"Eighteen hundred points?! And the missions start at ten points?! How many points do you have?" I asked in exasperation.
"None," Jilly said, still not looking at me, and I threw my hands in the air.
"What do you mean none?! How am I supposed to collect that much MP?!" I will have to do missions for a month straight!" I complained, and Jilly sighed and turned to me.
"I am sorry, I really didn't care about anything at that point and was willing to go be Doa cleaning slave, but then I met you and chased you. Now we are here, and you are cleaning me, so I am sorry," Jilly said, and I relaxed and let out my own sigh.
This was not what I had expected, or really what I needed on my plate right now, but I cared a lot about Jilly, so I would make it work. She was the first girl that I met when I got here, and even though she had tried to eat me, she had become an indispensable part of my team.
"Okay, can you roll over and start explaining how the ranks and
I walked out of the bathroom with Jilly, and the two of us headed back outside and then back over to our apartment block."I am going to go get started on collecting supplies, but I need to take Mary with me. She has been lazy since you two had your fun last night, and I don't want to get attacked," Jilly explained as we walked."I am going to cook, and then I have to do my training with my new Totem Mark I got from Veronica the Sphinx," I said as I opened the door, but when I looked inside, there was no one downstairs."Mary will be in her room, but Lidy should be in the kitchen. Thank you for everything; I feel better now," Jilly said and then made her way up the stairs.I smiled to myself and then made my way to the kitchen, but it was empty."I sent her off to do some tasks; you can deal with her when you get back from your training," Mex said as he appeared in front of me for once."Thanks, I have a long day ahead of me still with seams
Even with the extra brain power that I could pour into worrying about Mex, I just couldn't find a reason for him to do all of this. I mean, besides the reason that he had actually given me, like him thinking highly of me and saying that I would do a better job of it.That could just be Silvery Mex sugar tonguing me up with smooth words and reasonable promises to get me pinned into a trap. There was something big in the bush, but It was only watching me, and I was almost to the first clearing where I would meet with Grogvel.It was some kind of cat, but very big, and black with red stripes. It almost reminded me of a tiger, but from hell, and a lot bigger, but I think because it knew I could see it hiding, it didn't want to attack.I walked into the clearing and then stepped around where Grogvel tried to open up the ground under me. Then I had to hop six more times before the Earth Elemental burst from the earth, sputtering in anger."Hey! Stand still, or
I watched as Grogvel started to glow a bright brown that was starting to pulse weirdly, but then I realized that it was in sync with my heart."What am I supposed to do now?" I asked the glowing rock man, and he laughed, but it didn't have any effect on me."Come and place your hand on my chest, and then we will enter into a binding agreement. After that is done, I will become your first Primal Earth Totem, and any Earth elemental Bonds you make will be held within my mark. If you had already made an Earth Bond, then that one would merge into me," Grogvel explained to me, and I nodded as I stepped forward.I placed my hand on his pulsing chest, and the world around us faded away, and the two of us were left floating in space. I was shocked at first, and my mind started racing to check to make sure that I could breathe, but I didn't need to."What is your goal?" Grogvel asked me, but he no longer had a gravelly voice; instead, it was that of a young man.
I looked around, but I couldn't find the creature, but my mind was not working nearly as fast as it was. I could no longer track the creature's movements, so I pulled out my fire saber but left the Loose-Leaf Dagger.I was unsure about this creature, and fighting fire with fire seemed like a fine idea, but Hero didn't feel the same.<Are you a handicapped child with a shiny toy? How can you actually be that stupid? I told you that it breathes fire, and it's called a Hellcat. WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S MADE OUT OF?!>All right, smartypants, what do you, the all-knowing Hero, think I should do?<Use your bare hands and stop acting so stupid. It is painful to watch; just ask for advice if you don't know; stop making ridiculous assumptions! I have offered to help you; make use of it!>True, and I was going to die if I didn't start listening, and I could do fist fighting. So, I can't track him, but then how do I fight him? It's a him, right?
The flower girl had a very sparse grass dress if you could call it that. It didn't do a very good job of covering her up, and this is why I was getting yell at; better start things off a little better."Sorry, you are gorgeous, but I will try not to look at you, but you should cover yourself up if you don't want me to look," I said and turned away, but I was already trying to unsummon her.I didn't have time for this, and I needed to go to my next lesson with Wataluga."Okay, you can turn around now; I am covered. My name is Kali," the girl told me, and I did as told, but then slapped a hand over my face and shook my head.Kali was wearing a pink ski mask made out of flower petals, but she had done nothing to cover herself up."Listen, Kali, we need to get going, so I am going to have to unsummon you, for now, okay?" I asked the girl as she used her hands to cover her face more."But you just did the thing! Why do I have to go away? I could
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
I started to run, and every step felt easy, like I knew exactly where to step and how. It was relaxing, and I was able to focus on Hero and what would be considered the bigger picture.<The other ones like me are on different worlds, in different places; that part isn't easy to explain and is unnecessary. We all have the same goal, we raise up heroes or villains; whichever is the prevailer, but I am sure you can assume that not all gods are like me.>Oh, you mean that the other ones aren't as rude? Just kidding, I'm listening, and that makes sense; keep going; we are almost at Fireden.<Why do we do this? He told us that we needed to complete this task to move on, and He brought us here from the last worlds.>I slowed down as I got closer to the Fire Lake crater's edge, but just how many times have you done this?<four lifetimes ago, one point two billion ascended humans will become energy-based beings and then be offered a choice by
"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