-in character!

Half of your early progression comes from solving detective cases. Every investigation follows a three-part loop: Field Work → The Evidence Board → Interrogation.

Your 4 Field Tools

• 1. Eye of Insight: Scans NPCs to spot hidden traits, behavioral tells, or disguised impostors/demons hiding in plain sight in the city.
• 2. Crime Scene Investigation: Examines objects at a crime scene (remember to rotate 3D objects to find hidden clues on the back or bottom!).
• 3. Body Forensics: Examines victims' bodies to establish cause of death and physical evidence.
• 4. Gathering Intel: Uses Inspect on street pedestrians to eavesdrop on conversations and read local documents.

Solving the Evidence Board

Once you gather clues into your Evidence Repository, open the Evidence Board (in your office or via the Case Overview menu). Drag clues into empty evidence slots: correct clues lock into place to form a Hypothesis, while wrong clues simply bounce back to your Repository with no penalty.

BEGINNER TIP Free Crystals via "Restart Deduction"

Side cases (Curious Cases like "The Resurrection Enigma") have multiple branching endings. Always click "Restart Deduction" at least once - not only does it let you unlock the True Ending, but it also gives you the Enigmatic Return achievement for free Reactor Crystals!

Follow these structured milestones to maximize stamina efficiency and avoid early bottlenecks:

Push Main Quest Through Act II, Scene II First

Don't wander off to grind low-level street mobs at Level 1. Follow the Main Quest through:

• Act I, Scene II ("Case File"): Unlocks your Silverium Pegasus mount from Lorin so you can fly across the map.
• Act I, Scene III ("Assistant"): Sets up your Detective's Office hub at 3 Morgue Street.
• Act II, Scene II ("The Constabulary"): Unlocks Thought Experiment and opens up your core mid-game challenges.

Raise Your Reputation & Crisis Level

Completing quests, opening chests, and spending Vitality earns Reputation (Account EXP). Raising your Reputation increases your Crisis Level (World/Equilibrium Level). Each new Crisis Level:

• 1. Raises your Character & Motive Level Caps (letting you limit-break your squad).
• 2. Unlocks the next difficulty tier of material farming stages for better drops per Vitality spent.
• 3. Increases your team's shared Reactor Catalyst Power Cap from 3 → 7 → 14 Power.

Complete "City Roaming" Every Day (100 Steps in 5 Minutes)

City Roaming is your daily quest tracker, which resets every day at 04:00 (UTC+8). You only need 100 Steps to claim all 5 daily milestone chests:

• Total Daily Rewards (at 100 Steps): 140 Reactor Crystals (50 at 60 Steps + 90 at 100 Steps), 2,400 Reputation, 4 Stabilisers (stamina refills), and 5,000 Ounces.
• Fastest Way to Hit 100 Steps: Log in (+20 Steps) + Clear 1 Hilbert's Hotel run (+80 Steps) = 100 Steps instantly!
• Alternative Daily Route: Log in (+20 Steps), spend 150 Vitality (+40 Steps), and complete 1 Case Review OR Expose & defeat 1 enemy (+40 Steps) = 100 Steps.

Avoid these five common beginner pitfalls to protect your resources and account trajectory:

• 1. 1. Only Invest in 4 Core Characters Early: Upgrading characters, skills, and Motives drains Ounce (gold) and stamina materials fast. Focus all your early resources on 1 Main Carry (like Detective, Cinderella, or Rex) and 3 Supports/Sub-units (like Red Rose, Argos, and Firtho or Lorin) until you reach Room 5 of Thought Experiment.
• 2. 2. Never Spend Reactor Crystals on Standard Banners: Keep all of your Reactor Crystals (360 per pull) saved for Limited Banners. You'll get free standard pulls (Bullets of Insight and Standard Shots) from the Bounty Exchange and progression rewards.
• 3. 3. Save Your Stabilisers for Higher Crisis Levels: City Roaming gives you 4 Stabilisers every single day. Hold onto them early on and spend them once your Crisis Level unlocks higher-tier farming stages so you get more materials per point of Vitality.
• 4. 4. Spend Vitality to Build Character Trust: Once daily farming stages unlock, spending Vitality automatically raises the Trust level of the characters in your party, unlocking personal dossiers and rewards.
• 5. 5. Follow the City Wanderer's Guide: Keep an eye on your beginner mission handbook (City Wanderer's Guide) for step-by-step milestone rewards that refund upgrade materials as you level up your first team.