[New Piece] Ronin- Nue Class: Assassin Race: Watcher Quality: Rare Ability: [Arcane: Twin Flash] Ronin attacks the target, stunning it in place and dealing base physical damage plus additional physical damage based on a percentage of the target's max HP. The ability deals damage in two stages, each dealing half the damage and applying a base attack. [New Talent System Added] A new Talent System has been added to the game. During the preparation phase of specific rounds, players can choose one talent from two options on the same tier. Talents on the same tier are mutually exclusive. Talent options at Round 5: Relentless Push - Gold on Victory +1. Quiet Reserve - Gold on Defeat +1. Talent options at Round 15: Honor the Worthy - Recruit Cost for Owned Pieces -1. Elite Forces - Chance to recruit pieces as if Chessplayer Lv. +1. Talent options at Round 25: Siphon - Chessplayer deals damage +25% Lifesteal. Cocoon - Chessplayer takes 25% less damage. Talent options at Round 35: Odd Call - Greatly increases the recruit probability of Strange Eggs. Limit Break - Unlocks level cap, up to Lv.16. [New Item] 1. Magicka Pendant [Magicka Conversion]: Unique Passive: Physical damage dealt by the equipped piece is converted to Magic damage. For more update details, please refer to the in-game announcement.

Fixed some bugs

[New Piece] Hawk - Falcon Quality: Common Race/Class: Watcher/Mage Ability: [Eagle Eye] Whenever an ally casts an ability that consumes mana, Falcon instantly fires Arcane Missiles at enemies, dealing magical damage. [New Race] 1. Watcher Watcher[2]: All allies gain the effect: Unit-targeted or Item abilities cast on enemies can affect +1 additional targets. [New Item] 1. Fate Reversal Quality: Common Defy Fate: Unique Passive, the carrier deals 25% more damage to enemy pieces whose value is higher than their own. 2. Dormant Crystal Quality: Uncommon Attack+25 High-Value Buyback: Unique Passive, the reforging value of this Item +1. [New Relic] 1. Dual-Faced Coin Consumable Relic. After selection, it enters your Bag. Click to use and it takes effect once, with a total of 2 usage chances. This consumable only exists for 10 rounds. Effect: Upon use, compare current HP and Gold. If your HP is higher than your Gold, convert 20% of current HP into Gold. If your HP is lower than your Gold, convert 20% of current Gold into HP. Cannot be used if HP and Gold are equal. 2. Time Rewind A type of Relic that takes effect immediately upon selection, does not enter the Relic Backpack. Time Rewind will not be selected by random Relic selection. Effect: Reuse your previous Relic. If you do not have a previous Relic, Time Rewind will randomly generate one Relic, and this Relic will not be considered "already chosen" (it may appear again in future selections). [New Mode - Drodo Brawl] 1. Select 58 pieces from skin series such as Fighting Trend, Summer Sunshine, Mountainsea Dream, etc. All series skins can be experienced for free in this mode. 2. New Races: Dimension, Chosen Radiance, Childlike Innocence, and 9 races in total. 3. New Classes: Tamer, Fighter, Frenzied Warrior, and 11 classes in total. 4. New Item effects. 5. New mechanics: - Talent System: Choose different Talent effects at specific rounds of the game. - Enhance Item effect: Can be used on a piece to grant it a special effect. [NEW] 1. New feature: Quick Deploy, available in the pre-battle phase to achieve rapid positioning. For more update details, please refer to the in-game announcement.

[New Piece] Unknown Horror - ??? Quality: Common Class/Race: Warlock/Night Demon Ability: [Endless Terror] Channeling: Grabs a random enemy piece, immobilizing it and dealing continuous pure damage. [New Item] 1. Warlord Blade Quality: Rare ATK +25 ATK Lifesteal +25% [Banish]: Deal +50% damage to Demon and Egersis pieces. 2. Egersis Pact Non-Egersis carriers of Lv.5 or lower are immune to Plague (Egersis racial effect). [Pact Sealed]: If the carrier survives a home battle, at the start of the next round they will transform into a random Egersis piece of the same cost and star level. [New Relic] 1. Thrill Box Gain 15 Thrill Tickets. Use a ticket to place a bench piece into the box, transforming it at the start of the next round into a random piece of the same cost and star level. 2. Veil Conceals your board during the preparation phase. When your chessplayer takes damage, the next non-loot round will hide your chessplayer and skip the battle phase, lasting for 10 rounds. [Club Tournament] 1. Club Battle has been upgraded to Club Tournament, simultaneously opening the Club Store. 2. The Club Tournament competition is divided into Starfire Week and Wildfire Week: Starfire Week: During the competition, Club members participate in Solo Ranked matches to earn Club Victory Points. The Club ranks based on the total Club Victory Points accumulated by all members. Wildfire Week: The top 32 Clubs from the Club Tournament leaderboard will advance. The competition consists of Qualification Rounds (32 to 16), Semi-finals (16 to 8), and Finals. 3. Items in the Club Store will update synchronously with the Club Tournament season and can be purchased using Club Victory Points and Doughnuts. [NEW] 1. Added Title system. When holding a Title, it can be equipped/unequipped in the Personal Information interface. 2. Added Tournament Schedule function, allowing viewing of all seasonal events in the Tournament Schedule. 3. Skin in-game preview now adds a Switch button. When previewing a piece that can transform or has a summoning skill, clicking Switch allows viewing the transformed unit or summoned unit. 4. Skin in-game preview now adds a Reverse button. Clicking it causes the Skin to face the player. 5. Player Skin in-game preview adds Free Movement functionality, allowing control over the player avatar's movement. For more update details, please refer to the in-game announcement.

[New Piece] Penitent Bishop·Mammon Race: Ancestor, Demon Class: Priest Ability: Ancestral Curse Penitent Bishop curses the enemy it attacks. When a cursed enemy is healed, Penitent Bishop heals allies around the target by a percentage. When a cursed enemy takes damage, Penitent Bishop deals the same type of damage, scaled by a percentage, to enemies around the target. [New Item] 1. Priest's Crown ATK Lifesteal +15% [Unique Active]: Unique Active, activated when a summoned unit is detected on the battlefield. Takes control of one enemy summon of a lower level than the carrier. Mental Control lasts up to (controller's level ×2 +2) seconds. The controlled piece fights temporarily for the controller. (CD: 60 seconds) 2. Light Orb [Holy Light]: Unique Active, triggered when multiple allies are injured, recovers 500 HP of all the allies within 313 yards of the carrier. (CD: 12 seconds) [Summit Clash] New Mode: Summit Clash 1. Qualification is obtained by reaching a specified LEVEL. 2. Opens daily during specified time slots. Qualified players entering Ranked (Solo) during these time slots will automatically upgrade to Summit Clash mode. 3. Summit Clash mode will simultaneously settle Ranked (Solo) scores and Summit Points, with rankings based on Summit Points and generous rewards issued accordingly. [NEW] 1. Added a Matchmaking Lobby phase. Clicking "START" on the main interface will directly enter the Matchmaking Lobby to wait, where players can interact with other waiting players. The confirmation operation for successful matchmaking has been removed. Upon successful matchmaking, a countdown begins and cannot be exited. The match will start immediately after the countdown ends. 2. Added a Top 1 Master leaderboard, ranking players based on their TOP 1 wins. TOP 1 wins grant a TOP 1 marker, with different visual effects for consecutive TOP 1 wins. 3. Full-screen skin preview interface UI adjusted, added in-game preview function. 4. Added Season Challenge tasks. Players can claim skin rewards by reaching specified LEVELs during the season. 5. Added damage number display in-game, display mode can be changed in settings. For more update details, please refer to the in-game announcement.

[New Piece] Dark Lord·Erebus Quality: Uncommon Race: Ancestor Class: Warlock Ability: [Dark Shield] Encases an ally in a dark shield, reducing damage taken and continuously dealing magical damage to nearby enemies. [New Item] 1. Hat of Clarity Quality: Uncommon HP+300 [Clarity]: Unique Passive, the carrier's value +1 when the battle starts. 2. Steelbone Shield Quality: Uncommon Armor+5 [Near Death]: Unique Passive, when HP drops below 50% in home battles, there is a chance to permanently gain +1 Armor. 3. Nullrot Quality: Rare ATK Speed+30% [Counter]: Unique Active, counters the current target, removing all Race/Class buffs. (CD: 5 seconds) [Battle Adjustment] 1. Added a new ability type: Battlecry. The active abilities of Carnation Elf, Grimtouch, and Mist Phantom King have been reclassified as Battlecry. 2. A Battlecry phase has been added before the formal combat phase of each battle round. Battlecry can only be cast during this phase. [Custom Game Adjustment] 1. The Custom Game interface has been updated from a 2D layout to a 3D layout. When creating a room, you can now select an owned Chessboard as the room layout. 2. In Custom Game rooms, players can now move around and interact using their Chess Player avatars. 3. A Scoreboard feature has been added to the Competitive Lobby, allowing for scoring based on matches, rankings, and other information. For more update details, please refer to the in-game announcement.

[New Piece] Name: Goddess of War·Valkyrie Race: Ancestor Class: Knight Quality: Rare Ability: [Shining Combo] Rapidly swings a warhammer, dealing physical damage with base attacks to surrounding enemies. The final strike slams the hammer into the ground, dealing additional damage and stunning enemies. [New Race Synergy] Ancestor[2]: All Ancestor pieces steal (50 + 2% of max HP) HP every 5 seconds from the nearest enemy to heal themselves. Ancestor[4]: All allies gain the effect: Whenever total healing received exceeds 100, nearby enemies take pure damage equal to the total healing received. Damage is caped at 300 with a 5-second CD. [New Item] 1. Demon Gloves Quality: Epic ATK +25 [Ancient Demon]: Unique Passive, all damage dealt by the carrier is converted into pure damage. 2. Twin Fangs Quality: Rare ATK +50 [Fang]: Unique Passive, when the carrier deals damage, it also damages up to 2 other enemies with the same name as the target. [Chess Pool Mechanic Adjustment] 1. The Extended Chess Pool has been removed. Introducing Race/Class Blocking! You can now spend Gold to block a specific Race or Class. Only one can be blocked at a time. 2. At the start of each game, 8 → 10 Legendary Pieces are randomly selected as the available Legendary Pieces for that match. 5 of these Legendary Pieces will be hidden at the start. The first player in the match to discover and purchase a hidden piece will receive a 5 Gold reward! [New Relic] 1. Fishing Prohibited While this Relic is active, you can freely block any Race/Class. [Optimization] 1. Optimized the overall layout of the Lobby, Chest Opening, Mode Selection, and Battle interfaces. 2. Optimized the initial Skin models for Pieces.

[New Piece] Mist Phantom King·Wuril Race: Night Demon Class: Assassin Ability: Smoke Trick Instantly deploys a smoke grenade. If there are enemy pieces nearby, the grenade will be deployed at the location of Wuril; otherwise, it will be deployed at the symmetric point on the board from Wuril's position. Enemies within the smoke grenade will be silenced and blinded (with a chance of missing attacks). [New Synergy] Night Demon[2]: Ally Night Demon pieces gain the effect: If there are more than 1 enemy nearby, they will lose control due to fear. The effect of fear has a built-in CD of 6 seconds and cannot trigger consecutively. [New Item] 1. Greedy Gloves Unique Active, instantly destroys 1 enemy Summons or Illusions with lower HP than the carrier. If fighting on home ground, 1 Gold will also drop. (CD: 60 seconds) 2. Spell Prism Magical Damage +20% Focus: Unique Passive, increases the number of targets for unit-targeted abilities by 1. 3. Herald Crystal Mana +75% Copycat: Unique Passive, the carrier permanently gains an active ability from a random enemy as an additional ability. When carrying this item, additional abilities are activated. [New Relic] 1. Strange Egg Encounter The chance of encountering a Strange Egg when recruiting pieces is x10. Each time a Strange Egg is recruited, this chance increases by -2, lasting for 10 rounds. 2. Beast Night March The number of creeps faced during the Creep Round is x2, with their max HP and damage changing by -20%. Defeating all grants you an additional Item Chest of a lower 1 level, lasting for 10 rounds. 3. Chaos Contract Your winning/losing streak will not be interrupted. When a Relic disappears, an Item Chest will be awarded based on the highest reward/compensation during its holding period, lasting for 10 rounds. If there are currently no winning/losing streaks, this Relic cannot be used. For more update details, please refer to the in-game announcement.

[Back to 2019] New nostalgic mode: Back to 2019. Click the Back to 2019 icon in the game lobby to enter. 1. Piece abilities, synergies, appearances, and quantities are all from the 2019 version (55 pieces without divinity wizard version). 2. Items are obtained through random drops and synthesis. 3. Chess player, chessboard, and piece skins from the normal mode cannot be used in nostalgic mode. 4. Nostalgic mode supports matching random matches and creating room matches. [New Piece] Carnation Elf-Lynn Quality: Common Race: Feathered Class: Wizard Ability: [Spore Bomb] The ancient lantern of cursed spirit that stuns the target and all nearby enemies after a brief delay. Ability Type: Active Target: Single Impact: Enemy [Synergy Adjustment] 1. Assassin Assassin[3]: Ally Assassins have a 15% chance to deal 300% damage with their base attacks. Assassin[6]: Ally Assassins have a 20% chance to deal 400% damage with their base attacks. Assassin[9]: Ally Assassins have a 5% chance to deal 500% damage with their base attacks. After entering battle, their first base attack has a 100% chance to deal 500% damage. After each enemy kill, their next base attack has a 100% chance to deal 500% damage. Multiple synergies can stack, calculating Crit separately. When a critical hit occurs, the highest multiplier is used to calculate the damage. 2. Divinity Divinity[2]: Reduces ability CD of ally pieces by 30%. Divinity[4]: Reduces ability CD of ally pieces by 30%. Divinity[6]: When allies cast abilities, their current cooldown of active abilities and active Item abilities will be reduced by 50%. Can stack when multiple effects are triggered [Storage Box] New storage box feature. When the number of items in the inventory approaches the limit, the storage box functionality automatically activates, allowing items to be placed into the storage box to free up inventory space. [Other] 1. The store has added a gold foil chocolate shop, introducing a new currency - gold foil chocolate. 2. The Holyselect War mode and Holyselect War Store have been closed. For more updates, please see the in-game announcements.

[New Piece] Primeval Whisper-Fortunester Legendary Race: Divinity/Half-Orc Class: Druid [Soul Flame] Creates destructive soul flame around self, continuously dealing magical damage to nearby enemy pieces while draining self Mana until Mana is depleted. Ability Type: Active Target: Range Impact: Enemy Damage Type: Magical Damage [Piece Ability Adjustment] Soul Devourer Uncommon→Epic Delete [Turning Tables] and add [Annihilation]. [Annihilation] Tears apart an enemy piece within the ability range, dealing huge magical damage and stealing the target's current Mana. When the Demon synergy is active, additional magical damage is dealt based on the target's max HP for each unique Demon. Ability Type: Active Target: Single Impact: Enemy [Chess Piece Adjustment] 1. Grimtouch Epic→Common [Ink Splash] Releases an ink wave forward, inflicting Ink Touch effects on some enemies along the path. Adjusted to cast the ability once without consuming mana at the beginning of the game. 2. Berserker [Wind Furyaxe] Now, switching attack targets will always trigger Wind Furyaxe once. The damage dealt by Wind Furyaxe will be adjusted to be the Base ATK Damage plus a Fixed Damage. [Synergy Adjustment] 1. Marine Marine[2]: Gain 20% stacks of Ocean's Blessing. Marine[4]: Gain 60% stacks of Ocean's Blessing. Marine[6]: Gain 60% stacks of Ocean's Blessing. Every 3 seconds, an explosion is triggered with a range of 234-300. The damage caused by the explosion is equal to the skill damage absorbed during this 3-second cycle. If the absorbed skill damage is less than 100, the explosion will not be triggered. 2. Beast Beast[2]: Ally Attack +15% → 10%. Beast[6]: Ally Attack +30%. When dealing damage to the enemy pieces, → when dealing Physical Damage, add 10% Physical Vulnerability which can be stacked up to 10. [Equipment Adjustment] Temporarily remove equipment: Divinity Imprint [Season Adjustment] 1. Changed the season cycle for S28 to two months per season. 2. Increased the Rank Points inherited at the end of the season. 3. Increased the Rank Points earned in Ranked games. [Chess Pass Adjustment] 1. Adjusted the Pass cycle to one month, while keeping the Pass Level cap unchanged. 2. Increased the speed and cap for the Pass Point acquisition to three times, applying this adjustment to weekly points, Daily Challenge points, Weekly Challenge points, and Daily Quest packs. 3. Disabled the purchase feature for staged unlocking of Senior Pass and Annual Pass, and introduced the Annual Plan. 4. The remaining activated Passes will be refunded at their original price in Donuts, while unexpired Annual Passes will be refunded based on the number of remaining activatable seasons. 5. Temporarily disabled the purchase feature for the Season Pass, which will reopen when S28 launches. [New Feature] 1. Introduced a new gameplay mode called [Holyselect War], where players strategically use the Relic to build teams and achieve victory. Participating in [Holyselect War] will earn Holyselect Points, which can be exchanged for various rewards. 2. Introduced a new system called [Surprise Card]. Completing the Daily Quest allows players to flip cards for rewards and accumulate Lucky Points, with a chance to win grand prizes, including Imp Series Chess Piece Skin. The accumulation of Lucky Points will increase the probability of winning grand prizes, and Lucky Points will be reset after a grand prize is won. 3. A display for backpack capacity was added at the bottom of the Inventory, allowing players to check backpack usage easily. The details of other updates can be found in the in-game announcement.

[New Gameplay] Happy Chess Hall 1. The Happy Chess Hall will be open at a designated time every day after the player reaches level 10 2. The Happy Chess Hall requires Donuts to register. After registration, you can form your own team in the event and have battles with other players. 3. Players have two chances in total, which can be restored every time they advance. The game will end after failing twice in the same stage. 4. After the game ends, the chess hall victory points will be issued according to the stage of the player. The chess hall victory points can be used to exchange various gifts in the event store. 5. The event supports progress saving. If you leave mid-game, the progress can be resumed the next time you enter. [Piece Ability Adjustment] Venom[Living Armor] Any enemy that damages Venom will be poisoned, taking continuous magical damage and having their ATK Speed reduced. Living Armor also boosts Venom's Magic Resistance. Ability Type: Passive Damage Type: Magical Damage [Piece's New Ability] Taboo Witcher[Mana Storm] Whenever a certain amount of Mana is burnt, trigger a Mana Storm, targeting a nearby enemy with low Mana, dealing magical damage and a brief stun to enemies within range based on the target's lost Mana. [Synergy Adjustment] Pandaman [1]: At the beginning of a round, there is a 6% chance to invite an off-field piece of the same Race as any ally piece on the field. [2]: At the beginning of a round, each ally Pandaman on the field has a 12% chance to invite a same-named Pandaman piece. Witcher [4]: All ally pieces possess the demon's power. Ally non-demon pieces are no longer considered Demons but still benefit from the demon's power bonus effect. [Piece Adjustment] Taboo Witcher Common→Epic Storm Shaman Epic→Legendary Space Walker Legendary→Epic Ember Blade, Thunder Trace, Jade General, Dualplot Rare→Epic [Equipment Adjustment] Sacrifice Wand HP +300 Junior Sacrifice: Unique Passive, the carrier gets +1 Offering for every enemy killed, and loses Offering for 1/3 of current stacks each time the carrier dies. The Offering can be stacked up to 10 times. Mystic Ritual: Unique Passive, each Offering increases HP of the carrier by 10%. [New Equipment] Gale Wand Common Magical DMG +10% Gale Blessing: Unique Active, triggered when HP is low or when a ranged piece is attacked by a melee piece. Teleports the carrier to a safe location out of enemy attack range and restores 20 Mana. (CD: 10 seconds) King's Robe Epic Magical DMG +10% Gale Blessing: Unique Active, triggered when HP is low or when a ranged piece is attacked by a melee piece. Teleports the carrier to a safe location out of enemy attack range and restores 20 Mana. (CD: 10 seconds) Mighty Ring Epic HP Regen +20 Has a 100% chance to block 120 damage upon receiving base attacks. Giant's Courage: Permanently taunts all enemies within 234 yards. Block: Can't be stacked and the highest value takes precedence in calculation. [New Feature] 1. New Chess Player and Chess Board illustration.

[New Piece] Underworld Enforcer Race: Egersis Class: Hunter Rare Death Anthem Sell soul to Death, making self immune to physical damage while increasing self ATK. Chance to fire an additional shot when attacking. [Piece Ability Adjustment] Warpwood Sage Leech Seed Plants a lifesteal seed in an enemy, reducing its ATK Speed and ATK, dealing magical damage per second and healing nearby allies for the same amount. DMG Per Hit/Healing: 15/20/30→15/20/40 Duration: 6→4 Shining Dragon Scale Orb Casts a magic ball in a straight line, dealing magical damage to enemies in its path and blinding them (attacks miss by chance). CD: 8/7/6→5/4/3 Spider Queen Weave Web Mana is not needed when casting the ability Spider Queen entangles a random target, dealing magical damage and immobilizing it, and the attacks have a chance to miss. When the target is attacked, it takes additional magical damage. If the target dies, a small spider will be spawned. Cobweb Duration: 3/5/10→6 Base ATK Miss Rate: 100%→40%/60%/80% CD: 10→5/4/3 [New Equipment] Four-Leaf Clover Common Good Luck: Unique Passive, increases the carrier's chance to trigger synergy effects by 25%. Crimson Ripper Epic ATK Speed +20% Crimson Curse: Unique Active, silences the enemy with the highest value within the attack range, and gains the effect: Any attack received by the target will have double damage (added before damage calculation), and allies within the attack range will prioritize attacking the target, lasting for 6 seconds. (CD: 15 seconds) Grand Magus Staff Legendary Magical DMG +40% Magus Wisdom: Unique Passive, ability level +1, but not exceeding the piece's max ability level.

[Piece Ability Adjustment] Grimtouch-Ink Splash Releases an ink wave forward, dealing 100/150/200 magical damage to enemies along the path, and each piece hit increases damage by 30/45/60, with the additional Ink Touch effect. Ink Touch: Enemy pieces marked with the Ink Touch will be considered ally Demon pieces of Grimtouch. Unit-targeted ability attack on any Ink Touched pieces will also be imposed on all other Ink Touched pieces. The max number of enemy pieces that can be marked with the Ink Touch :2/4/8 Soul Breaker-Paralysis Shuriken Soul Breaker throws darts to hit a random enemy, dealing damage and stunning them. Upon the first kill, gains a bounty, which will be reset after star-up. 1st Kill Bounty: 1 / 3 / 5 [Synergy Adjustment] Demon Requires exactly one ally demon on the field to trigger the effect. Demon Power: The base attack dealt by ally demons will be considered as pure damage. Each other ally Demon piece increases pure damage by 10%, up to 100%. Warlock Class Trait: Warlock pieces will turn 20% of their HP to 40% Mana at the beginning of a battle. [2]: Ally Base Attack Lifesteal +15% → 5%, Ability Lifesteal +15% → 5% [4]: Ally Base Attack Lifesteal +35% → 20%, Ability Lifesteal +35% → 20% [6]: Ally Base ATK Lifesteal +55% → 20%, Ability Lifesteal +55% → 20%. Whenever a piece dies, the ally Warlock piece with the lowest HP percentage will absorb 30% of its max HP. Kira All Kira pieces gain the effect: Before starting the battle, devour ally pieces in the four adjacent grids whose selling price is not higher than self, gaining 60% of their Max HP and ATK. (Devouring order is Kira's left, right, rear, front. Devouring can trigger Insectoid Heirs.) Warrior Ally Armor +18. When ally pieces affected by this Synergy receive physical or magical damage, reflects pure damage equal to 100% → 150% of the piece's Armor. [Equipment Adjustment] New Equipment Divinity Imprint Quality: Rare Magic Resistance +20% Sanctity: Unique Passive, the carrier gains the Divinity synergy. Winter Embrace Quality: Rare Armor +10 Frost Impact: Unique Active, reduces ATK Speed of enemies within 160 yards by 50% for 5 seconds, and deals 100 magical damage. CD: 20 seconds. Equipment Alternation Dragonbone Ballista [Team Item Adjustment] Team item choosing duration 30s→20s [Chat Adjustment] 1. Optimized the art performance of chat channels and friend lists. 2. New ""All"" channel. Moved the original trading channel, invitation channel, and World channel to the ""All"" channel. 3. New @ feature. Long press the player's avatar to use the feature. 4. New custom emoji group where the existing emojis can be added.

[New Piece] Mountain Chief Race: Beast Class: Warrior Quality: Legendary Collapsing Impact:Shou unleashes its fury, grabbing the enemy piece with the highest HP within its attack range, repeatedly slamming it to the ground, dealing physical damage and briefly stunning all enemies within range. [Piece Ability Adjustment] Soul Blade[Soul Imprison] Generates a vengeful ghost shadow around each enemy piece and relentlessly pursues the host. The base attacks of Soul Blade and Ghost Shadow always carry the Withering effect. Withering: Deals double damage to isolated enemy pieces. (An enemy unit within 160 yards without its allies is considered isolated.) Otter Hunter[Flying Dart Shadow] Otter Hunter fires a boomerang at the target, which then bounces to nearby enemy pieces with greater threats, dealing damage to them and inflicting the Taunt mark. Summoned units will prioritize attacking targets with Taunt marks, dealing more damage to them. [New Equipment] Azees Gaze Rare HP +300 Frost Curse: Unique Passive, the carrier's damage dealt reduces ATK Speed of the targets by 50%, and healing received by 50% for 5 seconds. Sigmar Hammer Uncommon Tremor: Unique Passive, the melee carrier has a 20% chance to stun enemies for 3 seconds with base attacks; while the ranged carrier has a 10% chance to stun them for 3 seconds with base attacks.

[Piece Ability Adjustment] Dualplot-Candle Shades Dualplot ruptures reality to enter the void and traverse multiple enemies without Ethereal Marks, inflicting Ethereal Marks on pieces Dualplot passes through, slowing them down, and then detonating after a delay to deal magical damage.Killing enemies resets CD of this ability. Max traverse times: 3/4/6 ATK speed decrease: 20%/30%/40% Damage: 200/300/400 Target Range: 370 Detonation Delay: 1.3s CD: 6s/5s/4s Ember Blade-Catching Fire Ember Blade becomes unselectable, picks a random enemy to attack, and then quickly attacks all enemies within the target range. After the attack, it returns to its original position. Each attack is regarded as a base attack and deals additional damage.Killing enemies resets CD of this ability. ATK Range: 220/278/389 ATK Rate: 0.2s CD: 6s/5s/4s Extra Damage: 100/200/400 [Synergy Adjustment] Kira[2] All Kira pieces gain the effect: Before starting the battle, devour ally pieces in the four adjacent grids whose selling price is not higher than self, gaining 60% of their Max HP and ATK. Pandaman[4] At the beginning of a round, there is a 30% chance to randomly get 1 Pandaman piece that is currently on the board. [Season Exchange] 1. Mystery Hourglass exchange starts.

Fixed some bugs

[New Synergy] Half-Orc[2]: When all ally Half-Orc pieces start to battle, they will release a charge impact effect towards the target with the most surrounding enemy pieces. Half-Orc[4]: Every move of ally melee pieces triggers a charge impact effect. [New Piece] Sandbound Aegis Race: Half-Orc Class: Warrior Quality: Uncommon Sandbound Aegis launches fierce melee attacks to deal magical damage based on her Max HP to the target, surrounding pieces, and herself. Evernight Watcher Race: Half-Orc Class: Assassin Quality: Epic Evernight Watcher alters the properties of matter, compelling nearby enemies to be forcibly pulled towards him, dealing damage and stunning the affected enemies with powerful shockwaves. [Piece Ability Adjustment] Sunchaser Servant[Power Quake]: Sunchaser Servant's attack has a chance to stun and repel enemy pieces while dealing extra damage. [Chess Pass] S25 Chess Pass will start on 4 March 2024 [New] Piece: Interstellar Ranger Turhu Dark Lord Scarlet Spider Queen Soul Blade [Blue] Interstellar Pirate Pan&Interstellar Pirate Pan「Colorful」 Chessboard: Cosmic Citadel Chess Player: Interstellar Ranger Lycra Interstellar Ranger Jamie Interstellar Ranger Lyon Please refer to the announcement for more details. [New Synergy] Half-Orc[2]: When all ally Half-Orc pieces start to battle, they will release a charge impact effect towards the target with the most surrounding enemy pieces. Half-Orc[4]: Every move of ally melee pieces triggers a charge impact effect. [New Piece] Sandbound Aegis Race: Half-Orc Class: Warrior Quality: Uncommon Sandbound Aegis launches fierce melee attacks to deal magical damage based on her Max HP to the target, surrounding pieces, and herself. Evernight Watcher Race: Half-Orc Class: Assassin Quality: Epic Evernight Watcher alters the properties of matter, compelling nearby enemies to be forcibly pulled towards him, dealing damage and stunning the affected enemies with powerful shockwaves. [Piece Ability Adjustment] Sunchaser Servant[Power Quake]: Sunchaser Servant's attack has a chance to stun and repel enemy pieces while dealing extra damage. [Chess Pass] S25 Chess Pass will start on 4 March 2024 [New] Piece: Interstellar Ranger Turhu Dark Lord Scarlet Spider Queen Soul Blade [Blue] Interstellar Pirate Pan&Interstellar Pirate Pan「Colorful」 Chessboard: Cosmic Citadel Chess Player: Interstellar Ranger Lycra Interstellar Ranger Jamie Interstellar Ranger Lyon Please refer to the announcement for more details.

[Equipment System Upgrade] The equipment 3.0 version is coming, and the acquisition methods, quality distribution, and actual combat effects have been fully upgraded. The equipment system has been reconstructed and refreshed, with more excitement. Come to Drodo Island to enjoy the new version! [New Year, New Atmosphere] Try the Spring Festival-themed lobby skin for free for a limited time! In the Year of the Dragon, the Dragon synergy is powerfully upgraded, and all the dragon chess pieces will blow up the whole game! The Spring Festival version of the event is coming, and generous rewards are waiting for you! [Chess Piece Returns] The chess piece Blight Sorcerer returns, and the Egersis has added another member, making it even more powerful! [Chess Pass] Chess Pass S24 will end at 00:00 on March 4, 2024. [New] Piece: Feather Traceless Arcade Hunter Sakura Scale Jungle Voo'du Crown Guard Hidden Boss&Hidden Boss「Colorful」 Chessboard: Secret World Chess Player: Hidden Player&Mystic Player&Crazy Player

[New Piece] Eclipse of Darkness Race: Egersis Class: Priest Quality: Rare Eclipse of Darkness allows the specified ally piece to absorb max HP from nearby enemies, dealing pure damage to heal the target. [Synergy Adjustment] Egersis[3]: All non-Egersis pieces on both sides gain the Plague effect: Max HP -25%. Egersis[6]: All non-Egersis pieces on both sides gain the Plague effect: Max HP -50%. Egersis[9]: All non-Egersis pieces on both sides gain the Plague effect: Max HP -50%. Infected pieces will be revived as Egersis Mercenaries to fight for enemies after they die, lasting for 20 seconds. The melee piece is revived as Egersis Warrior, and the ranged piece is revived as Egersis Archer, with their star level following the infected piece. Egersis Warrior deals extra damage when attacking passively. The ability has a CD time. Damage Multiplier: 200% CD: 4/3/2 Egersis Archer's arrows carry the corrosive effect, dealing higher magical damage. Extra Damage: 30/50/80 [Chess Pass] S23 Chess Pass will start on 4 Sempterber 2023 [New] Piece: Feather Traceless Arcade Hunter Sakura Scale Jungle Voo'du Crown Guard Hidden Boss&Hidden Boss「Colorful」 Chessboard: Secret World Chess Player: Hidden Player&Mystic Player&Crazy Player

[New Class Trait] New feature Class Trait available! More fierce fight and more strategic gameplay! Become the master on the battlefield! [Piece Ability Adjustment] Grand Herald[Take Control] When a battle starts, Grand Herald will replicate a random enemy piece, gaining their active abilities and ATK Range to take control.Grand Herald on the board will reset their abilities to control when losing the home battle round or upgrading star levels of pieces.The replicated ability will follow the star level changes of Grand Herald. [Synergy Adjustment] Mech[3] After winning a battle, if at least 1 ally Mechs survive, gets Heart of Mech x1. [Chess Pass] S23 Chess Pass will end on 3 December 2023. [New] Piece: Magic Artisan Lightning Hunter Jungle Pri'du The Source [Brown] War Priest Undead Tyrant&Undead Tyrant「Colorful」 Chessboard: Deserted Town Chess Player: Mad Mac&Raging Mac&Magicka Mac

[New Piece] Empress Light Race: Civet Class: Shaman Quality: Legendary When a battle starts, Empress Light gathers sand with gems as the core to create a perfect incarnation of herself. The Empress Light in the field can be regarded as two same pieces. The incarnation inherits all the Item effects of Empress Light. Incarnation lasts 15/30/40 seconds [Piece Ability Adjustment] Gem Artisan-Gemstone Wave Teleports the piece to the empty grid next to a random enemy, and deals 200 pure damage to enemies within 1 grids. Gem Artisan will teleport all the pieces with the same name to itself, and make them all trigger the ability effect once. When Gem Artisan upgrades to 3-star, an extra 3-star of this piece will be granted. [Synergy Adjustment] Civet[1]: Extra activation condition: Two or more identical Civet pieces exist on the ally field. Summons a Golem dealing 100% damage for each pair of identical pieces. Civet[2]: When a battle starts, summons a Golem dealing 100% damage for each pair of identical pieces on the ally field, and the Golem will also copy the Item effect at the same time. Golem: Inherits 100% ATK of the original unit, and receives 100% damage, and will not inherit the synergy effects and item effects. Each group of units can only have one Golem at one time. Shaman[2]: Turns 1 random enemy pieces into "penguins" for 6 seconds at the start of a battle. Shaman[4]: When a battle starts, turns 1 random enemies into penguins for 6 seconds. All ally Shamans are granted with the effect: Turn into the Illusion Form with a higher price than the original selling price (65% selling price +1, 35%% selling price +2) after 2.5 seconds. The Illusion Form lasts for 20 seconds. Shaman[6]: When a battle starts, turns 1 random enemies into penguins for 6 seconds. All ally Shamans are granted with the effect: Turn into the Illusion Form with a higher price than the original selling price (65% selling price +1, 35%% selling price +2) after 2.5 seconds. The Illusion Form lasts for 20 seconds. When the Illusion Form casts active abilities, it becomes a new random Illusion Form with the selling price equal to the original selling price +2. [Chess Pass] S23 Chess Pass will start on 4 Sempterber 2023 and end on 3 December 2023. [New] Piece: Magic Artisan Lightning Hunter Jungle Pri'du The Source [Brown] War Priest Undead Tyrant&Undead Tyrant「Colorful」 Chessboard: Deserted Town Chess Player: Mad Mac&Raging Mac&Magicka Mac

[Piece Ability Adjustment] Helicopter-Call Down Active: The next 4/6/10 base attacks increase the ATK Range by 4/4/4 grids and attack all enemies within the range and can enjoy Dwarf's ATK Range increase. Passive: When choosing a target, the piece will choose the farthest target within the Attack Range. The max Attack Range is 5/5/5. [Synergy Adjustment] If there are not enough pieces on the board, the Chess Player gains Green Essence x1 every time taking damage. If there are not enough pieces on the board, the Chess Player gains Green Essence x1 every time taking damage, and each Priest piece will control a local piece whose value is not higher than its own at the beginning of the battle, and it can control up to (the number of pieces on the board) pieces. [Chess Pass] S22 Chess Pass will end on 9 September 2023. [New] Piece: Of the Old Resentful Murk [Red] Abyss Siren Western Guard Kira Mage [Brown] Song of Sandsea&Song of Sandsea「Colorful」 Chess Player: Keshira&Azure Keshira&Wisteria Keshira Chessboard: Eternal Mansion

[New Piece] Deep Dive Race: Marine Class: Wizard Quality: Rare Momora begins to sing for 7/7/7 seconds, and all enemy pieces within 2/3/4 grids have a 35%/35%/35% chance of falling asleep for 4/6/8 seconds every 1 seconds, but any non-ability damage will wake up the sleeping pieces. [Piece Ability Adjustment] Siren - Abyssal Gaze Any enemy units within 4/5/6 grids facing self will have their ATK Speed reduced by 20%/30%/40% for 3/4/5 seconds. The enemy facing self for over 2/2/2 seconds will be petrified for 2/3/4 seconds. The petrified enemy's summoned pieces will also be purified, receiving additional pure damage equal to 25% of the current HP. Pierces ability immunity. Petrify: Cannot attack, move, or cast abilities, and receives +25% physical damage when under attack. Siren's base attack can always split into 2/3/4 arrows to attack multiple enemies. [Chess Pass] S21 Chess Pass will end on 4 July 2023. S22 Chess Pass will start on 5 July 2023 and end on 9 September 2023. [New] Piece: Of the Old Resentful Murk [Red] Abyss Siren Western Guard Kira Mage [Brown] Song of Sandsea&Song of Sandsea「Colorful」 Chess Player: Keshira&Azure Keshira&Wisteria Keshira Chessboard: Eternal Mansion

[New Piece] Deep Dive Race: Marine Class: Wizard Quality: Rare Momola begins to sing for 7/7/7 seconds, and all enemy pieces within 2/3/4 grids have a 35%/35%/35% chance of falling asleep for 4/6/8 seconds every 1 seconds, but any ability damage will wake up the sleeping pieces. [Piece Ability Adjustment] Siren - Abyssal Gaze Any enemy units within 4/5/6 grids facing self will have their ATK Speed reduced by 20%/30%/40% for 3/4/5 seconds. The enemy facing self for over 2/2/2 seconds will be petrified for 2/3/4 seconds. The petrified enemy's summoned pieces will also be purified, receiving additional pure damage equal to 25% of the current HP. Pierces ability immunity. Petrify: Cannot attack, move, or cast abilities, and receives +25% physical damage when under attack. Siren's base attack can always split into 2/3/4 arrows to attack multiple enemies. [Chess Pass] S21 Chess Pass will end on 4 July 2023. S22 Chess Pass will start on 5 July 2023 and end on 9 September 2023. [New] Piece: Of the Old Resentful Murk [Red] Abyss Siren Western Guard Kira Mage [Brown] Song of Sandsea&Song of Sandsea「Colorful」 Chess Player: Keshira&Azure Keshira&Wisteria Keshira Chessboard: Eternal Mansion

[4th Anniv. Events] 1. Band Invitation starts! Team up with other players to claim rewards! 2. Anniversary Treasure Hunt opens! Let's hunt with Mana! 3. Time-limited dropping rate up of 4th Anni. Vault! Open it and there will be a chance of winning Cyber Ants series skins! [New Skins] Piece: Dimension-Tennis Club「Colorful」 Galaxy Hunter「Colorful」 Cyber Ant·Axe「Colorful」 Cyber Ant Dominiel Cyber Ant Dominiel「Colorful」 Chessboard: Cyber Ants Future Festival Cyber Ants Future Festival「Colorful」 [Chess Pass] S21 Chess Pass will end on 4th June 2023.