7DS January Updates: New Year Missions, Cath Boss Parade, Belgius Arrives

🎆 7DS New Year Festival 2026 Rolls On — More Events, More Grinds, More Payoffs

The New Year Festival in Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross isn’t a single “log in and leave” celebration — it’s a multi-week schedule that layers daily clears, repeatable mini-games, and boss loops on top of your normal farming. Between the 1/7 and 1/14 updates, the festival expands into a full progression runway: banner tickets from missions, daily “Hell” challenge stages, a reward ladder mini-game, rotating boss parade shops, and a Bingo system designed to keep you checking in even when you’re not pulling.

Meaning shift: This festival changes what “efficient progress” looks like. Instead of focusing only on summons, the best account gains come from stacking event currencies across multiple modes — because you’re being rewarded for breadth (daily clears + mini-games + boss farming + PvP + Solgres) rather than repeating one single activity.

🗓️ The Festival Window and What These Two Updates Actually Cover

These two notices combine into one clean arc:

• A New Year 2026 Special Season Pick Up Draw running through the next maintenance cycle

• A full suite of New Year Festival events running from after 1/7 maintenance until before 1/28 maintenance

• A second wave of content after 1/14 maintenance, including Bingo, a new Boss Parade rotation, and PvP boosting rewards

• A larger mid-month drop: Knighthood Boss Battle Season 4 featuring Demonic Beast Belgius (time-limited season)

🎯 New Year 2026 Special Season Pick Up Draw and Ticket Economy

The event banner period runs from after the 1/7 maintenance until before the 1/28 maintenance, and the festival is structured to feed that banner through event tickets rather than only Diamonds.

✨ Special Mission Part 2 (Tickets + A Big “Finish Line” Reward)

The festival’s Special Mission Part 2 is the core “do content, earn pulls” engine.

• Clearing missions grants event reward tickets usable in the New Year 2026 Season Special Pick Up Draw

• If you complete both Part 1 and Part 2, the final reward is [Adventure Guide] Fox Sin

• This is also the patch that explicitly tees up the next event layer: Bingo begins after 1/14 maintenance

How to play it: If you’re trying to maximize pulls without overspending, your priority isn’t “farm one mode” — it’s completing mission conditions that funnel tickets into the banner.

🧨 Headline New Year Events From 1/7 — Daily Clears, Mini-Games, Boss Grinding

☀️ The Moments We Remember: Infinite Sunshine (Daily Hell Stage)

This is a daily “one clear per day” structure:

• Stages reset daily at 11:00 PM PST

• All stages are Hell difficulty with 180,000 CC set

• You clear each stage once per day, which makes it a pure consistency check

How to play it: Don’t treat it like a one-time event. This is a daily habit event — missing days is where value leaks.

🪜 Ghost Leg Event (Up to 3 Runs Daily)

Ghost Leg is the festival’s repeatable mini-game loop:

• Up to 3 plays per day, reset at 11:00 PM PST

• You pick a starting position (1–4), the ladder is randomized, and you play through

• Rewards are tied to:

  • total participation count

  • total success count

It’s designed to feel light, but it’s still a currency-and-reward pipeline that adds up quickly across the whole window.

How to play it: Treat it like a “short daily” — three runs is the sweet spot, and it’s built to be done even on low-energy days.

👑 Final Boss Battle Returns: Merlin & Escanor (Temple of Belenus)

This is the “serious grind” content of the festival.

• Event runs through 1/28 10:59 PM PST

• It’s unlimited clears

• It unlocks after clearing Chapter 6.5 Episode 74

• There are:

  • accumulative score rewards

  • season shop purchases

  • ranking rewards calculated right before the end

Key detail: entering before the end but clearing after the end won’t count for seasonal ranking — so last-minute runs need to finish before cutoff.

How to play it: The ranking cutoff is the trap. Plan your push earlier so you’re not rushing clears during the final minutes.

🐉 Event Boss Parade (Weekly Boss Rotation + Expanding Shop)

Boss Parade is the “steady farm” content:

• Daily reset at 11:00 PM PST

• You can clear up to 5 times per day (plus recharged entries)

• You can recharge with Diamonds (5 entries per 1 Diamond), up to heavy daily limits

• Weekly boss rotation order:

  • Aboru → Kimara → Graeon → Cath

The important long-term hook: new exchange items are added each time a new boss is introduced, meaning the shop gets better as the rotation progresses.

How to play it: Even if you don’t care about early bosses, the shop value tends to climb later. Staying consistent keeps you ready to cash out when the rotation hits the boss whose shop items you actually want.

🏰 Fort Solgres Reward Dungeon Part 2 (Daily Random Stage)

A once-per-day dungeon accessed through Fort Solgres Special:

• One clear per day

• Stages are random and rewards differ per stage

• Costs only 1 stamina per entry

How to play it: It’s low-cost, high-upside. Even when rewards vary, the stamina-to-value ratio makes it worth maintaining.

👗 Sacred Treasure Shop Costume Resale + Discount Part 2

A rotating resale window:

• Discounted costume availability during the event window

• Individual costumes purchasable with Diamonds

• Only purchasable for heroes you already own

• Duplicate purchases convert into enhancement materials

How to play it: If you’re buying, buy with intent — either for completion or for immediate power/utility. The resale format is designed to drain Diamonds fast.

🎰 New Year Festival 2026 Bingo Event

This is the check-in and activity reward engine:

• You earn Bingo Number Tickets and Number Selectors by clearing various content

• Use tickets to draw numbers; use selectors to pick missing numbers

• When you complete a board, it resets automatically and advances to the next board

Why it’s sneaky strong: Bingo events reward broad play. If you’re already doing your dailies across multiple modes, you’ll complete boards naturally and keep rolling.

🐺 Boss Parade Update: Cath Joins the Rotation

Cath becomes the featured wave of Boss Parade content after 1/14 maintenance, with the same daily loop and shop structure — but with the newest exchange additions.

How to play it: This is usually where shop value spikes, because later bosses tend to bring the better exchange lineup. If you skipped early rotation days, consider re-engaging here.

🏟️ Fight Festival Boosting Event (Weekly Victory Count Rewards)

A PvP-driven reward ladder:

• Reach certain win counts in Vaizel PvP to claim rewards

• It runs in weekly blocks:

  • When week 2 opens, you can’t meet week 1 conditions anymore

  • But you can still claim week 1 rewards if you already met them

How to play it: Don’t delay. Win-count ladders punish “I’ll do it later” players because the condition window closes when the next week starts.

🐲 Knighthood Boss Battle Season 4: Demonic Beast Belgius

This is the big guild-focused anchor event:

• Runs 1/17 11:30 PM – 2/14 10:59 PM PST

• Belgius is the featured Demonic Beast for Season 4

How to play it: This is the mode that rewards coordination, not just personal grinding. If your knighthood is active, plan around participation windows and team planning — it’s where the “community power” part of the festival actually matters.

🧰 Bundles, Resets, and Small System Additions

💎 New Year Festival Bundles + Purchase Reset

• Multiple festival bundles run through 1/28 maintenance

• Purchase counts reset for select bundles

• Some bundles appear only for 12 hours after specific conditions (like obtaining featured heroes)

🧭 Patrol Special Mission (Extra Rewards for Using Specific Heroes)

A special mission set that grants extra rewards for dispatching specific heroes on Patrol during the event period.

⚔️ Hero Arena Season 17 Special Hero Update

• Adds [Helping Hands] Transcendent Ban as a seasonal/special hero

🛠️ Bug Fix Highlights That Affect Real Gameplay

• Multiple fixes related to Merlin & Escanor interactions and incorrect effect application

• Fix for “Try Again” combat content where certain abilities could trigger before allied turns

• Fix for incorrect membership product buff descriptions

🧠 Best Route to Maximize This Two-Notice Festival Stack

• Daily core: Moments We Remember (daily clear) + Ghost Leg (3 runs) + Solgres Reward Dungeon (1 run)

• Farm core: Boss Parade (use entries daily; prioritize later-rotation shop value)

• High-value push: Final Boss Battle runs planned before end-of-event ranking cutoff

• Weekly planning: Fight Festival win-count targets done early each week

• Guild coordination: Belgius season participation planned around knighthood schedules

• Summon efficiency: Prioritize mission tickets before spending Diamonds so your pulls are “cheaper”

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This festival is built to reward consistency across multiple modes — so the players who log in daily and spread their clears wisely will finish with the most tickets, the best shop cashouts, and the strongest long-term gains.

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