There are three types of seeds in Your Chronicle:

• Physical
  
• Magical
  
• Special

Each type of seed has it's use and depending on your strategy some might be more helpful than the others.

Every enemy has his own type of research which can only be spend on summons of that particular enemy.

Seeds and Research are gathered by defeating enemies.

There is also 1 dungeon that yields seed, which is the Training Room in the Village, it drops a Physical seed (not worth grinding, except for the first 2 hours of the game).

Every enemy in the Bestiary that can be defeated can drop Seeds and Research. This isn't the hardest part; the hardest part is how to get more and how to use them!

The first time an enemy will drop Research, it will unlock a new ally for you. After that, you need more research to level up your ally by spending it on Summons, increasing its maximum level, allowing more Seeds to be spend on the ally levels of Physical, Magical and Special. E.g. if your Slime is level 2, you can upgrade Physical, Magical and Special levels up until level 2.
Seeds can be spend on members of your party in the Level Up menu underneath Party.

There are two exceptions to this rule, because these special allies give passive bonuses based on their level and cannot be added to your party:

• Blazing Aura
  
• Evil eye

These two require one of each seed for one level in the Special category.

There are a hand full factors that determine how often and how many Seeds and Research you get. But the most easy ones to boost, especially in the beginning of your gameplay, are your party members.

Some party members have one or more of the following skills that you should focus on when farming seeds and research:

• Seeds drop chance (SDC)
  
• Seeds drop amount (SDA)
  
• Physical/Magical/Special Seeds max/capacity (SC)
  
• Global drop chance (GDC)
  
• Research drop amount (RDA)
  
• Research drop chance (RDC)
  
• Physical/Intellectual/Artist's Dryad effect
  
• Arrogant Fairy effect
  
• Luck

Global drop chance is only for mid-end game since you need to defeat the the stronger guardians for that.
Dryad and Fairy effects are only useful if you have the familiars enabled as well. This can help players warp into mid range gameplay if they use them well.

In the early beginnings the first priority is getting Research to actually level up your allies far enough to level them up with Seeds. The following allies provide Seed and Research boosts early on:

At this point your farming party will looks something like this, assuming you invested your rubies in buying party slots:

1. You
   
2. Wyvern
   
3. Dragon Baby
   
4. Queen Bee (if available), else add Rock Turtle
   
5. Yellow Slime
   
6. Soldier Bee
   
7. Elite Chicken
   
8. Blue Bird
   
9. Sludge Slime
   
10. Brown Slime

This should help you level up your allies a lot as the Seed and Research drop will increase while you level them up.

When you can leave the Academy and finally move on, some new pastures lie ahead, including some powerful new allies.


At this point your farming party will look something like this:

1. You
   
2. First Horn
   
3. Second Fang
   
4. Revolutionary Witch
   
5. Sacred Bird Chick
   
6. Mud Wolf
   
7. Prayer Assassin
   
8. Robbery Condor
   
9. Affectionate Left Arm
   
10. Wyvern

NOTE that there are no allies in the list that boost RDA because there are only 4 allies that give that skill. If you feel the amount of research is low, replace a lower SDA or RDC for Sludge Slim.

After redeeming the Evil City the journey goes onward to face even more powerful foes, and adding them to your party. This is where you will get the greatest gains.


At this point your farming party will looks something like this:

1. You
   
2. Shard Harpy
   
3. Fairy Dragon
   
4. Sword Spirit
   
5. Smash Dragon
   
6. Ace of Spades
   
7. Queen of Hearts
   
8. Mud Wolf
   
9. Revolutionary Witch
   
10. Sacred Bird Chick

To level up all allies to the maximum level requires more than 10 billion of each seed. So how do we get so many? And where do we get all that research from?

First up, party members, as discussed above, are your main source of getting (and storing) Seeds and Research. Beside the occasional Upgrade Action, they provide the means to increase drop chance and amount significantly, especially early on.

But there are other ways of increasing your Seed and Research gain.

There are seven familiars that can help with the Seed and Research farming.

• Physical Dryad
  
• Intellectual Dryad
  
• Artist's Dryad
  
• Cheerful Pixie
  
• Calm Pixie
  
• Carefree Pixie
  
• Arrogant Fairy

The Pixies increase your Seed capacity, but will do so at the cost of the Dryads and Fairy, because the Familiar levels will be evenly spread. Start your farming run by boosting your Summon speed first to increase the amount of summoned familiars, use Rock Golem and Corrupted Great Bird while doing this since they will increase Summon Speed. While farming, keep the Dryads and Fairy assigned, especially in combination with party members that boost Dryads and the Fairy.

'Turn into fortune' is the only Seeds related Will and increases the GDC by quite a bit after some grinding. However, it requires rank 39, which is hard to reach in the early stage of the game. When you're a bit further in the game, this becomes an absolute necessity to invest in, considering you need lots of resources to increase various other main components of the game, such as Destiny.
Concerning Research, invest in 'Train insight' as soon as possible. It requires Habit level 32, which is somewhat easier to reach and will help you out a lot, especially early on.

The Tamer provides useful boons as long as you don't have all allies fully leveled up.

• Monster researcher - Increases RDA
  
• Stripping skill - Increases GDC
  
• Breeder qualities - Increases SDC
  
• Lucky tamer - Increases Rare enemy spawn chance, very helpful to find Mithril Bird and Fairy Dragon

Although Habit might be scarce to spend in early on, try to focus at least three Habit on the first three skills. Mid game, you simply cannot do runs without these and makes up for the previous lack of investment in Lucky tamer.

When Greed is unlocked you don't have access to all options yet until late game. With every first defeat of a boss you'll unlock the relevant Greed effect of that area. So if you don't see the effect listed in your game, don't worry, it will unlock in time. Don't focus too much on area progression, reincarnations and pride challenges are more important early and mid game.

• Drop chance+ (Spirit Spring)
  
• Seed drop amount+ (Evil City)
  
• Seed Max+ (Dragon Village)
  
• Seeds Drop Chance (Magic City)

With each Dark Ritual, spend about 1% of your research, not needed for summons, on the Greed effect. The first time you spend research on an effect will be the biggest gain, so don't forget to spend that research after reincarnation. The amount required to level up the effect increases with each level, so be careful not to spend too much on accident!

Envy provides a good way to increase drop chance and amount and the Envy level is permanent throughout reincarnations and makes it worth to spend quite some time grinding these levels when unlocked.
You can find these under the Charisma tab.

• Research drop
  
• Seeds drop
  
• Resource drop

Envy Routine level will reset on reincarnation, but stay on Dark Ritual.

Harvesting complaints isn't really going fast until late game, but try to upgrade these three to level 5 when possible.

There are a few Pride challenges like 'Don't need Envy' and 'Don't need Gluttony' that will increase your drop amount as well, but they only do so on the 5th clear. You will only be able to clear those challenges well into the late game, making it redundant for the purpose of this guide since you will most likely already have everything upgraded by then.

Luck boosts the research drop and is available as a passive skill on the allies that drop from the guardians. The higher the tier, the higher the luck. when farming for research from rare enemies, add as much allies with Luck to your party as possible, so you have an almost guarantee drop when you encounter the rare enemie.

It is the most opportune moment to start farming when you finished the areas to the best of your ability. Configure your party with the help of the tables above and save it to a party template slot if available for later use.

Keep an eye on your bestiary, as it will show the chance for seed and research drops on the monster. If you chance is 100% try replacing an ally that boosts drop chance with drop amount.

Make sure the strongest members of the party are in the first five slots with fast skills that can kill an enemy in 1 hit. Set up your queue with at least 2 boss dungeons that you can kill quickly for quick Seed gains. Add other dungeons to boost current party members first. Don't let yourself be distracted by hard dungeons where it takes multiple hits to kill an enemy just for a little bit of research. Although unlocking a new ally might be worth it, finding more research for summons isn't if it takes too long to kill it. It will come in time, just be patient.
Setup your Familiars, Will, Tamer, perhaps even Greed and Envy if you haven't already. To increase research, set the formation to Friendly Formation and let the farming begin.

DON'T FORGET TO SPEND YOUR SEEDS!
Auto Level Up Slots from the Shop can help, but might not be the best investment regarding in what stage of the game you are. Always priorities Party Slots first!

Farming Seeds and Research without Greed is useless unless you want to simultaneously farm Inspiration and Gluttony to break through a certain dungeon.
Try to let these runs go on for at least an hour before you Dark Ritual. When you do, invest in Greed and start the run again.
If you are in the early stages of the game and don't have that much Habit (and no Greed), just let the run go on for a few days until you are significantly stronger. Building up the Familiar level and Will capacity and speed takes precious time early on, so don't worry if you have to let your runs go on for a little longer, but only do so when stuck in your progress. After Reincarnation, it will be much easier/faster to farm.

Don't forget to consume the food drops from the dungeons in Gluttony.

When opening any chests (Shop -> Items) you have a chance to receive an item. Three of these are rather useful in addition when farming; Seeds+, Research+ and Drop Chance+. Seeds+ and Research+ double the Seed or Research drop from monsters for an hour. Drop Chance+ increase the drop chance for seeds, research and items by 50% for an hour. You can buy them from the shop as well for 200 rubies.
Spend them wisely, but when you do, activate them together with Drop Chance+ for maximum gain.