Chapter 911 Back From The Mines
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Angelina and her party joined us for today's dinner inside of Ambil's workshop. The place has never been this lively before. Ambil had been rather overwhelmed with all the people constantly getting inside his house, but he had already grown a bit used to it after a couple of weeks. He was just happy to have many friends I believe. Despite the outer layer of his personality, which is rough and a bit grumpy, he was someone that was always craving for connections and bonds with others, someone very lonely.
"Just how many friends are you bringing to my house now, Planta?" He complained again, although he didn't seem all that angry actually.
"Hahaha, we're sorry for coming all the time, Ambil. We appreciate your hospitality though." Angelina laughed out loud while drinking a huge jug of beer in a single drink. "Phew! Nothing beats pigging out inside BNLO, where I don't have to care about my weight or whatever!" She said that right before beginning to munch of a giant dragon burger I had prepared with leftover dragon monster meat.
"You're such an alcoholic, Angelina. Just how much are you drinking every day inside of BNLO?" Wondered Anikitty. "Is this how you'll get better?" She was eating a lot herself.
"I think we shouldn't be talking about such things..." Gandalf sighed. "Ahem! Anyways, about what we found; it was quite a lot of stuff."
"Yeah, here." Erdrich said, quickly giving me a bag full of stuff.
"Oh? Wait, this is...."
"So you found a whole nest full of demonic beast eggs?!" Jenny cried. "Eeek, that's freaking creepy! And how did they look like? Wait, what are Demonic Beasts anyways?"
"They're like Monsters infected with Demonic Miasma, they become stronger and smarter, and often obey someone that has some authority over them, like a demon or a demonic cultist." I explained. "Or so I believe it is..."
"There wasn't a single soul aside from those insect-like creatures though." Angelina said. "Only that, the Demonic Core in the center of an altar, surrounded by a very complex Magic Ritual Circle containing countless Demonic Runes, it had the shape of a Pentagram, and it was drawing power from who knows where to fuel that huge red crystal."
"The red crystal was then controlling the Demonic Beasts, like some kind of Artificial Intelligence left there to take care of them..." Gandalf said. "It certainly had a mind of its own, and masterfully controlled the Demonic Beasts to protect itself."
"Though, we ultimately managed to shatter it. Once that happened, most of the Demonic Beasts were unable to fight back with coordination and fell against our army of summons and AOE attacks, mostly coming from Gandalf and Angelina." Said Anikitty. "Those assassin shadow guys that serve the Queen though, they were really strong. Only around ten of them came with us, led by a really pretty woman. But they were able to handle half the Demonic Beasts and allow us to break the Demonic Core in time!"
"Yeah, anyways, once we destroyed the core, we had to quickly slay the rest of the monsters. We got plenty of EXP out of the entire process." Erdrich nodded. "We're getting closer to max level already. Doing World Quest-related stuff always brings a ton of EXP man."
"And so when you destroyed that Demonic Core, you found these things?" I asked while browsing through my inventory. "Another book almost identical to the one we found back then. I don't even want to grab it because I'm totally getting a headache again. And then there's the crystal shards, and some broken relics? They look like rings, bracelets, candles... imbued with pentagrams and demonic energy."
"Yeah, we suspect they used that to perform a Demonic Ritual." Angelina nodded. "The shadows went back to the Queen with the rest of the things, they didn't let us grab everything for ourselves. There were more books they took."
"So that's how it is..." I nodded.
"However, there's something else we wanted to show you, Elayne." Angelina suddenly took out something.
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