The entrance to the Privera forest was completely calm like any other day, and a small wooly could be seen trying to explore a bit beyond the safe zone of the forest as it was quite curious, but before it took another step, it startled letting out a terrified bleat before starting to come back at full speed.
The reason for that was due to the cluster of glowing runes until Blake's figure materialized at that moment.
"Uhg... why did I get dizzy?" Blake blinked a few times after that teleportation, he didn't really know why since it hadn't happened before, but it didn't matter too much since it only lasted a few seconds. "Okay, now that I think about it... I think I have a scrap in the chest at home... Anyway, I guess it won't hurt to walk a bit in the woods."
Maybe Blake could save himself from having to bother going into the woods, but he needed time to think, and there were actually some things that interested him.
On the way there weren't many problems, the forest monsters were no longer a concern for Blake, besides that he had invoked Shoku to make the journey faster. His inventory was filling up with some materials that some monsters dropped, also took advantage of the situation to pick up some apples that were resting peacefully on the trees since they were very useful to him.
Before Blake had thought about going to the place where he found mineral ores the first time, but he had decided to take a little detour since he remembered seeing it in another area of the forest. This is how time passed until he reached one of the spaces that had the entrance to the ruins.
"I knew I'd seen it before." Blake's mood lifted the moment he saw the rocks with those bumps that meant he could get some minerals from them and he wouldn't need to explore the whole forest again to find them.
That would have been a normal scene, but while Blake was equipping his wooden hammer, behind him a green sword could be seen flying through the air while various monsters were shot out by the force of it as they were being mercilessly hit and cut.
The sound made by the spheres of light that were previously those monsters that Shoku had defeated had been enough for Blake to turn his head and look at the calm battlefield and simply raise his thumb to congratulate his sword partner, but Shoku was not going to accept just that.
"Okay, you can have some." Blake had just finished breaking all the mineral ores in the area before Shoku approached him.
He had only raised his hand to then begin to conjure up a small pink sphere that Shoku would begin to absorb quite enthusiastically. Blake watched a bit as Shoku was enjoying the life element runes as he was somewhat busy looking at his inventory screen because he had obtained something new from the rocks he had broken.
{Earth crystal. Level 1.
Crystallized runes of the earth element. If you hit someone with it… Well, you better not.
Effect on upgrades: VIT +5
Selling price: 100G.}
Blake related that little yellow rock-like crystal to some of the other items he had found before, so he wasn't very impressed. He tried to offer it to Shoku, but she only saw it for a moment before refocusing on the life element rune sphere in Blake's hand, though he simply vanished the sphere as he felt its runic energy was rapidly depleting, which caused Shoku to stir in annoyance.
"Don't look at me like that, my runic energy is limited and it seems like you're a bottomless pool." It seemed like Shoku wasn't even listening to the words Blake was saying, but out of her own annoyance, she turned into her seed form by herself. "You know? I feel like you're acting like a child… Although I don't know if that's a correct way to define it…"
Putting his strange thoughts aside, Blake took Shoku and put her in his pocket carefully, he was already preparing to go back to Evelyn, but he saw the materials on the ground and he couldn't just ignore them.
"Hmm… This…"
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As before, the image of the huge mansion had appeared in Blake's view since that was his destination, he believed that he already had everything he needed, so he was about to knock on the door to enter, but he stopped at the last moment since it was open, but more importantly, many voices could be heard from the other side, so he unconsciously entered to see what was happening... But it took him a little time to analyze the situation.
"And as the last outfit of this phase, we can appreciate this year's special guest wearing the beautiful design of pink turnips! Anyone can tell that everyone would have to turn their heads to see it as it is not something that can go unnoticed! and that is obvious, the image of spring is the only thing that can be used to define it!" Evelyn's voice was heard loudly in the main room of the mansion, followed by a round of applause due to the emotion of the moment.
That was exactly what baffled Blake a bit, besides Evelyn, he could see the whole town gathered in that place. He had noticed before that there was a calm on the outside that was somewhat strange in Sharance, and that must be the reason.
The main room had changed a bit since you could see a high and long platform in the middle of it with some curtains behind it, around it there were a large number of seats that were being occupied by many familiar faces, but especially, Blake had his gaze on Nana's figure since she was on top of the platform while a strong blush adorned her face due to the situation in which she had been trapped.