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Ding!
[You have gotten rid of all the Infectious Miasmic Mold from the Moth Fairy Village!]
[The entirety of the village is forever grateful for what you’ve done.]
[You gained +30.000 Score Points!]
“So many points! But how much is too many though?” wondered Chris, noticing he only had four hours left; he had spent a whole hour in here. “Agh, I have to get going to save more people in need! Hey, old man- I mean, elder! Do you know where I can find more people who are sick and need me to clean their gardens or something?”
Chris flew towards the Elder of the village and grabbed his little body; the elder giggled.
“Hoho, I see that you’re very eager to help more people! What a wonderful person you are, young lady!” he giggled. “Yes, there’s a couple of other villages in need. The Stone Spirit Village had been having problems as many of their members had begun to suddenly become frailer and crack all the time! The Beetle Fairy Village is in serious need of someone that could clean their small lake, as it had been turned black with miasma! Also, the Mushroom People, the Myconid of the Underground Mushroom Forest require the assistance of someone that could also clean this mold. Oh right, and how could I forget? If you go all the way to the volcano, the Salamander, Fire Spirit People, require someone to help them deal with the volcano constantly roaring and crumbling down!”
“O-Okay, that’s a bunch of quests! I’ll take them,” nodded Chris.
Ding!
[The Trial Quest: [The Cracking Stone Spirits In Need Of Some Fixing] has been added!]
[The Trial Quest: [The Blackened Lake of the Beetle Fairies] has been added!]
[The Trial Quest: [Underground Mushroom Forest Expedition] has been added!]
[The Trial Quest: [Discover What’s Causing The Volcano To Tremble So Much] has been added!]
[Each Quest will lead you to a new series of NPC you must help to earn more Score Points, solving their problems will net even more Score Points.]
[Try to get as many Score Points as possible to get the best rewards!]
“Alright, I’m going then! Thank youuuu!”
Chris flew away instantly. As he reached the skies, the Moth Fairy boy and the Elder stared at him as he left, dumbfounded by how fast he flew away…
“Aren’t you hurrying a bit too much? Take it easy; you still have four hours. With that, you can do many things.” The Heavenly Emperor said.
"No, I can’t! I need to hurry the hell up!” Chris rushed to the nearest area, the ruins of an ancient civilization with enormous stone houses and temples.
They looked worn down, but there were people in there; although at first glance someone would think they were statues, they were living beings.
“Oh wow, they’re really made of stone?!”
Chris couldn’t believe it as he descended, finding huge people made of stone; they weren’t humanoid at all, resembling big boulders with tiny legs and arms made of more round or oval stones.
The only faces they had were three holes in their large bodies, with no visible head other than their own torso, which was a head. Two of the three holes shone brightly, interchanging, as they seemed to communicate this way.
“Erm, hello! Are you the Stone Spirit people?”
Chris descended nonchalantly, and the Stone Spirit People slowly turned towards him; the largest were as big as five meters, and the smallest were a little larger than thirty centimeters.
“…”
“…”
“…”
The Stone Spirit People glanced at him in silence, slowly processing what he said; they were as slow as stones themselves.
“Ooohhh…”
“Faaaa…iryyyy…”
“Wiiiiiiiii… ngeeed..”
“Smaaaaall…”
“Yeeeees… Weeeee areeeeee… Stooooneeeee Spiiiiirits…”
They talked way too slowly too!
“I came to fix you guys up, so can you tell me where to go and fix you? I came here to heal your cracks and anything else you want me to do. Have you gotten infected by mold or something? Ah right, I am a priestess of a god, so I can heal and…”
Chris continued talking to them so they could understand, but because they were so slow, they took five minutes to process his words and then finally spoke very slowly.
“I seeeeeeee…”
“Ooohhhh…”
“Priesssteesssss…”
“Come… hereeeee…”
“The crackeeeed…. Is hereeee…”
One of the largest ones guided Chris, taking several seconds per step; it took them more than two minutes to reach the area where the cracked people were located.
“Goodness, you guys are so damn slow…”
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Chris sighed, finally entering the room and looking inside. There were at least twenty of the Stone Spirit people, all of them with different cracks over their bodies.
“I wonder what got them…” Chris said. “Wait, can we even heal cracked stone?”
“As long as they’re living beings and can accept the flow of Heavenly Ki into their bodies, it can be healed,” the Heavenly Emperor said.
“Okay then… here goes nothing!” Chris quickly unleashed an explosion of light, encompassing all his surroundings.
FLAAASH!
He healed them all instantly! Their cracks unified into proper body parts, and he noticed, as he purified them, that several tiny blobs of black goo started emerging from the cracks and turning into ashes.
“Wait a second! The cracks were because of the mold, oh wow!”
Chris quickly learned that their cracks were because they got mold infections, which were eating away at their spirit power and causing their bodies to weaken and crack easily.
Once healed, the Stone Spirit People took a few minutes to celebrate.
Ding!
[You have healed a person from an infectious disease!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
[You have healed a person from an infectious disease!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
[You have healed a person from an infectious disease!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
[You have healed a person from an infectious disease!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
[You have healed a person from an infectious disease!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
[You have healed a person from serious wounds!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
[You have healed a person from serious wounds!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
[You have healed a person from serious wounds!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
[You have healed a person from serious wounds!]
[You gained +1.000 Score Points.]
“Yaaaaayyyy!”
“Thank youuuu!”
“So healeeeed…”
“So fineeee…”
Chris evaded their deadly hugs and walked to see who he assumed to be the Elder or something.
“I’m done! Anyways, do you have crops or something I could heal too?”
“Nooooo… We…. Do not eat…. Other than stone…. Stone cannot be…. Corrupted…. But we living beings…. Even if stoooone… we were infecteeeeed…. Pityyyy…”
“U-Uhuh…”
Chris was having a difficult time even understanding them at all!
“Anyways I have to get going…!”
“Waaaait… What god do youuuuu worshiiiiiiiiiiip, priesssteesssss…?”
“Ah, the Heavenly Emperor! He’s…”
Chris gave a detailed description of who his “god” was, and then after three minutes of the Stone Spirit Elder processing what he heard, he nodded.
“We wiiiiiiill ereeeeect a shrineeee….”
“Thanks! Anyways, I’m going to get going, byeee!”
Ding!
[The Trial Quest: [The Cracking Stone Spirits In Need Of Some Fixing] has been Completed!]
[You have earned the Stone Spirit People’s Devotion and Gratitude for your great deeds!]
[You earned +30.000 Score Points.]
“Next!”
Chris ended up spending over thirty minutes in there, not how much he would’ve wished, but the people there loved talking slowly, so it couldn’t be helped.
“Uuuh, they said a black lake… Black lake? Where can I find one?”
He spent a couple more minutes flying across the skies, looking for the home of the Beetle Fairy people. Eventually, he found them, thanks to the Heavenly Emperor’s directions.
Chris quickly descended, noticing a small village whose houses were made of giant mushrooms and covered with many dried leaves.
There, people resembling black rhinoceros beetles walked around, humanoid in form. The females had little to no horns, while the males were larger, with sharp horns.
When Chris arrived, there were two males wrestling against one another for a female, their horns clashing against each other, trying to push the other or lift them.
“Uugghh! I’m going to flip you over!”
“Unnggh! In your damn dreams!”
As the two forcefully battled, a group of females watched while chatting… it seemed that their culture was very similar to how these beetles worked in real life.
“Uaaagghh!”
However, eventually, the smaller one somehow flipped the larger one, taking advantage of their balance and then lifting them up with their horn, throwing them several meters away.
BAAAM!
As the defeated male collapsed and fell unconscious, the females cheered, approaching the winner, who seemed surprised he actually won.
“Oh? I won! Hahaha! Yes!”
The females praised his strength.
“You’re quite mighty, young man!”
“I couldn’t believe it when I saw it!”
“Perhaps if you win a few matches, you could become suitable.”
“Don’t give up!”
Chris glanced in silence.
“More matches?” Chris squinted his eyes. "No, wait a second, why are they wasting their time doing this dumb stuff when they can’t even drink water now?”
Chris quickly walked to the group, greeting everyone. They were surprised when he descended from the skies.
“Hellooo! I am a wandering priestess in training!” he said. “I was wondering if you got any person that’s been sick, or perhaps a place I could help you purify?”
“A wandering priestess?!”
“I have never seen her before…”
“She must be from another tribe…”
“Wow, look at her fair, soft skin!”
“She got big wings…”
The young male that was in between the females ran towards Chris.
“I see! Please come with me; there’s several people that have been sick since they drank the lake’s water.”
“Oh, nice! Bring me to them!”
The young man brought Chris towards a larger building where dozens of people were resting, looking sick and at death’s door.
“A few of the infected elders had already passed away… but the younger ones are still keeping up,” he said. “Do you truly believe it can be possible to-”
FLAAASH!
Chris didn’t even waste a second; healing light surged and splashed everywhere, covering the bodies of the sick with Heavenly Ki.
The Heavenly Ki entered their bodies, instantly purifying and cleaning all impurities inside of their bodies., making these people miraculously stand up in disbelief.
“W-We’re saved!”
“I can’t believe it… I’m fine?!”
“Huh… Ah! I’m no longer sick…”
“Oh wow! That’s amazing!” The young beetle fairy man said. “T-Thank you so much, priestess!”
“Aaah, it’s nothing, bro,” said Chris. “Anyways, bring me to the lake now and I’ll get it done~!” he winked.
“Y-You can even do that?!” The beetle wondered.
“Yeppers, now bring me there now! I’m out of time! Hurry!" Chris screamed.
“E-Eh?! Okay?”
As he scared the shit out of the young man, Chris was led to the black lake, which he instantly began to purify with several Holy Smites repeatedly.
“{Holy Smite}!”
FLAAASH!
“{Holy Smite}!”
FLAAASH!
“{Holy Smite}!”
FLAAASH!
“{Holy Smite}!”
FLAAASH!
“{Holy Smite}!”
FLAAASH!
“{Holy Smite}!”
FLAAASH!
The young beetle fairy man glanced in disbelief; the water was returning to its transparent and clean color!
“Oh wow, it’s working! A-Amazing! Incredible- Ah!”
However, as Chris continued doing his work, the young man pointed into the distance.
“Priestess! The areas you cleansed are quickly darkening again!”
“What?!”
Chris continued using Holy Smite everywhere, but he was growing exhausted, and the miasmic darkness didn’t dissipate either, spreading its black colors everywhere.
“T-This is kind of hopeless!” he complained. “How do I exactly even do this properly?”
RUMBLE!
The ground trembled out of nowhere as the black lake began to swirl around, as something emerged from within—a gigantic shadow, a silhouette that rose, becoming real.
SPLAAASH!
A massive Nessie-like monster emerged, looking like an ancient maritime dinosaur with a long neck; however, it was completely black in color and with red eyes and tentacles.
“T-That’s…!” The beetle fairy man gasped. “That’s the Lake Guardian?! What happened to him!”
“Lake Guardian?!” Chris asked, noticing the giant monster seemed already dead, overtaken by the mold and turned into some sort of Undead. “Uh, sorry to tell you this, but your guardian might be dead…”
“RAAAARRRGGH!”
The Lake Guardian didn’t wait for their words, rushing towards them while opening its jaws and unleashing a powerful downpour of infected water towards them!
SPLAAASH!
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