🌱 Beginner Guide - First Run Tips & Chip Basics

Complete the introductory quest chain on Floor 1 and upgrade your MAHOU.OS chips before anything else. The chain teaches the weakness system and hands you the Guardian Sigil for free; the chip upgrades make everything after it trivial. Do not rush upward, do not hoard fragments, do not skip co-op setup — quest first, chips second, everything else third.

• Complete the gate tutorial: one angel encounter, one chip-loading lesson. The game hands you both weapon styles here.
• Take the introductory chain and complete "thin the patrols" — the angel swarm teaches ranged weakness play.
• Farm chip fragments on the main path until you hold enough for a full chip loadout upgrade.
• Configure your MAHOU.OS at the laboratory hub. This is the checkpoint the whole early game is aimed at.
• Finish the chain ("activate the three signal beacons") and receive the Guardian Sigil.

Every enemy is attuned to an element and weak to its opposite. Hitting the weakness doubles damage; hitting the attunement heals the enemy. Fire-line enemies (both guardians, two of three characters) are weak to Ice — which is why Ice chips are the only ones veterans load in bulk. Learn the character table before your first boss attempt, not after.

The Floor 1 Guardian drops the Floor Access Key, which opens The Heavenly Courtyard — the endgame floor. The jump in difficulty is the largest in the game: everything there assumes upgraded chips, healing items and clean play. If the Guardian fight felt hard, farm Floor 1 a little longer; the Courtyard will wait.