Aya spots the two horned rabbits going about their business and takes a moment to figure out how to equip her two summon stones.
She fits the two stones into their respective slots and wastes no moment leaping into battle with the weaker enemies. Assuming her summon skill would be much the same as her attack skills.
The horned rabbits charge at her, doing a single damage point each. Aya acts, using her summon skill.
[Call Forth Rabbit Knight? (150 MP)]
[Call Forth Forest Sprite? (60 MP)]
Aya wi the heavy cost it would take to summowo allies into battle.
"It's totally worth it and besides I still have a couple of Mana potions I haven't used." she says.
Aya hits yes on both prompts and immediately a fsh of light bathes her character as a Rabbit with red and silver armor ad its tiny body leaps out of the fountain of light. It wastes no time attag the Horned Rabbits.
An even smaller Forest Sprite follows, attag with bsts of tiny flickering lights, Aya only stands back to watch as the Rabbit Knight swiftly dispatches the Horned rabbits within the viity, giving Aya the rewards and exp.
[Yvlena Acquired
EXP: 294/600
***
Rabbit Fur x2
Rabbit Meat x7
***
Moon Points: 20]
"Nice, I didn't even have to do anything there." Aya says, cheering.
[Dismiss Summons?]
[Yes/No]
Aya ponders a bit and decides not to dismiss them, the Summons seem smart enough and she didn't want to be caught unawares. Besides it would ore Mana than she currently had to summon them again.
The Spirte suddenly flies up to her speaking.
"Pleased to meet your acquaintance." it says. The Rabbit Knight as well approaches, bowing its head towards her.
Aya takes the opportunity to take a look at her summons. A winged humanoid flutters in front of her vision although Aya could barely make out her figure due to the light emanating from the small being.
The Rabbit knight is , the slightly anthropomorphized being sits ing its whiskers as she stares at him, his fur is a light wheat color that stands out against his red and silver armor.
Aya notes he's pretty stroe her menu telling her he was currently only level one. He has a little sword strapped to his waist that mirrors the design of her carrot sword only longer and more rapier-like.
"It's o meet you two as well." Aya says to them. The sprite flies off and Aya is given the prompt to name her new panions.
She dismisses it, uo think of cute names for now. Sprite and Rabbit Knight were enough currently.
[There Once Was a Kingdom 1.8% pletion]
"Iing, just summoning the knight was enough to give me more lore bits. I wonder what else will." Aya says, her attention switches from her new summons to quering the Verdant woods. Risel
"With both of them, I surely make it to the Verdant Woods." Aya says to herself. "Am I being too cocky here? Maybe I'm really not ready and there's a bunch more stuff to do withiown."
Brushing off the thought, she walks on, sighting the entrao Bloom forest an area she'd struggled against previously on her journey. Aya shakes off aation on her mind, proceeding farther and farther away from the area until she finds a different colored patch of grass.
Closely examining it, Aya tell the grass is yellowed and dead from whatever was beyond the area at this point.
Her summons say nothing only waiting to follow her lead into the path. Aya tinues forward finally reag the entrance of the new area.
A title card for the area fshes briefly across her visioing her know this was the Verdant wood's path.
The area is thick with unease, even just sitting at her puter Aya feels the oppressive force of the dark, corrupted area. The trees framing the path are gnarled, and bed by something Aya knows to be the miasma from the war of the gods.
No birds sing, instead a screaming breeze whistles past her ears, ruffling her hair and the rabbit knight's fur. The summon shivers and Sprite makes a perch of Yvlena's head.
Below her character, charred, dead grass sprouts from the ground in a sickly hue, it almost makes Aya hesitate.
The path to the woods is a dark winding road of dead grass Yvlena follows. Looking around, she feels eyes stare out from open tree holes, and behind her, ominous sounds resonate from among the trees.
No enemies lu her yet and the girl is almost relieved. Sprite and Rabbit Knight are quiet as they pass through, nearly jumping at every little sway of a branch or hoot of an owl. The path tio darken, shutting out the light the further Aya goes.
Oep more puts her face to face with a wolf.
"There's something strange about this wolf." Aya says to herself, gazing upon it she notices its fur is dark as night, ivory white cws glint in the pale sunlight of the shadowy forest and its teeth reveal themselves to be as sharp as tiny daggers.
There's a madness in its eyes as it snarls and prepares to attack, but most of all a strange bck vapor seems to be emanating from the wolf's fur.
"That must be the miasma corruption Risel was talking about." Aya says to herself. The wolf takes a step forward first, sizing them up intelligently before leaping forward.
"Here it es." Aya says brag herself and her summons.
The wolf lueeth and all ign the summon and heading straight for the summoner. It attacks, g down viciously on Aya. She yelps taking 12 damage as the wolf pulls back.
"Not as bad as the horned Rabbit Queen." Aya says. The Rabbit Knight attacks first attag the wolf and hitting it with 7 damage. Sprite leaps forward.
[Sprite cast Sting (01 MP)]
Hitting the wolf with 3 damage. Aya joins the battle attag with the carrot sword and nding 22 damage.
"Awesome, with the rabbit's foot I should nd a critical hit if I just keep attag." the wolf staggers a bit, retreating slightly as though making a move to run away. It shakes itself off unleashing a mighty howl.
[10 damage to all Party members]
"That nasty wolf!" Aya hears Sprite scream from beside her. The Rabbit Knight nods, lunging again.
[Rabbit Knight Cast Ssh]
Rabbit Knight dives forward, avoiding every swipe of the corrupted wolf's cws and delivering a strike with his carrot Rapier. The wolf whines as a status appears on its head.
[Corrupted Wolf is afflicted with bleed -1 HP Per turn]
"Way to go Rabbit Knight!" Aya cheers. She and Sprite attack hitting the Wolf with a stunning bo.
[Battle Skill Unlocked: Stunner bo]
Together they do a bined damage of 35, making the wolf growl dangerously. The wolf leaps forward, g its teeth down on Rabbit Knight.
"Rabbit knight!" Aya calls, the rabbit only shakes its wounds off, fag Aya with a stoic expression as if to tell her it was okay. She sighs in relief, after only otle the girl finds herself attached to the Rabbit standing proudly beside her.
What a weird turn of events.
It takes one more hit from Aya for the wolf to finally dissolve in a fsh of light signifying its defeat.
"We did it." Aya says in relief, she didn't know the wolf's level but she could tell it was a higher-level ehan anything she had entered so far. If not for her summons the battle may have very well been lost.
She falls back to rest on her chair sighing in relief at the oute of the battle, her eyes open at the sound of the s beeping.
[Rabbit Knight gained a level +1]
[Sprite gained a level +1]
[Sprite learned skill: Cure Lv. 1]
She reads through nodding, it would seem the game had a leveling criteria of it's own for the summons.
[Yvlena Acquired
EXP: 376/600
***
Wolf Fang x1
Shadow Essence x1
***
Moon Points: 200]
"That wolf had a ton of exp, still hope I don't enter another ohough." Aya says tinuing on her way down the dark winding path down to the Verdant wood.
From the er of her vision, she notices a dark cloud over the area she and her summons walk towards. Soon a cloudy haze begins to form over her s, the closer she gets the more she notices a thick heavy film over her vision.
It was a thin fog, growing thicker the farther Yvlena moves towards it until a solid barrier blocks her path to the Verdant Wood.
"The Miasma has spread?" Aya says. She recalls her versation with Risel, where she learned of the Miasma blog the path from the Verdant Woods to the vilge.
Oihe Miasma seems to have spread farther, meaning it could move to cover the town of Bloom Haven.
[-1 damage]
Her menu says, she pulls back from the fog immediately not wanting to put her character in any danger.
"It even hurts you." she says looking up at the thick wall, just beyond, Aya make out thick brang trees and a path leading into the forest.
"I've got to tell Risel arice." Aya says. "I don't even know what will happen if it covers the town."
"Let's head back." Aya says to her summons who are only too happy to oblige. The group turns from the path, walking back down the way they came only to enter a pair of horned rabbits.
Much like the wolf, the rabbits glow with the power of the dark haze. Aya wonders how much stro makes them.
The rabbits don't give her a ce to tinue her musings and attack, charging straight for Aya and her summons.
With the Rabbit Syer boost it's easy to despatch them, Aya wastes no time at all.
[Yvlena Acquired
EXP: 436/600
***
Shadow essence x2
Dark Rabbit fur x2
***
Moon Points: 150]
[Css Skill: Summon Leveled Up]
The menu informs her ohey're closer to town. Aya shrugs, uo uand how the skill leveled up by itself while she passively walks through the gates. She pulls up the menu and reads what the skill does now. She didn't gain ara slot but her mana ption when summoning was reduced by 10%
"Sweet now it won't cost as much t Sprite and Rabbit Knight into battle." she says.
With a heavy heart, Aya dismisses her summons who wave goodbye and bow to her as they dissolve into light.
"I chose the right css, I feel like I have a couple of party members with me." she says rushing towards the Artisan District to inform Risel of her findings.