Chapter 7: Light bead

Asher racks his brain once again and looks for a way to get into the cave without getting noticed by the group of creatures. After a few minutes, an idea struck his mind. However, he still isn't sure if his idea will be accepted by Chronos.

"Chronos I want you to use a bomb and lure the creatures here."

"Wait a minute, you mean I'm the bait to distract them?" Chronos raises his eyebrows. "No, I don't want to." He quickly shakes his head.

"Wait, just listen to the rest of what I have to say." Asher trying to make Chronos calm down. "I'll enter the cave first, then use your dash skill to run into the cave."

Chronos rubs his chin at Asher's explanation. He feels disadvantaged because the creatures can kill him easily, but there is no other way in his mind to pass through the mass of creatures filling the mouth of the cave.

"Alright then, let's give it a try."

Chronos then walks out from the bush where they are hiding and starts to lure the creatures. He throws a bomb item on the ground until it creates a huge explosion that attracts the butterflies out of the cave.

"Great, now this is my chance." Asher immediately runs into the cave and continues to walk until he reaches the end of the cave and sees a door.

"Chronos, hurry up!"

A few minutes later, Asher sees Chronos running quickly toward him and the group of creatures right behind him. Asher throws the remaining bomb items until the creatures stopped chasing Chronos.

"Ash, the door!"

Asher immediately closes the door and they immediately run back to the village of Altaria to meet the fairy chief.

"Elder, here are the materials you need."

"Thank you, Ash, Chronos." The fairy chief immediately concocted the materials that had been collected. "We appreciate it."

'You have completed the quest: Broken wings. Gained 2500 Exp. You have obtained 50 gold coins 2x potions'

A few minutes later, after mixing the ingredients, the chief gives the potion to the injured fairy, but it seems the fairy is still unable to move much.

"Oh my! I forget the last ingredient, light bead." The fairy elder then snaps his fingers.

The fairy elder says the source of the fairies' power comes from a crystal ball called a "light bead" and then suddenly a new quest appears on Asher's screen.

"Quest 4: Light bead (required)"

Recommended player level: lv 6-7

Reward: 100 gold coins, 1x potions, 3x antidotes, 2x fairy clothes

A crystal ball can be found in the river in the forest of venus, but the crystal is guarded by a group of giant butterflies and is placed in the riverbed to maintain the purity of the light.

Recommended class: Thief, ranger.

Asher accepts the quest and purchases the required items first at the Altaria village before entering the dungeon.

'You bought 4x potions, 8x bombs, 8x antidotes.'

A few minutes later, they decide to enter the venus forest, however, the entrance to the venus forest has been blocked by vines, making it difficult to enter through the door. Asher asks the Venus forest guard if there is another way to enter the forest.

"There is a small cave a few meters away from this forest which goes straight into the forest of venus" The old man takes out a compass from his pocket. "Just follow the direction of the compass eye and you'll get there."

'Old man ranger gives you 1x compass'

'Oh, I should also give you this because it's dark there.'

'The old man gave you 2x torches'

Asher and Chronos use the compass and it eventually leads them to the cave in the right direction. However, the cave is so calm, and nothing is in sight and they eventually step inside. They can hear their footsteps and water droplets falling from the cave's mouth.

"Ash, do you see a way out of this cave?" Chronos turns around while holding the torch in his hand. "Is it possible that the old man is saying the right thing?" He raises his eyebrow

"I don't know Chronos but at least we can try." Asher's eyes looked around.

They continue walking through the cave and Asher suddenly feels something on his shoulder.

"Chronos, stop joking already." Asher slowly turns his body around and sees Chronos staring at him with a confused face.

"Ash, what do you mean? "Chronos raises his eyebrows. "I'm a few meters behind you."

"Wait, what are ...."

Asher's eyeballs are wide as he sees a pitch-black spider with red spots on its entire body right on Asher's shoulder and his body instantly freezes.

"S***!" Asher pushes the spider off his shoulder and points his torch upwards. His face tightens at the sight of a collection of similar-sized spiders right above their heads

"Oh crap! We've got to get out of here!" Chronos pulls Asher's hand and faster their pace.

The spiders catch up with them and start shooting out bursts of webs which makes their pace slow down. Chronos points his sword and slashes at the web, but several spiders begin to walk over and jump at him. Asher quickly throws his bomb and kills the spiders.

'100 exp earned'

'You have obtained 90 gold coins, spiderweb1x'

100 exp earned'

'You have obtained 90 gold coins, spiderweb 2x'

100 exp earned'

'You have obtained 90 gold coins, spiderweb 2x'

The notification repeats itself up to 7 times until Asher's level is now level 7 and after running for a long time they finally get out of the cave.

'Gained +5 point status, unlock skill'

Skill unlock:

[Esuna]: Removes negative status effects from a target.

Mana cost: 20

Asher adds his INT status point to increase his magic attack. They decide to look for the light bead and after a few minutes of walking the river, they are looking for what is right in front of them but surrounded by large butterflies.

"Ash, so what should we do?" Chronos glances at Asher with a curious face.

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