NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 1299: Back To The Arboren Village
Chapter 1299: Back To The Arboren Village
Ding!
[You have slain the [Miasmic Creature: Slime Beast Type (Tier 7)] x79!]
[You have slain the [Fused Miasmic Creature: Giant Type (Tier 8)] x1!]
[You earned 8.400.000 EXP!]
[Several of [Scarlet] Skills have Leveled Up!]
"Huh? Wait a second, I got EXP from killing monsters inside my Dungeon?"
That never happens, they never gave me EXP at all! But Miasmic Creatures... Do they count as some sort of invasive alien species that don't belong to the dungeon? Using that logic, I guess it makes sense they give me EXP.
I got a lot of EXP accumulated too, I should spend it on some things to improve the city's defenses, definitely. But for now, I have to go see what's up with them-Oh?
Ding!
[Congratulations! You have completed the {Emergency Quest}: [Defend the Arboren Village from the Miasmic Creatures!]
[Yet another quest you didn't read because you were so distracted! But it cannot be helped...]
[Your Dungeon has been inexplicably invaded by strange, miasma creatures, and it's your duty to defend it and its people!]
[You might have slain the first wave, but there will be endless waves if you don't solve the problem from the root.]
[For now, go look how the Arboren are doing, hurry! As their goddess, you must take good care of them.]
[Quest Completion Rewards]: [1.000.000 EXP] [Muscle Strengthening Herb (B+ Grade)] x10 [Random Rune Potion (B+ Grade)] x10 [Random Skill Proficiency Potion (B+ Grade)] x10 [Skill Scroll Fragment: Miasmic Beasts Soul 1/3 (S Grade)] x1]
Ah! There was a Quest?! No way! I never saw that!
The rewards are more generous than I imagined. I thought we were done with giving me these easy-to-use potions and stuff?
Well, they barely work on me anymore though, even all those might not even help me advance fifty percent of a Rank.
But the interesting part is that Skill Scroll Fragment, only a piece of a skill scroll!
Yeah, the Quest System is teasing me...
"Okay, let's clean here first!"
With the help of my Familiars, we made sure to purify the entire area where the Miasmic Creatures were attacking, and once we made our way back, they opened the walls for us.
"Goddess Sylphy!"
"You've come to save us..."
"Thank you so much..."
The guards were crying tears of happiness as they saw me.
"What happened here? For how long you have been fighting?" I wondered.
"T-They started attacking only a month ago! But before, they only attacked hunters that went to hunt outside..." said a Treant-like Arboren.
"A few of our people had been heavily wounded. It's hard for us to fully die because we can regrow, but those that have been attacked have been in a coma..." sighed one with the head of a pumpkin.
"Dammit..."
If they actually died that would have been even more horrible. I am busy outside, so I can't just constantly look at them every second of my life either.
Maybe I should get used to the concept of them dying if it ever happens...
But for now, at the very least, I still need to protect them, because all of what's happening is technically my fault.
"Okay, where's Selene and the others?" I wondered.
"They're in the church... Ivy and Bark were heavily wounded when they defended the village a week ago and had been in a coma since then too!" said the pumpkin headed Arboren.
"What? Even those guys?!" I wondered. "No way... So those things can't really be handled by them yet. We need to heal them and then... Reinforce the defenses! Also, everyone needs to get stronger."
The thing is, I can't give them System Seeds because they already belong to the Civilization System, so conventional leveling is out of the question. I'll have to find other ways to evolve them or make them stronger.
Maybe the Civilization Shop will finally come in handy?
"Lead me to the church!"
"Y-Yes!"
The treant-like Arboren led me to the church while the rest stayed in the wooden walls, I noticed a faint aura of holy spirt energy in them, Selene was constantly using her powers to keep the village safe.
I reinforced the walls using my alchemy right away, and left half of my Familiars watching over, the walls became five times as thick, and fused with stone and earth, it was easy to do, I did it in just five minutes before departing to the church.
But this is only a temporary buff, I'll need to make even stronger walls later. It's good that I made them strong to begin with beforehand, but they need an even more special upgrade.
Using special ores should be necessary, perhaps all that Orichalcum I have... with that, I could probably make an invincible wall, maybe.
Once we made our way to the church, I noticed a lot of people around, going in and out, probably helping the wounded people.
I stepped inside in a hurry, finding Selene commanding the people, she looked tired.
"Please bring those healing herbs to the people over there!"
"Yes, that medicine goes to that person..."
"Wait, that's the wrong mushroom, that's a poisonous one! Be careful, the good one is green
colored."
As she was commanding people, she quickly noticed me.
"A-Ah! Goddess Sylphy?!"
"Hey Selene... I'm back."
"By the heavens above, you're back, my goddess!"
She started crying as she hugged me tightly, crying over my shoulders.
"We've been struggling all this time... Ivy and Bark... If it wasn't for your blessing they would
be dead- they fought so many of them, yet they keep coming endlessly! I-Is this a trial for
us?"
"I... not exactly, but it's my fault..." I sighed. "I came here to solve it once and for all. But first, let's heal everyone, okay? Lead me to Ivy and Bark first."
"Your fault...?" she wondered. "Ah, yes! Please come with me!"
Ugh, I only felt even more terrible the more I knew this was caused by my own negligence.
I need to take more attention; things could have been EVEN worse if I had come here much
later...
"They are still sleeping..."
We entered one of the many underground rooms.
There they were, Ivy and Bark, my two summoned heroes.
Their plant bodies looked black and purple, slowly becoming infected by miasma.
They were resilient though, still holding on even now.
"Don't worry guys, I'm here now..."