Relics are no longer only collectible drops. They are account-build pieces. A relic can matter because of its rarity, quality, school, upgrade level, active affixes, possible Super Talent Boosts, Secret Phrase links and trade state. The same relic can be a build piece, a merge target, a feeder, a phrase-chain anchor, a Market item or a long-term collectible.

• Relics enter your inventory from listening, Daily, Learn, Tasks, Expeditions, Farms, Secret Phrases, crafting and other reward routes.
• You inspect them in Relics and open the full identity view through Memory.
• The best pieces move into Active Resonance, where affixes, school sets, phrase chains and Super Talent Boosts become live build power.
• Duplicates or off-build relics can become feeders in Resonance Merge.
• Premium Merge protects the target relic’s identity when keeping its school and affix structure matters more than rerolling.
• Trade-ready relics can move through Relic Market, off-market offers or timed Auctions.

You do not need internal server names to understand relics. The guide uses player-facing names such as Farm luck, Relic upgrade chance, Secret Phrase chain power and Market fee discount. The value shown in the game is the important number: it already includes the relic’s rarity, quality, level, slot position and the current balance rules.

The Relics tab is built for large inventories. Search and filtering are part of the normal workflow. The current layout helps you keep track of rarity, school, quality, level, active affixes, locked state, Market state, phrase links and merge value without opening every relic one by one.

A relic can be unavailable for normal actions if it is listed on the Market, held by an Auction or connected to a Secret Phrase. A phrase-bound relic can be unbound through the paid Unbind action, but unbinding does not erase historical phrase completion. That keeps the phrase system safe while still allowing players to rebuild their equipped setup.

Quality affects the final strength of active affixes. It does not replace rarity, level or school, but it can make the same affix meaningfully stronger. A lower-quality relic with perfect school and phrase synergy can still be useful, but high-quality targets are better long-term upgrade candidates.

Resonance Merge can improve a relic’s long-term potential through quality and level. Premium Merge preserves the target’s affix identity and school, while quality can still raise final values. In normal merge, the resulting relic can inherit or reshape identity depending on the merge path.

A relic school is the theme of its build role. Schools decide which affixes a relic is most likely to carry, which school set it contributes to in Active Resonance, and which Soothe Sauce talent can amplify it. A school is not just flavor text: it is one of the main ways a relic becomes part of a deliberate build.

Crafted relics naturally lean toward the Craft school. By default, Craft is the most likely school for new craft results. Each level of Relic Transmuter softens that bias. If your Active Resonance contains 8+ Relic Hunt relics, the craft-school bias is fully disabled and the school roll behaves like a broad random-school roll again.

Relics can now be upgraded up to Level 16. Higher levels do more than add a number to the relic card: they unlock later affix slots and make existing active affixes stronger. Levels after 7 are treated as an endgame power layer, so expensive late upgrades should feel much more meaningful.

The value you see in the UI is already the final player-facing result. It is shaped by the relic’s rarity, the affix family, quality, level curve, slot position and late-level power. Later slots can be slightly stronger, and high-level relics receive stronger scaling after Level 7. You do not need to calculate this manually: compare the value shown on the relic card and in Active Resonance.

Upgrade and merge paths are protected against the worst feeling outcome: spending a valuable feeder and seeing an important retained affix become weaker. When an affix is retained through the upgrade path, the system protects it from downgrading under the same or better quality, and high-tier feeders can create stronger growth steps.

Every card below uses the name a player should understand from the UI. Some affixes are broad and work across many systems; others are narrow and only matter in one route. Narrow affixes are not bad — they are simply build-defining. A focused relic can outperform a random relic with a larger-looking number if it supports the exact system you play most.

Active Resonance is the live build board. Only equipped relics grant active affixes, school sets, Secret Phrase chains, Soothe scaling and Super Talent Boosts. A relic sitting in inventory can still be valuable, but it does not affect your live build until equipped.

The special 12th slot appears as an extra Epic slot when the following build keys are reached: Soothe Sauce 10 + Sonic Scholar 10 + Daily Amplifier 10 + Long Take Legend 10 + Relic Transmuter 5. This unlock is designed for wider class-combo builds and appears automatically inside Active Resonance.

• Combined equipped modifiers: the direct active affixes from equipped relics.
• Super Talent Boosts: talent levels granted by equipped relics.
• School set progress: how many equipped relics of each school are active.
• Secret Phrase chains: repeated phrase links across equipped relics.
• Final build notes: Soothe Sauce, multi-class scaling and mastery layers where they apply.

School sets reward stacking the same school across equipped relics. The important thresholds are 3, 5, 8 and 11 equipped relics of the same school. If the extra Epic slot is unlocked, a 12-slot build can make hybrid set planning more flexible, but the main set thresholds remain the same.

When several different school sets are active at the same time, the game can boost the aggregate school-set layer. This rewards hybrid builds instead of forcing every strong build to be a single-school stack.

Secret Phrase chains are created when multiple equipped relics point to the same phrase. The system rewards repeated phrase links across the equipped board. Phrase chains sit on top of normal affixes and school sets, so a phrase-focused build can become stronger than a pile of unrelated relics.

Secret Phrase collection mastery is a separate layer. Phrases are grouped in ordered mastery steps, and the player progresses through those groups from easier/shorter phrases toward deeper completion. This makes phrase progress valuable even outside a single equipped chain.

Soothe Sauce connects your main talent tree to Active Resonance. If a school has a matching talent, equipped relics from that school can receive extra scaling. The applied level is the lower of your Soothe Sauce level and the matching talent level. Each applied level adds +2% to that school’s equipped relic affixes.

Phrase school is special: it scales from your currently completed Secret Phrases, capped by your effective Soothe Sauce level.

Soothe Sauce also adds +0.1% super-talent proc chance per level when upgrading eligible relics. At Level 15, it also opens the quality-tier roll layer for relics generated by the main gameplay systems, including routes such as listening, Daily rewards, Expeditions and Farm relic drops.

Some upgraded relics can gain Super Talent Boosts. These are extra talent levels stored on the relic and counted while that relic is equipped. They are shown inside Active Resonance relic cards and in the talent summary as effective talents.

• Eligible relic rarities: Rare, Epic and Legendary.
• Level 0–10 relics: up to 3 total Super Talent levels on one relic.
• Level 11–13 relics: up to 4 total Super Talent levels on one relic.
• Level 14–16 relics: up to 5 total Super Talent levels on one relic.
• Single-talent limit on one relic: up to +5 to the same talent.
• Equipped effective cap: the same talent can receive up to +10 effective levels from equipped relics.

Super Talent Boosts are not a replacement for normal talent upgrades. Think of them as a rare bonus layer that lets a strong relic push a specialized build further. A relic with the right school, strong affixes and useful Super Talent Boosts is usually much more valuable than a relic with only one good stat.

Resonance Merge feeds one relic into another. The target is the relic you are trying to improve. The feeder is consumed to push the target’s level, quality path, school identity and affix potential. Merge is the bridge between raw inventory and specialized Active Resonance builds.

Premium Merge protects the target relic’s school and exact affix identity. Use it when the target already has the right build shape and you do not want a normal merge to reshape it. Quality can still improve the final values, but the important identity of the target is preserved.

Feeding an Epic relic into an Epic target or a Legendary relic into a Legendary target can create much stronger growth. Legendary feeding into Epic is also stronger than a low-tier feeder, but not as strong as Legendary into Legendary. This makes expensive high-rarity upgrades feel meaningful instead of cosmetic.

Relic upgrade chance and Relic duplication chance support existing upgrade or duplicate rolls. They do not create those outcomes from nothing. If a route already has an upgrade or duplicate chance, these affixes make that valid chance stronger.

Relic Market trades relics for off-chain SONO. Memory words remain visible on purpose, so players can hunt for unusual words, schools, affixes, qualities, specific IDs or upgraded build pieces. Market value is not only rarity: school, level, quality, affix layout, Super Talent Boosts and phrase links all matter.

Timed Auctions support 6, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hour listings. Bids are held safely while they are leading. If another player outbids you, your previous leading bid is returned automatically. Buyout finishes the sale immediately. Ended timed auctions settle through the Auction system instead of requiring players to guess who should press a manual finalize button.

Grandmaster Relic is protected from normal trade and burn routes. It cannot be system-sold, listed on the Market, traded through Market flows or placed into Auction. This prevents accidental loss of one of the most important endgame relics.

• Radio-first players should look for Listening points, Listening relic roll, broad relic signal and rarity-tier support.
• Craft players should value Craft success, Craft attempts, Relic upgrade chance and Relic duplication chance.
• Farm players should separate Farm harvest bonus, capacity, fill speed and luck. They do different jobs.
• Phrase players should care about Secret Phrase rewards, bind relic chance, bind upgrade chance and phrase-chain power.
• Market players should value Market fee discount, quality, rare affix combinations and clean upgraded identity.
• Hybrid players should use Soothe Sauce and multi-class set scaling instead of forcing every relic into one school.

A great relic is usually a combination of several things: the right school, useful active affixes, good quality, a strong level path, possible Super Talent Boosts, and a place inside your equipped set or phrase chain. A relic with smaller numbers but perfect build relevance can beat a relic with larger numbers that support the wrong system.

Use Premium Merge when the target already has the right school and affix shape. Do not waste it on a relic you are still willing to reroll. Premium Merge is for protecting identity, not for making every random merge safer.

No. A relic must be equipped in Active Resonance to grant active affixes, school set progress, phrase-chain value, Soothe scaling and Super Talent Boosts.

Not always. A broad relic-drop affix is flexible, but a narrow affix can be stronger for a player who uses that exact route every day. Build relevance matters more than universal-looking wording.

No. It improves valid upgrade rolls that already exist in a route. It does not create an upgrade chance in systems that do not have one.

No. It strengthens existing duplicate opportunities. If a system has no duplicate roll, this affix cannot create one alone.

Because Active Resonance has rarity lanes, school sets and phrase chains. A Simple or Rare relic with the correct school, phrase link and useful affixes can complete a build step that a random high-rarity relic cannot.

Upgrade relics that already match your build plan. Use normal merge when you are still shaping identity. Use Premium Merge when the identity is already good and you want to protect it.