I wasn't going to be able to finish if Wataluga kept this up."Come on, tough guy! I thought that you would be speedrunning the entire time!" Wataluga teased me, and I started to move faster, using my anger as fuel.I had started off fine; the Water Totem helped me find the easiest path for me to travel through the heavy water. Then Wataluga must have sensed that I was doing too well, and the pressure and roughness of the weather increased tenfold.Now I could barely walk, but I was jogging now and pushing myself to my limits. I had so many things that I needed to get done; that meant that failure was not an option."You can do it!" I heard Kali call out from the back of my mind, and that made me smile a bit, and I pushed forward."You just don't know how to quit, do you?" Wataluga asked after he condensed his body back to his standard water man form.I was panting, but I had completed the training without stopping after what had to have bee

"Don't give up!"I dug my fingernails into my knees and shook my head, fighting through the dizziness and nausea. Kali's voice echoing from the back of my head had brought me back, but not the stress was fading, and so were all the feelings that it brought.I was finally able to sit back up straight and look back at Fireden, whose smile was set to crack his face in half. Now the Fire no longer bothered me, and I was able to sit in peace as I waited for the Fire Elemental to continue."Fire, Water, Earth, Air, these are the four that you have met, but there are three more. The Element of Life is Light, for where there is light, there can be life. The same is true for Death, the Element of Shadow. While some can survive without it, in a place where there is no light, there is no warmth, and nothing can survive. Basic information, I know, but these elements act in the same way as they behave, which is important to know when dealing with them," Fireden explained, an

Fireden's mark covered my right arm with flaming tribal lines that were red at first but then faded to black. While this was interesting, my mind was waiting to hear what Hero's response would be, but he wasn't talking.I looked down at my burnt shorts and then shook my head. There was no point in putting those back on, and I needed to get going.My talk with Fireden had lasted a lot longer than I had anticipated, and now the sun was starting to make its arch down. I kept both Water Totems active and then started to run.I no longer felt the heat or cold as things that affect my body. Instead, I could feel the heat and cold around me. I could sense monsters in the area, and I could make out some of them, like the green eyeless lizard things that were staying clear of me, but there was something more significant than the smaller creatures.Whatever it was, it was coming for me, and it was big. I decided that now would be an excellent time to pick up the pa

"My daughter is what you might call a horrible and intolerable child that is next to impossible to get to do anything or to listen. I ask that you take good care of her if you decide to take her on. Her mother wanted nothing to do with her, and I have not been able to handle her," Windorf explained, and I gave him a raised eyebrow.If you weren't able to do it, what makes you think that I will?" I asked, and Windorf nodded his head."I don't think you will, but Mex does, and he is one of the very few people's opinions that I respect and will listen to. Mex believes that you are something different, and all of our tickets back to Gardania. Once we are back there, I will ask you to find the mother and try to talk some sense into her!" Windorf said while shaking his fist, but I shook my head to the last part."I will take you and your daughter there, but I will not be forcing anyone to do anything. If you force a useless parent to be good so they can get their chil