Chapter 7 is some transition chapter from the demon fight to the travel to the village the mission takes place.
Writing is in progress. I uploaded this in case I never get to continue working on this.
Adam and Cayn enter the village of their first mission. The village exports trees as the volcanic soil surrounding the village is rich with nutrients. The village has been having a monster problem and sought help in dealing with it. The village has hunters equipped with weapons imbued with the element of water.
The concept of nodes are introduced, much is not known about nodes but what is known is that these nodes are centers of elemental power. The node of earth, which is at the base of the mountain, is in a small shrine inside it somewhere and is a chaotic state because a node of fire has opened. Nodes around this world have started to react due to some interference of man. There are nodes of all the elements, including light and supposedly darkness. The currently only known light node is the center of some holy city. there has been no record of a dark node existing but there are records of items imbued with the dark element, though significantly rare.
From a magic teacher in the village, Cayn learns a water spell and he recalls his teachings from his previous teacher, he is told that his magical presence is special, capable of unknown but great things. Adam requests to borrow an elemental weapon from the village but the village is unable to spare them. The village possesses a hidden water node where they are able imbue their weapons with water which has a strong offensive effectiveness on fire enemies, and some offensive effectiveness on earth enemies. Previously the node had enough power to imbue a large number of weapons, 15 or so, now, it can only keep the imbuement on 4 weapons thus their need for help. Though the native element of this village is water and earth, a water affinity mage is born, at most, once a generation.
As Adam and Cayn travel to the known earth node, fire imps are fought outside the area of the newly opened fire node, which is odd as the species usually don't travel far from their warm location.
end chapter 8.
Nearer the earth node, they encounter a golem, which was previously unknown to exist around the area. This encounter says that the power of the earth node has significantly increased. Cayn is wounded severely by a large rock shard the golem throws and Adam is forced to retreat, carrying him on his back. Cayn loses consciousness from the pain and the loss of blood. Adam carries Cayn to the village and into the location of their water node. Strong magic is needed to heal Cayn and so the elemental imbuement of a water weapon is released and the magic is used to heal him, leaving the village weaker than it already was.
end chapter 9.
