Chapter 972 Into The Evergreen Forest, And New Quest!
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Once we were done and had packed everything for traveling, we set off into the gigantic Evergreen Forest. It was very beautiful, being much larger than the forest surrounding Agartha.
The forest held all kinds of beautiful trees, some bearing large and edible fruits of all kinds. The shade was comfortable below the strong sun of Cloudia, and there were all matter of little critters walking here and there, though most immediately ran away the moment they heard our footsteps.
The sound of birds singing, cicadas ringing, and all kinds of other creatures made the background of the forest all the more soothing, somehow.
You could really feel absorbed by the atmosphere of summer and a nice, green forest. I had the small desire to just sit down below one of them and take a nap with Aquarina…
Oh, of course, it was also covered on all sorts of exotic and rare plants. Some I had never seen before, so I started picking a few as we moved, my mother explaining this place to us.
"The Evergreen Forest is the largest forest of Cloudia, it expands over hundreds of kilometers all across the southeast area, it has three very large rivers that divide into smaller ones all across the entire sector." She explained. "It is also the home for most of the life in the continent, all kinds of animals and monsters make this their home, some extinct species of monsters roam in here as well, which you can't find anywhere else anymore, such as the Six-Legged Giant Lizards, for example."
"Really? Is it THAT big?" Lara wondered. "Woow… Makes sense because there are so many Spirits! Right Naturia?"
"Foo!" Naturia nodded. "I can sense and feel so many of my kin here! Though, not Dryads…"
Despite her change of form, Naturia could still float in midair and turn ethereal, so she had an easy time coming along as always and didn't even need to walk! I was a bit envious of that.
"This is my first time having my senses so far into the forest…" Yggdra said. "I did help it grow a bit with my own children as well."
"Oh, I guess you've made the Evergreen Forest even larger now, Yggdra." My mother giggled a bit. "Anyways, any questions? This is the perfect opportunity to learn things."
"What sort of materials are in here?" Celeste asked.
"Oh, are there strong monsters we can hunt?" Mist asked.
"I wonder where those are ruins you talked about, auntie…" Celica said.
"Is there some Spirit Sanctuary nearby?" Lara wondered.
"Now, now, one question at a time, girls…" Sighed my mom, feeling slightly overwhelmed.
As my mother answered all kinds of questions, I noticed Aquarina looking around, sniffing the air. She was looking for Pyuku.
"Hmm… He's farther away, I can sense him still running…" She sighed. "Pyuku, you dumb rascal, where are you even going to?"
"Don't worry, we'll make sure to find him no matter what." I smiled, patting her shoulders.
"I hope so…" She sighed.
And then…
Ding!
[A New [Special Quest] has been generated: [Level Up Aquarina's Spirits and Find Pyuku]!]
[After the mysterious disappearance of Pyuku, Aquarina has been worried sick of that rascal! However, to cheer her up, you've also given Systems to her Spirits, because you felt bad her Spirits weren't as strong as yours after seeing Naturia's amazing evolution.]
[Now, how about we kill multiple birds with one stone? Help Aquarina hunt monsters and level up her partners, while looking for Pyuku at the same time!]
[Help Undine and Leviathan reach Level 20 before finding Pyuku, and then find Pyuku afterwards to receive bountiful rewards!]
[Though, where might Pyuku have even gone to?]
[Quest Completion Rewards]: [5.000.000 EXP] [???] [???] [???]
[Time Limit]:[3 Hours]
[This Quest has been shared with Aquarina.]
Wow, a quest out of nowhere?! It's been several months since then!
And it is quite challenging at that, with several mysterious Rewards and 5 million EXP… not bad. If I do this quickly, I can get even more EXP as a completion bonus before the time limit too.
Level 20 shouldn't be hard for E+ Rank Spirits, a few dozen strong monsters would do the trick!
"Alright, how about we make your spirits stronger after the little gift I gave to them?" I proposed her. "While looking for Pyuku, so we can kill two birds with one stone?"
"Hmm… W-Well, I guess. Though with our parents here, no monsters are approaching us…" Aquarina sighed.
"Mom, dad, everyone, can you lower your auras? While we are at it, we want to hunt monsters too!" I protested.
"Hmmm, I guess it wouldn't hurt to let you all warmup a bit, it has been a little while since you trained." My father agreed.
"I suppose there's no helping it." My mother agreed. "Alright everyone, let's let the monsters approach! Time for the young heroes to have some training for once."
FLAAASH!
The Auras of all our powerful parents recede in a second, we also hid our owns, only letting go the aura of just our life force and rich mana.
Our footsteps and our voices quickly attracted the attention of many monsters roaming around, looking for easy prey… though they were being fooled into believing we were easy prey.
"Alright, looks like something's getting closer!" Zack said, smiling. "Time to check what the monsters of Cloudia have to offer!"
"Don't be too reckless though, Zack!" Mist said. "Let's analyze the situation as they get closer."
"Well while you're sitting analyzing the situation I'm going to get them all for myself." Aquarina smiled with a cocky smirk. "Leviathan and Undine gotta get stronger after all! I'm going to make them evolve until they get as strong as Naturia!"
"Now that's the spirit!" I nodded. "Oh? They're here…"
I looked into the distance, realizing there were several shadowy figures approaching, they had six legs, and were covered on blue and green scales, their sizes varying from four meters to six meters each.
They exuded powerful Auras of Tier 4 to 5 Monsters… Not bad for our welcoming party!
"SHAAAH!"
[A large pack of [Six-Legged Giant Lizards (Tier 4)] have cornered you!]
[They're being led by stronger [Eight-Legged Giant Lizards (Tier 5)], be careful!]
Be careful? These guys are just walking bags of EXP!
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This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢