“To the northwest is a city named Durandal, This city does not let any in who are not high elf, I want you to infiltrate this city and break out another Earthman. To do this you will have to meet up with the merchant group “additional pylons.” They are also from Earth and have also been given this task. But you will also break into Durandal and try to find the secret of the goblins. ‘Aditional pylons’ will be in a human city just west of the mountains in a weeks time. If you meet with them then, they should be able to take you to Durandal. Do you want to accept?”

Adil thought for a moment and focused on what he said, he could feel an influx of mana binding him as he chose to accept the new path.

Quest:

The curse of the Orc

Task:

Break the curse on the orcs and restore their civilisation

Exp: 3000

Quest:

Operation: tame the wolf

Task:

Find the man from Earth and free him from his captives.

Exp: 2000

Stage one: meet with the merchant group “Additional pylons”

location: Nimes

Hugo nodded to the group at noticing their acceptance and turned to walk into the portal. After entering, space seemed to transform, the area around became visibly darker as it transitioned to how it was before.

There was an awkward Silence in the cave as the group looked at each other.

“Soo, you up to much,” Adil asked the dryad.

She turned to Adil and bent the knee. "Squire of Lefebvre, I humbly request your assistance." She asked.

“I need help to free the other children, will you assist me?" She said. Her robe covering her face but a fierce determination still visible in her visible features.

A quest was prompted for Adil as that was said:

Break the goblin curse- stage 1:

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free the remaining goblins.

Adil furrowed his brow at the sight of it.

"So, this is just a guess but you have been freeing goblins, gathering them and taking a toxin out of their body to make them less savage."

The dryad was silent lowering her head.

"Yes." she finally said.

"And this black liquid has been infecting other creatures and plant life, and spreading further because you have no way to contain it?"

"Yes." She said again.

"Why did you not burn it?" Swift asked instantly.

"Heat activates it. At least most normal heat." She said glancing to Swift.

"And then it becomes alive, able to infect the goblins again and.. it's harder to get rid of.

Adil felt like he should stop. He had that itching feeling what he was saying wasn't going to go down well. Like telling an alcoholic they have a problem. "So you just kept it around, hoping no one else would touch it? What if the taint spread outside? What if civilisations were wiped out because no one knew how to get rid of it?"

The dryad looked agitated at that comment. “I had it under control. We were trying to hide it, it would die if left alone long enough.” She growled.

" We found some of your hidden taint broken open in a cave, it had... mutated a troll." The Dryad got up from her knee and faced Adil, tears in both her eyes.

“You don’t know anything, you don’t know what I've been through. I finally managed to take this infernal curse off their souls and this. This.” She looked distressed. She turned away from the Earthers and tried to regain herself.

"It has just been so hard." She said.

"We have all made mistakes. I mean honestly, if I wasn't so disassociated to everything here I would probably be traumatized from killing those goblins. Like if this wasn't so similar to an RPG from my world or If I arrived in this world a week earlier. This would have mentally fucked me up." Adil said. Then looked over to Seras, she was rocking back and forth against the wall, arms wrapped around her legs.

Swift came over and put a hand on Adil's shoulder. "What he means to say is, we are here to help and so you don't need to worry anymore."

Quest objective activated:

Find the remaining goblin children and free them.

"I appreciate your words of comfort, There is a cave system that contains the remainders of the goblins outside the maze. It was where the nearest human settlement was built."

“You can’t trust them.” The blue goblin said. The dryad rubbed the side of his head and said, “It’s ok child, if not them have your faith in me.”

She carried on. “As you can probably tell. It would be impossible to release the children without traveling through the settlement.” She told Swift.

“Oh. I know where that is.” Seras spoke up, she was still resting against the side of the cave entrance.

“I think it’s where I started. Under the town. The insects and plant life were the same as in this cave.”

"Can you take me there?" The dryad asked in a firm and cold voice towards Seras.

"She is the demon." The goblin leader said. the dryad put a hand down on his head. "Can you?" She asked again to Seras.

"I can try, but it might be difficult to get through without any questions. There is a back entrance to the city behind the.. the shrine."

"I will come with you." The goblin said.

"No! It is too dangerous, you must stay and watch the children."

"But mum."

"Stay! my strength has returned. Gather your brethren and bring them here. We will build this place into the first real home they've had."

The goblin sheepishly looked to the ground "Ok." he said in goblin-speak.

The dryad pointed to Seras and said: "Lead." With that, they departed the cave and were on their way back to the town.