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Abyssal Horn Den
October 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Added an at-a-glance table, Arcana and cube rewards, trait notes, Gargaum skill changes and a dated change history; corrected the event end date; renamed Tuning Stone to Sync Stone
Abyssal Horn Den is a Transcendence dungeon added with Chapter 1. Lands of Sand and Snow on July 1, 2026 on the Korean and Taiwanese service. NCsoft first used the English name in its June 17, 2026 announcement of Chapter 1. The Korean name is 심연의 뿔 암굴.
The official story: after the Ferocious Horn Den was pulled into the Abyss, the cave that remained became the domain of Gargaum, an exile who gained the power of the primal Lycans. The tribe, having lost its chief and its kin, fought to survive, but Gargaum returned with overwhelming strength and subdued them, and on nights of the full moon the den runs with blood again.
Detail | Value (KR/TW) |
|---|---|
Korean name | 심연의 뿔 암굴 |
Type | Transcendence, four stages (Chapter 1) |
Party | Up to five players |
Entry | Level 50; item level 3,800 / 4,100 / 4,500 / 4,800 by stage |
Bosses | |
Main rewards | Key and Hourglass Arcana parts, Arcana of the Punishing Overture, Protected Soul and Indomitable Dedication sets, Sync Stone fragments |
Kina | Tradeable Kina (official guidebook) |
Global service: NCsoft's global announcements name only Deus Research Base and Shattered Arkanis among the Transcendence dungeons, as the two dungeons of the global leaderboard event. The global client's game data, as of its September 18, 2026 snapshot, does contain this dungeon, but NCsoft has not announced it for the global service as of October 7, 2026. Everything else on this page describes the Korean and Taiwanese service.
Stage | Level | Entry item level |
|---|---|---|
1 | 50 | 3,800 |
2 | 50 | 4,100 |
3 | 50 | 4,500 |
4 | 50 | 4,800 |
NCsoft's English announcement gives 3,500 as the minimum for the two Chapter 1 dungeons; the Korean patch note lists 3,800 for stage 1. On July 15, 2026 the Odyle Energy Cube gained Hero and Unique Sync Stone fragments and more Enhance Stones.
Chapter 1 added four new Arcana slots: Key, Hourglass, Dice and Lantern. This den drops the Key and Hourglass parts, while Dice and Lantern came later from Noiran's Hidden Legacy. It also drops Arcana for the three sets introduced in Mirror of Scarlet Desire, which can be crafted with 500,000 Kina and Pure Crystal while fixing one option. On July 15, 2026 the cube gained Hero and Unique Sync Stone fragments and more Enhancement Stones. Since July 8, 2026 a regular player who clears stage 4 with a Sprout Badge newcomer receives three small Odyle Energy items instead of two.
Order | Boss | Notes |
|---|---|---|
First | Kapu | Scatters lightning balls under a heavy slow; a clone that casts Fear appears if one target takes four hits in a row |
Second | Dhakan | Calls sky strikes, sends souls that heal it if they reach it, and drops a poison pool the whole party shares |
Final | Gargaum | Fights with a clone; on stage 4 a black hole phase needs three successful damage shares |
Strategy write-ups describe the den as the Ferocious Horn Den layout in darker colours with a smaller arena and tougher bosses. Kapu and Dhakan are the game client's English names; Gargaum is named on the official Chapter 1 site.
The Korean names give the bosses fuller titles: Kapu is 어미 잃은 번견 카푸 (the Motherless Hound), Dhakan is 대강령술사 다칸 (the Grand Necromancer) and Gargaum is 돌아온 추방자 가르가움 (the Returned Exile). A Korean strategy guide describes Dhakan's altar mechanic, in which a player takes a green orb from beneath the altar to be able to destroy the souls he raises, and Gargaum's late pattern, in which the targeted player leads a thrown orb into a black hole at the centre; these come from a single guide.
The Korean notes describe several changes to Gargaum. Its Assault (습격) pattern is used once instead of twice on stages 2 to 4 since July 22, 2026, and its Blue Light of Destruction (파괴의 푸른 빛) was renamed Expanding Primal (팽창하는 원시) on August 5, 2026, when a Gladiator skill also stopped clearing its bleed zones. The den's Roar (포효) trait triggers at five stacks of its status effect instead of four since July 22, 2026.
Date (KR/TW) | Change |
|---|---|
July 1, 2026 | Stages 1 to 4 opened with Chapter 1 |
July 8, 2026 | Stage 4 Sprout Badge reward raised from two to three small Odyle Energy items |
July 15, 2026 | Sync Stone fragments and more Enhancement Stones in the cube; Gargaum's projectiles no longer hit Spiritmaster spirits |
July 22, 2026 | Gargaum's Assault once instead of twice on stages 2 to 4; Roar trait at five stacks |
July 29, 2026 | Doubled Pure Crystal shards and added Noble Crystal shards and an event material during the Expedition and Transcendence Reward Boost (to August 12) |
August 5, 2026 | Gargaum's skill renamed Expanding Primal; its bleed zones can no longer be removed by a Gladiator skill |
August 19, 2026 | Arcana Growth Support event began (extended to November 4, 2026) |
The Arcana Growth Support event, which began on August 19, 2026, triples the Arcana training items in this dungeon and Noiran's Hidden Legacy on every stage and adds shards of Noble Crystal and Splendent Noble Crystal to the cube (20 of each on stage 1, 26 and 28 on stage 2, 32 and 32 on stage 3). It was set to end on September 16, then extended to September 23 and again to November 4, 2026.
Ferocious Horn Den
Transcendence System
