Aqua Shadow

**Aqua Shadow Missions (水影の騎士)** are a Sub Story Mission Type that involves fighting powerful Aqua Shadows. They are mysterious clones of Flower Knights that are made out of water and a strange stone.

Defeated Aqua Shadows drop Aqua Fragments (水影の秘石の欠片), which can be used in Equipment Synthesis to evolve personal equipment or refined to create Fragments of a different rarity. Compared to Unique Missions, you can earn many more Honor Medals from Aqua Shadow Missions. You can use them to buy Wares such as Aqua Fragments, Blooming Medicines, and Personal Equipment Forge Spirits.

Aqua Shadow stages have five difficulties, ranging from easiest to hardest they are: Elementary Class, Intermediate Class, High Class, Top Class, and EX Class. The first four stages force you to take the guest party along as your Helper Squad, but you cannot use a Helper Squad at all in the EX class stage. Like any other set of missions, you will never lose stamina if you lose or retreat from a stage. This means that you can try out various strategies to complete these stages without wasting stamina.

## Prologue

In the **Prologue (序章)**, you battle against the clones of Japanese Apricot and Sakura. They have incredibly powerful single-target skills and they act twice on every turn. They both boost their own Attack by 30%.

The following characters appear in the guest parties for the elementary through top class stages.

* 6\* Sakura
* 6\* Japanese Apricot
* 5\* Ivy
* 2\* Strawberry
* 5\* Rabbit-ear Iris

## Chapter 1

In **Chapter 1 (第1章)**, you battle against the clone of Cactus. In the EX class stage, Cactus (Bride of Phos) accompanies her. Both of them have an ability such that after losing a fraction of her HP, their Defense goes to zero and their Critical Activation Rate is raised to 90%. They also move twice on all turns. Cactus (Bride) has the Provocation ability which will redirect all single target attacks towards her and reduce the Damage she takes.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Cactus
* 5\* Roseda
* 5\* Lamium
* 6\* Sakura (Appears later in the Top Class level only)
* 6\* Japanese Apricot (Appears later in the Top Class level only)

## Chapter 2

In **Chapter 2 (第2章)**, you battle against the clones of King Protea and her assistants. In all stages, there are two Aqua Shadow fights. King Protea, Dalmatian Bellflower, and Lycaste fight you the first time. King Protea acts twice, and Lycaste misses her attacks 40% of the time. The second fight features King Protea alongside Aizoon Stonecrop. This time, King Protea will not attack twice. Aizoon Stonecrop will act three times for the first two turns, then attack twice after that. This mission is considerably easier than the previous two.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 5\* King Protea
* 6\* Aizoon Stonecrop
* 5\* Dalmatian Bellflower
* 5\* Lycaste

## Chapter 3

In **Chapter 3 (第3章)**, you battle against the clones of Lantana (Flower Festival) and Summer Squash. You fight them twice in each stage, but in the EX class stage Lantana will fight on her own.

In fights against Festival Lantana and Summer Squash, both characters get a +55% Attack buff 1.2x Skill Activation Rate up, and Summer Squash gets 10% Evasion. In the final battle of the EX class stage, Aqua Shadow Lantana fights alone. She fights with the normal Lantana skin, she and her bat familiars wear pumpkin masks, and she is renamed to "Perfect L?". She'll have +55% Attack, 1.2x Skill Activation Rate, and 10% Evasion.

Your parties and the Aqua Shadows will move on the map and compete for the special nodes which grant abilities. You will not fight Aqua Shadows moving on the map until everyone reaches the gate that blocks everyone's progress.

Ability Board Translation
 (Collected Nodes)

The left side is your party's collected nodes while the right side is the Aqua Shadows' collected nodes. The top ability with the pink flowers increases Skill Activation Rate by 1.2x and the bottom ability with the blue flowers increases Evasion by 15%.

Each node you collect gives your party that node's ability for one turn. Collecting the same type of node multiple times makes the ability activate for that many turn. In other words, collecting the nodes does not stack the abilities to make them more powerful and instead extends the time they are active. Also, these nodes are carried over to the next fight if you don't consume them all during the first fight.

If you make party 1 very fast and party 2 very slow, you can procure all the ability nodes for yourself. For reference, speeds of ~950 and ~350 respectively can do this. If you have trouble making Speeds like this, do not forget to use your Flower Memories.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Sakura
* 5\* King Protea
* 5\* Japanese Apricot
* 6\* Lotus
* 6\* Summer Squash (Appears later in the Intermediate level and onwards)
* 5\* Lantana (Appears later in the Intermediate level and onwards)

## Chapter 4

In **Chapter 4 (第4章)**, you battle against the clone of Red Spider Lily and her "Nine Tails' Shadows" in this mission. In each stage, you have the choice of fighting the little shadows in order to weaken Red Spider Lily, or going straight for Red Spider Lily.

A banner at the top of the screen shows the abilities Red Spider Lily has. Beating her shadows will remove abilities from her. These are the abilities from left-to-right.

* Attack up (*Permanent*)
* Skill Activation Rate up
* Evade
* Attack up based on the number of enemy panels on the map (Small orbs on the side denote the number of enemy panels)

Note that if you go straight for Red Spider Lily and ignore the tail shadows, you will miss chests that come out from beating the shadows.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Red Spider Lily
* 5\* Tiger Lily
* 6\* Japanese Apricot
* 5\* Rabbit-ear Iris

## Chapter 5

In **Chapter 5 (第5章)**, you battle against the clones of Chocolate Lily and Geranium. They will fight you separately in the first battle, then they will fight you together in the second battle. The aqua shadow you did \*not\* defeat the first time will be powered up in the second battle.

Geranium has Provoke and gains Defense Up + Guts Chance from the high class stage and onwards.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Chocolate Lily
* 5\* Geranium
* 5\* King Protea
* 6\* Red Spider Lily
* 6\* Sakura

## Chapter 6

In **Chapter 6 (第6章)**, you battle against the clones of the entire Acacia Corp. Two aqua shadows will carry abilities towards aqua shadow Acacia waiting at the back of the map. Defeat the moving aqua shadows to stop the abilities from getting delivered.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Acacia
* 5\* Black Locust
* 5\* Cherry Sage
* 5\* Dahlia
* 5\* Lupin

## Chapter 7

In **Chapter 7 (第7章)**, you battle against the clones of Scotch Broom, Worm Wood, Butterfly Bush, and Devil in a Bush. Scotch Broom and Butterfly Bush pair up and will take their turn before your team. Worm Wood and Devil in a Bush pair up and greatly reduce your party's Attack power. The pair you did *not* defeat the first time will be powered up in the second battle.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Scotch Broom
* 5\* Worm Wood
* 5\* Butterfly Bush
* 5\* Devil in a Bush

## Chapter 8

In **Chapter 8 (第8章)**, you battle against the clones of Lotus, Pygmy Water Lily, Rabbit-ear Iris, and Blood Iris. Depending on which panel you cross over first, you may fight over-water or under-water. This affects which enemies you will fight.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Lotus
* 6\* Pygmy Water Lily
* 5\* Rabbit-ear Iris
* 5\* Blood Iris
* 6\* Sparaxis

## Chapter 9

In **Chapter 9 (第9章)**, you battle against the clones of Black Baccara and Dendrobium. They will race you to the World Flower's Miracle panel. If you beat the aqua shadow to that panel, it freezes them and disables some of their abilities.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Dendrobium
* 6\* Black Baccara
* 3\* Royal Princess
* 5\* Green Bristlegrass
* 5\* Skullcap
* 5\* Water Hyssop (Appears later in the High Class level and onwards)

## Chapter 10

In **Chapter 10 (第10章)**, you battle against the clones of Corn Cockle and Pinkladies. Corn Cockle's crosshair panels Damage parties that run through them. The EX stage consists of only one battle, so it is fast and easy to farm.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 6\* Pinkladies
* 6\* Corn Cockle
* 5\* Baby Blue Eyes
* 5\* Yomena
* 5\* Native Bryony

## Chapter 11

In **Chapter 11 (第11章)**, you battle against the clones of Yellow Pansy, White Pansy, and Purple Pansy. Stages have banana peel panels that increase speed. In the Top Class and EX Class stages, you fight a larger Yellow Pansy. In the Top class stage, she fights alone, but has the abilities of her counterparts. In the EX Class stage, you fight her along with her sisters. She does not have their abilities in the EX stage, making the fight potentially easier.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 3\* Yellow Pansy
* 3\* White Pansy
* 2\* Purple Pansy
* 3\* Kurenai
* 5\* Showy Lily
* 4\* Casablanca (Appears later in the Intermediate & Top Class level)
* 3\* Gladiolus (Appears later in the Intermediate level only)
* 5\* Mountain Lily (Appears later in the High Class level only)

## Chapter 12

In **Chapter 12 (第12章)**, you battle against the clones of Japanese Glory Bower, Veronica, and Japanese Anemone. Invisible bear traps, swinging guillotines, and chasing saw blades will all Damage your teams on the map. Damage can be resisted using characters that reduce Damage from gimmick panels. During the fight with Japanese Anemone, everyone in your party will take Damage before each turn starts because of the raging flames.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 5\* Veronica
* 5\* Japanese Glory Bower
* 6\* Japanese Anemone (Appears later in the Intermediate & Top Class level)
* 5\* Gajumaru (Appears later in the Intermediate & Top Class level)
* 5\* Coleus (Appears later in the Intermediate & Top Class level)

## Chapter 13

In **Chapter 13 (第13章)**, you battle against the clones of Peach and Flowering Peach. Solar Drive is replaced by Heart Drive which increases your party members' Attack % instead of dealing Damage. Characters with abilities that increase Solar Drive Damage will affect the Attack boost instead.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 5\* Peach
* 6\* Flowering Peach
* 5\* Cowslip
* 4\* Forget-Me-Not

## Chapter 14

In **Chapter 14 (第14章)**, you battle against the clones of the entire Lotus Lake Depths Survey Team.

These characters appear in the guest parties.

* 5\* Rough Potato
* 5\* Watercress
* 6\* Wolf Berry
* 5\* Henna
* 6\* Tritonia
* 5\* Fennel (Appears later in the Intermediate & Top Class level)

## Final Chapter

In the **Final Chapter** (最終章), you battle against Laeva and various aqua shadows from previous chapters. Unlike all other chapters, there are no allowed helpers for any of the stages and there are 4 different EX Class stages.

## Aqua Shadow EX Destruction

Once the EX stage of a chapter is cleared, you will unlock its associated stage in Aqua Shadow EX Destruction. These are High Difficulty Mission Types that include stronger versions of the EX stages.