Yvlena, Sprite, and Rabbit Knight step into a massive but bare hall that was oher a ballroom or the training room for the previous Harvest Knights. The suit of armor stood meekly in the er, Its sickle was held to its chest like a trophy.
Yvlena stepped closer to it, the intricate climbing viched into the surface of the armor ptes. Whoever desighis in-game must have been a very loving craftsman.
She ran her fiips along the armor's breastpte, feeling the bumps and grooves.
[Initiate Practice Battle?]
[Yes/No]
Yvlena hit no and stepped away from the armor to observe the room's broken bay windows.
"So not just a carpenter, some sort of stone worker and gss worker would o be found. This is going to cost a ton of Moon Points." Yvlena said to herself.
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Yvlena and her summons stand in front of the staircase, she pces one foot on top of the first stair and is immediately greeted with a message.
[Unstable Infrastructure, Your Character Risks Possible Injury]
[Repair Staircase To Proceed To The Upper Level?
Wood x200]
[Yes/No]
The information forced her off the stairway to the upper level.
"Looks like I'll have to start with the lower levels and good thing too, I really want to start using the kit," Yvlena said.
She and her summons turn to head back outside. The secret room must have been on the level of the house from Yvlena's uanding there should be at least three.
"Which means the higher levels will have even more damage." she walked out of the house, nearly tripping over a piece of wood stig out of the ground.
She looked back at the steps with a sigh, then leaned down to ihem.
[Repair porch Steps?
Wood x20]
[Yes/No]
"Well that's doable, isn't it? But I don't have any carpentry skills, or does this t as a Harvest Guardian thing?"
Yvlena hit yes and immediately a hammer appeared in her hands, the game guided her moving her hands with magiails and skills until she was finished.
She stepped bad took a look at her handy work in surprise. The ochwork porch steps were repced with a basic but sturdy piece of woodwork making up the eps.
"Ah!" Yvlena gasped, recalling the Adiri specs she had gotten from Risel. Now would be an excellent time to see how far she had gotten skill-wise.
She equipped it, whily meant sliding them onto her nose. Despite the gold frames they were so light she could barely feel them.
[Stats [INT] and [WIS] Temporarily Boosted]
"Smart game," Yvlena said. It probably knew she didn't want to wear the specs all the time, but just when she o identify something. The Temporary stat boost was what gave the Adiri specs their ability to identify.
[Basic Steps
***
Type: Crafted Item
Grade: F
A basic set of woodehat be crafted by just about anyone, useful in a pinch but will wear away over time.]
"An F!" Yvlena whined, "I haven't gotten one of those since...well high school I guess,"
"You just o craft more to improve your skills," Sprite said to her.
"Risel said pretty much the same." Yvlena agreed.
She rested her foot on the newly crafted steps and to her delight, no more creaking.
She was about to go bato the house to see if there was something else she could do whetention was caught by a huge otion ing from the gates of the manor.
"What's that about?" she asked, walking through the bare, grassy path she had craved out with her scythe.
Outside the gates of the Manor, a crowd of people chattered amongst themselves about somethiedly, Yvlena stopped to listen and caught the words, ‘Miasma’ and ‘mert’.
Did a mert from another area of the map make it into Bloom Haven? Was the town's ey going to be jump started?
The elven girl retired her summons theed the gates and walked with the crowd of people from the floral district to the market square. Yvlena stopped once she was out of the Floral distrid within the main Market area.
The once sparse area was now a bustling square of trade and business for the people of Bloom Haven, she sighted Bernard and soon after Tom whom she had first met when she came to Bloom Haven.
But the person that drew the biggest crowd was a colorful and rge caravan, Yvlena came closer, having to move some NPCs aside to get a closer look at the new mert.
The caravan was massive and could be described as a house on wheels, it was drawn by two magnifit sandy brown camels who busied themselves feeding from a basket of greens.
The house on wheels was a deep burgundy with two floors and an emerald colored roof, Yvlena guessed one must have been the shop while the other was the sleeping quarters when the mert went on the road.
Her attention turo the man, who had let go of the reigns on the camel to stand o surface of the caravan and make his presentation. He bowed to his ad crowd, making the inhabitants of Bloom Haven cheer all the more.
She heard his voice, loud and jovial before she even got to the front. The murmuring crowd silenced as the man began to speak.
The mert was a tall rotund man, with a bald head and a long bck beard. His olive skin plemented his green attire which was unlike anything Yvlena had seen in Bloom Haven so far.
His gut jiggled as he moved dramatically, waving to the croas eager to buy his new aic wares.
"Wow." she gasped.
"Hello and Hello my friends, It's so o be in Bloom Haven for the first time in years, I 't remember the st time a member of the Aruergo Mert family has been here!"
The mert suddenly leaped behind his caravan and opened a little shop window.
"The Aruergo Caravan is Open for Business!"
[Special Event: The Aruergo Mert
***
With the removal of the Miasma on the Eastern Path, one of many Fn Merts have a ce to appear in Bloom Haven.
Be sure to catch these special merts for a ce to get information, rare quests, or eveems to add to your iory.]
Ohings had settled down and some of the initial excitement died down, Yvleo the front of the caravan tain.
[NAME: Ricardo
RACE: Human
OCC: Mert]
"Hello!" Yvlena greeted shlyly. The mert gave a wide grin, weling her with great enthusiasm. He leaned forward.
"Ricardo at your service!" the man squinted as he looked Yvlena up and down, notig her gear.
He gave a loud raucous ughter, betraying his excitement at his er.
"Oh my dear, you simply must have a look at my wares!" He said, in a fsh the folding table opened up to Yvlena showg a myriad of items both big and small.
The girl jumped iement. She nodded and began iing
A menu pops up with a chime.
[Buy/Sell]
She clicked buy and began browsing. The first thing she noticed was the Mert had seles in Moon Points and Moon Gems. her Bernard nor Risel had offered her seles in Moon Gems.
"Could it be because it was out of the region, he does seem like he offers exotic wares," Yvlena said to herself.
After a gnce, Yvlena found something of i, a summon stone. Much like the ones she'd gotten Sprite and Rabbit Knight from.
Upon closer iion, she noticed the stone's chipped form.
"Wait this seems like a summon stone shard, that's mostly plete." She said. She recalled the Forest Elemental Shard she had gotten from Bernard and wondered if the Aruergo Mert would have more of them.
"Could you tell me about this?" Yvlena said pointing to the summon stone shard. Learning she could do that from the forums, took a weight off her shoulders.
"This is a reli a mysterious fallen kingdom, the war of the gods left many a try in ruins especially here in our beloved realm Moon Valley," Ricardo said.
"To utilize the shard you will need four shards and a matg summon stone. Lucky you this right here is four already and I will happily part with it for 500 Moon Gems."
Yvlena's eyes widened, she'd gathered all her Moon Gems from exceedingly tough quests and now she would have to give them away.
"But it's for Rabbit Knight, he get stronger with this." She said to herself. Yvlena nodded.
"I'll take it!" she said, her voice crag slightly as she did.
The mert's grin grew wider. "As my first er in Bloom Haven, I'll throw in a little something for you."
[Yvlena Acquired
***
Gliresea Kingdom Shard (4/5)
Health Potion x5]
[There Once was a Kingdom 5% pletion]
Yvlena gasped. Finally, the name of Rabbit Knight's fallen kingdom was revealed to her.
"Gliresea. I wonder if the library has any books on it, but I kinda don't want to bother Laurent." Yvlena muttered.
"Is there anything else you would like to buy?"
'With these cutthroat prices?' Yvlena thought, she gazed at the rad ied some of the items that cur Moon Points hoping for some on upgrades for herself.
"I've accumuted quite a bunoon Points so let's see if I get a better cloak or sword."
"Are you looking for something in particur my fair dy?"
Yvlena took her sword from its sheath and showed it to the mert.
"I'm looking for something simir."
"I see, I see," the mert brings the bde up to his o study it carefully. "It's from the same Kingdom as the Summon Stone Shards, only one as skilled as you could hope to wield it,"
Yvlena blushed at the fttery.
"This sword is a reli a once powerful Kingdom, you have two choices here, Miss. Either upgrade this sword with special ores from the kingdom. Luckily, I happen to have one or two in stock," Ricardo winked making Yvlena giggle a bit.
If nothing else he was charismatic.
"What's my other option?" Yvlena asked curiously.
Ricarded.
"You would have to track down another relic of its kind. The pieces are scattered all over Moon Valley,"
He returhe sword to Yvlena who smiled up at him.
"Thank you so much for the information! I'd like to buy the ores I would o upgrade the sword."
[Affinity with Ricardo Increased +2]
[Yvlena Acquired
***
Pin Ores of Gliresea x2]
"Now, all you need is a bcksmith to upgrade that sword of yours," He said.
"Much appreciated." Yvlena said, "how long are you in town?"
"One week." Ricardo grinned.
Yvlena nodded, w how she would be able to make the most of his stay here in Bloom Haven and if he would give her a quest. For now, she was just happy she was able to get some upgrades to make herself and her summons stronger.
"I'm so happy you stopped by Bloom Haven, if there's something you need let me know," she said. she turned around to leave when Ricardo called her.
"Miss if you wouldn't mind I have a tale to spin," He said.