"Alright, Kali, this is Hanna; I want you to take her back to the Keep. Grogvel, can Windorf and you escort them back? I need to go rescue Mex; Dao took him," I explained to everyone as my Elemental partners gathered around me.
"We can, but are you sure that it is a good idea?" Gorgvel asked me as he made a grinding sound scratching his chin.
"Don't have much of a choice; I have to go deal with Dao, but he has Demons surrounding the Keep, and I don't want to send the girls back there alone. You can also help defend if it comes to that. The rest of the girls are at the beach right now, but they will be coming back at some point, and they are being watched as well," I explained.
"What happened there? How did everything become so blown around?" Windorf asked in disbelief, but then his eyes went big. "Where is my daughter?!"
"She is with the girls, and she is safest there, so you two need to get there and make sure that the place is ready to defend if it comes to it. I will try to distract him till the end of the day, so it gives the girls some time to get back to the Keep from the demon Village. Once you are set up, it wouldn't hurt for you to go and let them know what is going on," I told them, and my Partners nodded to me, and then I turned to Kali, who was talking with Hanna.
"Don't worry, big brother treats me really well! He only kept me in that dark place for a day or two, so it wasn't that bad! Then he showed me how big he was, and I didn't think that Big Brother could get bigger, but he did!" Kali explained, and Hanna's eyes went wide with the lacking description of me using her Totem.
"Kali… just… don't… ugh, I don't even know what to say anymore! Hanna, just go with them, okay? And no to whatever is boiling around inside your head!" I told Hanna, and she grinned at me and then came over and gave me a kiss.
"Just be careful and don't underestimate Dao," Hanna told me, and I nodded to everyone and then turned west to run, expanding as I started to run.
I reached my full height and used the corner of the wall to swing myself north when I said it. A blazing red light was coming from the north.
[That must be the beacon that he was talking about. At least you won't have trouble getting there.]
There would still be monsters, but I had ignored the final Shaman level I just received, and as I started to run, I pulled it up.
[Name]: Kazz
[Level]: 10/+346 Exp(Class Options Available)
[Class]: Shaman
[Strength]: 18
[Dexterity]: 15
[Fortitude]: 25
[Wisdom]: 17
[Intellect]: 17
[Spirit]: 30
[Energy]: 1550
[Class Skills]:
<Totem Sync>{Rank 3}: When 50 feet from a Bonded Partner, the Totem Marks power increases 60%.
<Plantspeak>{Rank 4}: Target a plant to speak to it. 70% chance of success. 7% chance of irritation.
<Summon Totem: Plant>{Rank 3}: Summon 2 Bonded Plants to fight as your ally.
<Totem Bond>{Rank 5}: Auto-Trigger: Totem Bond is triggered when a Totem Mark can be acquired. The target must express gratitude to you in some form in order to trigger Totem Bond.
<Chromatic Bond>{Rank 2}: Activate more than one Bond at a time. Only one Primal Bond can be active. Total Bonds Activatable: 3.
<Elemental Aspect>{Rank 1}: Activate with Force Pact to take on the fundamental properties of the Force Pact.
My spirit and Energy had significantly increased, so that would mean that I would have a much greater reserve to use. The thing that caught my eye the most was a new skill.
Elemental Aspect gave me control over the elements, it seemed, but I would need to test it out. I had Keri's Fire Totem, and it seemed to let me control fire, so what would be the difference?
[It's the difference between controlling the fire and becoming the fire. When you take on the Aspect of a Force Pact, you convert all the energy in your body to a specific element. Your abilities will be limited for now, but as you level up, you will be able to control them better.]
'Then what is the point of taking another class? Am I really going to miss out on that much experience?'
[... You're not the same… no, the system isn't the same! You changed it! You shouldn't have more experience than your level!]
'I didn't do it!'
[Yes, you did! Had to be! Who else is going to change it? Do you think that Zero gave you some kind of advantage?]
'No, but what could I have done that you wouldn't have known about?! You are in there too; if anyone changed it, that person would have to be you!'
[I know! But why would I complain about it? Things like this don't just happen; it just doesn't make any sense!]
'Pfft! Welcome to my world; thanks for joining the regularly scheduled shit show! Glad you finally got a taste of the unfairness of everything! Whatever it is, don't complain about it, and we are going to get a chance to see how it works.'
I could feel a large number of Gnolls in the area, more than usual.
[Strange, what are they doing right now? You would think that they would be rushing you, but they are all gathering and… wait! They are disappearing!]
I could feel the same thing happening, and I slowed down and looked in the direction that the creatures were gathering. I could just barely make out some Gnolls, but I couldn't see what they were doing with all the trees in the way.
'I wonder if this has something to do with how they keep surviving?'
[Quite possible, but you don't really have time to be messing around with them.]
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