Source of life element.

As the Ingredi tunnel finally arrived in the aria influenced by the element of life, we can finally start looking for what is releasing the element of life on earth and creating the green wheat in the city on the surface. But to find the source is complicated and easy at the same time, this is because my visual field is even smaller than before since in front of me there is a mixture of the life and earth elements, the sum of these two elements makes the elemental energy is denser than the passage that Ingredi and I went through before, but the good point is that I can trace the source only in the direction that the life element is denser.

And after watching me in front of me I find that the element to my right is denser, so I instruct Ingredi to incline the tunnel route to the right. I thought the only problem would be the reduction of my perception, but Ingredi was also affected by the life element, not directly but that it caused Ingredi's magic to become less effective and this reflects that the tunnel's expansion speed slows down. it by twenty percent.

It doesn't seem like a big difference when looking at the short work of one more day if you consider that it's going to take a few days to find the source of the life element, twenty percent late can be equivalent to a full day's work and even when we still have several days to go before the test date, no one wants to spend more time here than is necessary with each passing day the risk of being discovered by the Yates family increases.

For the next few hours Ingredi and I walked through a sea of green and dark yellow, just that and my vision for Ingredi and just dark land. It's really a test for the mind to spend so much time digging in a dark environment with heavy air, even though I use my wind element to create a breeze in the tunnel and the fire element to lighten and warm the air slightly Ingredi is still performing a task difficult and exhausting.

If she hadn't had the desire to get a lot of money to spend it on making her staff, I believe she wouldn't have been able to spend so many days underground digging. I even believe that creating this tunnel and a great training for Ingredi after she has advanced, but I'm not stupid to tell her that maybe later I can use this argument to make the memory of this adventure more enjoyable and profitable, because if you talk now, I would end up being buried in this tunnel by Ingredi's magic.

"Ingredi even though we're stuck, if you need to take a break to rest and drink some water it's normal. You yourself said that the element of life on earth is holding you back."

"I'm fine Ulric. I can continue digging normally. I've already reduced the speed I'm digging to give me more time to recover my energy."

"I'm more concerned with the mental aspect than the physical aspect now I've entered, isn't it more tiring to dig in earth contaminated by the element of life? Just because you still have energy doesn't liquefy that your mind is not tired."

"I believe you should rest a few minutes at least before lunch break."

"OK."

Despite not being very happy about stopping making the tunnel Ingredi stopped for a while to rest, during that time I let her rest in silence just one with the light breeze in her body I raised her with my wind element for about twenty minutes Ingredi rested in silence, but she couldn't stay still any longer than that and went back to digging the tunnel.

I'm watching Ingredi closely now that we're under the village because I don't want her to go too far and get hurt or diminish the quality of the tunnel any of these events would further hamper our search for the source of the life element than taking a few extra breaks from a few minutes during the day.

For the rest of the day and the next Ingredi and I continued in the same direction but I noticed the life element is denser down the tunnel than forward now so Ingredi started digging even further down it took another two days descending at a pretty big angle, but even before starting to descend we go back several meters to have more room to descend at a less aggressive angle than ninety degrees and even tenths on an incline that makes me slightly uncomfortable.

Creating a tunnel straight down is very dangerous because if we encounter a problem, it is very difficult to go back quickly to avoid it. With the new direction the life element was getting denser at a much faster rate than before which means we are very close to the source of the life element.

It only took us another day of digging to get very close to the source of the life element I could see that in front of us was a huge amount of the life element I would normally think that the source must be something dangerous to have so much life element emanating from it, but taking into account that the life element is poorly concentrated and from what I could see of his movement pattern it is really slow and easily disturbed by Ingredi's magic.

I believe the source would at most be a level three resource, but luckily for us it must be something really big to be able to naturally release so much life element over several years. When we are so close to the life element Ingredi and I retreated even though we had a few hours to explore I still decided that it would be better to go back the next morning with Raziel, even if we don't have to fight another pair of hands it will be useful to take the element's source life though

The next morning rested and ready for any challenge we might face in the three journeys through the tunnel that now stretches for a huge distance, it took us almost three hours just to get to the end of the tunnel and that's because our walking speed is high.

When Ingredi digs the last few meters to reach the source of the element of life Raziel and I stayed behind them for the next forty minutes until Ingredi's magic opened the way to a large cave formed by dark stones. Raziel and I passed by Ingredi and entered the cave as neither one of us needs light to be able to meet enemies in the dark I left the flashlight behind with Ingredi.

Just as I suspected before, I haven't even encountered an enemy, but considering that he probably has the body with the same aura that the source of the life element is emitting I ask Raziel to find out if he sees anything different.

"I can't even find an enemy Raziel! Can you see any threats in the cave?"

"Nothing seems to stand out for min Ulric and a smooth closed cave, I believe we have opened the only cave entrance."

"I joined! You can join now!"

When Ingredi entered the tunnel with the flashlight in hand I could finally see the source of the life element looked like a meteorite almost two meters in diameter its shape was my oval, but as I approached it, I realized that the life element was coming out of imperfections. from him.

"I think the source is inside the meteorite the life element looks like it's coming out of its cracks instead of being expelled by the entire meteorite. I'll open it, you two stands back and be prepared to escape through the tunnel and close it when I go through the entrance if necessary."

When Ingredi and Raziel position themselves at the entrance to the tunnel I pull out my hunting knife and start cutting the meteorite with it. I calmly broke the meteorite's layers with my weapon and peeled back several layers until I reached the meteorite's center.

I basically cut the entire surface of the upper right side of the meteorite during the last hour to finally get inside the meteorite I came across a Christian who was a combination of the most dominant colors and blue and in it some green mixed them. cover most of the crystal and to a gold in the center of the crystal that emitted a constant light illuminating the cave.

When I saw the crystal, it took me a few minutes to realize that this time I'm really screwed. This crystal and apatite it is actually a material that has varying degrees of purity that are classified from level three to level six it is considered rare no matter the quality of it the very small quantity we think must be a level three material the apatite that is in front of me it must be worth over ten thousand gold coins we can really make a lot of money with it plus two problems in doing that.

The first is that it is prohibited to trade apatite because it is a very dangerous material although it is a life element material that is associated with healing apatite has great capabilities to retain and preserve the life element and life forms within your body, but she became popular for a very different from that she is the main ingredient in artifacts that can devour the life of any service.

During the last three hundred years several powerful artifacts created with apatite and all of them were used to slaughter thousands of living beings.

The most terrible was the staff created by a mad mage of the life element he killed not only killed the entire population of several cities but even sacrificed an entire kingdom to feed the staff baptized as the supreme scepter of life, but which was dubbed the staff of bloody death what a funny nickname if the reason he got that nickname wasn't so terrible.

The mage who wields this staff until the end of its short life has been classified as a heretic and an enemy of all living beings by various gods from both the pantheon of light, the tribals, dark gods and even the gods associated with violence and massacres doomed the mage. The great and terrible wizard, Ameis was hunted down and killed by an alliance of various pantheons of gods.

And because of him and some other idiots who used apatite to create artifacts that devour the life force of their victims, apatite has become a taboo mineral for everyone if we get caught carrying not even a few grams of apatite we will be put to death for the realm and for all the churches on the continent.

It's really unlucky to find apatite and to make it even more difficult this raw apatite is being used to store something I can't identify without breaking the apatite layer, but I doubt it can crack the content because the unique aura of the apatite's life element should have marked anything that has been in contact with her for many years.

We really had a lot of bad luck today, so much work to get nothing but trouble.