"Guellin! There's a beast at the mouth of the Volcano! I have a feeling that it's the one who caused the mist way back at the Sage Forest!" Urie screamed as he kept on swinging the long crystal he was holding.
"Granicus! I'll go after him now! Thank you!" Guellin nodded and immediately ran towards the location where the Volcano was, leaving traces of petals on its way.
[System]
[Relationship with Guellin: 38/200]
The petals glowed and absorbed the black auras covering the wasps and beasts, making them susceptible to Elemental Affinity Damage that lifted a heavy burden from the players and NPCs.
Wasps and beasts were killed faster than before as Guellin left a trail of pink petals on its way towards the sabertooth beast, which was called Granicus by Guellin.
It emitted a vibrant aura that destroyed the black auras and also gave a [Slow] debuff towards the wasps and beasts.
Guellin rushed towards the volcano and shot a pink beam towards the sabertooth who was standing atop of the black tree with ashen leaves.
Granicus blocked it and jumped down as it shot a beam towards the tree. The orb flew towards the tree as it continuously cut branches after branches that were regenerating at visible pace.
The branches that were falling from the tree changed into another wave of beasts and wasps that were more than the last wave.
Granicus ran away while Guellin chased after it as they clashed against each other. That made thunderous explosions as they were going away from the volcano.
"Young man, try to burn that tree using the coldest flames that you can have. I know that you have a beast that can do that!" A voice rang at the back of Urie's mind, and before he knew it, an interface emerged in front of him.
[System]
[Relationship with Guellin: 126/200
Status: Friendly]
"What? So those whispers came from Guellin?" Urie thought as he laid his sight towards a small wolf pup that was breathing an icy blue flame that burns a lot of wasps and small beasts in front of it.
"Eop!" He shouted as the beast looked at him and shot a strong flame to kill an enormous amount of wasps and beast in front as it immediately ran towards him.
Urie sat down and looked at Eop as he instructed, "We need to get close to that tree! Guellin instructed me on how to stop it!" The wolf pup nodded as they hopped at the back of Alpagon and slaughtered the surrounding beasts.
"Blue! I'll leave this place to you and everyone! I know how to finally stop this event!" Urie shouted as the man commanding the beasts only raised his thumb in his direction.
Alpagon charged through the wave and crushed all the beasts on its way as Eop burned down all of those wasps that were plaguing the skies.
Their pace was constant until a few minutes passed and they reached the mouth of the volcano where a gigantic tree protruded and a grey thing cut off some branches and leaves that transformed into wasps and beasts.
"Alpagon! Let's try to keep those wasps and beasts away from Eop! Eop, use your Cold Flame to burn down that tree! We'll protect you!" Urie instructed as he touched another crystal from the back of Alpagon.
Eop was about to breathe out a flame when he retracted it and whimpered towards his owner.
"What's wrong? Is there something that matters?" Urie asked when the beast lifted its paw and pointed beneath the roots of the tree.
Urie looked and saw that there's a small hole beneath the tree and there's a family of beasts hiding in it. They all looked the same as Eop, but some are a bit bigger and have a distinct pattern.
He looked above the heads of the beasts and saw the names and descriptions.
They are Pox, Exop, and Eops. The evolutionary tree of Eop.
They all looked frightened about what's happening as he approached them and he helped those beasts to get out of the root where they were trapped.
As soon as he freed them, they immediately ran away from the tree out of fright.
Urie didn't stop them as he asked Eop to continue their initial plan. Eop breathed a strong flame but no matter how hard it breathed the flames, it seems that it can't light up a fire but only burn a small part of it.
"Damn! How can I destroy this thing?" Urie anxiously thought as he tried to help Eop by stabbing the bark of the tree, but it was so thick that he couldn't even reach the soft part of the tree trunk.
"This is hopeless!" He shouted but a few moments passed when a strong icy blue flame followed by another, and another, and another shot towards the tree.
The flames slowly devoured the tree from the bottom, inching towards the top.
Urie looked towards the source from where the flames came from and saw that the family of Eop's evolutionary tree came back and helped them.
The wolves kept on blasting flames that slowly devoured the black tree, that also devoured some wasps and beasts around.
Branches and leaves were devoured by the icy blue flames until it reached the crown of the tree where the grey thing was cutting off the parts that turned into wasps and beasts.
The Grey thing was burnt, and the rest of the tree turned into ashes.
[System]
[The Corrupted World Ash Tree has been burnt! The Obsidium Town Emergency Quest has been completed! Calculating all the results depending on the contribution points gained.]
Those who took part in defending the town received the notification about the end of the event and a mail containing the details about the event prizes.
Urie received the same mail as he looked at the place where the tree was and a wild Eop approached him and gave him a pair of silver leaves.