Primitive Deep Leaves

"Fatima was in the village square with a few villagers. I don't know what the three were talking about, but the eldress stopped the conversation to focus on us. After she apologized that she couldn't help us, Cruxie and Fatmia reintroduced themselves to each other. They've met long ago, but Cru was probably a young child. And this was the first time Fatima and Mishera met. Fatima told us the dragon knights visited the city, but they left when Shannoa weren't helpful. The villages of Altago don't really consider themselves under Kiemarl's rule, so he was just some dude to them. So we'll be safe here. But we had an unsafe place to visit. Fatima told her grandson the magic words to reach the Earth Sanctum, and we ran there.

The Earth Sanctum is very different than the active volcano. The scenery is massive flowers with large gemstones littered around. Even the flowers looked crystalline. To advance, we had to use the Ancient Tree Sap on several bulbs. This would feed nutrients to a mother blossom, but there were some tainted spores we'd occasionally need to take care of. Mobs that attacked us were plants and insects.

We eventually made it to the hall of Rada-manj. We asked him about the Winds of Destruction, but he didn't answer. Instead, we were tested. This pop quiz came in the form of three segments. At first, we had to break the crystals around Rada-manj'a feet. This knocked him down, giving us access to his face. Myself, Geis, and Elk sliced it once, and it woke him up. This activated his head attacks, which consisted of a breath move or two as well as eye lasers! But we got plenty of hits in between inhales. After a while, he'd knock us down to step one. Another go around, and our party fell into a circular depression around the battlefield. The Earth Dragon started chasing us around, shooting more eye lasers and breath attacks. He'd occasionally charge at us and trip, which let us finish the dragon off!

Despite our victory, we learned nothing. Elk did get stronger, and we were given another mythical stone, but I'd like to learn how to use these and where! After informing Fatima of what happened, she told us what we already knew: keep finding the other dragons.

Trying to find the Iskan Path to Kyles was not easy. But a dead end in the Bypass Cave, which has no light, hid the road we needed. The Moonlight Path contained only crabs, and it brought us to a cave beneath Kylos. Kylos had a similar infection as Shannoa had: dragon knights. Raud's men, specifically, came here looking for me. They were assaulting an innocent man, and even Sigroon condemned Raud, his dad, and the squad. But I couldn't sit idly by, so I knocked them out. Fearing what could happen if we put them in jail, Mishera cast a spell on them. It would alter their memory of what happened here, and they'd return to camp empty handed. With the town at ease, we went back to the Precepts of Wind...

- Adol"

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Turns out you can save anywhere, by the way. I've been assuming you have to be in range of the teleport stones to do so.