The smell doesn't wane as Yvlena walks forward, the path leads them to another level Yvlena reads only as 'Bloom Forest: Fotten.'
"Fotten? What does that mean?" the girl asks, tinuing to walk through the area. Dead grass ches under her feet, some squelch, releasing a goo that sticks to Yvlena's boots as she walks.
The elven girl grimaces, wrinkling her the stench.
"The forest is dying," Sprite says.
"That's what's causing the spread." Yvlena says. "The miasma in Bloom Forest is starting from here."
The quest menu pops up startling Yvlena, who jumps almost a foot in the air.
[Quest: plete
Iigate the Corrupted Fox
The tainted Miasma from the Verdant Woods seems to be leaking into other areas of Bloom Haven. As the Harvest Guardian, discover the ins of the creature came from and what to do about it.
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Rewards
A Seed
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Moon Points x500
Moon Gems x100
EXP x300]
[Yvlena Acquired
EXP: 619/730
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A Seed
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Moon Points: x500
Moon Gems x100]
"A seed? I guess I'll have to pnt it back at the Rose Manor to see what es of it, I hope it's something that help with the miasma."
Looking around Yvlena see the remains of what used to be a grand structure. Marble ns and giant statues y broken all around Yvlena and her party remi of something grander.
It was too dark to see anything clearly.
"We'd need a ntern or a light spell if we want to explore this pce."
[Quest: Iigate the Fotten Ruins of Bloom Forest
Bloom Forest used to be a rich forest teeming with life, unfortunately, much of the forest has bee only to the memories of the citizens of Bloom Haven.
As the Harvest Guardian, Iigate the ruins and see why it is the cause of the miasma,
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Rewards
????
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Moon Points x700
Moon Gems x150
EXP x400]
[War of the Gods 1.3% pletion]
[Story of the Harvest Guardian 7%]
Yvlena reads the notifications under her breath, softly exhaling as she does. This pce...
"I have to e back, I've already fihe fox quest but we need a ntern and I o pnt the a seed. Maybe Laurent will have something on this pce." she says itting the name of the area to memory.
"It must be getting te and I pyed a lot today." Yvlena says, she pauses, having no idea how to log out from the game with the Revista.
"Menu." she says, scrolling down until she finds the button.
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Aya takes the headset off her head and falls bato her bed breathing deeply.
"That was amazing!" she says breathlessly. Finding some energy, she rolls over to the side to pick up her phone and check the time, it's 6:00 PM. Her eyes widen and with immediate effect, hunger and bathroom cues hit harder than any corrupted wolf .
She rushes out of bed, running to the bathroom to use it before something bad happens.
At the sound of the toilet flushing Aya embarrassedly heads to the kit to make a simple meal.
"Gosh, that was embarrassing. I have to remember to take breaks iween pying." she says to herself.
A moment of silence passes before she squeals iement.
"The game is so much better in VR! I fought a wolf and I won! I'm a summohis is so amazing."
After wolfing doeanut butter sandwich she settles ba her bed to think some more.
"I've got work tomorrow so I'll have to restrict myself to pying in the evenings again." she sighs sadly.
"If only I could quit and just py the game I could just sell things on the au house to get by." Aya chews her lip in thought.
"Is that too unstable of an i's just better if it's a side thing. I mean everyone says job security is important and all that."
While mulling over the choices fag her, Aya opens up the BooTube app to eain herself.
With the game on her mind, she types in 'Moon Valley' to see what other pyers are saying. She es across a sea of videos, different grindihods, the best pces to level up, and how to make more money off the game.
She doesn't find much for her css, summoner, meaning it wasn't popur to py.
"But it's literally the best css though!" she says in disbelief. A few more videos cross her s
"B." she sighs, until she es across a highlight reel.
"gelo kill pition?" Aya clicks the video, watg as a rouge, assassin-like swordsman decimates pears to be other pyers and even some NP the game.
"This is brutal." Aya says in fasation and disgust as she watches gelo rip a pyer in half with his giant zweihander.
"I thought people who had the knight css were supposed to be noble?!" Aya says. The PVP matches with this guy were especially bad.
gelo had no problems using underhaactics to win his matches, using his enviro, or riling his oppos up enough to make them drop guard where he would go in for the killing blow.
"I hope I never enter this guy." Aya says, "Good thing I don't py PVP."
'But Mars does.' she remembers.
"I hope she doesn't enter this chump either, this is seriously too cruel. 5 million views?!" Aya ges, people could be so weird but curiosity would always be a big draw for these things.
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After putting the gear away Aya flops bato her bed to do some thinking.
"I wonder what the ruins in Bloom Forest have to do with the Harvest Guardian, could be it an old temple of some sort? I'll ask when I log in again." Aya says.
She yawns, rolling over to the other side of the bed to rest her head gently on her pillow.
"I should get some sleep, I've got work tomorrow." She says turning off her phohe weeke by so fast, probably because I did nothing but game all day."
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Aya yawns as she pushes the mail cart all the way to the third floor, she doesn't breeting any of the office workers and simply hands them their mail.
Not like any of them would be thankful for it, and Aya didn't want to be on anyone's list this m when it felt like she could drop to the ground at any moment.
Heading to the top floor, Aya is once again in the presence of the president's secretary, the woman types away on her puter barely aowledging Aya who has nothing to say either.
The brue offers no greetings only pg a few envelopes on the woman's desk before turning around and heading back to the lift. The rustle of papers catches her attention and she turns around to see Viviana sweep the envelopes off the desk with a smirk.
"You're so clumsy mail rat." Viviana sneers.
Aya raises an eyebrow, seeing as she's already at the elevator door she presses the button aers with her mail cart.
Viviana watches her, gaping like a fish that Aya didn't e scurrying back to the table apologizing profusely.
"Hey, aren't you going to pick these up?!"
"I didn't knock 'em over." Aya says, the elevator doors close with a ding, desding toward the mail room.
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Aya takes a moment to open up the Moon Valley app and check her stats, she notices a new window.
"Oh? For my summons." she says reading through it. Aya skims the page, taking general note of Rabbit Knight and Sprite's statuses.
"I should really think about expl those ruins. Maybe Risel could sell me a ntern."
"Who are you talking to?" Her mail room boss asks, Aya jumps.
"Don't scare me like that, I was deep in thought!" she whihe older chuckles.
"Something's different about you." the man says.
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know how to put it, but I like it." the man says. Aya gives a hesitant smile allowing the man to return to his office.
"Weird." she says.
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Aya exits the bus and waves to the driver as she tinues her walk toward the crumbling apartment building she calls home.
"Yo!" a voice calls from behihe bruurns around to see Mars, shake in hand walking towards her.
"Hope you had a better day than mine." Aya says with a smile. Mars moves the straw from her mouth with a grimace.
"Oh I definitely had a better day than you." she teases, the girls ugh and tinue walking side by side
"Any progress on year yet?" Mars asks. Aya stops iracks realizing she hadn't told Mars about the Revista.
"What's wrong?" Mars asks. Aya smiles sheepishly, scratg her head.
"I got...a VR Gear."
Mars stares, b holes into Aya's forehead with how intense she's staring at the pirl.
"You mean you finally got a headset and you didn't tell me?!' Mars grabs her by the shoulders shaking furiously.
"You better start running." she says. Aya ughs, taking off as Mars chases her to the apartment plex.
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"I'm sorry I fot." Aya whines. She pouts at Mars, giving the irl puppy dog eyes. Mars pats her head, turning her lips up in a half smile.
"Oh, you. I'm happy you got it though, the Revista is pretty det. It was my first gear actually." Mars sighs fondly, Aya notices the far-off look in her eyes. A sad expression falls aars's face.
"Are you alright?" Aya asks in , watg the girl's expression shift from a pained oo something more wistful.
"Hm? Oh, yeah Aya." Mars says, but the look in her eyes does not go away. The girl pauses, starting to say something.
"Do you ever—" she stops herself, turning around to face the apartment stairs.
"Mars, what's wrong?" Aya asks again, holding onto the girl's arm.
"It's nothing." Mars says dismissively. "Now you e fight me as soon as you make it out of Bloom Haven and into a better map."
Aya sighs.
"So long as you're not secretly that gelo guy I think I'll be up for it." Aya ughs. Mars narrows her eyes.
"What did you say?"
Aya jumps, growing nervous at the girl's sour tone, she doesn't know what set the girl off but she repeats herself.
"Well there was this streamer called gelo, I watched some of his PVP matches and it retty brutal." Aya expins folding her arms.
Mars curses.
"And he ying Moon Valley?"
"Yeah, at least that's what I think he ying. The area looked pletely different."
Mars pulls out her own phoyping something in and showing it to Aya. The brue ss the page, pointing out the video she had watched earlier.
"That's the one."
They watch the video together, Mars stares unflingly at the brutal ses while Aya wi every turn.
"I don't think I ever want to py PVP, Mars." Aya says.
"I know and I hope you don't meet this asshole."
"Do you know him?"
"It's plicated." Mars replies. "But you don't have to worry about it."
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Walking into her apartment Aya hangs her bag on the rad sits at her desk ready to py.
"Oh that's right I have to py lying down, I almost fot." she ughs.
After setting up her stuff she gets into her bed and loads the game, soon, she's standing ba Bloom Forest's Fottehs.