Sorry for the late update

After we met with libera

I got the revita (gift) 198 instead of the normal 99 as a gift for warning them along with some vita plus and some regera I don't remember what side hand items mages get from tutorial completion so I won't mention it

Altough I am not sure if the extra 99 was a gift for changing story or not since normally you are given another 99 Rivitas as a gift later on from in game achievements/emblems I will have to wait till I finish chapter one to find out

Next stop should be sofya city

City entrance

thats the scare crow I should go check it out hm there seems to be a lot of things written here

I suppose its one of the changes that is occurring due to npcs having sentience i will now encounter the guard who will question me then let me pass

Sofya city guard Hey you are new around here right ? you have been looking at everything with curiosity

Mc I guess you can say that

Guard well heres a tip dont talk to that scarecrow merchant casually

Mc how did you know what I was doing?

Guard most people don't diverge from the main road on their first time here unless they see that scarecrow

Mc I will keep that in mind

Sololo your staff is trash

Mc I know that

Inner thought well someone did make it in a few secs from spare materials along with trying to cut cost as much as possible

Sololo tell you what I will give you a staff I have in stock i got it from a rich kid that sold it after getting scared fighting his first monster if you deliver this package to the nearby blacksmith

Mc alright I will do it on that note want to be friends

Sololo alright but dont think you will get any discounts

Mc hahaha I know

At the blacksmith

Mc I gave the blacksmith the package and I got a beginner armor now I have a leather armor with 1 slot and a wind staff I would normally have invested my skill points and stat points from tutorial right now

But since I basically avoided the tutorial I am lvl 1 with 0 monster kills

I should head to land under clearing to encounter balft and triet

Land under clearing after that whole save them from mobs that they should normally be able to defeat with

With their eyes closed encounter

Triet thanks for helping us out

A/n I don't remember there dialogue in detail so I will make them up but will make sure that it doesn't deviate from what happened in the story unless it is a butterfly effect of mcs actions or mc does it himself

Balft you must be a straye I don't remember seeing you at the synthesists but just to be sure you wouldn't happen to have taken a job from her have you?

Mc no and on that note I know what strayes are but I am not one myself at least not a official one I haven't really ever needed the badge in all honesty and while having it would be helpful I don't know how to get to begin with

Balft well take this we got this badge from some straye turned bandits while it isn't official as of yet if you help us with our job we took from the synthesit we will create a straye profile with your name on our way back

Mc I see thank you so what do I need to do

Baflt you need to collect 5 colon leaves and defeat a older colon that is causing trouble for the synthesist so that next time she can gather them herself

Mc inner thinking I wonder will convincing balft to make the job harder cause me to gain xp

Mc is it alright if I exterminate a few dozen extra colons instead of the older colon , colons that exhibit signs of growth have become scarce since most of them are stunted in their growth making the grown up colons or colon trees a endangered species

Balft I didn't even think about it well I guess you are right that colon is only slightly bigger then the rest the only reason it's dangerous is because it's like a leader to the smaller colon very well exterminate 30 colons instead

Mc saw the quest description change and now it also had a extra reward colon tree 2.0 xtal

So this is how it works hm I wonder what will happen when I equip it since this xtal gives a stat not present in toram

I am impressed

Xtal description ox (ox or original xtal)

Converts quick aura to quick fire aura it has to be applied before skill has been allocated a single skill point

Quick fire aura - gives the skill a real time cooldown of 15 mins while active cspd will be replaced with -skill delay note equipping this xtl will make it craftable by all players on the server furthermore player blacksmith that has this xtal in their armor can craft armor with -skill delay but those armor will not work Unless the xtal is also equipped on the armor

After finishing the quest

Balft well I suppose you kept your end I will do mine

Triet as a bonus reward we will let you keep the extra colon leaves you can sell them to the synthesis sperately from profit

Mc while that seems slightly fraudulent I suppose since it wouldn't be wise to give the leaves for free now would it?

Mc if the timing is right the technista trio will be appearing soon I swear they are such a team rocket rip off

Then right on time they arrived did the usual diologue and left

Mc it would have been unwise to interact with them since their story gets a happy ending it is better to not meddle with it plus they are a huge loose cannon for butterflies

Now I need to do some quests for Pino and then head to reug salt plains wanderers camp meet the best girl (the only girl that the player carecter interacts with beyond accuaintance) pelulu gather some item for her then head pf to isthmus of kaus