“What is a psukhôphage?”
“Well, if I have understood, it’s someone who eats monster crystals. But I can’t find it on black slimes…”
“What are you gonna do?”
I don’t have any idea…
At the end of one of the tunnels going from the village, there is a large space with luminescent mushrooms, black slimes emerging regularly from about everywhere, and bats on the ceiling.
Slimes which eat enough mushrooms then go in the galleries, up to the surface, or to the bottom.
It’s the mushroom field.
Ideal place for fighting, for beginners.
“When I met the little puppies, my scan went up at the fifth I used the spell on. But here, there is not the same variety, they all look the same.”
“Hey, you know, we’ve got nothing to loose, you don’t need mana to fight. Try to use it on eating slimes, or on the bigger going away from the field!”
Scan
Black slime
Health point : 10/10
Gandock’s note : There is no crystal on low level slimes, there soul is only vegetative, with a primitive way to fight. To absorb their energy, one has to drink the black liquid forming their body before it goes away. To collect their soul, one just has to put a little bit of mana on a monster crystal. A level one crystal can stock up to 100 black slime souls.
I think I can try something...
***
Flying fox
Health point : 15/15
Gandock’s note: Low level monster without interest. Give a level 1 monster crystal. A level 1 crystal can stock up to 30 flying fox souls.
“Do you think your ice spell can reach it?”
Ice shard.
It’s true that this monster is weak.
With my defence, if I fight against many of them, I don’t risk anything.
And now that I have my guard, my protection competence, even if I fight against ten of them, it should still be alright.
“This one was quite easy to deal with, but bats are reputed to be formidable enemies because they can live in colonies of hundreads of individuals! I wouldn’t like to have to fight against that, I’m only a mage!”
“Yes, well… let’s try to get this monster’s crystal.”
A spell, a few punches later, and we are in front of this flying fox corpse.
With all the butchering I’ve done because of Vashslar the hunter and Gandock, I quickly open the poor beast with my hands with my claws and find the little red crystal that is inside the flying fox head.
“Your turn, try to catch the flying fox soul.”
“Putting a little bit of mana is a child’s play. Oh, it’s glowing…”
“So? So? What is happening?”
“I don’t know! It’s the first time for me! Nobody tries to go collecting monsters souls!”
Scan
Level 1 crystal, flying fox souls
State : 1/30
“It seems okay.”
“What do we do with the rest of the flying fox?”
“I don’t know! Eat it?”
Niom?
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***
The following hour saw a zombie and a dark mage fighting against tens of flying foxes and hundreads of black slimes.
Flying fox reproduce real quick, but their number is limited in the mushroom field, whereas slimes appear regularly and become more consistent enemies after having eaten and digested a few mushrooms.
The zombie drunk slime’s blood and ate flying foxes, sometime still alive.
The mage sent ice shards spells as often as he could, and collected monsters crystals on defeated flying foxes.
For each defeated monster, the mage made blowing a little crystal, changing depending on the type of monster or when he had made it blow too many times.
The zombie sometime voluntarily got hurt, but most of the time, he protected himself against attacks with his fists.
As people are not used to go there, those two undead were not disturbed during this whole time.
It would have surprised anyone to see those two players training against so weak enemies and doing it without having to fill a quest given by the quest giver, who would have been responsible for this weird behaviour.
The zombie gloves tore first, followed by the shirt and the bonnet.
What a bad idea to fight with an outfit in so poor condition!
At the beginning, numerous slimes escaped from the field, and flying foxes came in and out.
At the end, rare were the leaving slimes, and one could only view flying foxes entering and installing themselves in free places on the ceiling.
***
“Okay, I believe it’s alright for the second quest!”
Quest of the legendary meat bag (daily 2/3 finished): Devour 100 crystals of the same monster
State of quest: 100/100 black slime crystals eaten
Difficulty: G
Reward: You have absorbed enough black slime essence to gain: slime killer, jelly eater, essence tank
Talent : Slime killer (+10% efficiency with slimes, HP+1)
Jelly eater (+10% efficiency with slimes, HP+5)
Capacity: Essence tank (HP+5, Black energy +1 if Undead race and unlocks quests to get the Psukhôphage class, else LUC+1)
“Wow, bonuses I can keep even if I connect as a squire! Wonderful!
“It’s crazy! Talents are usually pretty hard to get. Slime killer is very common, but the other one and the capacity, I’ve never heard of them…”
“And you, have received some?”
“Yes, quite weird ones...”
Talent : Slime killer (+10% efficiency with slimes, HP+1)
Jelly collector (+10% efficiency with slimes, MP+5)
Capacity: Essence weigher (PM+5, Black energy +1 if Undead race and unlocks quests to get the Psukhôpomp class, else LUC+1)
“Truth would be, I don’t know what psukhôphage and psukhôpomp. You talked me about it, and it looks like a hidden quest: that’s cool!”
“Yes, it’s great! By the way, it seems I just have a few monsters left to finish the third quest. Let’s deal with this quickly!”
A black slime group appeared a little bit further.
Bad luck for them!
***
“Here we go for the third quest!”
Quest of the legendary meat bag (daily 3/3 finished): Fighting
State of quest: 1,000/1,000 damage taken; 1,000/1,000 damage given; 100/100 guard
Difficulty: G
Reward: You have fought enough to get Competence novice, Blow receiver, Blow dealer, Novice guardian
Title: Competence novice (TP+5, TEC+1)
Capacity: Blow receiver (HP+5, CON+1)
Blow dealer (Damage +0,5, STR+1)
Talent: Novice guardian (guard efficiency +10%, cost -10%, delay -10%, if timing is good, guard becomes a successful guard)
“It seems too good to be true. They are not incredible bonuses, but it’s a good beginning. I didn’t think this extension would be so interesting!”
“Anyway, it gives me ideas for my other character! Do you think I could meet this Gandock knight? It would be so cool if I could put my hand on a similar extension!”
I hesitate.
On one side, Jean is my best friend, I can’t hide anything from him.
On another side, I’m afraid to do a mistake with aunty Priscy, and to unveil things that should stay secrets…
“I send a mail to my aunty, and I tell you.”
The answer was not long to get.
“She agrees with it. She’s even a little bit too enthusiastic. It would even frighten me…”
“No problem! With the contact information to find you, everything will be alright for me. And I will be quiet! I won’t disturb!”
“For sure you won’t disturb. But Gandock is sometime so weird!
“Don’t worry. Let’s go to Komyshany now!”
“Yes, let’s move forward!”