In this battle you may recruit all kinds of units (but you must allocate your materials wisely).
Recruiting Shadow forces is necessary to win the battle but do not exaggerate with the number of Shadow soldiers.
you’re gonna wanna use Shadow’s abilities - becoming invisible and easiness of destroying buildings.
You are also made to recruit flying units - give a shot to recruit minimum number of such creatures.
At the beginning fortify your base.
Go to your headquarter (2) and start gathering materials.
Build a few towers immediately.
Let your heroes to scrub the area from creatures.
Near your headquarter there are Elemental Nodes and Earth Essence (3).
Destroy nodes and take what you need.
In the East you’ve got the option to find new materials.
Start to fortify your base.You are given a quest: reach the Crystal Mountain and the Malacay’s laboratory.
You have to go through the base of your opponent.
There is nothing to do except the frontal attack.
Do not attempt to kill soldiers - your main targets are towers.
Attack until you destroy everything.
When you’re done take all items found in the base with you (5).
Head to the Malacay’s Laboratory.
Since now you may build Shadow buildings and recruit its units.
Destroy a group of defenders and switch the lever.
Recruit new soldiers and attack with all your might.

Use the opened gates to enter the fortress.
Quest solved: use Shadows to kick off the gate to the fortress
Do not attack towers.
Lead your forces to your opponent’s backup and destroy all his buildings and soldiers (7).
When you capture his materials he cannot recruit new units.
If you still have Lenya you may recruit a few Ravages that can destroy towers easily.
If you’re short of materials send your workers to the enemy’s camp to gather some materials.
Destroy following camps of your enemy (8).
Shards are hidden in the mountains.
Gryphons that can be killed only by Shadow flying units guard it.
Recruit a few such creatures and gather Shards.
Four Transformers can kill the Gryphon in the blink of an eye.
It should be 3-2-4-5-1 (but I’m not sure if the melody cannot change.
To be sure listen to the melody first).
A Journey Stone to the Laboratory is activated.
You have to defeat him to enter the second part of the Laboratory.
You have to put tiles in correct places.The correct order is shown on the inner, moving circle.
Now you have to guess the place to start (Southeast plate).
When you put tiles in correct places the portal to Malacay’s hideout appears.
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