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.
| Level | Shards | Gold (1★) | Gold (2★) | Gold (3★) | Gold (4★) | Gold (5★) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0→1 (learn) | 3 | 150K | 450K | 1.5M | 3M | 15M |
| 1→2 | 1 | 50K | 150K | 500K | 1M | 5M |
| 2→3 | 2 | 100K | 300K | 1M | 2M | 10M |
| 3→4 | 4 | 200K | 600K | 2M | 4M | 20M |
| 4→5 | 8 | 400K | 1.2M | 4M | 8M | 40M |
| 5→6 | 16 | 800K | 2.4M | 8M | 16M | 80M |
| 6→7 | 32 | 1.6M | 4.8M | 16M | 32M | 160M |
| 7→8 | 64 | 3.2M | 9.6M | 32M | 64M | 320M |
| 8→9 | 128 | 6.4M | 19.2M | 64M | 128M | 640M |
| 9→10 | 256 | 12.8M | 38.4M | 128M | 256M | 1.28B |
| Total | 514 | 25.7M | 77.1M | 257M | 514M | 2.57B |
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.
