Episode 25 – I should get a pet (1/2)
◈ Canyon near Beyd, Wednesday, 15th of August 1449 AW ◈
(10 days prior)
Elaru Wayvin stood in front of the orange canyon ridge The winds howled around her, ruffling her red hair and raising up puffs of red sand The sun blared down on her as if trying to burn her to a crisp, yet neither her clothes nor her hair ith sweat
Around her spread an intricate ht which entered its area of effect This spell treated rays of light as if they had shape, and as such, that shape could be altered by transht touched her, the warmth of the sun was unable to directly reach her
Elaru walked right into the wall of the canyon Just as her body was about to hit the wall, the rock bent and twisted away froh She was like a queen, everything moved out of her way
Ok, so it wasn’t anything grand like that…she just transmuted the rock around her to shi+ft away from her
Her goal was deep inside the wall of the canyon It took the for inside the rock
Burroindroot was a rare row in a hot, windy valley inside a special type of canyon rock It was an expensive, hard to find ingredient because it couldn’t be seen from the outside, nor could it be found by bloodhound’s sense of smell
There were very feays to find the root inside the walls, Elaru’s eyes being one of them
Every living creature had a soul that provided it withcreatures looked like bright flames in comparison to the rest of the world She could clearly see the root inside of the wall because the mana inside the root and the mana in the rest of the rock were very different in quantity and density
She shapeshi+fted the stone away froround She quickly exited trough the path she had created and shi+fted all the rock back in place
When she arrived out in the open, she removed the rely clean Then she found a metal box from her backpack and put the root inside
She admired the contents of the box for a while It was filled to the brih
She should go back to Ashar now Uncle Ixos would probably want her to find a few more herbs, and she didn’t have ic exa in less than teeks And after that, she wouldn’t be free to travel the lands and collect rare ingredients
She snapped the box closed and returned it to her backpack She pulled out her Eternal Beacon so she could teleport to Ashar She twirled it around and looked at the lifeless walls of the canyon in front of herAdventuring alone sure is boring…ested…
H to the eye, and useful It must be a male, don’t want to end up with a litter of little ones
As she was about to activate her Beacon, an idea struck her
Wouldn’t it be fun if she clih up to the top of the canyon and ju! And before she became a pancake, she would just teleport away
Elaru nodded her head The people who invented Beacons eYes, yes That’s how it should be used
Her eyes glittered mischievously as she climbed the walls as quickly as zuzels climbed trees Wherever she touched would turn into a place where she could grab or place her foot
She had to ad in her 18 years of life But she cli as an elibu sure was fun! Transear!
Soon she was towering over the entire canyon, looking down at the rock bellow like an emperor looked down at his loyal subjects
She grinned wide and walked back, away from the cliff She needed to put soe so she could run and reach herdown the cliff The faster, the better
Her steps suddenly stilled, her excited expression replaced by shock
A ht torch appeared in her ht in the middle of her chest
She looked doards her chest to see a long crystal, the size of a finger, which was agitatedly quivering left and right This usually lifeless pendant was suddenly pulsating with life as if trying to tell her so
She had been wearing this crystal around her neck for the last 3 years, and in that tins of activity If it weren’t for her Aethernea of Sight, to which this crystal looked alht it to be a ical properties
Each time she looked at the object, she would reave it to her, and her face would turn sour
“What does it do?” She had asked that person The response she got still caused her face to turn unsightly:“Allegedly it has so to do with the soul And the return of the Gods Perhaps it can help you find what you seek? Or perhaps itcrisis? If it is ure it out For now, just think of it as a lucky charm”
She humphed in displeasure Almost two millennia had passed since they received the object, in that time even an idiot could have found out so their own family heirloom, they left it up to fate They believed that the one that was fated with it would eventually unveil its secrets
Elaru looked around her with all her senses She spread her mind, employed her Aethernea to its maximum distance and accuracy, she even used her ears to pick up any sounds Yet no matter how hard she searched, she could not find the reason for the pendant’s strange behavior