After hunting a few more colossus lizards, Gale determined that any more raw essence would be detrimental to their foundation and ceased giving them the charged arrows. Dawn was understanding of his mindset, but Jenni booed a little. Still, she didn't waste a moment to sit down and begin working on incorporating the essence she had earned.
Gale could help with that, solving it in mere minutes, but he did not. There was no point in breaking the good habits she had built up over the years. It wasn't a foreign will of dark essence she was dealing with, after all.
Which reminded him of Agnes, as he quickly brought her out of his soul domain. It had been about an hour since he last talked to her. Agnes had been expecting to get out. Unfortunately, Gale had forgotten about her when the city turned into a dungeon unexpectedly.
After waiting for a while, she once again went back to her process.
