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*Ding*
System: Quest has been generated!
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[Quest Name]: Beyond the Storm Fortress
[Quest Type]: Investigation Quest
[Quest Difficulty]: Nightmare Discover hidden content at m,v l'e-NovelFire
[Quest Background]: As you were asking permission to cross the border of the Storm Empire, the commander of the Storm Fortress, Taiga Adad, realized that there was something wrong with the Dark Cloud Kingdom.
He could not grant you the pass for crossing the Storm Fortress, due to the strange movements of the monsters within the Stormy Mountain Range.
Commander Taiga could grant you a temporary pass if you help him investigate what was happening beyond the borders of the Storm Empire.
[Quest Condition]: Help Commander Taiga investigate the strange events within the Stormy Mountain Range.
[Quest Rewards]:
- Your relationship with Commander Taiga will improve greatly – you will be able to build a friendship with the commander of the Storm Fortress.
- Your influence in the Storm Fortress will reach the 'Worship' Level
- Special Title: Storm Raider
+2 Additional Level
+20 LP (Legacy Points)
[Quest Failure]:
- Destruction of the Storm Fortress
- A fallout with the Storm Empire
-5 Levels (Temporarily demoted to Tier 2 if the level falls below Level 150)
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Seeing the details of the quests, Shin could not help but raise his brows a little. The rewards might look a little lackluster compared to the previous quests that he had, but it was quite good when the current stage of the game was considered.
One of the main rewards that Shin liked was the Legacy Points. He had accumulated quite a lot of them during all the previous high-level quests that he had, but he had to spend all of them when he was upgrading the 'Regan's Method' Legacy Skill.
It might be a little costly, but it was worth it since the true form of 'Regan's Method' was of great help to him, particularly the 'Elemental Sword and Armor' that helped him increase his mastery when using controlling the higher form of Mana and other powers under his arsenal.
There was also the 'Magic Swordsmanship' that greatly increased his mastery over his Elemental Possession along with their powers.
Adding the 'Elemental Unification' that came along with the Legacy Skill, further improved these areas while also increasing his understanding of different elements.
After experiencing such benefits and great improvements, Shin wanted to upgrade his other Legacy Skills as well.
Sensing the mood of their host, the three remaining elemental spirits quickly tried to comfort her, particularly Suijin. "You can't blame yourself for what happened, Miss Charlotte. No one expected that an Abomination King would be ambushing us right after the completion of your promotion."
They did not know how an Abomination King, a fully evolved abomination spirit, was waiting for them right outside the portal of the instance dungeon where she was taking her promotion quest.
Alice did not know how it happened, but she was suddenly ambushed right after she stepped out of the instance dungeon. Moreover, the Abomination King was so powerful that Kaolin and Xin had to sacrifice themselves so that she could escape along with the three remaining Elementals on her side.
They might have survived, but the two poor Elementals were devoured by the Abomination King in exchange for it.
That was when Alice received a special quest to take down the Abomination King, who was currently on the hunt for more Elemental Spirits.
It was an event quest that would continue until the Abomination King was killed. It would continuously come after her and other people with Elemental Spirits as their companions, which were specifically the players with Transcendent Race.
She just happened to be the unluckiest one among everyone for being the first target of the Abomination King.
The other thing that upset her was this event quest was triggered right after meeting a set number of Elemental Spirits reaching the rank of Supremes and Monarchs.
The three Elemental Spirits Raijin, Fūjin, and Suijin were all Ancient Elemental Spirits, which were comparable to Supremes and Monarchs. All of them were directly promoted to their previous ranks right after she cleared her promotion quest.
One of the reasons was because she was an elf, particularly Ancient Elf, which had a deep connection with the Elemental Spirits. This made most of the sealed powers of the three elementals get unlocked right after she became Tier 3.
From the quest description, it was said that it would only be triggered once a certain number of Elemental Spirits became Supremes and Monarchs was reached. It seemed to be a system restriction that would prevent the players from getting too many powerful companions in the early stages of the current patch.
It was a balancing system that would prevent the gap between the Transcendent Race and other races from being too wide.
The trigger limit seemed to be at least five Supreme Elementals and Elemental Monarchs combined, which would start the event quest after being met.
She had gotten three right after her class promotion while the rest came somewhere she did not know.
She was annoyed and helpless at the same time when such a disaster happened to her. She felt like beating up the person who put her in a miserable position, but she also knew that it was not their fault either and just wanted to vent her frustration.
She could only sigh and accept what happened. At least she had gotten the event quest that only she could clear with the buffs she would be getting when facing the Abomination King due to the special conditions of the quest, or at least until others somehow killed this Abomination King.
At the same time, the permanent death of her fallen Elemental Spirits – Kaolin and Xin – led to Elemental Spirit Quests that would allow her to get a replacement for the two, which happened to be two Spirit Kings.
One of them was the Earth Spirit Queen 'Gaia', who seemed to be sealed somewhere here in the Stormy Mountain Range, while the other was the Flame Spirit King 'Ifrit,' who was in a deep slumber in a dormant volcano in an Ancient Archipelago in the middle of Sea of Death.
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After adjusting her moon, Alice gazed at the surroundings again before closing her eyes and focusing her senses.
At the same time, she placed her Elemental Scepter in front of her, holding it with both of her hands. Channeling her mana into it, she chanted out a series of elven prayers, which summoned a series of elven runes revolving around her.
When she opened her eyes once again, a blinding light came out from them, illuminating the surroundings. The elven runes that were revolving around her also flew in every direction, seemingly looking for something.
In this state, Alice's elemental sensitivity seemed to have reached another level while also boosting her Mana Sense to a larger scale.
While she was looking for the traces of the Earth Spirit Queen 'Gaia', her senses picked up a familiar aura from far away distance.
At the same time, the other party seemed to have also sensed her presence as they looked in her direction.
– "Eh!? What is he(she) doing here?" –
Their 'gazes' seemed to have 'met', shocking each other. – "What a powerful Elemental Sense!" –
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