Helios' mind raced as he tried to come up with a response. "Stupid legendary difficulty. Trying to get me killed on the first day! This day can't get any worse." Helios mumbled.
The fairy froze as she heard me. "Did you say legendary?" She seemed to grow increasingly enraged as she spat out every word.
"I must have misheard. Can you repeat that?"
I stumbled back with every word she said till my back hit the wall. As she got increasingly agitated a heavy presence filled the chamber, he could barely breathe. Just as he struggled to stay conscious, she took a deep breath and the presence seemed to flow back into her. 'That must have been mana' Helios thought. He could still barely sense that it was inside her like a caged beast raging against its cage.
After what seemed like an eternity, she started to mumble words I couldn't make out. Then she couldn't take it anymore and started screaming, "This is so unfair! I work so hard, find my first core, and no, it can't be a normal core, its ARTIFICIAL of all things!" She broke down crying on the floor, "I'm a good fairy, top of my class, found my own core, AND subsequently had to work with those thrice darned magicians that trapped me in here with it! I don't deserve this."
She then turned to me and shrieked, "Then YOU come here and ruin everything!" After she got all that off her tiny chest, she seemed to deflate, curl into a little ball, and mumble "Just kill me already. I'm so done with this, even the SYSTEM is taking pity on me."
After watching the whole thing Helios thought he had this figured out. The SYSTEM sent him here to help her with something. But after going through all of what she had, it seemed like the SYSTEM had given up on what she could do to fix or stop whatever he was sent here to help with.
[New quest available: Help the Fairy (Pt. 1)] [Legendary Chain Quest]
[Task: Convince the fairy to let you help.]
[Reward: 1 common tier skill book]
[This is a mandatory quest you do not get the option to accept or decline.]
After waving away the blue screen he perked up, at least this shouldn't get me killed. He then looked at the fairy still curled on the floor, "It's too early to give up now, there must be a reason I was sent here. During the start of the Tutorial, it deemed that 'Rathar's Legacy' was the best place for me. There must be something I can do." She seemed to consider it for a moment then commanded, "Explain your path."
As he explained to her what all had happened, she seemed to start thinking about what all had happened with a renewed determination. Sighing the fairy said, "All this time I have been struggling to keep this dungeon from awakening." She paused to consider her words, "When a dungeon is deprived of its food sources for long enough it will go into hibernation until it detects a new source. All this time I have been working around my limitations as a dungeon fairy to keep it that way." Helios felt a shiver shoot up his spine as he considered her words.
She then continued, "A dungeon fairy is partially immortal as long as its dungeon lives. In exchange the fairy gives the dungeon information on how to survive and get along with the surrounding powers. The fairy will also act as its ambassador and gatherer in order to allow the dungeon to grow and gather materials." She then grew despondent as she continued.
"The problem is that this dungeon is artificial. The Rathar created it when trying to create their greatest defense and weapons." She then conjured a life like image of the Rathar. They were humanoid insectoids with a pair of arms that could split in half and operate independently of each other. They looked a like a human and an ant had a child. As she continued, she used her magic to depict what happened. "The Rathar were a great species, they primarily lived underground and had no innate magic of their own. In order to protect themselves from their predators they came up with their own system of magic."
"Because they had no innate magic they turned to runes, alchemy, and harnessing the natural energies of things. That was the beginning of their civilization's rise to power." She then slipped off the door, landed on the floor and said, "As kingdoms tend to do, the surrounding kingdoms did not like the rate at which they were progressing. So, they took measures to stop them and subdue or enslave the Rathar."
At this point the fairy was starting to get a little heated as she continued her history lesson, "The Rathar, due to the opposition from the surrounding kingdoms, retreated underground not to be seen for centuries." She paused and thought about what she was saying before she continued, "Continuing explaining the history of the Rathar will not help you to understand the situation you are in."
She then continued, "It was about a century after that I was assigned to this area due to a common ranked disturbance being detected." She sat down on top of the chest I had rummaged through earlier and continued, "As a newly graduated dungeon fairy this was my first mission. While I was locating the dungeon, I stumbled across a trio of mages who had the same goal as me. Being the innocent fairy I was, they proceeded to help me locate it. It was a disaster it was an artificial dungeon core, which should not have been possible, and it even had the strength of a high epic tier dungeon." She sighed as she reminisced, "The mages had already suspected this and proceeded to carry out their back up plan to seal it away."
"Even though they already had all the materials to do that they proceeded to rope me in. They said that they would seal it so that I could bond with it. In exchange they just needed my cooperation. What they actually did was forcibly bind me to the core then use me as the focal point of the spell. Due to the fact that I cannot die as long as the core lives the core was successfully sealed into the ruins it inhabited." She then paused and glared at me, "With me stuck inside."