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Happy Linkon New Year to allLove And Deepspaceplayers! To celebrate the new year, complete challenge stages against Pumpkin Magus, make a DIY lantern with your man and buy new memories and items in the limited-time event shop. Festive Blessing is a fun combat minigame event that rewards you for thwarting Pumpkin Magus' mischievous plans.
As you defeat Pumpkin Magus in Shadow’s Pursuit, you will collect Lantern Materials to use in the Lantern Workshop, where you can make a beautiful New Year’s lantern to be displayed on your With Him desk. Here’s to a great first year and an even better year to come!
Updated on Jun 28, 2025, by Eva Csaki: We’ve updated this guide to include the new Spring’s Flourish Stage and how to complete it.
The Festive Blessing event runs fromJanuary 22 to July 27, 2025. After the event, you won’t be able to obtain any event-limited items from the shop or other means. You may replay completed story events after the event in both theLove Timeline and Deepspace Voyagetabs.
Festive Blessing
To start the Festive Blessing event,select the Event tabfrom the Deepspace Café screen. You will immediately be thrown into theevent’s prologuestory. You will be asked tochoose a companionto meet halfway through the prologue.
Don’t worry too much about your decision, you will be able to play through the event storyfor all five of the companions.
Once you’ve completed the prologue, you will be able toenter the Festive Blessing event screen. At this point, you will also have access to all the other event tabs. Unfortunately, youcannot access other eventsuntil you havecompleted the prologuefor Festive Blessing.
From themain menuof Festive Blessing, you will noticeseveral event activitiesyou can complete. It may seem overwhelming and confusing at first, but we’re here to help you get the hang of it.
Spring Tally
Spring Tally is Festive Blessing’s version of theDaily Agenda. Here, you will beassigned tasksto complete daily andover the course of the entire eventperiod.
Completing tasks will award you withFortune Ingots,which can bespent in Fortune Grocery, the event’s limited shop. As you reach Fortune Ingot collection milestones, you willearn Spring invitations.
Youneed Spring Invitationsto play story stages. Even if a story stage is open, you won’t be able to play through it until you have enough Spring Invitations to open it. Each story stage takesone Spring Invitationto unlock.
Fortune Grocery
Fortune Grocery is the event’s limitedexchange shop. Here, you’llexchange your hard-earned Fortune Ingotsfor limited rewards and dozens of upgrade materials.
The real highlights of Fortune Grocery’s inventory are thelimited four-star memories, 1,000 Diamonds, special player outfit items, and anAwakening Heart: SSRwhich can be used to Awaken your five-star memories.
Don’t worryabout what you can purchase in the shop. By the end of the event, so long as you’vecompleted most of the event tasks, you will have more than enough Fortune Ingots tobuy all limited items. Once you’ve bought all the limited items, you can evenpurchase gold at a ratio of 1:25.
Story Stages
After you’ve completed the prologue for the first time, you canfind all the event’s story stagesin Twilight Chronicles. Here, you cancycle through each of the love interestsand play their event stories.
Youaren’t limitedto a single love interest. In fact, the eventrewards you for completing the event stagesof all of the characters. Even if you aren’t interested in a character’s story, it’s worth it to play through it on auto so that you canearn the completion rewards.
When youswap to a new characterfor the first time, you will need to play through their version of the prologue before you canreenter the event menu.
Twilight Chronicle stages will unlock throughout the event, and you’ll need towait a few daysbefore you’re able to play all the stages. In the meantime, work oncompleting Spring Tally tasksto earnFortune IngotsandSpring Invitations. Youcan’tplay a story stage without unlocking it using a Spring invitation.
After you have completed a story stage, you canreplay itby either selecting it from theTwilight Chronicle menuor by selecting its unique entry on theLove Timeline.
Tounlock a story stagein either of the replay menus, you mustcomplete the entire stage.
How To Complete Shadow Pursuit
Shadow Pursuit is a series ofcombat levelsin which you and the love interests willchallenge and defeat Pumpkin Magus. There arefour stagesof Shadow Pursuit and each one hasthree difficulty levels.
Completing each stage at different difficulty levels will reward you with different reward amounts. Thehigher the difficultyof the stage, themore Lantern Materialsyou will earn.
In all the combat stages, you cancreate your own combat team. Youaren’tlocked to any one companion. Even if you have Sylus selected on the main event page, you may still use Zayne to complete the combat stages if you would prefer.
Each stage offersdifferent Lantern Material types,but all stages will have amaterial cap. Additionally, each day of the event will havedaily material caps.
Materials and Cap Amount
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Additionally, you will collect each of the Lantern Material typesthrough different meansduring your battle.
Regardless of which Lantern Material you are collecting, we recommenddrawing the fight out as long as possiblewithin the window that you may reasonably defeat Pumpkin Magus. This is because he willdrop more materialsthe longer the fight progresses.
you may getLantern Material I(the confetti falling from the sky) fromPaper Dreams,Lantern Material II(bamboo tubes) fromCrackling Blessings,Lantern MaterialIII(the glue bottles) fromClingy Fortune, andall threefrom the final level,Spring’s Flourish.
Paper Dreams
Paper Dreams is thefirst combat stageyou can complete. After completing combat encounters in Paper Dreams, you will earnLantern Material Iwhich can be exchanged in theLantern Workshopto purchase lantern components.
Pumpkin Magus willshoot firecrackersinto the sky during your fight with him. To win this stage,avoid the firecrackersthat fall from the sky by stayingoutside of the red guide circleson the ground.
Dashingat the last minute willchargeyour companion skill.
Pumpkin Magus will alsolaunch Lantern Material Iinto the air. This material looks likecolorful confetti. You need to collect this confetti bystanding in the green circleson the ground when the confetti falls.
Both you and your companioncan collect confetti, so try to run to a different spot than your companion when Lantern Material I lands.
Crackling Blessings
Crackling Blessings functions similarly to Paper Dreams in the sense that you mustcollect Lantern Materialsas they are dispersed into the environment. However, instead of collectingLantern Material IIfrom the sky, you will need todestroy Firework Tubes.
During the fight,Firework Tubes will spawnaround you. Usually, only one or two tubes will appear. To open the tubes,stand behind themwhen Pumpkin Magus is charging hisPian Bao attack. When hisattack hits the tube, it will explode and send Lantern Material II into the combat field.
You and your companion must thencollect the Lantern Materials— which look likedried bambooshoots.
Clingy Fortune
InClingy Fortune, Pumpkin Magus will summonGlue Turretsin battle to try and defeat you. Bydestroying these turrets, you will earnLantern Material III.
Pumpkin Magus will spawn more Glue Turretsas he loses HP,but you can milk the fight a little bydirecting your attacks on the Glue Turretsrather than Pumpkin Magus himself. Each difficulty level willincrease the strengthof the summoned Glue Turrets.
Once you have destroyed a Glue Turret,Lantern Material IIIwill explode onto the field.Bothyou and your companion cancollect these materials.
Remember thateach difficulty levelhas a differentmaterial collection cap, withEasylevels only allowing you to collect amaximum of 25materials,Mediumallowing only40 materials, andHardallowing50 materials.
Spring’s Flourish
Now that you’ve gotten a hang of the past three combat stages, it’s time tocombine what you’ve learnedfor the final stage, Spring’s Flourish. In Spring’s Flourish, you’ll useall of the techniquesyou practiced in the previous levels to collectall three typesof Lantern Materials.
Unlike the past three stages, youwon’t earn a new Lantern Material type,instead, you will have a chance to catch a little of each type, making this stage a great way toreach your daily level capat once.
You can earn up to amax of 20of each Lantern Material type in theHard difficultysetting. You need teams of memoriesaround level 60to complete this stage easily.
To earn Lantern Materials in this stage, you will need to collect Lantern Material Ifrom the sky, have Pumpkin Magusdestroy Fireworks Tubes, anddestroy Glue Turrets.
This stage ismuch harderthan the first three as you’ll need tocoordinate your strategyin a short amount of time. The best technique to use is to prioritize Lantern Materials in the following order:Lantern Material I, Lantern Material III, and Lantern Material II.
This means that you should grabLantern Material I firstas it falls to the ground the quickest. Usually, Pumpkin Magus will summon both a Glue Turret and a Fireworks Tube.Aim to destroy the Glue Turret firstas it presents more of a threat to your team.
Then finally, since theFireworks Tubesare immobile and non-threatening unless destroyed,destroy them last.
How To Build A Lantern
Once you’ve collected yourdaily cap of Lantern Materials, head to theSupply House and Lantern workshoptobuild your lanternwith the help of your companion.
To build your lantern, you need topurchase lantern parts. Head to theSupply Houseto exchange yourLantern Materialsfor lantern parts.
You must purchase parts in the following categories:Shape, Color, Spokes, Tassel, and Decal. Each category hasfourpotential options to choose from.
To buy lantern parts, select the part you want andexchange the appropriate amount of Lantern Materialsfor it. You will need towait 10 minutesfor each Lantern part, but if you have the Diamonds to spare, you canpay 20 Diamondsto speed up the delivery process.
With your lantern partsdelivered,you may then return to the Lantern Workshop and startchoosing which parts you’d likeon your lantern.
At the end of the event, after you’velocked inyour final lantern design, you will get tokeep your DIY lanternas a permanent desk ornament in theWith Himscreen.
Current And Upcoming Events
With so many new and exciting things happening in Linkon, there areseveral eventsfor you to explore.
Sky’s Embrace
Sky’s Embraceis a special limited-time Wish Pool offering anincreased probabilityof pullingfive five-star memoriesof your choicefrom the permanent pool. The Wish Pool usesregular Empyrean Wishesfor each draw, and you will berewarded for every few pullsyou make.
The event runs fromJanuary 22 to February 7and is a great opportunity topull all of Caleb’s new memories.
Since Caleb and Sylus haveless than half of the memoriesthat the original three companions had at launch, it’s a good idea toprioritize their cardsover others as you will have a more difficult time pulling either of their memories in any subsequent pools.
Painful Signal
Painful Signalis Caleb’sfirst limited-time event pooland features his first ever limited-run five-star memory,Caleb: Painful Signal. The pool comes with a pull reward system offeringDeepspace Wishes and photo items.
You can pull Caleb: Painful Signal from the pool fromJanuary 22 to February 8.
Joyous Serenades
Joyous Serenades is an unusualappointment eventin which you canschedule an appointmentfor a specialphone callwith the love interest of your choosing. Unfortunately, youcan only choose onelove interest to call.
Choices must be made and locked in betweenJanuary 20 and January 24,and youwon’t be able to alter themonce that window ends. You’ll receive your special phone call on the event screen betweenJanuary 28 and the event’s final day, January 29.
Special Inquiry
Special Inquiry is an in-depthrewards eventthat assigns youdaily tasksto complete for rewards of various types. you may earn anything fromupgrade materials to memoriesas task rewards.
Each day, a new agenda of tasks will be released offering even more rewards. The event runs fromJanuary 22 to February 8.
Miscellaneous Events
Severalpassive eventshave been released alongside Festive Blessing.
You can earn the four-star memory,Caleb: Verified Rumorin10 Days With YoubetweenJanuary 22 and February 8.
In theIllusio event, you can selectany five-star Kindled memoryand alter both your character’sappearanceand the love interests' outfits. This featurewon’t returnafter the event ends onFebruary 7so be sure to make the most of it while you can.
To help youstock up for pullsin the various event Wish Pools running, you’re able to alsoclaim a free Daily Diamond Cratefrom theDouble Rewardsevent. If you want even more Diamond rewards, you can alsopay to double the rewardyou get from each daily crate. However, you can only doubletwelve reward crates.
You can claim your Double Rewards benefits fromJanuary 22 to February 2.
Perhaps one of the most excitingfreebie eventsrunning right now is theLimited-Time Companion Selection event. During this event, you canchoose one companionwhose myth you’re able to read forfree,without having to collect both of their myth cards.
To get the most out of your companion selection, we recommendchoosing a myth from a character whose myth cards you don’t already ownor whom you have theleast amountof myth cards for. If you’re patient, you can alsowait until the last daysof the running Wish Pools to see if you get any myth pairs before they end.
In thePlaytime tab, you also havehigher oddsof encountering the limited-run plushie,Rain Deer. Your odds of finding it will be boosteduntil February 2. Additionally, you will receive anextra Meowco tokenfor every game of Kitty Cards you play. This special token can be exchanged for badges in thelimited Winter Series.
Last but certainly not least, you are now able torevisit all of your completed event storiesin the newDeepspace Voyagefeature. You can find Deepspace Voyage in the event list.
Starting with theTouring In Loveevent, all subsequent events that have story stages you have completed will berecorded in Deespapce Voyageas well as in theLove Timeline. To unlock story stages you may have missed, you can also spend Chocolates in theChocolate Shopto purchaseReverie Keys.
Reverie Keys can be used tounlockthe event stories you may havemissed or overlookedfrom past events. Unfortunately, event stories that you unlock in this waywon’t be recordedin the Love Timeline.
