6kv Chapter 1038: New Issues
Chapter 1038: New Issues
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And the issue was rather serious, apparently Rosenheim had woken up and Elfriedden had recently brought her breakfast, but after trying for a while, she was unable to channel her spiritual energy and her spirit orb seemed... "empty" for some reason.
It was something I had expected to happen, after all Mammon drained the spiritual powers of all the citizens that were infected by his demonic soul parasites and used it to ascend into the near god-level being he had almost become.
However, I still held the slight hope these people would recover their spiritual energy over time...
"H-Her Spirit Orb is empty? How is that possible?" wondered Erika. "W-What about her Spirits?"
"She says there are none, they were completely... destroyed, or taken away, I can’t tell," Elfriedden sighed.
"It must have happened because of Mammon, right?" Chris wondered. "That dude used thousands of spirits against us, he had transformed them into demonic things..."
"Right! I remember that too!" Erika nodded. "Then that means, he drained all the elves from their spiritual energy?"
"But can they recover it? If they have their Spirit Orb, then surely..." Elizabeth muttered. "It might take some time but-"
"No, she can’t..." Elfriedden sighed. "She said the Spirit Orb was empty completely, and dried... It had turned red; she could feel its strange color. It could no longer harbor spirit energy, or perhaps, not something similar to it." Then, he looked at Erdrich.
"Hm, so you’re suggesting... That they went through something similar to the Demon Cultists? Their Spirit Orbs were mutated due to the demonic energy, their spirits were taken away..." said Erdrich. "If that is true then... Yeah, there’s no chance for them to recover what they lost..."
"T-This can’t be! Is there no solution at all?!" Alberta wondered.
"There must be! R-Right? Blake?" wondered Eric, looking at me.
I am fairly sure that both were allies, or something close to that, they weren’t attacking each other after all and were even cooperating with one another to an extent.
But for now, to concentrate on other things first...
"We get it, don’t worry," nodded Cattalina. "I can help in anything you feel like. I’ve been sorting out the minds of the people and healing them. I think that taking away the traumatic memories of what they experienced could be good... to an extent."
"I don’t know if that would be too good though, they wouldn’t be able to rationalize the reason they lost their power," I answered. "And that could result on an uproar of the elves who don’t know what happened to them."
"S-So you’re suggesting we should leave their traumatic experience as monsters?!" Chris wondered. "But that’s too much dude..."
"I know, but it’s necessary... Right, Elfriedden?" I asked.
"...Yeah," Elfriedden, one of the people whose family had suffered the transformation, agreed with me. "It’s not good to take away memories like this, even more when there was a huge loss because of this. People might feel bad, they might even feel sick with themselves... But elves are wise and long-lived, they will slowly improve and learn to do better, to forgive each other and themselves."
"Well said, my friend," I nodded. "For now, let’s go check Rosenheim, I need to first analyze her Spirit Orb completely, if that doesn’t bother you."
"Not at all, anything to help my beloved, let’s go, Blake," Elfriedden nodded, leading the way.
It was going to be a long day...
Ding!
[Congratulations! You have completed the {Main Quest}: [Defeat the Archdemon Mammon and Save the Elves]!]
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