Chapter 1017 New Special Quest
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I could swear I felt a powerful presence, a blinding light... There was no way nobody could have felt that, right?
"Aquarina, did you feel it? That light?" I asked her.
"What light?" Aquarina tilted her head, confused.
"Pyuku?" I asked him.
"No?" Pyuku was coming with us.
"N-Nephilim?" I asked again.
"I didn't feel anything, Master... And my senses are spread everywhere due to my internal functions..." Nephilim explained. "If there was something, I would have sensed it right away."
"But then... Weird."
I felt confused for a bit as we made our way to the closest pieces of ruins there were. I asked Alice or my Familiars, but none of them felt anything either.
"Perhaps it was something only you could see with those eyes of yours?" Aquarina wondered. "Your eyes are very special after all, Sylphy!"
"Y-You're not wrong..." I said while wondering. "Maybe it was something only I could see or perceive. But it came from the summit."
"The summit? Where the ruins are?" Pyuku wondered.
"Yep..." I said. "Well, for now let's concentrate in mother's task!"
Ding!
[A New [Special Quest] has been generated: [Find Clues About What Happened to the Sunstone Ruins]!]
[For some mysterious reason, the ruins blew up long ago, according to your mother's findings. This sent flying the pieces of these ruins everywhere, causing a lot of chaos back then.]
[Now, eons later, these fragments continue exuding a large quantity of Sunlight Energy, producing the very rare and endemic Sunstones that only grow within the Sunstone Plateau.]
[However, the mystery of why this even happened is still lingering around, waiting for a group of curious adventurers to finally unveil this ancient and now forgotten event...]
[Find five clues that could bring you to the truth of what might have happened.]
[Clues: 0/5]
[Completion Rewards: [EXP] [???]
[Time Limit: 24 Hours]
Oh wow, another new Quest! This is completely unexpected but welcomed.
"Alright, let's find clues then!"
"I see..." I nodded. "It does have some things engraved on it. Words?"
"Yeah, those are words, right?" Aquarina wondered. "Pyuku, can you read them for us?"
"S-Sure..." Pyuku grabbed the tablet and start to decipher it first.
In the meantime, Aquarina tightly grasped my butt!
"Ouch! H-Hey!"
"Hehe, that's my revenge~!"
"You little brat~!"
I played with her and grabbed her butt back, tightly grasping her cheek.
"H-Hey!" She got even more embarrassed. "If you continue like this, I'm going to eat you up!"
She quickly started kissing my neck and biting it playfully, without hurting.
"Nom, nom, nom!"
"Hehehe, stop it!"
As I played with her, I heard Pyuku and Nephilim talking with one another about the words, until they finally got a clue.
"I think we got it... I didn't know Nephilim knew how to read these words as well! Was a huge help at deciphering some phrases." Said Pyuku.
"No problem, I'm here to serve and help in any issue." Nephilim said with a gentle and serviceable smile.
"So? What does it say?" I asked.
"Yeah, yeah?" Aquarina asked, grabbing my hips.
"Well..."
Pyuku started to read it slowly. It wasn't much, but what it revealed was quite shocking.
"This is what it says..." Pyuku said. "Unbeknownst to us... the sun's curse... catastrophe... the children of mana. T-That's all, but it feels cryptic..."
"The sun's curse, catastrophe, children of mana? And it seems they didn't know something..." I wondered. "Could the catastrophe and the sun's curse be related with the ruins blowing up?"
"Maybe?" Aquarina said. "Though, Children of Mana rings some bells, I wonder where I have heard this word..."
"That is the general name that all the tribes that the gods created." Nephilim clarified. "Meaning, all of you, elves, humans, dwarves, anima, slimes, and more."
Ding!
[You have found one of the clues!]
[Clues: 1/5]
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