Essence

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ESSENCE
Name
Hangul	정수
Romanization	TBA
Characteristics
User	Explorers
Source	Monsters
Location	Labyrinth
Debut
Novel	Chapter 13
Manhwa	Episode 11

Essences(정수) contain the special abilities of each monster they dropped from and are available for thirty minutes after the monster's death.

DESCRIPTION

Since the odds of an essence being dropped while hunting a monster is very low, essences are worth more than gold to an explorer however the total amount of essence that a character can absorb is fixed by their level.

Unlike the Dungeon & Stone's notations, the information on essence is not provided with exact numbers: If the stat is 21 or higher, it seems to be marked as medium but there is no way to know the exact standard of a higher ranking stat. Information on monsters of rank 9 can be found in the library and for monsters above rank 8 it must be purchased from an explorer guild.

• Compilation of Rank 9 Essences (available at the library).

• The Compilation of Low Rank Essences contains information on all essences between rank 7 and 9 (purchased from the guild).

As per Bjorn Yandel´s thoughts, the essences of rift guardians tend to provide basic stat bonuses which are 1.5 times stronger than those of regular essences, and provide more than the two abilities a normal essence provides.

Erasing an essence

Essences can be erased in a church. The cost of erasing an essence increases the more you erase, for example the cost to erase a second essence is doubled.

Contrary to Dungeon & Stone where the player only has to click the keyboard a few times, the process of erasing an essence is more complex in the world of Rafdonia.

After the donation has been paid, a blue dagger is given by the priest to the explorer. The explorer is then engulfed by a white light and access a pure white space where the monsters belonging to each essences the explorer took are locked in thick iron cages. Each of them are linked by a thread of light to the explorer, cutting the link with the dagger will result in the effacement of the desired essence.

SPOILER WARNING This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS relating to the novel .

ESSENCE REGISTRY

NAME	RANK	CONSUMED BY	APPEARS IN CHAPTER	APPEARS IN EPISODE
BAYON	3	Bjorn Yandel	244
BELLARIOS	3		242
BERTHAS	5	Ainar Fenelin	170
BLADE WOLF	9	Serdin	10
BONE KNIGHT	7	Ainar Fenelin	32
CARNIVARO	7	Erwen di Tersia	90
CORPSE GOLEM	7	Bjorn Yandel	31
DARK LORD DEAD RED	TBA	Baekho Lee
DEATH FIEND	8		23
DEEP SEA GIANT	3	Bjorn Yandel	TBA
DINICTIS	6	Jencia Nephrin	107
DOPPELGANGER	4	Amelia Rainwales	TBA
GACHABON	6	Bjorn Yandel	349
GOBLIN	9		19
GOBLIN ARCHER	9	Erwen di Tersia	13
GNOME	9	Unnamed plunderer	25	TBA
GRABANICH	4	Amelia Rainwales	321
HOBGOBLIN	7	Missha Karlstein
		Jencia Nephrin
IRON HILL CHASER	8	Erwen di Tersia	90
IRON KNIGHT	6	Jencia Nephrin	107
IRON TUSK	7	Hikurod Murad	TBA
LICH	4		138
LYCANTHROPE	7	Missha Karlstein	110
MAN-FACED BIRD	2	Myul Armin	537
MANTICORE	5	Bjorn Yandel	183
MIMIC	7	Brown Rotmiller	73
NIBAROQUE	3		242
OGRE	3	Bjorn Yandel	138
ORC HERO	5	Bjorn Yandel	69
SAINT ASSASSIN	5	Jencia Nephrin	107
SOUL COLOSSUS	4		138
STONE GOLEM	8	Unnamed plunderer	25
STORM GUSH	3	Bjorn Yandel	281
TOL-LAPUPA	1	Cornelius Bruingrid	534
TRANQUILITY	TBA	Ricardo Lüchenprague	TBA
VAMPIRE	5	Bjorn Yandel	44
VITOL	7	Missha Karlstein	107
VOL-HERCHAN	3	Bjorn Yandel	242
YETI	7	Missha Karlstein	104
?	2	Cornelius Bruingrid	535
?	3	Jerome Saintred	322

RANK UNKNOWN

[Tranquility]

• (A) Nullification - The wide-range silencer that nullifies all skills within a hundred-foot radius. This included passive skills, and any skills used outside the radius disappears the moment they enter, rendering long-distance interception impossible. Nullification doesn't work on a monster.
• (P) Tranquil Control - The skills of all essences aside from the essence of tranquility are disabled, and the stats gained from the essence are doubled. An extremely high-risk skill that forfeits the skills of all other essences the user acquired in exchange for doubling your stats.

[Dark Lord Dead Red]

[Berthas]

• Strenght increase
• Agility increase
• (A) Wings of Greed -

RANK NINE

[Blade Wolf]

• Allows the user to track things by smell.

[Gnome]

• (A) Unification - When cast on a certain area, it will make the user blend into their surroundings as long as they stay within a radius of three yards. Similar to Goblin Archer's thief step however it doesn't only affect the user, it can be used on any creature within a certain area of effect. In return, it has the disadvantage of not being a mobile ability.

[Goblin]

• STATS
  • Patience (low)
  • Smell (low)
  • Poison Resistance (low)
  • Dexterity (low)
  • Sight (low)
• (P) When using a close-combat weapon, paralyzing poison is always applied.
• (A) Creates traps.

[Goblin Archer]

• STATS
  • Agility +2 (Low)
  • Flexibility +4 (Low)
  • Vision +6 (Low)
  • Smell +2 (Low)
  • Perception +2 (Low)
  • Cognitive Interference +6 (Low)
  • Accuracy +8 (Low)
  • Poison Tolerance +4 (Low)
  • Obsession +7 (Low)
• (P) Poison Arrow - When using a bow, you deal poison damage.
• (A) Thief Step - You can enter stealth mode
  • Thief Step is is more effective while the user staying still or moving slowly.
• Market Value = 700,000 stones

RANK EIGHT

[Death Fiend]

• (A) Call of the Dead - Summons ghoul from the ground.
• (P) Body Preservation

[Iron Hill Chaser]

• STATS
  • Strenght (Low)
  • Physical Resistance (Low)
  • Leg Power (Low)
  • Leaping Power (Medium)
  • Ground Resistance (Low)
  • Cognitive Interference (Low)
  • Agility (Medium)
  • Obsession (Medium)
• Increases penetration when surprise attack is successful
• Piercing Arrow (Red)
• Terrain Eruption (Blue)
• Weakness Detection (Yellow)

[Stone Golem]

• (A) Restraint - Temporarily paralyze the target. It is possible to break free from the supression skill if an injury is inflicted to the target.

RANK SEVEN

[Bone Knight]

• STATS
  • Cutting Force +12
  • Bone Density +55
  • Agility +15
  • Endurance +15
  • Flexibility -7
  • Height -25
• (P) Antiseptic - Total wound exacerbation effects (Poison, Bleeding, Decay, etc.) are halved.
• (A) Vitality Absorption - Temporarily increases regeneration significantly when attacking a living creature.

[Carnivaro]

• STATS
  • Agility (Medium)
  • Dark Resistance (Low)
  • Endurance (Low),
  • Accuracy (Medium)
  • Sixth Sense (Low)
  • Hearing (Medium)
  • Obsession (High)
• Increased agility and sensitivity when moving
• Mana Mine (Red)
• Hound (Blue)
• Chasing Arrow (Green)

[Corpse Golem]

• STATS
  • Pain Resistance +70
  • Bone Strength +55
  • Poison Resistance +12
  • Strength +15
  • Perception -5
  • Appetite +9
  • Weight +21
• (P) Acid Fluid — Blood becomes acidic.
• (A) Flesh Burst — A powerful burst of a part of the body.

[Hobgoblin]

• (?) Toxin Bestow

[Iron Troll]

• (A) Balance Weight - Knockback Immunity skill that prevents the caster from falling or being pushed back as long as their feet are touching the ground.

[Tyrant Tarunbas (Lycanthrope)]

• STATS
  • Agility +10
  • Cutting Force +12
  • Cold Sensitivity +15
  • Cold Resistance +10
  • Physical Resistance +7
  • Fighting Spirit +10
• (P) Blood from the Snowfield - Increases Cold Sensitivity 1.5 times.
• (A) Ice Crush - Slightly increases the damage dealt to enemies in the Frostbite state, and greatly increases damage to enemies in the Frozen state.
• (A) Fortitude - Cancels the Inability to Act state.

[Mimic]

• (A) Treasure Vault - opens a personal warehouse when used.
• (P) greed - increased the magic crystal drop rate by 30%

[Vitol] Rank 7

• (A) Enhance

[Yeti]

• STATS
  • Strength +10
  • Agility +10
  • Bone Strength +15
  • Cold Resistance +25
  • Cold Sensitivity +15
• (P) Chills - Adds additional cold damage to all attacks and reduces the frost immunity of the target affected.
• (A) Cold Condensation - Temporarily increases cold sensitivity greatly.

RANK SIX

[Dinictis] Rank 6

• Beast Walk

[Gachabon] Rank 6

• STATS
  • SIXTH SENSE + 40
  • PHYSICAL RESISTANCE + 15
  • DARK RESISTANCE + 30
  • ACCURACY + 45
  • BONE DENSITY + 110
  • LUCK - 50
  • CONTROL - 30
• (P)
• (A)

[Iron Knight] Rank 6

• (?) Armed Shift

RANK FIVE

[Saint Assassin] Rank 5

• (?) Revenge

[Vampire]

• STATS
  • Natural Regeneration +45
  • Strength +15
  • Agility +15
  • Mana Resistance +30
  • Physical Resistance +12
  • Soul Power +21
  • Mana Sensitivity +30
  • Dark Resistance +12
  • Solar Resistance -12
• (P) Source of Darkness — Resist death while the heart is intact.
• (A) Offering Imprint — Temporarily increases your physical abilities based on the number of creatures stained with your blood.
• (A) Eternal Life — Temporarily increases your regeneration significantly in proportion to your dropping health.
• (A) Master of Blood — Upon direct bloodsucking, absorbs one of the target’s skills temporarily.

RANK FOUR

[Grabanich] Rank 4

• (A) Power of the Abyss - When the conversion ability activates, all resources including spirit power and dragon power are replaced with soul power and its performance doubled. That was the same for an aura, which used mana.

[Lich] Rank 4

• (P) Soul Chest
• Several destructive active skills.

[Soul Colossus] Rank 4

A spirit-type monster with no stats such as Strength or Agility. All its stats focuses on the spirit.

RANK THREE

[?] Rank 3

• (A) Gateway of Light - On the highest tier among all transportation skills, it can transport the user to a destination they specified.

[Bellarios] Rank 3

Bellarios is an oriental dragon, a monster reminiscent of an Imugi and an upward-compatible version of the Manticore. Its basic stat focuses on mana resistance and Circulation Ring, an unusual passive allowing stat accumulation. Circulation Ring is only effective once an explorer reachs a level where they can hunt at least a rank 3 monster.

• (A) Scales of Greed - temporarily grow scales on the skin and Magic Resistance rise in proportion to mana resistance.

[Deep Sea Giant]

[Ogre] Rank 3

• STATS
  • Strength +140
  • Magic Resistance +80
  • Physical resistance +40
  • Pain Tolerance +10
  • Natural regeneration -40
  • Cognition -20
• (A) Swing - Deals increased Blunt damage proportionally to muscle strength.
• (P) Iron Skin - Reduction to Slashing Attack damage

[Nibaroque] Rank 3

The essence of a rare monster that only appears in rifts, in terms of acquisition difficulty, it is better than a rank 2 essence.

[Vol-Herchan] Rank 3

Vol-Herchan is a giant monster whose entire body is covered by a shell. As can be told just from the outer appearance, it carries a skill specialized in defense.

• (P) - creates synergy with Ironskin
• (A) - creates a body able to withstand an aura.

It is an essence to use in preparation for an aura.

RANK TWO

[Man-Faced Bird] Rank 2 The Man-Faced Bird is a bird-like creature with the body of a drake with a human face at the end of a long giraffe-like neck. It has pure white feathers and wide-open wings.

• (P) Mother Bird - When a summon is within the user's range is canceled, user is returned 80% of the summon's soul power and reduces the corresponding skill's cooldown by 80%. Useful for necromancers, as they can chain as many summoned spirits as needed.
• (A) Mimicry - Randomly copies the skill of a character within a certain radius.
• (A) Song of the End - Summon-type skill. Creates multiple pillars of light from the sky that destroys the surroundings for 10 seconds. The pillars of light become baby Man-Faced Birds that will mature as adults in 1 minute. Can quickly overwhelm the battlefield when each adult Man-Faced Birds can each cast Song of the End.

[?] Rank 2 Bjorn deduces the following four Rank 2 essence skills from his battle with the village chief. It is unknown if they originate from the same monster or are gathered from many different monsters.

• (P) Lightning Affinity - Gains a stack every time a lightning-type skill is used, and with more stacks, the more the lightning-type skills are boosted.
• (A) Storm Lord's Steps - Movement-type skill that has an effect of inflicting Paralysis wherever the user lands. Greatly increases the user's speed. Grants moments of invulnerability from damaging attacks. Invulnerability is removed after 3 seconds or when the user is made to attack.
• (A) Thunder Cloud - Deals lightning damage in an area around the caster. Depending on how many targets are hit, the skill's cooldown is decreased.
• (A) Supercharge - Weapon enchantment-type skill. Synergizes with lightning-type moves, while dealing physical damage.

RANK ONE

[Tol-Lapupa] Rank 1

• (P) Cosmic Protection: negates all ranged attacks.
• (A) Unknown