The cleanup job may have been rushed as no one wanted to be exposed for an extended period of time to the death element of our fallen enemy that is in Taric's care, but we still had to spend a good chunk of the morning finishing everything we had to do. in the settlement.
Even those who are strong enough not to be adversely affected by the death element in the environment are still uncomfortable staying here, I thought that when dawn came, we could enjoy the protection from the morning sun which always has an invigorating effect on those who spend the night without to sleep.
But even when sunlight bathed our bodies trying to warm us, I still felt an extremely uncomfortable chill down my spine and I was well away from areas that had a high concentration of the element of death. I don't want to feel how much worse is the environment near the wreckage of the main house of the settlement where the necromancer's main nest was.
While Volkan dug up the materials of the death element and the remains of the bodies of the red sparrow's victims, I was in charge of assembling the boxes that will be used to store the materials and take them away from the house. Raven had me stack the boxes a few feet away from the settlement, she doesn't want to leave the boxes exposed to the external element of death. The lining of this box is better at containing the death element from the materials stored in it than from the environment it is in.
The materials unearthed were indeed diverse but they were all high quality and the lowest level of materials was three, there was nothing in common between them other than the pieces of dead bodies being transformed by the death element of the materials. But I saw that in the mixture of woods some with extra elements besides the element of death, there was fire, earth and water mixed between the elements.
I was very surprised to remove a purple crystal in the shape of a tube that was actually transparent, the purple color via the liquid that completely filled it was a very unusual mixture of the element of water and death. I didn't recognize the purple crystal, but Volkan almost screamed in astonishment when he saw the crystal which was a very unusual reaction when I asked him what this crystal was, I understood the reason for his shock.
This was a very dangerous material almost reached the level of taboo, the liquid in this crystal can cause the death of countless living beings if it is exposed to a large amount of water, this thing has always been dangerous since when it spreads through the water it kills the marine life because of the material's concentrated, savage death element, but it only really became mortal when a mage turned it into snow.
When combining the water element, the death element spreads more only when it freezes the liquid can turn into a fog when it thaws, this material is very rare because the conditions to form it are still unknown to some information from the environment that is necessary for it to appear, but because of this lack of information it is not considered taboo material.
It cannot be created in large numbers to affect the world on a large scale and adding to the fact that it is only truly lethal to those with an orange core and weaker, even with the treatment of a competent healer an orange core warrior would have difficulty seizing. fully recover upon being exposed to a full dose of this non-poison poison.
I think defining it as a large-scale elemental attack is the best definition, this is not a virus, plague, disease or poison, but it kills with terrible aggression. But for some reasons I have a strange feeling that this purple crystal would not reach the hands of the temples, at most it would be mentioned as an unusual item and unidentified would not report an item as dangerous should it meet its end stored in a secret warehouse of the kingdom, I think the description that it is a pink or cherry colored crystal is a good description for him.
I have a vision of the future where a malicious terrorist unleashes a deadly fog against the enemy army's camp to sow chaos in the war, luckily our kingdom's army won't be hit because it only moved preparing to ambush the enemy or flee from him, depends on which excuse is more plausible.
I place the crystal in a small safe box and keep it out of sight so I can give it directly to Raven, I believe she saw wanting to keep such dangerous and vile material on her in sight at all times.
The remnants of the recovered resources were less useful to the realm as far as I can think, not as to how I fully know what might be useful to the realm or not, but as far as I could see there was not a single resource that could be used to the war beyond the already guarded deadly crystal.
I don't understand why it's called the water of Nazark, from what Volkan can tell me this is not the name of either a region, kingdom or the person who first discovered this material. If I had more time, I would even spend it trying to unravel this mystery since it's pretty weird, but I have more important ways to spend my time.
The war is approaching and even if I won't participate in it directly, I doubt the team will be out of action during it, I wouldn't be surprised if the targets that Raven likes to chase are unavailable during a long period of time she will want to go hunting. some military group from the enemy kingdom, and I am quite afraid that this will happen.
The moment the team starts hunting enemy army members and the moment they start hunting us, from what Mia told me trying to reassure me when she thought I was nervous about the war approaching, which I wasn't. wrong or completely right. It's hard to say you're not scared because that would be silly, no one normally doesn't have a considerable level of fear about a war no matter if you're the common soldier or the elite of a kingdom, everyone has a high chance of dying in a war.
She said there was a courtesy or tradition of not attacking members of a group from the enemy realm, when both groups are hunting cultists or threats that could harm both realms each unit defends.
I was a little surprised by this as it is quite difficult to trust a soldier from the enemy nation of yours during a war, even with a person with a high rank both in power and influence of an intervening temple, I don't think I could trust a member of the enemy army, but that's me and every year that goes by I feel like this world has a lot of madness that I can't understand, but I'll accept it, as it would be stupid not to.
After the team finished with the settlement, we all left no one wants to stay longer in a place full of death element energy and uncomfortable as well as it would disrupt the treatment, we all have to go through.
As it was still day there was no reason to try to travel so we made a camp and next to it there were several boxes that will be distributed by the mounts and the necromancer's body. The bodies of the undead were buried in the death element zone that is in the settlement, I was surprised by that.
I thought we were going to drag the corpses back to a secret base in mine out of the blue, we're in no rush to finish the mission or lack the strength to take the bodies. The mounts are strong enough to haul bodies around without losing much of their speed, but Raven decided to bury the undead for them to be unearthed and purified then only the necromancer who is too valuable to risk leaving unguarded.
She did it for a reason I hadn't thought of, but I noticed it when she told me to stay on guard without sleep during the trip, it looks like Raven is thinking we might be attacked on our way back, even though we didn't waste much time here.
But I feel that she is not wrong the prize this time is too big and even if we are in a relatively inhospitable place, as it would make no sense for the red sparrow to hide close to one of its allies. Inside the realm there can be outside influences, but as far as I know our realm is pretty clean so any hunter or reinforcement for the red sparrow would take a few days to get here.
During the hours before nightfall, I wasn't the only one with extra work, the goat has been working hard to heal and remove the excess element of death from all of us. The goat is really reaching the limit, the amount of mana inside his body is dangerously low for someone who is in a relatively safe place, if we are really attacked, he will be almost exhausted, but Raven's order was clear.
When nightfall came the goat was still treating me with his life element, he is in a horrible condition. It really takes a great deal of concentration and skill to use your life element to remove the death element from someone as strong as the red sparrow.
With its dark our journey has begun and I hope nothing bad happens during it.