Phosphor Temple
After walking from the pawn shop with the quest given to them by the owner of the pawn shop in question, Elsword, Aisha and Rena arrived near the Phosphor Temple, and he said to the two "There it is, the Phosphor Temple the owner told us about. Let's try to find the artifacts that he needs, an ancient codex and a ruby, without Crescentia noticing us, okay?" They nodded to him, and they decided to find a costume worn by the cult members in a way to trick her into believing that they were members of her cult.
They succeeded in tricking her and managed to enter the Phosphor Temple, where they were carrying a torch, wandering all the way to a ruby cave, where they saw lots of rubies everywhere and after hours of walking, they found the ruby the pawn shop owner was looking for, sealed in a container glass made out of sugar glass. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned on their own, since Elsword ignored Aisha's advice not to get noticed by the cult and broke the glass to get the ruby with his bare hands and in turn, he accidentally activated its lasers, causing the trio to get surrounded by Crescentia and her remaining cult members, who appeared out of nowhere and were overseeing the temple the whole time.
She said "What are you three doing with that ruby?! Give it to me!" Elsword replied "Hey! That's not your ruby, Crescentia! That ruby's for the pawn shop owner who wants to use it for research purposes on how to dismantle your cult!" Rena agreed with him and said to her "Lady Crescent! There are many rubies other than this one that you can have instead! Go find one!" This enraged her even more, as the trio fled the cave and closed it by saying the magic words of "Ruby Close!" and went on to find the ancient codex at the temple, trapping the cult inside of the ruby cave even though Crescentia managed to escape by saying "Ruby Open!" and chased after the three.
By the time they arrived, they saw a statue of Noah's brother Ebalon, who wasn't discovered for a long time, holding the ancient codex in his hands. Noah appeared to the three and said to them "Hey, it's been a while since we met. And, why are you here in front of my brother's statue?" Aisha replied "We want to take the ancient codex for the pawn shop owner so he can use it for research purposes on how to dismantle Crescentia's cult." He replied "Crescentia? I know that person before. She is the one who sided with an impostor of my brother from the beginning until he was killed, up to now." before telling her "Can I be with you?" She replied "Sure."
As such, Noah allowed his allies, especially Rena, to grab the ancient codex and just as Crescentia came to the four and tried to aim her lasers at them, the children of a holy beast, who served as Aisha's guardian, appeared out of nowhere, defending them with all of their strength, before saying to her "Woah, not so fast, Crescentia. Think you can do this with us? We don't think so." and she got shocked and tried to run away from the temple, but as she tried to leave the temple, the beasts scratched her like cats and everyone laughed throughout the whole scene.
The beasts came back and thanked Aisha for summoning them in the first place in case she was in danger before they disappeared. Elsword high-fived her for saving their allies from Crescentia as well, and together, they all made out of the temple successfully without the latter's interference, with the trio parting ways with Noah, who went on to follow the other El Masters and Priestesses somewhere else. By the time they arrived to the pawn shop that they visited earlier during the events of Search for the El Thief, Rena gave the owner the ancient codex and ruby, and he thanked them for giving him one, and gave them the badge and title of "Phosphor Templar".
Back at the shared house, while in the living room, sitting in front of the fireplace, covered in a shared blanket, Elsword talked with Aisha and Rena about their adventures in Phosphor Temple, located near the Daystar Palace and how they resolved the quest easily with the pawn shop owner. One hour later, the latter left the two alone, leaving them on their own. They soon fell asleep on each other's shoulder for the entire night. The next day, they woke up to the knocking sounds of the door, with her telling him "I'm going to open the door. Stay there, okay?" and she opened the door, only to realize that it was the son of the pawn shop owner whom Rena gave the ancient codex and ruby to yesterday. He tells her that his father got captured by Crescentia and her cult for trying to research the ways that her cult can be dismantled and his mother is temporarily running the pawn shop alongside his sister until he can be rescued.
Upon realizing what he had gone through, Aisha tells Elsword and Rena to come to her and they obeyed, with her saying to them "Elsword, Rena, we must do something to save the pawn shop owner before he betrays his own family for that Lady Crescent's cult!" They agreed, and the latter told the son not to worry about his father and pray that he'll be saved, in which he listened to her and went to the shop, while the trio set out to rescue his father, with Laban, Fabian, Frostine, Fawn and Seneca following them, leaving Raven, Lu, Ciel, Elona, Aluna and Laby in the house.
Arriving at the entrance of the Daystar Palace, while disguised in the same outfit as Crescentia's cult members, Aisha, with her long purple hair tied in a bun, somehow managed to gain Crescentia's trust by pretending to be a man named Harbin, alongside with her ally Elsword, who also pretended to be a woman named Rebecca, with a strawberry blonde wig. They asked her if she could accompany them to where she's holding the owner captive, in which she agreed to accompany them to a secret room only for her and her male suitors.
Rebecca told Crescentia "What is this room, ma'am?" Harbin replied "Yeah, what is this?" She replied to them "This is a room that only me and my lover can enter. Don't go in there without my permission, okay?" They both nodded to her and she left, giving them the key to the room and told them not to open it without her. Taking advantage of this, the two allies secretly discussed their plans with their friend Rena, who was also John in disguise and came up with the disguises and with her approval, they gained access to Crescentia's secret room.
To their surprise, Rebecca and Harbin saw the pawn shop owner enchained to a bed, with his mouth covered by a tape, and they were shocked to see him like this before, and the former said to his friend "Harbin! We better have to save him before Crescentia arrives!" She nodded, and the two freed him by unchaining and removing the tape from his mouth, before revealing themselves as Elsword and Aisha to the owner, who recognized them and told them to run away before Crescentia catches them in the act, but they cared about his safety, with them and Rena carrying him away from the Daystar Palace, and bringing him back to the shop with the ancient codex and ruby.
By the time Crescentia returned to the palace, she finds out that he's gone and soon realized that she trusted Rebecca and Harbin in the first place and they had taken her hostage away from the room and ran away with him. She came to her secret room, only to find out that the bed was empty, and saw traces of the strawberry blonde wig the former had put on, before she started crying on her bed all alone, until she stopped and made a plan to get revenge on them someday, when suddenly, she saw Chol's poop everywhere, to her disgust that even Laban laughed at her and left with his pet.
Meanwhile, the pawn shop owner, along with his wife, son and daughter thanked their saviors Elsword, Aisha and Rena for saving them, and as a reward, they gave them not only the leftover enhanced and powerful equipment from the fallen warriors that the shop had for a long time, along with a new outfit tailored by the daughter for each of them. For him, it was a red and white marching band-themed outfit with a pauldron and a belt, attached to it, along with a matching hat that he can take off at any time, while on the other hand, in Aisha's case, it was a purple and black marching band outfit, with a skirt instead of pants and for Rena, it was a white and green outfit suitable for archery, with a short kimono style shirt, a hakama skirt that reached to her knees and a glove, along with an unique composite bow.
The three thanked the daughter for making their new outfits so that they took them with themselves, and so on, they decided to accept the owner's wife's quest to find and rescue the current ruler of the Daystar Purgatory, Astros, who is being held hostage inside Crescentia's secret room in the Daystar Palace because she wasn't welcoming of her and the cult after what their members had done to kill her entire family, to the point that she designated the cult as a terrorist group and wishing to avenge her family for what she had done.
Realizing the dangerous consequences Elsword and his friends Aisha and Rena might have coming to them in this dangerous quest to find and save the ruler herself, his cousin Fabian and his own allies were determined to stand up for and stay with them no matter what, and thus, the main trio decides to infiltrate the Daystar Palace, once again, with their disguises as Rebecca, Harbin and John, this time to save Astros herself from Crescentia before it's too late.
To be continued...