15 Lightning Spirit Bachi
Blue lightning began to crawl over Echo's body as he reconnected the link with trip, His eyes flashes with blue light filled with energy as Trip wrapped around him like a cloak made of electricity.
as soon as they made their link the reindeer once again glows brightly in red and blows a breath of fire towards the two.
Seeing the attack Echo and Trip immidiately dodge and manage to easily escape the range of the fire breath with their new found speed.
"woah! your breath stinks." while mocking the enemy Echo prepares to counter attack however, the knife that he had melted when the reindeer breathe fire, and the pot lid shield are now broken due to the impact of crushing the reindeer's antlers.
"kyaah! kyah!" Trip began to try and lift a the pole on Echo's back asking him to use it as a weapon. "ain't this thing the one that absorbs Mana that is being poured to it right? You sure about this?" Echo confusedly ask.
However the answer that he's waiting for is the opposite from what he expect, as Trip can be seen charging the staff with his energy.
Not caring about the rationale on using a Mana absorbing staff as a weapon by charging it with Mana, Echo decided to trust Trip as it still is better than fighting with no weapons at hand.
Echo now holding the staff filled with energy began his counter attack, but Echo failed to produce the amount of power he is expecting.
as if mocking him the reindeer began to chant another skill. <red light bright star> A tiny pure red fire ball began to form in his index finger as he chant the skill and pointing it towards Echo.
Panic arose towards Echo as he really need to interrupt the casting or he will die here, unfortunately Echo can't fight properly using the staff. "damnit! I don't want to do this but this leave me no choice; Trip, Algiea, and whoever you are I'm sorry."
left with no choice Echo began to broke the staff into two and use it as a pair of Kali stick.
All the energy absorbed by the staff immediately flows out and began to dry out quickly however something unimaginable seems to happen, the energy flowing out became vines wrapping around Echo's arm and transforming into a new weapon.
[Lightning Spirit Bachi (Unknown)]
Formed by releasing the overflowing Mana charged inside of the Staff of Algiea, the Lightning Spirit Bachi is blessed by nature to protect the blue spirit of lightning.
[damage +??]
[agility +??]
[Lightning Fall - Each strike of the Lightning spirit bachi will produce a lightning targeting a random enemy (must have a proper rhythm to activate the skill)]
[Natural Energy:
Withdraw: draw energy from the surrounding nature granting attack and movement buffs.
Provide: Energy gathered can be spread towards the nature, accelerating their growth.]
Seeing the massive changes in the staff Echo once again continued his attack, however this time he didn't go directly because the charge on the skill the reindeer is chanting is already melting hot and the temperature is still going up.
"let's try and see how your gimmicks work." Echo excitedly goes into the stance he always uses when he is playing the taiko drum arcade games.
as he focus himself Echo is now hearing a drum beat in his head, instead of being startled Echo now seems to be in a trance.
Raising his left arm he smashes the imaginary drum in front of him then followed by right, slowly following the rhythm and becoming more powerful as the time gets.
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While chanting Rudolph is observing the young boy as he regretted underestimating him, filled with anger and resentment for his broken antlers, he now finishes the chant for the skill <red light bright star> and ready to fire.
just as he was about to fire he saw the young boy went into a weird stance, and began to hit the air slowly getting into some sort of a rhythm, getting faster and faster as the energy flowing slowly forms a circle.
BOOOOM!!
A lightning crushes down towards Rudolph making him release the charged skill a bit far away from his target. "cursed you damn child!!!"
A lightning struck after another as Echo hit the imaginary drum in front of him, making the reindeer fried on electricity.
upon opening his eyes Echo was dumbfounded by the damage he make, an black corpse of a reindeer is on the floor lying lifelessly, full of scorch marks due to the continuous lightning strike.
Now that the reindeer was dead Taiko and Trip now managed to relax as they found a seat on a tree stump.
Trip looks at Taiko with a smile on his face as he made a gesture of planting the former staff of Algiea in the center of the platform.
but as soon as they reach the center Trip's Image began to flicker "hey! are you alright??" panic once again arose as he saw that his friend's body kept on flickering.
"No, this is just one of your jokes right? please tell me it is." Tears began to Taiko's face as he began to remember the moment he met him, the first snowball he first throw at him, even though it's just a couple of day feels like an eternity to him and he can't afford to let go of his new found friend.
"kyaa^^" Trip Pat Echo's head and tried to comforted him, however instead of having an emotionless look the boy began to cry loudly.
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Echo now a bystander again began to tear up as he watch the emotionless young boy helplessly cry in front of a flickering spirit.
He now finished his quest and is currently watching a cinematic, trying to get a glimpse of what will be the next step or quest he will receive.
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Before Trip Flickers away he drag the young boy taiko towards the center and once again gestured to stab the ground powerfully to plant the staff of Algiea.
Unhesitatingly Taiko didn't betray his friends final request as he shout with all his might and put all the energy left on planting the staff to the ground.
the other half of the staff began to grow and reunited with the one stab on the ground as Trip uses his remaining energy towards the staff.
"Yaaaaaaaahhhhjj!!!!!!"
Blue and green energy exploded as Trip finally pour the last ounce of his mana, the surrounding plants began to grow an the whole town seems to gain another life.
fruits and flowers began to bloom filling the land with colors, the surrounding greens became more vibrant and up above the dark skies the sun finally shines melting the snowcaps that covers the enitire land.
inside the Tree of Algiea a young boy whose currently crying can be seen. Inside the boys head a cute voice of a child can be heard "Thanks brother! and don't worry I'll will always be here by your side" as soon as he heard this Taiko finally managed to form a smile.
[Quest Compete]
[Returning Back to the Land of Trials]
when echo heard the notification of him returning home, he became dejected as he is expecting some kind of spoilers indicating his next quest.
but as soon as the count down for his transport began he saw an image of a group of reindeer picking up the now dead red nose reindeer. the young boy taiko magically vanish as well which provides a lot of unanswered question to Echo.
