Negro’s Knowledge
[The Bond has been formed.]
"Crawesome! Hey master, looks like you are not as bad at giving names!"
"Glad you like it, Negro."
"Yes. Thank you!"
"No worries. Now, what do I do?"
"What do you mean? What 'cha do?"
"Y'know… what do I do next?"
"Are you stupid?"
"Mean!"
Negro glanced around, looking at the trees then the corps.
"Don't you have any quests here?"
"He…"
"Yes? Don't tell me you forgot about them."
"Ok… then I won't."
Arya chuckled and then she opened her quests. Instantly all these huge panels popped up.
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[Regular Quest]
>>>Aquire 1000 EXP.
<x > General Ability [Experience Converting]
<o > No Fail condition. No penalty issued.
[Regular Quest]
>>> Use one Effect
[Regular Quest]
>>>Use 'Combined Bloodline Attack' once.
[Lerner's Quest] - [003 / 003]
>>> Gather 50 Sticky-Silk-Grasses and disintegrate them into you
[1] Gather 50 Sticky-Silk-Grasses
[2] Activate Organic Disintegration
[3] Place all of the grasses one after another on there
<x > + 10 Skill points
<x > ???
[Regular Quest]
>>>Move to a different terrain
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"Craw! What the crick is this?"
"These are all a give quests."
"Oh my. Can't you ask the system to restructure them?"
"I can?"
"You should. Just say the following commands: Restructure Quests notifications. Then move on to Switch to ON structure. And complete with CDI only when issued."
"Ok. But what does that do?"
"It helps you, greenhorn."
"…"
Arya hesitated but then she quickly did as she was told.
[Quest Notification Structure switched to ON-CDI!]
[Quest will now be issued adapted.]
"Ok it is done."
"Great then try opening the quest panel."
"Open quest panel."
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<[Quest Panel:]>
>>> [Collect all 13 Core shards] {CSQ}
>>> [Acquire 100 EXP] {RQ}
>>> [Use one effect.] {RQ}
>>> [Move to a different terrain.] {RQ}
>>> [Use 'Combined Bloodline Attack" once.] {RQ}
>>> [ Gather 50 Sticky-Silk-Grasses + absorb them.] {LQ}
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This time only one window popped up. It still had this half translucent crimson-hue and the beautiful decorated sides, but the text was a lot more shortened than before.
Arya loved this change, and it made her realize that she could change the system to how she liked, Thais was if she knew how to. Which she didn't at the time.
"Hey Negro?"
"Yes?"
Negro looked up, he was currently in the middle of cleaning his wing's feathers.
"How come you know so much about the system?"
"…"
Negro stayed silent. Arya looked at him with an expectant look. Then she stepped forward, she stood directly in front of the bird.
"Yes?"
"Well you see, I have been alive for almost 5 millennia and uhm… I was kind of there when the system had been created."
"So, you know how it works?"
"Yes and no. Partly. I know lots about the controls and shortcuts for handling it. But what it can do and why my former master created it, I don't know."
"Your former master created this?"
"Yes. He had originally planned to use it on himself… and make me his familiar. That's why I know so much about the controls, he wanted me to be a help in controlling the system. Sadly something went more than wrong. When he tried to infuse his blood… it shattered."
"What shattered?"
"Well yes it's core. And after it my master also died. The system had sucked out all its energy. Thus he died right after it extracted itself."
"Oh, I am sorry."
Arya lowered her body and hugged Negro. They stayed like this for a long while before Negro began to express his thoughts once again.
"Don't be. He wasn't a good master."
"That's even worse!"
Arya let go of Negro, positioned her hands onto the side of her pelvis, in a confident stance and then she looked him in the eyes. With a determined look she raised one hand to her chest.
"I herby swear that I shall never mistreat my familiar! I will help you out however I can. So just relax and put your trust into me!"
Negro had raised his beak, and smiled. His eyes were filled with a faint crimson glow. This in human language would be like having wet eyes.
"I shall do the same. I'll honor and protect my master."
But of them were glad to have found the other. And they didn't know that what would lie ahead was a challenge far greater that any other.
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"So you are saying that I can just plug them out, like weeds?"
"Yes!"
Arya and Negro were still in the middle of the Glass Forest. The two of them were currently on the task of gathering the 50 Sticky-Silk-Grasses.
Arya towered over a patch of these white plants which were growing next to a glass stone. The forest was till dark and the Ice-flies had dimmed their glow again.
For Arya it proved to be a very difficult task because she couldn't see anything at all. While Negro on the other hand wondered how she could not. He was born a shadow crow so he could always see in the dark with no problem.
Negro had sat down on Aryas shoulder to help/guide her with collecting.