Rituals are some of the most useful abilities you can unlock in Welcome to Elderfield. They give you access to new combat attacks, defensive options, healing abilities, and utility skills that can also help you outside of battle. While you begin the game with only a few basic abilities, there are plenty more waiting to be discovered as you explore.
In this post, we will tell you how to unlock Ritual Skills in Welcome to Elderfield, including where to find them, how much they cost, and what they actually do. Some Rituals are given to you for free, while others require you to defeat specific enemies, buy special tomes, or progress further through different areas of the game.
If you’re trying to collect every available Ritual or simply want to grab the most useful ones early, this guide will help you find them. We’ll start with the Rituals you can get early in your adventure before moving on to the skills found through later story progression and exploration.
How to Unlock All Ritual Skills in Welcome to Elderfield
Rituals are special abilities that can be used for combat and utility purposes. Some of them are attacks that help you deal with enemies, while others provide healing, defensive bonuses, debuffs, or useful effects outside of battle.
You can access certain utility Rituals through the Rituals menu, meaning they are not limited to combat situations.
At the beginning of the game, you already have two basic abilities:
- Energy Blast
- Guard
Everything else needs to be found, purchased, earned, or unlocked through exploration.
Energy Blast
Energy Blast is your starting Ritual, so you don’t need to search for it.
- How to unlock: Available from the beginning of the game
- Cost: 2 MP
- Effect: Fires a weak shot of energy
It is a simple early-game attack, but it gives you a basic offensive Ritual from the moment you begin your adventure.
Guard
Guard is another basic skill available early in the game. Unlike offensive Rituals, it is mainly used as a defensive option when you need to protect yourself during combat.
While you will eventually unlock stronger and more specialized abilities, Guard remains one of the basic tools you start with.
How to Unlock Warp
Warp is one of the best Rituals to grab early, especially if you spend time exploring the Mall.
Where to Find Warp
Go to Mall F1 and enter Ultra Video, which is the first shop you come across after entering the area.
Inside Ultra Video, look for the Shopper on the far right, near the SALE sign and camera display. Speak with them to receive Warp.
- Cost: Free
- Effect: Warps you back home
Warp is a utility Ritual, and I would personally recommend getting it as early as possible. Being able to return home for free can save you a lot of trouble after a difficult run or when you’ve finished exploring an area.
The small detour through Ultra Video is definitely worth it.
How to Unlock Dark Shield
Dark Shield is a combat-focused Ritual that improves your defenses.
Where to Find Dark Shield
You need to defeat the Office Slime located in front of the Mall F1 Hallway door.
Look around the southern snack and hallway area of the Mall. After defeating the Office Slime, you can loot its Ritual Tome.
- Cost: 3 MP
- Effect: Increases Defense and Magic Defense by 20% for 3 turns
- Additional bonus: +1 Recovery
Dark Shield can be particularly useful when you are facing enemies that deal heavy physical or magical damage. Instead of focusing entirely on attacking, you can use it to give yourself more protection during difficult fights.
Mall Vending Machine Ritual Tomes
The Mall vending machine is another important place to visit if you want to unlock additional Rituals.
You can purchase several tomes from the machine and use them to learn new abilities.
Lesser Mending
- Price: 25g
- MP Cost: 10 MP
- Effect: Restores 20 HP
- Additional bonus: +1 Recovery
- Usable outside battle: Yes
Lesser Mending is a useful early healing Ritual. Since it can also be used outside of combat, it gives you another way to recover health while exploring.
Cosmic Premonition
- Price: 50g
- Effect: Reduces Enemy Attack and Defense by 20% for 3 turns
- Additional bonus: +1 Recovery
Cosmic Premonition is more focused on weakening enemies rather than directly damaging them. It can be useful against tougher opponents where reducing their stats gives you a better chance of surviving the fight.
Torrent of Darkness
- Price: 100g
- Effect: Deals Darkness damage to all enemies
Torrent of Darkness is an area-of-effect Ritual, making it useful when you are fighting multiple enemies at the same time.
The higher price means you may want to save your gold before purchasing it, but the ability to damage every enemy can make it worthwhile.
Other Combat Tomes at the Mall Vending Machine
The same vending machine also offers combat skill tomes.
These include:
All or Nothing
- Price: 25g
Heavy Blow
- MP Cost: 5 MP
These are combat skills rather than the main Rituals listed above, but they are still worth checking out while you’re visiting the vending machine.
Later Story and Area Rituals
As you continue progressing through Welcome to Elderfield, more Rituals become available through story events and exploration.
Some of these are easy to miss if you don’t thoroughly explore each location.
How to Unlock Dark Blast
Dark Blast becomes available through Old Man Jackson after the Build-A-Wife event.
- MP Cost: 5 MP
- Effect: Deals Darkness damage
- Additional bonus: +1 Fatal
- Possible effect: May inflict Hex
Dark Blast gives you another offensive Ritual and can also potentially apply Hex, making it more useful than a simple damage ability.
How to Unlock Ghost Blast
You can get Ghost Blast as a gift from Pete, the laundry ghost.
Where to Find It
Find Pete in the apartment laundry room.
- MP Cost: 5 MP
- Effect: Deals Curse damage
- Additional bonus: +1 Fatal
- Possible effect: May inflict Fear
Ghost Blast is another offensive Ritual with a chance to apply an additional status effect, giving it extra value during combat.
How to Unlock Energizing Blast
Energizing Blast can be found in the Library.
Its special effect gives it a chance to generate additional AP.
- Effect: Has a 15% chance to generate 1 AP
This makes it an interesting Ritual for players who want an extra chance to gain AP while using their abilities.
How to Unlock Pumpkin Blast
Pumpkin Blast becomes available after opening the chamber doors in the Old Woods.
Make sure you explore the area after gaining access to the chambers, as this is where the Ritual becomes available.
How to Unlock Chaos Thorns
Chaos Thorns is unlocked after opening the chamber doors in the Sewers.
One thing to keep in mind is that some sources may list the name with a different spelling as Chaos Torns, but it refers to the same Ritual.
Like Pumpkin Blast, this is tied to progressing through and opening up the later areas of the game.
Best Ritual to Get Early
If you’re wondering which Ritual you should try to unlock first, Warp is one of the best early choices.
It costs nothing, is easy to obtain once you reach the Mall, and gives you a convenient way to return home.
For combat, Lesser Mending is also a solid early purchase if you need more healing options, while Dark Shield can be useful if you’re struggling to survive difficult encounters.
The best approach is to explore every major area carefully. Welcome to Elderfield hides useful Rituals behind enemies, NPC interactions, shops, and story progression, so checking every location can reward you with new abilities.
Rituals give you plenty of ways to customize how you approach combat and exploration in Welcome to Elderfield. Some are simple attacks, while others provide healing, defensive buffs, enemy debuffs, or useful utility effects.
I would recommend grabbing Warp early and checking the Mall vending machine whenever you have enough gold to spare. As you move further into areas like the Old Woods, Sewers, Library, and other story locations, keep exploring carefully because several Rituals are tied to specific events and hidden discoveries.
The more Rituals you collect, the more options you will have when dealing with difficult fights and exploring the strange world of Elderfield.