Flower Forest Expedition

Flower Forest Expedition runs on the Expedition game mode's defense format rather than the Story mode's wave-clear format. Instead of simply killing every spawn, the objective is protecting a payload as 5 defense waves escalate from 4x Buddha (Blue) and 8x Buddha (Green) in wave 1 up to a wave 5 mix of 9x Buddha (Blue), 8x Buddha (Green), and Purple Flower itself. A separate Elite Wave track runs in parallel through the same five boss encounters seen in Flower Forest's Story acts, Centipede, Butterfly, Yellow Petal, Orange Petal, and finally Purple Flower again as the fifth and hardest elite check.

Three enemy modifiers appear across the defense waves: Explosive, Burrowing, and Sprinter. Explosive spawns stun everything nearby the moment they die, so units clustered too close to a dying Explosive enemy can get locked out of attacking right when the wave count spikes. Burrowing spawns dodge hits on a timer by ducking underground, and Sprinter spawns trade health for a large burst of speed, both of which push toward AoE damage over single-target snipers for clearing the field quickly.

The stage closes with Purple Flower directly assaulting the payload rather than just being one more wave entry, hitting for 100 damage roughly every 10 seconds once it reaches the path. That number makes payload health and repair economy the real bottleneck for a first clear, more so than raw team damage. Clearing the stage rewards ExpeditionMaterial2, a zone-specific crafting material, in place of the flat Gem and Gold payout that Story and Raid stages use, so Expedition income should be tracked separately from a team's general Gem farming route.