Yvlena screamed prompting Sprite to attack the open mouthed beast brimming with needle like teeth.

  [Sprite Cast Sting (01MP)]

  "Let go of her!" Sprite yelled, throwing balls of light at the creature holding onto Yvlena's boot with fierce dedication. it growled and bit deeper into the leather of Yvlena's adventure's Boot until the girl began trying to shake it off.

  With a kick of her leg, the elven girl dislodged the ferocious creature.

  The creature appeared to be a fish created entirely out of the filth and grime of the s, its smooth blobby body sunk into the mud the moment it released Yvlena's foot from its mouth.

  The retreat was short lived as it sprang up again with a vengeahe creature hissed, fshing its pinprick teeth at the party and cirg them waiting for a ce to bite again.

  [S Fish Cast Bite]

  It sprang to attack, aiming to catch Sprite in its jaws. Its efforts were cut short by Rabbit Knight who, with a well timed slice, cut the creature in half with his rapier as it jumped mid air.

  The S Fish dissolved into light leaving the party heaving sighs of relief.

  [Yvlena Acquired

  EXP: 85/1590

  ***

  Chum x1

  Slime x1

  ***

  Moon Points x50]

  "Of course, there would be creatures hiding in the mud," Yvlena whined, she grabbed Rabbit Knight and hastened her patil a set of broken and jagged pieces of wood came into view.

  "The docks?" Yvlena asked in fusion. She pced Rabbit Knight on the surfad pulled herself up just before the deeper water could swallow her up.

  The Avaresh S docks were rotten pieces of wood barely hanging onto the frame that was structed for it. At that point, it could barely be sidered standing.

  It rested just above the deeper parts of the s's dark water, simir in color to the Verdant Lake.

  All around the wooden structure holes reigned supreme waiting for someoo fix the gaping spaces on the docks.

  "One wrong step and you fall in," Yvlena said, peeking over the edge to cheore creatures. The wood creaked as she pressed her weight fully on the board.

  As she suspected more S Fish swarmed the heels of the wood waiting for unsuspeg prey to fall through and into the water where they would sink their teeth into their victim.

  Yvlena grimaced at the disgusting little creatures, she hoped they would be the only mob in the area but that was highly unlikely.

  She looked around and noticed straight ahead was the hut where the Boch lived, but also the docks went straight ahead to a deeper area of the s. Yvlena didn't feel like she would be iigating that any time soon.

  For now, she would head towards the hut and fulfill her quest to iigate the mysterious witch.

  Yvlena gulped, walking forward, a piece of wood cracked from too much force. She stumbled, nearly falling over into the water and the waiting s fish.

  "How much wood is it going to take to fix this damn thing!"

  [Subcss Quest Unlocked]

  [Quest: Repair The Avaresh S Docks

  Once a spot to seek are knowledge, the docks have beeo nguish behind the walls of Miasma.

  Rot and decay have seeped into the wood causing it to break down and begin colpsing into the murky depths.

  Repair the docks and allow it to flourish once more.

  ***

  Rewards

  ????

  ***

  Moon Points x1000

  EXP x500]

  [Do You Accept?]

  [Yes/No]

  "I brought that on myself actually," Yvlena said, chug. She selected yes and took another shaky step forward until she heard a creak.

  From what Yvlena could see the docks were divided into three segments she would o repair: the entrahe middle, and the surface where the witch's hut rested and where the rest of the docks tinued.

  'That's probably why the witch couldn't leave,' Yvlena thought. She imagined a womarice's age trying to flee as the Miasma began swallowing up rge swaths of nd, it just wouldn't be possible.

  For now, it would take more wood than she had in her iory to repair the docks.

  "Maybe I do it as I go," Yvlena said pressing onward, she o meet Bavga to ask her some questions and fulfill the quest among other obligations.

  'Maybe she'll know where Rael went,' Yvlena thought.

  She took aep toward the hut, a crack resounded just beh her boots. Yvlena leaped over the spa time to see the rotten wood splinter and fall through.

  "Sheesh," she grumbled, trag over the empty space she's met with a prompt.

  [Repair Hole?]

  [Wood x10]

  [Yes/No]

  Yvlena got to work repairing the hole, soon the gap in the wood was repced by her craftsmanship. A mismatched piece of wood iweeten boards. She rested her foot on it, she heard no creaks and the wood remained as stable as solid ground.

  [Avaresh S Docks 1%]

  The docks would need a plete overhaul but until then this was the best she could do for it. The girl beamed with pride and moved to tinue walking towards the hut, avoiding any more pitfalls that were in the way.

  The witch's hut came ever closer but Yvlena was no longer afraid, Risel and what she could remember from her mother's story told her the witch was at most ral.

  And if she wasn't, well what was another boss fight?

  "After all this time alone, she must want some pany right?" Yvlena said standing in front of the old hut. Now that she was closer she could see the sy grass growing out of the building, weaving together like straw to create the surface of the hut.

  A wooden door made h tree bark with a crude handle affixed, greeted Yvlena as the entryway into the hut. She lifted her hand to knock.

  The rough bark was tough on her hand as she rapped her knuckle across the door. She and her summons waited a moment for something to happen.

  "Maybe she's not home?"

  With a gust of wind, the door was smmed open, flying bato the house as if pulled with great force. The sudden movement startled the girl but made her step closer to the house and into the entrance.

  "Here we go," she gulped and walked through with her loyal summons following beside her.

  ----------

  The hut was devoid of light as Yvlena stepped through the door, behihe wooden door shut, f her to tinue forward. The hut seemed tremendously bigger on the ihan the deceptively small exteriave away.

  "Hello?" Yvlena called into the vast darkness. Slowly as she walked, buds of light glowed, springing to life with each step. After a moment's study, Yvlena could tell they were biolumi pnts growing from the walls of the witch's hut.

  "Wow," She gasped, reag for ohe flower closed up, shutting its light off until she retracted her hands. "Oh sorry,"

  The flower opened again allowio rest her hand on the glowing orb.

  "I wonder if this is a rare pnt, it's almost like the fairy-lit torch," Yvlena said moving on. She walked in a circle, desding lower until she stopped at a r hearth.

  It was carved out of wood, with jagged unsmooth edges that gave away the unskilled hands that cut it. The rest of the room stayed buried in darkness. Yvlena expected more flower buds to light up the space.

  Yvlena stood beside the hearth, her summons fidgeting nervously beside her. Where was the bod where were the windows Yvlena had seehrough?

  She could make out pelts and animal bones on dispy, lining the walls as a sort of decoration. Just out of the er of her eyes, a multitude of small bones were piled into a er.

  Was the witch a collector? Or were the bones an indication of something sinister? As Yvlena pohese questions a voice roared.

  "Who dares enter my domain?!”

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