Ivy was extremely exhausted after the fight against the majestic bird of the world, but still had enough strength in her to stand up and wait for Lucia and Poe to make their way towards her.
The moment Lucia reached Ivy's side she collapsed into her arms giving out the splendid image of a frail beauty in need of help.
"Are you okay big sis?!"
"Y-yes I'm fine, just a little exhausted. It has been a while since I fought such a difficult battle. For now please check what it dropped."
"O-okay, Poe can you do that?"
"Y-yes? Sure!"
Saying so, Poe made his way towards the majestic bird of the world's body. Maybe it was because it was stronger than other monsters or maybe because it was a rare monster, but it was taking a longer time disappearing. This was visible with the naked eye, as the whole body was shining, but only half of it had disappeared and become light fragments floating away.
Waiting for another 30 or so seconds, Poe saw the final piece of the majestic bird of the world transforming into light fragments and floating away.
What was left behind was some meat and 3 crystals in the colors of yellow, blue and white.
Poe picked up the meat first and inspected it.
[Bird of the world meat]: The meat has three colors, white, yellow and blue. Tastes like a combination of dirt and rocks with a pinch of water. Eating it will increase affinity a little towards, water and earth.
Seeing that the flavor of meat could somehow be dirt, Poe's gaze filled with expectations towards the meat slowly turned into one of disappointment.
Having labeled the meat as bad, Poe slowly turned his attention towards the crystals laying on the ground. Looking closely at the fist sized crystals, Poe used his inspect skill on them.
[Earth crystal]: A crystallization of earth mana. Used for???
[Water crystal]: A crystallization of water mana. Used for???
[Wind crystal]: A crystallization of wind mana. Used for???
The question marks on the description was most likely because his inspect was not high enough level or that he had never heard what they did before seeing them today.
"Lucia! What is the crystals used for? I have not seen them before."
Thinking that if he did not know the answer, Lucia probably would, Poe decided to ask Lucia if she knew about the crystals.
"Crystal? Ah, those… Yes, I know about them. They are called elemental crystals and they are used to recover elemental mana. Take me, as an example; I am an elemental mage using the earth elemental. This means that I would be able to use the earth crystal to recover my mana, while my sister is also an elemental mage, she is from the fire element and would not be able to use any of them."
Listing to what Lucia said, Poe found something weird and decided to ask what was on his mind.
"Why can your sister not just use the earth mana?"
"Well… Compared to the normal mana we use, elemental mana can only be used in spells from their respective element, but they are also stronger. Earth mana can only be used in earth spells, wind mana can only be used in wind spells and so on. This is also the reason why elemental mages want to change their core to one that has pure elemental mana from their respective element."
"So that is why… You use the elemental crystals elemental mana to cast a stronger spell and to recover."
"Yes, but if the one uses an elemental crystal and does not have an elemental core from that element, the elemental mana will slowly disappear and return to nature. This does not change the fact that they can fully recover your mana and even change it to elemental mana for some time. This have made elemental crystal precious, because it can save your life being able to recover all of your mana in a deadly fight."
"Wow, so with this crystal, a wind mage would be able to have a trump card to save his life?!"
Poe said as he picked up a wind crystal and looked at it in wonder.
"Well it depends on the level of the one using it and the elemental mana in the crystal… Take this earth crystal as an example, it does not have that much elemental mana in it, but I would still be able to use it 2 or so times before all the elemental mana in it is used up. Someone in level 50 would not be able to use it, as the elemental mana in the crystal is too low."
Lucia interrupted Poe as she told him. Sadly, it was not too overpowered. Without saying anymore, Poe tried to inspect the wind crystal again.
[Wind Elemental crystal]: A crystallization of wind mana. Used for recovering wind elemental mana and???
Seeing that there was still question marks left, Poe was sad and tried to ask Lucia about it, but she also said that she had no idea about it.
Picking up the 3 elemental crystals and the suspicious three-colored meat, Poe and Lucia made their way out of the wind cave followed by Ivy. Maybe it should not be called a wind cave, as there was also monsters from the water and earth element, but Poe was surprised when Lucia said that the element of the tunnel was not decided by monsters inside, but the terrain they were in and the terrain inside of the cave.
Having made their way outside the wind tunnel, Ivy and Lucia started their climb down the 110 % unsafe stairs.
Poe just sat there starring at the earth 50 or so meters below him. Sighing to himself, Poe hurried after Lucia.
Grabbing the hem of her clothes, Poe made his way down the safe path a little faster than before.
Having made it down to the ground again, Poe and Ivy presented the genius idea of resting before making their way back the town. Ivy was still a little exhausted after the fight and Poe just wanted to relax after coming down the safe path to the wind tunnel…
Lucia accepted the suggestion, as she was worried for her big sister. Ivy had after all just fought a majestic bird of the world. Lucia also felt she knew why Poe wanted the break...
Poe was unknowingly shaking all over on his way down the safe path… Lucia also saw how determined Poe looked just walking down some stairs made from rock, Poe looked cute in Lucia's eyes, sadly, Ivy saw it too…
"Poe~ come here, big sister Ivy needs to recover."
Before Poe could even relax, he was already inside Ivy's embrace.
"W-wait! Help, Lucia!"
Realizing his situation, Poe turned towards Lucia for help.
"Well, she did exhaust herself in the fight a little while ago, so I will allow it just this once!"
"L-Lucia…!"
"Yay~ !"
Sadly, Lucia thought the recovery was more important right now and it was only hugging or so thought Lucia…
"W-where are you trying to touch!"
Sadly, Poe only had 5.5 strength, so the fight was lost quickly…