Skills

Skills are the core of every adventurer’s power in ELHEXA. Whether learned at institutions, inherited from another world, or granted by the Archons themselves, skills determine how your party fights, heals, and supports one another in battle.

Every adventurer arrives with a random set of skills when summoned from the gacha. Higher-rarity cards tend to come with more skills and at higher star levels. Outlanders always carry their own unique signature skill that cannot be learned anywhere else.

Level Up a Skill

Every skill can be leveled from 1 to 10. Open an adventurer’s card, tap any skill to see its details, then press Level Up. Leveling costs Skill Crystals (shards) and Gold. Every skill has its own crystal — shards from one skill can’t be spent on another, even in the same category. The category only sets the crystal’s look, as shown below.

Equipment levels up the same way, on the same doubling curve — see Equipment → Level Up.

Skill Crystal Types

Crystal	Category	Matches
	Normal
	Battle
	Magic
	Defense
	Restorative
	Enhance
	Curse

Leveling Costs

Gold cost per shard depends on the skill’s star rating. Total gold = shards × base gold price per shard.

Skill Crystals come from one place: transmuting adventurers who know the skill — higher skill levels yield more shards.

Learn New Skills

Five institutions across the central city offer Study quests where adventurers can learn new skills. Each study quest costs Skill Shards, Gold, and takes time to complete.

An adventurer’s strength depends heavily on what skills they know. There is no limit to how many skills a card can learn — invest in the right combination and even a modest card becomes a powerhouse.

Extracting a Skill

• A skill you no longer want on a card can be extracted from the card detail screen: tap the skill, then Extract. The skill leaves the card.
• Extraction costs Crystals, rising with the skill’s star rating and level — the tables below list every price.
• You get back 70% of the Gold you paid for its level-ups, and all the skill shards that transmuting the card would give for it. The learning cost is not refunded.
• Transmuting the whole card stays free and returns the same shards — extraction is the way to keep the card.

Skills that cannot be extracted

• The last skill of the card’s own rarity or below — a card always keeps one. (A 5★ skill on an N card can always go.)
• An Outlander’s native skills.
• A boss character’s born skills.
• Skills that no Learn quest teaches, the basic attacks among them.
• Level 1 skills — nothing has been invested yet, so there is nothing to refund.

A skill that cannot be extracted shows no Extract button at all. A card that is on a quest, listed for trade or locked has to wait until it is free.

What extraction costs and returns

By the skill’s star rating and the level it has reached. The crystals are paid; 70% of the level-up gold and all of the skill’s shards come back. A Level 1 skill cannot be extracted.

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