Lili eventually headed upstairs to change into her armor, and Tesilim began to quietly train with his presence and will as he checked on some new notifications.
đź”· Crystal Notice đź”·
Congratulations! You have partially completed the goal: A Seed for a Seed.
You have gained 1 Chaos Point.
Finish making the deal with Jolly to get the rest of your reward.
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Then, he also got a new goal/quest. He wasn’t sure why he was suddenly gaining all these new quests but he wasn’t going to complain.
đź”· Crystal Notice đź”·
Attention! The Goal – No Party like a Pizza Elemental Party - has been added.
Check your Goals for more information.
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đź”· Crystal Notice đź”·
đź”· Adventure Goal đź”·
Name: No Party like a Pizza Elemental Party.
Type: Extermination ⚔️ & Collection 🧺.
Rank: D.
Danger: High đź”´.
Suggested Number: 5+.
Threat: Lush Realm 🌳/ Novarian Monster 🧿.
Goal: Defeat the Cheese Elemental. 0/1.
Reward: 1 Chaos Point and the feeling of having helped a friend.
Description: Your friend Alyx has come to you with news of a food elemental that has been formed partially due to your leftover pizza. He requests that you help him defeat and capture the elemental alive. Find the elemental in the Mushroom Grove and help Alyx defeat and capture it. Beware for this is, no mere elemental.
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Reading the quest notification told Tesilim that this quest would be interesting and dangerous. Also, he was looking forward to showing his gnome friend how the World Crystal knew him by name.
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“Holy Crap! That’s my name right there! That’s amazing!”
“I can’t believe he actually shows up in the description like that. It looks like the World Crystal is starting to throw more attention your way Tesilim. I just don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing.” Lili said as she too, read the notification.
“You know, sometimes I feel like you guys are just messing with us,” Jasmine told the trio, who were staring at empty air.
“Yeah, seriously, I can't find a hint of magic anywhere, no matter how hard I look,” Rose said while looking around, her eyes glowing again.
“And you won’t find anything. The World Crystal is behind this, and if it doesn’t want you to feel a thing, you won’t.” The gnome pointed out.
“Arrgghh,” Rose cried in annoyance, “You know if it was anyone else, I would call you crazy, but after the time stop and all that, I can’t deny your words.”
After spending a few more minutes talking, the party finally decided to head out.
Progress through the forest was easy as always, and Tesilim wondered if he would ever see any rain on this part of the island. So far, every single day had been rather sunny and temperate, with a nice breeze flowing. And, of course, today wasn’t any different.
So, without any suicidal monsters bothering them this time around, the party was easily able to scare away any creature that held any survival instincts. They could have killed these monsters and beasts without issue, but there was no point since they would barely work up a sweat, and it was better to leave it to the weaker adventurers.
Though they had started their journey at a walk, that had soon turned into a jog, which then turned into a weak enhanced run, as they made it to the grove in record time, it was at that point that Tesilim felt he needed to arm himself and he rolled his die.
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The die landed on a one which meant he got his daggers, and since they didn’t disappear a minute later, it meant he had them for at least the next hour.
Now that they were in the grove, it was a matter of finding the damn elemental, which would probably be the hardest part.
At first, the party decided to walk around, hoping to stumble into the thing. During this time, Tesilim told the party he would be using Chaos Mana in the coming fight since his tank was almost full at 90 points. Additionally, he assigned his spell die as follows.
1 - Flame Magic Missile.
2 - Ice Magic Missile.
3 - Force Magic Missile.
4 - Chain Lightning.
5 - Water Slash.
6 - Summon Drake.
The last one was for the heck of it since they already had their own drake, but an extra body wouldn’t hurt. Speaking of their drake, Drex had been relaxing the whole time. He didn’t seem to be much of a talker and preferred to follow the party as he experienced life.
Anyways, back to the cheese elemental.
After walking around for an hour and without seeing a trace of cheese anywhere, the party finally decided to step up their game. They left someone behind to be the anchor while the other party members ran off. In this case, Drex was the anchor. Tesilim told the drake to stay still and the party split in multiple directions to try and find the elemental. The plan was to run for a few miles in every direction and then come back to Drex. They would have preferred to use their rings of telepathy, but the rings only had a range of about a mile. Of course, there was also the option for Alyx to use his message spell to keep in contact with everyone, but even then, most of them wouldn’t be able to find everyone else in the forest. So, Drex the anchor point it was.
Tesilim felt so alive running through the forest at full speed. He jumped from branch to branch, then landed only to do a flip of a trunk, make a superhero landing, and keep running. Was any of it necessary? No, but was it awesome? Yes, so he did it.
As he ran, Tesilim extended his presence and pushed his will through it. The range had increased by a few feet since he had last used it, and now it was around 20 feet or so. He wasn’t fully sure of the distance and hadn’t bothered to measure. Either way, he ran with his will extended as he trained his magical senses whilst looking for the stupid elemental.
It was in this manner that Tesilim stumbled into a pack of mushroom wolves. These ones were different from the ones he had fought previously in the sense they all had a large mushroom sprouting from their heads, and if his senses were correct, none of them were D rank. He was going to leave them be since there was no point, but they were in his way and were already running at him.
Tesilim threw a dagger at the lead wolf. The poor thing didn’t even get a chance to react, its reflexes not being able to keep up, and the blade easily struck the wolf's forehead, killing it. Of course, its companions didn’t care since they were obviously being controlled by the mushrooms, and they just ran by the body on the ground.
It took the wolves longer than Tesilim expected to realize he was no longer in the same spot and instead was now behind them. Tesilim could have easily slaughtered the beasts, but honestly after killing one so easily, he felt like he should just leave them be as training fodder for other adventurers. Actually, yeah, he was now behind them and could easily outrun them, so he did so.
After running for a little longer, Tesilim felt like he had gone far enough and turned around. On the way back, he saw the same wolves again, but this time, he was actually trying to be stealthy so he wouldn’t be bothered by more things, and the wolves didn’t notice him. Eventually, he reached Drex and found Jasmine and Lili there as well.
“Hey, found anything?” A question the two ladies answered by shaking their heads.
“Damn, I hope the other two found something.”
The next person to arrive was Rose, getting there a few minutes after Tesilim, except her armor was spattered with blood, causing Jasmine to stir in concern.
“You okay?”
“Hmm? Oh, yeah. Just ran into a stupid shadow panther that was relaxing on a tree and who decided I had to pay for disturbing it, so it decided to chase me.”
“Wow, talk about bad matchups. Anyways, did you find anything?” Jasmine answered.
“Yeah, seriously, poor thing didn’t even know what hit it, and actually, yes, at least I think I found what we are looking for,” Rose replied with a smile.
“Really?” Tesilim and Lili asked.
“Yeah, big blob yellow gooey stuff with a bunch of dirt, grass, mushrooms, and weird red circles on it.”
Hearing the response, Jasmine, joined by Rose, looked over at Tesilim and Lili as if waiting for confirmation.
“Don’t look at me! This thing sounds like how the food I remember Tesilim summoning looked, but I can’t be sure.” Lili answered, denying any accountability.
“No, yeah, that’s it. It sounds like some sort of pizza blob elemental.”
“Really? So, you have seen one before?” Jasmine asked.
“No.”
“Then why are you so sure?” Rose threw in, obviously not convinced.
“Because that fits one of the images in my head of what a pizza elemental would look like.”
“Wow, you are just making this up, huh?” Rose said.
“Well, yeah. You know, I think magic has really killed all of your imaginations.”
“No, we are just being realistic.”
“What’s happening? Did you guys find it?” Alyx interrupted as he came to a stop by them.
“Yeah, I think I found it.”
“You think? I feel like it should be unique enough that you would know when you saw it. Look, never mind what does it look like?” Alyx asked.
“Yeah, that sounds about right.” The gnome answered after hearing the description.
“What! No way.” Rose replied.
“Ha! What did I tell you!” Tesilim shot, pointing at Rose with a clear “I told you face” plastered on.
“Seriously, Alyx, how can you be so confident? Isn’t this a first for you as well?” Jasmine asked clearly still not convinced.
“I am convinced because the looks match the makeup components of the food Tesilim summoned. Then, from there, if you realize it's an elemental, it will be made up of mostly one thing, in this case, cheese, which matches the description. Finally, if we are in this specific area looking for an odd-looking monster with specific detailing and you find something even remotely close, there is a 99% chance it will be that monster.”
“But,” Rose went to say something but was cut off by Alyx.
“But, nothing. I think you guys are just used to everything being in a box. You expect things to be as you have been taught, which is fair. However, we aren’t dealing with your everyday run-of-mill elemental. This is a rare creature literally made from food. So, I would hope you throw out all expectations and think outside the box.”
“Yeah!” Tesilim threw in, wanting to get the last word, only to be slapped in the back of the head by Lili.
“Shut up. You aren’t any better. This is just a learning moment for them.”