8 Weakened State
"Do you wish to enter the Wolves Plane?" A Naiad appeared from the ripples on the portal gate.
"Yes!" Answered AleyaNala.
"You are currently registered in a group, will your party members be participating."
"Yes."
After the exchange of the two, a system prompt appeared on every party member's vision.
[System: Your team leader wished to enter the 'Wolves Plane', Will you participate.
<Yes><No>]
"Yes."
The water ripples on the gate warped and the swallowed every member of the team. Slight nausea was felt by everyone when the transport was done but went away just as fast as it came.
"Alright, we have to collect 'Wolf's-Bane' first!"
Hearing AleyaNala's command, everyone scurried in search of the flower.
VerBoss tapped Saya's shoulders and said, "Follow me."
VerBoss quickly headed to a bed of purple flowers, underneath a large rock the size of a car.
"Collect all of those, I'll go search for other places."
A few minutes later, a yellow marker started flashing on the map, indicating the location of Wolf's-Bane. Pinned by VerBoss one after another.
"How are you doing that?" Saya unconsciously blurted on the team chat.
"Haha... A magician doesn't reveal his secrets little sheep." declared VerBoss.
"..." Everyone was stunned by VerBoss's words.
Hearing this, Saya quietly continued harvesting his keep.
[ You have picked up one Flower ('Wolf's-Bane.)]
[You have Failed to Collect the Flower]
This appeared every time he gathers a stem.
In the long silence, where everyone was waiting for Saya's response. Everyone bursts into laughter, leaving Saya feeling out of place.
"Actually, VerBoss awakened a skill called 'Flowers Scent' through his title; 'Wind Hunter' inert ability, Winds Guidance. That is why he can locate the flowers easily."
It was Shapeless who can no longer hold his tongue that explained.
Hearing Shapless's explanation, Sai thought to himself, 'will be able to awaken a skill as well through the 'Nature Aura'?
As if to answer his melancholy, the system sounded in his ears, as he picked the last stem of 'Wolf's-Bane' in his area.
[You have held an item with Aura. Contain it immediately or the essence will disperse into the surrounding.]
[System: Skill awakened.
Aura Detection (Weak)
{Description:
Detect aura of any held object, holding it for a certain period of time will release the Energy from the Object.}]
[System: Skill awakened.
Aura Compression (Weak)
{Descrition:
Gather the released energy, and condense it to liquid form.
Note; The Condensate must be successfully stored in a Vial or a specialized container or the energy explode and will vanish.}]
"Wah!" Sai exclaimed as he observes the description of his new skills.
"Alright, everyone how many have you collected so far?" AleyaNala posted in the group chat.
"60 Pieces" - SayaShin
"189 Pieces" - VerBoss
"149 Pieces" - GurinBare
"166 Pieces" - Shapeless
"That makes 800 including mine." - AleyaNala
For the team members except for SayaShin, the numbers were the collective of their current haul and their past pickups before the two of their members died, where the others had to forcefully leave the dungeon for their own safety.
"Saya, this is your first time collecting right?" - VerBoss
"Yeah! Why?"
"It's just that, for the past hour we are collecting I only managed to collect 48, and I have been collecting on larger flower beds than you."
"Maybe I just happened to be fortunate on the spots I collected from."
"..."
"Hay, VerBoss... A magician doesn't reveal his secrets you know." - GurinBare
Everyone burst into laughter when GurinBare returned VerBoss's words.
While everyone's laughter echoed in the earplugs, four light-orbs flew towards the direction of SayaShin and enters his pocket.
[System: You have received 10 'Wolf's-Bane' From VerBoss]
[System: You have received 10 'Wolf's-Bane' From AleyaNala]
[System: You have received 10 'Wolf's-Bane' From GurinBare]
[System: You have received 10 'Wolf's-Bane' From Shapeless]
"Alright, that should make everyone's 'Wolf's-Bane' Count should be a hundred at least." - AleyaNala
"Umm... Guys... Why would you give me your harvest?" - Sayashin
"Ohh... Yeah... For us to a guaranteed drop of 'Wolves Bane', we need to feed ten 'Wolf's-Bane' flowers to the wolves... Everyone head to this coordinates [WP,160,300]" -AleyaNala
The coordinates that AleyaNala sent was actually a pit that was discovered by the beta testers, Ideal for the hit and run tactics that are employed on these fields monsters; the Wolves.
"I've marked the Flower beds on the way there, make sure to collect as many as you can. Let's meet up in an hour, is that alright leader?" - VerBoss
"As long as everyone arrives, anything goes. Be there in an hour." - AleyaNala
Everyone slowly approached the set coordinates, occasionally collecting the herbs and flowers that they come across. When suddenly a stray wolf approaches one of their member's location.
"Saya! Getaway quickly."
"A Wolf is approaching from 30 degrees NorthEast."
"Hay! Look at the map."
Everyone frantically fired messages to Sai, Be it the group chat or the personal message function. Nothing gets through. Rather he is endorsed in his endeavor that not even an alarm sound could ring him from this stupor.
"Damn it! He's not paying attention. Everyone to his location."
Every one of his fellows rushed to his location with gusto, and when he was on sight, the beast is no more than four meters away. No matter how much they try to come to his rescue, the distance is just too great for them to overcome in a short period of time.
While everyone was despairing, for this dazed comrade of theirs. They could not do anything but to run to his location, even though they know that it's futile at this point.
SayaShin, standing in the middle of all these things, was looking at flowers on his hand for the longest time. It wasn't the first that he held in this position, but it might become his last. three full minutes had passed when he started to collect the Aura from the flower, but even then the Aura is still being drawn out from it. Unaware of the situation he was in, he continued to condense the Aura in hand.
3 meters the wolf crept. 100 meters his commands still need to traverse.
2 meters the wolf prepared to pounce. 70 meters of desperate rush his friend would have to make.
1 meter the distance of the wolves mouth from his target's neck. 30 meters where time almost stops, still out of range of their healing spells.
'Just a little more' thought Sai, while looking at the condensed Aura in his hands, he can almost sense the fluid sensation When suddenly. His entire field of vision flashed a red warning and a defining sound of alarm ringed in his ears, which took his concentration away.
0.5-meter everyone's heart almost stops beating. Then an explosion of purple mist originating from the person's hand, in the center of this event, covered the field more than 20 meters. The beast that was about to land, flew 10 meters back and rolled a few more before it stops.
[System: Aura Compression(Failed)]
When all was calm ones again. Sai looked at his palms where there should have been a vial filled with fluid essence, empty.
"Hayyysshhhh~~~" Sai sighed in disappointment. When he saw his mail tab filled with more than a hundred messages, which read any one word 'Run!' when suddenly another message arrived 'WHAT DID YOU DO?' was written, in which he responded 'testing a skill, but failed', whoever received this reply was stunned witless.
Only after he replied to the last message did he realize that worrying voices we're calling for his attention.
"Behind you! A WOLF!" it was Shadowless that was herd.
Sai looked around only to see four figures heading to his location and pointing behind him, where a dying wolf sprawled motionlessly but observing closely the creature's status read: weakened state.
[Adult Wolf Lvl.10 (Weakened State)
HP:1000/1000
MP:500/500]
When all of them converge on the spot. The two Avaths immediately headed to terminate the wolf, only to kill it without the satisfaction of it fighting back. The wolf died within four strikes of the Avaths and dropped two units of 'Wolves Bane', four units of 'Seeds of Shade'. Which peeked everyone's attention.
"What skill we're you playing around with?" - VerBoss
"Umm... It's a skill I awakened with the help of my title, Natures Friend, called Aura Detect, which allows me to collect and compress energy that I come across. But it failed because a hostile Aura was detected and prevented me from finishing the process."
"Show us! Maybe we can use it to hunt these wolves in packs rather than individually." - GurinBare
"I don't know if I can fail it on purpose though, but I'll try."
With these words, Sai took out a stem of 'Wolf's-Bane' from his inventory. Holding it for about a minute he said:" I'll start now, please watch carefully."
Seeing that the flower starts to wither and the purple mist was gathered on Sai's palm, the onlookers gasped, for about two minutes that mist danced above his hands, a tear-drop shaped object slowly appeared and devoured the mist.
[System: Aura Compression(Success), Skill proficiency +2, Skill levelup.]
"It's done," Sai said. Showing everyone a purple water drop hovering over his hands.
While everyone was marveling at the water show. A gasp escaped SayaShin's open mouth. Then the marvelous object exploded, covering the field within 20 meters with purple powder.
[System: You have purposefully released the compressed energy for the tenth time.]
[System: Skill awakened.
Aura Burst (Weak)
{Descrition:
Release the condensed energy from its liquid form.
Note; The Condensate will explode in a shockwave-like fashion covering 20 meters with powder-like substance.}]
"I just awakened another skill." - SayaShin
Boasting on this serendipitous event, Sai repeated the process and showed everyone his new skill.
"So what, do you need for it to work?" - Shadowless
Everyone was inclined to this development because they have done this twice already and they only managed to get enough sets for one person, and now that opportunity arises, why would they not take advantage of it.
"I would need to see if the flowers that you have collected have extractible auras."
Everyone promptly retrieved their collection from their inventory and surrendered it to Sai.
" Out of 1380. Flowers we have 400 flowers with Aura. If I start compressing them now I would probably finish within 2-3 hours, maybe we can start farming the wolves while I compress the items?"
Sai returned the none energized flowers to others, and be gone compressing the energized blossoms.
Everyone was moving closer to the beasts den, since they no longer need the hit and run tactics. The two speedy members, VerBoss and Shapeless ran around kiting around 5-8 wolves each, while the two Avaths would later taunt this pack and bide for their time to release the magic powder.
This method hoarded the group with almost 1000 counts on Wolves Bane and more than 1800 units of Seed of Shade.
Now they would only need to reach the center of the field just past the wolves den, to harvest some Sunkissed flowers.
The group slowly killed their way in through the waves of wolves rushing to their deaths. Collecting, and harvesting some flowers and herbs on the way. Until a begrudging sound echoed on the entire map of the Wolves Plane.
"Awooo~~~" accompanied by wolves going berserk, rushing towards the group.
In silent agreement, all five of them dashed to the collection area for the Sunkissed flowers, evading the enraged mob, and if they could not evade, they slaughter.
When they had reached the collection site, what greeted them was a field of yellow bloom. Sparing no time for the boss to appear the group frantically harvested bouquets after bouquets of flowers, then finally the last of the pieces they needed was about to be collected. The boss appeared on the horizon.
"Quickly! We don't have much time." - AleyaNala shouted. Having died once in the hands of the boss, she knows the terror of receiving the ire of the herbalist.
For them to be able to escape, they either love through the portal gate or to leave the detection range of the monsters around and shout: 'Dungeon Escape!' which will send them I don't of the portal gate inside the dungeon.
"Alright everyone we've collected sufficient materials. We should leave now." - GurinBare
"Dungeon Escape!" everyone shouted in unison.
Sending them I don't of the portal entrance and rapidly escaped.
[System: You have left the Wolves Plane]
"Yeah!!" - everyone rejoiced as they have escaped the impending doom.
Everyone gathered on the base of a tree not far from where the dryad stood and divided the loot. The wolves occasionally dropped some leather pelts, meat, and fangs which are used by lifestyle players. In their bags lay hundreds of unconsumed Wolf's-Bane, that can be sold in the auction house of the main city.
Distributing the quest items, everyone has received 200 Wolves Bane, 400 Seed of Shade, 100 Sunkissed Flower to the two that had died before, and 50 For the other 3.
[SayaShin lvl.8
HP:1000(+50%): 1500
MP:1500(+50%): 2250
Stats:
Attack 50
Defense 100
STA 30(+15): 45
INT 50(+15): 65
DEX 30(+15): 50
STR 29(+15): 35
Equipment:
[Hunters Bandana][Wind Guides shirt][Wind Guides Gloves][Hunters Belt][Earthen Breachers][Naiads Boots][Vates Orb]
Skill:
[Aura Detect(Normal)lvl. 6][Aura Compression(Normal)lvl. 3][Aura Burst(Week)lvl. 2]
]
