[Guide] Basic Guide for Contention of Relics

Introduction

Howdy Infinity Kingdom community, today we are going through the basics of the Contention of Relics (CoR) event, which is considered one of the most events in IK, this event provides access to an exclusive Fire immortal, and a lot of rewards that will help your development. In this article we will cover how the CoR event works, each of its stages, strategies on how to behave during the event, and how to win.

Basics

CoR is an event that happens every about two weeks. In this event, all three kingdoms compete for Energy Cubes in the Forbidden Zone (Centre of the map). To successfully accomplish this event, it is necessary lengthy preparation, such as the storing of healing, training speedups, having your training grounds replenished with soldier of your main march, having enough resources to train more units during the combat, because there are no resource nodes inside the Forbidden Zone during the event.

First Phase

The first day of the event is a preparation period, where people can properly position themselves across the borders of the Forbidden Zone and decide which Relic is the most advantageous to obtain first, it is very important for your alliance to group together and move together to avoid anyone member being picked apart. It's all very important to group near the relic that you wish to capture first.

Second Phase

The 2nd phase of the event entails of node collections and Relics capturing. These relics can be fought over by every Alliance, even those of the same kingdom. The faction that manages to score the highest points with a minimum of 200,000 points, and conquer the World Heart, are allowed to appoint a player as king, which can gift rewards to Lords that contributed for the CoR event. Capturing the relics requires a lot of coordination with your alliance, and you must be careful with enemy alliances attacking your team while you are conquering the relic. It is standard strategy to surround the green area around the city and

In this phase your alliance and you can get contracts that are basic missions that you should accomplish as individual, and the ones from your alliance you should accomplish as a team. You can do in total 2 times all the personal contracts and 2 times all the Alliance contracts, and you should expect to gain a total of 1200 gems.

Rewards

Alliances are also rewarded based on number of Energy Cubes obtained from nodes and Relics, with the top tier reward requiring 300k Energy Cubes. There are also contracts that can be signed by players and Alliance leaders, which provides gems and various rewards. Finally, there is also a reward for individual ranks based on the amount of honor a Lord managed to obtain during the event, inside the Forbidden Zone. 

The winning kingdom has access to the top-1 CoR shop, which allows the exchange of Valour points for the exclusive epic immortal Empress Wu. In this shop, each tier has access to an unique profile frame, and to different exchangeable rewards. It is very important to note that Empress Wu is a very powerful immortal, and she is a requirement for any fire team out there. If you already obtained Empress Wu, you can exchange your Valour Points for more Philosopher's Stones.

And after the Contention of Relics, the winning faction will also gain access to special gathering nodes that will provide gold and speedups as bonus for the winning faction!

Conclusion

Contention of Relics is an event that every player should always participate, if you participate in every phase and coordinate well with your alliance members, this event can be quite easy to accomplish, even if your alliance is not the top-1 you should gain a decent amount of points to gain good rewards from the market.