"Get down!" Rey slamd her fist on top of a grotesque monster. "These stupid lava eels are getting on my nerves!" Her anger was a little too much for Onyx to handle so he had stepped back.
"Rey, they are just young lava eels. They aren't smart enough to avoid us even when we beat them back like this. You should use your defense breaking palm to break them in one hit." With the small encouragent from Onyx, Rey deed it worthy not to hold back.
The crack of Rey's palm hitting the four small eels that had slithered from a nearby lava pool echoed off the dark rocks. The pair had been moving toward the lava pools with a few of the herbs they had in mind just out of reach.
The attacks seed to make their dent in the young lava eels. They were either beaten with one solid strike or fled in fear. The two eels left behind were claid by Rey who pulled them out of the small lava pool to cool, she would gladly drag them back to make Walker store them away or sell to the tar's outpost.
"Where are those bushes now?" Rey saw that there were so burnt light bushes near the pool but they had all been stripped of leaves.
"They are completely cleaned up over here too. What would eat them like this?" This was a loss for Onyx since he wasn't sure what ate these leaves.
"Probably eaten by ember finches. They are little light and fire elental birds that can eat ten to twenty leaves a day. That's one of the reasons that the burnt light bushes are so rare." Rey found it even more annoying that she had just dealt with the lava eels.
"We can try the next pool over there. But it looks like there are so more monsters around." Onyx could make out the moving shapes of sothing near the next pool.
"Onyx, you have great eyesight. Those are perfect ingredients!" Rey was instantly happier than she was a mont ago. She pushed herself toward the next lava pool. Just as they approached, Onyx began to make out the shapes he saw moving.
"Crabs? Made of rocks?" The reason that Rey was so excited to see them was a loss to Onyx. so far he had not been needed in battles or to find things.
"Onyx, they are a great find. Those are a type of golem. Yes, they look like crabs. It's weird, but they are great for alchemy. Because they live in very hot places and are ford from compressed magma rocks, they have a lot of trapped earth mana." Now Onyx was seeing why they might be important.
"We need to break their shells and toss their cores in to the lava pools. They will form new bodies eventually. But the rocks are ideal for a high earth affinity potion. It's not what we needed but perfect! I'm glad you saw it." This made onyx feel much more useful. "Use your tail to break a few and disorient them. I don't want them running back in to the lava pool."
Without any further waiting, Onyx enlarged himself and slamd his tail down on the group of seven small rock golem crabs. The back stone they were made of shattered under the sudden force. The crabs were tough against pressure but not from sudden striking force. The shards broke off and fell everywhere.
"See those little diamond shaped things? Those are the cores. Knock them in the lava. These things won't attack anyone anyways. So alchemists will co just to hunt for them if they need them for a potion material. But most people just use the shards of stone for arrows or spear heads." Rey knew that the material would be sowhat of use for Gil. However, she also knew that he was after better arrow materials. Just because these were good alchemy materials did not an that they were the best arrow materials.
"You will want to stop that." Onyx stopped Rey from smashing the next crab golem. The single reason sat before him. Just waiting for the two to notice.
"But the crabs' movent scares away the ember finch!" Rey started to pluck the burnt light leaves as quickly as possible. She wanted to bring as many back as possible. "The best part is they can be stored in these pouches without burning or losing their potency." Rey had brought specialized her pouches for fire elental herbs. It was a simple preparation for the area she was exploring.
"Should we go and gather more of the crabs and leaves?" Onyx prepared to slam his tail down again. There were three more nearby lava pools with more crabs near them. Between them were more burnt light bushes.
The proceeding smash and grab tactic were very unusual for Onyx and Rey. They were moving like dwarven golems with their tasks assigned. It wasn't the challenge in beating the crab golems but instead the challenge of terrain.
Onyx had the added challenge of moving across the less hot parts of black stone so that he would not get burned. From this, he was able to focus on controlling his body movent to a much higher degree. The fear of severe burns was enough motivation for him to change the way he was used to moving. He had to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Rey was much the sa. She had a lot of movent techniques practiced. Because of how she fought, she had to be able to dodge. It was not sothing she liked to do but sothing she required. Because of this, she had to be light on her feet, a perfect skill to have moving over the potentially soft rocks. The closer she got to the lava pools the more carefully she had to feel her footing and the safety. Both she and Onyx made radical improvents in their bodily movent without even realizing it.
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